They poured more concrete in two years than US did in the 20th century. IN TWO YEARS! That's a factual statement. (Shows article and chart showing it took 3 years. Apparently they don't understand that 2011-2013 is 3 years, even when it's in the title.)

Also mentions the new Chinese city with 550 square feet of office space with 95% not occupant. *facepalm

China dipped into our retirement funds to pay tariffs? No, they didn't. That's simply asinine in numerous ways.

They harvest most of the world's frozen fish? No, they freeze most of the world's frozen fish. No one harvests frozen fish.

These people are morons. Typically, they are fast and loose with facts and definitions, maybe just to avoid being truthful, something the right now finds distasteful.

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So that's what happened to Michael Bolton from Office Space. Always wondered what he was up to.

About as good of an idea as riding a lawnmower inside an office space ala Mad Men. No, this is worse actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI2A8bQv2xA

If Billy Bob Thornton and Mike Bolton (from Office Space) had a love child.

Exorcist 3 was way better than the second movie, although technically it is a sequel to the first.

Mad Max Fury Road was better than... well, all of the Mad Max movies.

Die Hard 3 was WAY better than the snooze fest sequel. Samuel L. Jackson, man.

Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country is WAY better than the original, 3, 4, and 5. So sometimes the sequel is good and then it takes 4 more movies before you get a good one in.

James Bond arguably got better with age. Maybe not the most recent ones, but Golden Eye was amazing. Great games can also be spawned from over making a franchise!

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is hands down the best of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. It wasn't just a western, it was an epic civil war movie in the west. And the ending with the Mexican stand off; soundtrack?!?! Hot damn! Not that the "sequel" sucked but the third was the BEST.

I know there are a couple good horror series that had a better third or fourth movie. Any Hellraiser is better than Hellraiser 2, same goes for Halloween. Though I can't say they were ever as good as their originals. It's still a hope I reserve for horror movies that make it past their shitty sequel.

The next Ring might be awesome. "Might." It's had a fairly massive career spanning 4 countries, 12 movies, 2 telvis ion series, 2 video games and a bunch of manga. Movies most people don't even know exist. I think the seventh iteration of the Ring (2002's American Ring) is the best.

And, while it might just technically count, it's worth noting that while i like Gaspar Noe's despair trilogy, his third movie Enter the Void is the only movie in the trilogy I can enjoy watching a third or fourth time. I once recommended his movies and alienated an entire office space. The only movie anyone enjoyed was his third movie.

Ghostbusters 3 will probably be better than 2. Blasphemy!! Hah, we will see. Girl power!

I think Batman also got better because of Nolan. Does that count? I mean, if a franchise goes on that long, it's all just sequels, despite the so-called canon and concept of "rebooting" a FAKE universe.

(Does Harry Potter count as the third movie in the Troll series?)

Trailer didn't make me laugh. I did laugh at Office Space movie.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Very interesting, *quality video and discussion. I would say there is probably some under-reported aggression and violence in Japan- but in general a whole hell of a lot less than anywhere else I have lived. In 3.5 years there- never saw a fight, never saw any violence that I remember - there was one crazy guy who was running around yelling at people - but that's it. Violence by Yakuza does happen, but it seems aggrandised from films. I think Yakuza are mainly loan sharks, brothel owners and black marketeers.

For whatever reason, violence is baked into the US culture - tied in maybe with a rugged frontier individualist spirit. Americans love their guns. My family too. My dad always carried a nickel-plated '38 under his car seat, which he called his "merging assistance device".

>> ^legacy0100:

I would have to partly disagree on this one. I believe high density does attribute to more aggression. Dr. Frans de Waal points out that high density alone does not always lead to aggression, and that there are other factors that attribute to reconciliation and peaceful coexistence. This much I agree with. However, this should not be used to throw away the immense impact over population has on human aggression.
He gives several different examples, one including about the chimpanzees in tight confined space. I find his claims very hard to believe. Chimps get very frustrated and show abnormal, anti-social behavior when they are in a tight confined space for a long period of time. Their hairs fall out, they bite their own knuckles or even each other. They show aggression to inexperienced moms and to their babies. It could be that Dr. de Waal may be omitting some factors in here. The chimps he is referring to may be from a zoo where they are put in small confined space when it's time to goto sleep, but then are let out to a bigger enclosure where they can run and play. This may be a bad example, but we don't really know because he doesn't reveal the source of his data. Perhaps his research did confine the chimps to a tight space all throughout the experiment. If so, then the duration of dwelling in tight enclosure is a big factor, but he didn't cite anything about that either.
I also would like to point out that there's generally a lot less food intake and physical activity in urban Japanese society. Your typical Japanese sushi portions can testify for that, as well as various hikikomori symptoms people suffer in overly populated Japanese cities.
Dr. de Waal says there's less crime in Japan, but this simply isn't true. He is overly reliant on only the statistics reported by the government, and he isn't are of the deep rooted cultural practices that mask these aggressions to the outside world. Dr. De Waal never mentions about the various odd symptoms and personal sacrifice everyone must make in order to maintain the order there. Violence is everyday life in Japanese society, including the fairly well known presence of Yakuza. Japanese people often get bullied by the Yakuza, but they do not report these events because for one, they are afraid of retaliation, and two, Yakuza has deep rooted connections with the government. Yakuza usually do not engage anyone foreign simply because it would get the embassies involved, and they do cannot exert any influence in foreign lands. So they only stick to bullying Japanese people, and stay clear of foreigners. Even in high school physical violence is rampant. Students fight or bully each other all the time, but it is not seen as a crime, but merely 'part of growing up'. Nobody reports anything, so the crime data remains low.
Compare this with cities in Netherlands. It is highly populated, but enjoys abundance of resources thanks to laxed attitude toward drugs and sex, which are themselves ways to alleviate aggression. People in Netherlands are also very mobile because of their well developed transportation infrastructure including extensive bike lanes, roads and trains. They are also in close proximity to larger open areas in Germany or France where they regularly escape to thanks to their abundance in resource, while in Japan people are very much confined to their own living quarters and their workplace, who usually cannot afford to take frequent vacations due to high expectation from bosses as well as fierce competition towards promotion. Imagine regular US/UK office space antics times ten.
Overall I find Dr. de Waal's argument only partially credible and would like to look into his experiments and his citations before acknowledging this as fact.
I remember Dag and his wife saying they used to live in Japan. I would like to hear their opinion about this issue and Japanese society being used as proof to this theory.

I would have to partly disagree on this one. I believe high density does attribute to more aggression. Dr. Frans de Waal points out that high density alone does not always lead to aggression, and that there are other factors that attribute to reconciliation and peaceful coexistence. This much I agree with. However, this should not be used to throw away the immense impact over population has on human aggression.

He gives several different examples, one including about the chimpanzees in tight confined space. I find his claims very hard to believe. Chimps get very frustrated and show abnormal, anti-social behavior when they are in a tight confined space for a long period of time. Their hairs fall out, they bite their own knuckles or even each other. They show aggression to inexperienced moms and to their babies. It could be that Dr. de Waal may be omitting some factors in here. The chimps he is referring to may be from a zoo where they are put in small confined space when it's time to goto sleep, but then are let out to a bigger enclosure where they can run and play. This may be a bad example, but we don't really know because he doesn't reveal the source of his data. Perhaps his research did confine the chimps to a tight space all throughout the experiment. If so, then the duration of dwelling in tight enclosure is a big factor, but he didn't cite anything about that either.

I also would like to point out that there's generally a lot less food intake and physical activity in urban Japanese society. Your typical Japanese sushi portions can testify for that, as well as various hikikomori symptoms people suffer in overly populated Japanese cities.

Dr. de Waal says there's less crime in Japan, but this simply isn't true. He is overly reliant on only the statistics reported by the government, and he isn't are of the deep rooted cultural practices that mask these aggressions to the outside world. Dr. De Waal never mentions about the various odd symptoms and personal sacrifice everyone must make in order to maintain the order there. Violence is everyday life in Japanese society, including the fairly well known presence of Yakuza. Japanese people often get bullied by the Yakuza, but they do not report these events because for one, they are afraid of retaliation, and two, Yakuza has deep rooted connections with the government. Yakuza usually do not engage anyone foreign simply because it would get the embassies involved, and they do cannot exert any influence in foreign lands. So they only stick to bullying Japanese people, and stay clear of foreigners. Even in high school physical violence is rampant. Students fight or bully each other all the time, but it is not seen as a crime, but merely 'part of growing up'. Nobody reports anything, so the crime data remains low.

Compare this with cities in Netherlands. It is highly populated, but enjoys abundance of resources thanks to laxed attitude toward drugs and sex, which are themselves ways to alleviate aggression. People in Netherlands are also very mobile because of their well developed transportation infrastructure including extensive bike lanes, roads and trains. They are also in close proximity to larger open areas in Germany or France where they regularly escape to thanks to their abundance in resource, while in Japan people are very much confined to their own living quarters and their workplace, who usually cannot afford to take frequent vacations due to high expectation from bosses as well as fierce competition towards promotion. Imagine regular US/UK office space antics times ten.

