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    The Anabolic Steroid thread

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    45 minutes ago, SweeperDee said:

    Like what? Adrenochrome? 😂 Where are these super-medicines stored?

    What do you mean where are they stored? Labs and clinics in California and Switzerland and wherever else rich people are. Look into the drugs Trump was given when he caught Covid compared to the heehaw an average punter here got. It won't just be Covid.

    Adrenochrome is an urban legend but it's a fact that the super rich are transfusing blood from teenagers to keep them healthy. 20 years ago loads of American athletes got busted using designer PEDS, there's obviously loads of that as well.

    Azealia Banks also said that silicon valley types have designer recreational drugs that are only made in small quantities.

     

     

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    The Anabolic Steroid thread

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    I saw him trending for some scandal a few weeks and ago and when I saw people were exposing him as using steroids my mind was blown. It's the equivalent of revealing that Shane Magowan likes a drink. He's Scott Steiner level obviously roided up.

    The videos of him forcing his family to eat testes and drink blood will always be funny though.

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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    in TV and Film Forum

    Posted · Edited by Detournement

    Both Sides Of The Blade (2022)

    Vincent Lindon and Juliette Binoche are a happy couple until Binoche's ex appears back on the scene starting a new business with big Vincent. The acting is obviously top drawer and it's quite subtle in it's themes about race and responsibility with the important part of the story involving Lindon's mixed race son which none of the reviews I've read seemed to focus on. It also has one of the all time best cameos when Lillian Thuram appears as himself on a radio show to discuss race and starts talking about Frantz Fanon. You've got to love the French.

    The Fourth Man (1983)

    A  nicely perverted Paul Verhoeven film which answers the question 'What if Hitchcock but Dutch and bisexual?' It's got one particular scene that is hard to forget but it's extremely entertaining all around.

    To Catch A Thief (1954)

    The most straightforward Hitchcock film i've seen to the point it's almost as if he didn't want to ruin the French Riviera with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant positive vibes by having too much plot. I suspect that if he knew Grace Kelly would end up marrying into the Monaco royal family and quitting acting he wouldn't have made it. Major f**k up from Alfred here.

    3 Women (1977)

    Sissy Spacek's country bumpkin befriends her co-worker Shelley Duvall who is completely delusional. It's a Robert Altman film and isn't overly concerned with plot for the most part so on the few occasions when something dramatic happens it hits hard. 

    The Drive By Night (1940) 

    Bogie plays second fiddle to George Ratf as a pair of truck drivng brothers trying to beat the system of their exploitative industry. The first half is quite 'red' in that it's all about dishonest bosses and villainous finance companies grinding down the working man then it turns into a Femme Fatale noir with Ida Lupino as the crazy bad girl and Anne Sheridan as the good girl with all the witty one liners. A great watch.

    Night Moves (1975)

    Gene Hackman plays a private detective who gets conned by pretty much everyone he meets in a very, very cynical and dark neonoir. A young Melaine Griffiths plays a sex mad teenager who's mother is a washed up actress which must have been hard for her. It's the first Arthur Penn film i've watched and it was excellent, I need to check out more.

    Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 

    The GOAT's final triumph. After watching Messi's last masterpiece I went to see Kubrick's on the big screen for the first time. It looked incredible and the red/purple/blue colour scheme was more prominent and the christmas lights looked great on the 35mm. It was quite a weird screening as people were laughing a lot at some of the stranger acting in the first half but in the second half it was total silence. I think it's the only major Kubrick film which hasn't had a 4K release so hopefully that happens soon.

     

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    Lockerbie - 26 years on

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    20 hours ago, TxRover said:

    It was a huge cover up that got exposed, because too many people were involved. I was assigned a debate pro-Contras at the time. Fawn Hall…

    The overall point is all these conspiracy theories have an inherent weakness, the fact someone “knows” about it, but somehow it’s still all secret. Conspiracies don’t work that way, they are either so closely held that they aren’t exposed for decades or centuries, or someone spills the beans. On the successful conspiracies that have eventually been uncovered, I can’t think of one that had more than 3 to 5 people in the know, and it was generally 2 or 3.

    This is nonsense.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due

    This is one example of a successful conspiracy. There are many more.

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    The Official Former President Trump thread

    in The Politics Forum

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    46 minutes ago, Slim Charles. said:

    It's just pure grift getting in at the bottom of the market like this. They've sold out apparently, but how do you trigger the libtards with these ? I thought that was the whole point of the red caps and flags, how are you going to upset your neighbours or your blue haired neice with these?

    Facebook.

     

     

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    Billy Gilmour

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

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    @KingRocketman II

    Mean height is useful as rough guide but it doesn't tell us much about outliers. Gilmour and Gallagher combined have the same input to it as two 6ft tall players. Par with Spain sounds about right, basically the smallest in Europe and smaller than all of our properly competitive match opponents over the past few years.

    What you see quite clearly in rugby is that you can have two nations who are quite similar on paper in terms of height and weight but one team is 'naturally' bigger and will be much more powerful. It's unlikely Scotland is going to catch up physically at either rugby or football any time soon.

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    Billy Gilmour

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

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    The 'physical' thing makes no sense.

    Watch any age group with Scotland and unless it's an outright diddy opponent Scotland will be at a physical/athletic disadvantage.  Look at our national team and them think about what teams at the World Cup have the equivalent of guys like Taylor, Gilmour and Fraser in the squad? Our current best prospect is basically a turbo hobbit. Scotland has more wee players than any comparable nation and we likely will never have a Lewandoski, Patrick Schitck or Haaland type athletic forward or even a Harry Kane.

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    Ben Doak

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

    Posted

    On 17/11/2022 at 05:02, Satoshi said:

    Italy capped a 16 year old, Simone Pafundi, yesterday who only has one senior club appearance (and youth appearances only up to U17 international level).

    Not saying we should necessarily replicate it but capping Doak, at this stage, wouldn't be outrageous or unprecedented.

    Sure the SFA will make the right call either way.

    I think Italy were just trying to get some positive headlines from an embarrassing situation after missing the World Cup.

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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    in TV and Film Forum

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    10 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

    Mulholland Drive

    Any of you brainboxes care to explain this?

    The film is reversed so you get the dream/fantasy first and the real story afterwards.

    So Diane gets a hitman to kill Camilla then fantasizes about being Betty and meeting Rita. Then she goes mad and kills herself. 

    All the way through the film there are lots of clues that Diane/Betty was abused as a child by her father. One of the weirdest is Justin Theroux's character Adam ends up homeless because his wife is having sex with a pool guy called Gene. Genepool sex. And Gene is played by Miley Cyrus's Da. 

     

     

     

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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    in TV and Film Forum

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    I’m not actually sure if the majority of the film is captured in that way – it usually but not always has the same aspect ratio, but ventures into different colour schemes and looks – but I can’t put my finger on why it shifted between them.

    @accies 1874

    They used various photos of her from different stages of her life as the basis for the visual style of those scenes. Dominik explains it here.

     https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/im-not-interested-reality-im-interested-images-andrew-dominik-blonde

    As much as I find it entertaining when brainless babies attack films it does make you wonder about what kind of impact Young Adult Fiction discourse shifting to film discourse will have on what gets produced in years to come. I thought Blonde was brilliant but no one really stuck up for it because it's not worth it at all. At least when it was just religious conservatives attacking films they understood that they just didn't like films or art very much. Now you have an entire generation of people who think it's normal to demand that art is produced exactly to their taste . It's a shame for Ana De Armas that she put so much into it and it got torn to pieces by a mob who largely didn't even watch it.

     

     

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