vaporous entities and musings (in other words - BS)

[Dave (imported)]

There's a new "JOKER" movie

Remember the Joker from the Batman comics?

Well! I just read that the "new" JOKER movie got an 8 minute standing ovation at some movie festival overseas.

Guess what - I'm never going to watch that movie for a variety of reasons.

I got tired of the varieties of Batman from Michael Keaton (who was from the little town where I went to High School) and I was never appreciative of Jack Nicholson as The Joker. Later on, when they rebooted to do the "dark knight" Batman, Heath Ledger's Joker simply put me off with the blatant psychopathy and the over-kill aspects of the character. I didn't watch these new TV series about GOTHAM. I thought the recent idiot JOKER in the last year’s “Batman vs Superman Origin of Justice (League)” movie was just another asinine shallow character parting psychopathic tendencies. I know it's all cheap psychology from me but I don't need another psychopathic JOKER or another Superhero movie...

I've been super-hero-ed and super-villain-ed out of the theater.

US Army warns about possible mass shootings by incels at ‘Joker’ screenings

By Lia Eustachewich

https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/us-army-w ... creenings/

The Army issued a warning to its personnel about the possibility of crazed “incel” extremists carrying out mass shootings at upcoming screenings of “Joker,” according to a new report.

Marked “For official use only,” the Sept. 18 e-mail advised service members planning to watch the movie in theaters to “identify two escape routes” and to “run, hide, fight” in the event of a shooting, Gizmodo reported.

“Run if you can,” the message said. “If you’re stuck, hide (also known as ‘sheltering in place’), and stay quiet. If a shooter finds you, fight with whatever you can.”

On Tuesday, the Army confirmed to Gizmodo that it issued the warning in light of alarming social-media posts flagged by the FBI from the “incel” — or “involuntarily celibate” — community of alienated men who feel they have been shunned by society and can’t get dates.

The Army e-mail explained that incels “idolize the Joker character, the violent clown from the Batman series” — an angry loner who turns to violence after too much rejection.

They also like “his depiction as a man who must pretend to be happy but eventually fights back against bullies,” the Army said.

An Army spokesperson said the message was routine.

“We want our workforce to be prepared and diligent on personal safety both inside the workplace and out,” the rep said.

In another memo on Monday, top officials of the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division said it received “credible” intelligence from law enforcement in Texas about “disturbing and very specific chatter” on the dark Web regarding “the targeting of an unknown movie theater during the release.”

“Joker,” starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, opens to the public on Oct. 4 — and has already sparked concerns of movie-theater violence.

The studio behind the flick, Warner Bros., is standing behind the movie, saying in a statement earlier this week that it “does not endorse real-world violence.”

Director Todd Phillips complained that countless other violent Hollywood movies, such as the “John Wick” franchise, weren’t given the same scrutiny.

“The movie still takes place in a fictional world,” he said.

“It can have real-world implications, opinions, but it’s a fictional character in a fictional world that’s been around for 80 years.”

“The one that bugs me more is the toxic white male thing when you go, ‘Oh, I just saw “John Wick 3.” ’ He’s a white male who kills 300 people and everybody’s laughing and hooting and hollering. Why does this movie get held to different standards? It honestly doesn’t make sense to me.”

[Dave (imported)]

The INCELS didn't riot like fools. Thankfully.

[Dave (imported)]

From Neil Gaiman:

CHOW™ contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.

[Dave (imported)]

I give you my permission and encouragement to sleep in a hour later tomorrow. I'm feeling magnanimous tonight.

(Today is November 2, 2019)

[rogerwpbfl (imported)]

I give you my permission and encouragement to sleep in a hour later tomorrow. I'm feeling magnanimous tonight.

(Today is November 2, 2019)

May I also have permission for an extra shot sir?

[The Maintaner (imported)]

I give you my permission and encouragement to sleep in a hour later tomorrow. I'm feeling magnanimous tonight.

(Today is November 2, 2019)

I am so great full I am retired I was going to do it any way Ernie of Maine

[Dave (imported)]

Dave takes a short Crap on a movie: "Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe" what script could possible be more derivative, more award-winning drivel, strictly "from hunger" and written by chimpanzees locked in a room...

Does the world lack that much Christmas Spirit that some hack writer delves into "Pride and Prejudice" for the 85th time?

[Dave (imported)]

Three Turkey Fails

1. Earlier this year I used the turkey baster to suck power steering fluid out of the ps fluid reservoir before changing the ps pump in our car. I forgot to replace the baster it and now it’s a crisis.

2. Accidentally set the oven on "Self Clean" and "cooked" the turkey.

3. In case you're having a bad day just know my parents cooked a chicken inside a turkey and asked me to carve the turkey. I pulled out all the stuffing and was fully convinced they cooked a pregnant turkey. FYI - - - Turkeys lay eggs

[jamiepan (imported)]

Dave, if it's any consolation, last year I utterly destroyed the turkey I was supposedly cooking at my dad's.

I usually start a turkey in a very hot oven, briefly, to sear the bird before dropping the temp to around 300 for the appropriate time for the poundage. Makes a slow roasted, amazing turkey.

Yeah... I forgot to drop the temp. AND I forgot to put in the stuffing. Because I left the house right after putting it in the oven.

How things never caught on fire at 450, I'll never know. But that turkey was garbage.

[Dave (imported)]

Tomorrow, Wednesday Dec 12th, Krispy Kreme is selling 1 doz glazed donuts for $1 for each dozen of fancier donuts you buy.

All I can think is Sugar Coma... Those glazed donuts are puffed air with sugar glaze. There's more glaze than dough in those things.

Imagine buying a dozen powdered sugar covered, whipped cream filled donuts and getting a dozen glazed donuts for dessert ... My pancreas screams in horror.

When I was working, a bunch of my coworkers used to get Krispy Kreme donuts and put them out in the break room. They had a "Designated Stale Donut Person" who used to only eat them stale after two preferably three days...

He liked hard donuts.