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The World is not falling apart
by pete_95973- 0 replies
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Article is a year and a half old but I still believe the principles are true http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.html
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Reincarnation question
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Regardless of what you believe IRL, let's assume for a moment that reincarnation is the way of the universe, what do you think you would come back as.? Why?
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Important stuff 1 2 3
by Pb76- 3 followers
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I often sit and think about really important issues, the one that has been bugging me lately is this... What would it be like if birds had arms? My research took me here http://www.iywib.com/birds_with_arms.php
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Checking in
by Drako_Oryan- 2 replies
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Hey Everyone, Just dropped by to say hi check on new things and drop a line. I have made it through two terms with high marks working on my third only four to go. will see if sometime this weekend or week I can drop in and do a playlist or something. Have a good one... Drako
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Ok before we all go crazy I do know there is an unwritten rule in this crew that we don't talk politics. I completely agree with this and normally I wouldn't bring political debate anywhere near this site. However with the looming Brexit vote coming up and the unique international make up of the crew I'd like to know some opinions from my fellow Europeans on their views on Britain potentially leaving the EU. Normally when it comes to an election whether it be local or national I stick well clear. I voted once for the novelty factor not long after I turned 18 but since then I've never voted. Not because I don't have an interest in politics but mainly because I …
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Just for squirrelarmy
by Fido_le_muet- 1 follower
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Weird place name photo challenge
by Pb76- 1 reply
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Inspired by the fact that I went through Quebec today, despite living thousands of miles from Canada. I wondered what places near you have strange, funny or rude names. Whether it's villages, streets or even shops, I want to see what's out there. The challenge is not to just list them, but get out and get a picture to post here. The winner, who will be decided in 2078, might win £1,000,000. so, just to start......
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Happy Canada Day
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 1 follower
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What is your spirit animal
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Take the test https://www.spirithoods.com/blogs/news/45975681-spirithoods-spirit-animal-quiz-whats-your-spirit-animal Mine is You are a part of the SpiritHoods Bird Family! Birds bond with very few. They are very resilient, creative and tend to stay positive. Your Spirit Animal is part: BALD EAGLE | BLUE JAY | NIGHT OWL | NIGHTHAWK
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How long can you hold a grudge?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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I can hold them for a very long time, been holding some for 30 years or so, cuz I hate those people
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Bad Sport?
by Braldy- 1 reply
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One thing i cant help but laugh at is a good ol' fart. Especially trying to sneak a fart out but its louder than anticipated. No way i can hide it with an innocent look, just guilt ridden all over and more than likely having an obvious chuckle and depending on where i am probably turning red from embarressment. So tonight i come across this story in the news and i fair dinkum laughed out loud for a good couple minutes. Im sorry to anyone who if offended by this but its something i had to share even though it sounds like this guy didnt try to sneak one out but had an "upset stomach" http://wwos.nine.com.au/2016/06/23/14/19/230616-football-player-sent-off-fart…
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Exams
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 7 replies
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Exams are right around the corner, or at least where I live, I believe. Each day that passes, each weekend short lived, it brings one thing up, "stress". So, "How is Prodigy doing?". "Why aren't you playing with the crew during crew events on PS3 (if you're on PS3)?", you may ask. Well... Exams. Q #1: Are you studying hard? A: Yes, however presentation, and bug assignments are getting in the way of actual studying Q #2: Are you getting enough sleep? A: No. I stay up until 2 just to keep up with work, as well as studying and every morning in 1st-3rd period, I can't stay awake Q #3: Are you eating well? A: What is eating? Anyways,…
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internet data for me
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Can you find the cat?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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If not, answer is in the spoiler
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What a great weekend
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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I had to make a thread for this cuz a post just wouldn't do.. I have been at the Xtreme Flight Championships for the past 2 days with 1 left to go, the worlds best rc pilots are competing for the title. Today Rose won and I got as a fathers day gift an Evolution helicopter and a t shirt The flying all weekend has been awesome and I encourage anyone interested in this to jump on youtube and check out the videos by FlyingGiants With the exception of the first video, the best of the show was the night flights which I shot with my cell phone. The fireworks show would rival Disney guaranteed, sadly my phone was dying so I didn't…
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What's the most expensive lie
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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you ever told?
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This or That 1 2 3
by Sickman- 2 followers
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Simple and fun little forum game. You're given two options pick which on you like the most then post your own two for the following person to choose etc. Ill start off with Coke or Pepsi?
