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- Continuity10
Why don't we have ninjas in movies anymore?
The last one I can remember that had ninjas is The Wolverine, which was, what? 2012? '13?
I like ninjas. They need to make a comback.
- Ninjas are a bit silly now, though as a kid it was my dream to be one.
Also https://www.youtube.…PhanLo - There were some in Daredevil https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- ^ Aah, I never did watch that show.Continuity
- And they're not silly ... they're awesome. :(Continuity
- Lego Ninjago movie?uan
- That‘s what kids are into...Ninjagos and Pokemons...uan
- Think I watched every bad ninja movie in the video shop. Just think street lights probably would catch them out more in modern times. :-)PhanLo
- ^ This is why ninjas have throwing stars.monNom
- Pffft. No self-respecting ninja would ever get caught out by something as banal as a street light!Continuity
- Movies are full of ninjas. You just can’t seem ‘em ‘cause they’re ninjasscarabin
- This was TOP
https://www.imdb.com…grafician - When I was 12 and into ninja movies I convinced my mom to rent one because it said "not rated" on the VHS cover.palimpsest
- It had a lot of gore, obese topless women that might have been sex slaves and dirt bikes. When she walked by as I was watching it she wanted to stop it.palimpsest
- But a deal is a deal and I could finish watching it. I found it really weird for a ninja movie, specially the dirt bikes. Has anyone seen it?palimpsest
- Sounds pretty sweetYakuZoku
- Be ready for TMNT mayhem, mark my words.ApeRobot
- If you remember the name of the film, palimp, let us know. It sounds awful enough to be awesome.Continuity
- I'm looking for it but can't find it. I do it every 2 years when I remember it. I think it had subtitles, really low budget.palimpsest
- @PhanLo has seen all of them so I'm waiting on him.palimpsest
- I got it from this small shop in downtown Baltimore. I don't remember, because at the time I couldn't tell, if it was an arty rental place or a fetish one.palimpsest
- I know exactly what street it was on though: 800 North Charles.palimpsest
- superheroes with superpowers killed the ninjasneverscared
- My ex... Japanese... couldn't understand why the west thinks ninjas are cool - in Japan it's seen as dorky/nerdy/childish...shapesalad
- I reckon I saw that movie too Palimpsest but can’t remember the titlePhanLo
- Well, I wanna know what it is!Continuity
- I'd like to get rid of ninjas and superheroes unless they know how ridiculous they are, like Adam West.CyBrainX
- Ninjas are a bit silly now, though as a kid it was my dream to be one.
- _niko3
The tragedy of human existance is that we're aware of our existance.
- Do you mean this in a solipsistic way, or that we're aware that our existence is temporary?garbage
- Nahnb
- however you want to take it :) but yeah, we're aware that we exist and that existence is fleeting._niko
- also I spelled it correctly the first time -existence but got autocorrected to existance lol_niko
- "hell is other people" fo egoistskingsteven
- pretty deep.utopian
- Still nahnb
- This comment section is begging for a classic nairn replystoplying
- This comment section is begging for a classic Bennn replyKrassy
- yeah, Bennexplanation please!api
- I have not thunk, therefor I cannot amGnash
- i vote for a Bennnsplanation too!renderedred
- also good one @nikorenderedred
- Until you get Alzheimer and fade away.shapesalad
- I entertain the idea of non-duality, that the sense of being a separate self is illusory and actually the cause of all suffering.mort_
- No mention of God or Apple....no monosplanation needed.utopian
- The tragedy is that we are aware of the relationship of our existence to reality.cannonball1978
- your mom is aware of my existencesrhadden
- Yes, the human condition. utopian wouldn’t know, because his existence as a troll is severely limited to vague unoriginal insults.monospaced
- My existence is aware in your mom.cannonball1978
- Would you prefer not to be aware?NonEntity
- I’d prefer to be a lemon meringue pie.mort_
- Gardener16
- _niko9
Just because you live longer than someone doesn’t mean that you’ve outlived them.
