Bingowings said:
My cat Mycroft used to do the same with frogs.
I love that your cat's name is Mycroft.
Anyway, I can't believe I missed this entire thread. I knew Anchorhead was a beekeeper, but getting the entire buzz of it, with pictures no less, well, that was just inspiring and educational.
No need to apologize for disagreeing. This could be a fun debate! I look forward to its continuation!
As for descendants, even the likelihood of children is unlikely. I'm sure there might be a few, and for them I might be able to concede something like that could be in bad taste, assuming it's even supposed to be the Titanic. But any person who could have actually had a direct connection to anybody in the tragedy has to be at least 100 years old. Anyone who would actually have any memory of that person would have to be at least a few years older than, probably several years older. That number has to be pretty slim, if existent at all. Any other descendent further removed than that... well, I'm sorry, but there's no personal connection, no memories, no tangible emotion to offend. Now if someone was directly mocking a person involved in the tragedy, then I could see the family taking offense. But to be offended by the use of a tragedy that has no connection to them other than the coincidence of blood ties but no personal connection, well, I don't see any cause for it.
If we were jumped forward to a future in a hundred years where people don't take 9/11 seriously, I could see people from now being offended. I wouldn't personally be offended, as I feel that healing has to happen eventually, and that people with no personal connection to the event would have no reason to view it as anything other than some distant tragedy. I would, however, probably not have any taste for it. And that's my point. We were alive to experience the tragedy. We remember it. It has directly affected our lives. We have a personal stake in it. People who are getting offended by a toy sinking boat have no personal stake. Taking us out of our own time is something of a cheat unless we're worried about time travelers from the early 20th century coming here and being offended. And even then... well, that's what they get for assuming their tragedy is the center of the universe in all time periods. Might sound callous, but history marches on. Otherwise people wouldn't be entertained by war re-enactments.
Bingowings said:
Inflatable fun slide gets council into hot water (or should that be cold water?).
"In bad taste" to whom? It's been 100 years. How many people who remember that are still even alive? This isn't exactly a case of "too soon." I guess you could say one of the downsides to Titanic-mania is that so many aficionados over-romanticize it and take the thing personally, as if they had some kind of stake in it.
TV's Frink said:
Like Gaffer Tape?Bingowings said:
I guess you hadn't considered the possibility that she isn't really a lesbian?
It happens.
The Fusion Anniversary Contest! (aka Return of the Squeaky Chair... Briefly)
And thus it was decreed that a splendid time would be guaranteed for all!
But what does that have to do with General Awesomeness?
Hmm. Someone commented that the video was out of sync, and I was very confused because I played it back and it was fine. My personal pride is glad to see it isn't me, but I guess that doesn't help if that's what some people are seeing...
Hmm. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if zombie's publisher would have some kind of injunction against us doing something like that.
Gaffer probably has better tools than me, due to his general awesomeness.
Nah. With your fan editing, I would doubt that. Except for the general awesomeness part. I once knew a General Awesomeness. He wasn't as awesome as you might think.
I'd love to take a chapter too, and I could certainly edit too!
Aw, come on. I thought that was funny. Just a silly mini game in a video game. I got a chuckle out of it.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Gaffer Tape said:
Makes me wonder, though. We've seen evidence of Yoda giving Luke lightsaber training in pre-production art for ESB. If they had worked lightsabers into Yoda as far back as that, how would George have "upped the anti" for the prequels in that scenario? Might have been far worse.
Given Yoda the ability to fly. :shudder:
Nah. Already gave that one to R2-D2. Probably would give him a transformation where he grows into a hulking, muscular, seven-foot-tall behemoth, like second-form Freeza.
Lucas on the possibility of a new SW trilogy: "Never."
Allow me to be the first to say, "Yaaaaaaaay!"
