with the first thread being closed for some reason
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Good-Will — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 05:54 PM)
Making cups of tea or coffee at home in mugs.
These are made with boiling water and we all know that the mug is bloody hot.
So why is it that a freshly brewed mug is handed to someone who takes it in their hands (not by the handle) and says thanks or something similar?
Nobody ever, ever, hands a mug of hot tea or coffee to someone like that.
Except on TV, where they all seem to have asbestos hands.
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Ceer — 9 years ago(May 22, 2016 06:47 PM)
As far as I can tell their are 2 different types of prophecies.
The self fulfilling prophecy where just by saying or believing in the prophecy makes it come true.
Or its the gibberish prophecy where the prophecy is told and it makes no sense until after it is complete and we look back and put it all together.
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Ceer — 9 years ago(June 04, 2016 06:55 PM)
So our hero is surrounded by 10 or 100 or 1000 minions of the bad guy, the number doesn't matter. He will kick, punch, shoot, slice, dice, snap, crush, crack, etc everyone that comes his way. But they keep coming. Even that last minion. Despite seeing every one of his buddies get killed in grotesque and horrible ways he'll attack the hero. Just once I'd like to see that last guy just drop his weapons and bad guy uniform and say "That's it, I quit! Screw you guys, I'm going home." Then walk off the battlefield fully intact.
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Ceer — 9 years ago(June 04, 2016 07:38 PM)
It doesn't matter the topic of the scifi show. It could be time travel, aliens among us, or some secret society. The characters try to hide their scifiness. They make sure they don't mention the future or the past, they hide that they are from another world, or are careful nobody follows them to their secret hideout. In the real world nobody would care if you accidentally slip your from the year 7325. They'd think your nuts. Nobody would care if you started speaking in your planets' language of Beta Alpha Prime. You're a super nerd. And the fact you run from corner to corner always looking over your shoulder? Paranoid nut ball high on meth.
Yeah, it's a show and all but nobody really believes in time travel, aliens living on our planet, or a secret organization formed to fight the forces of evil. Sure, some of you are saying "it's possible!" But do you think your neighbor is from the future? Or he is truly from another world (well.), or that he saved the planet 10 times over from robotic lizards?
As an experiment just try to do those things in public.
I seem to remember reading a blog where it would be fun to pretend to be The Doctor and let slip that you are from the future. Maybe it was like Talk Like a Pirate day.
Edited: Found it!
http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/pretend-to-be-a-time-traveler-day-december-8/
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Ceer — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 10:45 AM)
As far as I can tell there are 4 different kinds of neck snaps.
The neck snap from behind which is a big production with lots of movement usually done in slow motion.
The one handed neck snap usually comes as a surprise. The guy doing the neck snap is usually holding the victims jaw almost in a caress. Then snap!
The bent over neck snap usually occurs after a big tussle. The victim is bent over at the waist and the neck snapper grabs him by the head/neck and quickly lifts until crack.
There is a lesser used one in which the two grapplers are facing back to back. The neck snapper grabs the victim by the head and breaks his neck over his shoulder.
I wonder if the snapping of necks is done because it is cheap and quick.
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gottaluvafriend — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 12:03 AM)
Some sympathetic character, not a villain, in a precarious position trying to climb a cliff wall is about to make it to the top, someone is there reaching down to help, and the climber's foot slips. Sometimes the person reaching down grabs the climber's hand just in time.
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Ceer — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 07:57 PM)
When the hero must stop the evil computer program from completing or an email of utmost secrecy from being sent he will grab his gun and shootthe monitor? And in a burst of sparks the world is saved.
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Good-Will — 9 years ago(November 12, 2016 01:49 AM)
This is an observation on the genius hacker who can break into the big system database or local hard drive on anyone's laptop just by typing rapidly for about 10 seconds and then shouts "I'm in!" (This has been done to death).
If they do that then they never bother to log off after they find whatever they want to find, hence alerting the person that owns the laptop that someone has been using it as soon as they get back or try to log in from another computer.
Always remember to log off, genius hacker!!!
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Ceer — 9 years ago(November 25, 2016 10:55 AM)
Small town girl/guy wants to escape her/his boring country life to experience the excitement of the big city.
Big city girl/guy wants to escape her/his hectic life to experience the calm and relaxing of small town life.
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bingoboss — 9 years ago(December 31, 2016 11:21 AM)
These are a few chliches that get under my skin when I notice them:
- Roger Ebert's "Me-Push-Pull-You" rule, where if a man and a woman are running from danger, the man will drag the woman behind him by the hand, while she gasps and tries to keep up.
- Kitchen Karaoke, where female leads dance around the kitchen to a song blasting on the soundtrack, pretending to sing into spoons and spatulas, shutting cabinet drawers with their hips, etc.
- Fake Punk Rockers (mostly in 1980s films), where a tough "punk rock" character simply has blue hair and some eye make-up. Too bad the actors almost never have the nerve to go all the way and shave their heads, wear a mohawk, safety-pin piercing, etc.
