Things that strangely went completely over people's heads

[Raist]

So in TDKR, I'm sure you all remember this exchange between Littlefinger and Bane at the beginning of the movie:

LF: If I pull that off, would you die?
Bane: It would be extremely painful.
LF: You're a big guy!
Bane: For you.

A mindbogglingly large number of people thought Bane's last line refers to "You're a big guy!". Which makes no goddamn sense

Do people have the memory of an amnesiac goldfish and can only remember the last spoken line? Did the delivery throw them off? Is Nolan a master troll?
Who knows.


Anything that made you think "Wait, are you fucking stupid?", brehs?

[zomgee]

I...

I just understood that exchange for the first time.

  THANKS! 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

I attended a class in college that was about analyzing that scene from TDKR. I can't find my 20 page essay on it right now, but the scene is going over your head too OP.

[TakingBackSunday]

I attended a class in college that was about analyzing that scene from TDKR. I can't find my 20 page essay on it right now, but the scene is going over your head too OP.

that sounds like a waste of tuition

[Momo]

So in TDKR, I'm sure you all remember this exchange between Littlefinger and Bane at the beginning of the movie:

LF: If I pull that off, would you die?
Bane: It would be extremely painful.
LF: You're a big guy!
Bane: For you.

A mindbogglingly large number of people thought Bane's last line refers to "You're a big guy!". Which makes no goddamn sense

Do people have the memory of an amnesiac goldfish and can only remember the last spoken line? Did the delivery throw them off? Is Nolan a master troll?
Who knows.


Anything that made you think "Wait, are you fucking stupid?", brehs?

I understood this, but the joke is really that the audio is terribly scripted and edited

[Tasty]

That Starship Troopers was a satire.

[Momo]

That Starship Troopers was a satire.

Related : That Robocop was. It's the only way I can reconcile that awful reboot that tried to play it straight or whatever the fuck they were doing.

[Mandark]

People enjoying the Adam West Batman "ironically" and not realizing it's deliberate camp.

[thisismyusername]

So in TDKR, I'm sure you all remember this exchange between Littlefinger and Bane at the beginning of the movie:

LF: If I pull that off, would you die?
Bane: It would be extremely painful.
LF: You're a big guy!
Bane: For you.

A mindbogglingly large number of people thought Bane's last line refers to "You're a big guy!". Which makes no goddamn sense

Do people have the memory of an amnesiac goldfish and can only remember the last spoken line? Did the delivery throw them off? Is Nolan a master troll?
Who knows.


Anything that made you think "Wait, are you fucking stupid?", brehs?

I understood this, but the joke is really that the audio is terribly scripted and edited

Exactly this. Also it gave us Baneposting, so there's no bad thing there.

[I'm a Puppy!]

This whole thread. People actually didn't get all that? 


It seems impossible to miss.

[chronovore]

People watch Fight Club and think it's a positive statement about how awesome Tyler Durden is, and how great it would be to ditch the mainstream lifestyle and live as a sexy anarchist criminal. It's actually about the destructiveness of hero worship and the cult of personality, and how a search for individual self-actualization can't be found by becoming a follower in someone else's ideology. Many people skip over the fact that Tyler's supposedly an anarchist, anti-establishment, but is the leader of Project Mayhem, which is run in a cult- or military-like fashion.

People enjoying the Adam West Batman "ironically" and not realizing it's deliberate camp.

When I was a kid, I thought Adam West's Batman was high adventure. When I became a teen, I enjoyed it all over again as a comedy. Truly gold.

[Atramental]

Oh. This thread just reminded me of something. 



edit: the "I mean" would've helped Bane's line make more sense.

[nudemacusers]

Skinny jeans

Raf simons ss 2008

Metallic accessories

Fur

[TVC15]

I attended a class in college that was about analyzing that scene from TDKR. I can't find my 20 page essay on it right now, but the scene is going over your head too OP.

that sounds like a waste of tuition

At least it wasn’t a gender studies class.

[benjipwns]

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[benjipwns]

"Toward a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies" by Greta Gaard, I keep a copy of it in my Dropbox and it's the only paper I ever recommended on an academia.edu-like site that I forget the name of but everyone in my two prior departments was using it instead. (Well, actually I had two papers on there I had listed as recommended but the other one was a major conference award winning political science paper, that was blatantly and beyond lazily plagiarized (I figured something was wrong when the seventh paragraph was word for word the same as the third...that was actually the least egregious error) and didn't even begin to try to do any basic methods properly...but they took it down after a year or so when the guys degrees were revoked.)