- nb-1
On Arrested Development:
When I was in my mid-30s, I noticed that many smart, successful, attractive women in my social circles were refusing to settle for the particular men who were willing to commit to them. Their expectation of who they would end up with was through the roof. A life of rom-coms and adverts sold them fairy tales about "true love" and "happily ever after." They wouldn't date an older man, or someone without a cool job, anyone who made less money than them, or fat guys, or thinning hair guy, nor a man in their friend zone, nor any guy that seemed too thirsty, etc. (FYI: I say this as a guy who had no problem gettin' with the ladies. Women were into me.) The men they DID date didn't propose marriage, and moved on.
Anyway, rather than accept the reality of settling, they continued on looking for Mr Perfect.
The men their age (~35), like me, married the best of the best, or moved on to dating younger women.
This is old news, but now 7 or 8 years later, I am shocked at how many women I know have now got to an age where kids won't be an option. It's fucking depressing, I feel so bad for them. Some of them I know to a certainty that they always wanted kids. And they're hitting this age that they're telling themselves there is still a chance, but they're so far from typical child-bearing age that they can't find men who want kids to even date them. And they're very possibly too old, medically.
I'm just shocked the percentages of female friends (most somewhat distant now) in my life that are suddenly struck with this depressing realization: "I'll never have kids of my own." There are so many. I knew it would happen to some, but it's a lot!
(I also have some close male friends who haven't been able to commit to anyone and have basically "aged-out" into a category where women who want kids are uninterested in them. Also depressing, but not as common in my friend group.)
I wonder if this a trend of my generation? or if it has always been a common thing? It's hard to know what life was truly like a 60 to 100 years ago.
- Also I know and converse with some of my friends' parents, who are now painfully aware that they will never be grandparents.nb
- In one case, the parents over-pressured their three kids to be perfect, including who they dated. None of them married. Now too old to start families. :(nb
- Wait, why can't your friends marry the women who want kids?omahadesigns
- They've moved on to try for the new batch of early-30s who aren't interested in them. It's an endless cyclenb
- I thought you were female?Nairn
- I think there’s this unhealthy idea that having kids and staying married until you die is the be all and end all.mort_
- You thought there are women posting on QBN? lololnb
- @mort_ It's not the be all and end all but it's still something a lot of people want to do during their lifetimenb
- I remember my wife meeting some of my aunties and one of them said she should have all her kids by 25. She was 26 at the time.PhanLo
- It’s true some people suggest too young. But that was a product of their era, maybe?nb
- I knew a women who worked booking models for fashion shoots in London. When she got pregnant her boss brought her out in front of the whole officePhanLo
- and told the other staff members not to ruin their lives like her. Obviously she was in tears. Left London, started an event co up here.PhanLo
- Some folk just get caught up in a career, especially in the UK, folk work all the time, but it's pretty unfulfilling.PhanLo
- Everybody wants to be a mother but nobody wants to be a mother.palimpsest
- jesusnb
- A few more generations and picky women are weeded out foreverdrgs
- it's related to generations...the ones growing up during cold war, AIDS pandemic and dying of the rain forest didn't see much good in making kids.uan
- next Gen grew up in a much stable planet with economic growth, internet, more freedom. they reproduced like rabbits.uan
- I’ve noticed the same thing nb. So many women in New York who dated until 40, waiting for mr perfect, passing on tons of mostly perfect men. Now cat lady path.monospaced
- Wanting a lifelong partner and strong family unit is not unhealthy, ffs. What a load of crap, no offense. It’s the primary way happy people are raised, after almonospaced
- Generationally it was actually flipped before? Now that women have the option to be independent truly, they are. Like men used to do all the time.monospaced
- Women like this are pickier than precious generations I think because they can be. They actually are smarter and more successful than many men.monospaced
- Perhaps it’s a combo of the social ideal presented by the media and culture, combines with continued rise of women in corporate hierarchy.monospaced
- just go adopt some kids.pango
- cat lady path LOLutopian
- ya. or kids with lot of hairpango
- cats are nothing like kids. the comparison is ignorant and stupid AFmonospaced
- we know. all im saying is if you can't have kids, go adopt one.pango
- or a hairy one if you cant handle actual kids.pango
- some people should not be responsible for taking care of a kid. everpango
- Very good article on the subject: https://quillette.co…Khurram
- TL/DR 80% of women are chasing 20% of men with fewer and fewer options. Women attracction linked to survival reporduction-- attracted to menKhurram
- more educated/richer than them
More women more educated making more money than average man, this trend will continue.
