The Refuge of the Toads

#42061

Brive1987 wrote:Well bugger me. I engage Jim and he fucks off. And he's meant to be the nice one.

People always think that I'm trying to be nice.

Nobody understands me. :cry:

#42062

Brive1987 wrote:
rayshul wrote:I have no idea where I stand on this argument.
Come stand with me. It will be fun. There will be ice cream.

I don't like the idea of drawing a line on what you can say on the pit - at the same time I think the larger context of the "joke" or ironic comment is hard to see.

Brive1987 wrote:George Pell up for child abuse. No word on whether he also blogged.

Surprised the dude is still alive, he was archbishop or whatever when I was in bloody high school.

#42063

Brive1987 wrote:PZ went to the movies. And guess what. He found the movie terrible. Quelle surprise.

This time Tarzan is the target.

Why? Well when he was a kid PZ read the originals and then became enlightened and realised he had been tricked by racist rants.

I could find them entertaining as an oblivious white kid, but once you grow up, you have to wake up to the context. And the context is intolerable.
Fair enough. Problem is he accepts none of this is in the movie. In fact Tarzan goes to bat for the darkies against the colonial oppressors.

Problem is he is still white.

The new movie struggles to overcome the racist subtext of the story, but fails. It’s implicit. In this case, the writers have made some heroic black characters, and rather than robbing and tormenting the black tribes, White Skin has now arrived to save them from colonial marauders.

I shouldn’t have to spell out the problem with that.

This man is not going to be happy till he eyeballs Princess Diana of Themyscira's panties.

http://web.archive.org/web/201607270857 ... es-please/

............

I see archive.is is now archive.today, the terrorists have won.

I've seen Tarzan, or "The Legend of Tarzan" to give its full name, and PZ is right - it is shit. But not really for the reasons he gives. It is just shite in a Hollywood way. One scene in particular, the standard Tarzan swinging through the trees on "ropes" (or whatever those long fucking tree ropes are) was insane. It was as thought he grabbed hold a magical, infinite rope to "swing" half a mile on to a moving fucking train.

Even the great Christoph Waltz was tiresome.

The film tries desperately to signal how bad European colonialism was at the time....but obviously, nothing is ever enough for SJWs.

PS -Margot Robbie looked fine though! ;)

#42064

Brive1987 wrote:George Pell up for child abuse. No word on whether he also blogged.

I'm amazed he isn't associated with FreeThoughtBlogs.

Ahem. Sorry, Gumby.

Anyway, I do recall he had an irritating "debate" with Dawkins on Q&A. He came across as a WL Craig wannabe. Lots of misrepresenting and fallacious arguments.

#42065

rayshul wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:George Pell up for child abuse. No word on whether he also blogged.
Surprised the dude is still alive, he was archbishop or whatever when I was in bloody high school.

Not the same school, I hope?

Anyway, I presume linking to the "Richard Savile" photo is still kosher? Or is that now against the new rules?

#42066

So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?

#42067

Okay. One of my periodic appeals for advice.

As I've mentioned before, I've had problems with disturbing my neighbours practising my guitar. (Their landlord actually approached me a while later - I think reading between the lines he was looking for an excuse to kick them out - and told me the council had been out and taken readings after their second complaint and found nothing to be concerned about.)

But those particular neighbours won't be a problem for much longer. I've had an offer accepted on another house. It's a bit bigger and in a nicer area, but it's still a terrace so I'll still need to be careful about keeping the noise down.

Anybody know anything about soundproofing? Everything I find online is either about keeping external noise out of a recording studio, or building the kind of facility an entire band could practice in, neither of which is what I'm after. just want a bit of noise dampening to spare the neighbours. Would a bookcase full of books along the party wall have any useful effect, or perhaps with a bit of acoustic foam behind it?

#42068

Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?

It's all Hollywood bullshit anyway. Hollywood doesn't actually care about anything; it's just what happens to be popular at the time. I just watched a ridiculous slasher film on Netflix called "Hush" which had an obligatory conversation between two women to satisfy the Bechdel test, right before one of them was minced by the killer white dude. Hollywood doesn't really give a shit about anything. In five years movies with killa niggas will be back, just like in the 70's. They'll probably be calling women "dames". Who knows.

