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Rocky the Zombie after being shot
05/10/13, 12:09
A lot of things that were practical 100 years ago aren't practical now. |
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Bleeding Zombie Shoot
05/10/13, 12:07
Same goes for bombs. |
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Women's Studies trailer
05/10/13, 12:06
That's sociology for you. |
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The Life Zone trailer
05/10/13, 12:04
I figured since the movie came out in 2010 this must be up, but I didn't find it. |
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Meatballs - Let's Wrestle
05/10/13, 12:03
Don't get me wrong, I totally recommend it, it's a lesser classic of its genre, it just happens to be an uncomfortably misogynistic genre. |
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Meatballs - Let's Wrestle
05/10/13, 12:01
the thing that's really creepy about these movies is that the people who made them don't just ignore the psychological stress placed on women living in an environment of routine sexual harassment, they actually tend to very directly acknowledge it - it's the joke. |
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Meatballs - Let's Wrestle
05/10/13, 11:57
It's OK, because after another hour or sexual harassment he finally gets the girl.
I'd never seen it either, this is the standout creepy scene but the whole thing is just as casually sexist as you'd expect from one of the better, less offensive late 70s screwball comedies. It's creepier than Porky's but not as creepy as Porky's 2.
I also didn't realize that Wet Hot American Summer is less a parody of summer camp movies in general and more just a parody of Meatballs in particular. |
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Bleeding Zombie Shoot
05/09/13, 23:53
Most of it was completely awesome, there were a ton of totally fine people out there in little, somewhat isolated towns for the most part. There were just a few places where people with questionable habits congregated. |
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Rocky the Zombie after being shot
05/09/13, 23:47
Gmork
Zircon, do you have space in your brain for the possibility not everyone who has a gun or shoots them is part of a "gun culture". A "gun culture" is the kind of town in texas where it's traditional to give your five-year old a hunting rifle so he can accidentally shoot his kid sister in the head. That, to me, is what gun culture means - the proliferation of this ideology, which is something you don't get a membership card for automatically at Big 5 when you purchase a gun.
Absolutely, I might not have been clear enough about that in the post you're responding to, but I said "and aren't idiots" to explicitly differentiate. |
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Rocky the Zombie after being shot
05/09/13, 16:33
Also guns are fun as hell and as long as someone else is providing the guns, ammo and location, and aren't idiots, I'm down to go out with them and shoot inanimate, manmade objects of nearly kind any time, but that doesn't for a moment change any of my opinions about gun control, gun culture or the gun industry. |
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Rocky the Zombie after being shot
05/09/13, 16:27
I love how the white woman has natural skin tone but the Obama target is kind of moldy Hulk green, because that way it isn't racist. I haven't seen their other models but I'm making an educated guess that they're all natural white skin tones. |
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Rocky the Zombie after being shot
05/09/13, 16:11
I didn't actually make the "Rocky/Barack" connection at first, and wasn't giving them full credit for just how shameless they're being about it. |
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Bleeding Zombie Shoot
05/09/13, 16:08
I didn't know about that tag, good suggestion! |
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Bleeding Zombie Shoot
05/09/13, 16:07
My father is a geologist and has been doing research in very isolated parts of Northern California and East Oregon for the last 20 years. I spent a month in the field with him last summer and one of the recurring themes was being showed sites where he and his research partner had been harassed, nearly shot (accidentally) or otherwise menaced by California rednecks. One of them was a spot where some people were shooting semiautomatic rifles behind a pile of gravel that was 100 yards from the highway at most. They were never clear whether it was target practice or an intentional threat but either way they had to literally duck down and kind of monkey walk back to their car to be sure, since it was too dark to actually see who was shooting, apart from muzzle flashes.
We also stumbled on a large compound with about 30 Tijuana style shacks surrounding one large house that was the only one that had electricity and was surrounded by hummers. Judging from the location, that one was probably the turf of the guys who had rolled up on his camp a few years back in a jeep with a machine gun mount.
The worst harassment we got that year was the redneck dunebuggy family camping near us one week repeatedly leaving a large rock in the path we took to the latrine (they came from the opposite direction), presumably to trip us at night. They also pounded on the door whenever one of us was in their for more than a minute or two. They had a large winnebago with a full bathroom, so it's not like they were actually using the latrine themselves. They also stole a couple expensive tools from our camp on the morning we were leaving, but since nobody saw it happen we couldn't get them to own up to it.
No real point to this except that there are a whole lot of people like this lurking around. |
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Al Sharpton has some things to say about Rocky the Zombie
05/09/13, 15:47
The week of the bombing was the first time I had deliberately watched news in probably a decade, and as soon as the manhunt was over I turned that crap off. |
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Al Sharpton has some things to say about Rocky the Zombie
05/09/13, 15:31
My parents watch CNN but they're 70. |
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The Science Delusion (deleted TED talk)
05/09/13, 15:28
Chopra to the left of me, TED Talks to the right |
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Bobcat Goldthwait on TOP STORY! WEEKLY
05/09/13, 15:07
He's one of the rare comics who's not only funny but also seems like he would be a fun guy to hang out with. |
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Long Haired Student Vs. Teacher on the Subject of Respect
05/09/13, 15:05
Counterpoint: my roommate at my apartment before last was a middle school teacher who refused to teach the prefab curriculum, advocated relentlessly, developed his own curriculum and after a few years he had affected major changes in the standard curriculum simply by setting an example and producing results. Of course, that was in heathen commie Boston so it's hardly the same thing. |
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Rocky the Zombie after being shot
05/09/13, 15:00
actually that doesn't hold together if he's a cop, the natural enemy of the lolbertarian (until they need one), but also I can't remember if he's cop or one of the roving rednecks. I'm talking about the guy who shoots the male lead, obviously.
bah, whatever. |
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