(1) Detroiters review – Jackass meets Mad Men as stupidity sells in the motor city Read more But it is not lost.
(2) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(3) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
(4) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(5) Such is Swift’s global standing that the President himself called West “a jackass” and, five years on, the moment still hasn’t quite died in the collective imagination.
(6) Everyone is guilty of overdoing it on Trumpy , because Donald Trump is a jackass of galactic proportions.
(7) Debauchery Stratton Oakmont's profits fund a bacchanal: cars, drugs, women who are exactly as disposable as the cars and drugs, and antics that veer from Jackass territory into hazing rituals.
(8) At the college of St Philip and St James, which later became Presentation college, Warner claimed a mathematics teacher once called him “jackass” as he fumbled in class.
(9) Its main competitor is Bad Grandpa, but the academy are big on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Aids drama, nominating it six times, and I don’t think a Jackass production can steal its thunder.
(10) "[He's] completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters," wrote the influential reviewer about the novel, in a huge change of heart from her dissection of Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone in 2006 , which she called "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly self-absorbed".
(11) A video on YouTube, Elders React to Dubstep , plays on this idea: various old folk, exposed to a barrage of bass-screech, offer comments such as "incomprehensible", "like Jackass in a bottle", and, revealingly, "it make me feel like the future is now".
(12) But the Jackass movies have something in common with the earliest, oldest kinds of cinema, in which a camera was simply set up, and insane things were enacted before it.
(13) David Carr, the New York Times's influential media critic, memorably assailed its style as "putting on a safari hat and looking at some poop" , while Dan Rather, one of US broadcasting's elder statesmen, recently dismissed Vice as "more Jackass than journalism".
(14) These are African penguins, they used to be called Jackass penguins.
(15) I’ll leave you to choose them.” Having demurred, he then pointedly alluded to a speech at a recent fundraiser in which he had called Cruz a “jackass”.
(16) This study investigates the functional anatomy of the flipper of the jackass penguin (Speniscus demersus).
(17) Which is fine: jackasses have their place in world like anyone else.
(18) If you watch Jackass again you'll kinda see how much we plagiarised from Tom and Jerry – it's pathetic!"
(19) The activity of 5'-nucleotidase (EC 1.3.5), cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (EC 2.1.4.17), non-specific phosphodiesterase (EC 3.1.4.1) and ribonuclease (EC 1.7.7.16)has been investigated in the seminal plasma of whole semen and in the secretions of the seminal vesicle, prostate and epididymis of the bull, boar, ram, stallion, jackass, rabbit and man.
(20) Jackass – the newsie Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black comes under pressure from Boulton while attempting to downplay his fraud conviction – and brands the political editor a "jackass".
Stupid
Definition:
(a.) Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.
(a.) Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) In 1999, Kamprad admitted his past involvement with Nazism in a book about his life and asked for forgiveness for his "stupidity."
(3) Would I be stupid not to wait another six months or so, to get a 90% mortgage given the cons of Help to Buy?
(4) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(5) "The whole thing was stupid, Donald called him at once to discuss it, he had such a go at him, I mean, fuck, it's a shame we didn't record it, he fucked him up good, had such a proper fucking go at him."
(6) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Ali Mason (@alimason) Reassuring to see the #redsox aren't the only ones who can find stupid ways to lose.
(7) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(8) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
(9) I’d love to say it’s this big, machiavellian plan, but the main thing to blame is human stupidity,” says Phillip Adcock, author of Shoppology: The Science of Supermarket Shopping.
(10) Barack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.
(11) It’s just one stupid statement after another.” Large crowds of protesters gathered outside the Gyumri base, where Permyakov is now being held, demanding that he be handed over to Armenian law-enforcement to ensure he is prosecuted locally.
(12) And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27.
(13) You've got to have more than that, you've got to make them better players, because players aren't stupid.
(14) Ukip is exploiting the stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters for electoral gain.
(15) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
(16) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(17) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
(18) I think that's a challenge all of us go through, whether it's a parent knowing they are going to have to die and leave their kids behind or it's a young person saying I haven't left my mark yet, I lived for no reason – but that's a stupid way of thinking because as Hazel says in the book there will come a day when Mozart isn't remembered so don't worry about it!
(19) The president should have directed the Justice Department to stop taking stupid points and petty appeals.” One reason the Justice Department pursued the habeas cases so hard was its client: the Pentagon.
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