Watch the unrelated nugget of wisdom near the very end
Edit: 25:25 or so
10-03-2021 02:31 PM
#29776
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10-03-2021 03:38 PM
#29777
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10-03-2021 08:58 PM
#29778
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I saw that and I was like... he says it better than me. But I already try to have that attitude as much as possible. | |
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10-03-2021 09:11 PM
#29779
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I've had a taxi turn up late for me when I have a train to catch. Driver asks "when's your train?", I reply "five minutes", station is between five and ten minute drive depending on traffic, driver says "put your belt on". Arrive with a minute or two to spare. | |
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10-07-2021 06:25 AM
#29780
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I knew it. | |
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10-07-2021 06:29 AM
#29781
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I'd buy it if he could spell "through". | |
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10-07-2021 11:21 AM
#29782
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indistinguishable from a biological bird = a biological bird | |
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10-11-2021 07:16 PM
#29783
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10-11-2021 07:39 PM
#29784
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Zebras on the loose in Maryland. | |
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10-18-2021 11:15 AM
#29785
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Bought plane tickets for a Holiday season vacation a couple months ago. | |
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10-19-2021 09:01 AM
#29786
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Sounds pretty sweet. | |
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10-20-2021 02:53 AM
#29787
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This thread is getting more and more unpredictable. It seems to me that the most absurd thoughts have already been said | |
10-21-2021 04:10 AM
#29788
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Found this somewhere on the interwebs | |
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10-21-2021 04:11 AM
#29789
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10-21-2021 03:40 PM
#29790
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Currently watching a football match, West Ham vs Genk, there's Ogbonna and Bongonda playing. My brothers. | |
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10-22-2021 05:26 AM
#29791
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Three of the best names ever. | |
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10-22-2021 08:05 AM
#29792
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Oops. | |
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10-22-2021 08:58 AM
#29793
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Brandon Lee did because a dummy bullet, which was used for a close up scene, was not removed from the barrel before the following scene, involving a blank bullet. Dummies and blanks are different, dummies have no explosives while blanks are modified bullets to be "safe", though as history shows, they're not 100% safe. So when they fired a blank, it released the blockage, firing the dummy at Brandon, and killing him. | |
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10-22-2021 12:42 PM
#29794
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Yeah. The police investigation will happen, it seems, before we get the details on what exactly was loaded in that gun, and how a blank managed to kill someone and injure another from what we would naively assume to be over 10 feet away. | |
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10-22-2021 01:42 PM
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A Hollywood blank is a normal bullet that has the cap removed and replaced with cotton. You still get recoil, muzzle flash and a loud bang. Not sure how this modification makes them "safe" but this is what I've learned reading up on this matter today. Dummies are different, they don't even have explosives and so aren't dangerous at all... unless, that is, it gets stuck in the barrel and the gun is then used to fire a blank, as in the case with Brandon Lee. | |
Last edited by OngBonga; 10-22-2021 at 01:44 PM. | |
10-22-2021 07:56 PM
#29796
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Baldwin's almost certainly not the one who prepped the gun. Still, I agree it seems a bit obvious for a murder. | |
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10-22-2021 08:41 PM
#29797
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This is something that will be discussed in great depth over the coming weeks. It's relatively cheap and simple these days to use CGI in post-production, so it does beg the question if it's worth the risk using dangerous props. But you're not going to get a natural recoil. I suspect you're sacrificing some realism. The question begs, is it worth it? This is an extremely rare incident, other than this and Brandon Lee, I only saw reference to one more incident of this kind, and that was almost Darwin Awards stuff... some bored actor decided to put a prop gun to his temple and fired... the recoil fractured his skull and he died several days later in hospital. It's easy to dismiss that one as self inflicted, but when you have production crew getting hurt it's very different. | |
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10-23-2021 12:27 AM
#29798
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Not that the following justifies the risk, quite the opposite, but for some perspective: film production staff often work very long hours. When something gets off track with production, the thing that bends doesnt tend to be the A lister's schedule or the days paid to be on location, but instead the hours worked by the crew increase to compensate for the less flexible variables. So 10-12 hour days are standard, 16 hour days are routine, and 20+ hour days may not happen on every production, but anyone in the industry for a bit will have seen their share. The roles are varied, but most are both physically and mentally taxing. When the day wraps, all these sleep deprived people get in cars and drive home/to accommodations-- indistinguishable from drunk driving . All that is to say, while falling asleep at the wheel doesn't make the same media splash, and without understanding how the industry operates it's easy to blame the deceased, some number of people die every year making the entertainment we consume due to avoidable but inherently dangerous conditions on productions. | |
