The Belt Onion club
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@Gurth I was thinking of this scene recently when lamenting about the fashionable tendency to have subtitles whenever the speaker has an accent.
Because of this, youngsters nowadays wouldn't get the part of the joke where they had subtitles when the guy was speaking Jive. Back then, the idea was comical that someone's accent and slang might be so thick that you needed subtitles.
(I just watched the clip, and they seem to have removed the subtitles for some reason. The original had subtitles, e.g. "Sheeeit!" would be translated as "Golly!" Unless I'm thinking of another scene in another movie.)
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@jinpa I am not entirely sure where Youtube falls with regards to your post...
(those are the only three subtitles of the whole clip, even in parts where the characters talk in a very clear voice, and it's the first time that I saw Youtube messing up so badly -- not misunderstanding something and showing gibberish, that's fairly common, but showing entirely correct sentences but entirely removed from what's actually been said. So I am actually wondering if for some reason I'm not seeing the subtitles from another video??)
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@remi said in The Belt Onion club:
(those are the only three subtitles of the whole clip, even in parts where the characters talk in a very clear voice, and it's the first time that I saw Youtube messing up so badly -- not misunderstanding something and showing gibberish, that's fairly common, but showing entirely correct sentences but entirely removed from what's actually been said. So I am actually wondering if for some reason I'm not seeing the subtitles from another video??)
I think it's a joke of its own. I see those for turning on English subtitles. The auto-generated titles are actually telling you what people say, so I think the ones you found are an Easter egg from whoever made the video.
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@remi That is curious. However, I'm thinking that must be a separate issue. The subtitles you're referring to are the Closed Captions. The subtitles I was thinking of were the kind you couldn't turn off.
Since in viewing the clip now, I didn't hear any place where the guy said, "Sheeeit!", The subtitles I was thinking of must have been in a different movie or show of the same genre.
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
I think it's a joke of its own. I see those for turning on English subtitles. The auto-generated titles are actually telling you what people say, so I think the ones you found are an Easter egg from whoever made the video.
Looks like it. Those subtitles are actual lines from the movie, but not from this scene.
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
I think it's a joke of its own. I see those for turning on English subtitles. The auto-generated titles are actually telling you what people say,
Yes, those are what Youtube adds when turning on English subtitles (which I usually do so that I can keep the sound very low) (so yes, @jinpa, those are not the same subtitles as what you're referring to, but I thought it was funny to get very weird subtitles just as you were talking about subtitles). And also yes, the auto-generated ones are correct (well, as much as auto-generated ones ever are, but let's say... less incorrect!).
so I think the ones you found are an Easter egg from whoever made the video.
Maayyyybe... but if so it's a very poor one IMO, as only those few lines appear and don't seem to be in any way relevant to the scene on screen (the subtitles I see clearly refer to a scene at airport arrivals). So they don't seem to bring any sort of funny to the video.
@Zerosquare's comment still makes me believe that this is some mixup, probably with another video from the same movie, rather than something truly intentional?
In any case, that was just a cheap subtitles joke, I'll let someone else investigate Youtube subtitling system and get to the bottom of that.
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
YouTube video said:
Imagine being alive in the 1980s...
Cocaine, in all directions, as far as the eye could see...
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@remi said in The Belt Onion club:
I am actually wondering if for some reason I'm not seeing the subtitles from another video??)
That looks to me like the clip has the subtitles for the whole movie, and shows them at the correct times — except, of course, that this clip is missing something like the better part of an hour from the start. The stuff about the parking/no parking etc. is at the very start of the film, and the one about the flower is right after that when one of the main characters has just entered the airport.
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@jinpa said in The Belt Onion club:
The subtitles I was thinking of must have been in a different movie or show of the same genre.
There's a different Jive scene earlier in that movie (when they were first seated) discussing philandery, and while the spoken text is in favor of prostitution, the subtitles are much more philosophical. That's the one you were thinking of.
There's another Jive scene in Airplane 2, where one of the passengers is testifying in favor of the protagonist's quick thinking during the first movie, and the court reporter is Ray Charlesing his transcription machine. Outside of that, I don't know of any other similar scenes.
Edit:
First Jive Dude : Shiiit, man. That honky mofo messin' mah old lady - got to be runnin' cold upside down his head, you know?
[Subtitle: Golly that white fellow better stay away from my wife, or I will punch him]Second Jive Dude : Hey, home', I can dig it. He ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap-up on you, man.