Attracted to fewer men at the top.Khurram - But men are naturally inclined to be promiscuous So 20% men are chased by 80% of women who they refuse to commit to.Khurram
- 80% of men get no women. This situation potentially catostrophic implications for society.. simps, incels, red pill, NBQ00 drgs etc.Khurram
- Welcome to the economic logic of late capitalism and the gradual fall of the patriarchy.Khurram
- That's it guys! We're going g back to 1800. We need to repress women so they need us.pango
- ...
One of you is not going to get the sarcasm...pango - why are you being sarcastic.Khurram
- my uncontrollable need to constantly make jokes. i know I know. i need to see a therapist.pango
- jokes should be funny.Khurram
- you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.pango
- Uh, whoever said “80% of men get no women”... that stat is clearly made up. Same with the 80/20 garbage. It’s just fabricatednb
- I posted an article dumbass, maybe you should read it.Khurram
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- The article you posted literally says that the 80/20 ratio is not true lolololnb
- Exactly, i was tl-dr'ing you dumb cunt. What a dumb cunt.Khurram
- You are literally a stupid cunt. The definition in the dictionary. You, you stupid cunt.Khurram
- Who cares. People aging out, people age in. You fuck a buncha people then you die. Nobodys special.cannonball1978
- wow somebody taking things too seriouslypango
- Isn't that article basically the same thing incels are always talking about?yuekit
- They're imagining a world where a tiny minority of guys are dating almost all the women...they are super obsessed with this dynamic and refer to these guys asyuekit
- "chads" and blame feminism for causing it all...it's a super depressive, deterministic worldview. As if we only choose who to date based on an algorhythmyuekit
- and that society can't adapt to new situations. I definitely know guys whose wives make more money than them, it's not like this is impossible.yuekit
- if this is possible you guys have a chance too! https://www.dailynew…pango
- Dear angry man, Look around, do you REALLY see 80% of straight men not finding a woman? So sick of these incels making things up.nb
- Also I know this got a lot of downvotes, which is fine by me. Just want to point out that my post is sort of the opposite of what incels saynb
- I hope I didn’t come across sexist. Also acknowledging here that we’re only talking about stereotypical hetero people.nb
- It's a projecction moron, to illustrate predictable societal trends based on data. it's not literal truth, i was illustrating the point of the article dumb fuckKhurram
- Yes yuekit, I think essentially it is. But I don't see how your anecdotes have any bearing on the data analysis that was presented to me here.Khurram
- Also yuekit, the article points out that the woman earning more than the man is one of the single biggest predictors of divorce. Again, your anecdote, his data.Khurram
- oh i see what OP is sayin. men and women aren't starting families because they're too stubborn looking for mr right. based on the people he knows in his life.Khurram
- and if we all stopped being silly and just accepted the person in front of us, everyone will find someone who wants them. Based on people he know in his life..Khurram
- And our variegated sexual behaviours and changing socio-economic circumstances has nothign to do with anything.
