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03 Oct 2007, 3:10 am

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* Signatures should be no more than 6 lines long and may not contain any images or scripts of any kind.

Sorry, but I already told you this once before, Flagg.

Anyway, I watched 300 today. Pretty brutal.

I am not fighting the rule, merely saying it would be more efficient to put in a strip of code disabling BBcode in signatures or merely have Alex disable it from his console. I know it's possible, remember I am an admin on a board running this system.

Then talk to Alex. If he doesn't acknowledge you, I will press him.

300 was pretty brutal. I'd read the comic beforehand. It was probably just as well it was as if the tale was told by Dilios (a Spartan Baron Munchausen, IMNSHO, but played by an Aussie, David Wenham), but it was over the top, and made no pretension otherwise.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:12 am

It seemed like blatant White Power propaganda to me.

I felt like beating my head on the seat in front of me for the last half of the film.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:16 am

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It seemed like blatant White Power propaganda to me.

I felt like beating my head on the seat in front of me for the last half of the film.

Hmmm. Yeah, that's one way it could be interpreted. The Persians aren't portrayed very flatteringly, and the Spartans are portrayed as hypocrites (after all, they call the Athenians boy-lovers when they had institutional pederasty). But Frank Miller says that this is history as seen by the Spartans, not objectively, or by the Persians. I think most of the stuff on the Battle of Thermopylae comes from Herodotus, and the Ephors are portrayed inaccurately.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:18 am

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It seemed like blatant White Power propaganda to me.

I felt like beating my head on the seat in front of me for the last half of the film.

Very typical from Hollywood films I suppose, I haven't seen it.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:18 am

damn tetris is addicting.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:19 am

Aye, though ragging on someone for being a hypocrite is hypocrisy in and of itself.

Everybody is a hypocrite, some people are just a little more adamant in denying it.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:19 am

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It seemed like blatant White Power propaganda to me.

I felt like beating my head on the seat in front of me for the last half of the film.

Very typical from Hollywood films I suppose, I haven't seen it.

Unless you're a fan of mindless violence, Frank Miller's comic books, or quasi-historical films with scant regard to accuracy, don't watch it.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:21 am

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Aye, though ragging on someone for being a hypocrite is hypocrisy in and of itself.

Everybody is a hypocrite, some people are just a little more adamant in denying it.

I can at least admit to hypocrisy. I've sniggered at racist jokes, although I am profoundly against racism. Or any other 'ism'. Blonde-ism, sexism, etc....

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03 Oct 2007, 3:21 am

Quatermass wrote:

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It seemed like blatant White Power propaganda to me.

I felt like beating my head on the seat in front of me for the last half of the film.

Very typical from Hollywood films I suppose, I haven't seen it.

Unless you're a fan of mindless violence, Frank Miller's comic books, or quasi-historical films with scant regard to accuracy, don't watch it.

Indeed, Sin City far better.

It should be held up as a shining example of what a comic book film can be.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:25 am

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Indeed, Sin City far better.

It should be held up as a shining example of what a comic book film can be.

Hm. I enjoyed Sin City. I preferred the segments The Hard Goodbye and The Big Fat Kill, though That Yellow Bastard has its moments. I feel sorry for poor bloody Hartigan. Who's looking forward to Watchmen?

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03 Oct 2007, 3:25 am

Quatermass wrote:

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Aye, though ragging on someone for being a hypocrite is hypocrisy in and of itself.

Everybody is a hypocrite, some people are just a little more adamant in denying it.

I can at least admit to hypocrisy. I've sniggered at racist jokes, although I am profoundly against racism. Or any other 'ism'. Blonde-ism, sexism, etc....

I don't think laughing at a racist joke is innately racist, the politically correct would just you like to think that way. Jokes make it easier to deal with the issue if well placed and make sure everyone keeps a cool head about the whole business. This logic would also mean those who enjoy swearing in films swear constantly in real life and those who listen to loud music are loud people.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:30 am

what about check into cash? is check into cash racist against cash?

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03 Oct 2007, 3:31 am

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.....and those who listen to loud music are loud people.

But the loud music pulps their brain, gives them a frontal lobotomy. Can't you hear them saying immoderately loudly, "My brain hurts!! !"?

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03 Oct 2007, 3:33 am

Quatermass wrote:

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.....and those who listen to loud music are loud people.

But the loud music pulps their brain, gives them a frontal lobotomy. Can't you hear them saying immoderately loudly, "My brain hurts!! !"?

(Jokingly) WHAT DID YOU SAY?!

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03 Oct 2007, 3:37 am

Flagg wrote:

Quatermass wrote:

Flagg wrote:

Aye, though ragging on someone for being a hypocrite is hypocrisy in and of itself.

Everybody is a hypocrite, some people are just a little more adamant in denying it.

I can at least admit to hypocrisy. I've sniggered at racist jokes, although I am profoundly against racism. Or any other 'ism'. Blonde-ism, sexism, etc....

Sometimes I wonder when people make those kind of jokes, if they actually think that, and if they are expressing it in a form of a joke, to not sound insulting, I wonder actually, it happened in real life interacting with people, and I really can't tell if they really mean it or not, I used to think that perhaps people made it in form of a joke to be able to get away with it.

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03 Oct 2007, 3:42 am

whats better, a rakist, or a bakist?

if you said rakist you are wrong. *sends EDS after you*

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