Guest Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 3 minutes ago, Alessia Wellington said: Bootstrap Bill. > There are several different translations of that word and I don't know which one you referring to. The latest is:
Alessia Wellington Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 6 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said: There are several different translations of that word and I don't know which one you referring to. ?♀️ A bootstrap is a bootstrap.
Guest Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 6 minutes ago, Alessia Wellington said: ?♀️ A bootstrap is a bootstrap. > If you say so. Spoiler
Guest Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Evaloves4 said: There are several different translations of that word and I don't know which one you referring to. The latest is: Bootstrap Bill Turner is a character from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. He is a member of the Flying Dutchman and the father of Will Turner. He was once a member of Captain Jack Sparrow's crew and regretfully played a part in Hector Barbossa's mutiny against Jack aboard the Black Pearl. Bill left his family behind to make his fortune at sea, but never told them he was going to go about it as a pirate. He became a crewman of the Black Pearl until after Captain Jack Sparrow was marooned on Rumrunner's Isle. In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, he talks about a game of deception where the bet includes all the dice, not just your own.
Guest Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 7 minutes ago, Sir Bron said: Bootstrap Bill Turner is a character from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. He is a member of the Flying Dutchman and the father of Will Turner. He was once a member of Captain Jack Sparrow's crew and regretfully played a part in Hector Barbossa's mutiny against Jack aboard the Black Pearl. Bill left his family behind to make his fortune at sea, but never told them he was going to go about it as a pirate. He became a crewman of the Black Pearl until after Captain Jack Sparrow was marooned on Rumrunner's Isle. In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, he talks about a game of deception where the bet includes all the dice, not just your own. > Thank you for the explanation. I am not a fan of POC so I have no idea who is Bootstrap Bill Turner.
Guest Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 3 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said: Thank you for the explanation. I am not a fan of POC so I have no idea who is Bootstrap Bill Turner I think that is not the explanation to what she was getting at. She does not watch alot of Movies, we just had a discussion on Lord of the Rings and she said so. There are some references to Bootstraps in our country, "Lift them by the Bootstraps" comes to mind, but Bootstraps are pretty much a decorative thing they just haven't removed yet, nobody uses the handles that pull the boot on anymore. Maybe out West or in Texas, not here where I live. Most likely a person was called "Bootstrap" is because he Helped people, or maybe because you would never see one fellow without the other close behind "Follows him like a Bootstrap". Just guessing here as Google doesn't know as much as it thinks either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping
Darkpig Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 9 hours ago, Alessia Wellington said: Bootstrap Bill. Funny you mention that. I vaguely remember a saying. Something along the lines of: How can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you have no bootstraps to begin with? Well it isn't so much a phrase so much as a dismissal of a phrase that originally meant “to try to do something completely absurd.” at least according to this article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-nonsense_n_5b1ed024e4b0bbb7a0e037d4 I'm still looking to see how this phrase was originated and of course who dismissed it as the absurd bullshit it is.
Mr. Otaku Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, Darkpig said: Funny you mention that. I vaguely remember a saying. Something along the lines of: How can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you have no bootstraps to begin with? Well it isn't so much a phrase so much as a dismissal of a phrase that originally meant “to try to do something completely absurd.” at least according to this article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-nonsense_n_5b1ed024e4b0bbb7a0e037d4 I'm still looking to see how this phrase was originated and of course who dismissed it as the absurd bullshit it is. Critiques of absurdities become incorporated into absurdities eventually. Just look at the alpha male/beta male thing that started as a joke about how insecure dipshits would cling to the silliest things to keep their fragile egos from collapsing but then it became prime talking point among the people it was making fun of, you know the podcast crypto bro types for example. Then came the sigma male archetype that was meant to make fun of these losers by associating them with actual villains/psychos like Patrick Bateman and Homelander, only to then be absorbed into the demographics and be used unironically. Same with the woke/based shit, same with the wojack/chad shit, same with red pill/blue pill garbage. No end in sight. No matter what art or humor you introduce to make fun of them they'll reabsorb it into their lingo because they're too stupid to recognize the critique. It's the cycle of post irony in its purest form. Edited July 26, 2023 by Mr. Otaku "Do you know the definition of a typo?" -Crazy Man With A Mohawk 1
Guest Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 21 hours ago, Sir Bron said: I think that is not the explanation to what she was getting at. She does not watch alot of Movies, we just had a discussion on Lord of the Rings and she said so. There are some references to Bootstraps in our country, "Lift them by the Bootstraps" comes to mind, but Bootstraps are pretty much a decorative thing they just haven't removed yet, nobody uses the handles that pull the boot on anymore. Maybe out West or in Texas, not here where I live. Most likely a person was called "Bootstrap" is because he Helped people, or maybe because you would never see one fellow without the other close behind "Follows him like a Bootstrap". Just guessing here as Google doesn't know as much as it thinks either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping > I have two pro translators installed plus I am using "Glosbe", all of them have several different suggestions for that term. I am sure if I was born and raised in the USA I would understand exactly what she meant even if I didn't watch "Pirates..."
