Is there even such a thing as 'privacy' anymore, I think we may need a new word for what we have now..

yes and the premise of identity- the one they give you in the matrix or the one you cook up here in zion -is at the root of it.

this. your given name is pretty much a slave/serf name in most cultures. if you want to change it you need permission from the master of the day.

"systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission" V for Vendetta

That quote from Edward Snowden is perfect... it always shuts any “nothing to hide” snobs up instantly!

One Love
-SMONKEY

I'm an ex professional webmaster, during the late 90's.
privacy, I have judged, does not exist on this worldwide internet thing. vpn's - give me a break. using brave and that's about it

in my opinion, that there is any sort of privacy anywhere on the colourful web is mere fantasy

there really isn't anything you can do that isn't exploitable to an advertiser.

I often wonder if the people who have "nothing to hide" would be happy having cameras in all rooms of their houses so that Government-appointed snoops could watch them to CONFIRM that they've "nothing to hide"? If they're not OK with that then surely that suggests that they MUST have something to hide after all 😉. Cheers!

been out the web arena for ages right, went to peru met a girl stayed years.

peer to peer ok vpn works. but i, personally, don't care what porn site is active or give one about your location etc. The infrastructure of the everything cares about that sort of data and, well mate, my first job was in web security, freshboutta dragon court, Holborn, london. as more of a digital designer bit of flash at the time. to the infrastructure vpn - lit like tree

Quentin Tarantino The Empire Strikes Blood

Anything or anyone who would take it away from Disney wiil get my vote.

At least the funding is there but it's just far too cheesy!

Return of the Jedi = Peter Jackson... He rinsed out the Hobbits... time for the Ewoks!

micheal bay (let's think of the licensing)

i like him for ep. 2

Would have liked to see David Lynch’s Return of The Jedi. He was in the frame to do it for a while.

Varsågod

Absolutely mental film.

This is one of the creepiest films I’ve seen!

Threads - 1984. Hard hitting depiction of what would happen if the Russians were to Nuke the United Kingdom. Great film for a Sunday afternoon with the kids.

Edit: Here’s my list of standout horrors/shocking films iv seen thus far, any recommendations please let me know. Enjoy!

Threads / Ben Whitly - 1984
Kill List - Ben Wheatley - 2011
Martyrs - Pascal Laugier - 2008
28 Days Later - Danny Boyle - 2002
Sinister - Scott Derrickson - 2012
Audition - Takashi Miike - 1999 (50/50)
Wolf Creek - Greg McLean - 2005
Grave Encounters - Vicious Brothers - 2011
Cannibal Holocaust - Ruggero Deodato - 1980
Eden Lake - James Watkins - 2008
The Descent - Neil Marshall - 2005
The Platform - Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia - 2019
Anti Christ - Lars Von Trier - 2009
Rec - Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza - 2007
I Stand Alone - Gaspar Noe - 1998
Saw - James Wan - 2004
Bone Tomahawk - S. Craig Zahler - 2015
Hereditary - Ari Aster - 2018
Train To Busan - Sang-ho Yeon - 2016
The Road - John Hillcoat - 2009
Adam & Paul - Lenny Abrahamson - 2004
The Strangers - Bryan Bertino - 2008
The Witch - Robert Eggers - 2015
Dawn Of The Dead - Zack Snyder - 2004
Dog Soldiers - Neil Marshall - 2002
The Ritual - David Bruckner - 2017
Hostel - Eli Roth - 2005
7 Days - Daniel Grou - 2010
The Shining - Stanley Kubrick - 1980
The Blair Witch Project -
Insidious - James Wan - 2011
I Spit On Your Grave - Steven R Monroe - 2006
La Horde - Yannick Dahan - 2009
Kids - Larry Clark - 1995
Wilderness - M.J Bassett - 2006
The Ring - Hideo Nakata - 1998
The Experiment - Paul T. Scheuring - 2010
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper - 1974
VHS & VHS2 - Multiple - 2012/2013
Descent into Darkness -
Midsummer - Ari Aster - 2019
Requiem For A Dream - Darren Aronofsky - 2001
Salo - Pier Paolo Pasolini - 1975
Irreversible - Gaspar Noe - 2002
Dear Zachary Documentary

Nice list :)

If you are into Asian Extreme then there is also

Ichi the Killer
The Chaser
I Saw The Devil
Mother (2009)
The Wailing
Thirst (2009, not really extreme but I like it)
Memories of Murder
A tale of 2 sisters (though that freaks me out more than martyrs for some reason and just confused me, I should try watching it again)

I really like the Brazilan film Bacurau

For nihilist stuff like kill list there is also Traders (2015), Barry Keoghan has always unnerved me since.

Nice one bro. Traders sounds interesting I’ll check it out 👍

this is a clip from mr designer, a soviet film about building immortality with wax mannequins.