[Subtitle: Yes, he is wrong for doing that]First Jive Dude : I say hey, sky. Subba say I wan' see...
Second Jive Dude : Uh-huh.
First Jive Dude : ...pray to J, I did the same-ol', same-ol'.
[Subtitle: I knew a man in a similar predicament, and he ended up being sorry]Second Jive Dude : Hey, knock yo'self a pro, Slick. That gray matter backlot perform us down; I take TCBin', man!
[Subtitle: Don't be so naive, Arthur. Each of us faces a clear moral choice]First Jive Dude : Hey, you know what they say. See a broad to get dat booty ac'ion...
First Jive Dude , Second Jive Dude : ...lay her down, or smack 'em, yak 'em!
[Subtitle: Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise]
First Jive Dude : Cold got to be! Y'know?
[Subtitle: How true!]First Jive Dude : Shiiit!
[Subtitle: Golly!]
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@TwelveBaud said in The Belt Onion club:
Hey, knock yo'self a pro, Slick.
Thanks. I had missed the significance of this sentence. No doubt by design.
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@robo2 said in The Belt Onion club:
objectively
eyes are smaller, so it's a less effective visual hunter - and we're not aquatic enough to be worried about that forehead's implications.
Definitely 2 orders of magnitude worse to have around kids now, at least, tho.
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@boomzilla Yup. Haven't got a clue who (or what) any of those are.
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@dcon Laurel vs Yanny made the rounds here.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/25165/i-had-to-hear-this-now-so-do-you
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare It's the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
Well, usually. But not in this case.
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@Watson said in The Belt Onion club:
@DogsB said in The Belt Onion club:
I'd sometimes use that as a screensaver on my co-workers machines..
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@DogsB I remember editing my logow.sys file in Windows 98 so that instead of it saying "Windows is shutting down..." it said "Windows is shutting up...". I also added a crack to the one of the panes in the Windows logo. Good times.
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@boomzilla I'm in this picture and I need more ibuprofen.
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@antiquarian said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla I'm in this picture and I need more ibuprofen.
A friend of mine called that "Vitamin I" (capital i)
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@TwelveBaud said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
(capital i)
No, capital ı. Capital i is İ.
Soon.
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@Gribnit said in The Belt Onion club:
Soon.
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@Gribnit said in The Belt Onion club:
@Applied-Mediocrity https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/2031315
For more information please re-read
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@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gribnit said in The Belt Onion club:
@Applied-Mediocrity https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/2031315
For more information please re-read
Don’t. As of 13 January 1973.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I am in this picture, for so many reasons.
EDIT: in case it is not clear, see relevant Lounge topic. I am totally the owl there.
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@antiquarian
Just be careful with the packaging
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@Gribnit said in The Belt Onion club:
@TwelveBaud said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
(capital i)
No, capital ı. Capital i is İ.
Soon.
When the Hurley-burley's done,
when the Battle's lost and won.
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@topspin A poor player who struts and frets his hour ‘pon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, filled with sound and fury signifying nothing.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
It is a tale told by an idiot, filled with sound and fury signifying nothing.
The "Things that remind you of a member" thread is .
Filed under: ism is not limited to TDWTF
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin A poor player who struts and frets his hour ‘pon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, filled with sound and fury signifying nothing.
Ah, the good old "Soon, and Soon, and Soon" speech.
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@topspin Gribnit should have died hereafter?
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin Gribnit should have died hereafter?
Das ist nicht Tott war kann etc.
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LOL 40th.
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@boomzilla
These boomers keep getting younger and younger
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
cracking open a finely aged, single malt bottle of Advil.
Just don't do that with a bottle of Tylenol. Some medicines lose potency as they age; others become toxic as they deteriorate. Acetaminophen is in the latter category. (So are many people I know.)
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@Luhmann said in The Belt Onion club:
These boomers keep getting younger and younger
But the highschool girls are still the same age.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
lose potency as they age; others become toxic
Quotes out of context that remind you of TDWTF members?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
cracking open a finely aged, single malt bottle of Advil.
Just don't do that with a bottle of Tylenol. Some medicines lose potency as they age; others become toxic as they deteriorate. Acetaminophen is in the latter category. (So are many people I know.)
Tylenol by the bottle is on par with polonium as one of the nastiest ways to kill yourself to begin with, no aging necessary.