Online docos
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I watched a doco called "Barkley Marathons" on Netflix the other night on the recommendation of a couple of the guys I work with. It's not really in the same vein as anything mentioned above but its worth a watch
I'm not normally one for watching documentaries outside of anything featuring David Attenborough, but this was quite good. Its about an eccentric old guy who organises a 100 mile ultra marathon each year in Tennessee and how its turned an almost impossible run into a sought after cultlike following among ultra long distance runners around the world. It's about 90 minutes long. I don't generally care much for marathons, even less for watching documentaries about marathons, but this was really good.
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I'm a huge coffee snob, so really like A Film About Coffee.
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That was eye-opening stuff. I'm not convinced those Iraqi guys are exactly "Special" Forces but they've got fairly large balls. The commander ("Steel" - fucking love that) seems genuine enough, but it's a shit situation.
So much distrust and suspicion. You wonder why they don't just get all the civvies out, then think it might just give ISIL an easy way to smuggle fighters out of the city.
Note that they still call them "Daesh".
The battle is still ongoing for Mosul as they try to squeeze ISIL out of what is effectively the last stronghold in the country.
Battle for Mosul: Who controls what
Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, is now the scene of a battle for control between Iraqi, Kurdish, and ISIL forces.
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Pulling John.
Sounds like the name of a gay porno, but its not.
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@Siam said in online docos:
@NTA but really mate it HAD to be bullshit because it made out that Muslims were hating and fighting ISIS and we all know that ISIS is a synonym for Islam...
Yeah. It kind of fights the fear of the ignorant that Islam is this one huge tsunami of religious hatred that is just waiting to burn down the housing commission shacks in Mt Druitt, and rape and kill the slappers down at the local leagues club.
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@NTA said in online docos:
Note that they still call them "Daesh".
Still? Daesh is the preferred term of many western countries. There was a lot of angst about within official circles around the use of any variation of IS as they all incorporated the word 'state' which conveyed some form of official standing. There was annoyance that the media had latched on to the ISIS/ISIL/IS acronyms and made them the common form of reference.
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YouTube has Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants cut into four parts. While not strictly a documentary (it's a filming of his Broadway show), Ricky spends a lot of his time recreating historic card tricks and explaining the origin of them and their creators.
He is the best card magician alive
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The Social Dilemma, on netflix
Bit of a freak out that one. I guess lots knew about the ads and capturing our screen attention but the consequent breakdown in common truth emanating from the silicon Valley business model is very concerning, and evident right now.
A big change in the western world since 2010.
Basically 20 year technological information interventions that our million year old brains aren't equipped to deal with.Watching this doco is like learning CPR, you might not like or use it, but you're better off knowing how it exists and how it works.
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I'm bumping this because it's pissing me off that such likeminded people are getting such different views of things.
This documentary confirms and expands on what we've suspected for a while.
And I think these pricks in the doco are a big part of this current morass.
And surely it's a must watch for you guys with kids, to see what they're up against. Incredibly telling that the creators of phone influence never let their own kids use them.
A Film About Coffee
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