"white, sweet and loving as a man"
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
wait lenny kravitz is black
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
"this guy is not cute at all!" o_O
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
what is hunger games is it like twilight
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
not thinking lenny kravitz is attractive is like the #1 sign that u are hella racist
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the "sweet and loving" thing is insane, but that girl's words seem chosen at random.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Hunger Games is like Battle Royale
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
hunger games is a YA dystopian trilogy that is not entirely dissimilar to twilight
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't read it, but I was led to understand it was less pathetic and more bloodthirsty, like a toned down Battle Royale
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
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lol i just read the hunger games wiki all why are there one million things w/this exact plot so dumb, but then i was like wait battle royale is the best movie
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
battle royale was only ok
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
tbf, Lenny Kravitz does have a nose.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg/393px-Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
and pupils (though somewhat dilated.)
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoYzcbhE-w8
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
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pffft pffft post
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
I never saw the Battle Royale movie but the book was SUPER ENTHRALLING
I've been avoiding The Hunger Games because I wasn't sure I wanted to read Battle Royale Lite; having them linked more directly to Twilight is even more of a turn-off
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
the movie is great dan u should watch it!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I actually wanted to start a thread for a serious discussion about "movies that should've been video games" but then I realized that I don't really care about the thoughts people really have about either I just like interacting with them
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
i like the books, with some reservations. the way they're like twilight is the way a lot of ya books about a girl are like twilight: there's a love triangle. they're a lot better than twilight, like almost everything in the world.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
TUOMAS OTM
very good find
― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
I am a racist so if there are any other racists around we can just have the vid game/movie discussion in this thread and it'll be on topic
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Friday, November 18, 2011 6:09 PM (17 minutes ago)
true true
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
max went gay just to prove hes not racist smh
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
'ringtone' is the preferred term
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
Lenny Kravitz apparently an apostate Jew, I think I am racist against him now
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
the reaction to the lenny kravitz casting makes me hate people, but the reaction to the rue casting is mindboggling. she's very clearly black in the book.
OK, I didn't realize this, but I've only read the first one.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
she's only in the first one! i guess people sort of skim YA sometimes. district 12 is evocative of Reconstruction-era south black sharecroppers. district 11 is reminiscent of Appalachian coal miners.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I never know when people are supposed to be black in books unless the book says "this character is black". "Dark skin" doesn't register for me as "this character is some sort of futuristic black person".
Haven't read hunger games
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
district 9 is an apartheid allegory
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
i do watch books like a hawk for race markers
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
lol shut up jho i am clearly invested in the hunger games for some reason
do you even realize what an amazing joke i made, do you?!!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
I have never heard of Hunger Games.
― crüt, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
But I'm still appalled that there are black characters.
gonna do a phd on this brb
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
recently saw a glenn ligon exhibition and holy shit the white people who were walking around and looking at the work and talking about all of it were just so fuckin racist, I mean museum chatter is prob some of my fav shit to overhear in the world but I was leaving rooms just to get away from people
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
why you gotta bring markers into this
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
so this isn't about romans.
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
come come there's lots of acceptable bigotries in ireland!
Well, yes, here too. I meant acceptable amongst liberals/leftists who would oppose any other kind of prejudice. People here who would oppose any other kind of prejudice or racist language are more than happy to complain about 'gypos' or 'tinks' etc.
― sleep daphnia (dowd), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
*masturbates furiously to pic of lenny kravitz, rids self of last vestiges of racism*
― I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.baltimoremd.com/images/anim/eyes.gif
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
the movie is pretty good, the book is better. I have no interest in Hunger Games, sounds like a stupid ripoff designed to appeal to um people other than me.
I was kinda shocked to see Battle Royale in a children's book store the other day. Like, really this is appropriate for 12 yo or whatever? (tbf it was on the same shelf as Tolkien/LOTR) I guess I read some gnarly shit when I was 12, I just remember this book being particularly brutal...
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 November 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jWkZ0.jpg
― dayo, Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Racism isn't even the biggest problem I have with that.
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
yah it begins sarcastically and then is plainly moralistic, that sort of stylistic miscegenation suggests the internet isn't even trying to raise its young content farmers
― The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol all the guys taking cell phone pix
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
maybe she has a hilarious tramp stamp
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
one guy has the im totally gonna put this on my tumblr look in his eyes
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
i got your dam district 9 joke, icey
― horseshoe, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
~7 hours later~
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link