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Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

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    #182
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Strangely, Parasite would qualify under the new rules, despite being completely racially homogenous.

    I have certainly known a few of those!


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    #183
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Weight Watchers was renamed as WW, because, you know...

    and despite it being initials now, it takes twice as long to say

    Still looks like two fat people!


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    #184
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Italian fashion is racist, it's too Italian, and stuff.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-54061928

    Frankly they can keep their funny Balenciaga trainers,
    Louis Vuitton however needs credit for milking money from pricey lady bags.


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    #185
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Cordell


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    If it's in the privacy of your own home and no one gets hurt it's none of my business brother/sister/it/insert your own gender! That's none of my business, just remember the safe word!

    Insert my what where?


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    #186
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Just saw this on the film forum:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058111762

    Only diverse films will be considered for Best Picture at the Oscars

    I just find all this so divisive. It's achieving the opposite of what it hopes to achieve. It's reducing everyone to their ethnicity, their colour, as if that's all we are.


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    #187
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Cordell wrote: »
    Insert my what where?

    Therein lies the problem:D Just talk to any A&E doctor:eek:


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    #188
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I just find all this so divisive. It's achieving the opposite of what it hopes to achieve. It's reducing everyone to their ethnicity, their colour, as if that's all we are.

    "Ohh the ethnicity of it all! Won't someone please think of the children!"


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    #189
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I just find all this so divisive. It's achieving the opposite of what it hopes to achieve. It's reducing everyone to their ethnicity, their colour, as if that's all we are.

    Hopefully studios will go on making films using the best people for the job rather than sucking up to the academy.

    I think this can go two ways.

    1. If people follow it, then it has the potential to detrimentally affect movies due to the cast/creative team etc. being picked based on race rather than on the quality of their work.

    or

    2. People will make movies and ignore these requirments and some of the best films may not be eligible for the Oscars. That will have the effect of devaluing the Oscars making it more the race awards than the movie awards.


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    #190
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    Hopefully studios will go on making films using the best people for the job rather than sucking up to the academy.

    I think this can go two ways.

    1. If people follow it, then it has the potential to detrimentally affect movies due to the cast/creative team etc. being picked based on race rather than on the quality of their work.

    or

    2. People will make movies and ignore these requirments and some of the best films may not be eligible for the Oscars. That will have the effect of devaluing the Oscars making it more the race awards than the movie awards.

    Positive discrimination is still discrimination! "Two legs good, four legs better!"


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    #191
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    Hopefully studios will go on making films using the best people for the job rather than sucking up to the academy.

    I think this can go two ways.

    1. If people follow it, then it has the potential to detrimentally affect movies due to the cast/creative team etc. being picked based on race rather than on the quality of their work.

    or

    2. People will make movies and ignore these requirments and some of the best films may not be eligible for the Oscars. That will have the effect of devaluing the Oscars making it more the race awards than the movie awards.

    I'm hoping for the second. The Oscars are shite anyway.


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    #192
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I'm hoping for the second. The Oscars are shite anyway.

    Isn't it great to only have 1st world problems!


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    #193
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    Isn't it great to only have 1st world problems!

    Hi SlowMotion, I have a terminal cancer. Is that a big enough problem for you?

    People can care about numerous things simultaneously, believe it or not.


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    #194
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    That shut you up, SlowMotion. ;)


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    #195
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Hi SlowMotion, I have a terminal cancer. Is that a big enough problem for you?

    People can care about numerous things simultaneously, believe it or not.

    Yes! I'm an alcoholic! Lets race to see who dies first! Thank you for saying that, nothing wrong with a kick in the bollix when it's deserved! Have I offended you personally? Then I apologise personally and will do with a PM, I am not here looking to be offended or offend! However I will engage in lively debate on the understanding that that is what it is! If there are rules or lines that I have broken or crossed then please make me aware of them and I will endeavor to act accordingly! I won't stop from speaking my brain, and if that breaks rules please feel free to report me for promoting anything other than the values and rules of the forum we find ourselves in!


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    #196
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    That shut you up, SlowMotion. ;)

    Posted before I could finish my reply:)


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    #197
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    Yes! I'm an alcoholic! Lets race to see who dies first! Thank you for saying that, nothing wrong with a kick in the bollix when it's deserved! Have I offended you personally? Then I apologise personally and will do with a PM, I am not here looking to be offended or offend! However I will engage in lively debate on the understanding that that is what it is! If there are rules or lines that I have broken or crossed then please make me aware of them and I will endeavor to act accordingly! I won't stop from speaking my brain, and if that breaks rules please feel free to report me for promoting anything other than the values and rules of the forum we find ourselves in!

    No no, not at all.


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    #198
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    No no, not at all.

    We Good?


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    #199
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    We Good?

    Of course. I was not being entirely serious. Well, the cancer thing is real but take my post with a pinch of salt.


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    #200
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Of course. I was not being entirely serious. Well, the cancer thing is real but take my post with a pinch of salt.

    Prick! Wasn't joking about the alchalocic thing, look I can't even spell it! Damn you tasty wine! I struggle! I have family members dealing with cancer, Lost my mother to it! AH I think is for robust bull****! Just for my own information, is there a "sorry you have cancer card!" I can get my sister inlaw?


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    #201
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    Prick! Wasn't joking about the alchalocic thing, look I can't even spell it! Damn you tasty wine! I struggle! I have family members dealing with cancer, Lost my mother to it! AH I think is for robust bull****! Just for my own information, is there a "sorry you have cancer card!" I can get my sister inlaw?

    There probably is. :pac:


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    #202
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I just find all this so divisive. It's achieving the opposite of what it hopes to achieve. It's reducing everyone to their ethnicity, their colour, as if that's all we are.

    Exactly, true equality means that the race of actors/people to hire is as meaningful as hair colour.


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    #203
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Here the criteria.
    You need to two to get nominated:

    1. On-screen acting and storylines, "including at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group"
    2. Creative leadership positions, departmental heads and crew composition
    3. Paid apprenticeships, internships and training
    4. Audience development, from publicity and marketing to distribution

    My issue is these are so vague as to be meaningless. Underrepresented racial or ethnic group? Considering most Hollywood actors are American, then would an Irishman tick the box here?
    So then it's a pointless exercise and Twitter will use it as a stick to beat the Academy with.

    Oh now you need at least two black actors, and Naomi Harris black, not Beyonce black.


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    #204
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    cdeb wrote: »
    2+2 is always 4. The cartoon thinks it's being smart, but isn't. 10 in base 4 is this many - .... - not this many - .......... - so the fundamental mathematical law remains; two plus two is four. Just because you've changed to base 4 doesn't alter the basic maths.

    It is true that two apples plus two oranges don't equal four apples - but again, maths is always clear that you have to add like to like. 20 + 2 doesn't equal 4 because you want to add the two 2s together. One is two tens and one is two units so they can't be added together. Two apples plus two oranges does give four pieces of fruit, however.

    I know it's only a handful of nuts on the internet, but if the cartoon is wrong, there's no point you saying it's right.

    So yes, two plus two equals four is always true. You could in fact define four as being two plus two. If you want to give "four" a different name - such as 10 in base 4 - then fine, but that's just changing names, not the underlying facts. You may as well say that 2+2 = Ceathar, and so therefore isn't always equal to 4.

    For sure, that's the whole basis of the mad theory released into the wild - change definitions of facts to fit the political, ideological imperative hence magically a male is a female, a female is a male, we're all clownfish blah blah

    So come on AH, even though this batsh1t, controlling insanity has escaped unis into some parts of the real world with real consequences and is a present danger, some of it is so mentally deluded it's worth recording for the lol's at least.


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    #205
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    No no no, it's the Nazis that'll be black....


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    #206
    TheFactMan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 98 ✭✭TheFactMan


    Well that got dark quick..


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    #207
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,285 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    People will make movies and ignore these requirments and some of the best films may not be eligible for the Oscars. That will have the effect of devaluing the Oscars making it more the race awards than the movie awards.

    It was already the who knows who in the business awards anyway. The dresses are as important as the films, a load of ****e. I'll continue to ignore them when choosing something to watch.
    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    No no no, it's the Nazis that'll be black....

    The correct term is 'Fascists of Colour' you racist!


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    #208
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    TheFactMan wrote: »
    Well that got dark quick..

    Diversity in action


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    #209
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Hollywood has gone to crap this last decade or so, now it looks like it going to get even worse.

    Screw em. TV is where it's at. While US films have been getting worse and worse, on demand TV has been getting better and better.


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    #210
    Too Tough To Die
    Registered Users Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die


    Ugh.

    https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1303657990873067521


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    #211
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Supposedly borat 2 film being made . Wonder how woke it will be


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