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What say ye, CE?

yusiko posted...

poor violet
she got shamed for chewing gum :(

Apparently the original song was going to focus more on her poor manners; and in fact, even in the final version the Oompa Loompa song for her ends with "given good manners, you will go far." But I guess they figured they would go right to the point, since her gum-chewing was pretty much her defining characteristic.

teepan95 posted...

Good start, but I feel it's missing the black comedy aspect of the songs

Hmm, good point. The original songs have a bit of a shameful tone ("What are you at, getting terribly fat?" and "What do you get from a glut of TV? A pain in the neck and an IQ of three!")

The only original song that sort of commiserates with the child is, oddly enough, Veruca Salt. It puts the blame more on her parents than her.

In the original 1971 film, the Oompa Loompas sang about vices that were the undoing of the naughty children. Gluttony, being spoiled, etc.

Each song consisted primarily of a five-line stanza in an aabbc rhyming scheme, plus the "doompa dee doo" embellishments. I thought it could be interesting to come up with some Oompa Loompa songs that might be in the movie if it were made nowadays. My first thought for an updated vice: social media addiction. Here we go...

Oompa Loompa doompa dee doo
I've got another puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompa dah dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me
What do you get when you stare at your phone
Do you have friends or are you alone
Why don't you try calling them to talk
Or you could join them on a nice walk
Then you'll really be friends!
Oompa Loompa doompa dee dah
If you are social you will go far
You will live in happiness, too
Like the Oompa Loompa doompa dee doo!

Ease-y, big fella

Mind blown

MabusIncarnate posted...

They usually run up closer to read and run your plate to see if you have a pending offense or a warrant

Trust me, in my city, they just have a lead foot.

I'm already going over the speed limit, bro. Chill.

I swear I don't fathom how anyone actually gets a speeding ticket in my city. The cops drive like the limit is actually 15+ what the signs say. You gotta be going like 80 to get their attention. XD

Bump

This sounds so cool, IMO. Like the intro to a TV show or movie about a post-apocalyptic America, with a tattered Stars & Stripes barely waving amidst the White House in ruins...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_PtnvVQhqA

I eat food off the floor. I don't care if people cough or sneeze near me. I shake hands and never use Purell. I've engaged in dark, dank sexual escapades that would make a doctor squirm.

My immune system is a militarized force ready to combat and exterminate any invader.

Bring it, COVID-19, if you dare.

They sell one of those little half-dozen cartons for $0.28

You think that's nuts?

They sell those giant 60-egg boxes for $2.33!!!

What are your thoughts, CE?

To a street called Kismet, which means fate.

Leaping to my destiny?

Hmmm...

Bump for those who like trivia

Part of the issue here is semantics. If you verbally asked someone "What is negative four squared?" that question implies, or is typically interpreted as, what mathematically would be symbolized as (-4)^2.

That's not -4^2.

uwnim posted...

16. A negative number is its own entity. The idea that the answer is -16 exists simply because we dont have a special symbol to indicate negative numbers and instead borrow an operations symbol. This can create issues so something like -4^2 is treated a 0-4^2 just so that the - is always an operations symbol and not actually part of a number.

Again

(-4)^2 = 16
-4^2 = -16

You can Google this shit if you want. It is what it is.

TheBiggerWiggle posted...

Since there are no parentheses its safe to assume you mean -4 x -4 which is 16.

The lack of parentheses around (-4) means exponentiation is conducted first: ergo, 4^2 is carried out, then the negative multiplicative identity is carried out. So it's -16.

-4^2 = -16
(-4)^2 = 16

SH_expert44 posted...

hey i got all 5 right

Nicely done!

(1) "My God, what have we done" comes from the co-pilot's log for what event on August 6, 1945? The bombing of Hiroshima

(2) If octogenarian describes people in their 80s, nonagenarian describes people in their 90s, and centenarian describes people in their 100s, what is the word for people who have reached the age of 110 or older? Supercentenarian

(3) Tracy Torm, a screenwriter for Star Trek: The Next Generation, co-created what late-1990s sci-fi television show that shares its name with mini burgers? Sliders

(4) Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle, who was taught by Plato, who was taught by whom? Socrates

(5) Two days after Roger Bannister became the first person in recorded history to run a mile in under four minutes, Parry O'Brien became the first person to exceed a mark of sixty feet in what throwing event? Shot put

Go Miyagi and catch it with your bare hand

No... you ain't cool unless you pee your pants!

If you're not actually sick, and you're just calling out because of paranoia, then they have a right to fire you.

Imagine if every company tolerated their employees calling out because they were scared of getting sick.

"Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia

boxington posted...

for some reason, I've always had difficulty reading Shakespeare's works.

I haven't had a lot of experience with the older words and way of speaking.

There are definitely some obsolete words and phraseology he uses, but overall if you take your time you can get the gist of even the most arcane passages. And when you encounter the occasional stinger, like the one I posted, it just makes you sit back and chuckle to yourself. "Oh, you Bard, you..."

Drowning is one of the worst ways I can imagine dying. To subject anyone to that, let alone a toddler, is just sick and indefensible. This lady deserves to be put to death.