Because milk is produced by female mammals, a feminist perspective seems to offer a logical foundation for such inquiry. From the start, feminism has been a movement for justice: at its heart is the centrality of praxis, the necessary linkage of intellectual, political, and activist work. Feminist methodology puts the lives of the oppressed at the center of the research question and undertakes studies, gathers data, and interrogates material contexts with the primary aim of improving the lives and the material conditions of the oppressed. Using standard feminist methodology, twentieth-century vegan feminists and animal ecofeminists challenged animal suffering in its many manifestations (in scientific research, and specifically in the feminized beauty and cleaning products industries; in dairy, egg, and animal food production; in “pet” keeping and breeding, zoos, rodeos, hunting, fur, and clothing) by developing a feminist theoretical perspective on the intersections of species, gender, race, class, sexuality, and nature. Motivated by an intellectual and experiential understanding of the mutually reinforcing interconnections among diverse forms of oppression, vegan feminists and ecofeminists positioned their own liberation and well-being as variously raced, classed, gendered, and sexual humans to be fundamentally interconnected to the well-being of other nondominant human and animal species, augmenting Patricia Hill Collins’s definition of intersectionality to include species as well.

In California and Wisconsin, rows of cows are lined up in stalls, with metal suction cups pumping on their teats, extracting milk; on the May 21, 2012,cover of Time magazine, a twenty-six-year-old mother is pictured, breastfeeding her three-year-old son.

Which image is more shocking? Ideologically imprisoned in a humanist colonial framework, few human mothers who breastfeed their infants use this embodied experience as an avenue for empathizing with other mammal mothers; few human parents who touch and nurture their newborns have used these behaviors’ affectionate oxytocin release as an opportunity to consider the experiences of other animal parents locked in systems of human captivity. Feminist milk studies addresses the bio-psycho-social connections produced through the behavioral and material elements of this first relationship, the mother–infant bond, and their nursing milk

For too long, the dominant culture has childishly projected its own gendered image onto nature as selfless and self-sacrificing mother, as in Shel Silverstein’s book The Giving Tree, or onto other mammal species, requiring the female bovine to symbolize maternal nature: mindless, patient, slow-moving, lactating. If we set aside this stereotype and look into her eyes, what can we see?

Can read/download: http://www.academia.edu/4357706/Toward_a_Feminist_Postcolonial_Milk_Studies

NeoGAF.com thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1021396

I actually did not know Gaard was semi-famous and not just some regular shitty person in academia until the GAF thread. MOBLIN SIGHTING WITH DETAILED INFO ON HER. DOXX ALERT.

[CADborted]

[benjipwns]

It was probably around then that I started getting warned and then banned for posting threads for articles "in bad faith" like how KKKlorox Bleach was promoting ethnic cleansing or The Hallmark Channel was a holiday hotbed of white supremacy. (Wait, that last one was here...where I don't get banned for shitty threads, just ignored.)

As Not and ModBot helpfully saved the forum from when I posted this article a year later from The Federalist about what woman really want: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1207634

What would posting about this article on GAF do to convince the author and the commenters otherwise, or solve the systemic social issue of ingrained religious misogyny in any way?

Are we planning on screencapping the incoming sure-to-be-solid deconstructions of their arguments and using them to reply to every single one of the comments on the linked conservative website? Just let me know what the endgame is here.

From the author of "With A Beard, Paul Ryan Exudes Manliness", "Practically no one is transgender", "Pro-Lifers are Today's Abolitionists", and "5 Things Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Capitalism" and the GAF poster who troll-posted "Towards A Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies", Milo's "Promiscuous Feminist Bullies Tearing The Video Game Industry Apart", and the hit Jim Gilmore 2016 |OT| comes this thread that I just locked!

But the two years before 2015-ish I have a whole host of shit-tier garbage threads I made about stupid articles for the sole purpose of making fun of them as a group, though these two random news stories just amused me quite a bit:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=786474
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=902417

[benjipwns]

looked up that Milo thread ModBot mentioned...
GAF: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=886967 LOCKED WITHIN TEN MINUTES
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THE BORE

[seagrams hotsauce]

When something bad happens to someone bad and someone goes "karma's a bitch"

Karma doesn't work like that dummy

[Himu]

People watch Fight Club and think it's a positive statement about how awesome Tyler Durden is, and how great it would be to ditch the mainstream lifestyle and live as a sexy anarchist criminal. It's actually about the destructiveness of hero worship and the cult of personality, and how a search for individual self-actualization can't be found by becoming a follower in someone else's ideology. Many people skip over the fact that Tyler's supposedly an anarchist, anti-establishment, but is the leader of Project Mayhem, which is run in a cult- or military-like fashion.

People enjoying the Adam West Batman "ironically" and not realizing it's deliberate camp.

When I was a kid, I thought Adam West's Batman was high adventure. When I became a teen, I enjoyed it all over again as a comedy. Truly gold.

