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Penn's voice has changed over the years. Compare this to his speech in Bullshit.

@SmellyCatSally Travellers have many problems. Over half of Travellers don't live past 39 years.

These aren't Roma, these are Irish Travellers.

Gangsters seem to talk a lot about respect. I understand that everybody wants respect and has to fight for it, but gangsters seem to talk about it a lot more than most other people do. I guess it's especially tough getting respect when you're a criminal.

I really fucking hate these two commentators. This video is better when muted.

I have one of these. The camera doesn't work when the clock is plugged into the mains. This means you can't install it and then forget about it until there's an incident. You have to switch it off and recharge it daily. This makes it impractical as a security device.

It's not that modern gangsters are less honorable than their predecessors. It's the law that has gotten tougher. Thanks to RICO and wiretapping and harsher sentencing, it's easier to nab a gangster and persuade him to snitch.

I just love the tone of the presenter. It's so patronizing and finger-wagging.

I read somewhere that inmates mutilate themselves as a deliberate way to attract the attention of the guards. These inmates are too weak to stand up for themselves against the other inmates, so they keep attracting the guards' attention for protection.

@Rapist87 From what I read, Favara understood he was a marked man and made arrangements to move out of town. He was too slow. I highly doubt a man like Gotti would forgive the death of his son, even accidental. Also, Favara wouldn't have been offered witness protection because he wasn't actuall...

Christ, Super Friends was a really stupid show. I can't believe I used to love this stuff.

I rate cops by how good they are at CATCHING criminals. Abusing them in custody is not OK.

Interesting. So is religious belief tied to respect for authority? Has research shown that people with authority issues are less pious?

@KidSon704 From what I've read about gangsters, they just don't know how to live a straight life. Sammy got into crime as a kid and never made any serious attempt to become a honest, 9-to-5, wait-your-turn-in-line citizen. Henry Hill (from Goodfellas) also slipped back into his old ways when he...

@TheSkunkCat It's not so much the belief system that should be outlawed but the practices. No government, however liberal, is going to let any group use religion to excuse fraud or other illegal practices.

I've heard that there exists a reformation movement in the religion. A bunch of Scientol...

The troops say they burned the books because they didn't want them and didn't have the space. It was the only way they could efficiently dispose of them, given that they were at a remote outpost. It was not political.

I'll never be able to trust a DVD commentary ever again. No matter how shitty a film is, the makers will always talk about it like it's a masterpiece.

Kim Jong-Il died of natural causes at a ripe old age. Can't say that's what I wished for him.

Wow, I had forgotten how noisy floppy drives were. The USB is one of the best things to happen to computers.