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MentalEdge, to memes in Who even uses Celsius
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Someone should set up a new “shitamericanssay”

dartos, to memes in AI Art, I guess?

Everything is art if you think about it enough and make it sound pretentious.

This image is a sly commentary on the current technology trends juxtaposed with memes of the past. Showing how technology can breathe new life into outdated trends or some shit.

mvirts, to asklemmy in Do actors all need to agree to casually smoke for some roles?

I’ve read that they’re almost all fake… But I really have no idea 😅

reddig33, to asklemmy in Do actors all need to agree to casually smoke for some roles?

It’s usually what’s called a “lettuce cigarette”. No tobacco in it.

news18.com/…/what-do-actors-actually-smoke-in-mov…

Brody,
@Brody@programming.dev avatar

Oh, that’s really neat! Prop cigarettes that look and burn like the genuine article, but just have herbs stuffed in it! Thanks!

UntouchedWagons,
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

I prefer the balsamic and oregano flavour myself.

intensely_human,

So you still have to take smoke into your lungs, but it’s not forcing a tobacco craving to start.

calvinklein97,
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I don’t even think it’s going into the lungs especially with non smokers. If you try to inhale smoke as a non smoker you’ll most likely cough your lungs out. I assume they suck the smoke into their cheeks and blow it out from there.

AntY,

You can just keep the smoke in your mouth, no need to inhale it if it’s just for show.

EeeDawg101,

It looks kind of dumb though if I’m being honest. You can easily tell if someone didn’t inhale and instead just kept it in their mouth. Doesn’t look as complete. For acting, I’d consider this an issue.

operator,
@operator@kbin.social avatar

Agree. I can always tell if an actor is inhaling or puffing. And (I wish everyone the best in health) this looks just weird.

Atiran,

Almost everything looks dumb on tv if you know what to look for. Almost everything related to guns, computers, or driving looks ridiculous and fake. It doesn’t stop them from doing it, nor does it stop people from enjoying the entertainment.

CosmicApe,
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After reading about how Tarantino actually strangled Kruger for Inglorious Basterds, I can't help but notice how fake it looks in other films.

iNeedScissors67,
@iNeedScissors67@kbin.social avatar

I still remember watching the OC back in high school and seeing them play a Playstation game with an Xbox controller. I think about it sometimes.

EeeDawg101,

That is a fair point.

jscummy,

No idea what you’re talking about, I just picked up a new Charger with the F&F package (25 speed manual, factory installed 5000 shot of nitrous) and it seems perfectly realistic

acunasdaddy,

Cool to know. But that website you liked to is cancer. I’ve never seen so many obnoxious ads covering up the text lol

NABDad,

Well, if the fake cigarettes aren’t going to give you cancer, the website needs to pick up the slack!

Nightmaru, to asklemmy in Do actors all need to agree to casually smoke for some roles?

They’re herb cigarettes. Think about how long scenes take to shoot, it could be days for a single scene. They’d be smoking multiple packs in a day of nonstop smoking. Even actual smokers wouldn’t enjoy it.

eltimablo,

I dunno, if I got paid to smoke 3 packs a day I think I'd be pretty happy. I also hate my lungs more than most people though.

Lemjukes,

Sure, if you’re an A-lister making millions. But as a day player doing background work for <$200/day? Nah…

eltimablo,

That all depends on who's paying for the cigarettes

Mr_Buscemi,
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I remember hearing that’s what they used in filming Peaky Blinders when they smoke all the time.

visnudeva, to asklemmy in Do actors all need to agree to casually smoke for some roles?
@visnudeva@lemmy.ml avatar

I have a question of the same kind, how do they do when they clearly sniff coke ? What kind of white powder isn’t harmful to the nose is used in cinema ?

merfolk,
@merfolk@lemmy.world avatar

I believe they use inositol powder.

fearout,
@fearout@kbin.social avatar

As far as I know, it’s usually crushed vitamin B. Shouldn’t feel like much unless you do dozens of takes.

At least that’s what they used in Mr. Robot.

visnudeva,
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Thank you for your answers !

bleistift2, to asklemmy in Do actors all need to agree to casually smoke for some roles?

Just in case someone important reads this:

I really wish movie makers would drop the ‘smoking is {cool,badass,…whatever} trope.’ I’m happy whenever I find that a whole cast never touches a cigarett on camera (think, How I Met Your Mother or The Big Bang Theory)

YMS,
@YMS@kbin.social avatar

How I Met Your Mother literally had an episode only about smoking, revealing that everybody in the main group has smoked at one point, and they all do in that episode.

Besides that, isn't the "smoking is cool" phase in movies a thing of the past already? Most movies don't show anyone smoking, and if, I would say it's most often not the hero, but often some shady guys.

silentdon,

IIRC they weren’t smoking, they were “eating sandwiches”

YMS,
@YMS@kbin.social avatar

They are eating sandwiches when they are smoking weed. They are smoking actual cigarettes when they are smoking cigarettes. Ted's kids are shocked when they learn this, I don't remember them reacting to the sandwich stories.

silentdon,

Ah I only remember the weed episode

YMS,
@YMS@kbin.social avatar

According to https://how-i-met-your-mother.fandom.com/wiki/Eating_a_Sandwich they are eating sandwiches in 14 episodes (mostly in flashbacks, though).

silentdon,

Yeah it’s been a while since I watched that series.

bleistift2,

I know that episode. And the message, in red bold face across the screen for the entire episode is “Don’t smoke.” That’s different from the on-screen smoking I’m talking about.

