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Napoleon Wilson

17:02

Anyway, how do you call a fisherman who doesn't fish?

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Axelrod

@CapyStenchbeast That's not a bug; it's a feature. Dachshunds are boat shaped and one and a half dogs long.

@NapoleonWilson With a phone?

Napoleon Wilson

Well, at least not a fisherman. \o/

Axelrod

I'm going to need this explained until I feel stupid.

Ankit Sharma

call him man atleast

Napoleon Wilson

Nothing to explain, a fisherman who doesn't fish is obviously not actually a fisherman. What did you expect. ;-P

steelerfan

17:05

lol :)

Axelrod

A punchline.

:D

Napoleon Wilson

Your fault then.

steelerfan

Napoleon, you so funny :)

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan That's sweet of you, but we all know you find everything funny. ;-)

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson That's very true. I am easily amused :)

Napoleon Wilson

17:11

Well, there's worse character traits for sure.

steelerfan

Oh, I have some. You guys just never see them :)

Axelrod

Do tell.

steelerfan

I get annoyed easily at bullies, people with no compassion or empathy.

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan But that's not a bad trait either, though (the getting annoyed, not the bullying, of course).

Axelrod

Those are noble traits. Dig deeper!

steelerfan

17:17

@NapoleonWilson Yeah. My nephew is getting bullied at school right now and it breaks my heart :(

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan Well, if anyone's a bigger asshole than bullies, it's teenage bullies.

steelerfan

I hate slow drivers. I don't know.... I am a very easy going person.

Axelrod

Still counting that one as noble, because no one likes slow drivers. Even slow drivers.

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson Agree! There is nothing I can do about it either!

Axelrod

What kind of bullying is he experiencing?

steelerfan

17:20

@Axelrod I am an impatient driver. I have a lead foot.

Axelrod

@steelerfan There we go.

I do, too, if I don't watch myself. It runs in the blood.

steelerfan

@Axelrod Just kids picking on him because he is into comics and art and stuff. Accusing him of being gay. Asshole kid stuff.

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan Unfortunately he'll just have to go through this. It gets better in university, where people realize that such behaviour won't get them any far and are much more similarly interested.

Axelrod

I'm surprised, with all the junk that's popular now, that these bullies still exist.

Napoleon Wilson

Indeed, every average joe is into superheroes now.

Axelrod

17:23

Yeah, no solution there except to tell him to find friends of like hobbies and form a group.

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, my brother in law does not get it, he is more of a "mans man" and I don't think he had to deal with bullies, but my nephew is awesome, he rises above it.

Axelrod

The good news: As long as he keeps his chin up, he'll be an awesome guy.

steelerfan

Well, there are still kids that think you need to play sports in order to be cool.

Axelrod

Yeah, but even being good at a sport doesn't do it for them. Dodgeball was my sport. No kudos were earned.

And being a football player is a path to the dark side these days.

steelerfan

He has a group of 5-6 friends. He is not alone at least.

Movie Reel

17:26

0

Q: Identify silent film where main character hops through town

This might have been Buster Keaton, but I'm not sure. The film was about two minutes long, and the main character just hopped up and down (on two feet) constantly while moving around town.

identify-this-movie

Axelrod

Goood, goood, now introduce him to D&D...

steelerfan

@Axelrod Very true!

Anonymous

listen to this: maximumfun.org/judge-john-hodgman/…

steelerfan

Gotta get back to work. Later everyone :)

Napoleon Wilson

Good luck!

Axelrod

17:29

Godspeed

Ankit Sharma

17:45

Happy working

Capy Stenchbeast

18:21

Need....

coffee...

Ankit Sharma

Movie Reel

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Q: Please tell me the name of movie

I saw a movie and it has same theme as that of Malena(2000). It that movie the woman was abandoned by villagers and her house was on a small hill and she starts affair with a boy and after few days, the villagers burn her house. It is narrated by the actor who is old man and it was happened when ...

identify-this-movie

Ankit Sharma

Capy Stenchbeast

Ankit Sharma

Why our coffee lover @JimmyHoffa so silent from ~~months~~ weeks

Capy Stenchbeast

18:53

Why did Caitlin whatshername win an award, and why do people care so much? I don't follow celebrity gossip, and I refuse to click links to celeb gossip sites.

Jimmy Hoffa

@AnkitSharma Happy Coffee Day

Ankit Sharma

Happy Coffee Night ....as per IST :D

steelerfan

@CapyStenchbeast Jenner?

Capy Stenchbeast

And I'm proud to call myself a hetero cis ally, but I'm not sure that being transgender warrants awards. It's courageous, but you're becoming who you are, not saving orphans from a fire.

@steelerfan That's the one.

Ankit Sharma

@CapyStenchbeast Some movie dialogue :O?

steelerfan

18:59

@CapyStenchbeast I believe she got an award given by ESPN. I don't know what it is for though.

@CapyStenchbeast I am going to keep my opinions to myself on this one :)

@CapyStenchbeast Thanks for the husky pic last night. My sister really needed that. We literally could not stop laughing for half an hour :))

Capy Stenchbeast

No problem.

I'm trying to find more examples for my answer to this question:

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Q: Has there ever been a chain of art imitating life, and life returning the favour, like the one involving the film Taxi Driver (1976)?

The 1976 film Taxi Driver featured the character Travis Bickle, whom screen-writer Paul Shrader based on Arthur Bremer, who tried to assassinate presidential hopeful George Wallace in 1972 to impress a girl. In Taxi Driver, loner Travis Bickle (played by Robert DeNiro) planned to assassinate a l...

reception taxi-driver

Any suggestions? The idea is "real event inspires movie, then the movie inspires real life event".

steelerfan

@CapyStenchbeast Did you use the guy who shot Reagan?

Capy Stenchbeast

@steelerfan That's the one the question is based on.

steelerfan

@CapyStenchbeast Sorry, I didn't finish reading the question....

Capy Stenchbeast

I'm tempted to add The Doors movie/Jim Morrison goes from statuesque heartthrob to bloated mess/Val Kilmer plays Morrison, then goes from being statuesque heartthrob to bloated mess.

steelerfan

19:09

@CapyStenchbeast oooohhhhh.... Nice one! I love Jim Morrison. I need to think about this...

This is gonna bug me now. There is one that I used to talk about all of the time. I cannot think of it now! Arghhhh! Awesome question!

I remember watching a documentary type movie with John Lennon. He went to a psychic and they told him he would die in a "decade" year (I.e.1980,1990) The movie was shot in October of 1980. Lennon said "I doubt I will die in the next 2 months"....weird.

Napoleon Wilson

Uh sorry, but that answer seems to completely miss the topic at all.

Which is really unfortunate, since it superficially seems to be a good answer on the very first broad look.

Capy Stenchbeast

19:30

@NapoleonWilson I think there are two exceptions: Scrubs and Rage. The others might be better called "honorable mention", because they are all "life imitates art, plus something else". And the 2001 example is art/life/art instead of life/art/life.

I have plenty of examples of life/art/life, but they don't involve movies.

Napoleon Wilson

19:58

@CapyStenchbeast Meh, The line in Scrubs doesn't seem to be based on a real incident either. Neither does it seem to be the Russian movie that isnpired the school shootings rather than the king book. I'm still missing a reall straight on 100% correct example in what is a humongous list of examples.

Capy Stenchbeast

@NapoleonWilson I wouldn't call 8 examples "a humongous list", and I really do think the two I mentioned - Scrubs and Rage - are apt. The line in Scrubs was based on a real life hunt for a real person.

Napoleon Wilson

@CapyStenchbeast Well, sure, but that real life hunt was really just a general circumstance. It wasn't that the Scrubs episode was deliberately based on the hunt for Bin Laden and presented its own interpretation thereof. But granted, that might be debatable, doesn't hold for me at least.

Capy Stenchbeast

@NapoleonWilson And I just found my favorite example so far, albeit a backwards one (i.e., art-life-art, not life-art-life). Man sees The Godfather starring Al Pacino. Man robs bank, basing his tactics on a scene in the movie. Man becomes the subject of the film Dog Day Afternoon, in which he is played by... wait for it... Al Pacino.

Napoleon Wilson

Sure, the word "humungous" might be open to interpretation, too, but from a huge 8 example answer I would hope that at least one actually answers the question as asked.

@CapyStenchbeast Unfortunately the other way around, though (even if generally an interesting incident, just not an answer).

Capy Stenchbeast

Plus, the whole thing was made into a documentary, so it's art-art-life-art.

