In case you were wondering, yes: there is a noise in the background, and it is the sound of hoofbeats:
Why? Silly rabbits, this is the reason:
Made In Chelsea to become first UK show in TV history to broadcast three-way kiss between male throuple as Channel 4 hire ‘Queer Expert’ to oversee storyline
Every single phrase in that headline is appalling. And try as I may, I can’t even make a joke about it.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and puke my guts out. And then go to the range.
I’ve moaned about this nonsense before:
Since hitting UK cinemas last month, the atomic bomb thriller Oppenheimer — which stars Cillian Murphy in the titular role — has been given a slew of five star ratings while critics branded it Nolan’s ‘best and most revealing work’.
However:
BBC News star Jane Hill revealed she walked out of Christopher Nolan’s film halfway through after spotting a major flaw that left her ‘disappointed’.
I was thinking “historical inaccuracy” or “gratuitous sex/violence”, but no:
It appears Jane was certainly not in agreement as she shared that she was frustrated at not being able to hear the film’s dialogue properly due to the loud soundtrack — and was even more astounded to learn that the issue occurs in almost ‘all’ of Nolan’s films.
She told her followers: ‘Saw Oppenheimer. Well, managed half of it. Disappointed that music & effects often drowned out the actors, I missed whole chunks of dialogue.
Well, that takes the movie off my “to watch” list.
Till fairly recently, I thought that this degraded sound in movies was simply the result of my age- and tinnitus-ridden hearing, but now I know the truth. It seems that the new trend in cinema verité is now to muddy up the dialogue either by having the actors mutter their lines — and sometimes in thick, incomprehensible accents withal — or else to submerge the speech with over-loud sound effects and / or “background” music. Or in the case of this weasel Nolan, both.
Sorry, but there’s not much verité when you can’t hear it being spoken.
I know, the answer is to wait for the movies to appear on a streaming service, and then tap the “subtitles” button.
Nah I’m not going to do that. If I’m going to have to use subtitles, then I’ll just watch furrin stuff like gloomy Scandi detective shows or Belgian whodunnits, which quite frankly are often better than their “English” competition anyway.
The Son&Heir suggested that I get a sound bar for my TV so that I can turn up the “mids” (mid-range audio) and compensate, but I’m not going to do that either.
This little trend is like an artist covering his painting with sheets of thick gauze so you have to strain your eyes to see what’s on the canvas. I wouldn’t bother looking at those, and I’m not going to watch these shitty movies either.
A pox on all of them.
Related: Oppenheimer director Nolan tells us all to fuck off.
From those customer-friendly folks at ______* AirCattleCar Inc. comes this email offer:
Ugh. On the list of Countries Kim Would Not Visit For Free, India lies near the bottom. I feel a followup post on this topic coming on…
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So June is “Pride Month”, according to Deviants International?
Tell you what: you can have this one month for your “pride”, but then I reserve the other eleven for myself — specifically, anger (wrath).
Which will be directed at you lot. 24/7.
Let’s start with your appropriation of something beautiful:
…and turning it into a symbol of sexual deviancy.
More to come.
You know what I’m getting sick of? All these Press reports of some new illegal (or even legal) street drug which fucks up the (ab)user horribly.
It started with PCP (a horse tranquilizer), continued with crack cocaine, and now we have the flesh-eating drug (xylazine*) and “monkey dust” (to name but some), all of which have dire consequences for the user — which would be fine by me, except that people who take this shit don’t kill themselves with the first dose, alas, but instead go berserk and screw up other people’s innocent lives, like this prime specimen did.
I’m not interested in seeing newspaper pictures of people in Seattle or San Francisco or Manchester or London lying in the streets, bodies contorted by the effects of this new plague-drug as their systems slip into dementia or decay.
Not fucking interested. Let them all die, because it’s clear that they want to. Just throw more and more of their drugs of choice at them, and let them carry on. No hospital services, no medical care of any kind other than the drugs.
Yeah, it’s Krool & Hartless, and people are going to start wailing and moaning. But at some point, decent citizens have to say “Enough is enough” and refuse to enable this human waste matter to pollute our streets and neighborhoods.
Let them go.
* Xylazine adds multiple layers of complexity to an already treacherous drug crisis. Xylazine is a depressant. It slows a person’s breathing and heart rate, and lowers their blood pressure. An overdose can put them into a coma-like state, leaving them frozen and vulnerable for hours on the street.
Xylazine has an especially devastating side effect: gruesome wounds that don’t heal. The exact reason for this still isn’t understood, but scientists suspect xylazine could be affecting blood circulation in a way that affects skin repair. That means that for someone using xylazine, something as small as a pimple or a needle puncture could turn into large sores of dying flesh, in some cases eating through to the bone.
Remember: nobody’s forcing this shit into people’s bodies — they’re doing it all by themselves. Fuck ’em.
I can’t find the link to the correct Jordan Peterson talk, but he talks about what happens if someone kills your son, so you kill his wife and daughter, then he kills your sister, cousin, brother and mother, and so on, with escalating results until you have complete chaos and a bloodbath.
As Peterson explains it, the law is there to punish the guilty, protect society, avenge the innocent and — just as importantly — take away your responsibility of vengeance.
Hammurabic law postulated, among other things, that if a judge wrongly convicted a man to death, the judge had to be hanged too — thus making the decision important not just to the family of the wrongly convicted, but to the law and its enforcers.
In Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, when the undertaker’s teenage daughter is raped and beaten up by a group of young men, and the young men are set free without serious punishment, the undertaker says to Don Corleone (and I paraphrase): “The young men were freed by the law — but there was no justice for my daughter.”
Let me apply all three principles to our world today.
We all know that several criminals have been released from prison after a minimal period of incarceration, or freed by Soros prosecutors / liberal justices with minimal or no bail, and these criminals have gone on to commit the same, equivalent or even worse crimes soon thereafter — sometimes within hours of release.
They, in other words, have benefited from the law (whether rightly or wrongly applied is irrelevant, the outcome is the same), but their victims have received no justice.
Under Hammurabic law, the prosecutors would themselves be imprisoned / executed for the subsequent murders; the parole boards would be likewise punished for the crimes committed by the freed parolees. But of course, we know that sadly, none of this will ever happen (unless I become World Emperor, in which case…).
So while the law has been ignored, misapplied, twisted, or even broken, the victims of these crimes have received no justice from the judicial system and its agents.
Now remember this part: “the law is there to… take away your responsibility of vengeance”?
At some point soon, it will come as no surprise to me that the families of victims may seek to take revenge — in the absence of the law’s application — upon the people who are responsible for the criminals’ actions: prosecutors, judges, parole board members, whoever. And it will be no use wringing hands and wailing about people “taking the law into their own hands” or “becoming a lynch mob” or anything like that, because when the law breaks down and does not fulfill any of its duties to society, ordinary people are going to seek their own vengeance.
What’s more, I will refuse to condemn their actions, because as far as I’m concerned, these legal charlatans deserve their fate, all of it. It’s not even a question of saying, “Well, I deplore their actions but I sympathize with their feelings.”
I’m going to applaud their actions, because at the end, what alternatives did they have?
I just feel sorry for the people who are going to be driven to exact the vengeance that the law failed or refused to provide, because they are going to be fully punished, you betcha.
This dam is going to burst, and it’s going to happen sooner than anyone thinks.