The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

I've noticed that these days the media really does love to use people's facebook photos if they've been killed or are suspected of a crime. Just today noticed a very breasty photo of some girl dead in a car crash
Guess thats a message to make sure you have a good one.

It's become a bit of contention with tabloids over here of whether or not they have the rights to do so. Mind you, German press cries foul when you copy/past parts of their articles on your blogs, but they're often happy to copy/paste private photos from various online sources without giving proper credit and/or asking for permission.

[Josephus]

Let's say hypothetically, not that it happened to me or anything, but let's say you're in a crowd of people, say exiting a sporting event, and as you're walking your eyes are drawn to the backside of the woman in front of you. A young woman wearing tight yoga pants. Say you admire that rear end for a while, and then look up and as she turns her face to talk to someone, you realize she's really ugly.
Do you continue to look at her rear end?

Dirty old man!

I'm not that old!

[Grey Fox]

Jo, yes.

[Josephus]

No

[Eddie Teach]

Yes.

[Josephus]

Yeah. 

[HVC]

Yeah. 

there's nothing wrong with being a dirty old man   just embrace it

[Josquius]

No. I try not to stare at it anyway

[Tamas]

Since tomorrow is the anniversary of the 1956 revolution, a big Hungarian online magazine made a classic movie available on its video site.

It is called "Time Stands Still" (Megáll az idő), if you are interested in an artisty gritty-realistic portrayal of the feel of the 60s in Hungary, worth some googline there might be english subtitles somewhere.


Anyways, it is mostly about how the teenagers, children of 56's generation try to rebel, and how almost all of them ends up mellowing out of it, making compromises like their parents did, succumbing into the bliss of hopelessness or whatever. Only the most determined and most incapable to deal with the mind-numbing opression ends up attempting to flee.

Powerful movie, especially since it resonates with a lot of what is happening now here. How we are making the same mistakes in a perceived hopelessness (altough it was not just perceived back then).

But, what was priceless, and a testament to the timelessness of the movie, was the first comment under the movie on the site saying "why I cannot watch this from abroad?"

[Josquius]

Are insects animals?
A friend the other day was bitching about how they lost a question in a pub quiz because for the question which animal kills the most people the answer was that and they're moaning that insects don't count as animals.
That one is new on me. But some sort of weird definition?

[CountDeMoney]

Are insects animals?
A friend the other day was bitching about how they lost a question in a pub quiz because for the question which animal kills the most people the answer was that and they're moaning that insects don't count as animals.
That one is new on me. But some sort of weird definition?

It's called the Animal Kingdom for a reason.  There's no such thing as Insect Kingdom, except in something Timmay might read.

[Josquius]

Thought so. Is there some sort of standard American use, non scientific definition where they're not animals though?

[HVC]

No. Your friend is just a drunk idiot. Keep better company.

[Neil]

Insects are animals, as are fish.  Your friend deserved to miss the question.

[Eddie Teach]

Even sponges are animals IIRC.