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[Drathnoxis]

I hate the "Always" bumper stickers I see on cars. Snape was NOT a good person. At all. His unrequited love for Mama Potter doesn't excuse him being an absolute shit to Harry, and torturing him for years with physical and psychological abuse.

Sure it seems oh so romantic from the outside, and because Alan Rickman is a boss actor who can make someone as irredeemable as Snape seem nice, but it's really not.

I mean, think about their actual dynamic. Snape is that guy in highschool, that had the hots for a girl, and kind of stalked her for years. Not the guy she married and had kids with, the Other Guy.

Would anyone really want the Other Guy, to proceed to harrass and abuse their child after they are dead? Because he didn't get to fuck her in highschool? Always, shove that Always up your ass Snape, you are not a good "dark hero." You were a petty, spiteful man, who never got over the girl who turned him down in school. Woopty doo.

Yeah, it was a pretty lame cap to Snape's character. Just made him pathetic and creepy. Deathly Hallows was the worst Potter book by far, though, and Snape's stalking wasn't even close to being the worst part.

 

[Marik2]

Eric Cartman was alt right before it was cool.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Eric Cartman was alt right before it was cool.

Which is sad. Because a lot of people looked at a mockery of outdated social norms and said "Yeah... yeah.. I can get into this!"

 

[BrawlMan]

Eric Cartman was alt right before it was cool.

Which is sad. Because a lot of people looked at a mockery of outdated social norms and said "Yeah... yeah.. I can get into this!"

Which goes to show like the misaimed fandom Tony Montana, Tyler Durden, and Rick Sanchez that they're a pack of pathetic, imbeciles with nothing better to do with their lives. I don't feel "sad" nor do I pity such pettiness. For people like that, I always think of this.

 

[bluegate]

If I were to fall down a flight of stairs, would I break my neck, arms or legs, or would I just have a couple of bruises...🤔

 

[Xprimentyl]

Amazon is basically the progenitor of the Borg. Think about it: Amazon assimilates everything, the working conditions within their facilities is not unlike that of the highly efficient, soulless bustle within a Borg cube, and seeing as when I simply thought about buying the Ocean?s 11 trilogy on Blu-ray, it was a mere 14 seconds later before the package arrived, it?s clear that it?s Amazon?s end goal to send ?boxes? at impossible warp speeds throughout the universe. It's also clear that resistance is futile.

 

[Marik2]

Manipulation is the engineering of consent.

Camwhoring is virtual softcore prostitution.

 

[EvilRoy]

I watched a bounty comercial (the disposable paper towel) where a little red headed kid fumbles what appears to be a dumping out of chopsticks, blows his sauce across the room, and the day is saved blah blah blah.

All I can think of is... you know multiculturalism is good, but it is a cold day in hell before any of the younger ones in my family is allowed to use chopsticks. Ain't enough trees in the world for the paper towel I would need - they already destroy rooms just failing to succeed with spoons.

 

[Marik2]

Michael Jackson is probably the most famous and financially successful trans ethnic person.

 

[Asita]

Michael Jackson is probably the most famous and financially successful trans ethnic person.

Bit of a misconception, actually. While commonly accused/suspected of bleaching his skin, Michael Jackson had consistently claimed that his lightening skin was attributable to Vitiligo, in which the body's skin pigment cells are gradually destroyed. Jackson was actually formally diagnosed with the condition in 1986, and the symptoms were likely exacerbated by the use of makeup and prescription creams to mask the resulting blotchy patches on his skin. This is anecdotally corroborated by his family, and his autopsy confirmed the presence of the condition.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Michael Jackson is probably the most famous and financially successful trans ethnic person.

Bit of a misconception, actually. While commonly accused/suspected of bleaching his skin, Michael Jackson had consistently claimed that his lightening skin was attributable to Vitiligo, in which the body's skin pigment cells are gradually destroyed. Jackson was actually formally diagnosed with the condition in 1986, and the symptoms were likely exacerbated by the use of makeup and prescription creams to mask the resulting blotchy patches on his skin. This is anecdotally corroborated by his family, and his autopsy confirmed the presence of the condition.

Considering the medical evidence and other confirmed cases of Vitiligo affecting (nearly) the whole body, it's very likely, yes. Though Vitiligo has a strong genetic component, so somewhat odd none of the other Jackson's have the condition. Could just be chance and Michael simply drew the short stick. Or one or more family members do also have it, but to a much less noticeable degree and manageable with make-up.

