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just a niggling issue with a scene in EP2 (spoilers)

posted 4 years ago by aristide (260)
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How they had to walk when their car wouldn't start when they could have had their pick of cars all around them to choose from.
Nothing major but it bugged me.

[–] pluckytotheend (263) 4 years ago

Haven't seen the entire run of the series but I'm guessing all of the cars' electrical systems were fried by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). One of the french soldiers inside the shelter mentioned that equipment inside the shelter was working but not outside. You can research the details of an emp online.

[–] johnmiller (3320) 4 years ago

As completely uninvolving as I find this series to be, I do agree. I think all the electrics were toasted.

[–] heyteegs (1207) 4 years ago

I'm just starting episode 4 and I have to agree - completely uninvolving.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

You're right, it was some kind of EMP. But there must have been something else as well because EMP doesn't kill people.

For a Science Fiction series this was not very scientific, I'll grant you that.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

But EMP's do not kill people. So this was something different that killed people ... and ruined their cars as well. Weird show, but I find it interesting. Not crazy about that last scene.

Oops. I already said this. ;-)

[–] Kowalski (57268) 4 years ago

NIGGLING?

[–] pluckytotheend (263) 4 years ago

Causing slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort or anxiety.

[–] Moonglum9 (10699) 4 years ago

You racist! Sure some may be like that, but that applies to all races.

[–] pluckytotheend (263) 4 years ago

You have confused a perfectly innocent word which has absolutely nothing to do with race. The word you are thinking of is an adverb connected to the "N" word. If you conduct a search of the "N" word that adverb should come up. you'll note that the dictionary definition that I posted fits in perfectly with the remark that "aristide" posted at the top of the page. His posting had nothing to do with race any more than mine did.

[–] Moonglum9 (10699) 4 years ago

Or perhaps my post was entirely satirical and was mocking the tendency of some to erroneously cry racism at the drop of a hat similar to the situation from a few years back where a college professor was fired when he used the term niggardly to a black person. Even though the word means stingy and has no connection to anyone's ethnicity, the teacher was still dismissed.

[–] pluckytotheend (263) 4 years ago

I did consider the possibility of sarcastic humor on your part and should have mentioned it in my post but as you noted being unfairly accused of racism is an unpleasant experience and I was concerned that others would leap in.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (8391) 2 years ago

He was not a very smart professor if he did not have the brains to figure out that choosing the use the obsolete word "niggardly" would not cause an issue - he should have been fired.

[–] diagoro (483) 3 years ago

One of those common terms in the UK, that doesn't work well a lot of other places.

[–] diagoro (483) 4 years ago

Always laugh when I hear English sports announcers using this term. Oh so close to being THAT word.....

[–] aristide (260) 4 years ago

You are getting confused with the word for "Grudging and petty in giving or spending".

But seriously:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niggling

[–] aristide (260) 2 years ago

You know, it's that feeling you get at the base of your neck when you're about to be robbed by a PoC.

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 2 years ago

Oh no you dit-int!