...I gave him life

Re-animator second one is very good film

Midsommar is amazing, but even better in my opinion is "Hereditary" by the same creator. My favorite to date, and I've watched hundreds of horror films.

For sure….Hereditary has to be one of the best films

Does any other "older" bigga here find it hard to be scared by films now? I used to love a good chiller back in the day. Now I'm 67, have access to the whole wonders of cable and the web, but any supposed "horror" I watch leaves me cold. Not trying to sound "old and wise" believe me, but every movie in that category I end up feeling "meh".

At 52 I thought I’d seen it all, not been scared for a long long time but then I saw Martyrs and whilst it didn’t scare me like Halloween did when I was much younger, it’s such a visceral experience that it’s become one of my favourite movies. Just don’t make the mistake of watching the US remake, it’s shit.

Never heard of Martyrs so just looked it up. Jeez that sounds heavy and dark! Will check it out some time. 👍

Nocturnal animals messed my head up more than any horror has done in a while. A lot of horror I like has to be more based on an interesting premise like martyrs, though a lot of horror made is targeted for PG-13 as that can command a box office so the films are more gore based but lack the total brain fuck.

It depends what you want from horror and also you possibly need to empathize with the victims. The American version of the ring I decided I was on the side of Samara so I turned it off. I like the Japanese version as it has a sombre ambience. Jump scares get very tiring very quickly and tune me out, though some only like jump scares as it is more popcorn.

You have to say what types of films you used to enjoy. If you want nasty I would put funny games above martyrs as martyrs actually has a reason. Funny games is just pure sadism. Martyrs I put off for a long while, I really enjoyed it when I watched it as the premise is very bizarre.

The Ritual was pretty enjoyable.

The thing 1982 👌 one carpenters finest no cgi nonsense my favorite

American Werewolf in London watched it when I was 6 and scared the shit out of me for weeks, love it now prob best horror ever.

The Human Centipede 1 and 2 - one of some fup movies :)) watch it high

Yeah mate grim to the bone lol

here's some good ones that you might not have heard of all are amazing and worth a watch, you wouldn't be disappointed.

Apocalypto, would you rather, hostel series, saw series, also depends on what sort of horror you like but apocalypto is the best out of them all.

Mate I love the hostel series! Saw is a bit too much xD

I will have a watch of apocalypto, thanks for the recommendation :)

let me know what you think It's old but one of the best films I've ever seen. It's subtitled if you can get over that but its the movie itself that hooks you not much talking in it.

It's a mel gibson one too.

Yeah I will do man, I don’t mind subtitles… I once watched the entire Squid Game series in Korean with subtitles before I found out there was an English dubbed version🤦‍♂️🤣

Cheers

Martyrs

The conjuring series

I second that

Martyrs is by far the most disturbing film I’ve ever seen. It is so dark and fucked up.

Zombie Flesh Eaters (Lucio Fulci)

hereditary

Smile new movie came out recently, very good one really creepy .

Not so much a movie, but the last series of Black Mirror saw a slight deviation in its final episode, rebranding as Red Mirror, a full on horror focused strand.

Demon 79, its debut offering is an absolute blast, up there with some of the best Black Mirror episodes.

Well worth checking out.

"They Live"

Trying to make suggestion but get a warning each time

The devil inside

I exclusively watch horror movies all through October. My standards for horror movies are different than other genre's. Show me something a little bit different and I'll consider it worth the watch.

I try and watch a mixture of new and old stuff throughout the month. So far there has been a clear winner in terms of what I've thought about most after watching.

Talk to me (2022)

I watched about 40 seconds of a 2minute trailer and decided ok I'm in and wouldn't advise knowing any more than that coming in. Now the movie didn't scare me in any way but it did have an incredibly visceral reaction on me to the point of having to look away several times and literally dreading what was coming next. As someone who doesn't think of themselves as squimish in the slightest I can't think the last time a movie did that to me.

Also I found out watching that the guys started out as Youtubers who I actually watched a bunch of their stuff back in the day. Which was really surprising because it does feel like a really confident movie and the chemistry/dialogue between characters is actually way better than a lot of big budget movies.

Hostel or paranormal activity are a couple of my favs.
Although im a bit of a woosy when it comes to watching any horror lol

There's a Turkish horror movie called Baskin which has some of the most messed up scenes I've watched. It's pretty slow to get going but when the fun starts, it goes crazy very quickly.

As above so below x

Love old school 80s slashers and for me the absolute cream of the crop is Friday the 13th part 4 : The Final Chapter.

