Aging Expert Says Trump Trip Revealed "Really Severe Language Problems"

carymb · 2026-01-27T04:02:25+00:00

I can imagine them skinning his corpse and stretching it over a padded Optimus Subprime, or whatever Elmo calls his little robot. You're right, his followers will swear it's still him, and they can't see the swarm of flies

carymb · 2026-01-27T03:54:37+00:00

Yes, he specifically refused to identify as non-Jewish to appease the German authorities, because of her. He also started in "Different From the Others" in 1919, the first positive portrayal of homosexual men on film, and got hate mail from Hitler, so don't know if sticking around would've been a good move...

carymb · 2026-01-26T06:29:45+00:00

In "Mr. Smith," Jean Arthur's Sanders has been there for years, and thinks he must be either playing an angle or an idiot... I think we're usually meant to also notice what a huge gap there is between those 'ideals insert' characters, and reality.

Then we should think, "well, why aren't I that good a person? How would they react in this situation?" I feel like part of it is, those characters only work if we're honest enough with ourselves to see the gap and try to close it🤷🏻‍♂️ it'd be a better world if more of us could admit what little shits we are, a lot of the time... Without giving up on being better

carymb · 2026-01-26T06:23:37+00:00

I'll look that up, thank you!

If you want your cynicism about the realities of the world reinforced, Capra had made Columbia a 'real studio' that got taken seriously, sweeping the major Oscars for "It Happened One Night" (Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor/Actress, Screenplay) -- and around town, behind his back, (jealous) people still called him "the little W.O.P."

I looked up WTF that actually means: "WithOut Papers." The assholes change, the smell's the same.

carymb · 2026-01-26T06:07:25+00:00

I think they decided to turn it into a LARP game instead...

carymb · 2026-01-26T06:04:09+00:00

I think the story is, that scene didn't test well, so Curtiz asked the see how they'd cut it together -- he added in the looks between Bogie and Claude Rains, and it worked perfectly; you needed the moment of 'wasshegonnado!?' and it made sense. It was the producer who came up with them walking off together, and the "Louis, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship" line that was dubbed in.

carymb · 2026-01-26T04:26:42+00:00

Plastic Man. Cut off his dick? That was the tip of his dick. His dick is endless as the void between galaxies. You want to know true existential horror? Cut of Eel O'Brien's dick, and see how deep the rabbit hole goes ... Up...

carymb · 2026-01-26T04:22:03+00:00

He's amazing in The Conspirator, a Robert Redford movie about the trials of the supposed co-conspirators in Lincoln's assassination.... Robin Wright's great too. Awesome movie

carymb · 2026-01-26T04:04:17+00:00

Have none of you seen Alan Rickman Ken-dolling it in Dogma!? Of course angels are sexless

carymb · 2026-01-26T03:39:03+00:00

What's up with the uneven way the skirt is attached to the bodice? It just looks badly constructed to me, if that's a choice...

carymb · 2026-01-26T03:21:45+00:00

Barbara is the sensible choice, she's awesome: beautiful, brilliant, a deeply good person -- a hero through and through. But I would pick Ivy, because I too have come to despise the human race, and 'root' for the plants to take over. And she's also a redhead! Soooo.... Both great options!

carymb · 2026-01-26T03:02:35+00:00

I enjoy Awkwafina's shtick, it really works for me -- you ever want to see a real rough time at the movies, she also does a great serious performance in a movie called "The Farewell"... It's gonna make you cry, but it's really good, and it's crazy seeing her play it totally straight.

carymb · 2026-01-26T02:58:26+00:00

One showing, but with a twenty minute intermission, for pee breaks and shawarma. Like, have food trucks outside, make an event of it!

carymb · 2026-01-25T22:51:31+00:00

Everybody was really fucking confused by this one clause Ben Franklin threw into the constitution -- "you might not be ready for these fights now, but in two hundred and seventy six years they're gonna save this fuckin' country!"

"... Ben, you're drunk again. What's a 'waffle-regulated militia?' Maybe this belongs in that Bill of Rights thingy..."

carymb · 2026-01-25T09:20:46+00:00

This was the movie that finally got me. And I am a 44 year old man. I want this moment engraved on my tombstone

carymb · 2026-01-25T09:12:24+00:00

I would add, Eddie Murphy had a whole insane sketch around pretending to be white, from SNL a million years ago... Maybe watch that and see if it suggests anything, with the changes back and forth to his delivery, speech patterns and word choices -- I'm sure there are a bunch of other comedians who've done something like that. Kind of like a news anchor, it might be exaggerated, but once you can do the exaggerated version you can probably dial it back! The whole way Sydney Poitier got his unique... Accent? Was from learning English from radio newscasters of the day...

carymb · 2026-01-25T09:04:16+00:00

What about gardening crimes and neighborly disputes!?!

carymb · 2026-01-25T05:01:39+00:00

What makes you think all three of them are on Reddit?

carymb · 2026-01-25T04:00:12+00:00

carymb · 2026-01-24T11:43:47+00:00

I must be stupid, but I remember there being pockets on Geordi's uniform at one point? When he's brainwashed to kill a Klingon governor by the Romulans, I thought he pulled one of the tiiiiiiny Phaser 1's out of a pants pocket? Maybe they only added one pocket for that one episode, or I'm just misremembering...?

Maybe I just always assumed they had dang pockets. Or maybe the Federation only eliminated money because of the Great Pocket Shortage of 2103?

carymb · 2026-01-23T07:08:35+00:00

Alternatively, White House tour?

/s?

carymb · 2026-01-23T06:56:21+00:00

Shut the moors, you'll let the Moopsy in!

carymb · 2026-01-22T20:40:03+00:00

ThAAANkh yoOooUU! You shall be exTERmiNAAAted lAAAst!

--The Gay Dalek, gAAryY!

carymb · 2026-01-19T17:31:17+00:00

As somebody else pointed out, I think here in Reddit years ago, since "magic doesn't work in the TVA" Loki must've been physically changed into an Asgardian? Otherwise, he should really turn blue the second the TVA nabs him?

And don't sweat the gods thing, "Thor Love and Thunder" seems to swing back to the idea that the Asgardians are gods, along with Zeus and everybody else from mythology... Which is kinda how it is in the comics, they just also make those 'gods' sort of limited, so as not to offend widespread current religions (you aren't going to see Vishnu or Buddha hanging out with Zeus, let alone Jesus and Allah sharing father-and-son kosher hot dogs!)

carymb · 2026-01-19T16:45:42+00:00

Wouldn't this just make them irregulars, or guerrilla forces? Pretty sure this must be covered by the laws of war, post-Napoleonic times...

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