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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 18, 2022 10:47:39 GMT -8
A friend recommended this series to me: Hell on Wheels. It's about the building of the railroads in America. What could go wrong? There comes a point where the honest man will question himself. Am I becoming too picky? Maybe my tastes aren't "refined" as much as they are simply narrow. But this series looked like every other series: Dumb, and aimed at the mindset of a 13-year-old. But, sheesh, the reviews on it are spectacular, all 9's and 10's. What kind of reality distortion field is this? Or am I the one who is blind? Then I ran across this review: Can you really trust one review out of hundreds? Isn't this just an instance of cherry-picking, of confirmation bias? But the reviewer seems to see through the smog: Yes, the intelligence was discarded. And the "MTV" reference (spot-on) is basically dog-whistling that this is the usual junk made for the vulgar tastes of 13-year-olds. I can't grade myself down or doubt myself simply because I have progressed beyond cotton candy. And what child of 5 doesn't simply love cotton candy? It is the crack-cocaine of treats. It doesn't even pretend to be anything else. It's not advertised as "gluten-free" or "low in carbs." It could be one or both. But we all know it's loved because it is nothing more than spun sugar. But when is the last time you enjoyed cotton candy? Seriously? You wouldn't touch it because it's nothing more than 100% sugar (with maybe a little pink food coloring). As an adult (or even a teenager) you yearned for other things. Hell, your next step may have been a caramel apple. That's also a pretty good load of sugar. But at least there is some organic fruit underneath. And then one day, as an adult, you may have yearned for a good steak covered in mushrooms. Granted, the more vulgar amongst us may smother that steak in sugar-rich steak sauce. But most progress beyond that. And then one day we have a hankering for lobster to go with that steak. We may even listen to Mozart while we have supper. But most boys and men, gauging by what is being produced for their entertainment, are stuck in the cotton candy stage of cinema. They have the tastes not of 13-year-old boys (which would be an improvement) but of even younger yutes. The reviewer mentioned the word "candyfloss." And that does get to the heart of it. MTV candyfloss cack with no thought and wit. And that's what I saw from just 10 minutes of "Hell on Wheels." And then a different friend recommended "Uncharted" on Netflix. Same result. Cotton candy. He also recommend "The Gray Man" which my brother also said he liked. More cotton candy stupidity, although this one was slightly less insulting at times. So what I learned (once again) from all this is, It's not me. It's you. And if not you-you I mean "them out there." I'm amazed that so many purported adults (adults!) can recommend this crap. More of the drip, drip, drip acid wash of Cultural Marxism that destroys anything good wherever it goes. Can't people resist? A little? Can't they call a spade a spade? Must they pretend that moronic junk isn't moronic junk? Or maybe they've been so steeped in this stuff or so long, they now actually like cotton candy again. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 11:19:21 GMT -8
Proof that Europeans are even more stupid than Americans. Can you imagine voting in this person as your prime minister? Shake that thing |
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Post by artraveler on Aug 18, 2022 11:22:47 GMT -8
Hell on wheels I watched the first three episodes of Hell on Wheels, mostly hoping it would get better, it doesn't. The plots are predictable and the characters thin and lifeless. About all they got right was the challenge of building the railroads across the continent, and mostly by Irish and Chinese labor. I think the show runners were trying to get a "Wagon Train" feel to the show, but bad writing, mediocre acting and characters out of comic books don't do it. |
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Post by artraveler on Aug 18, 2022 11:26:43 GMT -8
Can you imagine voting in this person as your prime minister? Come on, PM of Finland? Where they have one week of summer and 51 weeks of winter. I would want to be drunk and stoned all the timer too. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 18, 2022 11:31:35 GMT -8
Good god. The New York Post site. What a walking advertisement for ad-blockers.
I don't mind a Prime Minister who likes to dance and get a little silly. We've had loads of "decorum" from the schmucks who are ruining Western Civilization in a suit-and-tie.
This stuff quickly became old-hat back in the days of Elvis. But at one time, the cameras would not show his swaying hips.
I'd rather people obsess over what are probably her lunatic Leftist policies. They should shock everyone way more than just a private video of her getting silly at a party. And if I'm offended at all, it's with the Finnish voters: Couldn't you find a PM with a rack?
