This is amazing.

First the message on the sign, then you scroll down and see white guy in his 30s + polo shirt + khakis.

That's the American dream, folks.

lots of fuckers do shit like that because they know they'll have cameras on them and will never have to confront the people they're shit talking.

dude take a chill pill. rip steve jobbs, the greatest innovator of our time... obama's speech was Touching.

Again, the only person I've ever heard pronounce it with two syllables is Joey from friends. I guess it's similar to the people who call Florence "Firenze" or something? You're from Birmingham too - you're telling me that you hear people there pronounce it with two syllables? (as Porsh-a?) I am amazed if so.

no, i'm telling you the correct pronunciation. people getting it wrong doesn't show anything other than incompetence

They're totally different. Hence the extra letters to show stress in the pronunciation. Sound them out, it's pretty easy. Notice the shortness of some sounds (represented by less elongated letter clusters) than the others, coupled with the difference separations of the letter clusters to show stress. Clarification granted.

i don't think anyone calls it AAAAADEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAS unless they're frankenstein's monster

add-e-das
vs.
a-deed-as

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15230730
lol

http://io9.com/5848043/a-rebooted-justice-league-roster-complete-with-a-marble-wonder-woman-and-steampunk-cyborg
the author of the appaulingly pretentious snoozefest dresden codak decided to ignore everything that makes the justice league iconic and replace with random beatemup clone characters.

Example:
What's with turning wonder woman to stone? that kinda greatly reguces her impact, because the key theme was that she was brought up a warrior and seems to project confidence in her strength and abilities. Her skimpy costume was a great aspect of that confidence. She didn't need huge plates of armour because no guy would get close enough to injure her. By turning her to stone, you remove that eliment, greatly undermine her confidence, and essentially find another way of protecting a weak woman from danger. (Fun fact, when WW's costume was changed a year or so ago to include tights and leather jacket (hey we're back in the 80's!), the strongest voice of opposition came from the feminist camp, seeing it as a way to kinda put a block to the confidence of being female. Actually equal derision came from the fashion designers as well, because well, it was shit.) As an atempt to try and connect her with mythical routes in an utterly superficial way which has no relation to her character, it would be like giving superman a stars and stripes cape to connect him to american values.

Luckily he isn't working for DC, however lately DC've had their fair share of shit redesigns and this is kinda a great example of what goes on in that weird little world of the 'creative industry'. People aren't putting any critical thought into what they're doing, and just making a bunch of generics that look kewl using this bland globalised style that picks elements from various differing styles and combines them in the most superficial and 'safe' way imaginable, whilst lacking in any real element of creativity or originality. As a guy who enjoys and regularly watches anime, I am not against the cultural cross polination because it can and does work (teen titans and powerpuff girls being two great examples), however when you imitate something on a purely superficial level, it lacks everything that made the original enjoyable.

I get the feeling I will give up on reading new comics when Grant Morrison dies/retires/transcends reality, because he's prettymuch the only decent comic writer left. I mean I don't care that this guy did these bland characters, but it (and dresden codak itself also comes into this) is a great example of how 'creative' people(I think anybody who says they work in the 'creative industry' should all be bundled into a bus and drove into the ocean, imacs, thick rimmed glasses, unironically cooky tshirts and all, especially if they use the term 'creatives' as a plural for their kind) lack any sense of creativity.

I like the idea of a classical marble warrior and I think she's hot but even though I don't care or know anything about wonder woman I get your point, and that's probably part of the reason I don't care about COMICS as a medium besides a couple select series. but I always assumed the genesis of wonder woman was "what if we made superman but a woman without much clothes on and a babe". the femininity and confidence argument doesn't sound like a very strong one tho. isn't wonder woman like a typical magazine ad hourglass figure without many muscles anyway? hermione's got bigger deltoids and hammys than her.

thx dada

watch this space. gonna rustle up some satire that will blow your minds

Heh those idiots and their crippling personal debts.

Exactly. It's stuff like this that makes me wish I knew more people that are forced to use a wheelchair. I would show them some of the "I am 53%" things and ask him if it's even possible to claim you enjoy being crippled without looking like a complete idiot. (I do have one friend in a wheelchair, but he's one of my best friends that I could never imagine myself asking something so insensitive to. I have a bunch of asshole friends that I personally don't give a shit about, but not one of them is in a wheelchair *yet*.)

Even though I'd much rather take my wheelchair friend to the 53% themselves so that I could ask each one of them to say to him personally they really do enjoy being crippled by debt. Although it may be less satisfying, since I imagine being crippled by debt is a decidedly better fate than being crippled by an incurable spinal injury. The experience would probably put their debt in a new light, given the newfound appreciation for being entirely ambulatory (Especially if it was one of those working multiple jobs, since their body being literally crippled would deal a severe blow for their own ability to work multiple jobs.)

that cartoon is repulsive.

Anybody hear of this "I am the 53%" thing?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lss9nm9Lah1r4q8eoo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1318328618&Signature=P1tcvcCN9PXd%2FHQ2PlhsJUYDhAM%3D

"I work 3 minimum wage jobs but that's okay because I feel EMPOWERED rather than exploited!"

this person would gleefully be the first in line at auschwitz

some moral superiority

that's 93% of all of it anyway