oojason, my point was, that maybe this discussion of Thatcher would be better in another thread instead of derailing this thread. I can't think of another thread better than the political thread. She was, after all, a politician.
What part of "please continue this discussion elsewhere" is not understood? Off topic be damned...
Where were you in '77?
A rod was made for moderators backs when Off Topic was declared unmoderated but look at the past.
Before this thread if someone famous died often we would get a whole thread (sometimes multiple threads) going for three or four pages.
The only reason this particular aspect of this particular death as gone on for over one page is because some people have legitimate reasons for declaring their dislike for her and others have objected.
Either this thread (which has only been taken off topic by people saying it has already gone off topic when it hadn't) is being moderated or it isn't. If it isn't every attempt to 'soft mod' the thread only serves to keep the thread stuck in this groove.
In other news...
SilverWook said:
Warbler said:
Damn Sorry to her that. A great comedian. Rest In Peace, Mr. Winters.
I take issue with CNN using a Mork and Mindy clip to sum up his career. Is it that hard to dig up some clips of the man's best work?
Jonathan & Art Carney doing some improv.
Can't help but to see a little Art Carney in Christopher Lloyd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KR4m0pO1WRQ
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Chi Cheng 42
I wasn't a big Deftones fan, but I liked a couple of their songs.
"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas
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^Spitting image of my ex and the possessor of the most elastic mouth in cinema history. They are all slowly leaving the planet :-(
Everyone leaves the planet eventually.
TV's Frink said:
Everyone leaves the planet eventually.
Well there is this thing called gravity.
真実
imperialscum said:
TV's Frink said:
Everyone leaves the planet eventually.
Well there is this thing called gravity.
There is this other thing called entropy.
Bingowings said:
imperialscum said:
TV's Frink said:
Everyone leaves the planet eventually.
Well there is this thing called gravity.
There is this other thing called entropy.
And there is this yet another thing called biology.
真実
imperialscum said:
Bingowings said:
imperialscum said:
TV's Frink said:
Everyone leaves the planet eventually.
Well there is this thing called gravity.
There is this other thing called entropy.
And there is this yet another thing called biology.
Entropy always wins.
Bingowings said:
imperialscum said:
Bingowings said:
imperialscum said:
TV's Frink said:
Everyone leaves the planet eventually.
Well there is this thing called gravity.
There is this other thing called entropy.
And there is this yet another thing called biology.
Entropy always wins.
Not in this case.
真実
imperialscum said:
Bingowings said:
imperialscum said:
Bingowings said:
imperialscum said:
TV's Frink said:
Everyone leaves the planet eventually.
Well there is this thing called gravity.
There is this other thing called entropy.
And there is this yet another thing called biology.
Entropy always wins.
Not in this case.
Without entropy biological processes would never have begun and would not work, because of it eventually all biological life will end so I think it pretty much trumps everything.
Nobody is sure if gravity exists as a separate definable force or if it's just the observable effect that mass has on space time.
If it's the former the same is true of gravity.
Bingowings said:
Without entropy biological processes would never have begun and would not work, because of it eventually all biological life will end so I think it pretty much trumps everything.
What I was trying to say is that as a living organism you will never leave this planet (unless you are an astronaut). We are a biological system. Throughout the life this system absorb and emit the energy. But that energy is not "us". If the system fails we are dead and we cease to exist. If the worm (another system) eats the remains we don't become the worm. The remains may be burned and the heat and light is emitted into the space but that's not us any more.
真実
To some extent this is a relevant to the thread topic as the Thatcher thing.
I've been comforted and given comfort to others during times of bereavement by drawing on concepts like these.
Our bodies are made of matter which is constructed of components which are made of particles that not only has existed in some form since the beginning of the universe but will continue to exist forever.
Not only that but that matter shifts and alters constantly throughout our lifetime and yet maintains a form of continuity.
We haven't in any sense the body we had a decade ago. the cells of my taste buds have changed since two weeks ago.
Mathematically the connections that make my mind at the moment of pushing the enter key have also existed since the beginning of time and will continue to exist as a probability for eternity.
So we are physically in perpetual flux long before we die and our personality persists as a potential product of probability physics long after we are dead.
Just as I exist when my mother isn't the room with me and she existed before I was born, I will exist long after the day my corpse is loaded into a box and burned.
The universe was a flat featureless singularity and will return to it for a while until a quantum accident will introduce new temporary structures (or the same ones depending on your perspective) into which I will probably return to make the same mistakes.
Entropy is the engine though.
You don't get kinks with kinkiness.
Well, I guess I've learned my lesson. Don't ever use a figure of speech like "everyone leaves the planet eventually" if you don't want to keep reading about it from a literal point of view.
I have it on good authority that we do literally leave the planet after we die. The Ancient Astronauts come down to Earth in their tetrahedron ships while everyone is asleep and harvest the lifeforces of the dead for transport back to their homeworld in the Valhalla Galaxy, where they're broken down into their component ba's and ka's and used as raw fuel to power their vast network of galaxy-spanning Infinity Gates.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
'M*A*S*H' actor Allan Arbus dies
(CNN) -- Allan Arbus, the actor who played psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman in the "M*A*S*H" television series, has died, his daughter's representative said Tuesday. He was 95.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Ray Harryhausen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22441567
Ah crud.
Well, he was 92 after all.
Ray was one of my personal heroes. (And I don't use that term lightly.) As a kid, I would often run to the tv to catch one of his movies in those pre video days. He was the first behind the scenes guy whose name I learned, and associated with what I saw on the screen.
I came perilously close to breaking my parent's VCR watching the Jason and the Argonauts skeleton battle frame by frame. Thank goodness for Laserdiscs!
There are so many of those ILM guys who were inspired by him to get into the industry. (And countless others.) When they made the leap to digital dinos for Jurassic Park, Ray was one of the first people they showed the footage to.
I just bought his early films on Blu Ray in a box set at Costco last month. On the commentary track for Twenty Million Miles To Earth, Ray sounded like a little kid, relishing the Ymir's final battle in Rome. He was truly young at heart.
I feel very fortunate I got his autograph at a comic show in the early 90's. I was walking on air the rest of that day.
This one is going to hurt for a little while. :(
Where were you in '77?