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[–]unagisongsBurn down Reddit! 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No. We are distracted by on IDPOL nonsense so they can prep for WW3 without interference. They wouldn't do if it didn't keep toddlers occupied on the shiny objects.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'll believe there are more than 2 genders when a transgender person transitions from male or female to something other than male or female. Like trans 'male-to-USB-C', or 'female-to-fungal spore'.

Until then, all the alphabet list people are simply describing permutations and combinations of the 2 genders.

[–]chakokat 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Are demigenders something like demigods?

Something lesser than transgender?? So the USAF is labeling something as “less than” transgender??

Oh Boy! Get ready for the 'demigenders' to start suing for being discriminated by being labeled as less than ‘transgenders'.

My head is spinning.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

"Demigenders?"

Look out! Here come the hemidemisemigenders!

(In music, a hemidemisemiquaver is a 64th note.)

[–]risistill me 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

He dooesn't know what it is, but, whatever it is, he's for it?

What would Groucho Marx have done with that, I wonder? (I bet u/Caelian knows.)

https://youtu.be/DtMV44yoXZ0?t=2

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I love that song. Horse Feathers (1932) was my first Marx Brothers movie.

[–]risistill me 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I've never watched a full Marx film.

I just know certain lines and songs. Some because of my sibling and some because of the poster I once mentioned to you who posted nothing but Marx brothers clips or quotes (on another board, long ago and far away).

I love that song too. Another favorite of mine: https://youtu.be/_YrNQaXdOxU?t=8

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I love "Hello, I must be going". I want it sung at my funeral 🦆

I first saw the Marx Brothers on campus with mediocre projection and sound, but with live audiences. The films are much more enjoyable with a live audience, since laughter is contagious.

But they are strong enough for an audience of one. I like the scene at the beginning of Brazil (1985) when the girl is watching a small black&white TV set and laughing, while taking a bath. She's watching "the world's shortest friendship" from The Cocoanuts (1929).

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

laughter is contagious.

Yes!

I wonder if Marx movies are on any of the Netflix type services.

PS When I left the last all Dem board I will ever post on, I did not do a GBCW post. I did, however, sebd the board's (ostensible?) founder a DM, under the title, "Hello, I must be going." I promised not to thank him for all the fish if he promised not to reply with "Goodbye, Felicia."

[–]rondeuce40DC Is Wakanda For Assholes 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

The cotton candy haired soy army will strike fear in the hearts of their enemies. They will be able to run an 8th of a mile in an hour with their superior athleticism and post strong tweets.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Are they offering money to everyone who can pretend to be something a general can't define?

'cause I'm just saying, I thought the Pentagon was a bottomless pit before.

[–]Centaurea 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Pinpointing one program supported by the Air Force called the Brooke Owens Fellowship, which is supposed to be for women, Gaetz noted “you’re literally pushing a program in the academies that says, if you’re a cisgender woman, a transgender woman, a non-binary, a-gender, bi-gender, two-spirit, demigender — what’s demigender?”

[Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard] Clark replied “Sir, that’s a - that’s a term of the people that are eligible for that particular scholarship that it’s available in person to - it’s a person who looks at their gender in a, in a different, a different way than I do, sir.”

It's amazing he could say that with a straight face. (Pardon the expression.)

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

"... it’s a person who looks at their gender in a, in a different, a different way than I do, sir.”

As Major Giles Flack said obliviously in Privates on Parade: "queer behaviour"!

From a recent FNDP comment:

Privates on Parade (1983) is one of my very favorite films, and easily my favorite musical. It's a marvelous ensemble work based on the stage play by Peter Nichols. It takes place in Malaya and Singapore in the late 1940s, and the characters are members of the British military "Song and Dance Unit -- South-East Asia", who put on shows to entertain the troops. They only have one woman (a civilian) in the troupe, so when they need more female roles some of the men must wear frocks. Some of them prefer to dress that way.

John Cleese is quite marvelous as Major Giles Flack, the commanding officer of the unit. He takes himself hilariously seriously, even when doing his evening exercises. He's constantly spouting off about blasphemy and godless communism and it quickly becomes clear that he's barking mad and the reason he's in charge of SADUSEA is that his superiors realize that he'd be dangerous in any unit that involved combat.

Excellent musical numbers and terrific characters. Great ensemble play where there is no real star, not even Cleese. All the characters are distinctive and important.

My dear mother loved this movie because she was involved in amateur military musical theatre in Germany shortly after WWII. She was an excellent pianist. Privates on Parade took her right back to those days.

[–]Super_Soviet_Gundam[S] 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

I hate this timeline so much.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Of all the goddamn cyberpunk dystopias, we get the one with the most bullshit...

Demolition Man on fuggin steroids.

Shit man, gimme Judge Dredd.

Make Shadowrun come true.

I'll even take Cyberpunk or Mad Max and the fancy MEDIOCRE cars.

But we got... Demo-fuggin-Lition Mann...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU------

[–]Super_Soviet_Gundam[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Demolition Man is an intermediary step to the final phase: Idiocracy

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Well, Fallout is my favorite, so I'm still in with a chance.