From Henry VI, Part 3, Richard Plantagenet is surprised by the arrogance of Queen Margaret. He says:

"'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God he knows, thy share thereof is small"

d-d-d-damn

Bought a 3-pound pack of thick-sliced applewood-smoked hickory bacon, a two-pound bag of dark brown sugar and a bottle of butter-flavored maple syrup.

Mix all the brown sugar and most of the syrup bottle together in a pitcher, along with about half a cup of water to loosen it up.

Then lay some of the bacon strips in an aluminum baking pan until they cover the bottom, then drown them in the sugar syrup mixture; lay more bacon strips, drown them; more strips, drown them, until all the bacon and syrup mixture is used up.

Put in the oven at 300 for a couple hours; then remove the bacon strips from their pool of syrupy goodness, and put them back in the oven for about 20 minutes to further caramelize.

So good.

berlyman101 posted...

Depends on what you're going for, but anything where the subject requires breadth versus depth. Once you get deep into a subject a deep understanding is required to excel.

What I mean is that I'm basically looking to study and memorize every conceivable subject that has list-like information. Example:

Capitals of the countries
Current political leaders of the countries
U.S. governors
Chemical elements
Quarterbacks of each NFL team

Stuff like that

For instance, something like socioeconomic philosophy or advanced mathematical concepts require actual critical thought to comprehend; raw memorization won't be very helpful.

Whereas something like capitals of the world's nations, abbreviations of the chemical elements, etc., pretty much necessitate rote memorization because it's just raw data.

I'm trying to make a list and study those things. Any suggestions?

It refers to the fact that the 762nd to the 767th digits of pi are all 9s.

Mathematicians regard it as odd that an irrational number like pi with a seemingly random endless string of digits would have "999999" (or any string of six consecutive identical numbers) in a row, especially so early (relatively speaking) in the decimal expansion.

Even warriors have frailties and moments of weakness. Goku understood that. That's why he honored Jiren at the end and said he wanted to see him again, rather than being like "yo whassup you fake ass justice wanna be bitch, tryna murder my friends fool"

Vicious_Dios posted...

So that means that that clown god dude is also stronger than Beerus since he was able to control Jiren ? LMFAO if true

Belmod never "controlled" Jiren. And the way Belmod was talking during the Tournament of Power, even he (Belmod) knows that Jiren would beat him in a fight. Belmod himself said "Jiren is a being who will never lose. No matter who he's up against."

The reason why Jiren respects Belmod's position as the GoD is probably just that: Belmod is a god, and Jiren doesn't want that position of being the destroyer. He's a warrior of justice.

archedsoul posted...

Considering that the threshold to hit Hakaishin was met by Toppo, Jiren was a step above everybody but the angels and Zeno.

That's an excellent point.

We are told that Toppo is literally in line to become Universe 6's next GoD. So Toppo is obviously GoD material.

Yet Toppo was the first to admit that he can't even hold a candle to Jiren.

Jabodie posted...

C, with the technicality that Beerus may be able to Hakai him.

Frieza withstood the Hakai attack of both Sidra (an actual GoD) and Toppo (a quasi in-training GoD). If he can survive that, then Jiren -- who absolutely rofflestomps Frieza -- can certainly withstand Beerus's Hakai, IMO.

What do you think?

He was actually on a few times as an actor so this is just one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA3hcHntHyU

"Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie"

O_o

bump

No, the answer is "I'm not sure."

Bump

Shadowplay posted...

Does it make up for all the money you spent in the past on tickets?

It's hard to say. I don't play very often. Every once in a while when I get my paycheck if I have a little extra to spare (assuming I'll lose it all) I'll give it a shot. I usually don't spend more than $100 when I do play.

$200 of the $275 is from a single $20 scratch-off.

So a profit of $125.

Friggin' sweet.

Sabram posted...

Considering the wrestling industry is usually very turbulent for characters and fandoms, the fact he's remained the same character and stayed popular long enough to compete in that many games is the most impressive

Death is universal, eh?

Spooking posted...

Funny how I know Brock Lesnar beat Undertaker at WM, but I don't know who the other person was. Was it Bray Wyatt or Roman Reigns? Lol

Roman Reigns, at WM 33 in 2017. The Undertaker "retired" after the match, but then returned at WM 34 to slay John Cena.

Since then Reigns has earned Undertaker's respect and they even tag teamed at a PPV last year.

DrizztLink posted...

The writers thought he should win a bunch of times.

yaaaaaaay

There's a bit more to it than just that. >_>

Let's go

I think Anton Chigurh's apparent mortality was an intentional device to further reinforce his characterization as the personification of fate. He's not invincible, and that's the point. As he tells Llewelyn's wife at the end: "I got here the same way the coin did." He is subject to the same vagaries of chance as everybody else, but it is perhaps his acknowledgement of this fact and his complete acceptance of it (even embracing it as his own raison d'etre) that allows him to survive time and time again.

A lot of it also has to do with perception. Remember at the end when he tells the boy with the bicycle "take the money... and you never saw anything. I was already gone." Anton thrives on the reputation and mystique he has built for himself. Even if he knows he's mortal, that doesn't matter as long as others look at him as a ghost, or an unkillable force. Which then reflects back at us, the viewers: how do we perceive Anton? And is our perception accurate, or merely the byproduct of the story presented to us by the Coen Brothers?

^ I like how the video is titled "Mark Henry screws up," when it was the crew that screwed up and Henry saved it lol