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The minister's cat is an affable cat  

40Deuce 46M
4633 posts
1/1/2019 1:02 pm

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1/5/2019 10:54 am

The minister's cat is an affable cat


Recently the internet said this to me 'Strippers notably dress very modestly when off work, to avoid developing tan lines.' Do we think this is true ?

A few months back I met and lawyer and we got into a fist fight over the Ashley Judd (remember her ? ) masterpiece Double Jeopardy . You see in this movie Ashley Judd's husband wants to bang another lady so he does the only logical thing he can do - fakes his death and frames Ashley Judd for it . She goes to prison for super murder and he's happily banging away in Scottsdale under and assumed name . She gets paroled after a mere SIX in jail and then immediately violates her probation to hunt down her (still ? ) husband and murder him because she claims she can't be tried for this crime again due to the Double Jeopardy Clause in the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution .

I said that this was not accurate because actually killing said husband would be a different crime altogether whereas someone with an actual law degree said that it's "probably right" . I still think right . Does that mean a stubborn moron who won't admit when they're wrong or an admirable hero who sticks to their guns no matter what ?

While nitpicking movie law a common thing in movies is to show cops randomly and maliciously doing cavity searches on people . This is a serious felony , when performed without a warrant it qualifies under the law as (banned topic) .

The other day I was chatting with someone about something and I used the term Flanderization and she asked what it was . Flanderization is the term (based on the Simpsons character Ned Flanders) people have decided it's fun to use for anti-character development IE instead of a character become more layered over time they become more and more simplistic until they're essentially a caricature of a human being .

I thought about putting a picture of a caricature here - remember when I used to always post a picture ? Better days .

One of the best/worst examples of this is everyone on the the Big Bang Theory but I've attacked them plenty so instead I'll turn a show I love - Community .

Dean Pelton - starts off as a mildly eccentric with a<b> crush </font></b>on Jeff and metamorphoses into a wildly incompetent psycho-stalker that is more or less a gay version of a minstrel character .

There's also a milder version with Shirley , she was always a pretty shallow character but as time goes on pretty much everything she says is either about Jesus or her .

Joey from Friends is another solid example - When the show started he was shallow and vacuous , but was streetwise and still had witty lines and a good deal practicality - like pointing out to a door-to-door salesman the futility of trying to sell a $1,600 encyclopedia set to someone with patio furniture in his living room . By the end of the series , he's incapable of simple math , takes several seconds longer than anyone else to react to sudden surprises , and confuses left and right . Maybe he had a lot of off-screen concussions .

The question is why does this happen so often ? People claim they want character development . I assume the answer is because they want each episode to be more "approachable" . You jump in on season 4 episode 8 of Game of Thrones and you're not going to have any idea what the hell is going on . On the other hand if you have a show where all the characters are stock archetypes - the campy gay dude , the stupid dummy , the shrill Christian mom - you're locked in from the get go .

You know at the end of Vice when the obnoxious right wing jerk and the "libtard" are fighting and the one sexy chick says to the other sexy chick "Are you excited about the new Fast & Furious movie ? It looks lit" . It's like that .

thinking about a new movie idea . The protagonist will be Sledgehamster - a superhero hamster with , surprise , a sledgehammer that he wield with what for a hamster is super-strength . The nemesis will be Pimpsqueak a mouse with a stable of mouse-hos and a full on 70's fashion sense .

It will be a superhero movie in some kind of tiny city for critters . Actually that's move Pimpsqueak from nemesis to an informant of sorts , the big bad of the movie will be Gorillape - half gorilla , half ape , all crime boss . His minions will include Bluzzard (buzzard with ice powers) , Mechamelion (mechanical lion with camouflage) Smashmoth (super strong moth brawlers) and Vaporpoise (porpoise with water powers) .

What's the plot ? I'll figure that out later , just like real Hollywood writers .

Speaking of , whenever I see a really moronic comedy I like to pretend that the writing team that worked on it took it VERY seriously . It's probably not true , it was probably written by two college dudes on mushrooms , but I like to pretend that it's a bunch of dudes in suits sitting in a fancy conference rooms saying things like .

"And then the boner machine will start malfunctioning - which will be the payoff for introducing the boner machine on page 85 ."

"Is that the scene where Fartface and Handcuff Charlie get their testicles glued together ?"

"No that's on page 44 , remember we moved that because in order for the scene to resonate had to establish first that Topless would be watching them through the window ."

"Have we cast Topless yet ?"

"No , we've seen about a 100 actress so far but none of them have had the right sensibility for Topless - without a strong performance from that role we're going to fall into the trap of this being a buddy picture ."

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
1/1/2019 1:04 pm

The minister's cat is a bashful cat

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smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
1/1/2019 1:08 pm

Eh, Flanderization is just the logical outgrowth of everything being dumbed down to the max.


classicalrebel4 68M
1755 posts
1/1/2019 2:46 pm

Never take legal advice from a Hollywood writer. If they were that knowledgeable about the law they would be high priced lawyers instead of dime a dozen hacks.

Please don't let me be misunderstood.


smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
1/4/2019 5:37 pm

Also, the one stripper I know does not dress particularly modestly.


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