#42069

paddybrown wrote:Okay. One of my periodic appeals for advice.

As I've mentioned before, I've had problems with disturbing my neighbours practising my guitar. (Their landlord actually approached me a while later - I think reading between the lines he was looking for an excuse to kick them out - and told me the council had been out and taken readings after their second complaint and found nothing to be concerned about.)

But those particular neighbours won't be a problem for much longer. I've had an offer accepted on another house. It's a bit bigger and in a nicer area, but it's still a terrace so I'll still need to be careful about keeping the noise down.

Anybody know anything about soundproofing? Everything I find online is either about keeping external noise out of a recording studio, or building the kind of facility an entire band could practice in, neither of which is what I'm after. just want a bit of noise dampening to spare the neighbours. Would a bookcase full of books along the party wall have any useful effect, or perhaps with a bit of acoustic foam behind it?

The only thing I know about soundproofing is to staple a bunch of old egg cartons to your wall.

Buck, buck, buggaaaaaa!

#42070

Hunt wrote:
paddybrown wrote:Okay. One of my periodic appeals for advice.

As I've mentioned before, I've had problems with disturbing my neighbours practising my guitar. (Their landlord actually approached me a while later - I think reading between the lines he was looking for an excuse to kick them out - and told me the council had been out and taken readings after their second complaint and found nothing to be concerned about.)

But those particular neighbours won't be a problem for much longer. I've had an offer accepted on another house. It's a bit bigger and in a nicer area, but it's still a terrace so I'll still need to be careful about keeping the noise down.

Anybody know anything about soundproofing? Everything I find online is either about keeping external noise out of a recording studio, or building the kind of facility an entire band could practice in, neither of which is what I'm after. just want a bit of noise dampening to spare the neighbours. Would a bookcase full of books along the party wall have any useful effect, or perhaps with a bit of acoustic foam behind it?
The only thing I know about soundproofing is to staple a bunch of old egg cartons to your wall.

Buck, buck, buggaaaaaa!

Yep, that's the cheapest and easiest solution. Acoustic foam is expensive.

#42071

rayshul wrote: at the same time I think the larger context of the "joke" or ironic comment is hard to see.

There was no joke or irony in my info pic thing. It was simple exposure of objective shitty-ness. ... If that's what you were talking about.

Your ice cream is now a puddle on the sidewalk. Next time maybe.

;)

#42072

Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?

Has PZ seen the Ghostbusters film? I've missed his reaction. Don't tell me he suddenly developed a one-off liking for a generic Hollywood cartoonesque comedy-action film?

There are so many film reviewers who gave the Ghostbusters film a decent review (like Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian) who usually hate the fuck out of these types of bland Hollywood reboots. I simply don't believe they are being honest. Just as the "1/10" people are not being honest. You expect, or perhaps demand, professional film reviewers to be honest, however.

Anyway, it looks like GB is struggling a bit at the box office. Nobody wants to admit it yet, though. It has slipped badly on its 2nd week at the US box office.

#42073

Sunder wrote:
Dave wrote:
Steersman wrote:In other news:

What is your point?
I'd say it's a good counter to the Bremainers who hold up the threat of a British currency downgrade by credit agencies as iron-clad proof that Brexit was a mistake.

Meh. While Ive seen several news sources call it a "report" what it actually is, is an article by their Chief Economist, almost more of an op-ed. IOW, unlike a credit rating, it carries no official weight. It also doesnt seem to cover anything new, I think most legal and economic observers have thought that the EU is currently unsustainable long term, that it either needs to move further towards an actual federation or slide back to a mere economic union. And it has been, so far, slowly moving toward a greater joint sovereignty. If you want to read the actual article, rather than cherry picked quotes, it is here

#42074

CommanderTuvok wrote:
Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?
Has PZ seen the Ghostbusters film? I've missed his reaction. Don't tell me he suddenly developed a one-off liking for a generic Hollywood cartoonesque comedy-action film?

