Shower Thoughts MK2

[Specter Von Baren]

Shooting near White House that interrupted Trump briefing is under Secret Service review; no gun found on suspect

This offends me. This offends me so much. I get that he must be taken to safety. I understand that, no matter how I feel about the man.

But if there is danger, as the God Damned Leader Of This Nation, you address people who might be in similar danger.

It wasn't even instinctual. He got the news, he looked at the press, and thinks nothing more of it.

Ten Seconds. That's all it takes. "there has been an incident outside. The Police are dealing with it. You are all safe in here. I'm going to be briefed about it now. I'll have secret service post here for additional safety for all of you. If you'll excuse me"

Just act like a human being for once, damnit...

I think this should be its own thread in Current Events.

 

[ObsidianJones]

I think this should be its own thread in Current Events.

I have nothing to say about the police procedure. If there was a shooting and the police did their job, that is textbook.

I was trying to figure out what bothered me so much about it. And I finally got it to words.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

I have nothing to say about the police procedure. If there was a shooting and the police did their job, that is textbook.

I was trying to figure out what bothered me so much about it. And I finally got it to words.

I see. Then that is fine.

I feel like an ass for saying this since the original Shower Thoughts thread was made by you, and so the spirit was embued by you, but I just want to try and make sure this thread is snippets of discussion born of random thoughts rather than a big debate, especially in regards to politics. So I was just trying to make sure that doesn't happen.

 

[Kae]

Not to get too political, but the US presidential race right now kinda feels like an it's the villain of a typical action movie going up against the villain of a Saturday morning cartoon.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Not to get too political, but the US presidential race right now kinda feels like an it's the villain of a typical action movie going up against the villain of a Saturday morning cartoon.

Which is the action movie villain? Both seem like they came out of a cartoon to me.

 

[Kae]

Which is the action movie villain? Both seem like they came out of a cartoon to me.

Nah, Biden looks and talks just like cheesy 80s movie villain, like someone who would be in a Paul Verhooven movie while Trump totally has the voice and attitude of like a cobra commander or Skeletor, just like missing the silly outfit but his face is so orange anyway that he doesn't quite look human anyway.

Admittedly both could very easily be Robocop villains, both of them seem too crazy and over-the-top to actually be real people though.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Which is the action movie villain? Both seem like they came out of a cartoon to me.

Trump is clearly the Saturday morning cartoon character; “Ren and Stimpy” were parodying him decades before his reign of terror actually became a reality.

 

[Kae]

Also not exactly a shower thought, more like just a straight up fact but Robocop is the best movie ever.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Also not exactly a shower thought, more like just a straight up fact but Robocop is the best movie ever.

You take that back. The Goonies is the best movie ever.

 

[Kae]

You take that back. The Goonies is the best movie ever.

It's a good movie, but Robocop is absolute perfection and I will hear no objections!

 

[Mister Mumbler]

It's a good movie, but Robocop is absolute perfection and I will hear no objections!

*cough* Airplane! *cough*

Shower thought: I don't know why everyone got so hung up on masks, however I will concede I'm a little bit weird. A bit of an introvert and growing up watching all of the Sergio Leone westerns, I quite like the opportunity to be allowed, nay encouraged, to dress up like I'm about to rob the bank in Tucumcari (I wear cloth bandanas for my face mask while out and about/at work) and not be pegged as suspicious.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Shower thought: I don't know why everyone got so hung up on masks...

People become petulant children when they're told what to do, especially if that mandate comes from the guh'ment.

I particularly like this line of reasoning by all the newly and self-appointed experts in response to the precautionary measures we've been asked to take by the actual experts: If masks work, why do we need social distancing? If social distancing works, why do we have to stay home?. And the reply I saw was pretty clever: If seat belts work, why do we need air bags? If your air bags work, why bother using the brakes?

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Something I notice when listening to my audiobooks. The times when I'm listening to an Englishman and an American shows up (Be it a character or a real person) the voice they use always sounds like someone from the 1940's to me. Like Casablanca and the like. I don't know if this is just me not noticing my own American accent until someone foreign uses it or that that's the reference point the English have for typical Americans.

