Big deal, who doesn’t have Oscar nominations nowadays. I’ve got two of them, and you don’t see me going around social media and demanding people to address me as “Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie”.
Wait.
I thought ‘bovine’ was a pretty funny line
it shows he didn’t watch sorry to bother you, or he woulda said equine
what a loser
watch the good communist movie
make it 20 minutes longit’s a good length for a good movie, you just need to get better at watching things
Paradoxically if you were telling me about a really bad movie at that length I’d watch it
hmm. have you heard of this movie called sorry to bother you? it’s about a black guy who gets a job as a telemarketer and uses a magic white voice to sell lots of stuff good, it has some really goofy effects and weird editing
Been meaning to watch it since it came out but I did love I’m a Virgo
I was so excited to see it when it came out, that I accidentally went a week early (bought the tickets online). Sicario 2 started playing and my partner was like “is this some kind of weird joke in the movie you wanted to see?”
lmao that’s incredible
Liberals love using big words that make them sound incomprehensible.
bovine aspirations
Cows just want to relax, eat vegan food, and have a good mating season. Bovine aspirations sound alright.
Bulls occasionally get in the mood to utterly fuck things up for no reason
Who among us etc
Oscar nominated writer
The meme where the dude is biting the medal and popping champagne in third place
Anyone who uses two &'s around a single word shouldn’t call themselves a writer
In seriousness, is there a rule against doing that? Is it considered poor form?
there are no rules with english but it is poor form to repeat words too close to one another like that without an artistic or rhetorical purpose
So idk what the exact prescriptive rules are, but the way I’ve always used the ampersand (and have seen it used) is to make it easier to parse a sentence that’s like
I need to talk about spelunking and skydiving and scuba diving is scheduled for next week.
While this would probably be clear in speech from prosodic cues (e.g. pauses and emphasis), in writing it’s not obvious where “things to talk about” end and “activities scheduled for next week” begin. This ambiguity can be cleared up by an ampersand, which is used to group two items together but is not used as a conjunction for introducing a new cause. So if I replace the first “and” with an ampersand like this:
I need to talk about spelunking & skydiving and scuba diving is scheduled for next week.
it becomes clear that “spelunking & skydiving” are the things I want to talk about and “scuba diving” is the scheduled activity. Since I know that & only serves the function of grouping two bits together (nouns in this case), as soon as I hit the “and” I know that it’s the beginning of a second clause. Ampersands can be useful even in a case which isn’t ambiguous, like
I need to talk about spelunking and skydiving and I would also like a taco.
“Skydiving and I would and also like a taco” is obviously not a plausible interpretation for the second clause of the sentence, but even so, there’s still a tiny bit of extra work your brain has to do to parse the first “and” as an item-grouper and the second “and” as a clause introducer. Using an ampersand in place of the first “and” makes things a little easier for the reader.
I’d guess that in a professional writing scenario it’s probably better to rewrite the sentence to avoid ambiguity rather than leaning on the ampersand, but if you’re just writing a comment on the internet who’s got time for that? Oh, and obviously in less formal situations people might just use & just for the hell of it, but that feels kinda boomer-coded to me. For what it’s worth, the tweet in question is exactly 280 characters so it’s probably just a Twitter word limit thing.
Wow, now I know about proper(ish) ampersand usage! I had inuited some of this, that ampersands can be used to group words togrther, but this makes it clearer. This is rad, ty.
The balder you are, the more erudite you become.
spoiler
Well except joe rogan, hes the exception to the rule
I am become chrome dome, user of big words
100% this guy felt he needed to show his mastery of the English language after he wanted to let everyone know he’s an Oscar nominated writer. So he thought he was writing the best mic drop ever with long words from the thesaurus showing how great of a writer he is and that his opponent is not as intelligent therefore the opponent is lost. Then Boots just mocks him without trying lmao
I thought it was a bit and the awful writing was a criticism of award-winning scriptwriters.
I haven’t watched any American or English movies in… years, and I guess the trauma of enduring its brainrot has faded enough that I forgot it’s literally that bad.
In the battle of “I would challenge you to an intellectual debate but it would be unfair, for it appears you seem to be unarmed” vs. “ur mom suck me good and hard through my jorts” the jorts is always going to win because nobody likes a pretentious asshole
It also don’t help that leekern is quite clearly not a naturally verbose writer
Borat had 0 writters, it was a documentary
>improv, hidden camera movie
>a writer
>nine writers.
You know this hidden camera improv movie that got really popular in the post 9/11 Islamophobic landscape? Let’s make another one in 2020 where we try to get Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani involved lol.
What was the thought process here?
I don’t understand how anybody could sit through those movies. It’s literally just a guy doing a funny voice - even if you’re a racist doesn’t that get old fast?
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That shit was crazy I remember it came out right before the election and Hasan Piker watched it and loved it, libs ate that shit up lol
A real artistic genius lmao
YouTuber shit
high concept prank show. lmfao. what an auteur
He thinks he’s Nathan Fielder
high concept prank show
Sounds like something Idiot Doom Spiral would invent.
I can hear the pitch now: “Imagine Viva La Bam for people who listen to NPR”
I will say Who Is America is actually a good show.
It’s greatness came not from writers, but Sacha’s performance and the target’s credulity.
The actual pranks were kinda dumb and without those two factors propping them up it wouldn’t have worked.
Smug smarmy pretentious teeaboos stop calling people “twats” challenge. Difficulty level: u fuckin wot m8
you just know he’d pronounce it twot if he said it out loud
He’s likely also fond of a very chummy and warm and friendly four letter word that starts with c and ends in t that is said all the time in enlightened wholesome parts of the world to everyone (including their mums) in a way that the emotionally delicate unwashed barbarians simply don’t understand, but they themselves primarily use it when talking about how much they hate Anita Sarkeesian.
also it isn’t said a lot it’s a very rude thing to say.
You know how they say Florida is America’s dick? In Britain’s case they didn’t even make a euphemism for their body part in the southeast.
He’s British so probably not
I think actually being British makes him not a teaaboo
Boots Riley’s aspirations are clearly Equestrian, not Bovine.true that
I don’t have Twitter but someone tell him cretinous means stupid you dummy
He paid $20 for that thesuarus, and God damn it, he’s not just going to use it, he’s going to utilize it, exploit it, apply it, put it into action, bring it to bear, and avail himself of it
Now you’re just sounding redundant you stupid idiot.
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