Could most in the West find Finland on a map? Probably not.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 11:59:48 GMT -8
A more correct characterization would be "most in the USA." More stupid them. One of the first requirements for being able to make reasoned decisions about anything is having a basic education. Over the last weeks we have heard what a great thing it is for Finland to join NATO. Given the monumental ignorance about the rest of the world, which is a defining American trait, perhaps we should either 1) stay out of foreign disputes, or 2) educate ourselves. As the chances of no. 2 happening are virtually nil, I think we should follow no. 1. I have to disagree with you. Youth tends to be more silly than maturity. Why? Perhaps because our bodies age thus we are no longer able to do the silly things we did when we were young. Or perhaps because with the advantage of experience/maturity, we can see more clearly what is silly and what isn't, thereby saving ourselves and those around us a lot of embarrassment. Furthermore, maturity's time and effort will be spent on more important things. I think it is demented to elect a thirty-something year old kid to be the prime minister of a country. This is why I will not vote for anyone under the age of fifty for the presidency. W and the Obamanation should be enough proof of the necessity of voting for gray beards. That may be a reason Trump is so popular. A lack of decorum in a suit and tie.  |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 12:08:19 GMT -8
I have add blockers so I didn't notice.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 12:19:05 GMT -8
I ran across this series long ago, before I cut my cable. I can only recall that I saw parts of a couple of episodes and lost interest. Better said, I never had any interest.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 18, 2022 16:24:27 GMT -8
Oh, I think it's a great thing. Russia meant to tear down NATO. I think Trump talked about pulling ouit of it. But the end result of Putin's Hitlerian aggression and broken promises is to put the fear of God into some of these border countries, including the existing NATO ones. I think Finland will help bolster that alliance. And Putin has shown how badly it is still needed.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 18, 2022 16:29:58 GMT -8
At a party with personal friends, I don't think it's inappropriate for a girl to get a little silly. And as I said, we've had decorum up the ying-yang with Establishment Republicans and that sort. And it was all a charade.
But the real thing of interest is the PM's politics. And I don't know much about her views on anything but partying.
Churchill walked around naked in front of his aids, many of them women. I don't care. I don't care if he swung his dick at them. Of course, back then, there weren't smart phone cameras. So we are seeing a lot of things we never used to see before.
As for this PM's yute and inexperience, again, I don't know much about her. Alexander the Great was conquering the world in his 20's and 30's. And all while he was boinking some guy. So I guess, again, it's the policies that matter.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 17:45:13 GMT -8
Something of an outlier, but while reading "The Cambridge Medieval History" series and Durant's "Age of Napoleon," I was once again struck by the youth of the rulers and history makers of the past, and the contrast between them and our yutes of today. That was then, this is now. As I recall, the average life span up until 1800 was about 40 years. I am talking about in countries like France and England. It was about 31 in Finland at the time. Nature had a way of killing people at a relatively young age. This resulted in people maturing quickly. I will stick with the odds, which experience says that more young people are sillier than old people. As to the woman's politics, I rather doubt there is much difference between hers and the opposition. I will note that I noticed a big drop off in the seriousness and maturity of people after my parents' generation. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 6:51:50 GMT -8
Ha! You can't win the argument by changing the subject. I agree with you that it is almost a guarantee that a 16-year-old from the year 1776 was more advanced in maturity than today's thirty-something female. I'm just saying that a candid video of some girl partying is just that: a candid video. Take a snippet of video of any of us during a candid moment and we will not look like PM material. But have no mistake. I'm pretty sure she's another Scandinavian nut. Here's some info from a short bio: Maybe gas prices and being invaded by Putin are "some of the biggest problems of our times." I'm not sure if Finland was another idiot country that blindly took in Islamic "refugees." But, if so, add that to your list of ticking time bombs for your culture, honey. Only indoctrinated Left wing twits obsess over CO2. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 7:00:08 GMT -8
There is zero doubt of that and can be tracked easily via television advertising (and print advertising to some extent). Just compare some of the classy Budweiser ads of the 60's with those today. The latter commercials are geared toward a creature I'm not sure we have the proper word for yet. "Idiots" or "Vulgarians" captures part of it. But it's deeper and more widespread.
Look at what is on television. Although Leave it to Beaver wasn't Shakespeare, when compared to any of the garbage that is in prime time now, you'd think it could have been written by the Bard.
