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Stay on-topic, DS, you're our only hope.
Really enjoying this thread, btw.
Stay on-topic, DS, you're our only hope.
Really enjoying this thread, btw.
Me too! That last comment by DS was priceless.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
Damn, i was just getting into a gay bashing rhythm then and going totally off tropic with it..
What? What did i say? Although someones bound to get offended by my funnys so i have to edit it out. Please come forward so can alert the rest of the guys of who you are if you are offended by my comment.
Uhhem, right, yeah filums. I aint watched one over the last few nights as im too busy watching my tread mutate. Man, this stuff becomes addictive!
ONE OF US!! ONE OF US!!
Again, I still haven't thought about it much. But if I did a little searching or mental straining (not gonna happen at this point in the week), I am sure I could think of a few more:
- The guy on Braveheart
- The two guy rapist on Pulp Fiction
- The only gay character on the TV show Lost turned out to be one of the bad guys, and a further kick in the teeth to the gay community is that he is not revealed to be gay until a guest appearance in a flashback after he had already been killed off as a regular.
- And if Rorschach's suspicions are correct (the movie portrayed him in a way obviously meant to confirm those suspicions), then Adrien Veidt/Ozzy Mandias from the Watchmen.
Well, that's why I asked for the top of the head list. After all, this is friendly debate, not Daniel Webster thundering away at Henry Clay over the fate of the Pawnee Relocation Act of 1819.* I certainly wouldn't ask you to go to any trouble over this if you were not so inclined in the first place. It's besides my point anyway.
But no one is only gay. Gay people can be men, or they can be women. They can be young or old. They can be Asian, Jewish, Hispanic, Northern European, Pacific Islander, or of African decent. Or 1000 other ethnicities.
Gay people can be wealthy and live in a palace, or destitute and live beneath an overpass. The point is, people are like diamonds - and their sexual preference is but one of their hundreds of facets.
If a concerted effort is made to depict gays in a more balanced light and more frequently, are we then going to turn our social consciousness upon the very real fact that there are very few heroes/romantic leads who are Asian? Elderly? Impoverished? Libertarians? Inordinately tall? After all, excluding these people is naked discrimination. For shame!
Victim, victim, victim. I guess we have to look for them somewhere. Are gays being targeted by assholes? Yes. Is it because Alan Rickman and his gay lover committed murder in Dark Harbor? Not in a zillion years.
Until very recently, my ethnic group (Hispanics) were underrepresented in entertainment. I only know this because I was told - I hadn't noticed and it didn't bother me, nor was I excited when I saw the Eva Longorias, the Ricky Martins, the Christina Aguileras of the world achieve fame. Big fucking deal.
*-19th century political reference was entirely made up. I hope it sounded good.
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C3PX said:
Just think of how many gay heroes you can think of in films? Any? Any at all? Maybe one or two?
Its a bit late but im upto 176 now iv had time to ponder.
-Theres the two hillbillies from 'brokeback mountin-in his deposit slot'. - That counts as two.
-Johhny from airplane. As his humour makes him a camp hero, despit what he could be doing on his nights off.
-That big goatee pufta from 'merican pie wedding edition' as he saves the day by making a dress and shit.
-The terminator in 'terminator' as hes into bodybuilding. No wait hes a robot in that, and a bad guy. Scrape that one..
-Ben Siller in Zoolander.
-Franc or howerver they prenounce it in the Beverly Hills Cop movies.
-I cant recall anyting about it (as its been blanked out of my memory) other than its called 'the cage' or something, no 'the birdcage', anyhow there was a button hole pusher in that one too i think.
-Paul on the opposite shift to me from work, as hes closet, but everyone knows hes rectile rooting the same gender anyhow. Urm, hes not a hero. Scrape that one too.
-And all the extras from the blue oyster bar, and the clubs in Waynes World, and merican pie:wedding day, for being good sports (but lousey choices in lifestylez) and helping out the heros, and kept it none intimidating in what could have been a beyond imaginable situation.
Those are the obvious ones to me. But apparently they can be anywhere nowerdays. All heros are abit gay, for not being warped by the world in the first place. Or for trying to be cool as to think they are not be warped by it in the second place.
Darth Solo said:
-Ben Siller in Zoolander
Zoolander not only got the girl, but had a child. So at the very least he's bi, or confused.
Obviously, i havent ever seen Zoolander....but it looks unfashonable to me regardless of your tring to add it to my movies to snagg list.
It's not a very well regarded filum, i don't think, but i found it pretty funny.
Now im curious. NO not curious, curious! Oh Im off to have a fag now. NO not a fag, a cancer stick i mean! Phu! Too much talkin arse here lately...
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Okay, i'll admit, my jokes are a little OTT, in OT tread, in these OT.com forums. But i do know when to back down though. Sorry, to offend in any way regardlesss....
Regards people, Darth Solo.
Darth Solo said:
Oh Im off to have a fag now. NO not a fag, a cancer stick i mean! Phu! Too much talkin arse here lately...
Hmm, that sounds quite nice right now actually. Unfortunately, I smoked my last fag back in December and haven't bothered to purchase more since. Mmm, maybe I have a cigar or two stashed away someplace... or my lovely little pipe... or there is always the hookah... wow, for a guy who "doesn't really smoke" I sure have a lot of options lying around...
