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  1. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Most "decent guys" are the Sears manager

    I went to Sears a while ago to buy a new Craftsman impact drill and the manager was absolutely not a decent guy.

  2. Re:free to play on Kit Kat Accused of Copying Atari Game Breakout (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Infogrames paid big bucks for Hasbro Interactive [wikipedia.org] that had the Atari IP, renaming the company to Atari, and, like its namesake, took a tour through bankruptcy. They're going to squeeze out every last penny out of the Atari IP since that's the only thing they still have after the dot com bust.

    So, some corporation that is three times removed from the people who actually created the work are able to prevent the work from entering the public domain.

    Ain't capitalism grand?

  3. free to play on Kit Kat Accused of Copying Atari Game Breakout (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Can someone give me one good reason why the Atari game Breakout shouldn't already be in the public domain?

  4. All I can say is, finding a 21st-century ride might let you escape from winning the Darwin Award. ;-P

    Darwin, isn't he that monkey guy?

    Let me tell you, I get so excited when I drive my Detroit iron that I don't even have to use my hands to steer. Which is handy when I need to pour myself a drink.

  5. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And your other example is.....another hard working, successful guy. Who was also extremely competitive.

    But he wasn't that successful. Not when he was banging the broads. He struggled constantly in the second tier of bandleaders. He had a few hit records, but hit records back then didn't bring the cash the way they did later in the 20th century.

    After he quit music, he failed as a novelist, failed as a producer, failed as a dairy farmer, and still pulled a ton of tail.

  6. Watch Vanishing Point. It has much the same effect.

    One of my favorite movies, but it doesn't have nearly the health benefits of rolling in a big-block Dodge. I don't even need the nitrous tanks like that Dominic Barbarino character in the Fast & Furious documentaries has.

  7. Re:Donald Trump is a traitor on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    EVEN IF he did what you claim, you are claiming that what he did meets the Constitutional definition of Treason?

    Showing support for Nazis is literally "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" which is the legal definition of treason.

    When you say there are "very fine" Nazis, you are showing support for them. Trump said exactly that.

    Anyway, there is a pretty sizable investigation by an Independent Prosecutor going on right now. Subpoenas. Grand juries. Let the process run it's course and then let's revisit this discussion, ok?

    bobbied: "Trump hasn't committed treason yet!"

    Donald Trump: "Hold my beer."

  8. Kotaku in Action on Video Is Coming To Reddit (variety.com) · · Score: 0

    Now we'll finally have a place where gamers can post videos about peacefully putting Jews in ovens.

  9. But what about the health benefits of me driving a '69 Charger Hemi R/T? It's great for my stress level and has cured my erectile dysfunction.

  10. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    OK. Let's take the case of Artie Shaw. He was was a short (5' 5") dude with a receding hairline. He was a clarinet player, and a good one, but he hated the music business, gave up the clarinet, and became a novelist, and a dairy farmer, and a film producer, and the fourth-ranked precision rifleman in America. Of those, he was most successful as a marksman. The others, not so much.

    But his greatest success was as a pussyhound. He went through eight wives, including Lana Turner, Ava Gardner and Evelyn Keyes, who were all smoking hot (and quite tall). And those were only the ones he married. He was known for squiring practically every showgirl on both coasts, half the B-movie actresses and at least two top-tier Hollywood superstars (mentioned above). There was a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Bob Hope once said he'd like to smell Artie Shaw's "clarinet".

    So as far as I can tell from the recorded history, the only two men who bedded both Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were both shorter than 5' 6" tall. For those two tomatoes, I'd chop 5 inches off my legs.

  11. Re:While these guys are nutters.. on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And who gets to set the bar for what is permissible discourse for participation in a free society.

    The people who aren't Nazis get to set the bar for permissible discourse. Why is this so difficult for you to grasp?

  12. Re:While these guys are nutters.. on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or are you saying genocide is OK as long as the people you're killing are Nazis?

    Ding! He figured it out in one go.

    Plus, you don't seem to know the definition of genocide, but one would expect a Nazi to have skipped school that day.

  13. Re:Be careful of that calculation on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The minimum wage was NOT 6.77 in 1980.

    Hey, you're right! The actual minimum wage in 1980, adjusted for inflation, was $8.79.

    https://splicer.com/2013/12/10...

  14. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    yes, they will, but finding that one in a million woman who does is really, really tough. took my about 40 years in fact.

