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20 Dec 2007, 11:38 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071218/wl ... 1218172630


This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard of this year. For those who can't be bothered clicking the link, yes, they DID inform the police beforehand.


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20 Dec 2007, 11:40 pm

KBABZ wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071218/wl_africa_afp/angolashootingactors_071218172630


This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard of this year. For those who can't be bothered clicking the link, yes, they DID inform the police beforehand.


that is terrible but what sounded weird maybe it was cause it was out of context was the part where they are shooting and the director says "please don't shoot, this is a movie." I dunno somehow it sounds all calm and collected where I'd be panicing by then.



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21 Dec 2007, 12:14 am

Abangyarudo wrote:
KBABZ wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071218/wl_africa_afp/angolashootingactors_071218172630


This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard of this year. For those who can't be bothered clicking the link, yes, they DID inform the police beforehand.


that is terrible but what sounded weird maybe it was cause it was out of context was the part where they are shooting and the director says "please don't shoot, this is a movie." I dunno somehow it sounds all calm and collected where I'd be panicing by then.

I'm sure it'd more accurately be "Please don't shoot!! This is a movie!! !"


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21 Dec 2007, 12:15 am

KBABZ wrote:
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KBABZ wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071218/wl_africa_afp/angolashootingactors_071218172630


This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard of this year. For those who can't be bothered clicking the link, yes, they DID inform the police beforehand.


that is terrible but what sounded weird maybe it was cause it was out of context was the part where they are shooting and the director says "please don't shoot, this is a movie." I dunno somehow it sounds all calm and collected where I'd be panicing by then.

I'm sure it'd more accurately be "Please don't shoot!! This is a movie!! !"

that sounds like my reaction of course being as far away from the bullets as possible. Its weird when I was depressed I wanted to die now I have an overwhelming fear of death.



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21 Dec 2007, 12:21 am

Ahh. If I were in the mood to feel like doing it (not that I intend to), I'd probably be more scared about what would happen after rather than Death itself.

If you're afraid of Death as in, the hooded guy with the scythe, then heh, yeah I can see what you mean! Just remember what Rimmer did.


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21 Dec 2007, 12:23 am

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Ahh. If I were in the mood to feel like doing it (not that I intend to), I'd probably be more scared about what would happen after rather than Death itself.

If you're afraid of Death as in, the hooded guy with the scythe, then heh, yeah I can see what you mean! Just remember what Rimmer did.


I'd prefer that to what Rincewind almost always does.


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21 Dec 2007, 1:23 am

Quatermass wrote:
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Ahh. If I were in the mood to feel like doing it (not that I intend to), I'd probably be more scared about what would happen after rather than Death itself.

If you're afraid of Death as in, the hooded guy with the scythe, then heh, yeah I can see what you mean! Just remember what Rimmer did.


I'd prefer that to what Rincewind almost always does.



Rimmer? Rincewind??

WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?


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21 Dec 2007, 1:50 am

Rimmer is a character in Red Dwarf, a British Space Sitcom. When he dies, Death comes along, but Rimmer knees him in the crotch saying "Only the good die young!"


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21 Dec 2007, 2:04 am

Yet another reason not to move to Africa.


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21 Dec 2007, 2:40 am

Gamester wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
KBABZ wrote:
Ahh. If I were in the mood to feel like doing it (not that I intend to), I'd probably be more scared about what would happen after rather than Death itself.

If you're afraid of Death as in, the hooded guy with the scythe, then heh, yeah I can see what you mean! Just remember what Rimmer did.


I'd prefer that to what Rincewind almost always does.



Rimmer? Rincewind??

WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?


Rimmer is an anally retentive git with delusions of grandeur from Red Dwarf, though he does have his moments of greatness, and as KBABZ said, kneed Death in the nuts. Rincewind is a cowardly wizard from the Discworld novels, who runs away from virtually anything remotely threatening. Think of him as Shaggy from Scooby Doo in a wizard's outfit.


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21 Dec 2007, 2:47 am

Quatermass wrote:
Gamester wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
KBABZ wrote:
Ahh. If I were in the mood to feel like doing it (not that I intend to), I'd probably be more scared about what would happen after rather than Death itself.

If you're afraid of Death as in, the hooded guy with the scythe, then heh, yeah I can see what you mean! Just remember what Rimmer did.


I'd prefer that to what Rincewind almost always does.



Rimmer? Rincewind??

WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?


Rimmer is an anally retentive git with delusions of grandeur from Red Dwarf, though he does have his moments of greatness, and as KBABZ said, kneed Death in the nuts. Rincewind is a cowardly wizard from the Discworld novels, who runs away from virtually anything remotely threatening. Think of him as Shaggy from Scooby Doo in a wizard's outfit.

Zoinks!!


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21 Dec 2007, 2:51 am

KBABZ wrote:
Zoinks!!


No, Rincewind is more prone to saying "Stercus! Stercus! Stercus! Moriturus sum!"


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21 Dec 2007, 4:48 am

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They then ceased their firing and promptly fled the scene without attending to the wounded who were taken to a nearby hospital.



Sounds like New York cops to me...



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21 Dec 2007, 4:51 am

Didn't the police officers see the camera and the microphone they hold up over the actors?



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21 Dec 2007, 5:23 am

Is it perfectly possible that they weren't cops? That they were nutjobs or part of the local mob who just wanted to shoot crap up?


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21 Dec 2007, 9:53 am

I guess this means I should cancel my vacation in Sambila? Or learn how to say "Please don't shoot, this is a movie" in Bantu or Portuguese.

Por favor não dispare. Este é um filme.

Can't find my English/Bantu dictionary at the moment.

Maybe it was part of the plot to add a touch of realism - but nobody told the director so his freak out could be captured for the screen. Maybe the soldiers where actors and someone put real bullets in the guns.