There are so many film reviewers who gave the Ghostbusters film a decent review (like Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian) who usually hate the fuck out of these types of bland Hollywood reboots. I simply don't believe they are being honest. Just as the "1/10" people are not being honest. You expect, or perhaps demand, professional film reviewers to be honest, however.

Anyway, it looks like GB is struggling a bit at the box office. Nobody wants to admit it yet, though. It has slipped badly on its 2nd week at the US box office.

They only have 1 adult movie a time in cowpoke. Note their now showing and coming attractions are the same. Not a good sign.

http://www.morristheatre.net/index.htm

#42075

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Yep, that's the cheapest and easiest solution. Acoustic foam is expensive.

Wouldn't cheap egg-crate style foam mattresses work just as well?
Same shape. similar material.

#42076

paddybrown wrote:Okay. One of my periodic appeals for advice.

As I've mentioned before, I've had problems with disturbing my neighbours practising my guitar. (Their landlord actually approached me a while later - I think reading between the lines he was looking for an excuse to kick them out - and told me the council had been out and taken readings after their second complaint and found nothing to be concerned about.)

But those particular neighbours won't be a problem for much longer. I've had an offer accepted on another house. It's a bit bigger and in a nicer area, but it's still a terrace so I'll still need to be careful about keeping the noise down.

Anybody know anything about soundproofing? Everything I find online is either about keeping external noise out of a recording studio, or building the kind of facility an entire band could practice in, neither of which is what I'm after. just want a bit of noise dampening to spare the neighbours. Would a bookcase full of books along the party wall have any useful effect, or perhaps with a bit of acoustic foam behind it?

All I can think of is styrofoam wallpaper sheets, I think they're aimed at mildew minimisation but they may have some small damping effect on sound. May because I honestly haven't a clue.

However, bear in mind that decibel level may not be the salient factor. I lived in an apartment a few years back where one of the direct neighbours regularly had full on band practice at theirs, and believe me it wasn't the volume that rankled, it was the same damn song being played for the tenth time - complete with rehearsed stage patter - that drives people insane. That said, it didn't help that there was virtually no sound proofing in the building itself, and the other fucking neighbour thought he was recording an album which seemed to consist of the same insipid beat and lyrics repeated ad-infinitum. Never complained to landlords though, mostly I just retreated to headphones.

#42077

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Hunt wrote:
paddybrown wrote:Okay. One of my periodic appeals for advice.

As I've mentioned before, I've had problems with disturbing my neighbours practising my guitar. (Their landlord actually approached me a while later - I think reading between the lines he was looking for an excuse to kick them out - and told me the council had been out and taken readings after their second complaint and found nothing to be concerned about.)

But those particular neighbours won't be a problem for much longer. I've had an offer accepted on another house. It's a bit bigger and in a nicer area, but it's still a terrace so I'll still need to be careful about keeping the noise down.

Anybody know anything about soundproofing? Everything I find online is either about keeping external noise out of a recording studio, or building the kind of facility an entire band could practice in, neither of which is what I'm after. just want a bit of noise dampening to spare the neighbours. Would a bookcase full of books along the party wall have any useful effect, or perhaps with a bit of acoustic foam behind it?
The only thing I know about soundproofing is to staple a bunch of old egg cartons to your wall.

Buck, buck, buggaaaaaa!
Yep, that's the cheapest and easiest solution. Acoustic foam is expensive.

$1.25/sqft doesnt seem that expensive. Wouldnt think he needs more than an inch.

Bookcase full of books would provide some dampening, I think the foam would provide more. If you go with trying to do both, make sure to have 1/2 in or so between the bookcase and the foam. If the foam is compressed, it will lose much of its value.

#42078

various snips

All I can think of is styrofoam wallpaper sheets, I think they're aimed at mildew minimisation but they may have some small damping effect on sound.

Be careful that whatever you do you have the landlord's permission as otherwise your lease is at risk. Also with styrofoam there is a increased fire risk.

#42079

jimhabegger wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
jimhabegger wrote:My wife and I had a lot of fun in Liuzhou, but it's nice to be home again.
That's nice. So which one wins. Liuzhou Park or Ma'anshan?
Oh! LOL! Ma'anshan Park in Liuzhou!

We only visited Queshan Park and Longtan Park.

Liuzhou didn't seem as modern and glamorous as we hoped, but it has the essentials: Starbucks, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, KFC, Uniqlo and H&M. Guilin doesn't have Uniqlo and H&M yet.

And where will the pin hit the map next?

#42080

CommanderTuvok wrote:
Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?
Has PZ seen the Ghostbusters film? I've missed his reaction. Don't tell me he suddenly developed a one-off liking for a generic Hollywood cartoonesque comedy-action film?

There are so many film reviewers who gave the Ghostbusters film a decent review (like Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian) who usually hate the fuck out of these types of bland Hollywood reboots. I simply don't believe they are being honest. Just as the "1/10" people are not being honest. You expect, or perhaps demand, professional film reviewers to be honest, however.

Anyway, it looks like GB is struggling a bit at the box office. Nobody wants to admit it yet, though. It has slipped badly on its 2nd week at the US box office.

When Ghostbusters was announced, Peez put up a "grrrr, dudebros" post:

http://imgur.com/1gq9Pxw.jpg

But when they dropped that stinky trailer a year later, he pretended it was the first he'd heard of it:

http://imgur.com/3v7i8oY.jpg

If it continues to sink, the old weirdo will probably never mention it again.

#42081

Gumby wrote:
Carrier, imo, is not remotely an SJW. He's a guy who attached himself to a community where he thought he would prosper, financially and sexually.

I think that's the majority of them.

#42082

Brive1987 wrote:A lot of what goes on with FtB is shit and giggles. They really are clowns and this illicits trolling, shoops and point and laugh responses like the Shefield publishing fiasco. Then there's their efforts to fuck up A/S because it won't conform to their ideological one-think. This requires push back a la DJ, Nugent, timelines and factual expose.

Ok. There is the broader SJW desire to terraform western society to achieve their bleak Orwellian vision. To fight this we need a broad coalition, I generally watch the scuffles with impotent rage.

But then there's a level of immediate danger transcending all this. Ideological capitulation to terrorism is no laughing / trolling matter - not when there's a hearts and minds battle going on for the nex-gen. Western post modern cultural self hatred wankery is an existential threat. And a fucking insult.

PZ and his ilk shat on the very real victims of a religious war aimed at our 'disgustingly privileged' society. Every member of the regressive left deserves to be led through the Bataclan Theatre like a WWII era German on their free excursion to Dachau. Further, they should have their fuck-assed comments rubbed metaphorically into the blood matted hair of the victims they so denigrate.

I make no apology.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/imag ... yTHHUqfg3g

I believe your final line is in general rather than specifically directed, however, I will still clarify that I would not dream of requesting such nor should it ever be proffered.

A part of me wishes I hadn't seen that viscerally disturbing image of Islamist caused carnage but another part believes that as harrowing as these images can be they should be seen. I find it galling when CNN and such signal that disturbing images of this or that atrocity are coming up but then everything of substance is blurred out, and there isn't anything to be seen. It sanitises the event, rendering the victims of deliberate murder into abstractions. Just like people should be exposed to the crimes of the Holocaust so too should we know the full picture of what Islamists are doing, and not just the often abstract death tolls. Not so we can revel in the gory aftermath but so it is clear what these religious ideologues are capable of inflicting on innocents merely because an old tome and allah tells them to.

I was just caught off-guard by it after a drink or two and communicated in haste, and thus possibly somewhat poorly, my disgust for that craven pissant and his mealy mouthed routine unless of course it's some egregious scourge to society like Sam Harris.

#42083

They could have done a Black reboot of Tarzan.

A Black guy in a loin-cloth swinging through the jungle and lusting after a white woman wouldn't have been problematic at all.

