572 - Taking A Squat, "No Swimming Permitted In The Pool", Unsettling Eraserhead, Feeble Action Deaths, Find What You Need With A Search On ConfessionNet

[2:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

https://wgntv.com/2018/08/06/serial-squatter-trashes-chicago-area-homes-with-few-consequences/

[3:02 PM] 

"Mad Caganer of Chicago "Squatting Spree" continues.  Authorities Baffled"

('Squatter' always makes me think of that first...)

"Can't exactly...you know...'dust' for poop." says aggravated commish

[3:19 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah it's a weird term

As a kid i thought it meant literally like squatting to mark the territory as your own

[3:44 PM] 

"That bum peeing on the old Jenkins house?"

"Think so..."

[8:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

https://www.historytoday.com/eric-chaline/how-europe-learnt-swim

[8:41 AM] 

Meaning "BS"  -

A similar ban on swimming in the Cam came into force in Cambridge in 1571, with severe punishments for infringements: two public whippings, a fine of ten shillings and a day in the stocks for a first offence and expulsion for the second.

You don't make laws unless people are doing it

[8:43 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes

[8:46 AM] 

Counter theory

People swam all the time everywhere.

The people that could write and thought it was bad didn't.

[8:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

Not to mention we're talking about geographically different places

The Roman empire was centered in warmer places

[8:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Watched Eraserhead. Pretty uhh unsettling

I'd like to know how they did the baby.. its eyes moved very fluidly and pupils almost looked to dilate and contract.. wtf

Guess it's a mystery, even people working on set were kept in the dark

[9:01 AM] 

Best I heard was it was a skinned rabbit head

But

I can't imagine it "keeping" under filming conditions

Unsettling indeed

All that wind...all the mewling...

Weren't even comfortable sleeping

Did you notice the bit I was talking about when he went to dinner and he was contorting to fit in the frame?  hehe

[9:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

no.. i forgot to look for it until i think it was too late

[9:11 AM] 

You'll (smiles evilly) have to watch it again, then

[9:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Which character? Henry?

[9:12 AM] 

Yes

[9:13 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Oh I see it

when Bill walks in and Henry gets up to greet him, but he stays hunched over

[9:13 AM] 

Yes

[9:13 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

LOL

[9:13 AM] 

:D

[9:40 AM] 

Watched the original Mission Impossible last night

Man...Cruise looked like a kid

[9:50 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

They filmed a lot of that in Prague

I saw it enough times that i noticed filming locations just walking around the city

Charles Bridge was a big one but also the Lichtenstein Palace along the water.. just happened upon that

[9:53 AM] 

:)

There were a minimal of issues with it. 

Like the helicopter explosion...if it was strong enough to hurl Ethan to the bullet train it would have blown him to bits.  And the rolling copter could not, in fact, roll faster unpowered towards it than it could move flying.

But

Action film...

The other was an omniscience thing

While I loved the scene of Phelps lying about what happening and Ethen working it out in his head while pretending to agree...

He never actually saw the French guy's knife to make the association shown in the sequence. 

"(gasp!) And the only person on earth who had a knife was THAT guy!  So he must be who stabbed the target and my teammate at the beginning! It all makes sense!  You have to have a knife and he had one a few days later! It even said so on UseNet when I was recruiting: Has accent, feels shady, owns only knife in world."

lol

Anyway...was lazy and relied on audience not paying any attention. 

he shouldn't have made any connection at all til he saw him piloting the helicopter

shouldn't

[10:00 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I think it's interesting at the beginning all the name actors they introduce and then kill so you're not sure which one, if any, are returning

You can assume at least one, but Estevez and Kristin Scott Thomas do not

[10:03 AM] 

Maybe ending the plot realizing the wife hired him and must have been part of it the whole time.

"Everyone else is dead.  IMF thinks you're dead too.  What say we make the record accurate?  (BLAM!)"

[10:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

yeah

[10:05 AM] 

Instead she's killed through rampant exposition kinda feebly

Not quite "Thrown gently upon a couch" like in Van Helsing...but I doubt she would have died from that little bullet where he hit her.

[10:10 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

What happened in Van Helsing?

[10:11 AM] 

After an hour and a half of brutal blows and falls and tosses...

the heroine is lofted across the room onto a couch and expires.

[10:13 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

[10:14 AM] 

There's a lot I enjoy in the movie and a lot that is over the top.  But really?  Couldn't throw her out of a castle window or onto a rack of antlers on the wall?

I understand they didn't want the guy that killed her (since it sounds like you haven't seen it) to do anything horribly unpleasant...but really?  Death by comfortable couch?

[10:16 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Gentile stab

[10:23 AM] 

gentle

(sings) "Killing me softly with this couch. KILLing me softly...with this couch. Taking my whole life...with pillows.  Killing me softly...with this couuuch."

[10:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I'm trying to riff on gentile stab but got nothin'

[10:40 AM] 

Like as opposed to a Jewish one? 

Yeah...I blanked.