 

[Kae]

Something I notice when listening to my audiobooks. The times when I'm listening to an Englishman is that when an American shows up (Be it a character or a real person) the voice they use always sounds like someone from the 1940's to me. Like Casablanca and the like. I don't know if this is just me not noticing my own American accent until someone foreign uses it or that that's the reference point the English have for typical Americans.

I think that's because in drama classes they teach the concept of radio voice, which tends to be based on that, so they're like deliberately doing the performance in that accent, here in México there's a very similar thing where on TV people tend to use an accent that isn't particularly accurate to any region of the country in particular, you know because of like the radio voice, which is supposed to be like a voice that's more universally understood than a regional accent or something.

Edit: I just notice how much I repeat myself, LOL I suck at writing.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

I think that's because in drama classes they teach the concept of radio voice, which tends to be based on that, so they're like deliberately doing the performance in that accent, here in México there's a very similar thing where on TV people tend to use an accent that isn't particularly accurate to any region of the country in particular, you know because of like the radio voice, which is supposed to be like a voice that's more universally understood than a regional accent or something.

Edit: I just notice how much I repeat myself, LOL I suck at writing.

Radio voice?...

But yeah! That makes so much sense! I wish I'd noticed that connection before! That's really interesting.

 

[happyninja42]

I think that's because in drama classes they teach the concept of radio voice, which tends to be based on that, so they're like deliberately doing the performance in that accent, here in México there's a very similar thing where on TV people tend to use an accent that isn't particularly accurate to any region of the country in particular, you know because of like the radio voice, which is supposed to be like a voice that's more universally understood than a regional accent or something.

Edit: I just notice how much I repeat myself, LOL I suck at writing.

Well it's also since the narrator of the audiobook might have to have over a dozen distinct voices, they will tend to exaggerate some aspect of each character, so that the reader can easily differentiate who is speaking. This is also something they do when they are narrating someone of the opposite gender. That's usually my biggest metric for a good audiobook narrator, is how well they do the voices for the opposite. As that's usually where they break me. Somebody doing a really deep southern drawl for Joe American, while annoying, I mean, it's not like I don't hear people actually talk like that every fucking day, so I can't really say it's inaccurate. But someone with a really deep, gravely voice, trying to say, voice a 10 year old girl. Or a woman with a higher range of voice, trying to do Gruffy McGruffFace, the 75 year old mentor who sounds like....shit that singer who was famous for having a really gravely voice. Smoke and drank a lot, was a blues/jazz singer....fuck what was his name? Well, anyway, that guy.

TOM WAITS!! That's his name! But yeah, a woman with a high voice, trying to sound like Tom Waits, or Tom Waits, trying to sound like Shirley Temple. THAT is where I'm like "yeeeeeah, I think I'm done with this book." Accents though, eh, I see the reason for them. It's basically audo short hand for the listener. Because not all authors do the "Jessie said" "Billy said" as regularly as others. So it will sometimes just be dialogue, then a switch, then back, without any written indicator of who said it. So listening to that, makes it difficult. But the voices, that's how you can tell "Oh, Jessie said that, and then Billy replied."

 

[Kae]

Isn't it kinda funny that anarchists have a fame of being dangerous punk terrorists that want to destroy the establishment through violence, yet the majority of anarchists are just bleeding hearts basically hippies that are mostly just kinda chill and generally very stoned?

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Isn't it kinda funny that anarchists have a fame of being dangerous punk terrorists that want to destroy the establishment through violence, yet the majority of anarchists are just bleeding hearts basically hippies that are mostly just kinda chill and generally very stoned?

Depends on what generation of anarchists you're talking about.

 

[Kae]

Depends on what generation of anarchists you're talking about.

I'm talking about the current one (The one where I belong because I'm one of these foolish anarchists), but I'm Mexican it would be foolish of me not to acknowledge the anarchist revolutionaries considering one of our most revered historical heroes the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was an Anarchist, and there's actually a currently functioning anarchist separatist state in Chiapas called the Zapatistas, so it's not like I'm unaware of that, but seriously most anarchists are just stoners, though I may just be saying that because I'm mad that they think I can't handle Acid because I've never done drugs before.
Though to be honest I didn't really want to do Acid, I was just really bored and started pestering my friends over it.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Guys, I just discovered mustache horses.

Edit: For that matter, mustache dogs are the best dogs.