#42084

Hunt wrote:
Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?
It's all Hollywood bullshit anyway. Hollywood doesn't actually care about anything; it's just what happens to be popular at the time. I just watched a ridiculous slasher film on Netflix called "Hush" which had an obligatory conversation between two women to satisfy the Bechdel test, right before one of them was minced by the killer white dude. Hollywood doesn't really give a shit about anything. In five years movies with killa niggas will be back, just like in the 70's. They'll probably be calling women "dames". Who knows.

I think that's largely true - on the whole, the great and good virtue signal their assent to the received wisdom merely in order to get on with the business of making piles of cash. They would do the same no matter what the common cultural intellectual fashions are.

The trouble is there's an assymetry - assenting to traditionalist or religious tropes when they're in fashion, is different from assenting to ideological tropes that tend towards totalitarianism when they're in fashion. The latter get "locked in" - IOW, one's virtue signalling is led down a path that escalates from (e.g.) right and proper distancing from actually racist or sexist comments, to distancing from comments that are "racist" and "sexist" only in the broadened terms of totalitarian, collectivist ideology. Then eventually everything becomes a kafkatrap and anything anyone says at any time can be cause for purging, imprisonment and eventually execution.

#42085

Darth Cynic wrote: I believe your final line is in general rather than specifically directed, however, I will still clarify that I would not dream of requesting such nor should it ever be proffered.

A part of me wishes I hadn't seen that viscerally disturbing image of Islamist caused carnage but another part believes that as harrowing as these images can be they should be seen. I find it galling when CNN and such signal that disturbing images of this or that atrocity are coming up but then everything of substance is blurred out, and there isn't anything to be seen. It sanitises the event, rendering the victims of deliberate murder into abstractions. Just like people should be exposed to the crimes of the Holocaust so too should we know the full picture of what Islamists are doing, and not just the often abstract death tolls. Not so we can revel in the gory aftermath but so it is clear what these religious ideologues are capable of inflicting on innocents merely because an old tome and allah tells them to.

I was just caught off-guard by it after a drink or two and communicated in haste, and thus possibly somewhat poorly, my disgust for that craven pissant and his mealy mouthed routine unless of course it's some egregious scourge to society like Sam Harris.

I came upon that Bataclan picture, in HD, the day after the attack. It meant my friend Guillaume was in there somewhere. It shocked me, yes, but I also understood why it was needed. Same with the fresh pictures of the Nice attack on the morning after. Seeing the place where I learned to ride a bike, roller-skates, what boobs look like... strewn with corpses. It's shilling as all fuck, but also needed so the horror is not downplayed by the apologists.

#42086

deLurch wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Yep, that's the cheapest and easiest solution. Acoustic foam is expensive.
Wouldn't cheap egg-crate style foam mattresses work just as well?
Same shape. similar material.

If you're not allowed to affix the mattress to the wall, perhaps there's an unemployed university graduate out there with exactly the experience to hold it up for you.

Sent from my SM-G901F using Tapatalk

#42087

paddybrown wrote:Okay. One of my periodic appeals for advice.

As I've mentioned before, I've had problems with disturbing my neighbours practising my guitar. (Their landlord actually approached me a while later - I think reading between the lines he was looking for an excuse to kick them out - and told me the council had been out and taken readings after their second complaint and found nothing to be concerned about.)

But those particular neighbours won't be a problem for much longer. I've had an offer accepted on another house. It's a bit bigger and in a nicer area, but it's still a terrace so I'll still need to be careful about keeping the noise down.

Anybody know anything about soundproofing? Everything I find online is either about keeping external noise out of a recording studio, or building the kind of facility an entire band could practice in, neither of which is what I'm after. just want a bit of noise dampening to spare the neighbours. Would a bookcase full of books along the party wall have any useful effect, or perhaps with a bit of acoustic foam behind it?

It'll help if you're not this guy:

[youtube]9DbUPjEbIvA[/youtube]

#42088

Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?

He needed to. Tarzan made a profit. Ghostbusters is still well away from recovering the money spent on it.

#42089

Brive1987 wrote:
jimhabegger wrote:Liuzhou didn't seem as modern and glamorous as we hoped, but it has the essentials: Starbucks, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, KFC, Uniqlo and H&M. Guilin doesn't have Uniqlo and H&M yet.
And where will the pin hit the map next?

