Sentences with phrase «included as a joke»

English FA President Greg Dyke, who has been highly critical of Sepp Blatter and FIFA, is mostly included as a joke with 100 - 1 odds.

I don't know if this has been included as a joke or not.

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That feud included Hannity calling Kimmel a racist, pervert, and «Harvey Weinstein Jr.,» while Kimmel ultimately drew criticism and apologized for making what many saw as a homophobic joke about Hannity's apparent love for Trump.

The emails contain disparaging comments about celebrities including Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as racially charged «jokes» about President Obama.

What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

«Something pretty crazy happened this week,» Franco joked as he began a monologue about the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, which included the theft of sensitive data of actors who had worked on Sony films.

The techniques include claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings; saying and doing things and then denying it; blaming others for misunderstanding their intent; disparaging others» concerns as over-sensitivity; and other forms of twilighting the truth.

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

Their site even posted a list of «10 Things You Can Do Today» to promote dignity and protest destructive sexual paradigms, including simple tasks such as, «Challenge those who make sexist jokes.»

like there are people including athletes such as Floyd himself, that have made / are making so much money that Conor's wealth is just a joke to them.

We fans are treated as cash cows only and disdained by all in charge, including the Dickensian joke Chairman.

But the system as it stands is an absolute joke, and that includes the subsidized burgers and fries at school.

This robust product is activated by the included stylus as it touches the pages, prompting a voiceover to engage your toddler with songs, jokes, questions, and more.

If you look at the majority of posts on Next Left these include serious content whether you agree with them or not, but, as with most blogs, some of the posts are jokes and light relief.

(CNN)- A candidate for Republican National Committee chairman said Friday it was clear the content of a CD he sent committee members for Christmas - that included lyrics from a song called «Barack the Magic Negro» - was intended as a joke.

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

These microaggressions included four instances of sexual objectification, 26 instances of treating females as second - class citizens, 44 instances of racist or sexist language or jokes, 61 instances of restrictive gender roles, and 30 instances of focusing on the athletes» physical body types and shapes.

^ Well, that's the message the Western medical literature has been repeating for about 70 years, and looking at Loren Cordain fat belly, I think the «you'll be screwed for including any animal products» - pitch is spot on... okay jokes aside, the point was that there's no chance in a million year that blog is something what would be referred as «health blog», this is more like some kind of a Lierre Keith - style, anti-vegan blog which tries to be scientific.

Common complaints include constipation, dehydration and micronutrient and electrolyte deficiencies — the latter is no joke as it may induce irregular heartbeats.

Teigen is known for sharing her jokes, recipes, and political opinions on various platforms, along with photo and video snapshots of her family life — including her husband, her mother, and her various employees as much as (if not more than) her daughter.

This isn't to say that some of the jokes, including the crudest one involving the aforementioned doggie poop, aren't funny, but they miss as much as they hit.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

Similar shifts characterize most of Fuller's late films as well as his 1980 novel, which veers from quaint in - jokes — such as naming all the French officers after French film critics who championed his earlier movies, including (Luc) Moullet, (Bertrand) Tavernier, and (Henri) Chapier — to terse epigraphs that suggest the dark poetry of someone like Lautreamont:» «Why are you crying?»

Better by far was Ruben Östlund's The Square, which sets forth as a pointed art world satire before throwing its arms wide to include us all in the joke.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

On the road to true love, as it turns out, there are a lot of dick jokes and a lot of gay jokes — those are actually pretty funny in context — and a line - up of stereotypes, including a cast of bit - part women who seem scary (because they know what they want) or hapless (because they're bubble - headed) or some combination.

Filler includes crap like dog jokes and dog reaction shots, tough - guy talk, and a trip across the wasteland as beasties pick off the humans, one - by - one.

Not a complete waste of time, and I'd go so far as to suggest that you listen to it as the primary option in every scene that doesn't include Michael Caine, while a running joke of Bullock referring to Bratt as only «Handsome Ben» is actually not a bad explanation of Bratt's relative success.

Their cutesiness can be grating, and clearly pandering to cinephiles, but as a cinephile myself it is nice being included on an inside joke.

With plenty of eye - roll worthy dialogue, Vikander sifts her way through some surprisingly lackluster motions (cringe as she flirts with fellow bikers or bonds with amateur boxers through flat jokes), which includes a waste of esteemed British actors in wincing supporting turns (Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi), and two sequences with fan favorite Nick Frost (which includes a rather questionable firearm display, considering they are illegal in the UK).