Overall I find Dr. de Waal's argument only partially credible and would like to look into his experiments and his citations before acknowledging this as fact.

I remember Dag and his wife saying they used to live in Japan. I would like to hear their opinion about this issue and Japanese society being used as proof to this theory.

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

>> ^Auger8:
Only two? With that kinda cash I could think way bigger than that.
>> ^probie:
What would I do with 85 billion dollars?
Two chicks at the same time, man.


I think that was the joke. @probie, was that the joke?


Office Space, anyone?

(And it was a joke...that I'd stop at two...)

Thanks for the promote lucky.
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
*promote

In reply to this comment by dannym3141:
That blurry guy is a complete cunt. Don't care what religion you are, you discuss things with an open mind and try to see the other's point of view rather than seeing them as an opponent. I'd be said if you stopped providing your input. Ignoring him is a solution - a LOT of people do.


Thanks for your response I'll think on it.

The other thing that usually drives me insane is that he'll ask questions about something I've JUST answered! BUT, his literal lack of knowledge (in this case general relativity and special relativity) is making him spout buffoon and sadly very uninformed statements or opinions, often aimed at me and my previous post (well-informed and standard--backed up with testing and experimentation); which as I said is hilarious as I already answered it in that post "right above" and he can't read between the lines to see that the answer is sitting the for all to see, he just doesn't understand the answer, nor do I think he ever will see it very soon to be VERY fair and blunt. His main issue is with telling himself the truth in the first place and he can't yet do that with simple children's stories--not to be a snob or complete snide remark, but it is merely a fact that he will not accept the truth--faith and platitudes are far more important to him in his life right now than are being able to build:

An arena that can fit 100,000 people at night and day with the top open and closed; elevators, cashiers, electricity, Wi-Fi, air-conditioning, heating, sound, seating, walk-paths and stairs, vendors--food and accessories, security, camera & video, HDTV and a HD-JUMBOTRON, housing for teams and workers/staff, office space, etc, etc, etc... Places that are amazing to behold in their construction and if you're part of the management of the construction at any level or you have to be THE manager that keeps the building going once it's done you will find out very soon that a lot of what he says is utter rubbish; especially if you are the engineer that designed this Behemoth with every life in mind so that they would NOT be die to some kind of mental lapse; this is a job (like no other really) that has a HUGE amount of pressure on it and ALL THAT you have to rely on is: Physics (and that little brain of yours + a good calculator and drafting tools ). Does he have even any idea of how incredibly smart these people are, then he comes in and mocks Einstein like he's just this buffoon that of course NEVER thought of the COMPLETELY OBVIOUS stuff. He would NEVER do that; Einstein made people that build the greatest structures on Earth look like idiot children! I'm guessing that was skipped in seminary!? That little thing he thinks is so utterly useless to talk about in the grand scheme of things is so vitally important to everything he does EVERY day (and I really wonder if he knows HOW MUCH we depend on Science and it's discoveries--I mean your whole house would basically disappear without the inventions, it's a complete joke and I really do think he takes it for granted.

It's hard to EVER have a conversation with someone that loves their God SO MUCH they have their OWN God complex! I refuse to talk to a brick wall I'm not a damn mad man!

Anyway, thanks again.

BLAARGH!!! It just gets frustrating, especially when they don't seem to be trolls--so ignore it is.

>> ^quantumushroom:

It's not often that I agree with you @quantumushroom, but you make good points. I enjoyed this trailer but it doesn't bode well for the film. A swearing pothead teddy bear? OK, that's funny, but this trailer pretty much does the joke. There needs to be a lot more to make a good 2 hours than this one joke and if a list of white-trash girls' names is the best of the rest, this movie's in trouble.
>>> It doesn't matter, that's the sad thing. Turd was probbly dirt cheap to make and the worldwide doody crowd will recover expenses. It's like the laziness that used to infect albums has shifted. Now instead of one or two songs carrying a mediocre album, one or two jokes (or one scene) can carry a whole sh1t movie.
I could see this appealing to the "Office Space" crowd (which I am a member). Although it doesn't have that "this could be me" quality, it seems to have a familiar style to it and maybe the jokes are there. (It occurs to me now that Office Space was also a live-action film by an animated cartoon creator, hmm.)
Office Space is a masterpiece. We all have met characters similar to the OS characters, it's well-acted and the dialogue flows. The plot of the outside consultants suggesting promoting the guy in a trance who does NOTHING is genius, and it's beyond funny how only Lumbergh, the memorable droning boss who is otherwise oblivious, is the only one who sees the insanity.

