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Also Nolan as the first guy to treat super heroes seriously, really?
edited 20th Jul '12 11:27:35 PM by Skylark2
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19900_5-disturbing-ways-food-will-be-different-in-future.html
...I don't see how #5 through #3 are disturbing, ESPECIALLY #3. Vertical farming is awesome.
Also, for a minute I thought #2 would involve the urine recycling systems being developed in order to deal with peak phosphorus (which I believe was even mentioned on Cracked). But no, it's straight Waterworld style pee filters. My mistake.
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Yeah, it seems that the author is rather excited about the entries. Maybe he should have replaced "Disturbing" with "Awesome."
edited 21st Jul '12 4:17:26 AM by dRoy
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Oh my God, 17 is just brilliant.
... Would you mind explaining? I never read the book and I'm curious.
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Well, I wouldn't say brilliant...
See Fence Painting.
To elaborate, Tom Sawyer is a mischievous character. Would rather goof off than do chores. One day he had to whitewash the fence (paint it white I think). So he began at the task in earnest, but looking completely absorbed and fascinated at whitewashing the fence. After a while other children gathered, and were incredibly curious what the fuss was about. Tom remained absorbed and acted incredibly reluctant to share the task. Eventually all the other children were so interested that they were willing to pay him to paint the fence. Even though it was his chore. And it was work.
Basically he convinced them fence painting was fun through reverse psychology and not only got out of the task himself, but also profited.
edited 21st Jul '12 6:00:54 AM by UltimatelySubjective
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Batman fanboy talks trash about Superman
Tip: Saying All Star Superman is great won't invalidate your Batman fanboy eyeglasses.
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x7 The problem is that the writers aren't the ones who pick the titles, so often you'll see articles that don't quite match the title.
That sign one was pretty fun.
edited 21st Jul '12 8:38:35 AM by Saiga
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That sucks.
This is one of my favorite articles of all time.
You wish to learn how to kill men with your bare hands?
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You mean you don't?
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
There's nothing left for me to learn.
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Awesome, sir.
Uh. On the topic that Batman "better" than Superman article. I swear it's fanboys like that that are driving me further and further away from the rich guy and towards the man in blue.
I don't like either of them, but the Batman hype is quite hard to bear.
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Jesus the Batman articles are getting boring, I mean I like him as much as the next guy but there is such a thing as overexposure.
Was Once Zolnier Also a cowboy, and a Doctor.
Oh, I know. Ugh, Batman is the Wolverine of DC: over-exposed and while-a-fine-superhero-in-his-own-right-is-not-the-do-all-be-all-of-superheroes-so-stop-acting-like-he-is.
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Michael Swaim raps about how much Batman sucks for Gotham citizens
I'm... not sure what I expected. Because it's not titled like that on the front page. And when it did go to the rap bit, I was pleasantly surprised. The difference might not be apparent to people who don't like rap at all *, but there's a difference between rapping and just reciting words over a beat. Swaim actually does carry the flow, and there's a lot of clever wordplay and tasteful use of rap cliches without making it a complete caricature.
The chorus isn't that great, but whatever. Maybe he should have gotten Wocka Floca Flame to do taht, because that's all he's good for.
edited 22nd Jul '12 4:29:31 AM by JethroQWalrustitty
the statement above is false
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Wocka Floca Flame? Sounds like a strange Australian cartoon character.
edited 22nd Jul '12 6:06:37 AM by Skylark2
Was Once Zolnier Also a cowboy, and a Doctor.
I like the silly article titles. I am positive and take their idiocy as part of the joke.
edited 22nd Jul '12 10:35:43 AM by nairoxev
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He did get his name from a cartoon character. Rap names are weird, some times.
edited 22nd Jul '12 10:56:39 AM by JethroQWalrustitty
the statement above is false
Exactly. hell, you can reverse the title and it'd also apply to Batman.
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It is Batman Week.
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