Movie Reel

20:28

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Q: powerfull space beings

are there any movie or tv show that depicts meeting a humanlike space being with great power and intelligence.i saw a tv series with a spacecraft that very intelligent computer monitors.the crew met a humanoid space being that rocked there ship with cosmic thunder then he appeared on the monitors...

identify-this-tv-show

Napoleon Wilson

20:59

@CapyStenchbeast Seriously, I know you love that huge example post, but an answer doesn't get better from millions of only marginally related information that doesn't contribute to the actual answer. While exhaustive answers are a good thing, there is a "too long", especially when the majority of information is simply irrelevant for the actual answer. But to each his own, so far I'm apparently the only one who has a problem with that answer anyway.

Maybe it's simply the list question nature that shows. Be it multiple unrelated example answers or a single large one, it looks quite like the classic "list question" symptom.

Capy Stenchbeast

Fair enough. I think I've added a couple more examples that are closer to the mark, but I'll leave it alone until I find something that fits perfectly. Long answers are one of my trademarks.

Napoleon Wilson

@CapyStenchbeast There's nothing wrong with long, though. I like long answers, too. Problem is when the length doesn't actually add anything.

Capy Stenchbeast

This might be the best example I've found:

"To protect and serve":

LAPD cruisers were emblazoned with the department's motto: "To Protect and Serve". Because so many films and television shows are produced in LA, those shows and movies began to use the slogan on police cars onscreen. Because the slogan was so familiar from entertainment, other police departments adopted it and painted it on their own vehicles.

Direct chain of correlation and causation, from life to art and back.

Napoleon Wilson

Indeed.

Movie Reel

0

Q: How long was each Squinterns' turn at the Jeffersonian?

In Bones, after Zack's face-heel turn into the Gormogon's Apprentice ended with his incarceration (commitment?), the assistant internship (fellowship) position was filled with various people, all grad students of Dr. Brennan. These Squint Interns (or Squinterns as Booth once called them), Some le...

plot-explanation bones

Capy Stenchbeast

21:12

Napoleon Wilson

I already wondered when that would come.

Axelrod

The LAPD is also one of the most notable police departments when it comes to brutality.

Capy Stenchbeast

WOW. AMC is making a super-hard-sell of the new Into the Badlands series.

Axelrod

Mothers, don't let your sons grow up to be cowboys.

@CapyStenchbeast Ever. Single. Commercial break.

Capy Stenchbeast

I just got an email from them calling it "the perfect companion series to The Walking Dead."

Val Kilmer claims he was offered a part in a sequel to Top Gun

Axelrod

21:15

I guess Fear just got thrown under the bus.

Capy Stenchbeast

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’ Getting Remake

Napoleon Wilson

@CapyStenchbeast Old news!

@CapyStenchbeast Drgh!

Capy Stenchbeast

21:34

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens: Andy Serkis' character revealed

"It’s the first time I’ve been on set not yet knowing what the character’s gonna look like. I mean talk about secrecy!”

Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the uncertain future of movie critics

In an era of oversaturation, where it’s common for nearly every major joke and reveal to be spoiled by a movie’s trailers and marketing campaign, The Force Awakens has been a cinematic anomaly, parcelling out carefully chosen nuggets of information that have generated unprecedented levels of excitement without revealing much about what audiences will be seeing next month.

For fans, it’s a welcome change that’s largely kept the notorious internet spoiler machine at bay — but for studios anxious to control how every facet of how a movie is perceived in order to maximize box office and hype, it could be the new blockbuster template.

Axelrod

I think they misunderstand why leaks do what they do.

They tell people when something is garbage. If your movie is garbage and too much is leaked, people will know it's garbage.

Napoleon Wilson

@CapyStenchbeast Oh my, I guess if any studio doesn't have to fear dragging enough people into the movie, it's be the guys releasing Star Wars.

Capy Stenchbeast

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, the movie could consist of Ewoks farting for two hours and it would still turn a profit.

Axelrod

They already did that. Link to the Ewoks cartoon

Capy Stenchbeast

New “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” character details released

Catija

21:43

I made more ciabatta today :D This time I made them sandwich-sized.

Capy Stenchbeast

@Catija Nice!

Catija

Axelrod

Oh man. I want to bake now.

Movie Reel

2

Q: Identify this movie/telefilm featuring Heather Graham

I once watched a movie or telefim. Here are the details I remember: The main actress was Heather Graham. The story revolves around her. She wanted to be a music superstar, but working as a waitress in a restaurant. The money was the main hurdle in achieving her dream (this is what she thought)....

identify-this-movie

Capy Stenchbeast

@Catija beautiful.

Catija

21:52

@CapyStenchbeast :D Thanks! I hope they make good sandwiches!

Capy Stenchbeast

@Catija Like, "food porn" beautiful.

Catija

@CapyStenchbeast Wow, that's high praise :D

Capy Stenchbeast

22:13

What would happen if you didn’t sleep? - Claudia Aguirre

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Axelrod

Bah weep grah nah wheep ninni bong

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson That was not actually a suggestion to answer the question. I was just stating an eerie coincidence.

Capy Stenchbeast

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan Oh, I know, I was referring to the existing answer anyway. Sorry for the confusion.

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson Oh, sorry :)

Napoleon Wilson

22:26

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Q: Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s head shown?

During the climax of the movie Seven, the audience is lead to believe that Mills’ wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), has been killed and her head is in the box. At any point in any version of the film, even for one frame, is her severed head actually shown? I have not seen the head myself upon watc...

se7en

steelerfan

OMG. That movie was disturbing.

I usually find certain things very disturbing in movies. Rape being one of them. Seven did not have that, but still disturbing.

Capy Stenchbeast

Napoleon Wilson

@CapyStenchbeast Yeah, that's indeed exactly what I was about to say about the situation, too, actually.

Capy Stenchbeast

@NapoleonWilson It was almost too obvious, really.

Napoleon Wilson

I always forget that Christian Slater is in Star Trek VI.

Axelrod

22:41

Unboxing Gwyneth Paltrow's Head

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steelerfan

What is the deal with Gwenyth Paltrow's head?

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan Have you even seen Se7en?

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson Yes, I was just curious what prompted you guys to be talking about her head

Axelrod

Napoleon linked the question.

In response to Capy linking the box thing

In response to ...

Catija

Somebody random texted me a photo of some guy with a birthday cake.

steelerfan

22:50

I am slow today :(

Axelrod

I don't know.

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan Well, a completely random image posted by Wad Cheber's dog. What else?

steelerfan

@Catija better than a random text about a birthday suit ;)

Catija

@steelerfan True.

I sent them back the photo of my little ciabatta.

Axelrod

@Catija You've just signed up for a world of confusion.

steelerfan

22:51

@Catija that's awesome!

Catija

@Axelrod Well... he started it.

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson ahhhh...gotcha :)

Axelrod

@Catija And you sent him a pic of your little loaf. Encouragement!

Texting random cell phone numbers should be a thing.

Catija

^ The photo I got.

Axelrod

An old man too! Bonus!

steelerfan

23:05

@Catija Well, you know his name is Al :)

Catija

@steelerfan Indeed :D And he possibly works for UPS?

Capy Stenchbeast

And he is 13 years old, judging by the number of candles.

Catija

23:19

@CapyStenchbeast Maybe he's actually 130?

Capy Stenchbeast

@Catija I was going to say that, but I decided I was too lazy to type it.

steelerfan

@Catija Ha! I saw that :))

Capy Stenchbeast

steelerfan

@CapyStenchbeast OMG!! LOL!!! :))

Capy Stenchbeast

steelerfan

23:37

OMG. Poor Napoleon will have to be put on anxiety meds after all of this :))

Capy Stenchbeast

He'll be all:

And

steelerfan

@CapyStenchbeast Jesus!!! I do not know what it is about huskies that completely make me lose it!!

Capy Stenchbeast

Highbrow funny picture:

Cute Husky Says "No" to the Kennel

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steelerfan

I am training today. This girl thinks I am completely nuts!!:)

Capy Stenchbeast

@randal'thor - congrats!

steelerfan

23:50

What are we congratulating him for?

Capy Stenchbeast

He just hit 20k on SF&F.

rand al'thor

@CapyStenchbeast Thanks, stalker ;-))

steelerfan

Oh Snap!

rand al'thor

Hey @steelerfan! Sorry I appear to have interrupted husky pics!

Capy Stenchbeast

I actually just opened the window as you said it. I haven't been paying much attention. Just being grey.

steelerfan

23:52

@randal'thor No worries! I cannot take too much more after last night!!! :)))

Capy Stenchbeast

rand al'thor

@steelerfan We had a little chat with your brother-in-law last night :-D

steelerfan

@CapyStenchbeast Jesus Christ that is frigging hilarious!!!

Capy Stenchbeast

steelerfan

@randal'thor I heard!! He stole my frigging I-pad from me. He was inches away from killing us:))

Capy Stenchbeast

23:59

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