[1:16 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Why are pedophiles attracted to priesthood?

[1:23 PM] 

It's probably been a secret community for hundreds of years.

[1:23 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's certainly coordinated

It's not just random pedophiles... They work together

It's hard to imagine being a pedophile. But then also finding like-minded pedophiles around you without being found out?

[1:24 PM] 

I think it works like this:

The young perv goes to confession...

Details his pedo sins...

There's a pause on the other side of the grill...

And the priest says "me too, let's talk".

[1:24 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

The report said the priests gave a specific gift to children they favored, something they could wear that would mark them as prime targets for abuse. 

[1:25 PM] 

Yes

I mean...talk about a way to find others into your thing...

They just walk into the box and tell you because they know you're a safe ear.

[1:26 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

Same with those grooming gangs in the UK

It's not just one or two guys but dozens if not hundreds of dudes, many of them related

[1:27 PM] 

I bet the occurrence in non-Catholic clergy is really low, but higher frequency in ex-Catholic than non

[1:28 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Maybe they confuse their lack of "normal" feelings for like women of similar age as being something religion-based, like celibacy

Or maybe it's like "well i don't like women, already so i might as well get a job where that's a prerequisite"

[1:30 PM] 

I'm betting on dark community over that. 

I assume gay and other alt all has it's own circles in the Catholic confession net.  It's a perfect environment.

[2:12 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

pedophiles are just strange to me

like that's how i know I'm normal

lol

I can't even grasp how they would like that

[2:14 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

They probably wish they didn't

[2:16 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yeah

Some of them have said they want to be fixed

“stop me”

Kinda like the people that have strange addictions

“I keep eating Comet and i can't stop”

[2:18 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Instead of Comet it's altar boys

[2:24 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I can understand a mature looking girl confusing some guys.

571 - Can We Replace The Wilhelm Scream With The Vader No?, Boomblamma, The Revival Chamber In Stargate Was Needed Because Ra Kept Killing Himself, Trump Is Just The Next Stage Of American De-evolution

[9:58 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I watched Star Wars episodes 4-6 in order

Some of the changes Lucas made were insane

Like Hayden Christensen's ghost at the end

[9:59 AM] 

Awfully stupid, that one

[10:00 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I don't see an issue with Vader's "NOOOO" thing

It doesn't change much, unlike Han shooting first/second

[10:19 AM] 

Weeeeeelllll

Thing is, if you hadn't seen it before, you can't tell what Vader is thinking.

Saying No at that point just lays his disapproval in the audience's lap.

It also should have tipped off Palpatine, who had all the time in the world to cease and re-assess things

Vader won by total surprise by NOT saying anything.

As well-depicted by Robot Chicken, who added the line "Hey!  What are you DOING you idiot?!?"

[10:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I think it's an unnecessary change but doesn't affect much

The first no is under his breath and Palpatine might not have heard it... or might not have even cared

2 seconds later Vader's tossing him over the railing, so the audience doesn't know a whole lot earlier than they did in the original

or Palpatine thought he was saying No to Luke's cries for help

[10:44 AM] 

That last is arguable

I still want to do my recut of the scene

Looking back and forth at the Emperor taking so long to kill Luke and I cut in the "Your powers are weak, old man" from New Hope

(hurl) "Now I am the Master." 

(a very Sithy advancement)

[10:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

So he said nothing at all in the originals?

[10:47 AM] 

Nope

Looked back and forth a couple times and lunged.

Saved his kid

[10:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

For me, i think you gotta fix Han shooting first

[10:50 AM] 

There's a gif out there of Greedo just shooting and missing repeatedly, but I can't find it

[1:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The 2004 tsunami was nuts

Its weird to think that hasn't happened more in the past

I guess we haven't always been clustered along the coasts as much as we are nowadays

All it took was a few meter up/down shift on a fault line and the tsunami was felt even in Mexico

"We have no record of tsunamis hitting this area, at least not since the hall of records mysteriously washed away."

[2:11 PM] 

heh

I recall watching a thing on tsunamis.  Guy was on a beach somewhere in SE Asia

Empty expanse and wild growth

"There used to be a town of X thousand here.  They were gone by the time others wondered what happened and came to check on them."

[2:12 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

Seems like they also have to be kinda perfect

There has to be an up/down shift if there's an underwater earthquake.. a side-to-side shift doesn't displace water

Sounds like Krakatoa caused a big one too for different reasons... sent whole bits of the island into the ocean, displacing water with waves being felt all over the world

[2:24 PM] 

And what are the odds it would have such a cheesy kid's show name, too!

"Lesser known but still significant events also took place at Mount Explodia, and Boomblamma Peak."

[8:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I didn't watch it recently, it was like a few days ago, but Stargate is a good flick

Just a solid sci fi popcorn flick, with what i consider to be some OK science / no severe plot holes

[8:36 AM] 

Nod

“Stargate” is fun

They got good anthropologists and Egyptologists to consult instead of just throwing crap together

The main flaw is thinking too hard about the aliens.

Don't worry about them and you're good.