Though the sequel has a new director and some new cast members, Deadpool 2 is unsurprisingly doubling down on what made the first film such a big hit, including jokes about exactly how big of a hit at the box office it was, as well as plenty of other fourth - wall - breaking moments.

Affleck, whose film was nominated for seven Oscars including best picture but not best director, accepted the award Thursday night at the Broadcast Film Critics Association's 18th annual awards in Los Angeles, joking as he took the trophy that he'd «like to thank the Academy.»

A few stock characters, including a park superintendent, are predictably over-the-top, but there are corny and even laugh - out - loud clever car and plane - name references, as well as a few inside jokes and good one - liners.

It also includes some hilarious reoccurring jokes as the story eventually reveals how Phil the lobby boy (Crispin Glover), loses his arm.

I may not be the target demographic of «21 & Over,» and the movie is not without its flaws (which includes a forced non-romance for one of the characters with a terrible foil as well as some jokes that play out a little too much), but it was a movie I enjoyed... more than I ever thought I would.

As well, sexual comments, innuendo and some profanities are included on various occasions, especially when the Old Trailhands decide to go out with a bang by doing a routine of «bad jokes.»

It's clear right from the outset that Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 has been modeled after Disney's inexplicably popular Air Buddies series, as the film boasts a pervasive emphasis on many of the elements that have come to define that abominable franchise (including one - dimensional characters, simplistic situations, and juvenile jokes and gags).

The result is a long list of celebrity cameos including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Chris Rock, George Carlin, James Van Der Beek, Jon Stewart, Steve Kmetko, Shannen Doherty, Jason Biggs, Alanis Morrisette, Judd Nelson, and many, many more as Jay and Silent Bob make their way across the country in what turns into a conventional road trip movie with one joke; pot.

Employing as much adult oriented humor as kid - aimed cracks, Hotel Transylvania «s script includes some smart one - liners, funny sight gags and rude jokes (often about fecal matter), most of which are more chuckle - worthy than laugh - out - loud.

There are still endless food puns (including a great recurring gag that just pisses off the Douche more and more as it happens), plenty of dirty jokes, mostly about the food having sex with each other, and a cavalcade of incredible voice talent that makes the proceedings that much better.

As well it includes some gross fecal jokes along with a few gruesome depictions.

As he did in his previous films In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, he includes some offensive racist jokes in one hand while bordering on sexism in the other.

Overall, the film does have a good ensemble including Cloris Leachman as a 95 - year - old who appreciates the dirty jokes, taking off with them; Charles Grodin, who as an emcee is embarrassed by him; and Patti LuPone who makes faces whenever she is in contact with him.

While the dialogue is a fairly witless combination of third - hand one - liners and winking meta - jokes, the game voice cast manages to wring some chuckles out of their one - joke characters, including Jackie Chan as a murine martial - arts master, Bobby Moynihan as a joyfully immoral mayor, and Maya Rudolph and Bobby Cannavale as a pair of tough - talking pugs in love.

Mike Smith, the principal of Seaford High School in Seaford, Del., jokes with students, including Amira Holland, 16, left, as they exit the school last week.

Included in the bundle are: Maths activity booklet (20 pages) Phonics activity booklet (20 pages) General activity booklet (30 pages) Comprehensions x 6 packs Interactive Advent calendars x 4 - phonics, maths, jokes Christmas Quiz All resources also available individually or as part of a smaller bundle.

United Teachers of Los Angeles president Alex Caputo - Pearl gave a speech for the ages a couple of weeks ago, securing a wing in the pantheon - of - vile, a place which includes such memorable outbursts as National Education Association general counsel Bob Chanin's «right - wing bastards» farewell - to - troops speech in 2009 and Chicago Teacher Union boss Karen Lewis» talk to the Illinois Labor History Society in 2012, where she joked about the possibility of union members killing the wealthy.

These include creative expressions such as idioms (up a creek); puns (references to an ill - fated cruise's «poop deck»); inside jokes (may the forest be with you); invented words (oyvaycation); pop culture memes (no vacation nation); similes (a hayfever sufferer in a garden is like a diabetic in a chocolate factory); and metaphors (down the black hole).

Including right before we were leaving as you can see in the picture below, my yard had turned into lake taco — my friend Cindy's joke

And even though nary a year goes by without some sort of iteration of either, they still embrace the hardcore and make games such as the upcoming Viewtiful Joe or Killer 7; ones that the public weren't exactly expecting, including Devil May Cry 2 (ha, bad joke there)!