^That was my point! Thank you!
EDIT: “Idiot” and “stupid” have almost synonymous definitions upon looking them up, so I guess I was right.
I wasn’t trying to defend it’s usage as an insult, rather I pointed out that more likely than not, you wouldn’t have cared if he used any other term that is interchangeable in that context.
I choose this word carefully - don’t be an idiot.
I can understand this, but Frink can never shut up about how [phrase or word used] is offensive. It seems to me that he’s just one of those people, and like I said, I don’t want to sound offensive, but he just has to read stuff that way. You do realize that there are almost zero insulting phrases that don’t originate from an illness, mutation, or sex. The word “dumb” is the same, just like “stupid”, “idiot”, etc.
Words like “dumb” and “stupid” and “idiot” are not interchangeable with “retarded.” That’s the whole fucking point. No one says “there’s a girl in our class who has a teacher’s aide with her at all times, I think it’s because she’s an idiot.” If you are interchanging words that are used as insults with the word retarded, you’re the idiot. But you aren’t retarded.
I meant they are interchangeable as insults, not by literal definition. Don’t be an idiot. His statement was an “or do I sound retarded?”. In this context, you can switch “retarded” with “stupid”, or “like an idiot”, or “like a moron”.
“or do I sound stupid?”
“or do I sound like an idiot?”
“or do I sound like a moron?”
This is what I was referring to. My original post on the subject was saying that if it was any of these alternate insulting terms, you probably wouldn’t have seen the offense in the post, because modern culture is hypocritical.
EDIT: Just remembered that my original post didn’t say exactly that, so I’m not sure why I wrote that at first:
…except the use of “retarded” which I continue to be offended by.
If he had used the word slow, I doubt you would be offended.
I wasn’t trying to defend it’s usage as an insult, rather I pointed out that more likely than not, you wouldn’t have cared if he used any other term that is interchangeable in that context.
just the “More horrifically violent injuries please!” bit.
Nobody here said they wanted that anyway, so why are you acting like that’s what we said. I pointed out that there was a lack of realistic violence occurring in the scene, and that showing that the injured parties were receiving actual injuries would make the scene better.
at least im not starting crap on here like you are.
That sounds distinctly like something you would say, not him.
Source: You’ve said it about 45 times in the last day and seem quite incapable of thinking of something different to post.
Are you speaking to fluke or me? He put his post in his quote to my post, so I can’t really tell.
I’m not technically an adult yet. Also, you are not acting like an adult, nor are you typing like one.
I’m sure you visit sexy.im quite frequently.
Why do you refuse to type properly?
this social/financial/familial/romantic/spiritual hell I’ve been suffering in for the past twelve years.
This sounds like you’ve got a lot of problems, so I’ll be happy to pray for your life.
my family is currently mourning the loss of my father two weeks ago, at the age of 64. Your parents are always going to be larger than life to you, and it’s as if suddenly the moon were missing from the sky. He was frightened to have to go in for the open heart surgery, but I’m glad it went well and he was in a state of recovery when the fatal stroke occurred, so his last waking moments were not of fear.
We weren’t as close as we could have been, and now I regret not making more of an effort to be. I feel really bad for him that this happened, when we were all ready to help him recover and I sort hoped it’d be a good way to muster a closer relationship.
If you wouldn’t mind, prayers for my family are welcome. It’s too late to pray for the man himself, so I am left regretful.
These are sad times indeed. I haven’t lost either of my parents, but I have lost both of my grandfathers. They were both strong believers (father’s father being a pastor), so when they passed, I wasn’t as sad as I was rejoicing at their joining with the Lord. When my mother’s father went, a young man he knew was caring for him, and during the middle of the night (on Father’s Day), he kept awake, singing hymns, praising the Lord, and waiting for him. The young man asked him if God was saying anything, and he answered: “Come home.”
I’m not sure why I’m telling the whole story, but, I was wondering if your father was at all a believer in Christ. Either way, I’ll pray for your family.
God bless.
As for Baseball bat Lightsaber it does not need Blood and guts and limbs being lopped off so much as a flame effect.
Yeah, I didn’t mean that it should be R violent, but some recognition that the blade was having a realistic effect on them would be nice.
Being that there were no flames in the film, nobody is going to think he’s putting out flames, and I would hardly say that it is SW lore when it never happened in the film.
How does it feel to be the first person in a four year old thread to do it wrong?
I feel ashamed, I guess? Is that the right answer?
Y U BREAK THE COMBO?
because im a troublemaker.it
TFA ripped off Star Wars; the overall plot, some details, and then borrowed various chunks of the sequels. Also, I meant nobody here said that Star Wars was original. Though, after all that it borrowed, it still managed to be an original film, because of it’s design. It took a whole lot from older sources, and then built on them. You can’t give one specific thing that Star Wars was ripping off, because it wasn’t a ripoff. And this thread is about TFA being unoriginal in context with the other Star Wars films, and people are bringing ideas together to make it more original. My post from above explains why the necessary level of originality cannot be achieved, because straying too much from the original films makes it hardly a SW film, but being close makes it feel unoriginal.
Fine, it can be about your sausages.
Mmmmm…
The thing is, Star Wars wasn’t ripping off itself. It wasn’t original, but it was paying homage to it’s bases, and it does a fantastic job. The problem with TFA is that it’s literally copying the original films, and packaging it with new characters. And some of those characters are filling old roles in a blatantly obvious way. Nobody ever said that Star Wars was original in the first place.
Can we make this thread about smoked sausages now or something
I vote yea.
“E.T.”
“THX 1138”
Just out of curiosity, would you care to elaborate.
Well then why are you in a thread about TFA being more original?
People are thrown into an implied painful death. That pretty much compensates the lack of severed limbs during the scene.
No, actually, it doesn’t. The fact that people are dying doesn’t change the fact that the glowing green blade isn’t affecting them beyond that of a baseball bat.
It’s interesting to watch VHS through an HDTV. It’s almost like seeing pointillist paintings in motion.
I actually thought the same thing when I first watched a VHS on my HDTV. It’s pretty weird.
Maybe if you learned how to type properly you’d be left alone.
