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For most of the examples you mention, I'm not sure that it's just simple stereotypes. More likely it's demographic research. Men suffer more heartburn, women buy the paper towels etc etc.>> ^Samaelsmith:
>> ^redyellowblue:
Crude funniness, but despicable. Its always the man hurting himself. Lets see a female in clown suit impale her foot while 2 men just sit on the couch looking at her talking about walmart and all the money they saved. Its the men that are portrayed as dumb, childlike, moronic and are always getting hurt.

I don't necessarily find it despicable but I have noticed this as well. Also, men are the gluttons in Pepto Bismol ads. Women are never the ones sent to the doghouse, never have to buy things to please (or make up to) their partners. Also, when have you ever seen a man in a paper towel commercial actually use one instead of watching his wife clean up the (his) mess. Oh well, ads are still full of stereotypes, what can you do?

>> ^redyellowblue:
Crude funniness, but despicable. Its always the man hurting himself. Lets see a female in clown suit impale her foot while 2 men just sit on the couch looking at her talking about walmart and all the money they saved. Its the men that are portrayed as dumb, childlike, moronic and are always getting hurt.


I don't necessarily find it despicable but I have noticed this as well. Also, men are the gluttons in Pepto Bismol ads. Women are never the ones sent to the doghouse, never have to buy things to please (or make up to) their partners. Also, when have you ever seen a man in a paper towel commercial actually use one instead of watching his wife clean up the (his) mess. Oh well, ads are still full of stereotypes, what can you do?

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I found this hilarious, but you make a very good point.>> ^redyellowblue:
Crude funniness, but despicable. Its always the man hurting himself. Lets see a female in clown suit impale her foot while 2 men just sit on the couch looking at her talking about walmart and all the money they saved. Its the men that are portrayed as dumb, childlike, moronic and are always getting hurt.

>> ^redyellowblue:
Crude funniness, but despicable. Its always the man hurting himself. Lets see a female in clown suit impale her foot while 2 men just sit on the couch looking at her talking about walmart and all the money they saved. Its the men that are portrayed as dumb, childlike, moronic and are always getting hurt.


Your point being?

Crude funniness, but despicable. Its always the man hurting himself. Lets see a female in clown suit impale her foot while 2 men just sit on the couch looking at her talking about walmart and all the money they saved. Its the men that are portrayed as dumb, childlike, moronic and are always getting hurt.

>> ^moodonia:
It seems brutal and grotesque because it is brutal and grotesque and not remotely like what happens in a slaughterhouse.
None of the slaughterhouses I've been in kill animals by impaling them with a projectile that then explodes inside them, before using the wound created by the exploding projectile as a towing point from which the very heavy living animal is then dragged while it thrashes about in agony before suffering a slow death.
Whales are also far more intelligent than a cow or sheep, who in my experience get an instant kill in slaughterhouse conditions, as opposed to the Whales that get a savage lingering death that would have been outlawed long ago if it was occuring on land. Can you imagine elephants being routinely impaled by a spikey RPG then dragged around by it while still alive?
Comparing throwing stink bombs to terrorism is beyond nonsense.


Sorry, I should have been more specific. Slaughterhouses are very "humane" now, but they weren't always. I'm sure that if there's enough pressure for it, they'd develop a less violent way to kill the whales.

It seems brutal and grotesque because it is brutal and grotesque and not remotely like what happens in a slaughterhouse.

None of the slaughterhouses I've been in kill animals by impaling them with a projectile that then explodes inside them, before using the wound created by the exploding projectile as a towing point from which the very heavy living animal is then dragged while it thrashes about in agony before suffering a slow death.

Whales are also far more intelligent than a cow or sheep, who in my experience get an instant kill in slaughterhouse conditions, as opposed to the Whales that get a savage lingering death that would have been outlawed long ago if it was occuring on land. Can you imagine elephants being routinely impaled by a spikey RPG then dragged around by it while still alive?

Comparing throwing stink bombs to terrorism is beyond nonsense.

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There are some pretty violent scenes at the end. People getting impaled, knifed etc. Think the Lord of the Rings battle scene. I wouldn't bring a 5-year old. That is kind of ugly that McDonalds would be doing Avatar happy meals though.

