I don't think it's a stupid question (though the interviewer did mess it up some). He was just asking the kid some trivia and it's perfectly legitimate to ask someone a question regarding the meaning of their name (as so few actually know this).

Unfortunately both sides fucked it up. The interviewer botched the question a little and Justin said something hilariously stupid by saying that people in America don't use the word "German".

Unfortunately I have met many American tourists who do much the same thing when confronted with something they don't understand. "We don't do that in America" or "that's not how it's done in America" become passionately hated phrases in touristy areas worldwide.





PS I'm not saying all Americans are stupid or that only American tourists do that, but this does stand out as the behavior of the "Ugly American".

>> ^harry:

And by the way, the question itself is retarded. As far as I'm aware, the German for "basketball" is "Basketball".
The closest there likely is is "Biber", which is a beaver. It could be a German name.
Whatever.. it's an utterly stupid question.

>> ^gwiz665:
Can't it be both? I'm routinely mind fucked by religiousity..
>> ^burdturgler:
Is this something that was actually endorsed by Stephen Baldwin or is it some sort of parody/comedy/mind fuck?



Mindfuckin' you is as hard as getting dead rats to travel maze paths with chopsticks ...but s'rsly-Steve Baldwin's best movie role was some high-8 footage from his botched circumcision...
http://cgi.ebay.com/STEPHEN-BALDWIN-SIGNED-AUTOGRAPH-BASEBALL-SARAH-PALIN-/150423686129?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2305f34bf1

I apply Occam's Razor. The way the administration botched every other large crisis/operation during their tenure (Katrina, Iraq/Afghanistan, etc.) I have a very hard time believing they could pull of such an elaborate conspiracy AGAINST THEIR OWN COUNTRY.

A protest turns into a riot when people force you to give it up; in other words I would like to know if this was a botched police action (or over reaction). I don't know the details of course, but it seems the new method of control is to suppress first and apologize later.

At least the guy holds news confresnces, and can go out in public. I recall that Bush had less press confreences in 8 years, then I have college degrees.

Bush had at least 32 press conferences from 2001 to 2006. Can't find his final total, but I'd assume it's at least 40.

The war in afghanistan was not Obama's war. He didn't start it, nor run it in the the ground...

He didn't start it, true. But he IS running it into the ground. Obama (along with many other neolibs) have constantly complained that Iraq was the 'wrong war' and that the real focus should be Afghanistan. Well, he's been calling the shots for 8 months and has botched it to the point where his own commander says they're going to lose if things don't change.

Obama's real problem here is that he is held hostage by his kook-fringe base that wants him to disband the entire military industrial complex. Any increase in military activity is viewed as a betrayal by the kook left, and Obama is screwed. He can't 'win' in Afghanistan without significant military buildup & support. But any significant military spending or activity causes his kooks to go into literal spasms of hate and rage.

Bad economy is the result of many systems within the federal goverment, being removed, reduced, and limited by Mr. Bush.

To confine this to Bush is silly. Both Republicans & Democrats have been spiking the economic wheel with idiotic policies for decades. The financial house problems really started all the way back with Carter, were exacerbated under Clinton, and were fought for by both Repubican AND Democrat senators & congressmen. To say "Bush" here is pure bias.

Heh, pretty much what I expected.

I too am guilty of using the Wii more as an emulator than anything else, and with Homebrew Channel I don't even have to pay for a botched up PAL-conversion of a classic NTSC game. That said there are some games that I enjoy more on the Wii than on anything else. Well, A game to be exact. I got my Motion+ bundled with the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, and while not perfect, it is the best golf game on any console or computer ever. Pretty much the only thing missing now is the height of the club from the ground, and if they decide to include that you're better of just playing real golf. Oh yeah, and they fucked up the spin thing, it's almost disabled if you use the Advanced Swing.

Aaaanyway, the truth is that Motion+ is something that should have been there from the beginning, it's a bit too late now. It makes such a huge difference to what the wiimote can do, but now it's kind of a moot point.

I still like my Wii and play it regularly. Too bad it couldn't live up to the hype.

