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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #3425 on: August 29, 2024, 10:10:49 PM »
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« Reply #3426 on: August 29, 2024, 10:14:31 PM »
I bet they would have chanted for Palestine.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #3427 on: August 30, 2024, 04:39:06 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on August 29, 2024, 10:14:31 PM
I bet they would have chanted for Palestine.

Undoubtedly.  :facepalm:
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« Reply #3428 on: August 31, 2024, 08:03:32 AM »
No link as I just now heard it on the teevee. Apparently Brazilian judges have a ridiculous amount of power. The judge who is banning X in Brazil has also instituted $9K US fines for anyone caught using VPN.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #3429 on: August 31, 2024, 08:10:25 AM »
Quote from: Ben on August 31, 2024, 08:03:32 AM
No link as I just now heard it on the teevee. Apparently Brazilian judges have a ridiculous amount of power. The judge who is banning X in Brazil has also instituted $9K US fines for anyone caught using VPN.

It was Brazil's Supreme Court, not just a single federal judge just doing what he wanted.

And it comes after a rather prolonged battle between Musk/X and Brazil.

And the judge didn't simply decree there will be fines... he called for fines.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/30/brazil-orders-suspension-of-elon-musks-x.html
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« Reply #3430 on: September 01, 2024, 09:26:00 AM »
This morning my reddit feed was full of images of kids on tractors with lines like, "Hey UK, look at this!". I couldn't figure it out until I ran into this:

https://www.farminguk.com/news/farmer-sentenced-after-neighbour-films-child-in-tractor-cab_65219.html

A UK farmer got a 3500 pound fine for letting his grandkid ride in the (enclosed cab) tractor with him. To make matters worse, a neighbor ratted him out.

I'm glad I don't live in the UK.

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« Reply #3431 on: September 01, 2024, 09:37:57 AM »
Slap a "I heart Sharia Law" sticker on the tractor next time and they will arrest the neighbor
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #3432 on: September 01, 2024, 10:23:41 AM »
My neighbor recently shared pictures of his 1 year old napping on his chest while he drove his tractor.

My 3 year old sits on my lap and drives mine regularly.

The UK is getting more and more disappointing.
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« Reply #3433 on: September 01, 2024, 10:35:16 AM »
Quote from: cordex on September 01, 2024, 10:23:41 AM
The UK is getting more and more disappointing.

Soon, for general safety, they'll pass a law that you can no longer leave your home unless you're wearing a sumo suit. Don't want anyone falling down and scraping a knee or anything. Or drowning.


https://youtu.be/w96z1BQbWUA?t=134
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« Reply #3434 on: September 01, 2024, 02:43:25 PM »
Code Pink protesting at Eric Swalwell's office in Castro Valley.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1830028343367840108

For those unfamiliar, this is so Castro Valley geriatric hippie that I can't even tell you.  :rofl:
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #3435 on: September 01, 2024, 02:47:03 PM »
 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

There is a worldwide protest occurring right now, with millions of people setting their VPNs to Brazil to *expletive deleted*ck with them.

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/09/01/millions-of-people-around-the-world-are-setting-their-vpn-to-brazil-n2400402
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« Reply #3436 on: September 02, 2024, 03:44:59 PM »
So Dylan Mulvaney is a semi-male again?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hjqV8Lw_dp8?feature=share
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #3437 on: September 02, 2024, 03:47:54 PM »
He figured out how to be even more creepy
A man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man :O
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« Reply #3438 on: September 02, 2024, 09:39:22 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on September 02, 2024, 03:47:54 PM
He figured out how to be even more creepy
A man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man :O

What's old becomes new again.  Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner, Lesley Ann Warren, and Alex Karras already did this.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #3439 on: September 03, 2024, 06:55:34 AM »
What movie did Robert Preston and James Garner pretend to be women in?

They were in Victor Victoria (great movie) but I don't think they did the triple reverso that Julie Andrews did.