It is said that most entertainment today is geared toward the mindset of 13-year-olds. Clearly this culture could never produce a Casablanca or Gone With the Wind. What it does produce are these idiot Marvel comic book movies by the dozen. And they, and almost everything on Netflix, reflect entertainment meant for people with no developed sense of taste beyond that of 7-year-olds.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 23, 2022 16:36:00 GMT -8
More on the Finnish Prime Minister. I suspected more such nonsense would be coming and I would bet that we will be entertained with further rubbish from this juvenile in charge of Finland. Topless women kissing at PM's party |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 23, 2022 20:02:35 GMT -8
Yes, shocked. Disgusted. But, trust me, for just about everyone woman under the age of 40, this is considered normal behavior. What Marin is doing isn't outside the mainstream. It's just that her generation is coming up and assuming high positions. And this is who they are.
I don't like it, but I wouldn't mind pay-per-view for the topless parties. And maybe when Finland said they wanted to join NATO they thought it stood for "Naked Ass Teens Ogling."
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 7, 2022 12:22:44 GMT -8
On the one hand, the country elected a thirty-six year old obsessive-compulsive communist as president, on the other, the country had the wisdom to reject a new woke constitution by a margin of about 62% to 38%. No to socialism? |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 9, 2022 8:30:24 GMT -8
It's amazing that these un-manned douchebags all think the same.
In Bond films it is "Spectre" that is the world-wide organization of evil that is trying to overthrow and subvert where it can. With Nick Fury and his Agents of SHIELD it was Hydra. For our time it is The Golden Children who deem themselves superior and seem to coordinate their efforts so that they are a de facto worldwide criminal organization.
Oh friggin' brother. So what really cheeses off The Snowflakes is higher bus fares. Well, maybe that's the equivalent in their country to the Stamp Act and such things as the price of tea. But it just seems that only an ignoble, weak, and mealy generation riots over bus fare. Sounds like a shit-hole country. Or maybe they avoided that death by rejecting the proposed Konstitution. Either way, I think they're screwed.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 11, 2022 14:47:19 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 11, 2022 16:27:26 GMT -8
I see it differently. When I first heard of this incident I thought it was a publicity stunt which included all involved. Apparently this is not the case.
If it was not a stunt, then I state uncategorically that I applaud Smith's action. I don't know exactly what Rock said about Smith's wife, I don't know if what he said was true or not, but it was apparently very rude. Worse still, it was said in public in front of millions of people. It was meant to shame and abuse Smith's wife and by extension Smith. It also embarrasses their children. Yes, I understand that the woman should have thought about that, but this does not excuse Rock.
Regardless the veracity of the statement, Smith is still married to that woman. She is his wife and a man is supposed to stick up for his wife in such a case. Period. If he doesn't, he is not much more than a cur.
I can assure you that if some asshole like Rock had insulted Mrs. Flu like that I would have called him out immediately. Sometime back, a slug like Rock, if he were lucky, would have been challenged to a duel for such behavior. More likely, he would have been beat half to death by the husband or other relatives.
There are lines which should not be crossed. Sadly people believe they can get away with such actions without any consequences, and most of the time they will. But sometimes they will be held to account. Bravo Will Smith. And as to "shameful violence," I think the guy who posted that must be a pussy. A slight slap in the face is at the very very low end of "violence." I think Rock deserved a kick in the balls, punch in the stomach and then a good smack in the mouth. Now that's a little more violence.
Of course, a more basic lesson which could be learned from this episode is that one should be very very careful when choosing a spouse. But these days people pay about as much attention to such advice as they do to all sober warnings about life's potential problems, i.e. little or none.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 12, 2022 6:33:44 GMT -8
Chivalry can be a very fine thing. But this happened at an awards showed hosted by a comedian. Comedians poke fun at people. That's what they do. It is the height of normal civilized behavior to take a few jabs and laugh them off.
And that's just what Will Smith did. He laughed at the joke...until he looked at his wife who gave him the angry-black-woman scowl. Then Smith made a show of what, I guess, passes for chivalry in the black world. He walked up onto the stage and slapped Chris Rock...who acted in a civilized manner and let it pass. He was, after all, hosting an awards show on live TV at the time. And only an uncivilized barbarian starts (or engages in) a melee at the Oscars over a joke.
And it's not certain that chivalry even applies when you have an "open" marriage. You let other men fuck your wife but you go out of your way to slap a comedian who makes a mild joke about her hair? Clearly Will Smith is in some kind of weird dysfunctional relationship.
Republicans, year after year, turn the other cheek. But at an awards show packed mostly with liberals (who regularly make cracks about Trump, including imagining the death of him or one of his family members), we once again see a double-standard. Suddenly the skins are very thin. To call this double-standard chivalrous is off the mark.
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