A skydiver falling to his death and a botched movie stunt might both be news events, but news outlets wouldn't show the actual deaths. They would simply report them.

This movie doesn't pretend to be newsworthy; it just shows death for the sake of shock entertainment. Still snuff.

"Faces of Death" is certainly not a snuff film according to the relatively strict official AFU definition. It purports to be a compilation of footage of death, collected by somebody named Doctor Gross [sheesh] as a result of his researches into the nature of death. There are only three sequences in the entire 100 minutes that depict probably genuine deaths. One is news footage of what appears to be a political assassination at a French news conference, the second is a skydiver falling to his death at an airshow, and the third is a botched movie stunt. The famous alligator and bear attack scenes are staged, and neither scene actually shows the victim being chomped or mauled. The monkey brain dinner scene also is unconvincing."

Okay, now let's target the three deaths that should sway the jury yay or nay:
1. "One is news footage of what appears to be a political assassination at a French news conference,"
This is news worthy and would make it onto the sift, presumably, posted by krono with an explanation of why this is news and not snuff.
2."the second is a skydiver falling to his death at an airshow,"
I would argue this as being a tragic news event, also.
3."and the third is a botched movie stunt,"
This is the most questionable of the three, in my opinion, and I would still say this would fall into a fail, tragic, wtf, news event.

I read a lot of forums after Outliers came out, and it was from a pilot who was knowledgeable about the situation, and pointed out several very basic errors Gladwell made in describing the crash. Things like Gladwell claiming pilots would fly right into the beacon in question, when VOR beacons are never, you know, actually on a runway.

He didn't disagree necessarily with Gladwell's overall premise, but with the factual mistakes that he made in describing the accident, it called into question Gladwell's veracity.

In reply to this comment by messenger:
Have you got a link to that analysis? I'd like to read it too.

In reply to this comment by ShakaUVM:
It's an interesting argument, but I read an analysis of Outliers which showed that Gladwell completely botched the story of the Korean Airlines flight.

So I don't trust anything he says on the topic.

Have you got a link to that analysis? I'd like to read it too.

In reply to this comment by ShakaUVM:
It's an interesting argument, but I read an analysis of Outliers which showed that Gladwell completely botched the story of the Korean Airlines flight.

So I don't trust anything he says on the topic.

It's an interesting argument, but I read an analysis of Outliers which showed that Gladwell completely botched the story of the Korean Airlines flight.

So I don't trust anything he says on the topic.

Actually, I disagree with Budzos... I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the comic. I found the comics very hokey and disjointed in comparison, whereas the movie really encapsulated what I would LOVE religion to be. To me Catholicism is empty just because it has claims to relics, spells, and traditions which are ineffective in our world but pretend to be powerful in the way they are presented in this movie.

Religion would kick ass if it was based on a reality like this... I'm not sure how else to say it, but religion (and Catholicism specifically) is like people playing a childish game in which they are trying to imagine a world like this movie portrays.

To get more specific, I liked the explanations and backgrounds of the characters much better in the movie than in the comics. The comic has John Constantine being an ex glam-rocker who is slightly psychic/mystic and who's "damnation" doesn't come from an attempted suicide as in the movie, but rather a botched exorcism which is just kinda stupid. The whole suicide thing is really well done in the reimagining in the movie and makes a lot more sense.

Papa midnight is another character which is vastly improved in the movie. In the book, he seems more like a reject from Live and Let Die, a blaxploitation stereotype, whereas in the movie they really brought home the idea of someone that lives between two allegiances.

As for the use of "guns" and other 007ny stuff, I really thought it worked a lot better than the way they present him in the books. Frankly I'd rather have Constantine wielding a holy shotgun with blessed bullets than looking for a tape of his music video in his trashy apartment.

I'll admit that I only got through three of the graphic novels before I stopped, but I just feel that the changes made to Constantine's development improve vastly over what I saw in the books. As for making him American, I hate Keanu in most of his performances and I thought he really brought it for this one. I was pleasantly surprised and this movie remains one of my all-time favs.

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