War Room Lounge v65

[My Spot]

Just in the west valley.

JVS using alternative facts again.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/region_rankings_current.jsp?region=021

1. Salt Lake City
2. Madison
3. Raleigh
4. Boston
5. Boise
6. Austin
7. Riverside, CA
8. San Diego
9. Denver
10. Columbus

 

[Higus]

Never have. I think it's the slightly awkward title and that I don't think I can invest myself in two people named Dale and Tucker.

It's pretty entertaining. It's a trope subverting horror-comedy about a couple of good ole boys that run into a group of camping city teens while visiting a cabin in the woods. An accident happens where one of the campers has an accident and is saved by the GoBs, but the teens mistakenly believe their friend is abducted by homicidal rednecks and they decide to try to rescue her. Hijinks ensue.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[Trotsky]

It's pretty entertaining. It's a trope subverting horror-comedy about a couple of good ole boys that run into a group of camping city teens while visiting a cabin in the woods. An accident happens where one of the campers has an accident and is saved by the GoBs, but the teens mistakenly believe their friend is abducted by homicidal rednecks and they decide to try to rescue her. Hijinks ensue.

Lol well-described. The actor who plays the second-lead, Steve the Pirate from Dodgeball, kills me with how he delivers his lines.

 

[Trotsky]

My favorite: Ben Shapiro explaining how saggy pants, flat bills, and EBT cards weren't meant to signal anything racist

Or his "Trayvon Martin had a Twitter handle that no member of Mensa would have and he smoked marijuana" explanation for why he deserved to be killed. Him giving a shit about Mensa is just the icing.

 

[Higus]

Lol well-described. The actor who plays the second-lead, Steve the Pirate from Dodgeball, kills me with how he delivers his lines.

Alan Tudyk, great character actor and voice actor. He played Wash in Firefly.

 

[Fawlty]

My favorite: Ben Shapiro explaining how saggy pants, flat bills, and EBT cards weren't meant to signal anything racist

Or his "zero members of Mensa have such vulgarrrrr Twitter handles. Plus he smoked pot!!" about Trayvon Martin

Invoke stereotype, claim innocence.

Because America is actually that dumb.

$$$ - bigly profitses

 

[Ruprecht]

JVS using alternative facts again.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/region_rankings_current.jsp?region=021

1. Salt Lake City
2. Madison
3. Raleigh
4. Boston
5. Boise
6. Austin
7. Riverside, CA
8. San Diego
9. Denver
10. Columbus

Hmm... I was going to say a murder rate of 5.7 / 100,000 is pretty awful, but then I realised that's probably a low rate by American standards.

 

[Gregolian]

Invoke stereotype, claim innocence.

Because America is actually that dumb.

$$$ - bigly profitses

Don't be hatin'!

 

[Jack V Savage]

Hmm... I was going to say a murder rate of 5.7 / 100,000 is pretty awful, but then I realised that's probably a low rate by American standards.

Assuming we're still on SLC.

https://www.areavibes.com/salt+lake+city-ut/crime/

Murder rate is slightly better than average, but rape, robbery, and assault rates are very high.

Property crime also very high, though I guess that arguably doesn't matter when we're talking "safety" (probably greatly influences perceived safety).

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-new...dangerous-city-for-property-crime-in-the-u-s/

 

[Higus]

My favorite: Ben Shapiro explaining how saggy pants, flat bills, and EBT cards weren't meant to signal anything racist

Or his "Trayvon Martin had a Twitter handle that no member of Mensa would have and he smoked marijuana" explanation for why he deserved to be killed. Him giving a shit about Mensa is just the icing.

"If you think what I said was racist, maybe you're the REAL racist!"
Lol great verbal judo there, Ben.

 

[Trotsky]

"If you think what I said was racist, maybe you're the REAL racist!"
Lol great verbal judo there, Ben.

Kind of great how the argument doesn't really evolve from the worst of internet shit posters to the highest "halls of conservative intelligentsia" as Shapiro puts it.