Eh. Average review. I do agree that the book has quite a bit of repetitive information that needed to be weeded out, I still couldn't help but get the feeling all of the reviewers complaints boiled down to, "He's being so meeeean to Lucas, so I can't like this." And anytime I've ever heard anyone have that opinion, it's hard for me to fathom. I think the book is extremely fair and oftentimes very sympathetic in its portrayal of Lucas. Despite all the exposing of lies, I found myself able to relate to him much more than I ever had before, so I have no idea how anyone could pass this off as a Lucas-bashfest. This in itself seems contradictory. He admits that the real measure of importance in this book is exposing Lucas's lies, but a paragraph earlier, he was complaining that the book had an agenda at all, completely missing the point by thinking zombie is condemning the haphazard storytelling process, the element that zombie specifically cites as being extremely fascinating?!
The cheap theatre I saw The Hunger Games at last week had a very interesting-sounding movie called John Crater of Mars listed on its marquee. I wonder if he got that name because of all the craters on Mars. Not sure what that has to do with Back to the Future, but I was just following Bingowings's lead. And "Bingowings's" is very distinct from "Bingowingses."
Funny you should mention that because, for the first time since Squeakygate, I actually used a metal folding chair in this video. But this is a different folding chair, and this one doesn't squeak at all! How dare it!
Mr. CP3S... that had better have been one of those April Fools Day jokes they tell me about.
This one goes out to all the Bingowings out there!
EDIT: I guess the plural form would be Bingowingses?
I do like Sluggo's case: that we probably would not have been questioning this had the OT had it. That said, I'm firmly in the camp that they were better without them. That they were better and stronger than that. That, to me, it defined the difference between a Jedi Knight (Ben Kenobi: warrior, out-in-the-field having adventures) and a Jedi Master (Yoda: thinking, teaching, philosophizing), an idea that the prequels also shat upon. Those may have been ideas I conjured up due to the fact that those characters didn't have lightsabers in the OT, but they sure as hell work better than what we got.
Makes me wonder, though. We've seen evidence of Yoda giving Luke lightsaber training in pre-production art for ESB. If they had worked lightsabers into Yoda as far back as that, how would George have "upped the anti" for the prequels in that scenario? Might have been far worse.
Script is already written. Shooting it today! ^_^
Dawh. Thank you for the plugs, Mr. bkev. Glad to see you're still enjoying my stuff.
So a new version of Internet Explorer came out. I know, I know! IE has been notorious for being, well, terrible with this forum, but this new version is so bad it won't even let me post here. I'll write these long tomes of awesome posts and hit the post button only for all my text to disappear, and the forum to tell me I actually need to write something before posting. So then I get angry, say, "Screw it!" and move on to something else. So here I am on Firefox, hoping that what I write will stick this time!
Warbler said:
oh, I didn't realize you had forgotten. That's alright. Maybe someone else remembers. Of course I am sure Bingo himself remembers, but his recollection might be biased in his favor. perhaps maybe C3PS or Gaffer Tape might remember. I guess it doesn't matter.
Sorry, Warb, but I'm afraid I do not remember the details either, although I am quite flattered that you would think I would. Honestly, though, what Bingo said earlier about ice cream... that does ring a bell... somewhere around late summer of 2010, perhaps?
bkev said:
TV's Frink said:
Gaffer Tape. Whatever happened to whatsherface?
She's been cheating on us! Still see her on Daizenshuu EX. Also, she made a new youtube video...
Damn it, you squealer.
But hopefully not the Deliverance kind.
greenpenguino said:
I bid an Overcooked Salmon...
TV's Frink said:A bucket of fish.
But... but I'm a vegetarian! I don't eat fish!
And greenpenguino's tags are breaking the thread!
I like Star Wars, but I admit it sometimes gets hard to do so with all the crap that's gone on. Honestly, in order for me to enjoy watching the trilogy, I really just have to divorce myself from all the backstory of the past 15 or so years, and pretend that the SEs, prequels, and George Lucas psychosis never happened. Several months ago, I was having to forget about the Blu-rays. Now I'm having to forget about recent interviews where George really hopped on the crazy train and blamed the fans being critical of Star Wars for there not being new Star Wars.
In short, I like the Star Wars movies, but I HATE Star Wars fandom (except this place, obviously).
Yadda yadda yadda, been away for a while, I'm a nerd, I'm a nerd... new series!
Dragon Ball Dissection: The Hunt for the Dragon Ball Arc Part 1!