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jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Russia Declares War on ‘Mediocre Actor’ George Clooney

www.thedailybeast.com

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Russia Declares War on ‘Mediocre Actor’ George Clooney

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The head of Russia’s Security Council tweeted a thinly veiled threat aimed at the actor on Saturday.
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    Trump will call him a mediocre actor in one of his upcoming rants because Trump is Putins cock holster

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      You shouldn’t degrade cock holsters by lumping Trump in with them.

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        My bad

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        Any Cock Holster used by Putin is automatically degraded.

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        <Noob Noob>: God damn!

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        But Clooney didn’t act in 2001. Or was there a remake with him, like with Soderbergh’s Solaris?

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        Why the grudge?

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        What the hell did George Clooney do to you in 2001?

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    Mr. Clooney’s reaction upon hearing the news:

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      What is this from? I guess I’ve never seen him in his youth

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        Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)

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          Retuuuuuuuuuuuurn!

          Of the killer tomatoes!

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            • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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              Pump toothpaste! I forgot all about those. Why did we think that squeezing a tube was so hard we needed a pump?

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              Productly placed

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            • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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              George likes his chicken spicy.

            • AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world
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              “G’day mate!” “Hey hoosier!”

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              Gee, I wonder who paid for product placements in this movie.

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      Do you have just like a trillion gifs saved somewhere, or do you make them on demand?

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        Not op but if I need a specific gif of some movie I was reminded and I cant find it online I’ll go on my plex app and record my phones screen and then use that to make a quick gif on imgur haha

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          Do you have just like a trillion gifs movies saved somewhere

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            Basically, whatever my family and some friends request my server sources it plus some lists of latest movies and shows that are released automagically get pulled so I have about 100tb of movies and shows at any given time depending on when my deleter docker purges old stuff

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              Damn bro, you must be loaded to afford all the licensing costs!

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                Oh. Um. Sure, yeah. Yeah. Definitely.

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        Nah, I just have a “trivia night” kind of memory and find them as needed.

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        • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          How come my gifs aren’t moving when I upload? They’re moving on my phone.

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            One thing I’ve noticed is that if the file is a gifv, remove the “v” and it tends to work better. For anything else, no idea.

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      Beer and an Oh Henry?

      Yeah, feed him to the Siberian Tigers. That’s as bad as beer and a PBJ.

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        That combo might go with this:

        Not that I would ever drink such an abomination.

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          Personal bj? ❌

          Public bj? ✅

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    I wouldn’t fuck with George Clooney, Russia. His much more important wife is probably already planning to take you down in the ICC.

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      Holy crap. TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amal_Clooney

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        Yeah, it really sucks that her husband is more well-known than her and I have a feeling he’d agree.

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            Ha! Say what you will about Obama, the man has a sense of humor.

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      Not if the US takes down the ICC first!

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        What are they going to do, bomb The Hague?

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          More like ignore them. It’s been casually effective to date.

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            Although bombing isn’t off the table either.

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          does the hague have oil?

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            Maybe they need some freedom.

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      Suddenly the whole thing with him owning a spy satellite makes more sense.

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    Makes me chuckle to think that Russian propagandists are like ‘Well no one will believe us if we call him a bad actor’

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      It’s like during the crusades again when they accused the other side of acting in bad faith.

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    It’s about time someone makes Clooney pay for his role in Batman and Robin.

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      He’ll just use his Bat-Creditcard

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        This sits right in the middle of the Bat Water Faucet and Mr Reese and I’m all for it.

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          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          Bat Water Faucet

          Mr Reese

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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    Oh no haven’t they seen the Oceans series?

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      O Brother, Where Art Thou? is my favorite movie

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          As well as The Wizard of Oz!

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            I knew about the odyssey but what’s this about wizard of oz?

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              Taken from Whatculture:

              While O Brother, Where Art Thou? was eventually credited as an adaptation of The Odyssey (the first Coens script to adapt an existing source), it was a different quest to return home that served as Joel and Ethan’s original inspiration, one that provides another slice of sepia-toned 1930s Americana. “We were thinking of it more as The Wizard Of Oz,” Joel revealed on the movie’s 15th anniversary on 2015, “We wanted the tag on the movie to be: ‘There’s no place like home.’” Even after the story moved more toward picking up on the episodic beats of Homer’s classical epic poem, there still remains a few residual elements of Oz in the film as released. The scene in which our three bumbling heroes disguise themselves as Klansmen to rescue Tommy from a lynching, for example, is an homage to the similar rescue of Dorothy from the Witch’s castle by her trio of bumbling sidekicks in the children’s fantasy classic. The Klan even march in formation with low rhythmic chanting just like the Wicked Witch’s guards.

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                Woa TIL! It’s one of my fave movies

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        Fantastic film. Have you read The Odyssey by Homer?

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          Yeah, forced myself through it back when the film first came out. I’m glad to have read it but I’ll take the American south version any day lol

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            I thought it was fun to notice the little nods, like the “cyclops” wearing an eyepatch.

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      The Russian dub of Fantastic Mr Fox didn’t get Clooney and putin’s been pissed ever since…

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      Meh, he’s been in much better. Those are just OK heist movies.

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        They’re perfect cable TV movies.
        If you happen to have that still.

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    Well now you have just gone too far.

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      The greatest batman of all time is gonna bring it to them.

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        Nana nana nana na gratuitous nipples!

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        So, Kevin Conroy’s ghost is going to haunt Putin?

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      You can spread propaganda about Israel but we draw the line with George Clooney

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      I assume his nonprofit is finding people with arrest warrants, and telling police where they’re located?

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      And where would arrested convicts be held?

      Why, in the batcave, of course

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        Bat-cell

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      George doesn’t have any authority to do so. His wife, Amal however, is a prosecutor with the ICC.

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    Mediocre? He’s the goddamn paterfamilias!

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      He’s bonafide!

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        “Pewtin here’s got a job! Pewtin’s got prospects!”

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      Damn, that’s a deep cut.

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        Well, we ain’t usin’ Fop, goddamnit.

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          I’m a Dapper Dan man.

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      They think… He is… A toad.

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        A horny toad?

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    Oof, is Russia going to war on two fronts?

    Ask Hitler how well that turned out for him.

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    I guess we will have to arrest renowned Russian actors like… Ehhhhhh… Eva Elfie?

    Seriously, I was going to say Milla Jovovich but she’s Ukrainian.

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      Mila Kunis? Nope, also Ukrainian

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      Olga Kurylenko? Wait, no, Ukrainian as well.

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        She’s indeed a master bait.

        I don’t know her ideologies, but I’m willing to separate the persona from her works.

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      Ivanna Sakhno? Wait, no, also Ukrainian.

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      I guess we will have to arrest renowned Russian actors like… Ehhhhhh… Eva Elfie?

      I mean, it’s understandable that you want to arrest or at least detain her.

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        I would like her to arrest me honestly.

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      .

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    Russia on its quest to find something it can fight and win against.

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      And they chose Batman?

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        They’re not very good at it, are they? :D

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      Clooneys don’t seem that.

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        That was the USSR, helping the allies. They’ve wasted all the former might of the USSR in their war in Ukraine.

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          They wasted all their former might far before that. There’s a reason the leading cause of death for young men in Russia is alcoholism. The people have no hope and no future while Putin lives.

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    Uh oh. Now Fox News has to run non stop breaking news about fabricated stories involving Clooney. Can’t wait for house republicans issue subpoenas to George Clooney for investigations into his woke agenda

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        Alright, I’ll bite. You mentioned it previously, what’s your “personal” beef with George Clooney? Are you David O Russell or something?

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            That was a hell of a ride with a really weird destination.

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            I used to live in Shreveport LA where weirdly enough they shot a bunch of major motion pictures after production was moved there from New Orleans after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. One day I was walking to work downtown and outside my office building I passed a really scabbishly-dressed and overly made-up prostitute (not a common sight there). I kind of scowled at her and she gave me a what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you look as I passed by and went into the building. When I got to the office everybody was lined up at the windows and they told me that I had apparently walked through a movie set and that had been Demi Moore dressed as a prostitute (it was some movie with Kevin Costner playing a serial killer). They were all kind of outraged that I had interfered with the filming but I had the same attitude towards it that you did with Clooney. Like, why the fuck am I supposed to be happy about a film production interfering with my existence? I didn’t get any money out of the deal, and it wasn’t even a good movie.

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                I don’t remember if she was still married to Bruce Willis at this point, which was 2006 or thereabouts, but she was hanging out with Ashton Kutcher in Shreveport because I kept encountering the couple at restaurants and bars. Also had dinner with Ted Danson one evening because he was sitting alone at the table next to me and my friends reading a paperback book and looking sad and lonely so we invited him to join us - he’s actually a nice, normal, friendly guy.

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            Dude, that’s hilarious and I’m so glad that I asked. #CLOONEYD

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    Given this reaction, he seems to be doing something which is working.

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      He is. He’s married to Amal.

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    Maybe it’s been all the terrible news lately, but every now and then nonsense news like this just brings a smile to my face

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