Sanjiang, in a few weeks maybe.

#42090

I think the amazing thing is how closely the drops match predictions based on opening night & weekend. I guess when your numbers get large enough, people act in predictable swarms.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... rs2016.htm

#42091

paddybrown wrote:Okay. One of my periodic appeals for advice.

As I've mentioned before, I've had problems with disturbing my neighbours practising my guitar. (Their landlord actually approached me a while later - I think reading between the lines he was looking for an excuse to kick them out - and told me the council had been out and taken readings after their second complaint and found nothing to be concerned about.)

But those particular neighbours won't be a problem for much longer. I've had an offer accepted on another house. It's a bit bigger and in a nicer area, but it's still a terrace so I'll still need to be careful about keeping the noise down.

Anybody know anything about soundproofing? Everything I find online is either about keeping external noise out of a recording studio, or building the kind of facility an entire band could practice in, neither of which is what I'm after. just want a bit of noise dampening to spare the neighbours. Would a bookcase full of books along the party wall have any useful effect, or perhaps with a bit of acoustic foam behind it?

Books are hard and reflect sound. Not good for sound dampering. The acoustic foam will work by itself.

I don't know your budget or how much you care about how stuff looks but a good way to do things is carpet on the walls and floors.

Or you know they make these things. https://www.amazon.com/Fender-Mini-Delu ... headphones

#42092

Sulman wrote:
Gumby wrote:
Carrier, imo, is not remotely an SJW. He's a guy who attached himself to a community where he thought he would prosper, financially and sexually.
I think that's the majority of them.

:lol: That's just what I was thinking.

#42093

comhcinc wrote:
Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?
He needed to. Tarzan made a profit. Ghostbusters is still well away from recovering the money spent on it.

Ghostbusters will bomb in the Blu-Rays/download chart. It's hard to virtue signal in your own home.

#42094

Shatterface wrote:
comhcinc wrote:
Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?
He needed to. Tarzan made a profit. Ghostbusters is still well away from recovering the money spent on it.
Ghostbusters will bomb in the Blu-Rays/download chart. It's hard to virtue signal in your own home.

I mean they could throw more money at the problem and sponsor a social media campaign that involves taking a selfie with some insert from the packaging. It would have to a direct "against the haters" thing.

#42095

comhcinc wrote:
I mean they could throw more money at the problem and sponsor a social media campaign that involves taking a selfie with some insert from the packaging. It would have to a direct "against the haters" thing.

Someone should archive this comment somewhere. I think Com is due for a Randi price.

#42096

It's so nice to see how 'Pharyngula' is nearly flatlining.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=pharyngula

PZ probably won't get it up again.

#42097

Price? Prize, maybe. Award?

Whatever fuck, man! (Die Artwood)

Send from my computer using my fucking hands.

#42098

[youtube]R3xGMfUD4qw[/youtube]

#42099

Ok, that was funny, in a Muscato way.

#42100

deLurch wrote:I think the amazing thing is how closely the drops match predictions based on opening night & weekend. I guess when your numbers get large enough, people act in predictable swarms.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... rs2016.htm

Thanks you, Hari Seldon.

#42101

Won't someone please think of the children! The children!!

Any of you into slitting people's throats at that age? Maybe we shouldn't be indoctrinating children into Islam then?

#42102

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
comhcinc wrote:
I mean they could throw more money at the problem and sponsor a social media campaign that involves taking a selfie with some insert from the packaging. It would have to a direct "against the haters" thing.
Someone should archive this comment somewhere. I think Com is due for a Randi ~~price~~ Prize.

It would just be smart marketing. Well it might be. It would depend on how much it will cost to pull off compare to how much they have to make.

I mean if they are close to making their money back then I think they should go for it. If they are not, I would quietly release it.

#42103

Shatterface wrote:They could have done a Black reboot of Tarzan.

A Black guy in a loin-cloth swinging through the jungle and lusting after a white woman wouldn't have been problematic at all.

