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The only funny thing is this whole thread was lissener calling Q.E.D. “G.E.D.”
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Sad, isn’t it? Not only is that the best he can manage, it’s not even original–stolen en toto from his other favorite website.
[QUOTE=Zoe]
I haven’t seen lissener’s comments, but Schindler was a conniving war profiteer. lissener, a video store clerk with fantasies of kicking rich white women in their “cunts,” thinks that distracts from a movie about a Nazi? Bizarre.
I hear that lissener’s favorite movie is the musical version of Lost Horizon and that he’s been unable to find a video of it in any format. Tsk. Tsk.
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Could you clarify your statements about Schindler please, I can’t parse them in a way that looks reasonable and I am guessing their might have been a disconnect between what you meant and what you typed.
[QUOTE=Shodan]
Dude, he’s forty-five and he clerks in a video store. Everybody takes pride in being good at something.
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I’m not usually one to boast, but I’ve been wiping my own ass since I was in my early twenties. Maybe there’s someone out there who could do a better job, but I’ve yet to meet them.
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
I’m not usually one to boast, but I’ve been wiping my own ass since I was in my early twenties. Maybe there’s someone out there who could do a better job, but I’ve yet to meet them.
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I’ll bet you Quentin Tarantino could wipe his ass better than you. I hear he worked in a video store for a while.
I’m 45 years old and work as a midnight stock hurler at a grocery store. Sometimes I get an obnoxious customer to whom I’d like to take two fingers and go “doink” right in their eyes.
What does that make me?
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[QUOTE=Fiveroptic]
What does that make me?
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Moe?
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
I’ll bet you Quentin Tarantino could wipe his ass better than you. I hear he worked in a video store for a while.
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True, but I didn’t mean his ass.
Whoa whoa whoa… My Giant? Really? What a dick.
Meh. Doesn’t quite have the same weight as ‘cunt,’ now does it? I’d be more supportive of his usage were he Irish. In the US, ‘cunt’ is hardly a throwaway term, and using it in reference to a disliked woman’s genitals really isn’t that far from from actually calling her a ‘cunt.’
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
Sad, isn’t it? Not only is that the best he can manage, it’s not even original–stolen en toto from his other favorite website.
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If you are going to abuse a pretentious expression, it pays to get it right.
[QUOTE=Sage Rat]
Well I was just reading lissener’s reason for disliking Schindler’s List.
No lissener, Oskar Schindler did not save his people because he thought he could make a buck off of them. He was broke and destitute by the end of the war–having spent all of his money to save them, not including having been arrested himself twice. Yes, it’s unlikely that he was a perfect human being, but there’s no reason whatsoever to think that in this one act he wasn’t acting nobly, and there’s no reason whatsoever to think that Spielberg chose to portray Schindler for any reason other than because he thought the man deserved to be recognized.
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[QUOTE=Zoe]
I haven’t seen lissener’s comments, but Schindler was a conniving war profiteer.
I hear that lissener’s favorite movie is the musical version of Lost Horizon and that he’s been unable to find a video of it in any format. Tsk. Tsk.
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[QUOTE=Sage Rat]
Cite? The Wikipedia would disagree with you.
“By the end of the war, Schindler had spent his entire fortune on bribes and black-market purchases of supplies for his workers. Virtually destitute, he moved briefly to Regensburg, Germany and, later, Munich, but did not prosper in postwar Germany. In fact, he was reduced to receiving assistance from Jewish organizations.”
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I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out.
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
But does that excuse lissener’s occasional pride for being a 45 year old video store clerk? I know his job is nothing to be assumed of. But I definitely get the feeling that he thinks he’s smarter than us everytime he talks about movies and part of it is his twisted variation on the fact that he “works with movies.”
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Actually, it’s always seemed to me that his point is that he really loves movies, and watches a whole damn lot of them, and reads a lot about them, and therefore knows a lot about them. I don’t recall him ever arguing that the simple fact of working in a video store makes him more knowledgeable about movies.
As for pride, well that may or may not be the case; i’m really not sure. But if he does show “occasional pride for being a 45 year old video store clerk,” so what? There’s nothing wrong with the job itself, nor with the fact that it’s being done by a 45 year old.
Sure, lissener’s absolute certitude when discussing movies, and his frequent dismissal of other people’s opinions, can be annoying at times. But i’m willing to bet that he’d have exactly the same attitude whether he was the head of a major movie studio or a clerk at McDonalds. If it’s true that “he thinks he’s smarter than us everytime he talks about movies,” then i don’t think his job is really the reason for that.
