Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

[Oxymoron]

Regardless of how cheesy it might be...

Is "The Lone Ranger" a fun / interesting watch ?

[phongn]

my tumblr got a few new followers lately are any of them you butts

is broke girls more racist than is normal for television or is it just par for the course ie openly racist in a way people like to say isn't racism? I've never seen it

It's openly racist in their portrayal of the owner of the diner, of the 'magical black man' who gives wise advice ...

[evilsoup]

or in a different language.

look
reading is hard

[Bounty]

or in a different language.

look
reading is hard

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ateh7hnEnik

Keep reaching for the sta... oh wait subtitles lol

[evilsoup]

actually I finished watching a french series called the returned (les revenants in the original) recently, just wondering if oxy has seen it
it was pretty good, dead people coming back to life in some provincial city, but then it ended on a fucking cliffhanger & I'm pretty sure that when we get the answers as to what is going on they won't be at all satisfying

[Oxymoron]

Er... I don't really watch TV any more.

The only channels I only really watch are ARTE (the Franco-German station) and France 5, which have an heavy focus on culture, science and history. Also they have good movies : when the last Star Trek came out a few weeks ago, for one week ARTE brodcasted all the Star Trek movies to date, minus the 2009 reboot.

The rest is... Well, to put it bluntly I have more entertaining ways to waste my time.


So short answer 'Soup : I don't know about that series you're talking about. Is it a France 2 / France Television production ? Or a TF1 production ?

[evilsoup]

lol no idea
I was just hoping someone had seen it, since I've yet to find anywhere online with anyone talking about it

[RogueIce]

Well, to put it bluntly I have more entertaining ways to waste my time.

Like YouPorn?

[timmy]

Have ya'll seen this collect of gems on Cracked today? Definitely worth your time if you haven't seen these short films before.

The first one was wonderfully creepy. The last one was heartbreaking.

[Gands]

Applied for a bunch of tutoring gigs today.

Apparently being a native English speaker is a big thing, which helps. I think I'll be teaching lots of people how to speak and write in English. Thank fuck I learned a second language at uni.

[Oxymoron]

Well, to put it bluntly I have more entertaining ways to waste my time.

Like YouPorn?

Hah. No. Mostly internet forums, games, the occasional movies and anime, and books & fanfictions.

[adr]

coincidentally related to the second language topic! i keep getting email from a user of one of my open source programs asking for help...

but he keeps writing the questions in Turkish! the introduction is in English ("hello, how are you? if you have time" etc) but then the meat of the email is in Turkish, or in one case when I said I can only really read english, it was very broken English, but he's gone back to Turkish now.

oh well, between guessing at the problem based on his code snippets and a little online translation I think i'm helping him, the questions are still coming and getting into more advanced topics, so seems like his program is going somewhere.

[Oxymoron]

So, Egypt. more than 2,000 civil dead after the Army opened fire on a gathering protesting the government.

My dad actually and non ironically made a remark to the effect of "good riddance".

I asked him if he was actually cheering for the death of other human beings. His answer was : "Human beings ? They're religious extremists."

I was left speechless.


Dammit dad. You are the one who has an unending grudge toward fascists worldwide for what they did to your own family ! Can't you fucking see you're acting like one ?!

[evilsoup]

totally not a military coup

[Bounty]

'Military coup' in Egypt doesn't really mean what it means elsewhere.

[evilsoup]

the military arresting the President, installing a government of their cronies, and then shooting anyone who protests about it seems pretty clear-cut to me

hopefully the Muslim Brotherhood will stick to their pacifist principles, rather than rising to the military's bait and providing an excuse to extend the 'emergency powers' indefinitely (this will probably happen anyway, of course)

[Oxymoron]

'Military coup' in Egypt doesn't really mean what it means elsewhere.

Just things coming back to their normal state.

[Bounty]

Also, the Muslim Brotherhood isn't exactly a fragrant bouquet of roses themselves.

[Oxymoron]

Yes.

I won't say I "side" with the military here (as I stated earlier, they just killed more than two thousand civil of their own people), but between a secular dictatorship and a religious one...

[evilsoup]

the Muslim Brotherhood wouldn't be my first (or fiftieth) choice of government (in fact they are as close to opposite my views as a pacifist organisation can be), but at least they haven't carried out any massacres AFAIK

I'd take vague statements about 'oh they're trying to stack the processes in their favour' (which, judging from the interviews with Egyptians I've heard, wasn't the main reason for the massive protests -- it seems to have been over economic issues foremost) over killing people in the streets any day.

[Flagg]

Yeah, and hey, they at least voted for the MB.

[evilsoup]

hey now you know there's more to democracy than just voting
sometimes the army needs to massacre political parties I disagree with so that those silly Egyptians can vote for someone I like at the next election in twenty years

[Bounty]

The key thing to keep in mind is that Middle East politics is the last place to go and look for clear good guys and clear bad guys. You can have democratically elected sadistic religious douchebags going up against secular progressive mass-murderers and no-one will bat an eye.

[evilsoup]

well yes
I'm not exactly rooting for the Muslim Brotherhood (though the fact that they remained pacifist over 40 years of repression does impress me), but I am sick of certain smug liberals who were cheering when the military took over and insisted that a military coup was in some way serving democracy -- and refusing to call it a coup at all

and in the news reporting there's this constant background assumption that the Muslim Brotherhood are some kind of violent terrorists, when they're not; they're a legitimate political party, albeit one with horribly regressive policies.

Also, the Egyptian military are secular, but I don't think they could really be called progressive. In fact, some leading progressives have already started to leave the government the military have set up due to the massacres.

[Bounty]

I wasn't talking specifically about the Egyptian situation, but I get your point.