[8:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

[8:37 AM] 

Because...gotta tell you...

Thousands of years in a flying city with 15-20 slave/children?

Making the rounds through space for fuel pickup?

[8:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah?

[8:40 AM] 

I'd have just committed suicide in the first couple years

[8:40 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

If you were a slave?

[8:40 AM] 

No, the Pharaoh

Immortality so much worse than Zardoz its unfathomable

[8:41 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Oh, okay

[8:41 AM] 

Absolutely NOTHING to do

NOTHING being created.

NO conflict worth anything

NOTHING to see

Last of his kind

No one does anything but what you say

The kids don't even play...I assume they are artificially stunted.

[8:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I kinda thought he just dug the power. He probably had worlds all over.  Maybe he looked at it like a game, like Sim City or something...  He was basically slowly becoming an *actual* god

[8:46 AM] 

Fortunately they expanded on this for all the series.

But really...even if you loved lording it over feeble races across the galaxy, why wasn't that ship swarming with them?

[8:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

The way they showed him, he seemed to be bored, evil, and just liked living decadently. But an interesting take would be maybe he saw himself as as good and was just simply trying to acquire knowledge and study worlds from across the universe and felt like slave labor was justified for the discovery

[8:54 AM] 

And yet...there was also zero sign that he was engaged in any intellectual pursuit or had any interest. 

Me?  I would have grabbed a team of evolved humans from a rebel world and had 'em in the lab as soon as I could get them. 

Half the movie would be him delightedly examining and taking apart equipment (and people) 

[8:57 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

Or building weapons and an army to take over more advanced civilizations

[9:07 AM] 

I liked the bit about sending the bomb back.  I believe I mentioned it before.

He threatened to destroy the entire culture by adding a box of rocks and saying it would make the bomb like 1000 times more powerful. 

[9:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

yeah

[9:10 AM] 

(Col. O'Neil) "Um...first of all, there's billions of us now, and ramping this tiny little nuke up 1000x would take out like one small city.  Also, it'd be going back to an undermountain fortress and you'd kill maybe several hundred people tops.  And, if you thought we were violent before, you can't even imagine what is going to happen to you if you do it, because we have your travel tech now."

(Pharaoh) "But..."

"Turn it off, you primitive screw head.  You're F'd."

But

ALL THAT being said

I really like that movie

Solid popcorn sci-fi, as you said

Still looks great

Good scenes, suspense, good villain, discovery trip

Music is memorable (playing the soundtrack in my head as we speak)

[9:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heheh

yeah it was good

[9:20 AM] 

Oh, and primo anthy and art direction

[8:59 AM] 

(huge yawn)

Break was illuminating...  Love having to listen to a Trumper get everything wrong.

[9:00 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Which?

[9:00 AM] 

AND endorse everyone just admitting everything and going to jail so Trump can spring them

Don't recall his name

AND believing Nazis were socialists

AND thinking if the US went more socialist we'd end up like Venezuela. 

"That's what happened to them... and Germany... And that led to WWII."

(silent) "Wow you're dumb."

[9:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yikes

That's what you get when you get all your info from Facebook pages called like Pump Trump and ConservativeMemes

[9:07 AM] 

Gotta be a CSR...only staffboard section that won't open.  I thought he was anyway.  Robust build, curly hair going from black to gray.  Ruddy.

[9:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

And his vote counts just as much as yours

"I've said it before and i'll say it again, Democracy simply doesn't work."

[9:09 AM] 

The Founding Fathers didn't believe it

That's why we have what we have

They apparently never foresaw the masses voting, though, and horrible candidates being put forward

They were intellectuals... they never dreamed of idiots taking over.

Why would they?
Who would pick stupid people and criminals to run anything?

One of the things i enjoyed about that Brit woman's USA travel memoirs was her observations about how naive and stupid so many Americans were.

Post civil war?  not sure

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Hmm, don't know it

[9:23 AM] 

Definitely worth a read.

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Certainly something that's going on right now is not only are Americans naive and stupid but they are proud of it

[9:23 AM] 

Hate to say it...she said the same thing. 

She spoke on the bizarre way that American people of all walks took the admirable sentiment "all men are created equal" and all the dignity and rights deserved that implies and turned it into "all men are equal", which is obviously not the case and never will be in uncountable ways.

Got it...

Frances Trollope

"Francis was a keen observer, especially of faults, and she described what she saw in a most scathing manner. In her “Domestic Life of the Americans” she pictured Americans as coarse, selfish, intemperate, insincere, indelicate, and generally ridiculous. The descriptions were overdrawn and were a bitter medicine to the people she described, while they provided a vast fund of amusement to the English. Even though it was harsh, America probably profited from Mrs. Trollope’s satire. "

I think one of my fave bits was her talking about men with military titles...country colonels and such (Like Col Sanders) and her being introduced to a General, and how she tried to get his story...units, actions, battles.  Wouldn't talk about it.  

She found out he was a Postmaster General and just being a self-important ass

[9:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh