@Mitch Mistake is a nice word.

Mis-take.

@Mitch Everyone has lost the race with Latin.

@Cerberus You're one to talk.

But where is my error?

@RegDwigнt In your dreams.

@Robusto Now, now.

I didn't mean that particular chat line.

I meant writing in general.

A writer edits, does he not?

I always edit. But sometimes I think as I go, and then it can be too late.

Yeah.

@Mitch I’m just glad I learned English in the crib.

When I visited Moscow in the 1990s, the young people who spoke English had either American or British accents.

...depending on whether they learned it from VOA or the BBC.

What ELU seems to do is convert garbled English to standard, and provide answers to vocabulary questions. I agree mostly with @RegDwight, but there’s a lot to be said for reading literature.

Not grammar books, but lit.

@Xanne Which is another form of speech, when you get right down to it.

An author's voice is definitely speech. In fact, I can't read a novel whose author's voice annoys me.

@Mitch You watched it, or rewatched it?

@M.A.R. I've reseen it on TV a few times, recently in the past few months. It's funny.

@Mitch Have you seen its predecessor? Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels?

It's less impressive though, but still more of the same fun.

Oh, and a Statham with some character development

The Transporter was a fun watch, speaking of Jason Statham.

He's always fun!

Sometimes he's more fun

I haven't seen all his movies, but I haven't seen any that I was disappointed by. On the other hand, I'm not looking for art when I look him up.

Just fun action with car chases and maybe explosions.

And kicks

And kicks.

Maybe shirtless covered in motor oil kicks.

Using the shirt to strangle a guy

With bicycle pedals

on your feet

that you kicked off a bicycle.

And saying in deep British Statham voice "Yeah"

Yes!

@M.A.R. Yes. I have a hard time distinguishing them. All lots of fun.

@KitZ.Fox exploding car kicks

YES!

And jumping from the exploding car onto a motorcycle that jumps onto a train then ducks before a trestle takes off the head of the bad guy you just punched.

And the look on the face of the bad guy as his head tumbles away.

The look on the face of the head.

Tumbling away

YEAH

As close to a chicken with its head cut off but instead of a chicken it's a person.

That you don't like.

In the meanwhile, the whole convoy is falling off a cliff

Or probrably wouldn't smile at if you were stuck in the waiting room of a dentist's office.

The convoy that had just parachuted in?

Or swear at in a junction

The vehicles themselves with parachutes?

@Mitch Backwards, from a submarine

@M.A.R. He's not that bad of a guy, is he?

@M.A.R. nice.

from the torpedo tubes

Crap, he's the protagonist, apparently

Still very punchable in the face

ok so the entire convoy is falling off a cliff. now what?

because they're linked together.

it's part of the heist scheme (explained in the setup)

OK they're going -backwards- off the cliff

Everything blows up.

Then the glasses blow up

Then the shard blow up.

Then air itself blows up of sheer awesomeness

Dwayne Johnson stare.

I think they should go off the cliff and really there's a road just a few feet beneath (you just think it is a huge cliff). so they all land safely.

It's a comedy so it works.

@M.A.R. Duh.

Sleeveless shirt on fire, but it's OK.

Gary Sinise is the bad guy.

Of maybe Ralph Fiennes.

@M.A.R. IT's a good look.

@M.A.R. Then your own eyes blow up.

Grab a plutonium core, and chomp on it.

Spit the safety pin out.

And then The Rock (he's cool with me calling him that. Only his mother calls him Dwayne) has to jump fro the top of the skyscraper that's on fire down to a lower floor to save his kids (his wife who is with him is on her own), and

wait

that movie has been done.

I think it's called 'skyscraper'.

Or 'Skyscraper on fire saving my kids'

Unbelievable.

Smoke inhalation is what kills you.

Just sayin

@M.A.R. (not too hard you'l crack the seal and you'll need more than dentistry)

This is real world helpful advice that you learn in these movies.

@M.A.R. Good. It's a choking hazard otherwise.

@tchrist: I keep seeing the surname "Cdebaca" in local news, etc. I understand this is short for "cabeza de baca" (cow head), but how would it be pronounced—as the full, expanded name, or an abbreviation (e.g., O'Rourke) such as "saydebaca"? I have yet to meet someone with that name so I don't know.

And then he wakes up in a hospital bed encased in plaster, but when he sees through the window the helicopter shooting at his former targets but now friends, he flexes his muscles to pop off all the bandages and...

dangit. that's also an existing movie.

@Mitch Don't worry. Remakes are the only thing Hollywood does make these days.

@Robusto With The Rock in the same role again.

every time

The convoy is falling backward off the cliff and so the protag gets in a float plane and hooks the end of the convoy and flies it through the air, lands it on an aircraft carrier, and then takes the float plane to the nearest splash pool water park and everyone laughs.

Oh, and by the way. When I was in California last week a bunch of use thought we'd like to go see a movie. We stopped when we saw Angry Birds 2 ...

I mean, Angry Birds 2?

Fer chrissakes.

@KitZ.Fox and some little kid comes down the water slide and exclaims "I DID IT!" right next to the exhausted panting body of The Rock who looks up at the kid and say "Good job, little buddy" and passes out.

Yes!

I thought it was Jason Statham, but maybe it's a buddy movie.

And then we all realize that we were that little buddy all along.

wipes tear

at the water park, it's all just tears in the wave pool

Damn, dude. That's deep.

I've seen sunscreen spreading off the shoulder of my mom. Sunbeams glistening off the summer pass entrance gate

Convoys exploding off the shoulder of Orion's Megaslide.

@KitZ.Fox I could've said pee, but that's a bit too realistic.

Yeah, it's fantasy, man.

All those moments will be gone.

like powdered sugar on the funnel cake

sighs and stares off into the void

wish I had funnel cake

To biologically set a termination date in a replicant so that your bodily functions sort of all stop pretty much at once is pretty unrealistic. The replicant would probably have a 'not good after' date, where basically you have a programmed rundown process which would essentially be like ALS, a slow agonizing deterioration.

Not to put a downer on things, but there it is.

@KitZ.Fox I haven't had a fried clam roll yet, so it hasn't even been officially summer for me yet.

Best Before 29 Aug 2049

And here it is almost over.

Funnel cake is like sorta ski season?

You can probably keep using it after that if you cook it a little longer or you've done a good job keeping it cold.

What was the movie where everyone had a dynamic tattoo of the time they had left on their arm?

I don't know. I think of funnel cake as state fair season, which is summer.

@Mitch In Time?

You could trade time or something.

iunno, I only just watched Inception

Starring Justin Timberlake and his mom Angelina Joile (or was it Ashley Judd)

@KitZ.Fox Slightly interesting premise, screenplay meh.

It had the Peaky Blinders guy in it.

Right?

@KitZ.Fox Somehow I haven't been watching that.

There are so many things to watch.

Oh. Um. The guy who was Scarecrow in that Batman movie?

I feel like I should find him attractive but I just don't.

Cillian Murphy?

The target of the deception in Inception?

Yeah, that's him.

He was also in In Time, I think.

Which is why both of those were next to each other in my head.

All these movies are running together.

like they're cutting up plot points, mixing them in a hat, then drawing them out one by one.

probably

All the same white man doing the same heroic manly white man things

In varying order

somebody's gotta do it

why not Mary Jane?

And then they get awards and pat themselves on the back for how clever they are

Or whatever that dude's name is

@KitZ.Fox The Wookie didn't get a medal.

That actor was probably payed less totally because of union rules about dialog having to be actual words.

Exactly, my friend. Exactly.

I want the Wookie movie.

where the comedic relief is like three words in English. 'Huh', 'oh', and 'hmmm'

Yes. That would be brilliant.

With subtitles in Ewok.

If ultimately entirely unprofitable.

The real profit would be in the merchandising.

It often seems like movies that get produced were really just some random idea that some dude had, explainable in half a sentence, plus a comparison 'like Point Break but with cars' and then they tell some kids to go make it so, and then they just get made whether they're any good or not.

@KitZ.Fox checking to see if Duolingo has Ewok

Not yet.

I went to see "The Farewell" recently.

Sure it was OK.

But what was surprising was... they make movies about real stuff?

I mean, I'm looking forward to the next Mission Impossible and whatever. But it's nice to know there are some attempts at real movies every so often.

Yeah, it's cool.

Except for Manchester by the Sea. Here's something to make you cry. Oh? YOu're not gonna cry at that? Well then, let's make you feel dread -and- we'll punch you in the face with worse circumstances. Oh, that's still not enough to make you cry? OK. Then you have to face someone who has gone through all those things and they can barely keep from crying and... it was like they were trying to make you cry.

But then there was the car jumping from the top floor of one skyscraper down to another shorter skyscraper. It wasn't so bad after that.

...

Hi @JaspervanLooij

@Mitch that jumping car put the "man" in Manchester by the Sea.

@Robusto well yes in my dreams. And you are a dream. In fact you're the dream here on ELU. If you didn't want me to know that, you would've put it in Katakana. But you didn't. So deal with it, yume-san. I'll be turning to you for all my dreaming needs and to no other.

@Mitch Oh my God that dumb remake

Probably the dumbest remake in the history of remakes

Why the fuck do people keep doing that.

"I know that my shit is off-topic. But here it is anyway."

Ugh Picard facepalm

And yes, of course I'm being facetious. I know full well why the fuck people keep doing that. Because it actually works. That's why spam emails are still a thing in 2019.

Some people will click on it.

I could be rich and famous by now if I simply kept sending links to everything I say and do to every person on the planet.

Or Stephen King

Stephen King does not read. He only writes.

Actually that's true of all social media these days. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. Everywhere. Everyone shouts. Nobody listens.

Which makes it all the more amazing that spam actually works.

Yeah that one I keep wondering about

Sometimes I click on that listen-to-my-shit shit.

Like, if I write a waltz and post it on Facebook, nobody will click on it at all.

But spam? Who really falls for viagra or dating or Nigerian princes anymore?

But if I send the link per email to a million strangers, a couple thousand will click on it.

How does that make any sense.

Infinitely more benefits

Stephen King reads. I seen him do it.

Maybe I should get on it.

There's a very special place in hell reserved for spammers. But there's a very special place in hell reserved for me anyway, so what do I care.

I mean, some spam is smart. I give them that. Sometimes it's really late at night or I've dropped my guard, and I almost fall for them. But a frigging millionaire that adds thousand separators every two digits, who falls for that?

I played the lottery last week. Won 8 Euro. Paid 20.

I am sure some moron paid 2000 and won nothing.

I'm kinda happy they're not a thing here

People really don't need an excuse to be poorer here

Oh I see. There's a very basic misunderstanding here.

You don't play the lottery to get poorer. You play the lottery to get richer.

Hope that helps.

BTW, there is always this guy that comes ranting to meta.SO, saying, "I know my question is off-topic. THAT'S WHY I POSTED IT, ELITIST JERKS" and probably also expects some reparations

There was this recent one but probably deleted.

Aww that is cute. Send me a link some time.

@RegDwigнt But the final result is . . . I see what you're doing here.

I will have a word with them.

@RegDwigнt +1 zomg accept here bonty sir

Another thing that amazes me is how many times people rant about duplicate answers. And it's always on SO.

The recent thing is about that meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/388997/…

And the recent thing on meta.SE, er, um

liver-ultrasound

what

Oh that's too bad. I know where they can find a dataset of liver ultrasound images. But they are looking for the dataset.

That's a shame.

No idea where that one might be.

I'd start by looking under the sofa.

@KitZ.Fox Something changed like, 2016, I forgot, and every time something is featured on meta.SE, we get weird ass questions like this.

Like, where the heck did they land from, even?!

Alpha Centauri.

How is babby formed

That makes sense. I prefer eradication by aliens to a meteor every time.

> Hi Atul, welcome to Meta! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site.

See. And that's how that person just wasted a chunk of their life. By being nice for no reason at all.

Actually, a Dutchman came up with that canned comment

Name looked Greek.

It wasn't more than a few seconds, don't worry

If they're Dutch, they must have wasted another chunk of their life looking up all them Greek letters.

@RegDwigнt She (I think) is German. That comment's idea is from meta.stackexchange.com/users/158100/rene

@M.A.R. you only get to spend each second once.

Thank you for spending that one on reading my garbage.

See, you mention Greek Dutch, and Cerberus shows up.

Who would have thunk.

Hey, if we don't waste some seconds of our life now and then, we would be Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler

I would totally crawl the night looking for murder to film over crawling the Web looking for morons to talk to.

And even get paid for it

inorite

Live the dream.

So what did you think of the movie?

Still not watched it.

I'm kinda busy here.

It's I think said to be the biggest Oscar snub of this decade.

> I'm a self employed certified scrum master

Sure, better watch it with a clear mind and focus

For a second I misread a word there.

Cleans glasses

@RegDwigнt I keep misreading it because I dunno what it means

Dafuq is scrum anyway.

Jinx.

Jinx

No u

Metajinx

Why would you become a certified master at something nobody even knows exists.

You could become a certified master at cooking instead. How about that.

You'll make billions.

Of rupees?

You only ever make billions by being Sugarberg or Bezos anymore.

I must have made billions of rupees over all the years I've been playing Zelda.

Spent them all on giant swords.

@M.A.R. dude. The remake was just as bad as the original. The first one just had star power. And the second one had negative star power

@KitZ.Fox I'm sure I could figure out something to do with that.

Some nefarious plan to reverse engineer toxic element chelation and counter-metabolism. All through imaging.

Hepatic refactoring

@RegDwigнt You mean yume ユメ? Then I agree with you.

Which I will then use to synthesize an alcohol substitute that gets you high -and-helps you lose weight. With no hangover

Ok maybe a little hangover, for nostalgia's sake

I like it.

Except for the occasional anal seepage.

just to balance it all out

@Robusto see, I can't read that at all. It works! There's also not a bear in sight.

@KitZ.Fox is that a thing?

I mean uh

From alcohol or really anything?

> The audio wont play on this piece, help!!

That guy copypasted that to every single group except the one group specifically dedicated to reporting bugs to the devs.

I don't even.

How are trombone players supposed to fix a bug on someone else's website?

@RegDwigнt I think you underestimate their powers

@Mitch I know exactly one trombone player, and while he knows everything about everything he doesn't know the word hash sum.

My sample sizes are small but representative. Quality over quantity.