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Finish the sentence GTA 5/GTA Online Edition 1 2 3
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 2 followers
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So I made a similar post like this, except it was in general. It's been over 2 months since, so I decided to make one dedicated to GTA, a primary game of this site. Rules are simple: 1. You must add to the sentence by adding a word Ex. I post "Trevor", the next person post, let's say "shot" 2. You can end the sentence at any time with a period (large font and/or different color, makes it more eye catching) Ex. . 3. No double posting. You can post as many time as you want but after someone else adds a word *If you make a mistake just edit it out* 4. Each sentence will go for let's say 2 pages max. It prevents other…
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Urban Dictionary Name Challenge
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 5 replies
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So the game is simple, you type up either your real name, your username, or a portion of your username and try to find it on urban dictionary, hence why I gave you 3 options. Next, you have to chose one of the definitions you find funny, interesting and etc, then paste it on here along with the url source. Let's find out what our names really mean in the world of Urban Dictionary. Starting off. Kevin: "Basically a kid with a huge d**k. looks great, smells great, and all the ladies want him. great at sports also. great sense of humor." Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kevin Had to do a little editing su…
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Where is the strangest place....
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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that you have ever peed?
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Gift wrapping?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Does it matter how a gift is wrapped or is it only the gift that matters?
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DO you believe in luck...
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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or do you believe people make their own luck?
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What the best and worst hotel/motel you've stayed at?
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Best for me, Double Tree in Minneapolis, full room service, nice room and I didn't have to pay the bill, I was there for 2 weeks on business and my millionaire boss said he had it covered and spend all I want. Worst, Pages Motel, they had their own 1 star hooker staff always knocking and asking "can I make some money from you?", hell no. If I were gonna pay for it I think I could spend a bit more for a 2 star hooker at least. Nasty place.
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What did you want to be when you grew up?
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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This is more for those already out of school. When you were a kid what did you want to be as an adult? Did you do it? I wanted to be a fighter pilot, and I knew I had to got good grades and attend the airforce acadamy. I got the grades, went to see the recruiter to find out the steps needed to take it further only to find out I was a few inches to short to fly F15 or 16's. I really had no other goals set so I went with partying and living the @Squirrel lifestyle for several years. Now as an adult I want to be a kid again..
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I agree @djw180 The Fall of the House of Usher is worth a watch for Mark Hamill’s performance alone. Plus, I’ve been on the fence about watching Kaos. I will definitely give it a go now. Thanks!- 2
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I just finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Highly recommended! It's a horror-drama in 8 episodes, very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories or poems with each episode named after a different work of his. I have never read any of them and some had not even heard of, but I now at least know the brief synopsis of them from Wikipedia. What the creators have done is woven together a plot primarily based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" that greatly expands on that. The first episode has the same name as the whole series. Roderick Usher, corrupt billionaire head of a major pharmaceutical company, invites an old adversary, lawyer August Dupin, to his family's derelict house, to confess to a host of crimes. Dupin has been trying to prosecute the Ushers for decades but they always got away with it. Now, following the recent deaths of all six of his children, supposedly in freak, horrific, unrelated accidents, Roderick wants to come clean. Most of the story is now told in flash back, both to the early years of Roderick and his sister Maddie (the brains behind their rise to power) and the children's recent deaths. The next 6 episode each focus on the violent deaths of a different son or daughter, each related in some way to the Edgar Allen Poe story that episode is named after. The final episode, The Raven, then brings everything to it's conclusion, revealing the true cause of all that has happened. It's very, very good. It is a bit bloody and gory at times, but never over-the-top, always done for a reason and usually to fit in with the story that death is named after. It features Mark Hamil in the most un-Luke-Skywalker-like role you can imagine. I never really rated him as an actor in Star Wars, but here, as the Usher's ruthless lawyer he is excellent. Another Netflix series I think is worth a mention is Kaos It's a modern day story of Greek Gods and Heroes, in a world where they most definitely exist and are still worshipped by mortals. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus and there's other recognisable faces amongst the rest of the cast, including David Thewlis as one of Zeus' brothers and fellow god Hades and Suzie Izzard as one of the Fates. It loosely follows the story of Orpheus in the Underworld, but this is part of a bigger plot with both gods and mortals having to accept what fate has in store for them, whether they like it or not.- 1
