Full Metal Jacket: Malfunction?

[DoomYoshi]

The line: "what is your major malfunction, numbnuts?" has entered into common parlance. However there are two totally different definitions of the word malfunction. The film offers no clue as to which definition is being referred to and therefore the line is totally incomprehensible.

Malfunction (as a noun, although technically it's a verb - but we won't even go down that rabbit hole) can refer to:
a failure to function
or, an improper function

I think this movie malfunctions with its choice of wording. My theory is that the reason this line sticks out is because it makes no sense whatsoever (before you go all dickweed on me, consider that if one definition is true, the other is automatically false). It creates a logical black hole in our mind which sticks there even though we don't know the reason it sticks.

I suggest we go back to 'Nam and sort it out.

[DoomYoshi]

And I know some jackass is going to say: a better definition is "fail to function properly". However that is actually the second definition rephrased.

[DirtyDishSoap]

A better definition is "fail to function properly".

[BrutalBob]

The line: "what is your major malfunction, numbnuts?" has entered into common parlance. However there are two totally different definitions of the word malfunction. The film offers no clue as to which definition is being referred to and therefore the line is totally incomprehensible.

Malfunction (as a noun, although technically it's a verb - but we won't even go down that rabbit hole) can refer to:
a failure to function
or, an improper function

I think this movie malfunctions with its choice of wording. My theory is that the reason this line sticks out is because it makes no sense whatsoever (before you go all dickweed on me, consider that if one definition is true, the other is automatically false). It creates a logical black hole in our mind which sticks there even though we don't know the reason it sticks.

I suggest we go back to 'Nam and sort it out.

It is the one definition. A failure to function is an improper function if the proper function is to do a function.

But that is beside the point. I think you are completely missing what question is being asked.

He is not asking him to identify his malfunction. He is asking if his malfunction is a case of numb nuts.

"What is your malfunction, (is it) numb nuts?"

That would certainly qualify as a major malfunction to me.

[DoomYoshi]

So, he is accusing him of not having balls? That certainly changes the movie.


As per the definitions, they must be different.

"A failure to function is an improper function if the proper function is to do a function." A failure to function is no function at all, not an improper function.

[Dukasaur]

Maybe he's asking if he Majored in Malfunctioning in university?

[Bernie Sanders]

The term used in the movie was used correctly for the situation.

Leave it to some snotty young nerd to try to find the meaning in a dictionary.

Our language/slang usage is what makes America unique, compared to our tea drinking elitists across the ocean.

Now go and "pound sand", you freaking pompous moron.

[BrutalBob]

So, he is accusing him of not having balls? That certainly changes the movie.

I have seen it a couple of times, but not recently.

However, having something that is numb is clearly different to not having that thing at all- or else how could it be numb.

As per the definitions, they must be different.

"A failure to function is an improper function if the proper function is to do a function." A failure to function is no function at all, not an improper function.

You might be right, but a failure to function, could also mean a failure to function properly or to complete the function, whilst still allowing the possibility of some action taking place- hence an improper function.

[KoolBak]

DorkYoshi....take a perfectly good scene and fook it up

Can you now destroy "It's a clusterfuck, sir"? (I won't tell Clint)

And can you piss up a rope?

Speaking of piss, can you tell me if this is an ok saying?

"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel."

Thanks!

[Bernie Sanders]

DorkYoshi....take a perfectly good scene and fook it up

Can you now destroy "It's a clusterfuck, sir"? (I won't tell Clint)

And can you piss up a rope?

Speaking of piss, can you tell me if this is an ok saying?

"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel."

Thanks!

Well said.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Did your parents have any children that lived?

-TG

[DoomYoshi]

DorkYoshi....take a perfectly good scene and fook it up

Can you now destroy "It's a clusterfuck, sir"? (I won't tell Clint)

And can you piss up a rope?

Speaking of piss, can you tell me if this is an ok saying?

"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel."

Thanks!

Until you give me a reference on JSTOR, I can't answer your question.

[riskllama]

this thread gets a 2/10.

[KoolBak]

Here ya go buddy:

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[2dimes]

Play it again Sam.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Holy dogshit! Texas?! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don't much look like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down!

-TG

[tkr4lf]

The really impressive thing is that most of R. Lee Ermey's lines in that movie (at least all the shit talking he did to the recruits) were improvised by him on the spot. He really used to be a drill instructor. That man could terrify anybody.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

The really impressive thing is that most of R. Lee Ermey's lines in that movie (at least all the shit talking he did to the recruits) were improvised by him on the spot. He really used to be a drill instructor. That man could terrify anybody.

Bullshit! It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress!

-TG

[DirtyDishSoap]

You climb obstacles like old people f*ck, you know that?