No, it’s about the Democratic party.
The one about the Republican party is The Rotting Dead .
Regarding the “being protected in armored vehicles”: The text explicitly stated that the tank crews were safe from the thermobaric bomb. WWZ showed a lot of individual characters escaping successfully from different dire situations but that still didn’t keep society and command structures from collapsing.
One word: “Nielsen”. That’s where all this data comes from, originally, although whomever draws conclusions from it can be any schmuck =) .
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What, is she doing a trial run before she actually needs it?
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I’m dismayed that Big Bang Theory has such broad bipartisan support. Chuck Lorre needs to die in a fire stoked with the extremities of everyone he’s ever done business with. Just… Ugh. Bad sitcoms don’t usually ping higher than “indifference” on my give-a-shit meter but I actively hate the fuck out of that show.
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The Big Bang Theory is so unfunny it hurts, actual brain pain in the membrane. I have to be careful who I rant at about it 'cos a surprising amount of people I generally love and respect are into it. I just give them the old disappointed sad look and hope they’ll re-evaluate their lives.
I may not agree with your preferred tv programming but I will defend your right to watch utter tripe that’s rubbish argh god I hate it.
This little list is an eye opener because it appears that everyone is a massive dildo, or maybe just people that take surveys.
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Well, sure, but if that’s the reason these shows hit their list of favorites, they must be watching with some interesting mental blinders. (So much like they conduct the rest of their lives, I suppose.) I’ll admit that we don’t watch a huge amount of TV, so most of the shows on both lists fall into the “What?” category for me. I do love Doctor Who, even if it’s no longer available to us since we only do streaming. On the other list, we watch Arrow, The Flash, and Grimm.
Now I do have criticisms for all four of these shows, even if I really enjoy them. At the top of my list is the essential fact that in each of them, the main character is a white male (presumptively straight in three of them), although they all have a somewhat diverse support crew that often get their own share of screen time. One thing I do see in common, though? They all have a tendency to blur the lines between good and evil, while still trying to stay on the side of good. (Some certainly blur that line more than others, of course.) I don’t know about the other shows on that side of the list, but if they’re watching my three from that one and seeing them as a black & white view, they’re apparently watching some different show with the same name.
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Sorry, I didn’t make that very clear: my quibble was not with the fact that the tank crews were protected from explosive effects(which they should be); but with how their potential for just squishing through whatever part of the zombie swarm looked densest went unexplored. You’d want to take care not to run out of fuel where allies would be unable to get to you(at 1.6 gallons per mile a 500 gallon fuel tank stops looking so luxurious); but would otherwise enjoy near total impunity; and could just ignore your (indeed largely ill-suited) 120mm main gun in favor of driving through the opposition. A 50+ ton tank at 30-45 MPH(depending on surface) would do pretty gruesome things to the unlucky pedestrians in the way, likely breaking bones and disabling limbs even on zombies not fully destroyed.
Especially given the description of how zombies can be lured(they respond to noise; and make noises to draw even more of them to the location); the way the humans almost entirely abandon armor(as being far too expensive for its utility) rather than making ‘attempt to concentrate the local zombies; then bulldoze them’ the centerpiece of their strategy always puzzled me(and they do have bulldozers, they mention having to clear a path through the giant pile of dead zombies after one of the lessons-learned infantry units successfully holds their ground later in the book).
Obviously, this is just a quibble with what was basically an awesome zombie story; but it seemed relevant to the "Have any zombie stories explored the “even vehicles merely designed to provide protection against contemporary rifle rounds aren’t something you pound, claw, or gnaw into; so why not take advantage of that and go all GTA on them?” question.
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She sleeps there in her native soil during the day, obviously.
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Forget the HEAT, use the Beehive rounds. (OK, not sure if it really comes in 120mm size or not, but it seems like just the kind of thing for this sort of situation.)
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Then again, the most kick-ass characters on the whole show are the genderfluid Brienne of Tarth, the skilled assassin Arya, and the badass little Lyanna Mormont, so it’s not like they’ve forgotten how to write great female characters.
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It was weak snark. Someone wittier could have brought it home.
… you are obviously talking about Game of Thrones and I’m talking about Supernatural. 
I mean, I love both, and I would LOVE to see Dean react to Brienne of Tarth, oh man the fanfic that would spawn!
Whoops! I missed that foray on the thread. Sorry!
I admit that I have exactly no knowledge of Supernatural apart from a friend of mine who refers to it as “the amazing show that never stops getting renewed even though nothing ever really happens”.
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Oh, no, I don’t think it was weak on your part at all. I know a lot of Republican types who do see the world in black and white, and try to justify their love of these types of stories with that same point of view. Then they get offended and change the subject when you point out how often the stories question that premise.
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Presumably, the reporting sample was bigger on the inside.
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Like a TARDIS?
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