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Vegetarian, vegan, whatever, I don't care what people eat as long as they keep it to their goddamn self and don't get preachy about it. Same general principle as religion: I don't care what you worship, but don't insist that I must worship it too. And oh man have I met more than enough vegtards that I just wanted to go all PCU on. Bad example. For one thing, you're in more danger than usual from a pack of wolves since you're trapped in a room with them; humans originally built the room, so technically your own species killed you here. Furthermore, how the hell did a hungy pack of wolves get into this locked room? Whoa. That's, like, superdickery. How did you know he called the cops, and what for? Did the guy just tell you, or are the cops in your town such underachieving losers that they actually came out for this call?

I don't even remember him in Friday (which I thought was amusing, but never got all the hype for), never saw Bad Santa, and pretty much hated all of Me Myself & Irene. I'm just going by what I've seen, and what I've seen sucked.

Nice to know he hasn't changed. His only instructions to me when I managed his opponent in a match a long time ago were "And whatever you do, don't slap me in the fucking ear... I swear to god if you do I'll beat the fucking shit out of you, hear me?" Well, that weren't really his only instructions, since they meticulously planned every single step of a long-ass match in which I had at least half a dozen specific cues of "when this happens, then do this", but the story goes better if I say that's all he said.

What the hell was Puma doing in there, anyway? Didn't they have enough actual Japanese guys? Why sub in a white guy under a mask?

In practically every wrestling clip ever posted on Youtube, there's at least one inevitable comment along the lines of "lol, dont u know wrestlings fake, d00ds in their underwear r gay". But yeah, since it tends to draw so many people who don't post elsewhere on the internet, Youtube is an exceptionally terrible breeding ground for uncouth people who abuse the anonymity of the internet to say all kinds of wretched things.

$2.3 billion, I'm calling it.

This is why you don't schedule the heel's big shot at the babyface champion in the heel's hometown. TNA must've only realized that like a month ahead of time, and had no idea how to get out of it without either making Joe look weak(er) or pulling a WWE and making a guy lose in front of his hometown fans. So they just piss off everyone with this crap instead. Christ. For all the millions of complaints I can make about the WWE, at least these days they realize that their PPV main event title matches need to have mostly clean finishes.

IIRC, there was actually a law on the books for that jurisdiction which covered the maximum temperature for a restaurant's beverages, and the McDonalds coffee way exceeded that limit, literally boiling hot. So they broke the law, and thus the suit was merited.

That was... odd. Jonas Venture has always been portrayed as a basically good guy and competent hero. Maybe not the best father, but certainly a hell of a lot better than his kid turned out to be. It seems sort of out of character for him to just randomly abandon dozen of helpless orphans like that and never even try to go back for them, or to do the same to his best friend. Jonas has never been written as That Guy before.

The main problem is that we have no idea what the Founding Fathers would have wanted in our current situation. I doubt they expected their exact laws would still be followed and debated over two hundred years later. The Constitution was written to be the ideal governing document of that time and place, and much of what is written within is simply not very applicable to today's world. Does anyone now worry about troops being quartered in their homes? Would the men who'd survived through the hell of Valley Forge think that waterboarding comes anywhere near being cruel and unusual punishment? And lots of it is only followed in theory. Someone needed to inform Judge Ito that OJ Simpson was supposed to get a "speedy" trial. And the government is notorious for not giving true "just compensation" for any land or property they sieze via eminent domain. Hell, the entire Electoral College was a system specifically designed for an 18th century world, before instant long-distance communication and mass media made the whole original intention of the EC into a quaint anachronism which we've just never gotten around to getting rid of. The Founders went out of their way to try and cover everything they could think of when drafting the Constitution (having a few years of examples of how not to run the country under the Articles of Confederation probably helped), but they were still ordinary fallible men and couldn't possibly predict the radical changes that technology and everything else would bring about in the years to come.

I dunno, Mini-Me got me to chuckle at least a couple times. Which is more than I can say for Tony Cox. That little fucker has been in about nine thousand movies, and has yet to make me laugh once. Especially in the last few years, when he was in Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Who's Your Caddy back to back. If that ain't reason to blackball an actor from the industry, I don't know what is.

. . . Don't DO that. You're Towelie. Ya hear that? You're fuckin' Towelie.

Well, the National Guard is kinda sorta along the lines of a civilian militia. But it's still largely under federal control, so it's not a perfect comparison. In fact a whole lot of the founders like Hamilton would be really pissed off if they found out just how much control the federal government exercised these days. What? We do regulate them. We regulate the hell out of them. Sure, you have the right to bear arms... as long as you're an adult, a US citizen, haven't been convicted of any felonies, or ever been in a mental institution, or are under any restraining orders, or have otherwise been designated by law as not being fit to own a gun, and have the time and money to complete all the paperwork and wade through all the red tape that your particular state requires in order to be legally registered and permitted, and then only the kind of arms which the government deems to be legal for civilian use. According to the law, that's the only situation in which you are allowed to own a firearm. Of course, all this gun crime involving people which did not meet the above criteria might suggest that maybe the current laws, they are, how you say, not enforced so well.

Jeez, hope you're okay Dave. Well, relatively okay relatively soon, anyway, obviously you're not doing so great now, that sounds fairly excruciating. Since it's inevitable that someone will do it, I might as well go ahead and be the asshole who comments on the irony of the "people keep saying my drinking will kill me... whadda they know?" post consequently followed by the "fuck, I've been drinking and I just almost died" post. But seriously, holy shit that sucks. May your recovery be quick, may your pain meds be of sufficient quality, and may your medical insurer not fuck with you too much over your coverage.

A lot of it had to do with military infrastructure, or lack thereof. At the time, America didn't have a massive army of full-time professional soldiers. If they went to war again, it would mostly be a bunch of ordinary men leaving the farm and going off to fight the good fight. Which is pretty much what happened in 1812. Part of this had to do with the Anti-Federalists' paranoia about a standing federal army which wasn't under any sort of civilian control; they seriously believed that the federal government might use such an army to take over the individual states by force. They much preferred to have a more informal group of local militias in each state to handle military matters, and the wording of the second amendment is partly a concession to their demands. Furthermore, they didn't have warehouses full of extra guns just sitting around to arm their forces in case of an unforseen conflict. Many of the new soldiers had to bring their own personal weapons with them, so it was important to have those guns in the first place. Plus they were very much still influenced by what they'd gone through under the British government. Why do you think they dedicated an entire amendment to banning the practice of quartering troops inside domestic residences? Same thing with the first amendment; it was phrased specifically about the government not respecting the establishment of a religion, since that's exactly what the Church of England was all about. In a similar vein, in the early days of the American Revolution the British goverment tried to force the colonist citizens to disarm in attempts to quell the violent outbreaks. Just in case they had to fight another guerrilla revolution, the Founders wanted to be ready for it, and they built a lot of that readiness right into the Constitution.

I miss VHS, since I knew so much about it. I was in the A/V geek circle in high school, shooting our own little videos and stuff. We had a sweet Super VHS professional editing setup, with a high-quality mixer and greenscreen capabilities and everything. I actually knew more about the gear and could get it to do more stuff than the teacher of the class. Plus I could repair broken videotapes, and even broken VCRs if the problem was simple enough. Then the digital revolution comes around and makes all that learning obsolete. Sigh. But yah, the previews were sometimes really fuckin' long when they'd stack half a dozen of those fuckers in a row, and unlike trailers in the theater it's always for old shit you don't care about. Plus copywright stuff, FBI warnings, studio logos, etc. It could easily be ten minutes before you got to the actual movie.

From what you've said about it alone, I do wanna see I Stand Alone now, but haven't found it readily available. Oh well, onto The Big List it goes. Yeah, from a certain point of view. It's debatable. Scorsese's said in interviews that Travis isn't supposed to be saved or cured by the ending violence, that he's still completely nuts and that sooner or later he'll snap again. The bit with Cybil sorta flirting with him, that's more an indication of her shallowness marking out for his new celebrity than his internal redemption. I think it's just coincedence that everyone he actually killed did kinda deserve it. He did earlier intend to assassinate the politician dude, for no apparent reason. That's a toss-up in a way. Otis certainly took his shit to more loathesome depths than Henry did, with his sexual predation. But Henry was much more cunning and efficient, so he racked up a much higher quantity of victims than Otis ever could have. In the movie's universe, Otis would've gotten caught before too long, but Henry could still be out there. (Great movie either way; you think this was the first time a film had a truly realistic depiction of psycho killers?)

I'm talking hypothetically here. Another thing I didn't think of til now: this will probably hurt a lot of our export business. If it costs way more to ship American-made goods overseas, then prices will have to be jacked way up in order to cover the expenses and remain profitable. And weakened dollar exchange rate or not, how many foreign markets can afford that kind of extra cost?

Well, time to be a vulture, cuz my next pick is Taxi Driver It's probably not a good thing that I so thoroughly identify with this movie, but there it is. The most perfect cinematic depiction of a man's slide into madness that I've ever seen. This is my favorite Scorsese flick; it might not be as technically great as Raging Bull, but it's a lot easier to watch, and I'll take it over all his gangster pictures any day.

Okay, if you say so I guess. Bossman Jebus, how dost thou ruleth?

Is there proof for that stuff actually happening now, or is it just speculation? I certainly wouldn't mind 4-day workweeks and less traffic, and I can see how expensive gas would lead to those. However I certainly don't see insurance companies unilaterally lowering their rates for any reason, and how does less driving equal fewer jobs outsourced to the third world? Especially stuff like tech support which doesn't rely on transporting goods. And even then, even with the hiked-up shipping costs, I'd imagine it's still cheaper to manufacture your products in a sweatshop where the workers are paid pennies and you don't have to worry about safety standards or all those other pesky American work regulations.

What? Seriously? We're in round #29423 and you quit now? C'mon. ::...looks at Ravenbomb's list:: If he does officially quit and his movies become fair game, then there's one I really want so I'm holding my pick til confirmation.

Hamburger helper. Not the ordinary store-bought kind, but my own custom blend, in which I add all kind of ghastly shit until it's a needlessly complex casserole, always with enough garlic to make sure nobody else eats it and more cheese than is technically allowed by federal law. Yummy. A slightly related subject: even though I'm a lazy pudgy guy who eats pure garbage and never works out, on the rare occasions I do exercise I can still get down and crank out a couple hundred crunches with ease. No idea why my stomach muscles are so resiliant, the rest of my body is about as proportionately outta shape as you'd expect, but underneath all the fat my ab muscles always stay bizarrely fit.

Oh yeah, that one's already been all over. Even I've seen it, and I hadn't even seen half the memes in the Canada On Strike episode of South Park.

I don't even know what "this" is, since I can't see it. Is Youtube being a dildo for anyone else today? Neither the site itself nor any embedded videos will load for me.