Elerond Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 Someone has been watching too many movies: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4746212/vladimir-putin-russia-super-human-soldiers-nuclear-bomb/ Come on, don't read The Sun. Not even the **** are real Don't dismiss The Sun that fast, it is useful, because it tells which version of story definitely isn't true
aluminiumtrioxid Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 Heh, Rockstar was on to something when they said sarcasm is the blight of the age. Ironic, coming from them, but what can you do. 2 "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says."
Chilloutman Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 Heh, Rockstar was on to something when they said sarcasm is the blight of the age. If its reaction to me - I wish :/ I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
HoonDing Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 "Come on, don't read The Sun. Not even the **** are real" im triggered Rosie Jones retired 1 The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Zoraptor Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Someone has been watching too many movies: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4746212/vladimir-putin-russia-super-human-soldiers-nuclear-bomb/ Come on, don't read The Sun. Not even the **** are real They don't even have asterisks at all any more.
Malcador Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Someone has been watching too many movies: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4746212/vladimir-putin-russia-super-human-soldiers-nuclear-bomb/ Come on, don't read The Sun. Not even the **** are real They don't even have asterisks at all any more. First step on the slippery slope to the Islamization of the UK. But really, Thought it was just out of print and still on their website, but turns out that's gone as well. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
injurai Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Heh, Rockstar was on to something when they said sarcasm is the blight of the age. It very much is. I see people who can really only convey ideas, thoughts, and opinions in the form of sarcasm meant to insinuate they disagree with a particular thing. It should be one rhetorical tool that is sought to be used well, not a mode of being.
Chilloutman Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 in question of that sun article and not that I am fun of Putin but: "He can be a genius mathematician, a brilliant musician or a soldier, a man who can fight without fear, compassion, regret or pain. "As you understand, humanity can enter, and most likely it will in the near future, a very difficult and very responsible period of its existence. "What I have just described might be worse than a nuclear bomb." The autocrat warned that world leaders must agree on regulations to control the creation of mass-killing super soldiers. He said: "When we do something, whatever we do, I want to reiterate it again - we must never forget about the ethical foundations of our work." I don't know but those citations does not sound that crazy, maybe that nuke stuff overblown but still. I mean if you read this without contect would you be surprised if it would be qotation from any other politician? There is kinda deep ethical dilema in genetic modifications of humans I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
Lexx Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 On a positive note, hopefully this total derailment of the previous total derailment will help us get off of the other total derailment and back into the charitable meeting of minds that is politics. You mean Trump and guns? Because this thread usually is all about Trump and guns. Kinda refreshing to read something else in here for a change. "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
smjjames Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) Guys, Putin is talking about robots while The Sun article sounds makes it sound like he is talking about flesh and blood soldiers. He has spoken that we should be careful with AI and it's a real thing to be concerned about. edit: Okay, he does mention genetic modification, but we aren't anywhere near that level of sophistication yet. Not to mention that said genetically manipulated person might not want to be a soldier in the first place. Edited October 24, 2017 by smjjames
Zoraptor Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 On a positive note, hopefully this total derailment of the previous total derailment will help us get off of the other total derailment and back into the charitable meeting of minds that is politics. You mean Trump and guns? Because this thread usually is all about Trump and guns. Kinda refreshing to read something else in here for a change. Heh, we partially migrated guns to the TV thread. On the previous Trump topic though, I saw the interview with La David Johnson's widow and... I'm pretty convinced that Trump in this case is about as completely in the right as he can be. I doubt there was anything Trump could have said that she would not have taken badly- about the worst that can be said about Trump in this instance is that his tweeting lacked class but that was always lose/ lose since if he said nothing it would be taken as agreement. And for one of the other things she brought up; I'm not exactly the most pro US armed forces guy here but they were absolutely correct not to let her see her husband's body in the circumstances, harsh as that may seem and no matter how much she thought she wanted to see it. It would have been grossly irresponsible to allow her to. 2 days in Niger in summer would have some unpleasant results on a body quite apart from any injuries- and that's the sad reality of it. She would not want to see that.
Malcador Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Why is there nothing Trump could say that she wouldn't take badly? She seemed dubious his body was in the casket. If she wanted to see it, should just warn her and let her. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Lexx Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Just slap a big TRIGGER WARNING sticker on it and be done. 1 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
Hiro Protagonist Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 It's obvious we need trigger warnings on everything including food, water, everything you see in a supermarket, escalators, elevators, sporting events, participation medals, etc. Because one person may have had a bad experience with a mars bar and we need to protect everyone and give them an informed decision on whether they should participate in everything we do in life. You've just reinvented the signs and nutrition labels. You're suggesting trigger warnings are the same as nutrition labels?
aluminiumtrioxid Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 It's obvious we need trigger warnings on everything including food, water, everything you see in a supermarket, escalators, elevators, sporting events, participation medals, etc. Because one person may have had a bad experience with a mars bar and we need to protect everyone and give them an informed decision on whether they should participate in everything we do in life. You've just reinvented the signs and nutrition labels. You're suggesting trigger warnings are the same as nutrition labels? you sound like you're triggered by the suggestion 2 "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says."
redneckdevil Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Why is there nothing Trump could say that she wouldn't take badly? She seemed dubious his body was in the casket. If she wanted to see it, should just warn her and let her. I agree, if God forbid it was my kids, I don't give a god damn ****, you will not stop me from seeing their remains. No reason what so ever, it may drive me crazy, don't care, it will be done God forbid.
