CP3S

People have been proudly pointing that out since the song's release.

I guess most people don't understand irony that well, and only tend to think of verbal irony when they think of the word "ironic". Rain on your wedding day, or a fly in your Chardonnay, would both be examples of situational irony, which is when something pans out the opposite way that you expected it to. You plan an outdoor summer wedding, imagining a gorgeous bright sunny day; then the date arrives, all your guests are in town, and the weather is all dreary and wet.

The fact that the internet still gets jollies from pointing this out so many years later leads me to believe that Canada has a better school system than the US (and maybe Italy ;), and are better educated than us.

Whoa, Warbler has seemingly never seen The Lord of the Rings film(s), or at the very least didn't find them memorable.

After co-workers continuously telling me that I need to see Spartacus, I finally watched the first episode. I think I am going to enjoy it far more than I anticipated.

greenpenguino said:

Fair enough.

The whole squirting thing is fun though isn't it? (At least I thought so) The downside was that I would have to keep changing bedsheets or actually put a towel down. :-/

It isn't just fun, it is insanity! Ever since the first time, I've always made sure any hookups happen at her place so I don't have to deal with it after. And with all the extra fluid at work, a single session can last well over an hour, exhausting, but amazing. I've never experienced anything like it.

greenpenguino said:

CP3S said:

Leonardo said:

it's all curled up in a handlebar.

Hipster.

 

Haha, perfect picture, lol. Yuck.

That pic reminds me of a girl I used to go out with, who would... let's just say "splash out" when 'stimulated'...

 

But I don't mind ladies kissing me or licking me all over my face and stuff. I like it.

I wasn't going to mention it, but she does that too! I've always been extremely curious about that whole thing, and always really hoped I'd run across a woman who did that. Now that I've experienced it, it is pretty crazy! 

I don't mind having my face licked or kissed either, but with this beard the whole face licking thing just felt weird and got really wet and unpleasant.

Leonardo said:

it's all curled up in a handlebar.

Hipster.

Haha, perfect picture, lol. Yuck.

Ugh,

So, I had a beard many years ago, then eventually got rid of it. Since then, I've toyed around with growing one every now and then, but was never serious enough about it and would end up shaving it a few weeks in. Toward the beginning of this year, I decided I was going to grow one and fought off all temptations to shave it during those annoyingly scratchy first few weeks. I now have a pretty cool looking full beard that I am rather fond of.

I met a girl a few weeks ago, and she really likes the thing too. But when we make out she'll do weird things like lick it or start making out with my chin, cheek, or upper lip. It's weird feeling and it is absolutely disgusting! I have to stop every few minutes to cringingly wipe saliva out of it. The fact that I am backing off every so many seconds to wipe at my beard with a mortified look on my face doesn't seem to phase her. I mean, how do you tell a girl, "Uh, please don't do that, it's extremely gross" in a polite way? I've hinted that I don't like it, and she doesn't seem to get it, commenting about how nice and soft it feels, and how much she loves my beard, and doing it more. 

It is so horrible that I've thought about shaving it, but decided that I'm completely dedicated to my relationship with the beard, and that the girl has got to go.

Warbler said:

CP3S said: Yes, I am very much an American, from my ignorances to my addictions and my habits.

you have ignorances?  you? 

what are your addictions? 

Of course I have ignorances.

As for my addictions, too many to list. And I think I've been pretty open about them on the forum the last few years, they shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

And as for having American football players play rugby with pro rugby players, I've thought about that a lot in the past! And even the other way around. I think it would be an interesting clashing of cultures, and fun to see the results of.

I thought the OP was a joke at first, then I realized it was serious, and now I am crying.

One of the coolest pieces of technology I owned when I was a preteen was my electronic organizer. It was awesome, like having my very own computer that fit in my pocket. I could type up short paragraphs in it and save them. Or use it as a calculator. Years later I upgraded to one with an indiglo screen. I think my first one was a Royal DM75. All my friends were really jealous, and I felt extremely sophisticated with this thing in my back pocket everywhere I went. It was basically a glorified calculator with all the capabilities of a digital watch, and with the ability to store a limited number of text memos. I used to store dirty words in mine, and felt pretty cool about it. It featured a password lock too, so no worries of prying eyes reading my secret profanity laced memos to myself.

Later the things came with dictionaries built into them, and you could play simple word games (like hangman) on them.

The one pictured above was what they started to look like right before they went extinct, mimicking the look of the then popular, and much more technologically advanced, PDAs.

Hey, it's me. said:

I prefer to call it Gridiron. 

We'd never go for that on this side of the pond. It sounds too English.

;)

Warbler said:

CP3S said:

I've been down that road in these parts, and can say you won't get very far.

Americans love their football and will defend their right to call it football, regardless of the facts that the feet aren't really used much, the "ball" doesn't even match the dictionary definition of ball, and that at the time of naming it another sport already had that name. My theory is that Americans suck at real football so badly, they had to adapt another sport and give it that name, then call the real thing "soccer" and declare it a woman's sport, just to save face in their own sort of way. In America, "football" is the height of testosterone driven sporting, of course, the rest of the world knows what's up and sniggers at this with eyes rolling.