Darkpig Posted July 26, 2023 Posted July 26, 2023 15 hours ago, Mr. Otaku said: Critiques of absurdities become incorporated into absurdities eventually. Just look at the alpha male/beta male thing that started as a joke about how insecure dipshits would cling to the silliest things to keep their fragile egos from collapsing but then it became prime talking point among the people it was making fun of, you know the podcast crypto bro types for example. Then came the sigma male archetype that was meant to make fun of these losers by associating them with actual villains/psychos like Patrick Bateman and Homelander, only to then be absorbed into the demographics and be used unironically. Same with the woke/based shit, same with the wojack/chad shit, same with red pill/blue pill garbage. No end in sight. No matter what art or humor you introduce to make fun of them they'll reabsorb it into their lingo because they're too stupid to recognize the critique. It's the cycle of post irony in its purest form. I was just thinking that sayings and by extension expressions are kind of dumb. Even George thinks its a joke. Doesn't seem to stop people from saying them though. Ah well. Better to have fun with it? 1
KoolHndLuke Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 On 7/24/2023 at 8:55 PM, Vader666 said: No one can pull you out of that. All they can do is pointing at a rope. Some will use it to pull themself out, others tie it round their neck. Honestly don't know anymore sometimes. Either I'm the crazy one or everyone else is. One of those can't be true.
Guest Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 > "Secret Invasion" is one of very few Marvel series worth watching.
KoolHndLuke Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 People observe. They do not study. And there is so much to study.
Psalam Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 2 hours ago, KoolHndLuke said: People observe. They do not study. And there is so much to study. While I can't help but wholeheartedly agree with the second part of your assertion I must take exception to the first. On the whole, I've found, people are very unobservant. The classic example is the poor police officer who gets six different descriptions of a criminal from the five people that s/he interviews. 2
Alessia Wellington Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 6 minutes ago, Psalam said: people are very unobservant. The classic example is the poor police officer who gets six different descriptions of a criminal from the five people that s/he interviews. That's why most officers merge the different descriptions into one suspect.
Darkpig Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 John Jacob Oppenheimer Schmidt? We’re gonna make a bomb? When people all go out the the people always shout? There goes John Jacob Oppenheimer Schmidt? Laa Daa Dee Daa Daa Daa?
FauxFurry Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 22 hours ago, Darkpig said: I was just thinking that sayings and by extension expressions are kind of dumb. Even George thinks its a joke. Doesn't seem to stop people from saying them though. Ah well. Better to have fun with it? Even? He found everything to be fodder for humor. There were no exceptions save for perhaps his own family.
steelpanther24 Posted July 27, 2023 Posted July 27, 2023 Someone here has surely seen this movie. Is it worth the time? This video makes it look pretty good.
Darkpig Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 2 hours ago, FauxFurry said: Even? He found everything to be fodder for humor. There were no exceptions save for perhaps his own family. I mean he did briefly mention his family when doing a skit about natural disasters and having people die.
Guest Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, steelpanther24 said: Someone here has surely seen this movie. Is it worth the time? This video makes it look pretty good. > We watched Alita 1 several times. Excellent movie. Can't wait to see this one. Edited July 28, 2023 by Evaloves4
Guest Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 > Going home in a couple of minutes and I am taking an unpaid day off tomorrow. I am very exhausted from work. my luvs will be working while I will and enjoy with our children on our beach.
Guest Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 24 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said: Going home in a couple of minutes and I am taking an unpaid day off tomorrow. I am very exhausted from work. my luvs will be working while I will and enjoy with our children on our beach. Get some R&R time!
Alessia Wellington Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 6 minutes ago, Sir Bron said: Get some R&R time! Rum and Ritalin? Not the healthiest way to spend your day.
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