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This thread heavily begins to remind me of the time I was told that Saddam has the capacity to attack the United States with WMDs in a 45 minute timeframe, and if anyone was against military intervention in Iraq that it means you were okay with Saddam killing innocent Americans. By people who actually believed that stuff. #imminentrussianinvasion Barbarian hordes at the gate, take care. #therussiansarecoming #thistimeforreal #noreallyreallyforrealthistime #saddamputinisthenewhitler can we liek idk go back to beating kids, i can get behind easier!

Every now and then politicians talk about creating a rating system for food, like green = healthy and red = bad for you, but it would probably be better if companies were just forced to print an "excercise equivalent" on their food. A Snickers bar would read: Requires up to one hour of biking to burn off. That'll also drive the point home just how impossible it is to lose weight by exercising more. There's still health benefits if you take care not to kill your joints (like by running while still heavily overweight), so it's never a bad time to start and all that, but it's not going to work without some serious changes in lifestyle.

im not saying that at all. canes leave marks, belts generally dont if youre careful (use extra broad ones). better safe than sorry. schools here used to make kids kneel on pieces of wood or on grain, that's also much better than caning... and it provides some extra humiliation, and they might as well pray in that position. win-win! No, they did not.

corporal punishment is the last refuge of the incompetent and uncreative. collective punishment is where it is at. at first, discipline the offender. then discipline the offender harshly, and if that doesn't help, punish everyone but the offender the problem will magically fix "itself" really soon, in one way or the other edit: obviously that's for groups, i.e. school. if your kid misbehaves at home and a simple grounding won't fix issues, then corporal punishment might, but belting, not caning. just make sure to not whip with the belt buckle, you kinda don't want teachers to notice when you're beating the crap out of your misbegotten spawn. otherwise they might sic the authorities on you, stupid nanny state pansies.

lol idk u guys if some fatty cant run then maybe being laughed at will whip 'em back in shape. their is nothing wrong with a bit of shaming.

Oh, right, I had forgotten about that. It comes up like once in the beginning.

Yeah, I suppose that's a good thing he put the disclaimer there, when you're not familiar with his other videos then that might come across as actually serious. He also did an interpretive reading of Google's T-Rex runner to make fun of allegorical and metaphorical readings, as an April fool's joke. Absolutely baffling. It ends with T-Rex Runner being a commentary on the pointlessness of life as a treadmill, but not before it establishes that the T-Rex is afraid of his own vegetarianism. Yep...

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It is February 10th, 2022 and Star Dreck: Venal Disease is back from its mid-season hiatus. Before I once again torture my brain, eyes and ears with whatever Alex Kurtzman cooked up this time, I need to point out that Discovery has been renewed for a fifth season. We're living in a world where Dark Matter is cancelled in favor of keeping Killjoys, and a show like Star Trek Discovery, even after being pullled from worldwide distribution through Netflix, still rakes in enough viewership to apparently justify the costs for a fifth season. Please, vote Trump, and make sure that we're not doing anything to stop climate change. The sooner the world burns, the better off we all are. Remember when the 20th Century tagline was "better dead than red"? Yep. Better dead than endless waves of trash from CBS. Well, here goes nothing. Star Trek: Discovery, Season 4, Episode 8: "All In" Friendly reminder for those who might be new or need a recap, this season is easily the Dumb and Dumberer of Star Trek. If at any point in the past twenty years you thought that the movies and the series of the Star Trek franchise were clearly becoming so bad that they couldn't possibly get any worse - how does it feel to be wrong? Season four of this show breaks all records. Writing, set design, costume design, sound engineering and direction are terrible. Cheesy mid-90ies FMV games were better in every appreciable way. In this season the Federation is fighting the greatest threat to its existence in the history of ever. A hundred and some change years after a giant dilithium detonation wave destroyed all active warp engines across known space in an instance. Yes, an anomaly that so far knocked one planet out of orbit, destroyed a space station and killed an asteroid colony after evacuation is considered to be of greater impact than something that instantly destroyed the entire galaxy's economic basis, causing massive upheaval and societal changes. But halt, it gets worse. Yeah, so that was... well, this isn't ever going to be good, but at least the brain peeling awfulness of before the season break was tuned down a little. It's no longer brain peeling, just mind boggling. Gotta appreciate the small things, yes, indeed. There is, of course, every chance that playing this at twice the speed just makes it easier to glance over the issues, but it beats spending twice as long watching an episode.

