Gaffer Tape

Damnit!  Vanquished again!

I think we've all learned a very important lesson about... um, I dunno... cheesecake?

I guess I just assumed that certain people would be trustworthy enough not to edit their posts and ruin my jokes... =(

You gotta be careful.  Those ants are tricky indeed!

Okay, then, it sucks!  I bet no one's said that!

Wow.  That is pretty darned cool.

Good!  My female demographic over the past two weeks has dropped from a respectable 9% to a paltry 7%.  I really need to boost that somehow.

Geez, after all the effort I put forth to craft that response, and all I get is a one-liner?  Well, you did make my logo and all, so I guess I'll let it slide this time.  But I got my eye on you!

Ha, I'm afraid you'll be a bit disappointed then.  I really only intended to go through the Mighty Morphin era with a coda lasting through "In Space."  Mighty Morphin is the only era I'm familiar with (as I already stated, I actually stopped watching right around the beginning of season 3 with a brief resurgence around Alien Rangers and into the beginning of Zeo).  Also, Mighty Morphin is what I feel is the most interesting in terms of adaptation.  Season 1 is a fairly straight (as far as Power Rangers goes) adaptation of Zyuranger with seasons 2 and 3 being more of a Frankenstein monster reassembly approach that was never really attempted again afterwards.  Then subsequent seasons, as far as I can tell, return to the more straightforward season 1 approach although with a more seasoned and matured mindset in terms of storytelling and productions.  So I've really been trying to chart those awkward beginning years where they were trying to find their footing as well as revisiting a childhood favorite with an overly analytical adult gaze.

Granted, like Linkara, doing these videos has rejuvenated my interest in Power Rangers to the point that I might actually bother doing research on the later series.  But on the other hand, I've already watched so many episodes of Power Rangers and Super Sentai in such a short amount of time that it's soon going to produce an effect in me not dissimilar to what's exhibited in A Clockwork Orange.  =P

Haha, I have to know the circumstances now, please!

Hmm.  Still don't see it.  I see an acronym for New England Rainbow Family, but not that kind of Nerf.

Really?  I just looked at the Wikipedia article for Nerf, and I saw no such claims.  Let me check again...

Is that what Nerf stands for?

TV's Frink said:

Baltimore Gaffer Tapes

Sounds like a crime drama.

I approve this message.

Yeesh, looks as though I'm going to have to expand my Power Rangers series into one part plus an extra video for an epilogue.  I really didn't think season 3 would be that complicated.  Silly naive me from two weeks ago when I actually thought I might be able to do both seasons 2 and 3 in the same video!  Hah!  If only...

No, because I also advocated my visceral, emotional pleasure at manipulators and theives being physically beaten down, so I'm certainly not exactly perfect at "cast the first stone" logic.  I might listen to the tapes, but, again, I have to point out that I have passed no judgment or opinion on Mel Gibson in either direction, yet some of your responses to my last post seem to indicate that you're getting that impression.  I certainly don't condone jumping to conclusions without facts, and if I actually was attempting to voice an opinion on Mel Gibson's behavior without having first listened to the tapes, then I would certainly understand why you would be dismissive of those opinions. 

I'll tell you what, though.  I will make an effort to listen to them tomorrow, and I'll try get back with you on a more specific level.

RE:  xhonzi:  Gasp!  You unearthed my past demons!  How dare you?!  I shall now throw verbal slurs at you and punch you in areas around the face!  I hope you're holding a baby in front of you to defend yourself, not that that will matter because there will be fisticuffs, damnit!

Whoo.  Let's see now.  Going back to Warb but not bothering to do blockquotes because I'm lazy.

My whole point in agreeing with C3PX's statement was that I was not drawing conclusions.  I'm neither defending Mel Gibson nor am I attacking him.  I have not listened to the tapes.  Maybe if I had, I would be in more of a position to express an opinion, but please don't mistake me for doing so already because I'm not.  But even if I did, and I was repulsed by whatever statements I heard, I don't know for sure if it would be enough to pass judgment.  Everyone has moments of lost temper.  There have been threads where you have lost your temper and slung vitriol (sometimes under a different alias).  In this very thread, I briefly lost my own temper.  (Not to mention that in closed company, people often say politically incorrect or otherwise offensive statements.)  The point is, neither of us (I hope) are defined by it.  But again let me state that this is not me vindicating Mel Gibson of anything.  Like everything else I've said in this thread, it is intended to be a generalized statement intended for reflection, not necessarily a defense of Mel Gibson, a subject of which I've already admitted little real knowledge of.

Don't worry.  You never had a problem being a dick before. ^_~

And if you did, I'd offer to lend mine, but I think you just broke it, you bastard. >=(

Ooh, ooh, I'm not allowed to name a new topic, so somebody please say this thread is about the Gilmore Girls!!!

I believe you might have done irreversible damage this time, Frink...

In other news, Darth Solo is no longer ignoring me.  What about you?

I agree with pretty much all you say in this post.  What caused me to lose my temper was that I was beginning to get the impression you were continually implying that I was in favor of all the things you are currently speaking out against when I never said anything to indicate that.  So let me just make myself perfectly clear.

First off, I didn't even mean to get involved in this thread in the first place.  In general, I agree with C3PX's paraphrasing of the Firefly quote that everyone is some kind of son of a bitch.  Everybody's going to say or do things they're not proud of, but most people have the good fortune to not have their poor judgment exposed and analyzed on an international level.  So I have no idea about Mel Gibson.  I admit I didn't listen to the tapes or keep up because, honestly, I don't care.  I honestly care more about the general actions he may or may not have committed than what he specifically did.

I long ago stated that I miswrote what I intended earlier in positing the question if violence against what is essentially a thief could be considered justifiable, not that it was.  So, without futher ado, here is what I think.  Legally and rationally speaking, you're right, a person shouldn't "take the law into their own hands" and physically punish someone.  But I have to admit, if I heard that a known manipulator and swindler was caught by someone he/she had swindled and received a massive beatdown in response, I would have absolutely no sympathy, shrug, and say, "Well, that person got what he/she deserved."

Oh, for God's sake, fuck it!  I was just bringing up the issue for the purpose of debate!

And all I know is I never wrote a single word in regards to that.  I suppose we can move on now.

Aaand, I believe I said I was speaking in a general sense, not the specific circumstances of Mel Gibson (which I'm not even fully up to date on).

Well, I suppose I should have said "could be justifiable" as I'm not a big condoner of violence either.

Look, I'm not saying whether Mel Gibson is crazy or not.  I honestly don't know enough about him to make that kind of a decision.  But in a general sense you don't think violence is justifiable against someone who's attempting to rob you blind?