Genuinely engaging and sympathetic characters, a brilliantly entertaining Corey Feldman and the best final girl chase sequence in horror movie history :)

Is-senile

Guns are not the problem, they never have been. Why not start laying the blame where it belongs, with the people using a gun to kill and injure other people. A gun doesn’t kill or injure anybody unless a human being is pulling the trigger. Of course, the left wants you to believe everything would be flowers and sunshine if we only got rid of the mean, evil guns. You’re right about one thing, control. People are a lot easier to control if they can’t defend themselves. Of course that kind of logic is taboo for the left. Fear mongering and race baiting are the left’s weapons of choice. The left are the biggest racists on the planet. People forget that if not for the right, the civil rights act never would have made it to Johnson’s desk to sign into law. Who was opposed to it, most of the Democrats. There were active members of the KKK in congress and they were Democrats. Am l saying there are no racists on the right. Of course l am not, but the left would have you believe their shit doesn’t stink. It’s just sad that such a large group of people are fooled by their bullshit.

Humans aren't equipped physically or emotionally to comprehend the speed at which a gun can take a life and devastate the lives of *all* those involved.

It's not about left or right. It isn't about racist or not racist. It's about the value of human life and the callous destruction of it.

You are partially correct; Guns are not the problem…..the bullets are. It’s bullets that kill. Let the loons have/keep their guns. Just get rid of the ammo (not easy I know, but spring it on the population in a surprise move and watch the killings drop).

that was quite a good breakdown of their deep rooted bullshit lanky. hear hear

There have been attempts to make guns smarter. It seems they have been stymied by legislators that tried to make them mandatory before they even got on the market. Then the NRA got busy.

Dayam, why don't we think past guns, +!

Because it's the only reason we still have a democracy. The country's fore fathers knew this. That's why they put it in the constitution. Fuck the living document bullshit. If you think things would be so great without guns, take a look at what's happened in the past. Stalin killed more of his own people than were killed during the Second World War. The only reason he was able to it was by disarming the population first. Same story with China and Cambodia. Chairman Mao loved committing genocide, to the tune of 40 million. Pol Pot did away with 2 million. What is the common denominator? One and all disarmed. If you think things would be so great if we think past guns, instead of looking at what happened when the people were disarmed. You need to look backwards, or better yet, go talk to some of those people. Oh wait, you can't. Dead men, women and children tell no tales.

A few bad actors don't prove your point. Look at Europe, the home of democracy. We don't have guns, our democracy is less under threat than in the states, we don't live in fear in our homes, we rarely have police shootings and we don't have countless gun crimes day in day out.

If there were no guns, how would the history of China, Cambodia, Russia, the US and countless others be different?

Non violence is the future.

Yes, defense against government was the reason and made plenty of sense when the tech was there in the 18th century. But do you think an armed citizenry has even a tiny chance against the American military now? If so let me know who you buy from here cause I want some of that shit :)

They said the same thing about North Vietnam. Look at how that turned out. The same thing is happening right now in Afghanistan. If you’re fighting for something you believe in, anything is possible. You talked about the revolutionary war. It was the same situation. Our fore fathers believed their cause was just so they took up arms and went to war against the most powerful nation in the world at that time. We didn’t even have a standing professional army, yet we won our freedom when nobody would have thought we had any chance of defeating our foes. You also have to take into account if the army would go to war against the people who they swore to protect. If the order is given, l really doubt they would kill their fellow Americans.

Remember who was backing the 13 Colonies,,,, France and the French Army..... out of the goodness of their French hearts ? Your forefathers had the Catholic Spanish to the south, The Catholic French to the North. As Puritans, your forefathers would have taken up arms against their own shadows during those dangerous times. Today is not comparable to then,,, Your Bill of Rights is so outdated. Hence you have such terrible gun problems. My opinion and not a rant,,, Love to all x

homie if there is a paternity suit here it's getting served in london

It’s expensive. $500 for a grenade. Things like stingers are in the hundreds of thousands dollars range. It’s possible to get anything you want, even tactical nukes are on the table as well. I thought it was bullshit till l saw one. That’s right boys and girls, there are rogue nukes on American soil. You’re talking 10’s of millions of dollars for one of them After seeing it l thought someone would kill me for that very reason. I try to avoid thinking about it otherwise l’ll go off the deep end.

Where is that the money maid by the Police, lawyers, Medical industries, air ambulance is what $4K a trip?

Why don’t you take another English grammar course. My 4 year old niece speaks and writes english better than yourself.

I think this would work - and it makes money - so why hasn't this happened?

No If Everybody had to ware a gun and soon the dumbest and t, most unrespectful humans will not pass there unwanted gene's on as many as they now do

I am wrong. You’re the end result of inbreeding, that’s the only way to explain why you’re this stupid.

So ignorant.

You know you are right the only catch is that the dumbest are little children

gotta go with bob

Jesus that guy must of been on some good shit

Jesus would be a good call, if he could do that thing with the wine then think of the stash!😵‍💫🥰

I have nothing to back up this up because I haven’t looked but a yoga teacher once told me that Jesus smoked weed and did yoga… a lot!

