Nobody had a clear preference in voting last week (meaning nobody voted) so The Humanoid it is!
So what is it? It’s an Italian Star Wars ripoff, with a giant humanoid played by Richard Kiel, and a script written by Italian mobsters on a coke and champagne binge. Honestly, the sets look good, cinematography is good, all the pieces were there for an awesome Star Wars ripoff! I can only imagine what happened next:
“Hey Aldo, The Godfather just called in a favor. He wants you to use this script his eight year old son wrote. If you disappoint the Godfather, bad things can happen…”
And movie magic was made. I love crazy films like this, so I was pleased with this. If you aren’t, you know the drill…
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! If you don’t like B grade Star Wars films from Italy with Richard Kiel you can always talk about gardening, beer, Everyone’s Favorite Attorney, all kinds of stuff! Next week, you get to guess! It will be the annual Double Feature, with two movies about men named Bruce. What could they be? Guess correctly and win universal adoration from Glibs who care about such things.
That dude is huge.
This is the gayest First I have ever seen. But I guess it is a First.
Tater usually is an unusually happy Tater, as per usual.
That’s what she said!
Getting cozy with Demi Lavato?
I’m guessing Lee and Wayne.
They Call Me Bruce and Filipino Batman?
Close… But no cigar.
I don’t think anyone has found all of Filipino Batman.
The explosion scattered the pieces pretty far?
Justin Whang! did a video about it.
“my name is Bruce” and “I am Bruce”
So what is it? It’s an Italian Star Wars ripoff, with a giant humanoid played by Richard Kiel, and a script written by Italian mobsters on a coke and champagne binge. Honestly, the sets look good, cinematography is good, all the pieces were there for an awesome Star Wars ripoff! I can only imagine what happened next:
I’ll dive in in a few minutes.
Rhwyun, from the dedthread, when I moved to New England Dorchester was known as one of the bad parts of Boston. It looked for a little while like Dorchester might have been gentrifying. I don’t spend too much time in MA anymore beyond driving through it so I don’t know the current status of Dorchester.
This is the second time I watched this and I still have no idea what is going on. A lot of Richard Kiel walking around, pretending to shrug off laser blasts.
Thankfully I find this amusing so I just sit through it.
I have friends who live in Dot. It has definitely gentrified, and is markedly more Vietnamese these days (best pho and bahn mi are found in Dot).
There are still some rough pockets but not what it was.
Regardless, Kenmore Square / Boston University is totally gentrified and is utterly safe.
/consults map
lol I was actually thinking of “Roxbury” as the nabe I heard was awful
I know nothing of Dorchester.
Carry on.
I won’t go to NH or NM. Too many space aliens.
Roxbury used to be awful. Gentrification is curing its ills.
Roxbury is/was bad. I lived on the edge of “The Berry” back in the day.
Pro: it was affordable.
Con: a dude got shot in the gut about 10 yards from me while I was outside working on my bicycle. (Around the corner,TBF. Small caliber. He seemed pissed more than anything else.)
I’m guessing it has gotten better in the last *mumble* decades, but those housing projects haven’t gone anywhere, so there’s a limit to how gentrified it’ll get.
Interesting.
I’m used to, say, Buffalo where the bad neighborhoods remain extremely bad. Basically no-go zones. And Buffalo is far from the worst that the Rust Belt has to offer.
Boston is an outlier – violent crime is low and even the bad areas are the expected shirtbird on shirtbird crime.
Without bad neighborhoods in Buffalo we wouldn’t have mf Rick James.
It’s nuts. You can cross Main Street and literally be transported from the wealthiest neighborhood in the city into the ghetto.
I lived on that border for a year; it was unnerving.
As I joked (late) in the afternoon, if you talk shit about Dorchester Marky Mark might throw a rock at you…
I thought he was Southie? Is that the same area?
No, Southie is South Boston. Dorchester (Dot) is further south than that, heading towards Quincy (“Quinzee”)
Nope he’s not from Southie, he grew up in Dorchester
There was an election?
Monty Python meets Batman?
