FlyingSquid

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

Bastards in blue exempted.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It also sounds like precedent to excuse cops murdering children.

"Their parents killed them by opening fire at the intruders they didn't know were cops with the gun they legally have to protect their family."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

It was stupid enough that they made up quotes from dead critics, because people could look it up, but they also made up quotes from living critics, which is just unbelievably moronic.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

Believe it or not, no one is forcing you to look at these threads. Other people enjoy them and you are not being personally catered to.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You don't want to know what happens when you eat a tribble, but let's just say Monty Python replicated it in one of their movies.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

The Clovis period was around 12,000 years ago in North America.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Elephants charge pretty easily, so that part doesn't surprise me.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I've read a good 200 of them and I did not honestly get bored or feel downright empty. They made me laugh. Maybe don't take a pretend show about pretend people in on a pretend space ship or space station so seriously.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Many people have a silly idea in their heads that stone-age humans could not be as innovative and smart as we can because their technology was less advanced than ours.

They also look at an expertly-knapped spearhead like the ones in the thumbnail and think they could do that with a couple of rocks they find in their backyard.

These ancestors of ours were smart, they were creative thinkers, they made stone tools at an expert level that the average person today could not even hope to replicate. I love finding out new ways they were able to innovate.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I really need to watch that movie again. It's a mess but a really fun mess.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But I'm also eccentric. :(

 

He conducted extensive research on the great detective and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and was very attentive to discrepancies between the scripts he had been given and Conan Doyle's original stories.[37] One of Brett's dearest possessions on the set was his 77-page "Baker Street File" on everything from Holmes' mannerisms to his eating and drinking habits. Brett once explained that "some actors are becomers—they try to become their characters. When it works, the actor is like a sponge, squeezing himself dry to remove his own personality, then absorbing the character's like a liquid".[38]Brett was focused on bringing more passion to the role of Holmes. He introduced Holmes's rather eccentric hand gestures and short violent laughter. He would hurl himself on the ground just to look for a footprint, "he would leap over the furniture or jump onto the parapet of a bridge with no regard for his personal safety."[39]

 
 

This video is really cool. It's a curator talking about what is on the stone and why. They were supposed to be put in every temple in Egypt and were done so for many years, which is why so many have been discovered since the original famous one.

 

You’ve got to let the police do their jobs, number one. Number two, you have to do a policy of stop and frisk. When you see a guy coming down the street and you can — the police know every one of them. They know their middle name. They know where they live. They know every one of them, the local police, and they’re great.

You got to let them do their job, stop and frisk, and take their gun away. You’ve got to do it. If somebody has because they have all these guns — you know, it’s very interesting, the toughest gun law, the toughest, by far, in the whole United States is in Chicago, and yet it’s the most — it’s —

Let all your Republican 2Aer friends and family know.

 
 
 

No, this is not satire.

 
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