I prefer to call American football "American Padded Rugby". It is like rugby, but for Americans, and with protective equipment to limit booboos. 

Again I ask: you sure you're an American?

Sometimes I dream I was born someplace else, and then I wake up feeling depressed...

:P

Kidding. Being born in this country has provided me with a plethora of opportunities I wouldn't as likely have gotten anywhere else. A lot of times when I am in America, I feel very unAmerican; but when I go overseas, it becomes painfully obvious to me, and anyone around me, that I am. Yes, I am very much an American, from my ignorances to my addictions and my habits. And I am proud of my roots, even if I don't bleed red, white, and blue (ironically, the exact same colors as many other nation's flags), and don't unquestioningly embrace everything "American".

In addition, the women's team almost won the women's World Cup, they lost on penalty kicks.    A  few years before, the women's won the World Cup.   I also think they won a the gold medal in the Olympics a couple of times.   Lastly, what about the MLS?   They are improving, are they not?  

I don't recall America ever declaring futbol, a woman's sport.    

You've never heard people call soccer a woman's sport? That used to be a big thing when I was in school, boys played gridiron, and girls played soccer. My male friends who played soccer were always given crap by the guys who played football for playing a girl's sport.

And I wasn't dogging on women who play soccer in America, they've embraced the sport and are pretty good at it. Plus, in college, women's soccer was by far the most fun sport on campus to watch.

TV's Frink said:

Yes, because football players are wimps.

Exactly.

If I found myself in a bar fight with a professional American football player, I'd run away and knock over a few chairs and other objects behind me, and wait for him to trip on them and call a time out.

If I found myself in a bar fight with a pro rugby player, I'd reach for the nearest pen and paper and start jotting down my will.

I've been down that road in these parts, and can say you won't get very far.

Americans love their football and will defend their right to call it football, regardless of the facts that the feet aren't really used much, the "ball" doesn't even match the dictionary definition of ball, and that at the time of naming it another sport already had that name. My theory is that Americans suck at real football so badly, they had to adapt another sport and give it that name, then call the real thing "soccer" and declare it a woman's sport, just to save face in their own sort of way. In America, "football" is the height of testosterone driven sporting, of course, the rest of the world knows what's up and sniggers at this with eyes rolling.

I prefer to call American football "American Padded Rugby". It is like rugby, but for Americans, and with protective equipment to limit booboos. 

SilverWook said:

Berman and company tried to escape the brand name for a while. Star Trek wasn't even part of the show's title early on. Probably a mistake in retrospect.

Dropping the "Star Trek" name from the first season always amused me. I felt like they were trying hard to make it different from the other shows. See, look, it isn't even really Star Trek! No Star Trek in the title, see? And check out this snazzy theme song? Now does that sound like Star Trek to you?

And then the very first scene you see in the pilot episode is a running Klingon. *face palm*

There was a gap of mere months between the end of Voyager and the premiere of Enterprise. (Voyager actually shot an episode on some shiny new sets built for Enterprise.) Nemesis was also in the pipeline. Maybe there was too much Trek product at the time? It might have been better had the franchise taken a little vacation for a year or two. Disney ought to take heed as they prepare to saturate us with Star Wars.

At the time Enterprise first started airing, I'd spent years watching TNG with my dad during its original run, never saw more than an episode or two DS9, and had stopped caring about Voyager a few seasons before it ended.

My first response to it was rolling my eyes at the prequel idea, and after seeing a few episodes, it felt like every character on the show was a knock-off of another ST character we'd already known. T'Pol and Seven dressed very similarly, were obviously both intended as eye candy, and spoke almost identically, and it was hard to see the new doctor and not think of Kneelix (from both the fish out of water aspect, and the comic relief aspect).

I was kind of enjoying the return to the general sci-fi space exploration roots during season one, but then there was that whole damn attack on earth storyline that encompassed the second and third seasons, which was an obvious reference/reflection on 9/11 and the following "war on terror".

Season four had some fun stuff in it, but that only happened because the show was cancelled and they had to hurry up and cover all the cool concepts they had planned on covering eventually. Too little, too late.

I feel like the death of Star Trek was due to an over saturation. Enterprise didn't have anything new to offer us, and it couldn't even figure out its own identity. I don't think we even knew exactly what we wanted from it, or even if we really wanted it at all, while it had no clue what it wanted to give us. 

Someone in the General SW section under the J. J. Wars thread posted about how Star Trek fans hated/complained about everything Star Trek, so it made sense to take it from them and turn it into a profitable watered down silly mainstream action series.