ok then, that's an interesting hyptothesis.Khurram - There is data about women preferring men who are better educated and make more money. Not exactly a surprise. But if women are increasingly getting degreesyuekit
- and earning more than men, and there is this huge shortfall, they seem to be assuming social norms will never change.yuekit
- Is there any particular reason to think that women will always demand a guy who makes a higher salary than them? Is this hard wired into women's brains?yuekit
- What do you mean? Women will start dating down education/finance-wi...Khurram
- *education/finance wiseKhurram
- question :)Khurram
- Oh i see your last post, yeah, i think that it is,
hard wiring. Women marry across and above, men marry across and down. Probably biological, yeah i think so.Khurram - i see also why this theory is challenging to some. because it implies some kind of biological order to the existence of socio-economic hiearchies....Khurram
- Put it this way, Genghis Khan wouldn't haven't conquered most of the known world if it wasn't for "pussy" lolKhurram
- I think this point nicely sums it up:Khurram
- "Whereas greater male attainment increases the number of romantic options a man has, greater female attainment reduces the number of options a woman has."Khurram
- https://quillette.co…Khurram
- https://nypost.com/2…yuekit
- This says "only" 30 percent of women earn more than their husbands, but it's actually a decent number. And it doubled in the past few decades.yuekit
- If one in three households already have the woman earning more, I don't think this is as much of a nonstarter as that Quilette article makes it out to be.yuekit
- Buy them some cream pies to cheer them up?shapesalad
- I gave “men who make less than them” as an example. Good lord. Some people on the internet just want to feel ragenb
- "Morgan Stanley forecasts that 45 percent of working women between the ages of 25 and 44 will be single and childless by 2030, the largest share in history"...monNom
- Just thought that was an interesting datapoint. Maybe a market opportunity...monNom
- ^ That stat isn’t what we’re talking about, though. (Almost everyone woman I know was single and childless from 25 thru about 31.)nb
- Also “working women” sort of self selects your group, doesn’t it?nb
- Fun fact, many households the woman makes more. The salary balance changes over the life of a marriage, too.nb
- We dumped organised religion not understanding it was an algorithm for a sustained, working society: "Breed, people, in monogamous family units. Rinse, repeat."raf
- Nairn4
I wish we had raccoons in Britain.
- ..or, do I?Nairn
- You do!scarabin
- If I ever become mega rich, fuckit, i'm introducing them.Nairn
- I wish we had foxes in the statesscarabin
- just find some squirrels and use your imagination.uan
- sounds like one of those things you can't take back if you change your mind. Raccoons forever.Fax_Benson
- If they arrived and the population exploded, what would they replace in the food-chain?
Scousers?
Lib Dems?Fax_Benson - They’re scavengers.monospaced
- Are they not like upright badgers?PhanLo
- They’re adorable.PonyBoy
- they'll fuck you up!
https://i.imgur.com/…pango - They like the doggie door on my garagemisterhow
- They are absolute bastards. They open bins and make a mess, and then the gulls and crows come in and you end up with a gianter mess.garbage
- I stopped at a rest stop before and one chased me as I was coming out the bathroom. They are kinda dangerous. Don't pet.cherub
- I had raccoon vs crows battle in my backyard a few days ago, they were destroying a garbage bag that had 1000 yr old corn crisps in itprophetone
- I love the crows, but man when they team up with the raccoons it's just too much.garbage
- jagara10
Embrace doping culture in Tour De France, make the whole thing a competition between big pharma companies of making the perfect performance drug cocktail. Let each company compete with their own drugged up mutant, and let them compete. Team Pfizer. Team Lily. Team Novo.
- https://www.youtube.…palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…YakuZoku
- I mean, you just described what happens in the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.garbage
- The problem is that poorer players can't afford the new drugs that beat tests, and in the NFL if a low-key player has a breakout game..garbage
- .."random test".garbage
- every sport should allow doping; it would make it all so much more entertaining!Krassy
- If not for us at least for the players.palimpsest
- You forgot Team TrenNBQ00
- Gardener13
- Continuity6
Who would win in a drag race:
OBBTKN in his Multipla, or bennn in his Yaris?
This is what keeps me up at night.
- My money is on OBBTKN.
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - Bennn for sure, but who would be able to take more people in sublime comfort out into the campo?Nairn
- I could see Bennn in stockings, heels and sequin dress winning a foot race.hydro74
- </notes>
</thread>
</qbn>Nairn - Hmmm.....Akagiyama
- psst Ben don't worry, don't tell anyone but there will be a BBQ somewhere at the end of the track. so when he steers in that direction, just keep driving.sted
- lolben98
- Wait, who would be in drag?Akagiyama
- Here's a drag race. Did it look like this?
https://streamable.c…CyBrainX
- My money is on OBBTKN.
- OBBTKN3
Everyone who doesn't like or doesn't feel touched by Interstellar, doesn't have children.