 

[Gregolian]

Assuming we're still on SLC.

https://www.areavibes.com/salt+lake+city-ut/crime/

Murder rate is slightly better than average, but rape, robbery, and assault rates are very high.

https://www.ksl.com/article/46468846/police-utah-gang-problem-growing-members-getting-younger

https://kutv.com/news/local/spike-in-gang-recruitment-in-utah-even-in-elementary-schools

https://www.deseret.com/2019/4/17/20671089/violent-gang-members-getting-younger-utah-experts-say

Norteno, Sureno, Latin Kings, Vice Lords, Bloods, Crips, Poly gangs, smattering of white supremacy gangs but they're mostly on the other side of the Wasatch in like Heber and all the affiliates of those groups are in the west valley. And they recruit YOUNG AS FUCK like... 10 year olds and shit because the Utah HoR ripped the teeth out of all the juvenile offender sentencing guidelines.

Oh, you committed an assault that left someone with broken bones and in the hospital? AND it's your 5th charge? Secure care for 3-6 months. Oh, you commited Forcible Sex Abuse on a child AND were running drugs? 3-6 months secure care.

 

[My Spot]

Hmm... I was going to say a murder rate of 5.7 / 100,000 is pretty awful, but then I realised that's probably a low rate by American standards.

St Louis 66.07
Baltimore 55.07
Detroit 39.8
New Orleans 39.5
Baton Rouge 38.26
Kansas City 30.93
Cleveland 27.77
Memphis 27.73
Newark 27.14
Chicago 24.13
Cincinnati 23.4
Mobile 20.13
Philadelphia 20.06

 

[Fawlty]

Don't be hatin'!

I think that movie might have come full circle back to funny. Like it was sort of spoofy and funny and cringey initially (being generous here), then it kept getting cringier, and by now it's so cringey that it's almost funny again.

 

[Gandhi]

As for Ghandi. He misinterpreted a post where I AGREED with him so he called me retarded. I did indeed tell him to fuck off after. Now here is your homework assignment. Go actually read the end of that thread where we essentially bury the hatchet because Ka fur realizes it was a miscommunication and pointed it out to Ghandi

Not exactly how it went down but close enough, Hatchet buried.

 

[My Spot]

https://www.ksl.com/article/46468846/police-utah-gang-problem-growing-members-getting-younger

https://kutv.com/news/local/spike-in-gang-recruitment-in-utah-even-in-elementary-schools

https://www.deseret.com/2019/4/17/20671089/violent-gang-members-getting-younger-utah-experts-say

Norteno, Sureno, Latin Kings, Vice Lords, Bloods, Crips, Poly gangs, smattering of white supremacy gangs but they're mostly on the other side of the Wasatch in like Heber and all the affiliates of those groups are in the west valley. And they recruit YOUNG AS FUCK like... 10 year olds and shit because the Utah HoR ripped the teeth out of all the juvenile offender sentencing guidelines.

Oh, you committed an assault that left someone with broken bones and in the hospital? AND it's your 5th charge? Secure care for 3-6 months. Oh, you commited Forcible Sex Abuse on a child AND were running drugs? 3-6 months secure care.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Salt-Lake-City

 

[Gregolian]

St Louis 66.07
Baltimore 55.07
Detroit 39.8
New Orleans 39.5
Baton Rouge 38.26
Kansas City 30.93
Cleveland 27.77
Memphis 27.73
Newark 27.14
Chicago 24.13
Cincinnati 23.4
Mobile 20.13
Philadelphia 20.06

Jesus Christ WTF Baltimore and St Louis?!

 

[My Spot]

Jesus Christ WTF Baltimore and St Louis?!

lol I ain't touching that one.

 

[Ruprecht]

Assuming we're still on SLC.

https://www.areavibes.com/salt+lake+city-ut/crime/

Murder rate is slightly better than average, but rape, robbery, and assault rates are very high.

Property crime also very high, though I guess that arguably doesn't matter when we're talking "safety" (probably greatly influences perceived safety).

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-new...dangerous-city-for-property-crime-in-the-u-s/

Murder's the only one I trust for international comparison because it's consistently defined and reported.
5.7 is pretty awful for a developed nation.
The murder rates in some US cities are worse than Port Moresby, PNG though, which has massive shanty towns reminiscent of the movie "District 9" and where the expat community largely lives on fortified corporate compounds.