My thoughts exactly polllypuff! Would be in heaven 😉😵‍💫🥰

Personal gain? 🤣😂😏

surely a deep kush bigga

That’s if he is real ?

Now I’m not saying he is or isn’t and a firm believer that you do what you want as long as you don’t impose your beliefs what ever they may be on me.


but I just find it wired how in the Middle East that Jesus had mates called Mathew, Mark, luke and John ?????

I have no doubt that Jesus was a real person and have read a number of good books on the subject. My favourite is ‘Holy Blood & The Holy Grail’ which examines the theory that Jesus was actually high born, had a real if tenuous claim to be King of the Jews and that this together with his non stop preaching is what pissed the Romans off. He actually married Mary Magdelane at the wedding at Cana (as a lowly carpenter’s son he would not have been invited to what was a society wedding) and because the Romans wanted rid of him his followers negotiated with Pontius to ‘disappear’ him rather than see him imprisoned and they did rather a good job of this! They cut him from the cross, hid him a got him out of there in what would become to be known as the ‘resurrection’.
He died not long after in Europe, but Magdelane was pregnant and there became a huge mission to protect his bloodline. The holy grail was in fact a symbol for her womb. She bore his child and died in France. The knights Templar have protected the bloodline and it’s believed his descendants are alive today.
Nice! 🥰🥰

Every day is a school day

I do like to keep an open mind😂👍

Jesus was irrefutable as a real living person, Christians believe he was the son of God. Thats what their faith boils down to, you believe he could perform miracles or you dont, however Christ existed as a mortal being. Whether he rose from the dead etc is where faith derives, you believe or you dont.

Inglis83 that’s your prerogative and that’s my whole point wherever I agree or disagree is irrelevant to anyones opinion.

Just be happy 😃

I think my point is I’ll smoke with most people regardless of race religion fucking anything.

As long as they are a good person

Me to man ✌️💨 honestly didn’t pick Jesus to spark a debate just thought why not he’s caused a pretty big stir real or not 😂

Lol 😂 that’s the best bits of this community

Hey dude.. I mean Jesus is a historical figure not just religious so as real as Henry the 8th or Julius Caesar.

Who knows what names they had in the Middle East thousands of years ago. The bible could be a fairy tale but there is a lot of evidence to suggest Jesus was a real person

That being said I think a lot of history is bolox so who knows really but it’s as good an answer as any not sure why your picking on me 😂

I’m spiritual but not Christian or religious so not imposing any beliefs on anyone

Bevbevan1 that’s my point.

Anyone can and will believe what they want because that’s up to them. Wherever that be Christian, Muslim, Jedi or spiritual fair play. As long as your happy 😆 that’s the main thing.

Hope your good man

I agree I just thought Jesus was a funny answer and if I met him then I would get to find out some secrets 😉

People be free to believe what they want it dosnt bother me 😊

Im all good buddy how are you?

It was man.

The people's front of judea

Brilliant since I’ve had post lol 😂

I'm 50/50 on whether that last point was tongue in cheek, but just in case it wasn't, the names of the Apostles are Anglicised from Aramaic (via Hebrew and Greek).

Many of you have already said so Jesus so going to have to go with Alexander Shulgin

i would love to show bob the strains we have today ;)

Buddha

The builders of the pyramids.

Nikola Tesla - Would love to bring his ideas to the current stage of tech giving humanity freedom and the world a much needed break from our destructive manors.

Rodney Dangerfield or Norm MacDonald. Could either be funny as shit or real deep or both, probably.

you'd want different strains with these two :)

my homey bill gots the good stuff

Pyramid Builders of Egypt,
The last Inca Atahualpa,
A previous reincarnation of myself

someone from the stone age

and like the og poster said Putin, be cool to smoke a j with Putin

maybe they are all the same dude

Peter sellers always stoned by all accounts. The man was a Genius.

I'd try Hitler see if we could have redirected some of that brain off the war-monger amphetamines ... need to be a strain that makes one giggly and munchied up...feed that fecker matza and latkas until he passed out in tryptophanic bliss...

Then cut his remaining ball off! 🤭

Aye but to distract him give him the blunt and put the lighter on full to burn that fucking mustachio

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Bill Hicks legend and right about everything

RIP 🥲

I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more … but it's the truth. I have taken drugs before and … I had a real good time. Sorry. Didn't murder anybody, didn't rape anybody, didn't rob anybody, didn't beat anybody, didn't lose – hmm – one fucking job, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry. Now, where's my commercial?

Hey! I’m a Christian and I don’t like what you said…

Forgive me then. Is that not what your faith teaches ? Forgive others ?

Genius work from a genius mind.

George Lucas.

Then I would have been Han Solo🙏