[QUOTE=mhendo]
Sure, lissener’s absolute certitude when discussing movies, and his frequent dismissal of other people’s opinions, can be annoying at times. But i’m willing to bet that he’d have exactly the same attitude whether he was the head of a major movie studio or a clerk at McDonalds. If it’s true that “he thinks he’s smarter than us everytime he talks about movies,” then i don’t think his job is really the reason for that.
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You’re right, he’s never used his job as the reason he bullies people over their opinions on movies. But it’s just so god damn annoying (and I love Starship Troopers and totally got the satire when it came out!).
I can’t even think about the new Rambo anymore without lissener’s crazy rantings ringing through my brain.
[QUOTE=Plynck]
I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out.
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A little bit of half-assed discussion of Oskar Schindler has raised the intellectual level of discourse in this thread by at least a couple of orders of magnitude. Maybe more.
[QUOTE=Equipoise]
What a fucking asshole you are, using his job as an insult. lissener is a better person than 10 of you, even if you have a fucking PH.D. He’s smart, funny, talented in more ways than you could ever hope to be and has great taste in music and movies (except for the ones he doesn’t like that I like, then he sucks). You’re a dick to imply that what he does for a living makes him a lesser person, just because he’s not interested in having a stressful but oh-so-impressive to dicks like you “fast-track” career.
And he did go to college, so fuck off.
God I hate that. You share anything personal on the Dope and god forbid you get into a flame war with someone. They’ll sure as shit bring stuff up to insult you.
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You forgot the part where he can cook a great meal, better than 5 star restaurants. IIRC
Back when I lived in “joisey” there was this hole in the wall Italian restaurant. You needed some culinary courage to just walk in. One time, I ordered clams oregenato and it was just about the most spectacular thing I ever had. I dreamed about those clams, and one fateful day I went back with some friends and ordered like 3 orders. These clams must have come out of some toxic dump somewhere, sat in a refrigerator for three months, were thrown away, except they forgot to take the garbage can out. When I ordered they salvaged these old clams, threw some bread crumbs on them and toasted them until they were lukewarm. I could tell even before they brought them to my table they were bad. The smell was coming from the kitchen, and it was just rancid.
Nevertheless, every time I went back to that restaurant, I ordered the clams. For about a year it was the same. The waiter thought I was insane. Finally, one day, I went back and the clams were spectacular and heavenly again.
I made a big deal about complimenting the chef, and asking about the clams, and finally I got the courage to ask why they were so inconsistent.
“You want consistent? Go to McDonalds. We ain’t Mcdonalds,” he said.
Lissener makes me think of those clams.
[QUOTE=Frank]
A little bit of half-assed discussion of Oskar Schindler has raised the intellectual level of discourse in this thread by at least a couple of orders of magnitude. Maybe more.
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Bummer, ain’t it?
The whole kindergarten playground thing was going so well.
I think Quentin Tarantino was a video store clerk. I’m willing to bet that lissener knows more about moving making than I do. It doesn’t bother me that he thinks his tastes are better than mine. Of course he does. By definition, he does.
So much of movie viewing is what the patron brings with her. If he is still at the level that finds fantasy violence against women funny, I am naturally going to question the development of his tastes. In the 1940s domestic comedies, the husband would sometimes turn his wife across his wife and spank her. That was “funny” then. I can remember laughing at it even in watching 1950s TV matinees.
Women of my approximate age watch it now or talk about those scenes now and have a different response to it. (I can’t speak for the men.) We wonder why we ever found it amusing.
Sometimes lissener reminds me of the kid in camp that threw up after eating Vienna sausages and then ate them again. He was a memorable genius in the field of music, but no one over the age of twelve could tolerate his approach to life.
Wait a minnit. Turning your wife across your wife and spanking her (them?) on TV in the fifties? I was young, then, but don’t remember any threesome comedies. Hrm. I Love Lucy and Her Hawt Sister, Janice?
I have two points:
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Hereabouts the term cunt isn’t all that offensive. “How are ya ya cunt ya?” is a greeting.
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*Be Kind, Rewind * is kinda shit. You don’t have to be an asshole to realise that.
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Hi, Opal!
Is there a formalized term for this exchange:
Poster #1: Point 1, Point 2, Point 3.
Poster #2: You’re hilarious! I love you!
Poster #1: Point 3, Point 4, Point 5.
Poster #2: You’re still hilarious. OMG, you’re cracking me up!
Y’know, where poster #2 is ignoring the content of poster #1?
Bonus Question: Is there a formalized term for when poster #2 eventually accuses poster #1 of “taking this all too seriously” and then recommends that he “relax” or “take some time off”?