Not sure what's worse, Lucas suggesting that Indiana Jones had an "affair" with a 10/12-year-old or Spielberg immediately turning that into Marion having pictures and being a promiscuitive Lolita. Do you think they made this face when talking about it?

Yep, when they set out on their quest to save HORRY. Uhm, Holly. Had a good chuckle out of it, and it's a good song too.

Eh, and suddenly goes from funny to creepy. Yikes.

Try that stunt in a café in Vienna and you'll very quickly learn why the waiters (in Vienna) are generally thought of as unfriendly. Bonus points when you're German and just order a Kafffffe.

They're all named after musicians or groups. Santana and Lisa Lisa are too, as is SHIIIIIISAAAAAAA's last name. JoJo's is an endless well of music references.

Yeah, liek, no. Just the old guy type who likes to sneak up on young girls. edit:

Almost got a smartphone upgrade too. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/12/this-lost-game-boy-add-on-could-have-pre-dated-the-smartphone

You're in good company, I think @KP the Torque Dork keeps one of these too. Though probably less encrypted... but no less stalkery. IIRC he even calls it "obsidianstalking.txt" or something like that.

Are they as creative about it as ours is? Because our Ministry of Finance embezzled money through funding fake studies, one of which was actually on the topic of fighting corruption and embezzlement in government divisions. Gotta appreciate the chutzpah, if nothing else.

Speaking of which, I just had a major, hearty laugh: No, but he picked a creepy inn as vacation spot.

Speaking of JoJo's, DIO voices Nagisa's father on Futari wa Pretty Cure and it's pretty distracting.

Are we talking about Netflix originals or anime published by Netflix outside of Japan too? Not entirely sure I've watched any actual originals besides Devilman Crybaby, and Orbital Children, and I'm not done with that yet. If it includes published stuff, how can you say that when there's Sailor Moon Eternal...

But Gorthfuscius, surly you mean violence by Black Lives Matter ? Our friends from the alt-right are peaceful ! Do you think their Antifa false flags ?

So, thanks to all the articles on the matter being really terrible, nobody linking a clip or at least providing a useful transcript of the joke I just went ahead and watched parts of it on Netflix. I'm finally going to make myself an internet persona non grata (after successfully having poorly reflected on myself so very recently ), but I don't get it. I don't mean the joke, I don't get the outrage. I think that if you're actually outraged* about the joke, then you're not getting it, or at the very least lack the context of the entire bit, the nuances and the intention, and are just angry at having read something that told you to be angry at something. Congratulations. If there's anything, then that it feels a little lame (not mild, just not working all that well), because I've seen similar setups being executed much better before, but that's not Jimmy Carr's fault, as I'm pretty sure he didn't copy from Serdar Somuncu who made his whole carreer with being equally "terrible" in his jokes**, except all in German, which is pretty hilarious considering Germans are usually a bit less concerned with freedom of speech and expression. Pretty sure there's a language barrier to consider, even if it actually also contains the same pre-face and trigger warning about being politically incorrect, so he's very unlikely to have been inspired by Serdar Somuncu. *One can still find it in poor taste while understanding what Carr meant by it. Especially after stating what he meant. That people are clamoring for his cancellation gives it a certain hilarity on a meta level that was sorely lacking from the joke. Insofar, the attempt at meta-humor worked better than the intention and execution of the actual joke. **Best example as it really pertains to this more than the others he's done was to contrast the outrage of the Islamic terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan with the absolute lack of outrage whenever Boku Haram commits terror attacks that by all means displaced, maimed and killed more people by a factor of a thousand, because nobody cares about dead "Bimbos" (German derogatory term for people of African descent, very similar to the English n-word).

Bit of a quick PreCure post: This has been consistently entertaining and since the new villain showed up actually pretty good too. Still early in the season so it could potentially degenerate into Sailor Moon SuperS and start having pedophile alicorns called Pegasus or an evil circus and stuff, but if the worst criticism I can come up with is that the setup is derivative and the EVIL KING being one of the most Saturday Morning Cartoon-villainesque, uhm, villains so far, then I've seen much worse, and a lot of that. A few better shows too, but not nearly as many. Well, I'll know in 35 episodes - or maybe after the second season, because these two get another season. Hmm.