Your perspective of Fight Club kind of depends on the age you see it. What you get out of it at 15-22 is much different than what you get at it from 28-40. That's really the same for most movies, as the older you get, you identify more with the older characters. There's an entire generation of people that loved Ferris Bueller for years, until they hit like 25 and up and realized he was a fucking asshole that makes everyone around him suffer.

Also holy shit if there is anyone that watches Adam West Batman and doesn't realize it's intentionally ultra camp. Like...loooooooooooooooool.

Ferris was not an asshole!!!

[jorma]

When something bad happens to someone bad and someone goes "karma's a bitch"

Karma doesn't work like that dummy

Well i guess i need some education then because I've been living my entire life thinking that's exactly how karma works, at least when it's being a bitch.
No need to wait for future lives, you reap what you sow in this life as well as your next.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The fact that characters like Walter White, Don Draper and Rick aren't meant to be role models.

[TVC15]

The fact that characters like Walter White, Don Draper and Rick aren't meant to be role models.

You should be more specific when referring to “Rick.” I wouldn’t want people to think you were implying Ravishing Rick Rude shouldn’t be a role model.

[Himu]

When something bad happens to someone bad and someone goes "karma's a bitch"

Karma doesn't work like that dummy

Well i guess i need some education then because I've been living my entire life thinking that's exactly how karma works, at least when it's being a bitch.
No need to wait for future lives, you reap what you sow in this life as well as your next.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/cause-and-effect/

[jorma]

When something bad happens to someone bad and someone goes "karma's a bitch"

Karma doesn't work like that dummy

Well i guess i need some education then because I've been living my entire life thinking that's exactly how karma works, at least when it's being a bitch.
No need to wait for future lives, you reap what you sow in this life as well as your next.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/cause-and-effect/

Ok so i didn't read ALL of that,  but i found this quote in that text:
"We perform an action, and sometime later we begin to experience its results. We plant a mango seed, and many years later we taste the fruit."

Seems like bad things will happen to bad people because karma is a bitch.

[HardcoreRetro]

This song. The translated text would be "Freedom is a filled up Mercedes."

Guy that sings the song was an anti-capitalist hippy. People in the comments bragging about their cool new car. His biggest hit over here would read translated: "Am I not good enough because your parents have more money than mine."

The comments always make me laugh.

[Himu]

When something bad happens to someone bad and someone goes "karma's a bitch"

Karma doesn't work like that dummy

Well i guess i need some education then because I've been living my entire life thinking that's exactly how karma works, at least when it's being a bitch.
No need to wait for future lives, you reap what you sow in this life as well as your next.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/cause-and-effect/

Ok so i didn't read ALL of that,  but i found this quote in that text:
"We perform an action, and sometime later we begin to experience its results. We plant a mango seed, and many years later we taste the fruit."

Seems like bad things will happen to bad people because karma is a bitch.

Not necessarily.

Being President of the United States or any country requires you to be a certain kind of person. Someone who is willing to say yes to killing people - sometimes potentially innocents. Obama signed off on those drone wars in the arab world. Obama has killed people. Not with his own hands, mind you. But he's killed people nonetheless.

Do you think something bad will happen to Obama because of that? Do you think something bad will happen to those who use the general populace and make themselves richer? Or are they more likely to sleep soundly at night?

It does, however, affect others. Karma merely means action. There's good action (karma) and bad action (karma) but it is not a boomerang that comes back.

[jorma]

When something bad happens to someone bad and someone goes "karma's a bitch"

Karma doesn't work like that dummy

Well i guess i need some education then because I've been living my entire life thinking that's exactly how karma works, at least when it's being a bitch.
No need to wait for future lives, you reap what you sow in this life as well as your next.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/cause-and-effect/

Ok so i didn't read ALL of that,  but i found this quote in that text:
"We perform an action, and sometime later we begin to experience its results. We plant a mango seed, and many years later we taste the fruit."

Seems like bad things will happen to bad people because karma is a bitch.

Not necessarily.

Being President of the United States or any country requires you to be a certain kind of person. Someone who is willing to say yes to killing people - sometimes potentially innocents. Obama signed off on those drone wars in the arab world. Obama has killed people. Not with his own hands, mind you. But he's killed people nonetheless.

Do you think something bad will happen to Obama because of that? Do you think something bad will happen to those who use the general populace and make themselves richer? Or are they more likely to sleep soundly at night?

It does, however, affect others. Karma merely means action. There's good action (karma) and bad action (karma) but it is not a boomerang that comes back.

Thats not what wikipedia says, and not the tricycle quote either. If Obama and his intentions were bad, then bad things will happen to him because of bad karma being a bitch.

But if you ask me if i actually believe that something bad is bound to happen to Obama because of his war crimes during his presidency, then obviously no. I don't actually believe in karma or fate or lady fortuna or any of that shit and i go all  when someone in my surroundings claims he does. Or when they try to use the word "mindfulness" in a real sentence.