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
(1) Monsters Inc.
(2) As with Waterworld, I'm watching new Blu-ray movies I've bought in the past two months.
(3) I had only seen this movie once before, when it first came out on DVD. It's been long enough that I didn't remember too much, other than I kind of enjoyed it. More importantly, I thought my two-year-old daughter would enjoy it some day. The lovely wife and I watched it tonight, and we had a blast. It looks and sounds great, and like most Pixar work it's a fun story. Having a daughter that is roughly the same age as the little girl in the movie made this even more enjoyable - it was clear that some of the people involved in the movie had toddlers at the time the movie was made.
(4) Pre-daughter, I probably would have given this a 7/10. Tonight I give it a 9/10.
vote_for_palpatine said:
Are gays being targeted by assholes?
What goes around comes around.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
xhonzi said:
vote_for_palpatine said:
Are gays being targeted by assholes?
What goes around comes around.
Booooooooooooooooooooooooo!
(lol)
C3PX said:
Darth Solo said:
Oh Im off to have a fag now. NO not a fag, a cancer stick i mean! Phu! Too much talkin arse here lately...
Hmm, that sounds quite nice right now actually. Unfortunately, I smoked my last fag back in December and haven't bothered to purchase more since. Mmm, maybe I have a cigar or two stashed away someplace... or my lovely little pipe... or there is always the hookah... wow, for a guy who "doesn't really smoke" I sure have a lot of options lying around...
By the way, I know this is off topic, but.... anybody know how to get wax out of a pipe?? I once tried to light it with a candle, and now it's full of wax. And, NO, I'm certainly not joking. My dad will kill me if he ever finds out!
Wow, that is pretty funny. I am going to refrain from asking your age at great self restrain, and try to help you as best I can. ;)
Where is the wax at in the pipe? Is it just in the bowl? Or did it makes its way into the stem? A lot of pipes have removable stems, if this is the case with your dad's pipe, I'd take the stem out. You could probably run the stem under hot water and get the wax to losen up, and maybe find something to run through the stem to use to floss it out. If the wax is in the bowl and the neck, it ought to be easy enough to use some object to scrape the wax out. If you need to loosen the wax up a bit, a hair dryer would do the trick (hair dryers work great for getting wax out of the carpet too).
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
Thanks C3PX. I know, it is funny and at the same time dramatic. And don't worry, I'm about to turn 22 next month :)
It made its way into the stem and to the mouthpiece. Just picture me, lighting that thing, then trying to understand why I couldn't inhale. *phhhhhhhtttttttt* "why does it feel like it's clogged?...... Oh-dear-god-no....."
I'll try with the hot water, I hadn't tought of that, I was tempted to put it on a radiator, though. I tried the scraping but couldn't get much far, aside from emptying the bowl.
Boy, that was a stupid thing I did...
Note to self. Never, in any circumstance, try again to light a pipe with a candle...
Im i got a little too curious about Zoolander after not being interested in it, and i have to withdraw my my dig at it, as its really appealed to me after viewing.
Man, theres so many messages in it that i can appeal with now. As i cant turn left either, and its really funny in its own quirky way (and i kinda digged the chekoslovakian hit woman for some sick reason that worked for Will Farrell-no not the massus). Although i may have to view it agin as i may have missed some of the gags. */10
EDIT: re-going over over this filum right now, as i thought it was going to be so fuckin gay, but the joke is that its really not.
Damn, now im not using my number thing either in my origial post for a review. Im starting being warped by you guys in my own tread now.
OBEY MY DOG!
Really good snag there Fink, ta muchley, as its brightened up my night no end :-)
Anyone who aint seen Zoolander for the same previous reasons as moi, i suggest you watch it, as it uses similar humour to my own taste(dont let that put you off though). And if you have already seen it, dig it out again, just incase you missed any gaggs as i have on my first viewing. Theres me sharing a snagg i guess (second hand).
Oh,wait, i have to do the deleted scenes and out-takes now as i always do, as they make for that greater experience if i enjoyed a filum.
Rewinding a bit I can't stand Braveheart because A) it's bollocks B) it's the nadir of Mel Gibson's once promising career (Mad Max I&II, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously and Tim were great films boy oh boy he's sunk low) C) I live near Stirling and the beautiful Wallace Monument :
Which was violated by this hideous mess dropped in to appeal to American tourists who apparently get their education in history from awful Hollywood movies (I'm sure American readers are grateful for this gift):
It used to shout from a loud speaker hidden in it's head until the blessed rains of Scotland that turned my backyard into a Paddy Field washed in and screwed up it's diabolical machinery.
Im feeling a scence of disgruntlement (and pain) Bingo, as a no end of Scottish folks got hacked off with with a new cinema trying to cash in on with latest fiums re-working old classic leg-ends(read:ledgends). But you have to be in the know to not enjoy what your viewing in the first place at first sight, i guess.....
Bingowings said:
It used to shout from a loud speaker hidden in it's head until the blessed rains of Scotland that turned my backyard into a Paddy Field washed in and screwed up it's diabolical machinery.
That is ridiculous! A talking statue based on the fictionalized version of a real historical character, located at the real historical character's memorial. That is beyond wrong. Sounds like that hunk of crap is better suited for some comic convention some place.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape