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Christopher Walken turned 82 yesterday
Apr 1, 2025 8:42 PM
Grogu007
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Christopher Walken turned 82 yesterday
jrfray3000
Christopher Walken acted as a clever old man, but he wasn't acting at all.
Mechfan
Do not mess with this guy
jimhotep
ooo
BoingBoingBoingBoingBoing
Still Walken Here
IUpvoteEveryNicholasCageGIF
Business men but made a rookie mistake, always be specific and always read the fine print. Learned that from my non-businessman dad.
Fluffy314
$600 for some very important life lessons.
1: The possible interpretations of 3-400 vs 300-400
2: Making frivolous bets
3: Betting against someone who is 100% confident they're going to win the bet.
whatexactlyisthefunctionofarubberduck
Is this the bloke from Severance?
RussberryBectr
And he wore a gold watch while doing it.
BenRegen
Never play someone else's game 😉
TheOvy
I believe this is from a British series called The Outlaws
inquisitivefluff
Yes, it is
xtraa
Don't share this, we can all make a lot of money here.
jgjgjgjgjgjgjg
Moral of this scene: Stay in school, kids. (Actually, your Department of Education is dismantled. Good luck in your life's journey.)
arikelrecords2000
I had a guy do a scam bet like that with me on the street, and he won $5 from me. He gave me this wisdom
"If someone comes up to you on a street or in a bar with a bet, they did it because they know they'll win."
That was $5 well spent, I say.
thejon
A+ on being willing to learn a lesson! That's apparently hard for people 😔
inquisitivefluff
Outlaws. Very good series https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11646832/ i believe it's available on BBCiplayer and amazon prime, if anyone wanted to give it a go
netutoring
If anybody says.... JUST TO BE CLEAR. You should be VERY careful.
jaydude22
I play enough D&D to be wary of wording like that.
netutoring
Yeah, I've heard that's like a giant RED ALERT.
Sfingks
The way they all throw random amounts of money down on the table is such an annoying movie trope. Someone needs to write down everyone’s bets for this to work.
LuigisPikachu
Oh yeah, taking advantage of the space between [words], and winning a bet.
IAmDuckHammer
He has a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
EleganceIsDead
I actually thought that was a universal thing (outside betting of course), that when one says something like between 4(00)-600 or 5(000)-6000, the first was always implied, until I was like yeah 4-600 people are killed by deer in car accidents, per year. Then someone asked how the fuck the range could be so big, and I had to explain I was implying 4(00), and that also helped with character limits. -_- LOL!
Geistbar
Even if it is implied, ambiguity in language is best avoided when possible.
In the case of that 4-600 example I don't think it's implied strongly enough, because what happens when someone does want to communicate that the bottom value is 4, not 400? They have to over-specify to communicate it, in a clunky way at that, if we also accept 4-600 as typically meaning 400-600. Whereas typing 400-600 does not require much extra effort nor does it make the communication clunkier.
pandemicpolemic
It’s also the difference between speaking and writing and even so, setting and context.
waspentalive
Pay attention. Mr Walken said Between three.......... and 400 pushups. The pause was there. not that it is needed.
CarnivorousToad
Mr Walken pauses where
CarnivorousToad
Mr Walken WANTS to
n0n53n53
You’re talking to me all wrong. Its the wrong tone
jpatterson45
https://media3.giphy.com/media/j0raxM5grRki5POZQu/giphy.mp4?cid=65b91fbew8ssva9jj5pe35ccibnouja2ns53h1bgnnh5pba7&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.mp4&ct=g
RenaissanceFaireMan
Everyone just throws money on the table, nobody is writing down the bets?
inquisitivefluff
Don't try and add logic to telly programs, it'll just hurt your brains.
TheRedactedTaco
Outlaws! I love that series
NotThatPrivate
I'm having trouble finding it, is Christopher Walken a main character? I want to make sure I find the right one before I start to watch it
inquisitivefluff
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11646832/ i believe it's available on BBCiplayer and amazon prime.
Themark5
Can I just say, I'm so happy that you commented the name of the show. I hate seeing comments that just say, "I love that series" when no one has tagged the source.
Lontri
I just found out about it recently and binged it all, it's so fricking good!
Gun10ck
Wife, is that you?
Caprittles
That is, linguistically speaking, what you agreed to
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
That centaur stomped on his head didn't he?
Ryebread91
Is this a Hercules reference?
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
It is now!
Ryebread91
What was it originally?
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
ShimmerinStrider
Yeah......I used to know guys like that at pool halls. They would disappear.
stonecoldstevebuschemi
If you're going to live the life, you better carry a knife.
RecurringNightmare
i dont know anywhere where "just to be clear..." wouldnt instantly trigger everyone alarms and they would start argueing about semantics and definitely make clear they mean "between three hundred and four hundred"...
controlsthepresent
You're talking about a totally different class of bet. $600 hundred to the guy that threw down was obviously not that big of a deal. Yes, if you rip off an actual working guy off for that much he'll kick your ass. A guy in a suit in an expensive hotel lobby where he probably spent $300/night on a room? Not so much.
ShimmerinStrider
......He'll pay a working guy to do it for him.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
Yeah if you’re going to try this trick with the wrong crowd you better really know your audience. Else wise you’ll be getting some lovely gifts. Like custom made shoes. Made from cement.
NickRivieraMD
I mean, you're just not walking out with the money. Maybe a beating, maybe not. But you're not getting the money that way, lol. They're just gonna go 'oh man, ya got me?'
ShimmerinStrider
Yah. Like the movie Casino. You get the cash and the hammer or you walk out of here.
lurkyloos
The pool hall. In the 1980s I would go there and smoke cigarettes, see my friends and maybe play a game of 8 or 9 ball. Those days.
JackHL01
They would have help "disappearing"
ShimmerinStrider
Yeeeahhhh yeaaaaah. ANd somehow the folks they scammed were made whole again.
Nalianna
This guy IS a pool hall junkie :)
Kain281
Love that movie! Was looking for a comment before I made one
SkinWalkermc
It is funny as a bit, I'd find it funny to do it but I wouldn't try to keep the money lol.
Zoomoth9000
I have no idea what this is from, but I think the crowd is backing Walken because they hate Suite Guy. Social pressure is both amazing and terrifying
Zoomoth9000
(I also know this is a fake scene)
CaptainAsshat
Pretty sure it's a scene, I'm not even sure how you'd do a fake scene.
Geistbar
"Fake scene means scene? What a country!"
daychilde
I came to post a comment about how this is cute and funny, but..... don't try this IRL. It will not end well. But I see that sentiment has been covered, so I will refrain. OH WAIT I MEA—
unsneakyLurker
It depends on the scale of the bet. Something inconsequential - a dollar, the last slice of a pizza, who's turn it is to drive - then it's fine. The worst that'll happen is you'll get an eyeroll and a reputation. For serious bets that'll result in meaningful amounts of money changing hands or feelings being hurt, you gotta make sure everybody has the same understanding of the terms of the bet. This kind of technically would go against the spirit of the bet.
SkamanSam
There are lots of reasons I don't bet, but chief among them is how many times I've been called a cheater. I do not cheat.
BishlamekGurpgork
Same reason here. I don't bet because people get angry and stupid when stakes enter the equation.
HandsomePenguin
Sounds like something a cheater would say.
SkamanSam
Im a fuckin rules nerd. I know all the rules so I know all the social so i know when and how to bend them. When it comes to games, I tend to be exact. It's my Play style that makes people think I cheat. It's very adaptive and appears erratic, which means ppl can't read me, which is like 50% of most games.
zetzmemp
He’s got good rules. The best rules. No one can do rules like him.
pandemicpolemic
Everyone knows this.