That never stopped me from saying "karma is a bitch" when bad things happens to bad people though.

[Himu]

Jesus Christ.

Things that strangely went completely over people's heads, indeed.

[Joe Molotov]

looked up that Milo thread ModBot mentioned...
GAF: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=886967 LOCKED WITHIN TEN MINUTES
BORE: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42254.0 TWO PAGES OF MOCKERY, A KELLY CARTOON, LIKES FOR MANY, METHODIS RAGE

THE BORE

READ IT AND WIIP!

[fistfulofmetal]

Something that has gone over my head until recently:

I never realized that the Death Star in Return of the Jedi wasn't the same from the first movie, rather the half destroyed Death Star from the first movie. I always thought it was stupid and bad that you saw the DS fucking explode but then see it only half destroyed two movies later.

But it was me who was stupid. Now it makes sense why people give these movies shit for reusing the Death Star three different times.

[ToxicAdam]

I thought people always missed the boat on Fox News slogan. They take it literally when it's supposed to be taken with the context that the mainstream media is left-leaning.

So, it's wasn't that they are fair and balanced, but their work brings balance and fairness to the mainstream.

[benjipwns]

I think that's maybe overthinking it too much? To take an example from one of their anchors, Brit Hume (and Bret Baier still does last I knew) would always use post-9/11 "fair, balanced and unafraid" as his sign off for Special Report. Which seems like a statement about their programming itself.

Although:

Fox News Channel originally used the slogan "Fair and Balanced", which was coined by network co-founder Roger Ailes while the network was being established. The New York Times described the slogan as being both a "blunt signal that Fox News planned to counteract what Mr. Ailes and many others viewed as a liberal bias ingrained in television coverage by establishment news networks."

Also, I just learned that apparently because Ailes came up with it is why they dumped it after they dumped him.

[Let's Cyber]

The fact that characters like Walter White, Don Draper and Rick aren't meant to be role models.

Yeah. I was always weirded out by the rabid fascination online for Walter White, usually for all the wrong reasons.

Draper was always a tragic character, anyone idolizing him just because he got laid a lot is either dumb or not paying attention.

[Kara]

That Starship Troopers was a satire.

Related : That Robocop was.

Starship Troopers is a documentary. Robocop is a documentary.

[VomKriege]

How can you take Robocop for anything else than satire (unless you're a young kid) ? 
Starship Troopers I can see, it's outrageous but confusion is clearly the intent at some level here, though it's pretty shameful that some professional critics "who studied filmmaking their whole life" (© ResetEra) took it at face value when any passing familiarity with Verhoeven should be enough to avoid missing the point that much (unless you've only seen De Vierde Man and Basic Instinct and thought they played it straight too, somehow).

[mormapope]

The fact that characters like Walter White, Don Draper and Rick aren't meant to be role models.

Ill never forget The Breaking Bad threads on NeoGaf for the last two seasons. Like, someone that makes hundreds of thousands of meth by the pound, and he's actually a hero because of family.

[chronovore]

How can you take Robocop for anything else than satire (unless you're a young kid) ? 
Starship Troopers I can see, it's outrageous but confusion is clearly the intent at some level here, though it's pretty shameful that some professional critics "who studied filmmaking their whole life" (© ResetEra) took it at face value when any passing familiarity with Verhoeven should be enough to avoid missing the point that much (unless you've only seen De Vierde Man and Basic Instinct and thought they played it straight too, somehow).

Just curious: when we refer to various other forums, can we adopt the short hand, "et resetera"?

[samfish]

My first Adult Job many years ago convinced me that I must have previously been a Nazi guard at Auschwitz and that karma was indeed a bitch.

[Joe Molotov]

That Starship Troopers was a satire.

Related : That Robocop was.

Starship Troopers is a documentary. Robocop is a documentary.

Highlander is a documentary and it was filmed in real time.

[Momo]

That Starship Troopers was a satire.

Related : That Robocop was.

Starship Troopers is a documentary. Robocop is a documentary.

Highlander is a documentary and it was filmed in real time.

Legend of the overfiend is based on famous battles which actually took place in ancient Japan

[Kara]

Highlander is a documentary and it was filmed in real time.

I agree Joe, satire is a deliberate misrepresentation of something so wracked by redundancy that it takes on the tediousness of a child's joke--"orange you glad I didn't say banana?" for example--while other works may from time to time include satirical moments or elements without themselves becoming satires. (Genre categorizations are after all far more nuanced than American one-drop rules.)

[TVC15]

I’d rather see my only son raped to death by rabid, wild dogs than see even a fraction of a frame of a Highlander movie. Highlander is truly the worst humanity has come up with. Sub-Dune, even.