Useless Facts

@Color Anon  

To Pay Boot Press F…1
 
Ponybooru Staff: F1, F1, F1!  
Ponybootru Stiefel: Ah, much bootter.

No boot is useless.

Xena once featured Hanuman, a god of Hindu religion as a character.  
 
American producers got squeamish when it was time to broadcast the episode in India. They were afraid people might get offended at the depiction of their God.  
Indian fans who found out were disappointed, as many people enjoy seeing different takes on the God.  
Years later, Black Panther had a few references to Hanuman cut.  
 
Unlike Xena, this was an action taken by India’s own film board. Again, fans were disappointed at the removal of a reference to their cultural icon.
 
Also, interestingly, in the comics, the God referred to in the movie wasn’t Hanuman, but a white gorilla.  
 
It’s name was apparently “Ghekre” though I’m not sure where they said it’s name, and most likely it was changed to Hanuman for the movie considering he’s a well known white monkey god.

@Dex Stewart  
I’d understand if it was Muhammad in Pakistan, but Hindu gods in India?

@Officer Hotpants  
With Xena they were just being overly cautious. India’s own film board, though, yeah that was the thing that struck me as weird.

They were probably afraid of another round of riots. Militant Hinduism and Hindu nationalism have been major issues for a long time.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Those pictures count down in time, starting at 2020 and ending at 1992. That’s a photo of a Hindu mob blowing up Babri Mosque, which triggered sectionalist riots all over India, and the one above that is from the 2002 Gujarat riots. Extremist Hindu violence was not uncommon in the years surrounding the 1999 air date of that Xena episode, and it’s not uncommon now.

@ANoobis  
Well. They’re not getting reincarnated as anything good.

The world record for clown cars is 31 clowns in a single car.
 
That’s more than half the senate.

If you plug your nose, you can’t tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.

this is useful information https://www.google.com/

Elon Musk is tired of getting cancelled and purchased almost 10% of Twitter. SJW employees are losing their minds and some are resigning. Maybe that shithole will actually be worth using soon.

Piers Morgan identifies as a two-spirited penguin. And he is beautiful, valid and loved. So stunning and brave.

There’s a country called Togo. It’s pronounced “toe-go” not “to-go”. It used to be called The Slave Coast, so I guess it’s an improvement.

@ANoobis  
That information brings me great joy

Iggy Pop is allergic to shirts

@UrbanMysticDee  
Iggy Pop did the voice for Donald Rumsfeld in the Lil Bush cartoon.

@Dex Stewart  
Iggy Pop did one of the songs for The Crow: City of Angels, as well as playing Curve, one of Ashe Corven’s targets.

In Fist of Fury, also titled Chinese Connection, Bruce Lee sees this one guy, and the camera zooms in on his nipples.  
 
Bruce says, “So you’re Japanese…”  
The man pulls his girdle thing up over his nipples quickly.
 
As it turns out, the scene had nothing to do with nipples, but the material the girdle thing was made of. It was supposed to be blatantly Japanese made.
 
There’s still the question why the man was so quick to cover his nipples.

@Dex Stewart  
He was shamed by how much better Bruce Lee looks.

You can type the word “water” with just your left hand.

@UrbanMysticDee  
You can type lots of fun words with just the left hand.

@ANoobis  
WEED

The live action Fat Albert movie’s dvd is double-sided. One side for the full screen version, widescreen on the other.  
For some reason, the bonus features are split between the two sides instead of being identical on each side.