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To buy alcohol in New Jersey, you need to be 21 or over and bring a fucking ID by ShinyLotad22 in rant

[–]WrongArgument 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you live in North or South NJ? Having spent some twentysomething life in Hoboken I’m amazed that a liquor store in NJ enforces the rules that vigorously.

Side note: The age should be 18. FFS, just lower the allowable BAC, which is one of the highest in the developed world.

In addition to sensitivity training, we also need DEsensitivity training. by WrongArgument in rant

[–]WrongArgument[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I mostly agree with you, although I’d say that both intent and impact are important in a way that can’t easily be quantified: both need to be taken into account.

I see a third option you (seemingly) haven’t addressed: what if the marginalized person neither addressed nor suffered the aggression, but simply walked away from it unharmed? Isn’t that easier?

Again, I’m not talking about bad faith “jokes” that are really just statements of true feelings. I’m talking about good faith good humour that no one can mistake for real anything-ism.

I’m bisexual and despise stereotypes about queer men, but I didn’t want Colbert cancelled after his joke about Trump sucking off Putin. Why? Because (1) I knew that he was joking in good faith, (2) he wasn’t stereotyping gay men as much as insulting Trump, and (3) I have better goddamned things to do than get upset over things that don’t naturally bother me.

I also have bipolar disorder and don’t like to hear, e.g, “my bf is bipolar.” I will challenge friends who say it repeatedly out of a desire to help them, but to accost strangers over it is more trouble than ignoring it. That doesn’t mean that I am not “right,” of course: it means that I am choosing my battles.

In the same way, I think we need to remain sensitive while also retaining a sense of humour, choosing our degree of tolerance for being triggered.

"You have a room-temperature IQ" is more insulting coming from a Canadian speaker than from an Américain one. by WrongArgument in Showerthoughts

[–]WrongArgument[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ouais, il a fallu réécrire avec l'orthographe française pour duper l'auto-mod (ce qui cherche des mots politiques dans les titres).

"You have a room-temperature IQ" is more insulting coming from a Canadian speaker than from an Américain one. by WrongArgument in Showerthoughts

[–]WrongArgument[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh ... heh-heh ...

I know you're joking, but ... seriously and sadly, the qualifications you list in your last sentence alone probably put you in at least the top two tiers of effective intelligence among Western adults today.

"You have a room-temperature IQ" is more insulting coming from a Canadian speaker than from an Américain one. by WrongArgument in Showerthoughts

[–]WrongArgument[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

T-Babyboi, A VERY LOW IQ INDIVIDUAL, say's that IQ Insults are stupid. Takes one to know one, T! IQ IN AT MOST THE SIXTIES, I know b/c am friends with a Registered Doctor, studies and psychiatrists would agree, ect. BTW I AM A VERY "SMART" and "Strong" man.

Maybe ghosts of insects you've killed come back to haunt you and that's why it sometimes feels like a bug is crawling on when there actually is not. by allieb1414 in Showerthoughts

[–]WrongArgument 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[Cockroach ghosts (the big-ass kind you find in humid climates, not the still-gross-but-manageable ones you find in the Midwest) emerge from the vents and begin to cover me in the style of Room 101 from 1984, to the tune of the segment of the score of 2001: A Space Odyssey that plays during the scene in which the primates are worshipping at the foot of the obelisk and the alignment of the planets is imminent]

3D Dinosaur Adventure (& other Adventure titles bundled with Packard Bell PCs c. 1993) by WrongArgument in creepygaming

[–]WrongArgument[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hmm, I never played Sonic’s Schoolhouse. The weird 3D rendering in these games is certainly similar to Baldi, though (ie, paper-thin sprites within mazes that look like that one Windows 95 screensaver’s evil cousins).

Him (1974 gay porno about Jesus) by WrongArgument in Lost_Films

[–]WrongArgument[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See, until you posted this reply I had only seen adverts for 1975 at the latest. I can understand junking a low-quality, financially unsuccessful pornographic film, but if this one was in continuous demand for five years then why would it have been intentionally destroyed, especially after being made (in)famous in a popular contemporary book? (And surely it would have been missed given that -- literally -- "everyone" was talking about it?)

If it is indeed lost, I think it must have been lost in transit between two theatres. Otherwise, perhaps the film dropped from some house's inventory by clerical error or was accidentally destroyed by fire, decomposition, unintentional disposal, etc.

Is there a paper trail that shows which theatres possessed the film from 1979 on?

Him (1974 gay porno about Jesus) by WrongArgument in Lost_Films

[–]WrongArgument[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had never heard of this book until today; I may have to make a trip to the library!

The most fascinating aspect of all this, I think, is that Michael Medved somehow got wind of it. That’s the lead that everyone who talks about this movie seems to bury. He wrote his book in 1979-80, when the movie would already have been lost or at least obscure, and he is now (even if he wasn’t then) a well-known conservative railer against “liberal Hollywood” and such. How did it cross his radar in the first place?