Alan Cumming looks like everyone!!

When googling for Alan Cumming (he's the guy who played the Nightcrawler in X2, for those unfamiliar), I've noticed something strange: almost every photograph reminded me of some other actor/celebrity!

So here a few examples:

Robert de Niro










Al Pacino







Eric Idle:




A bit like Edward Norton:


A bit like Ray Park:





Christopher Lee:







Vasili Livanov (Russian actor, played Sherlock Holmes):







Dustin Hoffman:

Christopher Hitchens:








Marilyn Manson:







Also a bit like Dustin Hoffman, again:



But YMMV on that one :)

Nope!

Ziggy Stardust said:

Nope!

Wrong.

Nope.

Negative.

Thread over before started.

TV's Frink said:

Thread over before started.

It was meant as a first-post only contribution - after that, everything interesting had already been said ;)

This wasn't WORTHY of a "thread" of it's "own".

I suggest VISITING "Random Thoughts"

Ah, sorry, had totally forgotten about that one!
Oh well, too late now...


PS: Why the unnecessary and distracting quotation marks?

twooffour said:
PS: Why the unnecessary and distracting quotation marks?

Ziggy Stardust said:

twooffour said:
PS: Why the unnecessary and distracting quotation marks?

More like jabbing.

I may be sometimes using quotation marks where not needed, but it's (almost?) always with the right purpose, i.e. names/"mention non-error", dissociation, mockery.

You just put completely random words in quotes and italics, convinced that it somehow makes for a clever parody - and end up looking like a fool for that.

;)

twooffour said:

Ziggy Stardust said:

twooffour said:
PS: Why the unnecessary and distracting quotation marks?

More like jabbing.

I may be sometimes using quotation marks where not needed, but it's (almost?) always with the right purpose, i.e. names/"mention non-error", dissociation, mockery.

You just put completely random words in quotes and italics, convinced that it somehow makes for a clever parody - and end up looking like a fool for that.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Good.

twooffour said:
You just put completely random words in quotes and italics, convinced that it somehow makes for a clever parody - and end up looking like a fool for that.

He's a witch.

Ziggy Stardust said:

twooffour said:
You just put completely random words in quotes and italics, convinced that it somehow makes for a clever parody - and end up looking like a fool for that.

Oh, you don't like that? How about "8yr old"?

I still vividly remember these kinds of tactics from 2nd grade mobbing and schoolyard "arguments", from both sides of the fence:

-Taking a random word, or stock expression, of the opponent, and repeating it with an OTT "mocking" voice and face expression.
It doesn't have to be actually risible, or snobby, or anything, to be spoofed as if it were.
-Stupid Sarcasm. Same as above, just with strawmen (or paraphrases) instead of direct quotes - say something that is supposed to represent the opponent's position, accentuated by phrases like "of course" or "you see" or "not at all!".
The sarcasm encryption mode is the simplest there can be - "sentence"="opposite of said sentence; it's dumb".
-Repeating the same identical insults or dismissive remarks when they don't fire the first time. Or the second time. Or the third.

So if you have any interest in not coming off as an 8 year old child or stereotypical blonde bimbo (who is mad and angry), watch out for those dead giveaways.
Seen this kind from you guys quite a bit in the recent weeks, and it's always pretty damn hilarious :D

twooffour said:

:p

Heh, nah - just giving you some useful (as much as banal) advice on how not to come off as a dunce in internet arguments, as you definitely seem to need it. :)

;)

twooffour said:

Oh, you don't like that? How about "8yr old"?

I still vividly remember these kinds of tactics from 2nd grade mobbing and schoolyard "arguments", from both sides of the fence:

-Taking a random word, or stock expression, of the opponent, and repeating it with an OTT "mocking" voice and face expression.
It doesn't have to be actually risible, or snobby, or anything, to be spoofed as if it were.
-Stupid Sarcasm. Same as above, just with strawmen (or paraphrases) instead of direct quotes - say something that is supposed to represent the opponent's position, accentuated by phrases like "of course" or "you see" or "not at all!".
The sarcasm encryption mode is the simplest there can be - "sentence"="opposite of said sentence; it's dumb".
-Repeating the same identical insults or dismissive remarks when they don't fire the first time. Or the second time. Or the third.

So if you have any interest in not coming off as an 8 year old child or stereotypical blonde bimbo (who is mad and angry), watch out for those dead giveaways.
Seen this kind from you guys quite a bit in the recent weeks, and it's always pretty damn hilarious :D

Yay! I love this part! This is the part where twofortwo explains in great detail just how wrong everyone else is while he manages to be the epitome of perfection.

Exactly :D
Unless you'd like disagree with any of the above? ;)

-Stupid Sarcasm. Same as above, just with strawmen (or paraphrases) instead of direct quotes - say something that is supposed to represent the opponent's position, accentuated by phrases like "of course" or "you see" or "not at all!".
The sarcasm encryption mode is the simplest there can be -
sentence"="opposite of said sentence; it's dumb".

;)