Unanswered Questions

[Dave]

Who took the picture of young-Rimmer’s dorm room that he uses to go back in time, in Timeslides? And how is adult-Rmmer in possession of it in the future?

The more I think about this the more it bothers me.

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[Rushy]

Depending on how long The Inquisitor has been at it for, having ALL of his work undone in the instant he dies would radically alter the universe we’re in, wouldn’t it?

I think the fact that Alternate Lister is only cosmetically different to his original self exposes the flaw in the Inquisitor’s logic.

He replaces the original sperm with a different one, but every ‘new’ person would still have an identical upbringing and thus make the same exact choices. 

[International Debris]

Not necessarily – people do get treated differently based on their appearance. But yeah, the Inquisitor is definitely going for a nature over nurture perspective.

Maybe he’s just going to go and judge all the replacements once he’s done all the originals. “David Lister 2.0… fuck’s sake man, you’re still on Red Dwarf in deep space.”

[Warbodog]

A Rob novel version could have revealed that the characters we know and love were already Nth generation replacements who get abruptly erased and replaced forever with something more like their ‘Low’ originals. Would be pretty depressing, but bold.

[Technopeasant]

Why do regular old guns have blanks?
Assuming that’s a sincere question, military training exercises.
Bazookoids are meant to be a mining tool, so it really doesn’t make much sense there. 

I mean, might be good to teach people how to use a bazooka without live ammunition first no matter what its for.

[Ben Saunders]

Given that blanks in conventional weapons like pistols can and have killed people, what kind of punch do you think a “blank” bazookoid carries?

[Rushy]

Given that blanks in conventional weapons like pistols can and have killed people, what kind of punch do you think a “blank” bazookoid carries?

Outside of movie sets, you’re supposed to attach a compensator to the muzzle of the gun to fire blanks. 

[tombow]

I love the scene in Die Hard 2 where he fires the blanks at his chief to expose the fake allies

I did wonder if that would be painful or sting if it was real

[Jenuall]

In this day and age those other cops would have unloaded their guns into McClane within seconds of him drawing!

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

In this day and age those other cops would have unloaded their guns into McClane within seconds of him drawing!

It feels so out of time to watch Die Hard and have Powell feel genuinely guilty about shooting a kid, and be on desk duty for it. 

[Rushy]

It feels so out of time to watch Die Hard and have Powell feel genuinely guilty about shooting a kid, and be on desk duty for it. 

I don’t agree. 

The police force aren’t one big glorious hole. There are still officers with a conscience, and superiors with a conscience too. 

Not saying America isn’t fucked, but there’s nothing “out of time” about the mere concept of a good officer. 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

It’s All Coppers Are Bastards, not Some Coppers Are Bastards and Some Are Nice And Have A Conscience. For one thing, SCABaSANAHAC s a right mouthful. 

[Rushy]

It’s just daft is what it is

law enforcement is an intrinsically good concept, therefore the police are an intrinsically good concept. Saying rubbish like that won’t help reform the corrupt police force, it just makes one look like a shallow tit. 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I hate cops and Timewave. Put it on my gravestone. 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

For what it’s worth, I’m not saying the *concept* is intrinsically bad. I’ll leave that to the libertarians.
I’m saying cops that shoot kids and murder minorities, protestors and by-standers, cops that rape women and bust up the vigils for the victims, and the systems that are in place to recruit cops that will do these things and protect them from the consequences of these things, the time and again proven systematic, systemic and institutional culture of violence and racism and sexism that exists within law enforcement across the world are intrinsically bad. 
But ACAB is a much snappier phrase to get that meaning across. 

[Rushy]

Yes, power corrupts. 

But it’s stupid to say all politicians/lawyers/rich people are evil. It’s not snappy, it’s just dumb. Don’t dumb yourself down, say the real truth.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

There’s room for both snappy phrases and protracted exploration of the reality within discourse and both have valid uses in their own time and place.

I wouldn’t have written ACAB in any of my exams but I also wouldn’t plaster the text from any of my philosophy papers as a tattoo on my leg.

[tombow]

if cops are bad how have Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp (the saints of our age) both played cops?

how have the cuddliest sitcom actors like Martin Clunes and David Jason played them so much?

explain that lefties

[Flap Jack]

Die Hard is great, but it’s not my favourite thing from 1988 that features a character called Holly and has a connection to Alan Rickman.

[gerrydelasel]

If we’re being fair, it’s only the one or two cops that give the rest a good name [/classic joke]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Die Hard is great, but it’s not my favourite thing from 1988 that features a character called Holly and has a connection to Alan Rickman.

There isn’t a single how Frank in Die Hard. 

[Moonlight]

You’re forgetting about Frank “John” McClane.

[tombow]

weirdly Frank Sinatra was an early choice for John McClane (with an earlier concept being an older, retired cop from the novel Die Hard ended up being loosely based on)

Levin asked Stuart to work on an adaptation of the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever written by former private investigator Roderick Thorp. Thorp had been inspired to write Nothing Lasts Forever by a dream he had—in which armed assailants chase a man through a building—after watching the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno.  Fox had adapted the book’s 1966 predecessor, The Detective, for the 1968 film starring Frank Sinatra as NYPD detective Joe Leland, and purchased the sequel rights before Nothing Lasts Forever had been written.

[International Debris]

Looking forward to the first #notallmen, which is due any day.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

weirdly Frank Sinatra was an early choice for John McClane (with an earlier concept being an older, retired cop from the novel Die Hard ended up being loosely based on)
Levin asked Stuart to work on an adaptation of the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever written by former private investigator Roderick Thorp. Thorp had been inspired to write Nothing Lasts Forever by a dream he had—in which armed assailants chase a man through a building—after watching the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno.  Fox had adapted the book’s 1966 predecessor, The Detective, for the 1968 film starring Frank Sinatra as NYPD detective Joe Leland, and purchased the sequel rights before Nothing Lasts Forever had been written.

Only an early choice in so far as they had to offer him the role for the 1988 film because of the earlier connection. Like the role was still “his”

I’m sure he graciously turned it down immediately 

[tombow]

Harrison Ford’s Blade Runner inspired Red Dwarf… and he was later in the Die Hard style action film Air Force One – directed by Wolfgang Petersen…it’s all starting to make sense…

[Technopeasant]

But are all bastards in fact cops?

Martin Clunes has played a cop now?

Anyone else watched Rowan Atkinson’s version of Maigret?

[Rushy]

Looking forward to the first #notallmen, which is due any day.

Unnecessary. It goes without saying xd

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