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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Thunderfinger wrote:
    Chili, anyone? With garlic, mmm. Goes with anything but icecream.
    Most definitely. I put raw chili in my bolognese and sometimes add some chili sauce and chili flakes. Not controversial in the slightest.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I put it in my omelette. And mozarella, too.
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
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    chrisisall wrote:
    Vegetarians never steal your last piece of bacon. ;)

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  • jobojobo
    edited May 2014 Posts: 7,507
    Thunderfinger wrote:
    Kerim wrote:
    I'm going to spark some outrage with what I'm about to type.

    Ketchup on meat is horrible.

    Actually, ketchup is horrible period.
    Wow, I agree. I was going to say I hate Islam, but you win this whole round with that.

    This inspired me to state a new opinion that no doubt will add some chilli to the discussion and steer this thread back on controversial territory:

    I think we as westerners can learn a great deal about human decency and general politeness from muslims...
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    jobo wrote:
    I think we as westerners can learn a great deal about human decency and general politeness from muslims...
    Politeness? I can see that. Human decency? Not so much- unless enslaving females is considered 'decent'. Our western female slave population is treated MUCH better.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    chrisisall wrote:
    jobo wrote:
    I think we as westerners can learn a great deal about human decency and general politeness from muslims...
    Politeness? I can see that. Human decency? Not so much- unless enslaving females is considered 'decent'. Our western female slave population is treated MUCH better.

    Yep, keep em mute, on their bare feets, pregnant and in the kitchen. ;)
  • jobojobo
    edited May 2014 Posts: 7,507
    Just to (unnecessary) clarify: The statement is not; "westerners can learn about decency in every aspect of life". And I want to (unnecessary) remind you that the "muslim world" includes a vast variety of different cultures, and not all of them treat women as bad as you might think...
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
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    A topic on religion is only going to go one way.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    jobo wrote:
    Just to (unnecessary) clarify: The statement is not; "westerners can learn about decency in every aspect of life". And I want to (unnecessary) remind you that the "muslim world" includes a vast variety of different cultures, and not all of them treat women as bad as you might think...
    You wanna harden the target then? Which precise part of the Muslim world then, cause, y'know, most religions of the world have had their crazies runnin' things at times.

    Anyway, yeah, religion doesn't track well here or on most other sites, someone's gonna get all hot & bothered....
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
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    chrisisall wrote:
    jobo wrote:
    Just to (unnecessary) clarify: The statement is not; "westerners can learn about decency in every aspect of life". And I want to (unnecessary) remind you that the "muslim world" includes a vast variety of different cultures, and not all of them treat women as bad as you might think...
    You wanna harden the target then? Which precise part of the Muslim world then, cause, y'know, most religions of the world have had their crazies runnin' things at times.

    Anyway, yeah, religion doesn't track well here or on most other sites, someone's gonna get all hot & bothered....

    Nah, that's Satan. ;-)
  • jobojobo
    edited May 2014 Posts: 7,507
    WillyGalore wrote:
    A topic on religion is only going to go one way.

    You're probably right. I was trying to cause a fertile debate where we could discuss Islam as a religion in a more reflective perspective and not purely focus on all the stereotypes, prejudice and negatives... maybe even discover its astounding similarities to our western religions. But it guess it is futile on this thread... or maybe indeed any forum these days it seems...

    Lets forget it all... and keep on talking about the use of chillies in cooking! Yeah, I love them! Made a pasta dish (Penne all All'Arrabiatta) with plenty of them only a few hours ago. Man, I love chillies...

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Any topics on religion, Bond being a woman/black/gay (couldn't imagine a topic talking about Bond being a black lesbian...), etc. usually go downhill within a page or two and they get closed. It just can't be done, people cling to their beliefs and start bashing others so quickly that tensions run high and people get heated way too fast, so it never works out.
  • jobojobo
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    I was struck with a moment of severe naivity, I'm sorry...

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  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
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    jobo wrote:
    I was struck with a moment of severe naivity, I'm sorry...

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    Is the weather chilli today, hot tomale?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Maybe we should start a new thread: 'Controversial opinions about chilies'. It's a hot topic right now.
  • jobojobo
    Posts: 7,507
    No, I'm only chillin' out...
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    QBranch wrote:
    Maybe we should start a new thread: 'Controversial opinions about chilies'. It's a hot topic right now.

    That would certainly spice this place up, that's for sure.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    :D

    And if QoS taught us anything, it's that Leiter eats peppers too!
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
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    QBranch wrote:
    :D

    And if QoS taught us anything, it's that Leiter eats peppers too!

    "Stinging in the rain?" ;-)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Chili peppers make some folks sick, but I only disagree with something that eats me.
  • jobojobo
    Posts: 7,507
    "it burned all my insides"
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited May 2014 Posts: 12,480
    Fire in the hole.

    ;)

  • Risico007Risico007
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    A few new ones (and probably some I already posted)

    1. The A-team was a great film and deserves a sequel
    2. Will Ferrel apart from celebrity jeopardy is annoying unfunny and a bad actor.
    3. Ben Affleck as batman is cool and I think if he directed a solo batman film with Hugo Strange as the main Villain he might pass the dark knight
    4. Macgyver The mobile game is decent but I still feel square Enix could develop a grea Macgyver video game for the console with Richard Dean Anderson 1980's likeness and a good plot it could reinvent the stealth spy genre like splinter cell in 2002.
    5. Colonel Sun The Video Game would be perfect and better then any goldeneye game.
    6. Heaven & Earth by Yes will be the best album of 2014

    That is it for now
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
    edited May 2014 Posts: 6,396
    Risico007 wrote:
    4. Macgyver The mobile game is decent but I still feel square Enix could develop a grea Macgyver video game for the console with Richard Dean Anderson 1980's likeness and a good plot it could reinvent the stealth spy genre like splinter cell in 2002.

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    Risico007 wrote:
    5. Colonel Sun The Video Game would be perfect and better then any goldeneye game.

    Not if Activision were publishing it!
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,218
    Creasy47 wrote:
    Any topics on religion, Bond being a woman/black/gay (couldn't imagine a topic talking about Bond being a black lesbian...), etc. usually go downhill within a page or two and they get closed. It just can't be done, people cling to their beliefs and start bashing others so quickly that tensions run high and people get heated way too fast, so it never works out.

    Don't you give anyone's idea here.

    Which brings me to one controversial opinion, not merely about Bond movies, but about acting and cinema in general: if there is a bad casting idea, someone, somewhere will defend it as a good idea.
  • jobojobo
    edited May 2014 Posts: 7,507
    Hey! Don't let this move off topic!

    "Where there's smoke, there's fire"

    Now that's better...
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @Ludovico, I'm all for a unique casting idea - just look how Ledger turned out in TDK - but there's a difference between someone being a unique choice for a film and somebody being a terrible casting choice.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    The more Christmas comes, the better.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Creasy47 wrote:
    @Ludovico, I'm all for a unique casting idea - just look how Ledger turned out in TDK - but there's a difference between someone being a unique choice for a film and somebody being a terrible casting choice.

    Oh I am all for thinking outside the box. Craig was cast thinking outside the box, if Joe Public had had its way we would have had Jude Law or even Hugh Grant as Bond.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    *shudders* I can confidently say I would've been done with the Bond series had Hugh Grant been cast as Bond. I wouldn't even give that film a shot.

    And see, outside-the-box thinking got us Craig, who is phenomenal in the role. It's nice to spice it up and change up casting every now and then instead of casting the same person in the same kind of role in every different film out there.
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