... while everyone around him is saying "nuclear," very often in his hearing range. Bugged me.
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I just watched this film for the first time, and I noticed this, too. It's one of my pet peeves!
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You know who else always says "nucular" and is apparently too stupid to realize that they sound like a moron to almost every other English speaking person in the in the world? The current President of the United States, George Dubya Bush.
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And please, if you were NOT AN ADULT during his term, don't try to argue in his favor; you really need to have experienced it firsthand.
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As if you yourself have personally read a current textbook and compared it to a 30 year old one. Hurry up and die, gramps.
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ExGreenBeret, you are 100% wrong if you say Carter was a worse president that Bush Jr. Dubya is absolutely the worst American president ever, even worse than Nixon or Reagen.
If you're such an authority on textbooks, why don't you give some examples to support your theory that they are being manipulated?
Can you explain what being an ex green beret had to do with presidential knowledge?
I'm ex black beret before they made everyone black berets. Was with the OPFOR at Ft Irwin, and my military experience didn't make me knowledgeable about who was a better or worse president. My experience in watching them be good or bad allows me to decide. Is it actually possible too think that Obama hasn't been proven to be the absolute biggest embarrassment for our country as far as leadership goes?
I know this is an old post but.....I just had to say that the only good thing that came out of the Carter administration was "Billy Beer". Especially during a Brewers Retail Strike.
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I wasn't an adult during his term, but I'll ignore your fascist directive to hold my tongue if I don't share your view and speak anyhow. Carter's treated like an "elder statesman" more for the work he's done since his presidency than for what he did during it. Which, as a Dubya-kisser, you're naturally ignoring. Try looking at his bibliography. Versus Dubya's output, which includes the ghost-written "Decision Points," a title which would be laughable if it weren't another example of his bumbling hubris. Yes, I went there. I know this board isn't supposed to be about such things, but the Green Beret opened the door.
Does the arrogant, grumpy old man bit get you very far with those who don't agree with you? It doesn't sound like you're open to any viewpoint that doesn't fit your own. I love these people who are so viciously nationalistic yet feel free to tell people when not to speak.
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IMO the last line of your post insults the intelligence of everyone born after 1962, which is a fairly broad segment of the population. That said: I won't deny that Carter's presidency has gone down as a failure. And it's too early to know how history will look back on G.W. Bush's presidency.
But how do you justify the claim that his presidency was "FAR worse"? Carter's achievements at Camp David alone provide a significant counterpoint to your unsupported statement. Many of the problems faced in the course of the Carter administration were inherited from his predecessors(economic and foreign policy inherited from the middle east, oil crisis on Ford's watch, feeling of malaise resulting from the tumult of the last decade, etc.), and it is debatable to what extent another president might have handled them better.
As to his "elder statesman" status, I'd point to Carter's numerous achievements after his presidency such as his work with Habitat for Humanity.
"Carter's achievements at Camp David"?!? Are you kidding? What are you referring to - the "peace agreement" that never was? You can't be serious.
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Even more absurd was Jimmy Carter, who - as a nuclear engineer by education - has always pronounced it "NOO-kee-ah".
shareI noticed that too but it didn't bug me at all
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It just served to show him to be the moonbat that he really is.
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Carter was an intellectual giant compared to Dubya!
Ahhh, conservative Yanks, the biggest and most hypocritical morons in the world...
He still hasn't learned. He still says it that way in the newly filmed documentary on the DVD.
"My brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome."share
So: In response to exgreenberet's post: What are some examples of how you feel that modern history textbooks are biased? If you are seriously positing that history textbooks are "almost worthless" today due to a political bias, then you must have some pretty strong arguments to back up your case, right?
shareUgh-I hate it that this thread has veered so far off-topic.
I just wanted to say that I was annoyed by the mispronunciation of "nuclear" by the Michael Douglas character, and then I wondered if he did it on purpose because he thought that his character would say it that way.
I also noticed someone else in the movie say it wrong--I believe it was around the middle of the film, at the hearing, but I don't recollect who the character was.
My personal opinion is that, given the subject matter of this film, the director should have brought the pronunciation issue up before filming started. I myself probably would have told the cast and crew that I did NOT want to hear the word "nucular" said by ANYBODY, least of all the lead performers.
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Fair enough, but on the other hand, how much more can really be said about the mispronunciation of the word nuclear?
Jesus! This is a film about real people. Do you hear EVERYONE around you pronounce everything perfectly? Your advise to the director on a petty, trivial crap which only bothered some tight asses like you is more annoying! Seriously guys, can we focus on the film here? Really I have to stop coming to these ridiculous forums full of such arrogant people with lameass criticism. Ugh!
share'Nucular' really bugs me, too.
shareI don't know if Douglas is intentionally doing it, or unintentionally doing it, or is even aware of it. However, it doesn't bother me because it's a very common mispronunciation, so it's completely realistic that a character would be saying it.
shareDouglas, in a DVD making-of commentary filmed many years after the film's release, was still pronouncing it nukular in real life when discussing the project and the effect it's had on his life.
In fact, he mentioned that his involvement with the project had led to him becoming a United Nations Messenger of Peace, committed to promoting disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation.
http://outreach.un.org/mop/michael-douglas/