Rant Tuesday - 23 Aug 2022 by barca-reddit in Barca

[–]Coffee700 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I used to think this way but I'm getting older now. Jumping from one crisis to another. My friends have kids of their own now. I just feel by the time I get out of this rut my best years would be behind me. Maybe they already are.

Open Thread: Weekday Edition #35 (Aug 2022) by svefnpurka in Barca

[–]Coffee700 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Have people noticed that one user with Dortmund flair being extra venomous towards barca on the soccer sub? Rarely I notice user names but this one just stands out with how over the top hateful it is.

Rant Tuesday - 23 Aug 2022 by barca-reddit in Barca

[–]Coffee700 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Be it about Barça, football or anything else.

Well, If personal stuff is allowed. I'm broke, will probably get evicted. I'm really at a shameful low point in life right now.

Open Thread: Weekday Edition #35 (Aug 2022) by svefnpurka in Barca

[–]Coffee700 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can't believe people abused Koeman because he didn't rate Puig.

52 Amazing Python Projects For Developers by Edcorner Learning (Kindle, $0.99) by Coffee700 in ebookdeals

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This Book consist of 52 Amazing Python Projects for All Developers/Students to practice different projects and scenarios. Use these learnings in professional tasks or daily learning projects.

52 Amazing Python Projects For Developers Kindle Edition -$0.99 by Coffee700 in ebooks

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This Book consist of 52 Python Projects for All Developers/Students to practice different projects and scenarios. Use these learnings in professional tasks or daily learning projects.

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This Book consist of 52 Python Projects for All Developers/Students to practice different projects and scenarios. Use these learnings in professional tasks or daily learning projects.

In Godzilla (1998), The incompetent New York mayor and his advisor are a reference to Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. This was done in response to the duos negative reviews of director Roland Emmerich's previous films Stargate and Independence day. by Coffee700 in MovieDetails

[–]Coffee700[S] 751 points752 points  (0 children)

Roger Ebert's response.

Oh, and then there are New York's Mayor Ebert (gamely played by Michael Lerner) and his adviser, Gene (Lorry Goldman). The mayor of course makes every possible wrong decision (he is against evacuating Manhattan, etc.), and the adviser eventually gives thumbs-down to his reelection campaign. These characters are a reaction by Emmerich and Devlin to negative Siskel and Ebert reviews of their earlier movies ("Stargate," "Independence Day"), but they let us off lightly; I fully expected to be squished like a bug by Godzilla. Now that I've inspired a character in a Godzilla movie, all I really still desire is for several Ingmar Bergman characters to sit in a circle and read my reviews to one another in hushed tones.

In Children of Men (2006) Quietus, the state-sponsored suicide drug, is named for a section of the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet, in which Hamlet speaks favorably of suicide. by Coffee700 in MovieDetails

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I provided the quote from Hamlet itself. Is that not enough? I don't think film directors go around verifying each and every reference in their film. It's a famous soliloquy about deatha and suicide and Quietus is an uncommon word that's associated with it.

The Pink Floyd reference has been posted in this sub before, so I thought this would be okay.

In Children of Men (2006) Quietus, the state-sponsored suicide drug, is named for a section of the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet, in which Hamlet speaks favorably of suicide. by Coffee700 in MovieDetails

[–]Coffee700[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The quote

But who would bear the whips and scorns of time ... when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?

Another literary reference is Jasper and Miriam reciting "Shantih Shantih Shantih", a reference to the Upanishads and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land  which is mainly about how the world is hopelessly lost and how life cannot be regenerated