mike reynolds story is here:
http://videosift.com/video/earthship-the-garbage-warrior-full-documentary

>> ^bareboards2:

Some of those were obviously planned. But the Gilbert bit. That was pretty cool.


Was the Burt Reynolds thing planned, cause he seemed really pissed.

Apparently Claude Reynolds insurance in Lousiville Kentucky are spammers, or they have hired spammers to do their marketing.

*discard
*ban

Actually, I am not that well travelled.

Deustchland? Is that Germany? I think I'll start.

What would it be like if we all did this? I love the idea.


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>> ^bareboards2:

It's one of my biggest pet peeves, how folks from other countries don't pronounce a country's name the way the country does.
Cuba. Kooo-ba.
I was talking to a Cuban citizen in Heathrow Airport (I'm American) and when I asked where he was from he said, "Kooo-ba." Then did a mental shake, and said "Er, Cue-ba." I was shocked that my entire nation mispronounces his country's name, and he feels like he should CORRECT HIMSELF for my benefit.
This is wrong on so many levels, I can't hardly stand it.
It has been Kooo-ba ever since for me. And I listen carefully for other country's CORRECT NAME.
Ironically -- humorously -- the United States of America -- the United States -- can actually be translated into other languages, so I don't hold other country's to my own personal standard.
Have you ever heard a Southern say "Italian"? "Eye-talian." My father, with a Masters Degree in Engineering from MIT, say "Eye-talian." "High-why-yah."
My god.


So... you don't ever say Germany?

I agree that it's cool to say things in the "local" language, but a lot of the time you're basically pronouncing the country's name in English rather than in the local language. Like Polska vs Poland, Ukraine vs Україна etc :

>> ^bareboards2:

It's one of my biggest pet peeves, how folks from other countries don't pronounce a country's name the way the country does.
Cuba. Kooo-ba.
I was talking to a Cuban citizen in Heathrow Airport (I'm American) and when I asked where he was from he said, "Kooo-ba." Then did a mental shake, and said "Er, Cue-ba." I was shocked that my entire nation mispronounces his country's name, and he feels like he should CORRECT HIMSELF for my benefit.
This is wrong on so many levels, I can't hardly stand it.
It has been Kooo-ba ever since for me. And I listen carefully for other country's CORRECT NAME.
Ironically -- humorously -- the United States of America -- the United States -- can actually be translated into other languages, so I don't hold other country's to my own personal standard.
Have you ever heard a Southern say "Italian"? "Eye-talian." My father, with a Masters Degree in Engineering from MIT, say "Eye-talian." "High-why-yah."
My god.


So... you don't ever say Germany?

I agree that it's cool to say things in the "local" language, but a lot of the time you're basically pronouncing the country's name in English rather than in the local language. Like Polska vs Poland, Ukraine vs Україна etc

>> ^Quboid:

I don't mind most Americanisms, I see them as the evolution of language. However, in the case of proper nouns, it does bug me; if it's a British word, they are as objectively wrong as language can be.
Jag-u-ar. Ir-aq. Ir-an. Al-u-min-i-um. Car-i-bbe-an.
Edit: Oh yes, spelt is valid English. Only US English does away with it in favour of "spelled".


Except aluminium was called aluminum by the chemist who discovered it, Humphry Davy, in his 1812 book which publicized the metal. It was some anonymous jackass writing a review of Davy's book who decided to change it to aluminium because he didn't like the sound of Davy's choice.

Jaguar is a Portuguese word and I believe their pronunciation is closer to "jag-war" than "jag-you-are".

But generally, I agree with you. I still say catch myself saying "eye-rack" and "eye-ran" instead of "ee-rock" and "ee-ron". I go back and forth on the emphasis on Caribbean. It's hard to break old habits.

http://videosift.com/video/Ryan-Reynolds-Im-a-Horrible-Driver-but-hes-very-funny

Jaguar pronunciation discussed in this vid. If you are interested @Ryjkyj

And yet AGAIN Archer can't answer the damned last question and completely plants his own question in place, "What would happen if Archer and Bruce Reynolds, as bad-assed as any of his characters, join forces to fight a disabled robot?", the answer is his limited, "but we know it", response of, "...that would be awesome and then we'd get on the Air Boat...", and they'd work on their bromance--then most likely give each other blow-jobs, but we don't talk about that as he'll shoot on sight (take that one as you will, just don't get in front of it).

Archer is awesome. Seriously, one hell of a cartoon comedy--you'd have to be an idiot at FX™ to have said no to that Behemoth...

>> ^Mammaltron:


Oh god a Culture movie would be amazing. I'd also nominate Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth books or Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space - the hard part would be affording enough CGI within any kind of reasonable budget.


While I think it'd be interesting, I'm not sure that Revelation Space would translate well to the big screen.

And while I'd love to see it, I'm terrifed that any culture novel would be butchered beyond recognition.

Would be worth it just to see "mainstream america's" (i.e. Fox's) reaction to showing a socialist, anarchist society as utopia. BWAHAHAHAHA

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^Mammaltron:
There's a vast wealth of untapped sci-fi stories out there, but no... we have to reheat the same old shit over and over.

Agreed. Altered Carbon would make a great movie but it's been in development hell for years. I'd love to see a Culture movie.
and those are just the first two that come to mind.


Oh god a Culture movie would be amazing. I'd also nominate Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth books or Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space - the hard part would be affording enough CGI within any kind of reasonable budget.

Personally, I love the new episode with Burt Reynolds. The Mountie/Train one was great too. Who am I kidding I love Archer!

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Also, Children of the Sky was a little disappointing - though I wanted it to be great.>> ^dag:

I tried to get into a couple of Hamilton books but they never clicked for me. The ones I tried seemed to have a weird mix of space opera (which I like) and the occult (not so much).
Though, having just written that, I really do like Allistor Reynolds' books which are just that same kind of mix. go figure.
>> ^NetRunner:
I'm between books right now. My last was Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void which is the third book in a trilogy, set in the same universe as Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. It's not groundbreaking, but it's fun -- space opera stuff, will make a good movie someday.
Next in the queue will be Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Or possibly John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Or maybe Vernor Vinge's Children of the Sky. They're all sitting on the table nearby, reminding me that I've been neglecting my dead tree media again...

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I tried to get into a couple of Hamilton books but they never clicked for me. The ones I tried seemed to have a weird mix of space opera (which I like) and the occult (not so much).

Though, having just written that, I really do like Allistor Reynolds' books which are just that same kind of mix. go figure.
>> ^NetRunner:

I'm between books right now. My last was Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void which is the third book in a trilogy, set in the same universe as Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. It's not groundbreaking, but it's fun -- space opera stuff, will make a good movie someday.
Next in the queue will be Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Or possibly John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Or maybe Vernor Vinge's Children of the Sky. They're all sitting on the table nearby, reminding me that I've been neglecting my dead tree media again...

I F'n LOVE This movie!

I felt bad for the guy who had to play the asshole husband...he was sad about it in an interview I read. Malcolm Reynolds is AWESOME.

So sad to hear about what happened to writer/director Adrienne Shelly.

This episode gets us back on track ... Ryan Reynolds tries to get with Peter, Stewie wrecks the Prius.