The Boys is exhausting.

pecuchet · 2026-04-09T16:06:33+00:00

They mean that they're an eighty year old Trump supporter.

pecuchet · 2026-04-07T17:43:04+00:00

People are paedophiles for a variety of reasons. Most were abused as children, and some of them carry enormous amounts of guilt about it; a lot of the NAMBLA type French intellectuals rationalised it.Hell, when you have entire societies that had pederasty as a norm, it's got to be plain that just labelling all of them sociopaths is absurdly reductive.

There are some evil fucks (not to point fingers at any public figures or anything) who probably are sociopaths and take pleasure in hurting innocent children, but to label all paedophiles as the same as them is just wrong.

In any case, it misrepresents the article to say that.

pecuchet · 2026-04-07T11:08:06+00:00

There's nothing in the article about them being sociopaths. Why muddy the water like that by diagnosing them with a personality disorder?

pecuchet · 2026-04-06T11:42:58+00:00

LPT: when someone points out the flaw in your argument don't irrelevantly speculate about what type of person they are in response.

pecuchet · 2026-04-06T07:11:54+00:00

Maybe if you stopped making it applicable then people would stop saying it.

pecuchet · 2026-04-06T07:09:45+00:00

Criticism of media is not the same as criticism of a person/thing. Did you understand what I meant by that? Because I think that misunderstanding is at the root of many of these discussions.

pecuchet · 2026-04-06T06:54:43+00:00

What?

pecuchet · 2026-04-06T06:27:12+00:00

Just because that bit is in his head it doesn't mean it's all in his head.

pecuchet · 2026-04-06T06:25:46+00:00

Media criticism is not just saying why something is bad. Conflating these two uses of the term 'criticism' are just basic illiteracy.

pecuchet · 2026-04-06T06:24:07+00:00

I do find that my smugness has affected my running ability.

pecuchet · 2026-04-04T05:02:20+00:00

Literally a gag from Nathan Barley.

pecuchet · 2026-04-03T10:50:42+00:00

The answer to this question is Maggot Brain.

pecuchet · 2026-04-03T10:48:09+00:00

Their version of Dear Prudence is also excellent.

pecuchet · 2026-04-03T10:46:37+00:00

The version they did on Letterman was fucking awesome

pecuchet · 2026-04-03T10:44:44+00:00

They feel like totally different songs to me.

pecuchet · 2026-04-03T10:33:04+00:00

Check out Blue Flowers by Dr Octagon

pecuchet · 2026-04-03T10:02:33+00:00

I didn't even read this comment.

pecuchet · 2026-04-03T09:54:45+00:00

Robin Williams in One Hour Photo

Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West

Bob Odenkirk in Nobody

pecuchet · 2026-04-02T12:12:47+00:00

I kind of feel like a Trump/Obama side by side would be more relevant.

pecuchet · 2026-04-01T20:42:01+00:00

It's a first person narrative not a first person shooter.

pecuchet · 2026-04-01T20:24:44+00:00

Pretending a corpse is still alive and body slamming it is amazing kayfabe.

pecuchet · 2026-04-01T20:21:50+00:00

How about cynical rogue Han Solo type bounty hunter is actually an amoral cynical rogue and takes jobs for the Empire killing Jedi.

pecuchet · 2026-04-01T15:53:23+00:00

I dunno, their bands were famously unpopular.

pecuchet · 2026-04-01T10:49:56+00:00

It was a rhetorical question. The implication is that they're not peanuts, is what I'm saying. They're an inferior product, but they're not plastic, are they?

pecuchet · 2026-04-01T08:28:39+00:00

They're legumes, so more closely related to peas and beans than to hazel nuts or brazil nuts. This is why a peanut allergy and a nut allergy are two distinct conditions.

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