Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar
by Consultant32452 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:42PM
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Can we at least admit to ourselves that what he built would have passed for a bomb in a movie? Because while I agree the whole thing was handled poorly, it's not completely implausible to think that was a bomb.
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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar
by blakeyrat on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:08PM
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Even in movies, bombs usually have this thing known as "explosives" attached to them somewhere.
Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar
by nitrogen on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:02PM
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Can we at least admit to ourselves that what he built would have passed for a bomb in a movie?
Can we at least admit that movies have approximately zero relevance to reality?
Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:41AM
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> Can we at least admit to ourselves that what he built would have passed for a bomb in a movie?
In the same way that a person dressed in the black garb worn by stagehands, by theatrical convention, passes as invisible. The appearance of bombs in movies is an artistic convention designed to provide dramatic tension.
> Because while I agree the whole thing was handled poorly, it's not completely implausible to think that was a bomb.
The school action would be even more ludicrously inappropriate if they did think it was a bomb.