    (I am 57, 6'1", 230, bald and my fiancée is 31, 5'3 and 135)

    See, it was worth waiting for. My grandmother used to say, "For every funny foot, there's a funny shoe."

    I'm reminded of a girl from my grammar school. She was fugly. Skinny, flat-chested, goofy glasses, braces. None of the boys would talk to her. I went to a reunion some years back and she was grown up fine as cherry wine. I mean, she put the others to shame. Always be nice to the funny-looking ones. You never know.

    I see pictures of my wife from high school and it's comical. She was 3" taller than the tallest boy, bony, stupid 70s hair and weird glasses. Total math nerd. When I met her on the Halsted Street bus some decades ago, she stopped my heart. I had to put on my A game to get her to let me take her for coffee before she got off the bus downtown. Had to dig deep and use every bit of my greasy dago charm. She's now a math professor, and there are silver threads among the gold, but she still looks mighty good to me. Thank goodness our daughter got her looks and brains (but my charm).

  15. Re:If only he was Alt-Right this would be cool. on Thai Activist Jailed For the Crime of Sharing an Article on Facebook (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    The Thai government can't prove that he's a *LITERAL NAZI* can they? Because then this would be OK.

    In Russia, he would have simply been killed.

    The thing with narcissistic ego-driven despots is they do this kind of horrible shit if they're allowed to. Considering his kind words for Putin and Duarte, how long before Trump calls the king of Thailand "a tremendous guy"?

  16. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, but what if I'm not?

    Then you have to take matters into your own hands.

  17. Re:While these guys are nutters.. on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If all Nazis are irredeemably evil, and deserve only extermination, why weren't all of them executed at the end of the war?

    Rope was too expensive.

    After surrender, you just have to get rid of the leaders and the worst. But until surrender, you go after all of them.

    When the new Nazis decide to surrender and put down their guns and other weapons, we can talk about which ones to leave alone.

  18. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Now explain Anna Nicole Smith & J Howard Marshall

    I don't think those are real people.

  19. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quite a few happily look up to a midget standing on his wallet

    Short, funny little Mickey Rooney scored some of the hottest babage in the world, and it wasn't because of his wallet, since the women he banged were all much more successful than him. Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, even Ava fucking Gardner, who on a scale of 1 to 10 was like an 18.

    Here is a photo of Ava Gardner while she was married to Mickey Rooney:

    https://www.oldtimeradiodownlo...

    and Lana Turner:

    https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ssV...

    And this is what Elizabeth Taylor looked like when Mickey Rooney was tapping that ass:

    https://vickielester.files.wor...

    Mickey Rooney was 5' 2" tall. For all the AAA poontang he had, his dick should be enshrined in the Smithsonian.

  20. I am personally fat. I am loosing it. Why? Because it is unhealthy. You do not want to see me in a movie.

    Oh, I don't know. I pay to see John Goodman, Jack Nicholson and many other fat actors. I don't pay to see Kevin James, because his movies are trash.

    I spent many hours enjoying the work of Orson Wells, Raymond Burr, William Conrad, Jackie Gleason.

    If it will make you feel better, I wish you luck in losing weight. Do it for yourself, though.

  21. Re:Mandarin vs. Cantonese on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, for reasons I prefer not to disclose, I am very interested in how short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies can become sex symbols.

    Women will overlook a lot of physical shortcomings if you're a decent guy.

  22. Okay, here is the next question: Why is it always about women? Why does Hollywood only use buff guys in leading roles? Why are the male sex symbols never short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies?

    Umm... (part 3)

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

  23. Okay, here is the next question: Why is it always about women? Why does Hollywood only use buff guys in leading roles? Why are the male sex symbols never short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies?

    Umm... (part 2)

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

  24. Okay, here is the next question: Why is it always about women? Why does Hollywood only use buff guys in leading roles? Why are the male sex symbols never short near-sighted bald guys with beer bellies?

    Umm...

    http://feelgoodtube.com/wp-con...

  25. https://www.centerforsecurityp... [centerfors...policy.org]

    You're going to cite a poll done by Frank Gaffney? You pitiful scumbag.

    This is Frank Gaffney:

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

    And even HIS poll doesn't show what you (and he) says it shows. Read the motherfucking poll, not Gaffney's "analysis". You alt-Right jackoffs really are a sick and twisted bunch, you know? And you've done a whole lot more damage - perpetrated a whole lot more terrorist attacks - than Muslims or BLM or any other group in the US. You, buddy. You're the baddie.