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I never cease to be amazed at what you can be convicted for in this country. I don't trust all his motives for doing it, but I agree with Dubya that something's gotta be changed to prevent some of these bullshit lawsuits.

But after the first couple of days, he never did.

You guys ever had a situation where you don't care for a performer or a group normally, but one of their songs just gets to you? Coldplay's like that with me, I thought most of their stuff was just kinda boring and bland, but then I heard The Scientist and damn near broke down crying. Still can't explain it to this day.

I am terribly disappointed that this thread got to two pages, and nobody's yet mentioned The Tick. I second the nominations for Undergrads and The Maxx. Technically, I think Cowboy Bebop could count here, too. IDRM, give Aeon Flux a look sometime, it's just weird enough that you might like it, especially if you could find the creepy episode about hunting down a plague in a weird underground city with that giant mutant baby. Aw HELL naw. The fucking Crow TV show?! The one where The Crow was an ORDINARY GUY who could MAGICALLY TRANSFORM into his Crow-self when he got angry, just like the Incredible Fucking Hulk?! Sheeyit.

Quit being such a Coey.

Austin: drew more money than Hogan, better wrestler than Hogan, what's to debate?

Oh god yes, forgot to mention that. It gets really fucking annoying that the movie can't seem to go for more than sixty seconds without a slo-mo shot of Jesus taking a bump into the dirt.

Jamie Foxx was going to win the SAG, Golden Globe, and Academy awards no matter what. Lemme break it down for ya. The following trends let you pick out the inevitable Best Actor award winner every single year, no shit (well, except for American Beauty, but that one surprised everybody). This is using the Oscars for examples: 1. About half the time, the winner is for playing a character who's disabled in some way: physically, mentally, diseased, whatever. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, and Tom Hanks in BOTH Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. If you want to count mental illnesses like antisocial disorder, obsessive-compulsiveness, or alcoholism, the list gets even bigger: Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, Geoffrey Rush in Shine, Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, Denzel Washington in Training Day. 2. Also, awards shows have a hard-on for fake voices. Affecting a foreign accent, speech impediment, or performing in a foreign language is like spanish fly for attracting gold statues. Just count 'em: Hoffman, Hopkins, Hanks, Rush, Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful Russel Crowe in Gladiator, and Adrien Brody in The Pianist all changed their voices or languages in some major way for their parts. 3. The third part of the Award Bait Quadruple-Shot is playing someone who really existed. Strangely, Rush is the only real example of this in the past few years, but it's a long trend that goes back to the earliest days of acting awards. 4. And finally, the awards people just love it when someone who used to be a wacky comedian suddenly starts doing serious movies and "real acting". The roll call: Hanks, Cage, Nicholson, Benigni. So now, here we've got got former comedian Jamie Foxx, playing a disabled guy, who really existed, with a fake accent. Any questions?

Have you ever actually read one? Who are you? What country are you from? Do you even know any Americans? Why do you hate us so much? Wrong. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki contained military depots, factories, and other "legitimate" wartime targets. The civilian deaths were nothing more than collateral damage. Ghastly, tragic, horrifying, deeply regrettable collateral damage. But civilian deaths are unavoidable in any military attack on any major city. Wrong again. If someone (who may or may not believe in American values) engages in unprovoked and brutal attacks upon innocent people, then they are by definition a terrorist and should indeed be killed. Its present, actually. Most of us here are full-grown adults. And if you're gonna critisize us, for christ's sake at least try to spell our language correctly. Watch TV? I make a TV show. (Yeah, it's a local pro wrestling show, but still.) So who else would you give the credit to for creating and spreading democracy around the globe? (And don't say the Greeks.)

I even knew one guy who regularly fluffed himself before going out to the ring. And he wore a singlet. Yet... you usually couldn't tell what he'd done by looking at him, anyway. ::insert steroid joke here::

Shawn's always been really sneaky about that kind of thing. You usually have to rewind the tapes at least a couple times to catch the exact moment where he performed the cut. Bret Hart was real good at hiding a blade, too.

Wouldn't know, never seen Chimes at Midnight. Been wanting to for years, but I've never found a copy of it, and I never order a movie online if I haven't already seen it (there's no feeling of rage like finding out you've paid good money to own a shitty movie). Cold Mountain: 4/10 Massive disappointment for me, since I love the director and love the whole cast, but things just didn't click. Some of the dialogue was REALLY bad, the editing seemed arbitrary and impatient (I'd like to know what Minghella's original director's cut looked like), and the villains were the most one-dimensional cackling evil black-hats since the Imperial Stormtroopers. Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, normally such lively & intelligent actors, seem about as compelling as mannequins here. (And why is Donald Sutherland reduced to playing nothing but The Father Who Dies roles these days?) Renee Zellwegger and Phillip Seymour Hoffman try to save the film all by themselves with wonderful performances, but it's too little too late. Well, at least the Sailboat Guy from Mallrats can say he's been in an oscar-winning movie. Passion of the Christ: 5/10 This movie is great at showing Jesus getting the holy shit beaten out of him. Unfortunately, that's what the ENTIRE MOVIE is: two hours of Christ getting punched, kicked, caned, whipped, scourged, stoned, spat on, and finally crucified by a bunch of soldiers who's only character trait is that they really hate the Son of Man. Little storyline, nothing different from a hundred other Jesus movies other than the ridiculous violence. Stan Marsh wasn't far off the mark when he called it a three-hour snuff film. The only reason I liked it as much as I did was cuz having the characters actually speaking Arameaic and imperial Latin is a pretty cool gimmick.

As a commentator, I love matches that simply give me something interesting to talk about. Get some heat, work a body part, gimme a move/spot I've never seen before, do SOMETHING that lets me say more than "...and Babyface just waffled Heel with another clothesline. Oh look, Heel got back up and clotheslined Babyface. Now Babyface is coming back with..." blah blah blech.

It doesn't help me in the drinking game that 1.I'm prone to fuckin' crippling hangovers from any respectable amount of imbibing, and 2.Most alcoholic beverages taste like piss.

Rarely. In general, if you didn't see them do it, then no they didn't (taped & edited shows like Smackdown aside). Watch the CM Punk/Chris Hero 93-minute match for one shining example of going that long without rehydrating. (Although at one point my fed had a heel manager who's gimmick was being a waterboy, and his wrestlers loved being able to take a drink whenever they wanted to.) Huh? Sure, but it's like doing any other strenuous activity, the sustained heavy breathing tends to keep such things from happening too much. Rarely, if ever. They might test themselves like any other individual, but that's about it. It's just never been a real problem, and I've never heard of any wrestler catching diseases from another guy's blood. Wrestling isn't as stacked with ex-football pros as it seems like. It's just that football players tend to be really big guys who're in decent shape and have high pain tolerances, so if football doesn't work out the jump to wrestling is a natural one. It's the worst fucking feeling in the world. You just gotta hold it in and pray nothing bad happens. Would you believe the main event of Wrestlemania? Seriously, Wrestlemania 13, Sid vs. Taker. It's hard to actually see the alleged shite, but watch Taker's weird facial expression and hesitation when he picks Sid up for the tombstone.

An important question: has the guy ever actually shot an Afghani? Does anyone know?

Your stereotyping of all Europeans as worthless talk-happy pansies is almost as bad as his stereotyping of all Americans as ignorant war-hungry rednecks, though.

Never tried that, will have to sometime. I lose a little more respect for alcohol every time I drink it. I downed a bottle of wine last night, about a liter overall, and got nothing more than a slight buzz which barely lasted an hour. Fuckin' ripoff, I could get that by just two good hits of any decent weed.

Why?

No, that was a military attack by uniformed soldiers in an officially declared war which the Japanese started in the first place with their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

Yes, the USA has indeed used a nuclear wepon on humans. Two of them, in fact. This happened sixty years ago, in the middle of an officially declared World War, with the intention of ending that war, and they were used instead of a massive ground troops invasion of mainland Japan which would have resulted in MANY more deaths than the bombs did. And all this took place before the arms race started and before anyone but the scientists who built it really understood anything about the possible horrors of the nuclear age. Iran, on the other hand, invaded the US embassy and took its employees hostage (which took place a mere twenty-five years ago, and is a blatantly criminal act by the standards of the Geneva Convention), helped plan terrorist bombings on several civilian targets such as passenger airliners, cuts off the hands of pickpockets, legally allows fathers to murder their children, executes rape victims, and doesn't allow women to vote, drive, own property, hold a job, or dress in clothing that shows anything but their eyes. WHO are we supposed to trust here? I have a tested IQ of 150. I can point out any country in the world on an unlabeled map. I didn't vote for Bush. Yet I'm an American... and yes, I don't own a passport. Do you see the logical fallacies in your argument here? Plenty of Americans never stop arguing over that subject. Conservative Christians, of which the US has the largest population in the world. To put it in Middle Eastern terms: who gives a crap about making women wear veils, praying towards Mecca, and declaring jihads? I have wondered about that one myself. But then again, I'm not a military intelligence officer; I hardly have all the facts. You committed no less than three grammatical errors in that short statement, so its validity is shaky at best. Yep, boy we sure mistreated that poor innocent Saddam fellow. It's reprehensible how America went on a power trip in that man's noble, peaceful, free-living country.

Tends to go down the toilet when you start praising a heinous terrorist attack which resulted in the deaths of 3000+ innocent people, started 1.5 American invasions of Muslim countries, and completely wrecked the US economy til now as A Good Thing That We Had Coming.

You are a sick, sick man.

Well, at least you made a step in the direction of redemption there. Ah... DieselShredder... good times

Correction: I wanna fuck Seska. (Girls like her generally want nothing to do with guys like me.)