- What about people without children who were touched by Interstellar anyway?Continuity
- Idle thought THAT, sir!Continuity
- I need a Venn diagram to really grasp this.sausages
- Ah maybe that's why I didn't like it.NBQ00
- I don't have children and liked Interstellar.CyBrainX
- ...but Matt Damon should avoid space travel considering his track record.CyBrainX
- What about people who touch children but don't like interstellar? Or those that are touched by interstellar leading to them touching children?Ianbolton
- ^ asking for a friendIanbolton
- I personally loved interstellar and don't have or touch childrenIanbolton
- Saying you liked it even without children is missing the point. He’s saying if you don’t like it you probably don’t have kids.monospaced
- I can’t remember interstellar and have children who have not been touched by medee-dubs
- It's a great movie. I can't believe the dude made TENETcrazyprick
- why ? are your kids so annoying u wanna shoot them fru a wormhole ?neverscared
- I know people w/kids who hated this film... NOW WHAT?!!PonyBoy
- They hate their kids obviously :)monospaced
- Nairn8
I want an RTS game based on Lego, with tech trees that sort of follow Lego's evolution, with an aesthetic emphasis primarily concerned with 70s/80s space lego, but ultimately anything goes. You want to mix duplo red block with some ninjago (?) and some 80s lego flowers as a radar jammer? go right ahead!
You build new units in game as you would normal lego and 'somehow magically' various bits turn into guns or scanners or eyes or whsatever.
Something like this could be a low-mid level hover tank unit, for instance
- And obviously when they're attacked they fall apart into their respective lego components, which could be harvested for re-use.Nairn
- this is more of a million dollar idea. special parts could be included in builds to give them their "powers" or characteristic. combine for fun². inspiringimbecile
- bridge building would be key. but just custom units but custom structures that could be blown upcannonball1978
- They tried to make a Lego open world Minecraft rip and it failed once. Maybe again.monospaced
- This isn't that, but this is at least partly inspired by what Minecraft promises, still, after all these years.. https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn
- @c1978 - you're quite right, the entire environment should be lego... although small tanks would judder like a mf'er over all those bumps :)Nairn
- Yeah I know this isn’t that. This would be better than the Lego game they tried rolling out that failed.monospaced
- Nairn7
Is there anything more genuinely rewarding than successful slightly-inebriated cooking?
- I think Keith Floyd is my spirit animal.Nairn
- Yes, cutting raw chicken on LSD.sausages
- got back from the pub tonight and made a great salad, a controversial choice and tbh the only cooking was a boiled egg but nailed it A++kingsteven
- With you there and Keith Floyd is a proper legend.MrT
- I’m with you, cooking Italian food while drinking wine and listening to Sinatra and dean martin while slicing garlic like Paulie in goodfellas_niko
- hans_glib3
how can it be that the usa seems likely to put trump back in the white house?
- Trannys and bud lite duh,_niko
- Answer: Democrats are total pussies and picked a washed up ol’ coffin dodger that no one is passionate about.nb
- combine that with the fact that republicans are also pussies who can’t stand up to trump and only ever act out of individual self-interest.nb
- I’m terribly sorry, but that’s exactly the problem with democracy.maquito
- so we blame democracy what allows the lunatics to the presidency.
where is the urge that society should elect them as leaders?sted - The US is far from a democracy. The guy willing to spend the most money wins.Morning_star
- Because the Republican party has become 1920s German Workers Party all over again. The Jan 6th terrorist attack was the Reichstag fire.cherub
- nb is rightmonospaced
- and any democratic nation that is laughing at us should just take warning, this shit could happen to you guys toomonospaced
- ^ It's about to happen here, the other way around, though.maquito
- Trump should be executed for inciting the Jan 6 insurrection. Homegrown terrorist.nb
- It happened in Hungary, and still sux that a fucking gypsy troll runs the show, everybody hates us except the rassans, dumbfuck republicans and *.istansted
- Lol @*.istanmaquito
- this is not an idle thought.Nairn
- indeedsted
- palimpsest5
@Continuity
Put a barbecue in the back and let's go!
Approved by Harold.- Hahaha the fuck?!
Offroading with a Multipla ... I've seen it all now!Continuity - Have you?
https://www.youtube.…palimpsest - Imagine a cooler full of cider and a grill on that Cabriolet.palimpsest
- ^ holyflol!!Continuity
- I just checked like three second hand car sites here in the UK and oufnd on - only one! - Multipla. £5k and it's ours.Nairn
- *found one, evenNairn
- lolsted
- good gawd... that is one ugly looking car....pango
- https://y.yarn.co/71…pango
- it can do it allmilfhunter
- Aw, pangi.