Way to shut out the LGBTQPA community shitlord! :twisted:

#42104

Brive1987 wrote:PZ went to the movies. And guess what. He found the movie terrible. Quelle surprise.

This time Tarzan is the target.

Why? Well when he was a kid PZ read the originals and then became enlightened and realised he had been tricked by racist rants.

I could find them entertaining as an oblivious white kid, but once you grow up, you have to wake up to the context. And the context is intolerable.
Fair enough. Problem is he accepts none of this is in the movie. In fact Tarzan goes to bat for the darkies against the colonial oppressors.

Problem is he is still white.

The new movie struggles to overcome the racist subtext of the story, but fails. It’s implicit. In this case, the writers have made some heroic black characters, and rather than robbing and tormenting the black tribes, White Skin has now arrived to save them from colonial marauders.

I shouldn’t have to spell out the problem with that.

This man is not going to be happy till he eyeballs Princess Diana of Themyscira's panties.

http://web.archive.org/web/201607270857 ... es-please/

............

I see archive.is is now archive.today, the terrorists have won.

I liked this comment:

Chris Whitehouse

27 July 2016 at 3:23 am

I would love to see a twist on the story where a black baby is abandoned in the wilds of Mormon Utah. Named “Mark Caine” by the locals, because of his black skin, he grew strong in his rage at his tormentors, and fathered hundreds of children off of neglected sister wives. The story climaxes in hand to hand combat with Bloody Brigham Young, where Caine pulls Young’s magic underwear over his head and gives him the swirly of death in the Great Salt Lake. He then moves to Minnesota.

Or Caine could be brown skinned she, does the same stuff then moves to North Dakota.

#42105

I like my movies to be entertaining, not some stupid as fuck propaganda. Thank you very much.

#42106

Tarzan of Elfwick has been a trans-racial icon for over a century.

Opponents of race-mixing have always hated Tarzan, for putting his wrongskin hands on white Jane.

Tarzan paved the way for Godfrey of Arabia. And Dances With Wolves star Kevin Costner being IRL inducted into Caine's tribe, after shattering Lakota Sioux patriarchy with his stunning & brave & squaw portrayal of a trans-woman.

Native American activist and actor Russell Means was less kind about some aspects of the film's technical accuracy. In 2009, he said... "The odd thing about making that movie is that they had a woman teaching the actors the Lakota language, but Lakota has a male-gendered language and a female-gendered language. Some of the Indians and Kevin Costner were speaking in the feminine way. When I went to see it with a bunch of Lakota guys, we were laughing."

#42107

comhcinc wrote:It's hard to virtue signal in your own home.

Yet it's Steve Shives' living hell.

#42108

I was about to add that Steve Shives doesn't need to grovel like a spineless mangina to get pussy, but then I realized that's not true.

#42109

Speaking of Steve Shives, someone asked why many people dislike him, well he is a snivelling, strawmanning passive aggressive shit.
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#42110

Service Dog wrote:Tarzan of Elfwick has been a trans-racial icon for over a century.

Opponents of race-mixing have always hated Tarzan, for putting his wrongskin hands on white Jane.

Tarzan paved the way for Godfrey of Arabia. And Dances With Wolves star Kevin Costner being IRL inducted into Caine's tribe, after shattering Lakota Sioux patriarchy with his stunning & brave & squaw portrayal of a trans-woman.

Native American activist and actor Russell Means was less kind about some aspects of the film's technical accuracy. In 2009, he said... "The odd thing about making that movie is that they had a woman teaching the actors the Lakota language, but Lakota has a male-gendered language and a female-gendered language. Some of the Indians and Kevin Costner were speaking in the feminine way. When I went to see it with a bunch of Lakota guys, we were laughing."

Patriarchy is when men and women have different bathrooms, not different languages.

#42111

Shatterface wrote:So Peezus has discovered that the new Tarzan movie is about... Tarzan? And he didn't know what the story is about?

Whi didn't he just go see Ghostbusters again?

I recommend he restrict himself to watching the output of the Soviet film industry. It's ideologically sane and pretty close to his world.

