Topic: This thread is non-euclidean, for it has no point (Read 884910 times)

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #850 on:** 14 Jun 2014, 13:48 »

Dune/Tremors/Beetlejuice

and it looks like a race

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #851 on:** 14 Jun 2014, 13:51 »

LTK · « **Reply #852 on:** 14 Jun 2014, 14:07 »

So... it rhymes?

Jimor · « **Reply #853 on:** 14 Jun 2014, 14:38 »

Quote from: LTK on 14 Jun 2014, 14:07

So... it rhymes?

Yes, it does.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #854 on:** 14 Jun 2014, 20:29 »

Aww man, don't explain it!

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #855 on:** 15 Jun 2014, 07:30 »

Loki · « **Reply #856 on:** 15 Jun 2014, 10:51 »

Awwww.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #857 on:** 15 Jun 2014, 17:04 »

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #858 on:** 15 Jun 2014, 17:13 »

Clever girl.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #859 on:** 15 Jun 2014, 17:27 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #860 on:** 15 Jun 2014, 17:31 »

Hahaha, loving the reaction and the "yeah, I went there" shots.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #861 on:** 15 Jun 2014, 23:45 »

Akima · « **Reply #862 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 03:13 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 14 Jun 2014, 07:01

So as related to my primary occupation, I believe I am correct as to the identity of those firearms, down to splicing out the Chinese variant of the PPSh submachine gun the Type 50, and given the weapons, clothing and coloration of the photo, along with the poster (Tovarishch Akima is nothing if not reliable in her insight and interesting references and posts relating to Chinese history) I feel I am safe in assuming it's from the cultural revolution, probably a group of Red Guard.

Yes tóngzhì, it is a photo from the early years of the Cultural Revolution, when children were encouraged to denounce their parents and other family members, so it was my comment on the truth of Captain Picard's remark. The Sten gun was used by both sides in the Chinese Civil War 1946-1950. I don't know how many were "original" and how many were locally-made copies.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #863 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 03:49 »

The Sten submachine gun is a favorite of Nations and individuals with limited manufacturing capacity specifically because it is so simple while I would wager that some of the sub machine guns in China were manufactured by the United States and Common Wealth partners of Great Britain the vast majority were probably locally manufactured by the Imperialist s and the Communists themselves much like the ak-47 of today. The revolutionary equivalent of buying local you could say.

judemorrigan · « **Reply #864 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 06:49 »

LeeC · « **Reply #865 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 07:56 »

kyomi · « **Reply #866 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 09:07 »

No idea what's supposed to be going on there.. can someone explain?

LeeC · « **Reply #867 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 09:11 »

the guy is cosplaying as the Game of Thrones actor in the right picture, the woman in the left picture plays the love interest of that character in the show.

kyomi · « **Reply #868 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 10:18 »

Still not getting it... "Should we"... should we what? (I have not seen Game of Thrones and have desire to watch it, but it annoys me when there are things I don't understand).

So it's the actual actor in the left picture? Is it like he's supposed to be talking to himself or something? Only a year later at the same con?

Is that the actual actor in the right picture in black?

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This is just beautiful

"I found my savior in these shards of shattered glass
I am an exit to the blackness, this is my last hymm."

--Psyclon Nine - Suicide Note Lullaby

LeeC · « **Reply #869 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 13:35 »

It would be spoilers if I told you. If you have no desire to watch it I'll pop it in a spoiler

(click to show/hide)

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #870 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 15:58 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #871 on:** 16 Jun 2014, 16:04 »

And that's why you teach your kids the planets from a young age. So they know where to poop.

pwhodges · « **Reply #872 on:** 17 Jun 2014, 03:52 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #873 on:** 17 Jun 2014, 04:07 »

What.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #874 on:** 17 Jun 2014, 04:48 »

Oh ho ho! So one of the cameras survived! Curses! I choose now to reveal myself then! With my Ostrich allies and the Honor of the Mask! I call for revolution against the corrupt structures of this world!