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Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:37 amby Counterpunch
Pic related:
Kotaku wrote:It's Tokyo's geek mecca — Akihabara. Games shops, arcades, manga, anime, figurines and maid cafes. You name it, they just might have it. A Japanese TV program gave filmmaker Michael Moore a tour.
The above image has a Japanese subtitle of the director offering this insight: "Lots of unnecessary things are being sold here."
He also noted, "Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves." Yes, fooling themselves by buying plastic models of giant robots.
When Moore visited a maid cafe and got the standard "Welcome master" greeting from the maids, Moore replied, "I'm not your master! Everybody's equal." Not in a maid cafe, Michael Moore!
Good thing nobody told Moore that maids charge otaku 500 yen ($5.50) to play paper-rock-scissors, right?
マイケル・ムーア監督秋葉原へようこそ [灯里のブログ via Sankaku Complex]
http://kotaku.com/5428562/michael-moore ... -akihabaraI...I think I love this story. It's perfect in every way perfect is perfect. I want to show him my toy room and horrify him into a coma.
No, but seriously...where to even begin with this.
I know. I totally freakin' know.
Photoshop contest! Let's go seibertron! Make a meme out of that picture to disapprove of our wasteful lifestyle. go go go.
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:10 amby Cyber Bishop
He needs to get on a treadmill.
I have never subscribed to his opinions or really anything that he says.
He is irrelevant in my life so what he says means nothing to me..
He would **** a brick factory if he walked in my house..
From Transformers, Gi Joes, DCUC to vinyl Godzilla toys make their home in my house..
I can't wait to buy more either!!
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:15 pmby cybercat
Note to CB: Don't ever invite me to your house. I'm pretty sure the puddle of drool I would leave would damage your floors.
Yeah, Michael Moore really lost me with, well...everything. But a rich guy who's basically lived the American Dream turning around and pooping on the capitalist system that he profits by? Hypocrisy much?
HK, unrepentant capitalist.
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:29 pmby Convotron
I think there is some truth in how some people go to an outlet like shopping to make themselves feel better but without long lasting satisfaction.
On the other hand, I like plastic models of giant robots.
Heck, I like giant robots.
1:1 scale.
Suck on that, Michael Moore.(I don't care one way or another about Michael Moore, I just wanted to type "suck on that".)
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:40 pmby Counterpunch
Shallow pursuits are made even more delicious when someone points out just how shallow they really are. Like I don't know.
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:48 pmby homelessjunkeon
If you've seen the original it's actually remotely funny.
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:41 amby Just Negare
New Zealand had a former prime minster called Mike Moore, he then ended up the head of the international bank or something.
Regardless, complainly Moore, well, I have no care for him and his self-righteous tootling.
I mean, really, I'm happy with my plastic toys, he's obviously very happy with his deep fried twinkies.
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:56 pmby SJ21
And here is a guy that has made millions of dollars by making unnecessary movies. Irony.
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:58 amby Skyfire77
"What the hell is Colonel Sanders wearing?!"
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:09 pmby Editor
It's strange because when he started, he was in the right, questioning the choices made that effected the people of his home town.
Then with a few of his features he has brought up interesting and good points that most of the western world does question about America, (I'm not going to debate gun ownership but a bank giving them away????) but he losses any credibility as a filmmaker when he does silly stunts that you know won't effect anything but add an entertainment factor to his films. (I can't in all honesty call them Documentarys)
As for Photoshoping, had I had the resources here I'd just:
Crop the 7:43 image
screen capture a wide view from your collection
paste in
?????
profit
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:12 pmby First Gen
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:49 pmby RK_Striker_JK_5
He wouldn't like my room. Fat piece of slag...
Hypocritical jerk, too.
Re: Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves!
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Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:25 amby Robot4762
First Gen wrote:
WTF is this place? Where's mah Twinkies!