I'm still annoyed that this happened, I liked what Trek was, I enjoyed those TNG movies quite a lot actually, with the exception of the terrible Nemesis, which I still had fun watching. I didn't hate everything ST that came out, and I don't think the fans really did either, but I think we did all need a break from it. We went literally over 15 years with Star Trek on the air non-stop (TNG - ENT). I wish they could have slowed it down a bit and continued it later. Sometimes less is more. I would have liked to have seen more TNG films, or perhaps even another series taking place after Voyager a few years down the road. Instead we went from over saturation, to losing it all hook, line, and sinker. The TNG era ST universe I grew to really love is dead, sadly, and I doubt it will ever be seen again. So it goes.

This is why I will never have kids! The world is too messed up! When I was a lad blissfully enjoying Star Wars, I never would have guessed that someday it would all be so complicated! ;)

darth_ender said:

Wow! I thought life was going to get easier for me when I graduated next week.  Now it looks like I've got some new responsibilities to take care of.  I won't say any more for now, but life just got complex once again.

Oh shit! Our little Bkev is pregnant.

Warbler said:

I do everything with my left hand...

TMI!

darth_ender said:

Therefore, I propose that all right handed people refer to them as left-handed-Americans.

But already two of the people in this thread who have come out as openly left-handed are not even Americans.

Tobar said:

It's a lot of films...

The Matrix

Planet of the Apes

Independence Day

Moon <--Highly recommended

I've seen all of those, of course. But you seemed to be indicating that there is one recent film in particular that it rips a big idea off of.

There's also the fact that this film rips a big idea from another rather recent film...

Since only one of those films is recent, I have to assume I know which one you are talking about, and have a pretty good idea of what aspect of that film it must be that they steal barrow from. Interesting. But potentially really lame.

For anyone who hasn't seen Moon, do yourself a favor, and go see it. I can pretty much promise you that it'll be much better than any sci-fi film coming to theaters in 2013.

Come on Ducan Jones! The world of cinema needs you to get on with those other two sci-fi flicks taking place in Moon's universe you've talked about. At least then crappy, lesser, yet much bigger budget sci-fi flicks like Oblivion will have better material to rip off.

bkev said:

GUYS HELP I CAN'T STOP READING THIS COMIC ABOUT IF DS9 WAS AN RPG THE TNG CAST PLAYED.

Now I am hooked too!

I love it. I have now decided in my own personal Star Trek cannon, DS9 is from now on merely an RPG game. It works so well! I love when near the beginning of the comic Geordi is explaining the game scenario (basically DS9's plot), and everybody keeps interrupting him and telling him how ridiculous and unrealistic is all is.

I was kind of looking forward to seeing how 1313 panned out. I had hope it would be a decent distraction with some fun game play (come on, The Force Unleashed was kind of fun to play, I just hated everything about the concept, and am beyond over all the Jedi/Sith stuff), and focusing on a part of the SW universe that hasn't been flogged to death was a definite plus.

The news that George decided it needed to be about Boba Fett was weird, and makes me easily get over the slight disappointment I had about this not happening. But then again, remembering my fondness for the old Boba Fett comics (they were badass!) a Fett game completely unconnected to the events of the films, and perhaps ignoring the fact that he is just a grown up troubled clone, might have been pretty cool. Of course, that would have never happened. Everything has to be a prequel cash in these days.

My all time favorite SW games are X-Wing, Dark Forces, Rebel Assault II, Shadows of the Empire, the Rogue Squadron games, and finally Star Wars: Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast along with Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy.

Tie Fighter was fantastic too, but I never clocked in the insane number of hours I did with X-Wing.

If I had to pick one favorite, it would be a very difficult toss up between Dark Forces and Shadows of the Empire. I wish there were more Star Wars games that didn't involve lightsabres and the force.

OF COURSE IT IS OKAY!

I've been known to Lucas bash, as plenty of bashing is deserved. But the whole idea that Star Wars could have existed without him is truly a silly claim to make. The man makes shit up and constantly changes his own history, but there was a time when he was a promising young director/story teller with some really great ideas.

THX-1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars were all pretty good films. I've often felt it is a shame that after this point he got caught in a SW rut. I feel like the popularity of Star Wars and the commercial possibilities of it took over and smothered out the man who could have gone on to be one of the better directors of the 80's and 90's. From there is was all Star Wars and a few poorly done flops on the side.

Sometimes I still wish Star Wars had been far less successful, becoming an eventual cult classic, with George going on to make more films on par with THX and Graffiti.

No matter what you want to say about him, the man had creative talent. Maybe those three good movies he made did have other creative talents and influences propping them up and making them work, but George did play a large role in all three of those films. And Star Wars, from the first film in '77, to the two sequels, along with all the baggage, good and atrocious, that followed, wouldn't exist without him. That isn't revisionist history, that is a solid fact.

When I first saw that episode as a kid I remembered thinking how much creepier actual Balok was than his alien view screen decoy, and wondered why he even bothered with it at all.

The Nerd said:

I call myself "The Nerd" because that's what people in high school/college nicknamed me because I was at all 6 SW films on opening day, I was actually first in line for each.

How were you at all six SW films on opening day by the time you were in high school?