Characters can be shady without smoking. Just because they’re not the hero, the appeal of ‘being shady’ and the incentive to look to them as a role model doesn’t vanish.

ReCursing,
@ReCursing@kbin.social avatar

In my experience it usually means "this is the bad guy" nowadays, rather than "this guy is cool"

bleistift2,

Characters can be ‘the bad guy’ without smoking. Associating ‘being the bad guy’ with smoking is even worse, IMHO than a smoking hero.

ReCursing,
@ReCursing@kbin.social avatar

Oh I agree people can be a bad guy without smoking

Lemjukes, to asklemmy in Do actors all need to agree to casually smoke for some roles?

Theatre Worker Here:

Most prop masters I’ve worked with use either this brand or something very similar. From that page the ingredients listed are: Marshmallow Leaves, Red Clover Flowers, Rose Petals, Fruit Juices, Honey. You can also buy packs that are designed to look like real brands(yellow american spirits, the famous “Marlboro Red”, and white for marb lights.)

Fake cigarettes have been pretty common props for a while now. Obviously there used to be a lot more actual tobacco use on sets but nowadays, especially with a lot of municipalities outlawing tobacco smoking indoors in public spaces, its almost always all fake/herbal. There are also nicotine free vaporizers that are styled to look like real cigarettes.

Brody,
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Wow, that’s really good insight! Thank you!

oppai420,

I remember reading Cillian Murphy went through some silly number of those herbal cigs filming the first season of Peaky Blinders alone.

DrCatface,
@DrCatface@lemmy.ml avatar

they taste like a bouquet of flowers its like smoking your mums garden. the smoke is so light that you think its not lit but then u breathe out smoke. looks real, tastes like rolled up roses. bought 2 packs when I was trying to quit, had 2 and never touched them again

CAPSLOCKFTW, to memes in How i feel on Lemmy

There were no actual efforts to establish communism in eastern europe. Only autocratic regimes backed by soviet russia.

Fazoo,
@Fazoo@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh here we go with “That wasn’t real communism!” as if any other communist state on this planet is any different.

LadyAutumn,

They are though. China, Vietnam and Cuba are all pretty drastically different and they are all communist countries.

NattyNatty2x4,

China is state capitalist, not communist

LadyAutumn,

The functioning of their government is absolutely unequivocally communist. They have allowed some form of capital interests, which I would not consider communist in definition, but the government retains control over nearly all those interests and the plan they’ve put forward from the beginning is to renationalize industries as they reach a point of competitive development with the western world.

Hexadecimalkink,

Give me an example of a capitalist society. Waiting.

lieuwex,

In what sense was it not an actual effort? Just because it quickly slid into non-marxism doesn’t say anything about the initial idea of the revolutionaries. Bakunin predicted exactly what would happen with Marxism, and it did every time.

If you are against an authoritarian state, the only viable way to communism is to skip the dictatorship part directly and just have anarchism.

ciko22i3,
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Communism fails every time it is tried because it goes against human nature of constantly comparing yourself to others and trying to improve yourself. You will never do harder work if you can get the same reward for easier work, and you will look for other, less moral ways of getting the bigger reward.

Communism sounds great but it will never work until we have unlimited resources and completely automated labour.

CAPSLOCKFTW,

Nah, that’s just wrong. You can compare yourself in other ways than how much fake money you earn. Fun thing is: truly communistic society would mean easier work for most people.

And communism does work in small scale enviroments. Families, cooperatives, tribes. Sometimes neighborhoods.

This whole “Sounds great but won’t work” rhethoric is just what the ones that would loose their power in communsim want you to think. If you dig into it you will see, that there were and are a lot of efforts to discredit the idea.

InternationalBastard,

It's like saying democracy sucks because look at states like Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo and German Democratic Republic.

When people proclaim to be something doesn't make it true.

sizeoftheuniverse,

And here comes the guy who thinks he can do it better, this time without mass killings.

BurnedDonutHole, to memes in How i feel on Lemmy

Fuck Communism and fuck unchecked capitalism. People deserve basic human rights. Free heallthcare, education, insurance and liveable basic income is a must. It doesn’t make your society full of freeloaders instead it gives all the people a chance to become what they want in the society. I hope that people can see this basic difference and we can work towards for a better future as humanity instead of whatever country title.

geissi,

Fuck Communism and fuck unchecked capitalism

Interesting how capitalism needs the qualifier ‘unchecked’ while apparently communism has only one possible form.

yogthos, to memes in How i feel on Lemmy
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BRINGit34,
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Based comrade

rovingnothing29, to linuxmemes in Well that didn't go as expected...
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This is why I always test suspicious files on my work issued PC.

DonJefe, to mildlyinteresting in Brick
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Are those bullet holes?

legion02,

No idea what they are but I imagine bullets would do a lot more damage to brick than that. And there a strange pattern that doesn’t make sense for bullets.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Depends on the bullets, but these are too consistently sized

xePBMg9,

Woodpeckers?

KittenBiscuits,

That’s not wood though. Brickpeckers?

inspxtr, to mildlyinteresting in Brick

this is very infuriating for people with trypophobia, really hope I could figure out how to hide this …

ricdeh,
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

Oh please stop with these ridiculous made-up conditions, “trypophobia” is not a real disorder.

Uprise42, to mildlyinteresting in Brick

Almost looks like water damage but that is either a lot of water pressure or a long amount of exposure…

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