It's not ugly.
It's ... special.
In an Olympic kind of way.Continuity
- Hahaha the fuck?!
- imbecile8
I am constantly getting weird incel vibes from omahadesigns and NBQOO. They are so similar in their ignorant treatment / questioning of women's behaviour and posting of videos regarding "Chads" that I can't help both of them represent this meme to a T.
Feel free to downvote if you go through life believing women owe you anything
- Krassy4
When you read something in parenthesis (like this here) do you use a different voice for what's inside the parenthesis?
- yes. Yoda voicesection_014
- oh? so someone else's voice? not a deeper version of your own?Krassy
- wat.Nairn
- fuck, you're right. haha. my inner voice goes slower and a smidge deeper, wtf?Nairn
- right? same here! lolKrassy
- lol it's in my voice but also this guy's:
https://www.reaction…_niko - He he he!
(he he he)drgs - fuck, i use a whisper voice.thumb_screws
- Yeah, a bit deeper and with the quality of Ron Howard narrating Arrested Development.Wolfboy
- Nairn4
I was lying awake this morning at about 6am wondering how the fuck atoms continue spinning around their wee statistical clouds 13.8Bn years after their creation and it put a knot in my stomach.
- is it gravity? like micro orbits? fuck let me join you in stomach knot-ville.mantrakid
- Some sorta base mathematical repulsion, i figured, but that doesn't really answer anything.Nairn
- Newton's First Law?Krassy
- an A.I will come up with the proper answers in 5,4,3,2 ...neverscared
- Simulation_Recursion... 0 (0x0)
See all error codes.BabySnakes - https://news.cornell…neverscared
- the electrons change, the protons and neutrons are bonded by strong nuclear force, which is practically unbreakablesarahfailin
- Atomic Forces which are uniquecannonball1978
- I 'know' the technicalities of it, but frankly, it doesn't make any kind of sense.
How the fuck does shit keep going?Nairn - I am - you are - made up of a ridiculous quantity of spinning orbits, that for the very much most part have been doing their thing for billions of years.Nairn
- Obv, we all have at least a little of the radioactive fallout etc, from tens of decades of testing and fuck ups, but pretty much everything else is new.Nairn
- IS OLD. Not new.
fuck.Nairn - I'm just waiting for an errant brane to intersect with our universe at c³ and nix time or some other fundamental, so we instantly cease to exist. Good times.Nairn
- https://youtu.be/IR8…Krassy
- jagara0
I've heard about people wanking into socks. I don't understand this concept. How is that possible? Is it an American thing for people without foreskins? Do they fill the sock with lotion? Do their socks have dried up cum in them, that they simply take care of in laundry? Ew? So confused.
- Do they have the sock on their penis during the whole wank session? Is it only the white socks? For the love of god, provide answers.jagara
- Never understood, but also never wanted answers.mort_
- Was listening to a podcast a while back about a graffiti writer who got a dawn raid from the police and they upturned his whole bedroom, inadvertently findingPhanLo
- his wanksock, but it was so well used it was like a solid mass. He described it as a 'cosh'. Pretty grimPhanLo
- I assumed this was a european thingmonospaced
- It sounds like a British wank to me.utopian
- Funny. To us "wanking into a gym sock" is an American thing.Nairn
- Funny, I don’t think Americans would agree.monospaced
- Americans, I would think, may call it a Swiss wank.maikel
- Believe the sock is more for catching to limit the mess. Using shirts you might want to re wear could cause issues with cum blobs all over it.hydro74
- Yeah, I get that, nono. which is why i suggested it was the opposite for us. We can go back and forth pointlessly, if you like? jesus. 'funny'.Nairn
- That would explain why you restated the original point then. Carry on lol.monospaced
- wait, they INTO socks.. or just onto socks? I always just assumed ONTO..autoflavour
- nope definitely into, great doc on it on Youtube. Sock companies made major $$$ as some became totally unwashable.fadein11