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178Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #148 (Oct 28-Nov 3) Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person dir. Ariane Louis-Seize/2023/1h30m Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a teenage vampire who, much to the exasperation of her parents, refuses to kill as she has too much empathy, a decision that is slowly killing her. She meets suicidal Paul (Felix-Antoine Benard) and he offers his life for hers, but over the course of the night the two form a bond and find a reason to live. Deadpan humour and charmingly awkward teenage romance add a lightness to what is a very deep emotional drama that is more complex than it at first seems. This put me in mind of a strange mix between A Girl Walked Home Alone at Night and Napoleon Dynamite. There's a beautifully staged scene where the two listen to an old record and, without a word, nervously steal looks at each other for an unbroken three minutes and it has more depth and meaning than most films manage in an hour and a half. You really get the feeling that you're caught up in that dramatic first flush of love where you feel like Romeo and Juliet. The two lead performances are extraordinary, especially Montpetit, and the direction has a real warmth to it despite being set mostly during the night. I loved this. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Jigsaw dir. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig/2017/1h31m Most of the time while I was watching this I was thinking “have I seen this one before..? No. No, I haven't. Wait, have I? I have! No? Oh, yeah I have”. I think this is the eighth film in the Saw franchise, and by this point they all just kind of blur into one homogenous mess. It's a shame because I think the original is a really good, tense thriller with a great, if ridiculous, twist. 2/10 Terrifier 3 dir. Damien Leone/2024/2h5m It's Christmastime and, five years after the events of the last film, Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is back playing Santa and everyone is on the naughty list, especially Sienna (Lauren LaVera) who bested him the last time they met. Not as long as Terrifier 2, this is still bloated and full of ridiculous bits of lore that makes the whole thing feel like a parody at times, I actually found myself invested in the character of Sienna here. I think LaVera does a decent job in portraying the trauma and PTSD she's suffering after the last film. Again, the gore here is very well done but so gross that it becomes banal. The best thing about this film, as is the case with the others, is Thornton's performance as Art who manages to be both creepy and funny. 4/10 Immaculate dir. Michael Mohan/2024/1h29m Sydney Sweeney plays Sister Cecilia, an American nun recently arrived at a remote Italian convent. Things take a sinister turn when she becomes pregnant despite being a v*rgin and she starts to think that all is not so holy at the convent. This religious horror doesn't do anything new and owes a huge debt to the likes of Rosemary's Baby but it does do a very good job of ramping up the tension and supernatural elements at a deliberate pace until it's ready to go for broke in the final act. There are a couple of unexpectedly gruesome moments that shocked me more then anything in the Terrifier films precisely because they are so unexpected. Sweeney gives a good performance as a true believer who must become a fighter in order to survive, and there are a couple of memorable supporting performances from Dora Romano as the Mother Superiour and Alvaro Morte as the charismatic Father Tedeschi. A well made, if uninspiring, thriller with a memorable smash cut to black ending, emphasis on the smash. 7/10 Joker: Folie a Deux dir. Todd Phillips/2024/2h18m This sequel to 2019's Joker picks up from the end of that film with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in prison awaiting his trial for multiple murders. While inside he meets and forms a relationship with Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga), the two seeming to make the perfect couple. The first film was a well made rip off of Scorsese's The King of Comedy elevated by an incredible performance from Phoenix that didn't need a sequel. Thankfully this isn't taking the predictable route of charting Fleck as he wreaks havoc as the crown prince of crime but instead does something interesting and sees him try to face his many mental health problems while struggling to break free of his anarchic alter ego. This hasn't gone down well with comic book fans as it strays far from the source material, but not being a big comic book guy myself that isn't an issue for me. Phoenix is once again excellent, really giving his all in his performance. Gaga is also good and I liked how her character became a kind of antagonist in always pushing Arthur to be Joker. Brendon Gleeson has a supporting role as the lead prison guard and as much as I like him, and he does give a good performance with what he's given here, his character is too much of a caricature, one scene even implying that he and some other guards r*pe Arthur. Steve Coogan also pops up in one scene as a television reporter interviewing Arthur and it just came across as Alan Partridge doing a bad American accent to me. I haven't mentioned it yet but this film is also a musical - another sticking point for a lot of people – and I think it works well at portraying Arthur's mental state. I loved the moments where we go full fantasy and Arthur and Lee are singing and dancing on an old school style soundstage like a musical from the 40s and 50s. But I am a musical fan so I'm probably biased. Don't believe the anti-hype, not everything here works but it's going for something different and for that alone it should be commended, and I honestly think it's better than the original. 8.5/10 Piece by Piece dir. Morgan Neville/2024/1h34m Piece by Piece is a hybrid biopic/documentary about the life and career of musician and producer Pharrell Williams starring the man himself and featuring appearances by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake. The gimmick here is that the whole film is animated with Lego. This makes for a playful, vibrant and imaginative film that matches Williams' method for creating music, putting it together piece by piece until you have something new. This is also a very funny film, making full use of the medium and the absurdity of everything being Lego to make some hilarious visual gags. Being a family friendly film this does smooth off some of the rough edges of his story but I still found Williams to be an open and honest subject not afraid to discuss his shortcomings. I love it when the style and form of a film like this matches its subject – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and the David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream come to mind – and Piece by Piece does just that with its eclectic and imaginative presentation. 9/10 Strange World dir. Don Hall, Qui Nguyen/2022/1h42m Farmer Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhaal), son of legendary explorer Jaeger (Dennis Quaid), must go on his own adventure deep beneath the surface of the planet when his crops, which also acts as the planet's energy source, start to die. The plot here is quite simple but it has an excellent third act twist that I though worked really well and fits in with the environmental themes and message of the film. What works best here is the look of the world beneath the surface, populated by really well designed creatures that feel truly alien, as do the environments. Not quite as good is the family drama between Jaeger and Searcher and between Searcher and his son Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White). It's the classic case of simply sitting down and talking to each other would solve all their problems, but then there'd be no film. The performances are all good, with Quaid's bombastic 50s b-movie style bravado standing out to me. This won't go down as a Disney classic but there are some really good ideas here alongside some gorgeous animation. 7/10 @djw180 The Bad Sleep Well is the least faithful of his Shakespeare films, the other two are much more recognisable.- 3
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