figmentPez
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What is a Storm Trooper's favorite store?
The one next to the Target.
The one next to the Target.
Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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"And these blast points, too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise."
From a certain point of view.
Was this quote in the movie just to show how much of a fucking liar he was?
Nope. Stormtroopers are known as a very lethal fighting force, and for good reason. Every time they've been apparently incompetent in the movies, it's because they wanted to be.
The attack on the Tantive IV to recapture the Death Star plans went very well, with the Stormtroopers wiping out the rebel defenders with minimal casualties. This is an example of what Stormtroopers can do when they're fighting competently.
When Luke and Han rescued Leia, the Stormtroopers failed to land a single shot on them, but as Leia pointed out the Stormtroopers were deliberately letting them escape.
When Luke was sneaking into Cloud City on Bespin, again the Stormtroopers were not trying to kill him, instead they were trying to funnel him to Darth Vader, and they did so successfully.
The Battle of Endor was a loss for the Stormtroopers, but that was because they were fighting against an enemy that had the advantage of familiarity with the terrain and entrapments, used guerilla tactics, and had superior numbers. And they still managed to inflict severe losses on the Ewoks.
(I'm not getting into the other works like Rebels or the games, because I'm not as familiar with them, but I've heard that Stormtroopers really are shite at aiming in Rebels.)
The attack on the Tantive IV to recapture the Death Star plans went very well, with the Stormtroopers wiping out the rebel defenders with minimal casualties. This is an example of what Stormtroopers can do when they're fighting competently.
When Luke and Han rescued Leia, the Stormtroopers failed to land a single shot on them, but as Leia pointed out the Stormtroopers were deliberately letting them escape.
When Luke was sneaking into Cloud City on Bespin, again the Stormtroopers were not trying to kill him, instead they were trying to funnel him to Darth Vader, and they did so successfully.
The Battle of Endor was a loss for the Stormtroopers, but that was because they were fighting against an enemy that had the advantage of familiarity with the terrain and entrapments, used guerilla tactics, and had superior numbers. And they still managed to inflict severe losses on the Ewoks.
(I'm not getting into the other works like Rebels or the games, because I'm not as familiar with them, but I've heard that Stormtroopers really are shite at aiming in Rebels.)
As an old man, I think to much about this shit....
Additionally, consider that the reputation of stormtroopers may have started with the clone troopers and, while better than was depicted in the movies for the reasons you stated, was on the decline somewhat.
figmentPez
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So you guys wanna debunk "Yo Mamma" jokes next?
GasBandit
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GasBandit
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I don't remember where I read it, but somewhere around Empire Strikes Back, I had read that attrition had caused the empire to start filling the stormtrooper ranks with conscript levies instead of more Django clones.
Yo Mamma is actually a perfectly healthy weight & we shouldn't be trying to fat-shame her.
No, it's about a big pussy, obviously.It's really really not about penises, guys
C'mon lady, recognize when to run away from vampires.
figmentPez
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The "dressed as wizards" part doesn't really hit with full effect until you see the picture.
--Patrick
The river isn't always single-syllable, sometimes it's two syllables. Oftentimes "Avon".
Apparently what happened was that early explorers in the British Isles, like Romans or Vikings or Germanic peoples or whatever, would ask the locals, "What's this river called?" And the locals, having had no reason to actually name this river that they've lived by all their lives, just said, "That? That's the avon of course." And the Roman/Viking/Germanic explorers would be like, "Alrighty then, the River Avon it is then."
#6 - Glad to see that Gregor Samsa is doing well.
From what I understand, "bodega"was popularized to show the mark Latino immigrants were leaving on NYC. Sort of their stamp of cultural acceptance when they were an even tinier minority. Otherwise, yeah, it is just a mini grocery/convenience store.
Today I learned that it derives from the Spanish "Apotheca" (literally "apothecary" but roughly equivalent to "warehouse" in English) which, when properly pronounced all Spanishly, will sound like "ah poe-T(h)EY-kah" to an English speaker. The initial "p" is unstressed, so it could easily be mistaken for a "b" sound, and the "th" and "c" are hit with the kind of stop/start stress that absolutely could turn "apotheca" into "A Bodega" as the answer for when someone asks, "Hey, what's that building over there?"
--Patrick
--Patrick