Bartimaeus Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) Alternatively, parental guidelines, which already cover most "objectionable" content, could just be expanded to be a little more specific in why it has the rating it has. You can read much of why a movie gets the rating it gets on sites like IMDB, but it's crowdsourced information...which seems kind of silly when we have a literal rating agency that keeps track of this stuff to some degree already - you'd think they'd have their own site for this sort of thing already. Same with video games, really - although I'm not really too sure how TV show ratings work, to be honest. The back of a movie cover probably isn't the perfect place to put all of that information, but it could easily direct you to somewhere that does. I wouldn't think it'd be really necessary to have such content warnings in the movie itself, but I mean, if it's literally just like 5 seconds that quickly summarize up the type of objectionable content and, again, direct you somewhere else for more specific info, I guess I don't really care. You almost certainly won't get those warnings if you happen to watch it on cable or online or something: if content providers don't think there's enough time for displaying the credits at super-speed and even random bits of the show/movie you're watching that they've deemed "less important" than showing more commercials or whatever (see Seinfeld re-runs and "TV" cuts of virtually every movie), they sure as heck aren't going to want to spend time on showing the rating of the movie. Personally, I'm not very comfortable with gore for the most part, and the onus kind of falls on me to pay attention to the rating of the content I'm (potentially) choosing to watch and investigating further to make sure I'm not subject to something I don't want to be. For the most part, that's kind of how things work in life. However, having a few more tools at your disposal for figuring that information out is always good, and spending literally just a few seconds summarizing up the objectionable content is no skin off my back. I'm more offended at the idiotic anti-copyright nonsense - the whole "we will knock down your door and literally cannibalize your family in the middle of the night while making you watch if you illegally share this movie" FBI warnings - and the bloody ADVERTISEMENTS, at the beginning of each legitimate movie you own. Like, c'mon guys: if I HADN'T bought this, I wouldn't be seeing this crap. (e): The Motion Picture Association of America (US's rating agency) actually does have a website...but it's predictably useless and doesn't even provide any information on its ratings. Pah. Edited October 24, 2017 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Fighter Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 in question of that sun article and not that I am fun of Putin but: "He can be a genius mathematician, a brilliant musician or a soldier, a man who can fight without fear, compassion, regret or pain. "As you understand, humanity can enter, and most likely it will in the near future, a very difficult and very responsible period of its existence. "What I have just described might be worse than a nuclear bomb." The autocrat warned that world leaders must agree on regulations to control the creation of mass-killing super soldiers. He said: "When we do something, whatever we do, I want to reiterate it again - we must never forget about the ethical foundations of our work." I don't know but those citations does not sound that crazy, maybe that nuke stuff overblown but still. I mean if you read this without contect would you be surprised if it would be qotation from any other politician? There is kinda deep ethical dilema in genetic modifications of humans Putin would be the first in line to make "super soldiers". 99% of everything he says is bull****. Should see him talk about free speech, free markets, and the rule of law. And then everything he does is the exact opposite.
Chilloutman Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 That is quite possible, but that quote on itself does not seem bad I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
Gfted1 Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 And it was just used again in an attempted wicked sick burn. HeeHaw HeeHaw. I suppose its a step up from completely fabricated and misattributed conversations, so we have that going for us. And idk, Putin kind of makes me smile. Now he doesn't rule by "western" ideals but he sure can rile the hell out of the rest of the world without breaking a sweat. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Blarghagh Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Is Schadenfreude your biggest hobby or something? I'd continue to argue but clearly we don't give weight to each other's arguments so there'd be little point. Plus I realized that in the same way that a trigger warning wouldn't affect you in the slightest, you voicing your opinion, as much as I disagree with it and think it's quite frankly disturbing, doesn't affect me in the slightest.
Gfted1 Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Shadenfreude = reveling in others misfortune? Nope, not my bag. Is there a "enfreude" that goes with "reveling in the sweet sweet irony"? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Blarghagh Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 I haven't seen much of that, Alanis. Hypocrisy, maybe.
Gfted1 Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 I got one hand in my pocket, the other one clickin the sign." "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
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