That could make all the plastic surgery making his features more causasian looking in the late 80's/early 90's just a coincidental stopgap in his dream of becoming a Ghoul.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I was in the shower thinking about Marisa Tomei, and the question hit me: during the final courtroom scene in My Cousin Vinny, what piece of evidence did Vinny suddenly recognize in the photo of the tire tracks that led him to call Mona Lisa to the stand to deliver the expert testimony that cleared his clients of guilt? I never got the impression throughout the film that he was an equally adept mechanic as Mona Lisa let alone so brilliant to have deduced in seconds the complex and logic and reason she confidently posits much to the astonishment of the courtroom.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

I was in the shower thinking about Marisa Tomei, and the question hit me: during the final courtroom scene in My Cousin Vinny, what piece of evidence did Vinny suddenly recognize in the photo of the tire tracks that led him to call Mona Lisa to the stand to deliver the expert testimony that cleared his clients of guilt? I never got the impression throughout the film that he was an equally adept mechanic as Mona Lisa let alone so brilliant to have deduced in seconds the complex and logic and reason she confidently posits much to the astonishment of the courtroom.

To me, the tiretracks just look considerably lighter to the naked eye. The smaller picture's tiretracks look unquestionably thicker in my opinion.

But it's a far away angle. Which leads to the next question, what detail could Tomei actually have gleamed from the bigger, far away picture?

 

[Asita]

I was in the shower thinking about Marisa Tomei, and the question hit me: during the final courtroom scene in My Cousin Vinny, what piece of evidence did Vinny suddenly recognize in the photo of the tire tracks that led him to call Mona Lisa to the stand to deliver the expert testimony that cleared his clients of guilt? I never got the impression throughout the film that he was an equally adept mechanic as Mona Lisa let alone so brilliant to have deduced in seconds the complex and logic and reason she confidently posits much to the astonishment of the courtroom.

It's not particularly hammered on, but Vinny does imply a reasonably robust mechanical background just after the arraignment. In the scene, he's explaining to Lisa why - despite graduating law school - he doesn't know courtroom procedure.

Spoiler

Lisa: Didn't they teach that in Law school?
Vinny: No, they didn't. They teach you contracts, precedence, interpretations. Then the firm that hires you, they teach you procedures. Or you can go to court and watch.
Lisa: So why don't you go to court and watch?
Vinny: Because, between your father's garage and working nights, when was I supposed to go?
I thought this summer I would take off a couple of months. But it ain't no big deal.
Lisa: Are you sure?
Vinny: Yes, I'm sure.
Lisa: How can you be so sure when you don't|know what it is you're supposed to know?
Vinny: It's a procedure. Like rebuilding a carburetor has a procedure. You know how the first thing you do is you take the carburetor off the manifold? Suppose you skip the first step, and as you're replacing one of the jets, you drop the jet. It goes down, rolls along the manifold and into the head. You're fucked. You've learned the hard way that you gotta remove the carburetor first. That's what happened to me today. I learned the hard way. Actually, it was a good learning experience for me.

The guy might not have the near-encyclopedic knowledge of his fiancee, but if the he's been consistently working as a mechanic, it's not unreasonable to assume that he'd have some understanding of different car components (eg, a solid rear axle vs an independent rear suspension, types of differentials, such as positraction, etc).

 

[Xprimentyl]

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To me, the tiretracks just look considerably lighter to the naked eye. The smaller picture's tiretracks look unquestionably thicker in my opinion.

But it's a far away angle. Which leads to the next question, what detail could Tomei actually have gleamed from the bigger, far away picture?

Yeah, that makes some sense, but it?s clear in the scene he saw something damning which suggests he was going on a bit more than a hunch over which he put up a ?Hail Mary? and called on his mechanic wife who he had to have known would have been severely scrutinized being so last-minute and without an objective ?expert? designation.

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It's not particularly hammered on, but Vinny does imply a reasonably robust mechanical background just after the arraignment. In the scene, he's explaining to Lisa why - despite graduating law school - he doesn't know courtroom procedure.

Spoiler

Lisa: Didn't they teach that in Law school?
Vinny: No, they didn't. They teach you contracts, precedence, interpretations. Then the firm that hires you, they teach you procedures. Or you can go to court and watch.
Lisa: So why don't you go to court and watch?
Vinny: Because, between your father's garage and working nights, when was I supposed to go?
I thought this summer I would take off a couple of months. But it ain't no big deal.
Lisa: Are you sure?
Vinny: Yes, I'm sure.
Lisa: How can you be so sure when you don't|know what it is you're supposed to know?
Vinny: It's a procedure. Like rebuilding a carburetor has a procedure. You know how the first thing you do is you take the carburetor off the manifold? Suppose you skip the first step, and as you're replacing one of the jets, you drop the jet. It goes down, rolls along the manifold and into the head. You're fucked. You've learned the hard way that you gotta remove the carburetor first. That's what happened to me today. I learned the hard way. Actually, it was a good learning experience for me.

The guy might not have the near-encyclopedic knowledge of his fiancee, but if the he's been consistently working as a mechanic, it's not unreasonable to assume that he'd have some understanding of different car components (eg, a solid rear axle vs an independent rear suspension, types of differentials, such as positraction, etc).

That makes more sense, and I?d forgotten that little exchange where he mentions working in her dad?s shop, but if that were true, it goes back to the point I made with ObsidionJones: he?d already recognized something substantially damning in the photo, and if he had that significant enough mechanical know-how to have figured it out, why call on Mona Lisa? Why not recall the prosecution?s already established expert and posit the questions to him? I mean the facts were the facts; Mona Lisa made it plain and the expert could not refute any of it, so why risk her clearly biased testimony (wife of the defending attorney) or worse, that she might not suss out what Vinny had seemed to have already on his own? I know it works for a satisfactorily triumphant cinematic moment, but the logical part of my brain sees it as an unnecessarily risky play with a prosecution and judge that?d attempted to ?eat his lunch? at every opportunity.

I should just keep my ?90s Marisa Tomei shower thoughts purely sexual.

 

[Asita]

That makes more sense, and I?d forgotten that little exchange where he mentions working in her dad?s shop, but if that were true, it goes back to the point I made with ObsidionJones: he?d already recognized something substantially damning in the photo, and if he had that significant enough mechanical know-how to have figured it out, why call on Mona Lisa? Why not recall the prosecution?s already established expert and posit the questions to him? I mean the facts were the facts; Mona Lisa made it plain and the expert could not refute any of it, so why risk her clearly biased testimony (wife of the defending attorney) or worse, that she might not suss out what Vinny had seemed to have already on his own? I know it works for a satisfactorily triumphant cinematic moment, but the logical part of my brain sees it as an unnecessarily risky play with a prosecution and judge that?d attempted to ?eat his lunch? at every opportunity.

I should just keep my ?90s Marisa Tomei shower thoughts purely sexual.

Lawyers have an adage to the effect of "Never ask a witness a question that you don't already know the answer to". In fact, we see the dangers of ignoring this rule twice in the film, once when the public defender accidentally makes the witness's case stronger by having him demonstrate his visual acuity, and once by the prosecutor when he asks Lisa to demonstrate her knowledge.

Vinny hadn't had the opportunity to acquaint himself with the prosecution's expert, so was not in a position to anticipate his responses. With Lisa, however, he was intimately familiar with her extensive automotive knowledge and ability to tie individual features to a specific make, model, and year of car, and their shared mechanical experience meant that if he was able to infer that the defendants' car couldn't have made the tire marks in the picture, Lisa almost certainly could do the same. We can further surmise that if she didn't immediately realize that, he could then turn around and ask about whether a car without one of the traits necessary to make those marks could have done so, thereby leading into a similar scene to what occurred in the film. Simply put, he knew he could get the answer he needed from Lisa, and could not simply assume that he could get it from the prosecution's expert.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Are pigeons secretly Sith Lords?

Spoiler: pigeon eye

Spoiler: Sith eye

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Are pigeons secretly Sith Lords?

Spoiler: pigeon eye

Spoiler: Sith eye

Or could it be Sith Lords are secretly pigeons? That the only reason they are thought of as evil is because they have no concept of morality and are restricted in thinking only to serve themselves in the most primal of means? That perhaps even greater evil lies in slumber ready to be awoken; the seagull Sith?

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Are pigeons secretly Sith Lords?

Spoiler: pigeon eye

Spoiler: Sith eye

Or could it be Sith Lords are secretly pigeons? That the only reason they are thought of as evil is because they have no concept of morality and are restricted in thinking only to serve themselves in the most primal of means? That perhaps even greater evil lies in slumber ready to be awoken; the seagull Sith?

Maybe, but that only makes sense if Sith also shit all over everything.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Maybe, but that only makes sense if Sith also shit all over everything.

Just because you aren't shown it, don't mean it don't happen. Sounds like the type of evil shitty thing they'd do anyway if they were given enough leeway with the films' age ratings!