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Not only that, they treated Tokugawa as little more than an afterthought. They commented that he simply outlived all the other Daimyo that could seize power, and that's how he won in the end. Not true at all: he was the strongest and wealthiest Daimyo in all of Japan; he schemed, cajoled, and manipulated until he could win. And he was so good at it, that for 250 years after him, no one could contest the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The western attitudes towards the culture was reflected in how they commented on the "rivers of blood," and the "slaughters." They themselves commented on the country being in a Civil War for over 100 years. What did the cream puffs expect? That the samurai hurled water balloons at each other? The katana is probably the fined bladed weapon for hacking and slashing at someone- why were they made that way if not to hack, stab, and slash?
..Joe
This guy does a great job:
http://mikefahey.blogspot.com/2015/09/cheat-sheet-for-hou-hsiao-hsiens.html
..Joe
No, it's "Maggie Cheung Man-yuk," or "張曼玉" in Hanzi. Ti Dong ma?
Wanna correct somebody, get it right, Scooby, otherwise you look the ass.
Also, didn't say I was very familiar with her. I wrote "Same for Maggie Chung who allowed herself to be pulled off a moving scooter, and actually got hurt when a series of clothing racks falling like dominoes hit her in the head." One sentence is a post does NOT connote "familiarity."
The Reading is Fundamental program might help your comprehension, son.
..Joe
Because it's Netflix. If it doesn't tic all their boxes, you won't see it.
..Joe
Diabetic zombies can't eat sweet women: gotta go for the bitter ones.
..Joe
Wouldn't have mattered. Why he was refueling at that time is pure Hollywood. As a pilot, I know that we NEVER fuel a plane that has passengers aboard. One errant spark and it's hundreds dead.
The guy after the wristband was a schmuck. He could have minded his own business and left the Butler character alone. He was ultimately responsible for his own death.
As to the 2 pilots, they would have been caught in the shock wave regardless. Had they landed, everyone would have been out on the ramp, and even more would have died from the shock wave.
Too many variables to say X caused Y.
..Joe
It's the only time the two have been in a movie together.
..Joe
I enjoyed it for its fun, but the poor history kept taking me out of the movie.
She was arrested under the jurisdiction of the US Army Air Corps? Why? The US Army Air Corps was disbanded in Sept. 1941, and then became the US Army Air Forces.
They ROLLED a B-17? Can't do that- it wasn't fuel injected, and it would have stalled in less than 20 seconds. And, as it was down to 2 engines, they hadn't the power to do that.
The explosion blew her back into the plane? Maybe. A a shrapnel-torn and shredded body it might.
But, it was fun.
..Joe
It was 20 years later, that puts him him close 60. If Sarah was born when he was 25, and she was 12 when he died, that made him 37; now add 20 years, and you're getting nearer 60 than 50. The game takes a whole year to transpire. Even closer to 60.
Why would you think he fathered Sarah at 19? Then add the 9 months for her birth when he was 20, to get to your numbers. That would also mean his younger brother was 17 or so during the initial part of the game. Might be hard for you guys to comprehend, but many people get married and have children; they're not all products of a drunken hookup when they're teens.
The events of TLoU2 take place 5 years after the game, which went through a full year. So I might have been a little out on his age but he was close to 70 when he died.
Right. She wants to swing a Johnson from here on out...
Stupid Hollywierd people
..Joe
Biggest problem I have is the age factor. Joel is in his early-to -mid 60's, and in his early 70's for TLoU2. Pascal is 20 years too young to be in this part.
He is a fine actor, but he's not going to get that old age thing right.
..Joe
I think they were pretty much all killed, or taken back to the Exxon Valdez as slaves of one sort or the other.
..Joe
"Could the bath scene be considered sexual assault?"
Yes...
By idiots.
..Joe
Thanks. So far, I've been able to make it 22 minutes through this turkey, and that was today. There's so much stupidity in it that I can't take it.
Ed Skrein should have gotten enough fiber for the rest of his life the way he chewed the scenery. Any pilot with that attitude would have found himself on the beach.
Sad that actual history of a war isn't enough to make it to film; they have to enhance it to make it "real" to the writers.
..Joe
Good. you can quote somewhere else. But you're missing your own point- reread the line "American immigrants drove out the Mexican army and declared the Texas republic."
Therefor it was its own country. A country of mostly non-Mexicans.
So how did the US "steal" the country from Mexico when it was no longer Mexican territory? It was part of land legally purchased by the US. That ain't stealing, it's buying. Every argument you post is specious.
And as to a living wage, for some it's 20 grand, for some it's 50 grand.Who gets to decide?
..Joe
Yeah- the liberal claptrap again. What is a "living wage?" What work should be required to get it? No one ever seems to have that answer, and more to the pointy, do you give up half your pay to give someone else a "living wage?" Why is it with you Socialists, it's always someone else's money you want to give away, never your own? Because believe it or not, YOU'RE one of those "capitalists" that denying a living wage to the proletariat.
And again, "Americans" didn't steal Texas. It was its own country, with its own citizens. You can't seem to get that, or you're purposely ignoring it because it destroys your argument.
Or are you too stupid to get that point?
..Joe
I already responded to this- Sure. If we can pay 3rd- and 4th-generation entitlement recipients, why not give it to people too stupid to get educated to get a real job?
And again, the US didn't take Texas- Texas was taken by individuals that formed their army, then their own country, and only years after that agreed to join the US.
(Because of that, Texas is the only state that can fly its flag above the US.)
Again, do your research.
..Joe
You need to learn what the Mexican Cession actually consisted of. Your uneducated view borders on myopia.
..Joe
Naive view. What is a "rich company?" What is a "living wage," and whose standard of living? Why, if I create something, build it up, make it extremely profitable, and pass it on to my progeny required to pay others their idea of what's fair?
And which Mexicans did we st3eal from? Texas was paid for. They were given almost 450 billion (in 1991) dollars for the Mexican Cession. How was that "stolen?"
And our taxes also go to support 3rd and 4th generation entitlement people, whose job it is to avoid any kind of work while living off the government tit. Do you really want your taxes to pay for their unwillingness to fend for themselves?
..Joe
Get yourself self checked for mental retardation...
bro.
..Joe