Having seen a movie, Herschel Walker no longer wants to be a vampire and is now on team werewolf

[demonfell]

Devon Irons - Ketch Vampire

[Nopper]

Walker needs a brain diaper.

[chenille]

On the other hand, maybe calling them Lycans avoids some etymological problems.

[mr_raccoon]

He should have saved everyone the headache and decided to be a film/tv critic instead of a senator

[FGD135]

Not sure that is what brain drain means…

[JRLu]

Now the GQP can add CTE to the list of things they don’t believe are real, along with trans people, climate change, and voting rights. Neat!

[snigs]

Frustrating for the writers of the Onion.

[jlw]

Clearly he hasn’t seen Blade yet.

[Shuck]

His comments have been taken out of context to seem super-crazy, but he ostensibly had a point in (badly) recounting the narrative of this horror movie he saw, and I can’t figure out what it was.

@Mister44

in general, there are always stories of buddies and lovers

In the actual European folklore, “vampires” and “werewolfs” were often interchangeable. Or different stages (living/undead) of the same thing.

@Mister44

I just found out the other day that “were” in werewolf is Old English for man

There’s an alternative etymology where “were” (also?) comes from “varg” (wolf). (The “g” isn’t really voiced, so it’s “var”.) So yes, it would be “wolf-wolf” but “varg” was often used to describe criminals and supernatural, evil wolves, and vargulf (wolf-wolf) is a Northern European word for dangerous wolves… (The French for werewolf is “loup-garou” which means, essentially, wolf-werewolf, with “garou” from “gar-ulf,” which takes us down a recursive rabbit hole.)

[Mangochin]

He’s already team zombie.

[Mangochin]

@Mister44

If you have squeaky toys in the fight, you would lose before you began!

That still remains the most awesome/clever moment of the whole series.

[generic_name]

@Nopper

brain diaper.

Ohhh. Band name alert!

[anon77190095]

In italian it’s lupo mannaro, not sure what mannaro means actually.

[Nerd_Furnace]

#teamJacob FTW!!!

[euansmith]

Beware the Lycrathropes!

@Mister44

I just found out the other day that “were” in werewolf is Old English for man. Der.

HAWKWIND Steppenwolf

Edit for alternate Lycrathope illustration.

[ChuckV]

@Shuck

His comments have been taken out of context to seem super-crazy, but he ostensibly had a point in (badly) recounting the narrative of this horror movie he saw, and I can’t figure out what it was.

It’s Fright Night or its remake apparently.

you have to have faith for that to work

[chenille]

@Shuck

His comments have been taken out of context to seem super-crazy, but he ostensibly had a point in (badly) recounting the narrative of this horror movie he saw, and I can’t figure out what it was.

It’s all about the importance of faith. You see, apparently at some point somebody tries to stop a vampire with a cross and it doesn’t work because they don’t have faith. And isn’t everything like that? Well, Walker thinks it is, to the point where it’s worth a long rambling digression to give as an example.

[Michele71]

In italian it’s lupo mannaro, not sure what mannaro means actually.
Derives from latin lupus hominarius man-like wolf. so mannaro means were.

Wallace & Gromit, La maledizione del coniglio mannaro - Trailer film (animazione)

[anon58741709]

I want to stop listening to this, but I can’t. Why?! And it’s so long!

Edit: good thing I didn’t stop, it becomes pretty epic from minute 5 forward. Looks like I’m going to go listen to more Hawkwind now.

[euansmith]

Sorry.