That said, the "one living stuffed animal" - well, it's a story. It's fiction. Maybe it's explained and maybe there are others but either way, who cares? That's the world that the story is set in and if you can't suspend disbelief then very, very little fiction must be acceptable to you.

I prefer movies obey their own rules and logic, including the logic of the fantastic. Example: In Mattress Reloaded, Neo blocks thousands of bullets with the wave of his palm, but then has to spend 20 minutes blocking kicks. Obviously they had to do something in order to have action, but what they ended up with was boring.


There's something about the atmosphere of this trailer that says Office Space to me. Whether or not the full film is anything like as good remains to be seen and in all probability it won't be anything like as good. Perhaps this appeals to me because when I was a kid, me and my brothers had teddy bears with crazy amounts of detail in the bears' imaginary world. Good times.

I don't think that Matrix Reloaded flaw is the same; at a guess in Ted, the "one living stuffed animal" is explained just by him making a wish as a child and it coming true, and why this only happens once isn't discussed. That's flimsy, but not inconsistent in the way that Reloaded was.

It's not often that I agree with you @quantumushroom, but you make good points. I enjoyed this trailer but it doesn't bode well for the film. A swearing pothead teddy bear? OK, that's funny, but this trailer pretty much does the joke. There needs to be a lot more to make a good 2 hours than this one joke and if a list of white-trash girls' names is the best of the rest, this movie's in trouble.

>>> It doesn't matter, that's the sad thing. Turd was probbly dirt cheap to make and the worldwide doody crowd will recover expenses. It's like the laziness that used to infect albums has shifted. Now instead of one or two songs carrying a mediocre album, one or two jokes (or one scene) can carry a whole sh1t movie.

I could see this appealing to the "Office Space" crowd (which I am a member). Although it doesn't have that "this could be me" quality, it seems to have a familiar style to it and maybe the jokes are there. (It occurs to me now that Office Space was also a live-action film by an animated cartoon creator, hmm.)

Office Space is a masterpiece. We all have met characters similar to the OS characters, it's well-acted and the dialogue flows. The plot of the outside consultants suggesting promoting the guy in a trance who does NOTHING is genius, and it's beyond funny how only Lumbergh, the memorable droning boss who is otherwise oblivious, is the only one who sees the insanity.


That said, the "one living stuffed animal" - well, it's a story. It's fiction. Maybe it's explained and maybe there are others but either way, who cares? That's the world that the story is set in and if you can't suspend disbelief then very, very little fiction must be acceptable to you.


I prefer movies obey their own rules and logic, including the logic of the fantastic. Example: In Mattress Reloaded, Neo blocks thousands of bullets with the wave of his palm, but then has to spend 20 minutes blocking kicks. Obviously they had to do something in order to have action, but what they ended up with was boring.






>> ^Quboid:

>> ^quantumushroom:
I'm not going to give my opinion of Prick Macfarlane the person.
From a comedy movie fan perspective this looks like five tons of crap in a two ton crate.
Any trailer that resorts to Full Metal Swearing is already really thin on material.
I'm sure there's a really good reason why there's only one living stuffed animal in a world where people don't seem to notice it's alive...and then for some reason it has a job.
From a marketing perspective, why in a movie preview would they rattle off a long list of female names--many quite popular--as the butt of a joke that's not even funny? Are they trying to get no one to see it?
I'm sure it will find a cult audience.

It's not often that I agree with you @quantumushroom, but you make good points. I enjoyed this trailer but it doesn't bode well for the film. A swearing pothead teddy bear? OK, that's funny, but this trailer pretty much does the joke. There needs to be a lot more to make a good 2 hours than this one joke and if a list of white-trash girls' names is the best of the rest, this movie's in trouble.
I could see this appealing to the "Office Space" crowd (which I am a member). Although it doesn't have that "this could be me" quality, it seems to have a familiar style to it and maybe the jokes are there. (It occurs to me now that Office Space was also a live-action film by an animated cartoon creator, hmm.)
That said, the "one living stuffed animal" - well, it's a story. It's fiction. Maybe it's explained and maybe there are others but either way, who cares? That's the world that the story is set in and if you can't suspend disbelief then very, very little fiction must be acceptable to you.