#42112

Decided to find out who this Leslie Jones is everyone either loves or hates.

* Saturday Night Live writer, originally hired after calls for the show to diversify;

* Moved from writer to performer in 2014. Her very first skit involved her complaining about her empty love life, and how it would've been better in slavery days, because as a strapping beast of a woman, she'd have been bred against her will to a strapping beast of a buck;

* Acting career (TV mostly) includes many roles over the years, including:

Detective (2016)
The Driver (2016)
Chatty Woman (2016)
Angry Subway Patron (2015)
Stand Up Student (2013)
Angry Woman (2012)
Boss Lady (2012)
Sales Employee (2003)
Trucker Woman (2003)
Vapid Nurse (2000)
Clerk (2000)

* But she's also had more substantial roles, including:

Lisa (2014)
Lynette (2014)
Bobbie (2013)
Tasha (2010)
Vanity (2010)
Lay La (2006)
Mable (2004)

* Her Twitter feed has long been filled with foul-mouthed, racially-charged anger;

Bayesian analysis of her forever being typecast in cameos as an angry black woman: P=9.7100483
Bayesian analysis of her Ghostbusters performance representing the high-water mark of her career: P=9.9999902

#42113

Hunt wrote:Hollywood doesn't really give a shit about anything. In five years movies with killa niggas will be back, just like in the 70's. They'll probably be calling women "dames". Who knows.

I, for one, would welcome the initiative. Just as long as they don't try to reboot Shaft (again). Some things are sacred.

#42114

Tarzan is nearly mute, but fluent in Zulu Sign Language.

#42115

That Lakota guy sounds more like the kind of pedant who would argue 'fewer, not less' rather than a native speaker. Lakota isn't as gendered as he suggests:

A small number of enclitics (approximately eight) differ in form based on the gender of the speaker. Yeló (men) ye (women) mark mild assertions. Kštó (women only according to most sources) marks strong assertion. Yo (men) and ye (women) mark neutral commands, yeto (men) and nito (women) mark familiar, and ye (both men and women) and na mark requests. He is used by both genders to mark direct questions, but men also use huo in more formal situations. So (men) and se (women) mark dubitative questions (where the person being asked is not assumed to know the answer).

While many native speakers and linguists agree that certain enclitics are associated with particular genders, such usage may not be exclusive. That is, individual men sometimes use enclitics associated with women, and vice versa (Trechter 1999).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language

#42116

'Clitics' are, of course, Japanese film reviewers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic#Classification

#42117

Service Dog wrote:Tarzan is nearly mute, but fluent in Zulu Sign Language.

Like the guy who translated at Nelson Mandela's memorial? Cool.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... reter.html

#42118

free thoughtpolice wrote:Speaking of Steve Shives, someone asked why many people dislike him, well he is a snivelling, strawmanning passive aggressive shit.
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QFT. He's raging, impotent, sexually repressed, cowardly douchebag. A young PZ Myers with a beard trimmer.

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#42119

Tigzy wrote:It'll help if you're not this guy:

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#42120

Shatterface wrote:That Lakota guy sounds more like the kind of pedant who would argue 'fewer, not less' rather than a native speaker. Lakota isn't as gendered as he suggests:

A small number of enclitics (approximately eight) differ in form based on the gender of the speaker. Yeló (men) ye (women) mark mild assertions. Kštó (women only according to most sources) marks strong assertion. Yo (men) and ye (women) mark neutral commands, yeto (men) and nito (women) mark familiar, and ye (both men and women) and na mark requests. He is used by both genders to mark direct questions, but men also use huo in more formal situations. So (men) and se (women) mark dubitative questions (where the person being asked is not assumed to know the answer).

While many native speakers and linguists agree that certain enclitics are associated with particular genders, such usage may not be exclusive. That is, individual men sometimes use enclitics associated with women, and vice versa (Trechter 1999).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language

But what about the Two-Spirit ones that SJWs wont shut up about?

"My name is We'wha. My pronouns are Wait?! and Whut!?"

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