Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[Cutlass]

Ugh, that sounds like work.

It's not work if you have fun!

 

[Traitorfish]

It's not work if you have fun!

 

[Takhisis]

That sounds like an excuse not to pay your workers.

 

[Cutlass]

Stalone's too old to do it again anyways. You need to reboot rather than sequel.

 

[Kyriakos]

If he waits that long, the spotlight may be on his obituary.

 

[JohannaK]

Stalone's too old to do it again anyways. You need to reboot rather than sequel.

You know that's not Stallone, it's Karl Urban?

 

[Synobun]

None. That money could be easily better spent doing other things.

You're right. They could give the money to me.

 

[Takhisis]

You're right. They could give the money to me.

Half to you, half to me, you mean.

 

[Cutlass]

You know that's not Stallone, it's Karl Urban?

Looks like Stalone.

 

[Takhisis]

Yeah, well, they appear to have the same range of emotional expression.

 

[Traitorfish]

Looks like Stalone.

False; both Stallone and Urban look like Joseph Dredd.

 

[Takhisis]

a is like c, b is like c, but a being like b is false?

WTH TF?

 

[Traitorfish]

a is like c, b is like c, but a being like b is false?

WTH TF?

Dredd is the Platonic Form from which Stallone and Urban are derived. At least, so far as is big, grimacey chins are concerned.

 

[Takhisis]

Dredd is the Platonic Form

I knew we'd make a Greek out of you.

 

[Traitorfish]

The Republic is basically Judge Dredd fan-fiction if you think about it.

 

[JohannaK]

the key is the colour grading and the not cleanly shaven chin. It's more Zack Snydery and gritty, meaning it can only be Urban.

 

[tjs282]

Looks like Stalone.

Have... have you... have you not yet seen the Dredd movie with Karl Urban (and Olivia Thirlby )? Rectify that oversight at once, good sir!

(It's on Netflix.de at the moment — along with Watchmen, which actually wasn't a bad adaptation IMO, despite being directed by Zack "comic = my storyboard" Snyder — so might be on .com as well...?)

 

[r16]

each year ı grow older , dumber and fatter . And apparently shorter , due to natural vertebrae compression . So , let me give you one of the 71 rants instead . As such lately even the British Aviation Media is bugging me ..

Spoiler :

yeah , BS in this field can be as much as any . Reading some old second hand magazine that had collected dust in the basement for the last 20 years , ı see the Israelis were promoting the Kfir in 1977 as having 180 rounds per gun , a whopping 50% advance on the Mirage . Depending on one's ideas about the uses of a gun on a jet . No working engineer will possibly be on record to say that ain't so or whatever though . Considering the plane is just a license production of a Mirage with French experts sabotaging the thing in defence of their own aero-engine industry and blaming mismatch on par with Spey on the Phantom , even if there is also the thing about the wings and all that . And considering the Mirage hull doesn't exactly have that kind volume , ammunition count going up to 135 on the F-1 and coming down to 125 on the 2000 .

then some electronic article on the F-5 . Can be awesome at places . Like Northrop promises 22 hours of maintainance per flight hour . Now there are like hundreds of people per fighter squadron and stuff needs attending . Down to simplest speck of dirt on the canopy that needs a wipe and which might take an hour for a guy or whatever , 'cause it can literally kill you . Knowing it exists , you start ignoring it and some other speck appears and you fail to see it and it becomes an enemy plane and it bounces you and kills you kind of thing . This is 50s and the company says the competitors might need 44 hours and USAF will actually announce one of 57 for F-104s . Then the thing goes to war , as the "Little" Tiger in 'Nam and starts all-right with like 11 and falls down to 6.5 at the end of deployment . And like every possible official documentation disappears , because ...

so every "poor" country gets some . The Greeks are so poor that they do not bother painting theirs so when you see one of theirs you can't tell whether it's Greek or Jordanian as both set of markings can be seen ... Ours are at least better painted , but no , due to simple British snobbism , we learn we are both poor and "undependable" , and the only ones in NATO like that , too ... This in 1997 or something and Kemalists are still in "charge" , you know . Even in '17 calling British Aviation companies names can be dangerous and this awesome magazine had to call names about Lockheed , after a long regular series on British failures . You see , the Brits made the current Airbus airlifter like 4 decades ago as the Belfast and only if they had 11000 horsepowers on each engine . To which ı would say "What kept you?" but as you might guess , ı can't . Because London is doin' one for Qatar under the cover of one for Turkey and this will provide them massive business opportunities , like selling to dumb Europeans . This awesome 1997 article then wholesomely fails to remark on how two F-20 prototypes crashed due to problems relating to pulling too much G , with no hints on whether oxygen supply simply stopped at the right moment and markets were left clear for all sorts of European fighters , none of them still apparently capable of winning a straight competition against the F-16 . Which had this rather hard fight against the '20 . Let alone a fully idiotic r16 rant on how Ike was concerned about the apparent rise of power of a certain set of people and thus 1492 provided a jail-free card to Turks and thus asked for a silly simple plane that could be sold to Turkey and wouldn't do much particular anti-America stuff if things went far too South . Some stupid thing about the Same but not the Same at a time when the US Army was deployed in America so that Black kids could go to school and no assurances that half the said Army would not go South . And Northrop declared in 1977 or something that they had enough orders for the F-5 until 1987 and finally greenlighted and they like ruined it all with the F-20 instead of a dirt simple silly little one that could have been started in Ankara by 1980 . Oh no , Paris wants in and counts on foolishness that pertains to both set of people and insists their latest is up 50% and you know Marcel Dassault nee Bloch is a Buchenwald survivor [and like massive assistance to Tel Aviv]. In case there is any money to be made . Yeah , no one needs reading that . Turk the unreliable suffices for all .

edit: and of course a second reading shows this might sound offensive , but then Aviation Media knows no race or colours , except that light Green on the Dollar .

 

[Cutlass]

Have... have you... have you not yet seen the Dredd movie with Karl Urban (and Olivia Thirlby )? Rectify that oversight at once, good sir!

(It's on Netflix.de at the moment — along with Watchmen, which actually wasn't a bad adaptation IMO, despite being directed by Zack "comic = my storyboard" Snyder — so might be on .com as well...?)

I didn't even know there was one, until yesterday.

 

[JohannaK]

That is shocking. It's actually good.