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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Grey Fox

Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Admiral Yi

What's the deal with the Kevin thing?

Syt

Watched the original Django (1966) which I hadn't seen since I was a teen. Still a fun movie. The main setting (a desolate town in a mud wasteland) feels almost post-apocalyptic.

7 red hoods out of 10.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Grey Fox on March 22, 2013, 10:37:16 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on March 22, 2013, 03:49:19 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 20, 2013, 08:45:35 AM
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[spoiler]Elle est attachée sur la chaise.[/spoiler]

Grammaire de Kevin... :rolleyes:

:rolleyes: La bataille est déjà perdue.

Pour les Kevin kikoulol :smarty:... CQFD

France  :rolleyes:

Raté,  c'est même devenu un synonyme de crétin en Teutonie.   :contract:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/10/22/kevin-is-not-a-name-its-a-diagnosis/

Quote"Kevin Is Not a Name — It's a Diagnosis!"

We've written extensively about the consequences of baby naming. The name you choose for your children can affect his "Google-ability" or even get you in trouble with the law. A new survey of 2,000 elementary school teachers in Germany finds that your children's names may also affect how teachers perceive them (translation available here). An overwhelming majority of the teachers surveyed associate "traditional" names with positive character traits and non-traditional names with weak performance and bad behavior. The name Kevin has particularly negative connotations; as one teacher wrote, "Kevin is not a name — it's a diagnosis!" Astrid Kaiser, who conducted the study, said, "The names with positive connotations are all traditional German ones. What this shows is that children from a working class or immigrant background are clearly being discriminated against." (HT: Herbert Engels) [%comments]

garbon

Please Like Me

Cute, quirky little show about a gay guy in Australia.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

jimmy olsen

Bigoted Germans! Unpossible!
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Ideologue

Quote from: viper37 on March 22, 2013, 08:05:15 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on March 21, 2013, 09:05:44 PM
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Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 21, 2013, 08:57:49 PM
Fast Five was actually pretty decent. Sometimes you just want a movie with lots of fast cars and explosions. /shrug

Decent is a very generous description.

Cant agree more. It's..well...just crap. But it is what the 16-22 or so generation likes. Where I thought Red Dawn was utter crap, guess what, the 16 yo thought it was great. :rolleyes:
our parents probably thought the same of the original Red Dawn :)

I dunno.  I do hope 11B explained to the kid that the 2012 Red Dawn is a work compromised by the ultimate moral cowardice, which is to say any consideration of the People's Republic of China whatsoever that does not involve prioritizing targets, thus making it automatically one of the weakest pieces of art ever produced by humankind.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

fhdz

I would just like to say here that I have finally won the battle and have full cable in my house again.

I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH
and the horse you rode in on

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?


Eddie Teach

As el duque posted: "Kevin is not a name — it's a diagnosis!"
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

11B4V

Quote from: Ideologue on March 22, 2013, 08:32:26 PM
Quote from: viper37 on March 22, 2013, 08:05:15 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on March 21, 2013, 09:05:44 PM
Quote from: garbon on March 21, 2013, 09:00:54 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 21, 2013, 08:57:49 PM
Fast Five was actually pretty decent. Sometimes you just want a movie with lots of fast cars and explosions. /shrug

Decent is a very generous description.

Cant agree more. It's..well...just crap. But it is what the 16-22 or so generation likes. Where I thought Red Dawn was utter crap, guess what, the 16 yo thought it was great. :rolleyes:
our parents probably thought the same of the original Red Dawn :)

I dunno.  I do hope 11B explained to the kid that the 2012 Red Dawn is a work compromised by the ultimate moral cowardice, which is to say any consideration of the People's Republic of China whatsoever that does not involve prioritizing targets, thus making it automatically one of the weakest pieces of art ever produced by humankind.

Irrelevant to her. Really, no shit.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

11B4V

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 22, 2013, 08:42:32 PM
As el duque posted: "Kevin is not a name — it's a diagnosis!"

Who's Kevin?
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Ideologue

Quote from: fahdiz on March 22, 2013, 08:33:33 PM
I would just like to say here that I have finally won the battle and have full cable in my house again.

I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH

Really?  I haven't had in a year and I'm perfectly fine.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ed Anger

Quote from: Ideologue on March 22, 2013, 08:52:08 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on March 22, 2013, 08:33:33 PM
I would just like to say here that I have finally won the battle and have full cable in my house again.

I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH

Really?  I haven't had in a year and I'm perfectly fine.

Commie
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive