Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.

[Tasty]

Eh, you get fired for shit like when you're in a very public role. It's the type of thing that makes it impossible to do interviews. What if Zoe Saldana, mother of three, was getting interviewed during Guardians of the Galaxy press tour and someone is like, hey let me read you some tweets of the director of this film for a children's entertainment company wrote joking about raping kids. There's no way to contain that shit.

This would make sense if it wasn't 7 year old posts. All this time these posts were there when they made the movies and contracted him. It's absurd that it's only a problem now that someone randomly decided that this was worth remembering.

It also makes Disney look like a bunch of idiots.

[nachobro]

the biggest surprise is that gunn was hired by disney in the first place

[Steve Contra]

Eh, you get fired for shit like when you're in a very public role. It's the type of thing that makes it impossible to do interviews. What if Zoe Saldana, mother of three, was getting interviewed during Guardians of the Galaxy press tour and someone is like, hey let me read you some tweets of the director of this film for a children's entertainment company wrote joking about raping kids. There's no way to contain that shit.

This would make sense if it wasn't 7 year old posts. All this time these posts were there when they made the movies and contracted him. It's absurd that it's only a problem now that someone randomly decided that this was worth remembering.

You're missing my point. It's a problem for Disney because someone did remember them and now Gunn is linked with them and it would have been brought up over and over again. I'm sure someone at Disney knew about them and didn't care because no one else was paying attention, but now that it's very public and thrown in their face they have to respond.

[benjipwns]

just remember Tasty, you (and all archives) were hacked, you couldn't have made those posts at that time, and you've turned it over to the FBI for investigation

[Tasty]

just remember Tasty, you (and all archives) were hacked, you couldn't have made those posts at that time, and you've turned it over to the FBI for investigation

Unfortunately with all your doxxing, you'd likely be the prime suspect. Sorry benji.

[Kara]

Never using Twitter under my legal name.

[agrajag]

Not having a Twitter account 

[Joe Molotov]

Not having a legal name so you can’t be forced to pay taxes by the US Admiralty Court. 

[Steve Contra]

Being a stateless AI housed on a libertarian utopia abandoned oil rig 

[Tasty]

All of reality being an elaborate simulation and none of this shit mattering at all

[benjipwns]

Never using Twitter under my legal name.

[Huff]

Paying all my taxes and living as a functioning adult with student loans piling up 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

The Golden Rule of the Internet: Everything you post is public

[chronovore]

the biggest surprise is that gunn was hired by disney in the first place

Yeah, he was in some pretty oddball stuff. Didn't he act as Satan in a series of SFW "porno" short films?

[nachobro]

He did the PG Porn series but I don't remember him playing Satan in that, but he did play Linus in the Peanuts episode. Also his debut film as a writer had a woman turn into a monster with a three foot penis and then have a happy ending where she marries her brother and gives birth to a bunch of inbred childen.

iirc he also wrote that dawn of the dead remake, zack snyder's only good movie

[chronovore]

He did the PG Porn series but I don't remember him playing Satan in that, but he did play Linus in the Peanuts episode. Also his debut film as a writer had a woman turn into a monster with a three foot penis and then have a happy ending where she marries her brother and gives birth to a bunch of inbred childen.

iirc he also wrote that dawn of the dead remake, zack snyder's only good movie

[TVC15]

I don’t care what anyone says: I liked the Giving Tree tweet.

[TVC15]

Also, in the end, this could be the best thing.  Lloyd Kaufmann is set to start shooting Shakespeare’s Shitstorm in a couple months. May as well get the Tromeo and Juliette crew back together.

[paprikastaude]

[chronovore]

https://twitter.com/TheKevinRubio/status/1021152767409209344

[agrajag]

I don’t care what anyone says: I liked the Giving Tree tweet.

This is why you could never be a high profile director of Disney Marvel artfilms.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/TheKevinRubio/status/1021152767409209344

[benjipwns]

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/26/news/companies/papa-johns-lawsuit-john-schnatter/index.html

Papa John sues Papa John's

John Schnatter, the ousted founder of pizza chain Papa John's, is suing his former company.

In a lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday, Schnatter's lawyers say he is seeking to inspect company documents "because of the unexplained and heavy-handed way in which the company has treated him since the publication of a story that falsely accused him of using a racial slur."

Papa John's denied Schnatter's claims in a statement. The company said it was "saddened and disappointed" by the lawsuit, which it called "needless and wasteful."

[Brehvolution]

The company said it was "saddened and disappointed" by the lawsuit, which it called "needless and wasteful."

Just like Papa John's pizza. 

[Stoney Mason]

Haven't done one of these in awhile not because there aren't plenty to pull from but because I don't post as much as I use to.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/media/megyn-kelly-nbc-show-canceled/index.html


This was easy money this jackass would eventually shutter her job at a place less tolerant of her bigotry than fox news.

[Nintex]

Megyn played it smart. She got the big bucks and early retirement.

[Joe Molotov]

a woman whose kids are named thatcher, yardley, and yates

[Yeti]

She should have named them Thatchyr, Yardlyy and Yatys.

[Nintex]

He won't get fired but 
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1056254600121147392

[thisismyusername]

I see he's back on the coke.

[benjipwns]

How would you tell from that tweet compared to his normal state?

