So this tweet happened:
Hmm. I hate to challenge Return of Kings’ legendary factcheckers, but they seem to have made a teensy little mistake here. Forbes actually thinks that the Star Wars “boycott” championed by assorted Internet reactionaries and racists didn’t cost Star Wars any money.
One clue here is the headline to the Forbes post stating that the boycott “Didn’t Cost Star Wars Any Money.”
In the post itself, Forbes contributor Erik Kain declares that RoK’s “claims about just how much of an impact their, ahem, “balanced, critical reporting” has had on the film’s financial success” were “even more ludicrous” than their claims that “The Force Awakens is little more than social-justice-warrior propaganda.”
Just a little heads up here, Roosh: Words mean what they mean, not the opposite of what they mean.
Unless the person saying these words is being sarcastic. For example, I was being sarcastic above when I mentioned “Return of Kings’ legendary factcheckers.” Kain was not being sarcastic.
H/T — @leyawn
It made it to the news here too that people were having a hard time finding Rey toys for their kids.
@ Booburry
Good thing I never said mine was the only opinion then, wasn’t it?
Also, please read the conversations more carefully, because if so you’d see that Falconer saying about not paying attention was about our Doctor Who discussion, not this one.
In fact, you seem to be under the impression that you’re opinion is ‘right.’ Otherwise you wouldn’t be using your own anecdotal experience against mine as some sort of proof I’m ‘wrong.’
I believed what Pandapool said was harsh because of my own experiences. I wanted to get across that what I’ve seen balances it out a bit. I never said Pandapool was wrong about what they had seen, I was merely expressing the opinion that due to my experiences (that were different) I thought Pandapool wasn’t describing the full picture, worldwide, everywhere. I’m sorry, Burberry, if my having a different opinion to you is that offensive to you.
@booburry:
@nparker:
I suppose I should take this as a lesson that I need to clarify what I’m talking about when I’m referring to comments on a previous page.
SWTFA just became the biggest grossing US film ever, doing it in 20 days instead of 34 weeks like the now number 2 film [ Avatar].
It’s already number 4 all time worldwide with 1.5 Billion.
That is one hell of an effective boycott.
I think the manosphere has a lot in common with extremism in general including facism and communism. The points are this.
. The leadership is always right.
. Any sign of dissent is seen as opposition to progress.
. All the problems that face them are viewed as works of their enemy, facism-communism, communism-facism, manosphere-feminists Or women in general.
I also agree with the cult thing though not in a religious sense. More of groupthink.
I feel this is a good time to point out that Disney has put out a commercial for the new Star Wars section of Disneyland, and the ad features a young girl.
Maybe it’s because she looks like Rey or maybe it’s because Disney isn’t always stupid when it comes to marketing (still waiting for them to pull their heads out their asses on the Marvel front), but she looks like she’s having a hell of a time playing with her dad, and later playing with other kids at the park.
This isn’t based on fact (at least not why it was made) but I have heard quite often that the ferinheit scale reflects the liveable conditions for humans. You can live in temperatures of 0 to 100 without too many extra aminitites, and about 20 to 30 over 100 or under 0.
0 Celsius is ok. 100 Celsius you die. :p.
Kalvin is even worse on the people dieing scale btw.
@ robjec
That makes sense. Supposedly imperial units are based on everyday human experience.
So a foot is the length of your foot. A yard is from your nose to your fingertips, handy for measuring out cloth etc. A hundredweight is about what one person can pick up. A chain is how far you can throw something. An acre is what you need to feed one household.
Whereas SI units are all based on an inter related arbitrary standard that makes scientific equations easier.
@Alan
That makes sense because people are all exactly the same. 🙂
@ dhag
Ha, yeah. It was probably an important person’s nose that set the standard. In fact there’s some quote about “as variable as the size of the Chancellor’s foot” that probably derives from that.
Still, it gives us common folk some standards to aspire to. “Do you even lift a hundredweight bro?”
Edit: SI units are silent on the issue of wrist circumference. How can they not acknowledge such an important measurement?
Who has twelve-inch-long feet? I’m calling nonsense on that. I have big feet and mine aren’t twelve inches long.
@Alan
I can see how MRAs would view this as the ultimate insult to another man: “The distance from your nose to your fingertips is slightly less than 1 yard, you beta cuck manlet!”
@ EJ
If Wikipedia is to be believed (a bit of a stretch I know) the English foot used to be 13.2 inches. It was Edward 1 or 2 who set the current standard.
But now you’ve made me feel like a Sasquatch 🙂
@ dhag
That’s a great insult. Sounds like a prelude to a duel. 🙂
What the… I just measured my feet and they’re only 9.5 inches. Nobody tell 4chan about this, deal?
@ dhag
Your secret is safe. Anyway, everyone knows it’s wrist circumference that’s key 🙂
@EJ re: Who has 12 inch feet? – I think my husband does…?
*out of sheer curiosity, goes to find one of his sneakers and a measuring tape*
*asks, “Where have all of our measuring tapes gone? We have like 10 of the things…”*
*finally finds one*
His shoe’s a hair over 14 inches long.
His shoe’s obvs bigger than his foot, but it’s probably safe to say that it’s at least 12 inches long, plus or minus a bit.
*makes husband a Sasquatch Club Card to match Alan’s*
Hmm. Are we uncovering the fact that EJ has wildly overestimated his foot size relative to those of other people? 🙂
Very possibly. Hmmm. I must have freakily small feet for someone over six feet tall, then.
@EJ
You’re definitely sure about your height though? Unlikely theory, I know, but maybe the people around you have just been crouching all these years?
I’m 6’1 and my feet are, uh… *measures* About 9.2 inches? Then again, I have disproportionately small hands, so my feet might be outliers too.
Hey SFHC
Have you seen the news about the sea snakes being stranded on your beaches by the storms?
Some snake expert called Gary Pattinson is encouraging people to “throw them back in”. He acknowledges that they’re about the most venomous things in existence but apparently that’s fine as “they’re generally pretty placid”
Have fun!
It’s an optical illusion: because I’m closer to my own viewpoint than anyone else is, I appear larger.
@EJ
Reminds me of the Simpsons joke when Moe is dating a very short woman and someone says “she’s beautiful, but so far away!”
@Alan
Hadn’t heard about that, but compared to the box jellies and stonefish that usually infest the beaches around here, a few sea snakes are nothing. =P