No, no. This is getting entirely too silly now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfwTRVnO5No
You were the one who wanted to meet Bruce and wouldn’t specify which ones.
First commercial is for the Ford Abomination.
Which one?
Heh.
The thing they call a Mustang but isn’t.
Really? The Probe was discontinued in 1997. Surprised they’re still running ads for it.
I read without my glasses and I thought you said the Ford Administration.
I had a flash back to Chevy Chase on SNL doing a impersonation by just being clueless and wearing a suit.
Remember when Ford’s press secretary, Ron Nessen, hosted the show? It was one of the more outrageous early episodes.
Darth Vader ripoff much?
Have you gotten to the Super Lord Vader with the bondage face mask>
Barbara Gibson got space junk in the trunk.
I’m disappointed that this film is in English. I was hoping for a chance to practice my non-existent Italian skills.
Technically Richard Kiel speaks his own language which nobody understands.
I hate Italian with English subs though.
My kids have the mistaken belief that me speaking with an Italian accent is speaking Italian.
When I do my dot Indian accent everyone laughs ’cause it’s so bad.
These costumes look like a Balanciaga designers fevered nightmare.
Balanciaga are a bunch of pedos.
Clearly you have not seen AVAVAV. https://avavav.com/nam
Quirky. Not seeing anything pedo-ish.
They spend so much on sets, models and costumes. And not a dime on the script. How exactly did Kiel go crazy again? Hit on the head with a rocket?
I was unprepared for the appearance of Ginger Space Viking Guy. Me likey Ginger Space Viking Guy.
How smart was Charlie Kirk. A gotcha question and he obliterates it. Mike Benz is convinced he would have been President.
https://x.com/GBNT1952/status/1966263233947566496
I would not wanted to live under Kirk’s theocracy.
But killing him is still evil.
Agreed but the reaction has been telling…a hell of a lot more of normal but evil folks out there than I’d have ever imagined.
I would. Beats any alternative I’ve seen lately.
I am not a believer but even in my vaguely lefty days I would not have been able to summon the vicious hatred that the current left obviously had for him.
Yes; told my wife yesterday he would have been president in 30 years
Maybe 10.
The bad guy/Darth Vader clone has an actual receptionist’s black phone glued to his chest as his “instrument panel.”
I have to drop off. I’ll finish this tomorrow. Thanks RJ!
Nobody will judge you if you don’t finish it tomorrow.
How did Barbra Bach end up in this piece of shit?
Had to be a gambling debt or something.
That lady’s hair scares me.
I think it’s a fur trimmed headpiece? Or the most amazing hair helmet ever crafted.
I want to sic Brad Mondo on her.
No! Not Ginger Space Viking Guy! Run Ginger Viking Space Guy!
No! Not Ginger Space Viking Guy! Run Ginger Viking Space Guy!
This entire movie has the same vibe as that one scene from Empire Strikes Back when the guy is fleeing Cloud City with an ice cream maker.
Almost like it’s a… Dream?
That’s a computer memory core thank you very much.
Something just kind of occurred to me….
A German Mauser was used to kill Kirk. These stupid fucks are all about symbolism. They see some conjured up hidden meaning in everything. I don’t find it a coincidence at all that an outdated German rifle from WWII was the weapon of choice to kill someone they’ve been calling a Nazi for over a decade.
Wasn’t the ’03 Springfield based on Mausers that the Spanish used against the U.S. in the Spanish-American War?
Okay, so they blew the hair budget on that first scenes, so from now on they’re going to make Barbara Bach wear a fuzzy helmet?
The WW II Mauser was 8 mm, and this was a 30.06 hunting rifle.
(Punch my card please. I have now finally done a Glib comments section gun thing. Probably inadequately).
With if the news is to be believed a “Mauser action”.
That was my thought too when I heard “Mauser” and 30.06. Any bolt action might be a Mauser to them.
It’s said that the gun was rechambered.
Or, more accurately, that boatloads of them had been rechambered to 30-06 and sold that way. That there are many examples of them on gunbroker (I think it was gunbroker).
There are at least several dozen Mausers chambered in 30-06 on gunbroker….
https://www.gunbroker.com/all/search?keywords=mauser%2030-06&sort=13
Mausers in U.S. calibers are very common in the U.S.
Bolsanaro sentenced to 27 years, essentially for him a death sentence, over bullshit:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/majority-supreme-court-justices-convict-bolsonaro-putting-brazil-collision-course-trump
Unrest incoming…
No! I want Ginger Space Viking Guy back!
You know, his wife was a short girl. She maybe comes up to his stomach. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29160096
As banana-republic as we are witnessing the US become… holy shit it can get a lot worse.
If they could have gotten away with it, Trump would be in jail right now.
The magical chinese kid is getting annoying.
He’s like a magical, irritating Yoda.
but you repeat yourself.
I ask this as a straight person, but why didn’t we get to see Corinne Cléry’s tits?
The Italians didn’t pay her enough?
God what a Maxfield
Parrish sunset!
Cheers my friends
R.J, I watched the midget James Bond, it was entertaining, but are there more useless group of bad guys then the ones on the cleverly named “Hidden Island”?
This weekend I’ll try to watch the Dragon Returns, it sounds wild.
Excellent. Your B movie film class continues. Maybe someday you will answer a winning trivia question with this magnificent new knowledge.
I don’t watch all of the movies you post, but the ones I do watch are entertaining in one way or another.
Richard Kiel? Wonderful.
I didn’t cast a vote last week because I like surprises.
Forgive me: Where’s the location of Honey Harvest?
Near Emily Minne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlfyG3XK72c&list=RDSlfyG3XK72c&start_radio=1
A couple of hours north of Minneapolis.
wrong fucking link
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Emily,+MN+56447/@45.7344417,-95.1749824,491127m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x52b0d4e666cf8b43:0xec6f632c7b084dc1!8m2!3d46.7310714!4d-93.9580296!16zL20vMHZ5azY!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Only 1340 miles give or take.
Munchkin reconnected after three months away. She’s an hour away from St. Cloud. Just a fun liberty-oriented thing to let her know about. She’s ’round Suthen’s thoughts on much, and she’s tremendously lonely up there. She abjectly hates all the people around her.
She’s also an adopted orphan, through two families and group homes, to land with a sinistress as a ‘mother,’ so, she’s a bit biased.
St Cloud is in the general area
I’ve never known FourScore to to turn someone away…
She could report back to you the deviancy/normalacy of the MN/ND/IA/WI(erdo) contingent of Glibs.
*looks pointedly at CPRM*
mmmm hhhmm
I was looking forward to Space Balls 2, but now I realize that I’ve seen it already. This is it. This is basically Space Balls 2.
Yay! Ginger Space Viking Guy is back!!!
What is it with dogs and mud puddles?
The retarded is strong with this one.
Is one of them Bruce Leroy in “The Last Dragon”? He mastered The Glow and even got to hang with Rudy Huxtable
I love your how it got made description.
Two episodes in a row of Pop Culture Crisis with Charlie Kirk in the title. Blaire White and Megyn Kelly crying over the same thing. Couple of friends called me — who are not into politics — called me about it. This whole thing is weird.
It has hit the cultural zeitgeist in a way I never would have expected. He’s become a genuine martyr at this point. People who didn’t give a fuck about Kirk are outraged. I think the very public nature of it has a lot to do with it as others mentioned.
The utterly predictable reaction from all sides is just so… wearying.
I don’t get it but I’m old and out of touch. Fox is in full-blown tears mode. The left is their usual hateful pieces of shit.
It’s not surprising.
It ‘twas boi d to happen, I would like to know how many attempts were made on Rush Limbaugh over the years.
Kirk was in Utah and on a college campus. Both hostile enviroments for Christians.
It cannot be understated how important Kirk was to the team red. There’s a very high chance that Trump isn’t president without Kirk and TPUSA. He was a rock star in younger demographics. My younger son (14), and who is near 100% politically unaware, even posted a RIP on his FB page. He gave young people, young men in particular, a voice. He taught them how to use that voice and win debates. He taught them it isn’t misogynist to say men and women are different. He was mega-important for the future of conservatism.
lol When I was 14 only rock stars were rock stars.
Agree. It’s a fucked up world we live in currently. Young men and school age boys have been forced to get a form of political education just to navigate their young lives. They know what censorship really means because they were actively censored or pushed to self-censor. Many have been taught – in fucking school – for the last several years that they’re bad just for existing. That men, especially white men, are the world’s biggest problem. That their opinion doesn’t matter. That exhibiting anything resembling masculinity is toxic.
Absolutely, Muzzled Woodchipper. I’m a weirdo who listens to international broadcasters, and the way that the ruling class treats “what men (broadly) want” as bad versus “what women (broadly) want” as good is astonishing.
We’ve all heard the thumb-sucking pieces on how men are supposedly becoming more radical and how this is a problem, but it’s never discussed how women are becoming radical. Or how so-called “toxic masculinity” is a thing in common parlance, but toxic femininity/womanhood (consider the dominant culture’s desire, led by women, to “fix” men, starting with that toxic masculinity) is never even considered. Men Going Their Own Way was evil, while the 4B movement was stunning and brave.
A couple of years back, I think at the start of the 2023 school year, RTE in Ireland did a piece on “Does Ireland need more male primary school teachers”. The first woman in the roundtable said something to the effect of “yes, but I need to make clear that this is not about representation — boys can learn just as well from a woman as they can from a man”. Everybody else needs representation but you white boys. Another big point made in the piece was the idea that women gravitate toward education because the academic calendar offers them a work life balance, and how do we make men want that same work life balance?
It goes on, and on, and on, day after day over a wide range of topics. And the only solution offered by the dominant culture has been the beatings will continue until morale improves.
(Semi-related, but the coverage of illegal immigration is even worse in this regard.)
Oh, and local news last night in their intro to an interview with a young man who became a TPUSA supporter in college said, “Experts say his [ie. Charlie Kirk’s, not the interviewee] divisive rhetoric….”
The thing is, if you actually GAF about free speech as a concept or the 1A in particular, Kirk really is a genuine martyr.
Local news is unbelievable – my cable box turns on to the local cable news channel and every single time I turn on my TV if it’s not Weather on the Ones it’s a story about the rEsIsTaNcE, the terror felt by our brave asylum seeker neighbors, and on and on.
I mentioned in one of the dedthreads that Mrs OBE, a non-political creature who only probably feeds off what I bring up, was shaken by the event.
I’m an asocial unemotional asshole in general, so I don’t quite get it. We’ve had loads of political violence the last decade. From riots to assassinations (and more attempts).
I just think most people are a few years behind realizing where we’re really at culturally and politically. It’s kind of weird seeing all these conservatives embrace conspiracies left and right that they would have called me a crackpot for not that long ago. I remember being called crazy for immediately calling bullshit about 1/6 by many who were shook by the media narrative only for them to come around a few years later etc.
There was a fairly large consensus that 1/6 was bullshit.
On the day it happened there sure as fuck wasn’t. Not even among conservatives. On here? Yea, there was a healthy dose of skepticism.
I was barely aware of him before the shooting. From what I can tell, he was an advocate for the right but wanted to talk to the left. Maybe the cold blooded murder of a nonmendacious guy talking to a group of students struck a nerve among normal people.
Yeah, public consensus was going with what the fake news initially reported. Only after most of it was shown to be bullshit did some people come around, with anyone who still only watched CNN/MSDNC not figuring out they were being lied to.
People are getting a taste of what the LARPing fantasies of various factions would be like IRL. People don’t understand how fragile, and how exceptional, a thing it is to have peaceful transitions of power, nonviolent exchange of ideas and a civil society all generally rowing in the same direction.
Get rid of that and we go back to our roots: might makes right, kill or be killed and the biggest tyrant takes over and tyrannizes until a bigger one kills him and starts tyrannizing.
The amazing part is how resilient it has been – not perfect as every leftist is quick to point out but mostly stable and improving for 250 years. The forces trying to tear it all down are relentless but haven’t won yet.
late night ramblings
A libertarian society could only work with a certain amount of conformity, that is self-reliant, live-and-let-live types. They are a rare breed.
The pro-liberty movement faces hurdles for every form of persuasion.
Is it popular?
No.
Does it have authority?
No.
Are its advocates likable?
Not really.
Does it offer something valuable and scarce?
Maybe a little?
Does it foster consistency and commitment?
Not really.
Does it foster reciprocity?
Kind of, but only in the live-and-let-live sense.
Libertarians who think we’ll ever actually build libertopia are naive. The best you can hope for is to have some of our ideas appeal to conservatives and to move the overton window somewhat in our direction.
The time of classical liberalism is long past in this world and it was never really embraced that widely. Even the Founding Fathers who were about as close as we are going to come to an elite class devoted to ideas like ours basically said fuck this shit when they got into power and started doing whacky shit to their opponents.
Frankly, I’m not sure what role libertarianism will play in a world where AI drives the economy and people are put out of work in droves. Cultural libertarianism may have more appeal if the economic shit goes to the wayside.
We’ll all be parasites and have to suck it up and enjoy it.
On its idealized face, AI if ever realized, should be libertarian by design.
Yeah. In practical terms, about the best any one of our ilk can do is move to a red state with an inhospitable climate. Or failing that, a rural part of a blue state like Minnesota.
AI will mean the end or great reduction of many jobs, the same way cars, tractors, planes, TV, and computers displaced older technologies and methods. None of that led to persistent mass unemployment.
Working is overrated anyway. Gimme my purple wage and fast-food robots.
Libertarianism is naive and largely ignorant of human nature. It’s why I left TOS.
I read one or two articles a year there and it’s like being transported back to JHS.
Logical brain will always lose to the emotional brain.
Wait… you found libertarians at TOS? You sure about that?
A “libertarian society” is just one in which authority is very local and it’s possible to escape one locality for another.
4-chan to the rescue
Somewhat credible claim to have identified the assasin
https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1966312516947984812?s=19
Posted a song called Charlie Kirk Dead at 31 a month ago
Think that one was confirmed not it. Just someone fantasizing about it.
From above – I agree, this one is going to hit different.
The one big advantage the left had was that “grab them by the pussy” poisoned the well for many women. Particularly white women like my wife. She is completely irrational when it comes to Trump.
But she has been all-in on Charlie Kirk. She watched Fox all day for 2 days. She has been aghast at what people have been posting. She blocked old friends who celebrated his death.
This is new and different. The excesses of the left have driven men away for a while. But for the first time, this is an issue that stands to drive away white women. People are angry about the assassination, and they are angry about people being callous about murder.
The left has been losing women. At least a certain segment of it. The steadfast comrades of the left are college dis-educated white women and reliant-on-daddy-gov/alimony checks.
No matter how much we might hate academia, we don’t hate it enough. They’ve largely broken an entire generation.
Yup.
from the dead thread
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PAGING DERPOTOLOGIST or really anyone – how hard is Portuguese to learn? There’s a posting for a role I’d be otherwise qualified for. I’m not seriously suggesting I can learn it in a matter of weeks or months, but…how hard IS it?
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Uncle Sam says it’s a category 1 language, same as Spanish and French. This means you’ll need about 600 hours of study to be able to read and understand it at a basic level.
Try this to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfCebqm4C30
Learn whole phrases (questions and answers) instead of single words when possible. Phrases teach you grammar, usage, and give a complete thought. Start with greetings, introductions, adverbs of time and degree, and numbers.
Florida Man does his thing. It wasn’t me.
‘Erratic’ Man With Guns Engages Deputy In Shootout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3Qa9BipWs
suggested music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip5e9NUvX6A
Yesterday was the quickest day I’ve experienced at work, and i kinda-sorta wouldn’t mind if today were the opposite, as Crush should be there today. I hope she helps me decorate Lounge Zone in my Sportage. All euphemisms.. hoped for.