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10-23-2021 12:39 AM
#29799
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One small clarification, it wasn't the recoil but the actual muzzle flair that killed that actor. At anything over a few feet, it won't be fatal, but eye protection should still be used-- essentially it's a directional firework. | |
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10-23-2021 03:13 AM
#29800
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trolling freetrollers
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10-23-2021 06:35 AM
#29801
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10-23-2021 11:18 AM
#29802
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I was health and safety officer in our dept. for a couple of years, and it was made very clear to me that if someone did something stupid and dangerous, and I hadn't expressly told them not to, it was my ass on the line and not theirs. | |
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10-23-2021 11:42 AM
#29803
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This is one of the problems with the world today. Ok in some cases where something is not obviously dangerous (for example, using a prop gun), it's clear that people need to be adequately trained and informed, and where that doesn't happen and someone gets hurt, then yes it's fair to assign blame to those who should be educating people. But in most cases, it's fucking obvious that something is dangerous. I've worked with potentially dangerous machinery before and I certainly wasn't told to not put my head in front of a moving rollercoaster, for example. It's common sense. | |
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10-23-2021 12:17 PM
#29804
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Yeah I mean I imagine I would have been off the hook if someone stuck their finger in a mains socket. But, if someone plugged a dozen different plugs into a single mains socket using a chain of extensions, which I would argue is a thing the common sense of a twelve-year-old tells you not to do, I had to hope I caught them before the fire started (which thankfully I did). | |
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10-23-2021 01:49 PM
#29805
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I definitely could not do that job. No matter how competent you are, you're at the mercy of incompetent colleagues. | |
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10-23-2021 08:07 PM
#29806
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I've just read an article from the Daily Mail suggesting that the bullet that killed that unfortunate lady was a live bullet, not a blank, and it passed all the way through her before hitting the guy on the shoulder, who was stood behind here. It's the DM so huge pinch of salt, but they're going as far as to imply blame lies on armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director Dave Halls. Hannah is the daughter of Thell Reed, a respected Hollywood armorer, and by coincidence, Halls was involved in The Crow: Salvation, the sequel to the film in which Brandon Lee was killed. | |
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10-23-2021 08:13 PM
#29807
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If it was a live bullet and not a blank, then the blame for this incident is obviously on whoever loaded the gun. That might be Hannah, but not necessarily. Whoever it was should be trained to know the difference between a live bullet and a blank, otherwise what the fuck are they even doing in the job? | |
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10-24-2021 04:41 AM
#29808
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Makes sense. | |
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10-24-2021 07:39 AM
#29809
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I'm not going down that rabbit hole, but with that said, I don't dismiss the idea of some form of cultism in Hollywood and the wider entertainment industry. If anything, it explains why talentless people become so successful, and why many very talented people aren't successful. It also explains why certain people are allowed to get away with awful crimes for decades, and why certain people are suicided when they get exposed. Something is going on. | |
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10-24-2021 09:51 AM
#29810
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I would think clique is a better description than cult. | |
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10-24-2021 10:07 AM
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10-24-2021 10:22 AM
#29812
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356k hits | |
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10-24-2021 10:22 AM
#29813
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1.8 billion hits | |
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10-24-2021 10:24 AM
#29814
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I fucking love Alice Russel, what a voice. Best white soul singer in history in my opinion, happy to be proven wrong because it means discovering someone else insanely good. | |
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10-24-2021 10:50 AM
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The world is not a meritocracy. It's run by humans, who are dumb, lack complete information, and are led by selfish motivations. | |
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10-24-2021 10:52 AM
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10-24-2021 10:55 AM
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10-24-2021 11:19 AM
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10-24-2021 11:25 AM
#29819
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10-24-2021 11:27 AM
#29820
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Susan Boyle has a great voice but her music isn't great. You need more than a voice... you also need good songwriting skills. | |
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10-24-2021 11:28 AM
#29821
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10-24-2021 11:55 AM
#29822
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Nah, this is by far the most likely way they were both hit and it caused serious injury and death. | |
Last edited by boost; 10-24-2021 at 11:59 AM.
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10-24-2021 12:04 PM
#29823
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10-24-2021 03:22 PM
#29824
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She would not make it mainstream today; there's too much emphasis on looks. Name me one of the top ten selling female artists in the last 30 years that wasn't hot. If you can, she's the exception to the rule. | |
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10-24-2021 03:27 PM
#29825
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Case in point: The first televised presidential debate was Nixon/Kennedy in 1960. Most people who watched it on TV thought Kennedy had won, most who listened on the radio thought Nixon won. | |
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10-24-2021 03:34 PM
#29826
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I'm struggling to even think of one. | |
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10-24-2021 04:17 PM
#29827
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10-24-2021 04:20 PM
#29828
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10-24-2021 04:22 PM
#29829
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The Spice Girls are a bunch of average looking women. The black one was by far the hottest, I'd give her a rating of 9. | |
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10-24-2021 04:26 PM
#29830
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Katie White from the Ting Tings. Hayley Williams. Carly Rae Jepsen. Madonna in her prime. Whitney Houston. Lily Allen. | |
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10-24-2021 05:30 PM
#29831
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10-24-2021 06:00 PM
#29832
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10-24-2021 06:05 PM
#29833
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It's funny that you see some novel posture that becomes a fad as somehow evidence of widespread Satanism. | |
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10-24-2021 06:46 PM
#29834
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10-24-2021 06:55 PM
#29835
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btw, it's not just musicians and actors who do this cultish symbolism thing. Politicians do too. Who are they trying to impress? | |
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10-24-2021 07:04 PM
#29836
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10-24-2021 07:04 PM
#29837
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I mean, you stand there and make that symbol with your hands, and tell me it's natural. | |
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10-24-2021 07:07 PM
#29838
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10-24-2021 07:07 PM
#29839
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Sometimes I think it's unintentional, they don't really know the meaning behind it, or they didn't even intend to make the gesture-- there's a lot to see that isn't there when a person is constantly being recorded. | |
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10-24-2021 07:09 PM
#29840
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10-24-2021 07:15 PM
#29841
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10-24-2021 07:16 PM
#29842
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10-24-2021 08:16 PM
#29843
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I'm half joking, but it's not just work, it's also potential significant others, friends, etc. I've said a lot of shit that I don't think is representative of who I am now, or even who I was then in many cases. Or I've said things that I meant in a context that is not easily translatable, or has been forgotten over the years. | |
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10-24-2021 08:39 PM
#29844
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I guess I should have said unemployed and single! But yeah I know what you mean, I reckon some of my 10-y/o comments on here would be totally unacceptable by today's standards, even in good company. | |
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10-25-2021 05:49 AM
#29845
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People do weird stuff, including famous people. But even weirder is reading all kinds of nefarious things into their idiosyncrasies with no evidence. | |
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10-25-2021 09:41 AM
#29846
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Is twirking an inverted pyramid? | |
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10-25-2021 10:25 AM
#29847
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Is covering one eye an inverted pyramid? | |
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10-25-2021 10:34 AM
#29848
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10-25-2021 10:37 AM
#29849
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I think I'm referring to the Louis Theroux Scientology movie, I suspect that's where I'm getting that from, if you want to watch that it's interesting and probably on Netflix, if it's not on a streaming service you sub to then you can probably find dodgy streams if you're that way inclined. | |
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10-25-2021 11:43 AM
#29850
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It makes just as much sense that you signal your allegiance to Satan through wearing a particular type of hat or by twerking, as that you signal it through adopting certain postures. | |
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