KnightShade

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Misdirection.

'The power to cause others to get lost.'

This is acceptable.

The Thoughts of A Psychological Function

"That's just my two cents", but you didn't actually say anything. You just asked a bunch of loosely related questions. Paris and Lebanon are "fucked" but the thousands of innocents they kill in Syria and Iraq every year are not even worth mentioning?

You should gather your thoughts and opinions in a more cohesive manner before putting them on the internet. You left nothing to discuss, really.

@8

Today's been a lot

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It's rather straight forward, really. As @Antarctic Termite pointed out, there are more connections between us and France then there are between us and Syria, at least in terms of familiarity. I think if you asked most people about Syria or Kenya, they wouldn't say that it doesn't matter at all, they would certainly sympathize, but those places are further away to us.

Not to mention, of course, that middle eastern violence isn't ignored. It's in the news all the time. When the War in Syria started, it was in the forefront. But then it kept going and started to feel normal.

@Vilageidiotx

Also Middle Eastern violence is reported to the exclusion of other Middle Eastern stories. We get reporting on all aspects of our own country, a nuanced view of our neighbour countries and economic interests. Elsewhere violence, and (often violent) politics are most newsworthy. Without news of a countries day to day workings, we see violence as its day to day workings. Conflict doesn't necessarily have to be ongoing in a country for us to view it as a more savage place where violence is normal.

Spectre was terrible

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Half of Mexico City was gold. The Bautista fight (on the train) was gold. Everything else in the movie was god awful. Most of those shootouts made stormtroopers look like Vasily Zaitzev. A full thirty minutes of screentime was devoted to social commentary more hamfisted than Winter Soldier (and I don't say that lightly) -- which at no point involved Bond in the least regard. There was a low-speed car chase featuring Moneypenny's smoothie fridge. This was a terrible movie.

@mdk

I'm glad someone else sees the Winter Soldier parallels.

They massively under utilised Andrew Scott to simplify a complex issue, because double 0s would never use secret surveillance on anyone. Christopher Waltz is always good, but also felt underutilised to a lesser extent, which is a massive shame for the character he plays. The torture was unimaginative, and there seemed to be no reason it didn't work. There wasn't enough detail given to the suggestion Bond was raised to be a spy, which could have linked the movie together better. Equally they could have unified the past bad guys much more neatly, though it was funny how they ignored Green. The chemistry between Bond and Swan was poor, and forced. It featured an inferior copy of the Vesper Lynd train scene too.

I like the start and the end I guess, the middle was very slow. Giant, silent minion was a nice throwback. The use of MI6 headquarters to reflect Scaramanga's island was pretty cool. Should have finished up like On Her Majesty's Secret Service to redeem it.

spam refrences

I miss how meh that was.

Harry Potter Quesiton

So it would just go *pop* and vanish? I'm not a biology expert or something like that but I'm fairly certain that it wouldn't work like that.

@ClocktowerEchos

I don't think biology expertise would help. But it's kind of got to depend on at what point the baby is classified as part of its mother, and when it's considered an individual I guess. If you die under the influence of Polyjuice potion you stay dead, so major changes do stay. Maybe it'd burst out like a xenomorph? Expect from the crotch. THe real question here is if a pregnant mother takes polyjuice potion, does it pass onto her baby and transform it too?

Role Call

I expected anger from that sleep deprived post, so that's good. Well, does anyone have an interesting conversation topic to amuse me until indoor track starts?

EDIT

If anyone was wondering, I ran a 6min 50second pace on the last race of the xc season, a PR for me. It was a only a three mile course, as opposed to a 5k, and was pretty flat and easy, though I am still proud of myself.

@Joegreenbeen

I didn't know you were a runner, that's really cool. My boxing club does Sunday runs so I'm just getting back into it myself, but I'm doing better than I've done with it when I was younger. I've just dipped my mile time under 6 minutes by itself, but for 5k its somewhere around 7:15. I want to push it down again this Saturday. Do you do any longer distances?

Post a song that makes you want to sin

I once listened to a song that made me feel like forgetting all about the Sabbath and keeping it holy.

Don't remember what song though.

@Vilageidiotx

I went through all the commandments, and that was the only one I couldn't think of a song for.

Do Black Sabbath count?

Random fact of the day.

I suppose it's only the males. I doubt female snakes are dragging logs around for no reason; especially when it's two of them.
Male lizards have two penises, too.

@The Mad Hatter

Koalas do as well if I remember rightly. Some lizards also have a third 'eye' on top of their head so they can sense the light dimming if a bird flies over.

Random fact of the day.

Snakes have two penises.

@The Mad Hatter

Wait, all of them?