APNews headlines on Top Left and Top Right:
*Choose your America: In the aftermath of the Kirk slaying, a snapshot of a fractured nation
*Fans bid farewell to beloved California octopus Ghost as she cares for eggs in final stage of life
Authorities say stu
I finally see the dichotomy gripping the nation.
(test from PHONE THAT IS FINALLY HERE.)
Happy national video game day!
🕹️👾📺
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxvkI9MTQw4
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, EfE, Derpy, U, homey, Muzzled, and Ted’S.!
How goes?
It goes OK. It’s payday, and I don’t think I have very many gotta-do’s at work. The only thing keeping me from being able to take the afternoon off is having to make a dinner reservation for our Board, which I can’t do until after 3:00 (when the restaurant starts answering their phone.)
How are you?
Well, I slept a relatively normal 11-5. I made it into the office. I picked up some regular dose aspirin on my way in, so I have options. Nothing broke during the network change last night. So that’s three hours of comp time earned that I can’t apply to being out earlier this week because wednesday was pay day so it was earned in a different pay period.
And the board doesn’t need dinner reservations – send them to Taco Bell.
Other than not being able to take your comp time retroactively, that’s pretty good! (As I’ve opined before, that really is a weird pay period schedule!)
Oh, if only it were up to me! 😄
We get paid every other wednesday. The pay period goes thursday to second wednesday.
Who set up the schedule I don’t know. We also have a lag of seveal weeks between the time worked and the paycheck being issued. How this is legal? Because the state said so.
Several weeks??? That’s nuts! 😨
Comptroller Explains it.
I know of no agency on the “current” cycle.
🤦♀️
Just go to the grocery store and buy a vat of Skyline.
Maybe the Governess is on the “current cycle.” 😒
Oh, I wish Skyline were available by the vat! 😋
🤔
I haven’t looked at the Chamber or Legislature. I generally don’t deal with them.
Video game day, huh?
Ok playing some Robocop
lol Every day is video game day.
/checks what’s on sale
Morning, fellow humans.
whaddup cuz
Mornin’, U. Humans? Not sure if I qualify.
Good morning, ‘patzie!
So you admit to being a Synth?
If the shoe fits…
Post I just read on Facebook:
I’m not seeing a reason to ban guns. I’m seeing a reason to carry them.
👍
It used to be all you needed was a pool chain and a straight razor.
Sad.
That reminds me – Anyone know a good manufacturer of shoulder holsters for fat bastards? Preferrably made in the USA.
Is Galco still the standard? I have one that’s largely unused and probably 20 years old.
The Mitch Rosen express line is affordable. The full detail line price might make you cringe a bit.
Thanks.
I’ll check them out after work. (The office and sensible self defense don’t get along)
The Squad among many others immediately turned to banning self-defense like they always do but I’m too in the bubble to sense whether people are finally seeing through that ruse or not.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
The Packers are goody.
My usual early morning brain fart.
I am looking at the reactions to a lot of young, mostly female, leftists. Some of them appear to be suffering a bit of a psychological crisis. I think they are having a cognitive dissonance realization moment. They genuinely had good intentions but suddenly it is starkly obvious that they are forced to defend the cold blooded murder of good people. They are not sure how they got there and they dont know how to get out. They were seduced by the devil and now that the sun is coming up they find that beautiful angel is actually a demon.
The crazy eyes, the twisted faces, the absolute gibberish….I think they have gone insane. This seems to be a minority of them.
Then there is this lot summed up nicely by our friend Hannah Ferguson
“Must we condemn every act of political violence? Should violent views be met with violence? What is the most moral approach and should we take the high road?” – Hannah Ferguson
There it is: Your speech is violence, my violence is speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3f4FFwgPU
In a nutshell left wing violence is caused by right wing hate speech. I wonder if they used a focus group to come up with that strategy?
These really are the worst kinds of people.
The playbook is being followed to a T.
Behold.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Mornin’, yourself!