He won't get fired because he already "amicably parted" from the cryptocurrency company that hired him as PR CEO.

[benjipwns]

Oh wait, he's signed up for a new one: https://luxcore.io/team

lol at these names

216K155
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER & CORE DEVELOPER , LUXCORE CO-FOUNDER

COSMIN TUDOR
GROWTH OFFICER & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

This is 126K155:


This dude named, of course, Sebastian, actually literally did this in his:

[agrajag]

 

One day I want to wake up to a Tweet saying that Atra has launched an ICO.

[Madrun Badrun]

One day I want to wake up to a Tweet saying that Atra has launched an ICBM

[Madrun Badrun]

BM stands for bowel movement. 

[agrajag]

that's more of TVC's wheelhouse

[Madrun Badrun]

Like 99 red balloons but with shit instead of 99 red balloons. 

[benjipwns]

At the one Libertarian Party debate/event in 2016, McAfee admitted he doesn't know how much money he has or where it's invested.

His coming back from obscurity to share his insanity with the world again after that whole murder charge, double heart attacks, fugitive situation was really the ideal career move.

[Kara]

A lot of bourgeois don't know how much money they have or where it's invested.

[Himu]

Wtf at that McAfee tweet

And I don’t know any black kid who painted themself white as kids for Halloween Megyn. We dealt with it and wore costumes of characters we liked. We knew we weren’t the same race but that was secondary to the character for us. It’s almost like black children have to be mature and developed on race than white adults. I wonder why? Must be because of 60’s war on poverty programs, ain’t that right Megyn?

[benjipwns]

How dare you reduce John McAfee to merely bourgeois. Marx's fourth part of Capital would have been about an entirely separate class for the McAfee/Larry Ellison type.

[benjipwns]

I do think he's said he's put money into nearly every cryptocurrency that comes along and never pulled it out. And never will because that's how THEY get you!

His 2020 platform is supposed to be about replacing the Fed with a cryptocurrency.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1003609544537321473

 

[Kara]

How dare you reduce John McAfee to merely bourgeois. Marx's fourth part of Capital would have been about an entirely separate class for the McAfee/Larry Ellison type.

If there's one thing that didn't exist in Marx's day it's bourgeois who could kill people with impunity.

[Himu]

Why is mcafee so nuts

[benjipwns]

John McAfee's life is probably how Eugene Kapersky wishes he could be living his, except for that whole FSB watchdog ex-wife and five kids crap.

[benjipwns]

[Natalya Kaspersky] believes that all personal data, such as search history, geolocation, contacts, correspondence, photo and video materials, should belong to the State.

[agrajag]

when I bought my last laptop best buy threw in a free kaspersky package on CD, I never opened it

 

[benjipwns]

wait, maybe it's his current wife that's rumored to be the FSB watchdog, the ex bought herself out of the company in 2011

heck, they're probably both FSB amirite

and his "security team" is FSB preventing him from escaping

[benjipwns]

i've been installing ubuntu on my laptops since 2006-ish

i don't think i've truly run an anti-virus on my desktop since Windows 98...if you don't count Windows Defender...i have clamwin installed for the occasional times i want to scan some sketchy looking thing i copyright infringed from a website half in russian

to bring this back to McAfee, he's been telling people to uninstall McAfee, as it's garbage, since the late 90s (he sold it in 1994)...Intel didn't finally rename it until 2014 after that whole murder, fugitive, faking heart attacks, etc. episode...he'd been asking them for years to rename it

[agrajag]

malwarebytes and adaware are the last ones I used

[benjipwns]

oh, i probably used anti-spamware/adware/etc. well into the Vista era, always figured that was a different situation, then the browsers made themselves secure against all that

i think the only time i've ever found anything but cookies on any of my PCs was once and it was a sketchy thing i had downloaded off the KaZaA

[agrajag]

I used to get some nasty bugs from kazaa and the likes, such as trojans that fucked with system registry. A free little tool called hijackthis was great for dealing with those.

[Mandark]

I'm probably the millionth person to say this, but Megyn Kelly blithely defending blackface after she acted super indignant about black mall Santas is pretty precious.

[benjipwns]

talking about Kapersky's FSB watchdogs reminded me of a Tetris related story, but I thought that was going way too off topic (even more so than I had) for here so I stuck it in the Random Gaming Thread: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=33514.msg2521030#msg2521030

[agrajag]

the backwards R in Tetris serves the function of the letter 'Y' in Russian alphabet, making little phonetic sense.

[Kara]

When you learn how to read Cyrillic faux Cyrillic becomes quite nonsensical.

[agrajag]

The P = R and the Y = U always throws people for a loop

[agrajag]

I never could figure out how to pronounce ы

Like a cross between an oo and an ee sound. I'm trying to thing of an English word that replicates that sound, but I can't come up with anything. Maybe the i in bih. Or the i in mobil (the UK style).

Ok, here you go:



Edit: it's pronouncee kind of like the "i" in "sin," now that I think of it.

[agrajag]

Note that the normal "i" sound, like in the word "kill," doesn't exist. Which is why people with the stereotypical Russian accent pronounce it as "keel." Can't speak for all Slavs, but I'm pretty sure it's the same scenario. I know the Ukranian alphabet has the letter "i," but I think it is also used for an "ee" vowel. This is very off topic, maybe there should be a linguistics thread.