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3/4/2010 4:41 PM
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I can't follow ANYTHING Justice League. Infinite earths, tons of Bizarro worlds, Batman getting killed by Cyclops......meh.
I only bug FD b/c the only recorded time (or maybe the best recorded time) Bats and Supes went at it, Supes lost and got his butt handed to him. And b/c Supes is a nimrod.
As far as racial couples go, me and another friend were about to hit it off in HS, but her father threatened to not fund her college education if she went out with me. Definitely one of the 'good ol' boys'. And considering I was hard up for dates at that point, it just made things 1000x worse.
Racism - keeping it in your pants.
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3/4/2010 4:43 PM
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From Olv's favorite writer:
On narcissistic athletes:
According to a new report by the United Nations, global narcissism rose 4.9 percent in 2009, the highest one-year leap since the Great Self-Importance Wave of 1991, which featured career years from the likes of Saddam Hussein, Michael Jackson, and Oliver Stone. And while the secondary research isn’t in yet, we can guess that pro-sports figures played a big role in the statistical surge, as athletes like Tiger Woods, A-Rod, and Kobe Bryant have continued to take the lead in teaching children that true love doesn’t always have to involve other people.
Pro sports and narcissism have always been a natural match, and it’s no wonder. For all sorts of reasons — mainly, distracting the masses from their dreary lives of cubicle labor and haggard late-night internet masturbation — the world needs its infallible, triumphant, oversexed heroes, and sports does a great job of creating them.
That’s why what we call sports journalism is most of the time a kind of mechanized admiration society, where panels full of breathless ex-jocks team up with human thesauruses to furiously burnish the legends of genetic lottery winners.
EX-JOCK ANALYST NO. 1: Look at the way he darts through the hole! Look at the power! Look at the acceleration! Those arm tackles just aren’t gonna work on Adrian Peterson!
EXCITABLE HOST: Whoop! He…could…go…all…the…way!
EX-JOCK ANALYST NO. 1: I mean it, Boom. If Peterson were here right now, I’d suck his cock!
EX-JOCK ANALYST NO. 2: Oh, me too, Jaws. I mean, I bet he’s got a schlong like a parking meter.
[The whole panel laughs.]
This is all fine, one of the less toxic varieties of media horseshit, but it has one drawback: The players in question often actually believe this stuff, which is why some of them go completely over the self-regarding edge, never to return to our planet. It doesn’t happen all at once but in steps, and in hindsight, we usually should have seen it coming. Yo, click it
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Fred_Barnett
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3/4/2010 4:45 PM
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but I think it had a lot to do with his being overly prepared for everything- due mainly to his extreme paranoia (IMO) and distrust of just about everyone- especially someone who could potentially cause as much harm as Supermo, should he ever want to.
736, if that's how you feel about Batman, then I think that you will highly approve of the James Woods portrayal of Owlman.
I know the name Owlman is slightly suspect, initially I thought of "Watchmen" when he first appeared...
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KeithByars
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3/4/2010 4:46 PM
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batman owlman came before watchmen owlman
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bassiladelph
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3/4/2010 4:47 PM
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Owlman in Marvel Comics was a converted accountant.
So yeah, just a wee bit skeptical.
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Fred_Barnett
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3/4/2010 4:48 PM
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cool- I wasn't sure about that- only saw Watchmen once
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3/4/2010 4:49 PM
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Bass, trust me.
James Woods could make Marty McFly look good
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3/4/2010 4:57 PM
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Try being a homosexual, that's probably tougher than trying to date outside your race.
Or maybe not
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Fred_Barnett
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3/4/2010 5:09 PM
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Neag-
I'm not sure if you're for real or not, but I will throw out a bone...
First of all, yes it was tough. But I realize that being gay is tougher.
I told you all, I was a bartender for many years. At one place I worked at, it was high end, big money. I guy I worked with was gay, and he was probably the coolest dude there. Everyone knew he was gay, and it was no big deal. I met his 'on again off again' boyfriend, and it was no big deal to me. Not that I had any big fear of homosexuals, but after working side by side with this guy, all my doubts were answered. People are people on an individual basis, and I knew at that point that my last "phobia" as a high schooler (you are gay!) just wasn't valid
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flesh4fantasy
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3/4/2010 5:23 PM
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neag, what the dating implications for the morbidly obese homosexual? i ask because i'm a fan of "modern family".
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Seth in 736
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3/4/2010 5:26 PM
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Id guess Spectator?
How can he find a 5 beer queer or twink or bear to go down if they cant find his gear?
He sure aint pig backing anyone for fear of killing them.
(Tryin to cram all my newly learned gay lingo in 1 post, who knew that all my gay lingo would come from a football fan message board>?!)