Robert Preston taking Julie Andrew's place in one of the final scenes was absolutely hysterical, though.
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« Reply #3440 on: September 03, 2024, 10:03:34 AM »
Oh gee, there's a Gender Wiki

https://gender.fandom.com/wiki/Gender_Wiki

And look what's in there, apparently you can ID as a season https://gender.fandom.com/wiki/Seasogender
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« Reply #3441 on: September 03, 2024, 10:16:28 AM »
Quote from: JTHunter on September 02, 2024, 09:39:22 PM
What's old becomes new again.  Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner, Lesley Ann Warren, and Alex Karras already did this.

Lets not confuse movies where something is done to entertain or amuse with what someone is doing in real life. Andrews was born a woman and walked away from that character a woman and has never expected us to see her as anything but a woman in real life. What Mulvaney is doing is insanity and the fact the left expects us to support his insanity is even more insane.
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« Reply #3442 on: September 03, 2024, 11:08:35 AM »
How about Linda Hunt playing a man in The Year of Living Dangerously and winning an Oscar for the role?
She IMHO did a darn fine job but lets not lose sight of the fact she was just acting.

Seriously underrated movie that seems forgotten nowadays
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« Reply #3443 on: September 04, 2024, 09:27:16 AM »
I'm really getting worried about the antifa army and trans day of vengeance. They're recruiting some tough dudes.  :rofl:

https://youtu.be/iksWBLe1PaE
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« Reply #3444 on: September 04, 2024, 10:18:37 AM »
"I'm a folx therapist. Of course I want to know about your polycule".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_k3y2VSr-3E?feature=share

WTF is a polycule?
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« Reply #3445 on: September 04, 2024, 02:53:09 PM »
Quote from: K Frame on September 03, 2024, 06:55:34 AM
What movie did Robert Preston and James Garner pretend to be women in?

They were in Victor Victoria (great movie) but I don't think they did the triple reverso that Julie Andrews did.

Robert Preston taking Julie Andrew's place in one of the final scenes was absolutely hysterical, though.

Agreed !  And NO, they didn't.  I just was listing the major cast.  =D
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« Reply #3446 on: September 04, 2024, 02:57:45 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on September 03, 2024, 11:08:35 AM
How about Linda Hunt playing a man in The Year of Living Dangerously and winning an Oscar for the role?
She IMHO did a darn fine job but lets not lose sight of the fact she was just acting.

Seriously underrated movie that seems forgotten nowadays.

I agree about Hunt's talents but I have never watched that movie.
I enjoyed her all too short appearance in the 1984 version of "DUNE" as the Shadout Mapes.  She was even more enjoyable as the principal in "Kindergarten Cop".
I'm just disappointed that she has turned into another "lap-licker".  [barf]
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« Reply #3447 on: September 05, 2024, 08:13:30 AM »
Now Brazil has seized Starlink's assets.

Does anyone else think this Judge looks like a grade B Bond villain?

https://twitchy.com/amy/2024/09/05/brazilian-judge-orders-seizing-of-starlinks-assets-elon-musk-responds-n2400531
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« Reply #3448 on: September 05, 2024, 08:38:39 AM »
Quote from: Ben on September 05, 2024, 08:13:30 AM
Now Brazil has seized Starlink's assets.

Does anyone else think this Judge looks like a grade B Bond villain?

https://twitchy.com/amy/2024/09/05/brazilian-judge-orders-seizing-of-starlinks-assets-elon-musk-responds-n2400531

I've been sort of keeping an eye on that mess down there and don't know what to believe but even if half of it is true it's amazing a judge has that much power down there that he can basically act like a dictator over a whole country.
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« Reply #3449 on: September 05, 2024, 09:32:57 AM »
Quote from: WLJ on September 05, 2024, 08:38:39 AM
I've been sort of keeping an eye on that mess down there and don't know what to believe but even if half of it is true it's amazing a judge has that much power down there that he can basically act like a dictator over a whole country.

I'm wondering if the judge is just assuming power he really doesn't have, and people are going along with it because they can't realistically push back.  It is effectively an authoritarian socialist government that the citizens voted in.
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