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what say ye about taking a 5 year old boy?
im pretty liberal about what i let the kids watch as long as im there to supervise and address any questions or anything questionable, and he likes *dark..... a whole whole lot actually
and apparently mcdonalds is giving out avatar toys in happy meals now, jerks.

but i dont know, i dont want him to see any big blue alien sex or anything
thanks dude!

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Best SF I've seen in yonks.

>> ^kymbos:
Wow, reading these comments before watching the vid, I thought there was going to be some heavy shit in that video. Turns out it was just an older brother messing with his younger brother for youtube kicks. I'm not condoning it, as the last of five brothers I can tell you every younger brother in history has dealt with far worse than that daily.


Well it depends on your definition of worse. To be honest I think actual pranks and the such are far LESS worse than things like this. My older siblings during one little stint lead me to be impaled through the top of a pointy ornament that went right through the side of my body, later finding out it barely missed vital organs, we slapped two band-aids on each side and that was it until my parents got home and went hysteric over my bloody bedsheets. This now is nothing but a funny and loved story to tell around the dinner table. Don't even get me started on the time they put dirt over my clothes and face, getting me to beg for money so we could buy candy, only to be seconds away from being taken away/kidnapped by some man who said he was going to help me, also now just funny.

But would you really ever laugh about the time your older brother that you clearly respected, completely disregarded your trust? I don't know, maybe I'm overstating it but to me there's normal sibling behaviour we all go through, then there's just being a dick.

I was told to get off something countless times, countless, though I was just told to get off, not "haha not really, I just wanted to watch you suffer!"...seems different?

That's what she said...

>> ^xxovercastxx:
"sting" seems a little soft to describe being impaled by a jousting lance.

"sting" seems a little soft to describe being impaled by a jousting lance.

Oh! I've read enough police brutality threads to know how this goes.
*ahem*

How can we be sure the cat isn't at fault here? There's not enough evidence to show what happened before the cat was impaled. Maybe it was self-defense. Just some grandma sitting at home watching Maury when this crazed feline comes in, hopped up on catnip, and goes right for her jugular. If she didn't have her crossbow with her...well, would you have been happier with "Sweet Old Grandmother of 12 Mauled by Vicious Cat"? Let's not jump to conclusions.


(But yes, someone is imbalanced and hopefully they're apprehended before moving on to more serious crimes.)

welcome to mediasift.how may i take your order?

but i agree with some sentiments here.as long as it does not affect the community.
i get irritated at some things that happen here,but it's like being pissed off at my cousin.yeah,im pissed off, but ill still give you the keys to my car.
the "other" sharing sites had me wishing some people would anally impale themselves on a broken glass covered dildo.
it is the people that make this place.
and no...
you cant borrow my car.

When sharks, crocodiles and tigers start taking an interest in the humane killing of humans for food, I will take an interest in the treatment of chickens. Granted, humans aren't often on the menu...but still.

I'm pretty sure if we took away all factory farming and I had to go out into the wild to hunt my own meat, the impaling arrows I use to kill chickens will somehow not cause less pain then the grinder or de-beaker and the spear or knife I use to kill larger game will increase the animal's stress level significantly more than a quick spike in the brain.

Some people live in a fantasy world where nature is not cruel and we are somehow not a product of nature. I guess it's easy to get confused when your meat comes prepackaged in neat foam containers and you have the luxury of sitting comfortably while demonizing the people who created it for you.

My body needs meat and if I had to jump on the animals back and rip it's throat out with my teeth...well, I'd just buy more dental floss.

This has already been said before but part of what made The Matrix so good was that it took place almost entirely within "our" world. We only saw snippets of what the real world was like, outside of the Matrix. Reloaded tried to incorporate more of the real world while balancing out scenes within the Matrix, but by Revolutions, it almost entirely took place in the real world. Add to that the heavy philosophical allegories, the fact that it took Trinity a full 10 minutes to die after being impaled on 35 pieces of rebar, and any other number of problems that plagued the last 2 movies.

I still think the way that Reloaded should have happened was Neo somehow "reboots" (Reloads) the Matrix causing everyone to wake up for a moment inside the real world. Then, after they fall back into the Matrix, they begin to talk with one another about the "dream" everyone had, with Neo acting as a Messiah-like figurehead. Revolutions would have shown the world-wide fight within the Matrix against the agents/Matrix/whatever, with humanity eventually winning and waking up for good. This sillyness of computer programs, Trainmen in the Limbo world and iterations of Neo splitting off and re-absorbing back into the system was just that....silly.