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3/4/2010 5:26 PM
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Fights in Batman's "weight class":
- Mean Sensei from Cobra Kai dojo
- Hulk Hogan in real life
- Liam Neeson in Batman Begins
- Liam Neeson in Taken
- Jet Li in real life
Fights Batman wants no part of:
- Superman
- Liam Neeson in Star Wars
- Harry Potter
- Dr. Manhattan
- Supergirl
- Superbaby
- Superdog
- Supercat
- Supergoldfish
- Superhouseplant
- Super...well, pretty much any indestructable God who can fly, turn back time, etc.
The only thing Batman beats Superman in is boxoffice receipts becuase the Batman movies are superior to the Superman movies in every way.
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3/4/2010 6:08 PM
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The only thing Batman beats Superman in is boxoffice receipts becuase the Batman movies are superior to the Superman movies in every way.
not very current topic, but did anyone like the "new" superman movie with spacey? i feel like it got pretty good reviews, but i thought it was shit.
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3/4/2010 6:27 PM
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Superman is just so vanilla and they've made the Batman movies so gritty and stylized.
I guess the last Superman movie was okay, but his super outfit is gaym the actor ppalying Superman had the personality of drying paint, and I honestly can't even remember the plot. I don't remember hating the movie, but it was just forgettable.
The Batman movies also allow you to suspend disgelief to some degree. You find yourself believing, to some extent, that an expert in Karate with unlimited means and a high IQ could realistically fight crime if he wanted to.
A guy flying around in his underpants and catching planes is a tougher sell.
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3/4/2010 6:48 PM
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I guess the last Superman movie was okay, but his super outfit is gaym the actor ppalying Superman had the personality of drying paint
yup, and it's kind of ironic, because i think this was the producers' plan - cast an anonymous, bland actor so that he doesn't subsume the "character" of superman, ala reeve 30 years before. but it didn't work at all this time. i think the movie would have been more successful, all other things being the same, if they had cast a known actor that the audience was excited to see in the role.
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bassiladelph
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3/4/2010 9:16 PM
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Superman Returns sucked hard mounds of dung beetle bleep.
The plot had more than a few holes (Superman didn't feel weak as he was flying over the Kryptonite Country?), Supes was a deadbeat dad, and the acting aside from Spacey was forgettable at best. It probably got good reviews because, like someone starved for a Ritz and being given a store brand cracker, it was the first Superman movie in a while and people wanted to like it along the vein of Batman Begins.
It would've been better but they made Luthor a bit too cartoony, and they should've reworked the plot as an indestructible being trying to get over the fact that maybe the world he came to save felt like they didn't need him to save it. They only glossed over that part, and had they focused on a danger much too great for society and ultimately Supes coming in and saving them, it would've matched the times a bit more.
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NotoriousEAG
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3/4/2010 11:31 PM
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f-dallas you are so funny
I guess the morbidly obese get some too
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Seth in 736
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3/5/2010 10:08 AM
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NEAG- when you go to gay bars or wherever you lil guys hang out and pair off- are there any total fatass slob gay guys?
The only ones ive ever seen on TV that would fit that bill would be really flamboyant black guys and that to me doesnt seem like your cup o tea, meaning not likely to be in the same waterin hole.
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KeithByars
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3/5/2010 10:09 AM
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there was an mtv true life a couple weeks ago with this 450 pound gay dude, and there were web sites where normal weight gay guys had a fetish for fat guys. this guy was cleaning up
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Seth in 736
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3/5/2010 10:12 AM
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Well, this makes my "what to have for lunch" decision a moot point now.
Thanks KB- and my boss thanks you as well.
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NotoriousEAG
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3/5/2010 10:54 AM
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I saw that KB.
I wouldn't say I'm "little", Seth. I'm a bit under 6 feet and 180 lbs.
Why don't you have 5 beers and come out and see for yourself one Saturday night?
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Seth in 736
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3/5/2010 11:23 AM
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NTFF!
5 beer queer?
I forgot that one!
And no, you're not little and I wasnt speaking literally either. Like 'ya lil rascal" or what have ya.
FWIW I remember you as being over 6 ft. tall actually
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GlennGoBlue
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3/5/2010 11:38 AM
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Seth thinks every guy is either
A) Over 6 Feet Tall or
B) Struggling with Napoleonic Issues.
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KeithByars
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3/5/2010 11:41 AM
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He also tried to guess everyone's weight at the tailgate and was off by about 40 pounds on me, and 10 on my wife
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Seth in 736
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3/5/2010 11:43 AM
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NTF!
And any dude under 5'6 im sure DOES have some napoleanesque issues.
Glenn- you KNOW for SURE the guy whom I pretty much used as the foundation for this way of thinking. he was not the biggest GGB fan if i recall.
I believe it was you who gave a mini-dissertation at Stanleys upon his departure 1 sunday afternoon, about his brutal 'little man' issues.
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