Leonardo

Let's face it, the AT-ST was an inside job. The Empire did it!

The outside of the AT-ST was coated with THERMITE PAINT!!

Well if Wile E. Coyote can do the same thing and 6 more traps in a 7 minute cartoon...

and for once, everyone agrees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RP1w1s-JcQ

When "Her" came out two years ago I was reminded of "Electric Dreams". I haven't seen the movie, but the synopsis strongly reminds me of that.

Now I see on Youtube a trailer for "Chappie". It's "Short Circuit"!! It almost looks like a parody trailer one would make after seeing the new Robocop.

Welcome to the forum. :)

Bingo posted it 2 pages ago.

- You think he means us?

- Nonsense. I haven't seen peanuts up here since Gonzo stole them all for that dumb elephant number.

- Elephant number?? How'd that go?

- A flop. That clown's always been irrelephant.

Frink is concerned with the fact that Dayv's old website seems to have changed a huge deal since he (or I for that matter) last visited it.

I'm ashamed of you guys. Two replies and not one of you said

"Yes, Satan?"

Do I replace the nose?

I've been playing the shit out of Spelunky (the freeware version) lately.

Actually, I spend so much time on it, it's making me realize even more how much of a no-life-having lazy piece of shit I am. I wake up hours after any sane person would wake up, everyone else is out there doing stuff and I lie there like a lump. The rest of the day I only leave the room to eat or go to the loo. I spend my filthy life staring at a screen.

It's the end of January already? 2015???

Oh, sorry, I went on a tangent there. I've also been playing Pinball Dreams 2 and Quake 1.

I agree.

This is also a very interesting resource:

http://www.imcdb.org/

Goddammit!

Can we inhale it?

I fixed the typo, thank you. I don't know how that got past me.

I will watch Fawlty Towers as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, to get back on topic, I have been watching Taxi. I'm up to episode 15. It's astonishingly good.

You look spiffy.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Well here is the thing when that brand of humor works in other thing the person being rude is the butt of the jokes and the joke is that the person thinks so highly of himself when really he is just a jerk and everyone knows it.

You just described David Brent. The difference in Gervais' spin on it, is that Brent as a character is such a believable slice of human life (the world is full of people just like him, I know many of them) and once you get to know the character he becomes pathetic and almost sympathetic.

Look at shows like Fawlty Towers or Blackadder for how I like seeing this sort of thing done, he seems to just insult people and the joke doesn't go any farther then that and je seems to really think that highly of himself in real life.

I can only speak for Blackadder, I haven't watched Fawlty Towers yet. Edmund Blackadder is a  bad guy, but we're supposed to root for him because he's intelligent and witty. He's kind of a more sophisticated version of Dick Dastardly. When you watched Wacky Racers you never cared for the other cars to win, you wanted to see Dick win, but all of his plans backfired on him and that's what made him sympathetic.

David Brent, IMHO, is another kind of character. While Blackadder and Dastardly are fiction characters written primarily to be anti-heroes, Brent is an everyman, and again, I could go down the street and find you another David Brent, while there's no way you could find a Blackadder anywhere out there.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Oh and Ricky Gervais being rude to and bullying anyone who isn't him and calling anyone who isn't an upper class British person like him an idiot, colour me surprised.

Ricky and Karl are friends in real life, but he calls him an idiot for the sake of comedy.

Has it seriously never happened to you to call one of your friends a dumb fuck when he didn't understand something?

And Karl really is a simple-minded man.

And Ricky isn't upper class, if you're talking about his roots. His father was a labourer and a hod carrier. Gervais grew up in a working-class family and lived in an estate. (wikipedia).

Seriously I do not get why this guy is so popular, his humor is nothing more then running up to people and being rude to them and then following it with an awkward pause.  The American version of the office may have gone on for way too long and become a soap opera but at least I could sit through an episode and I didn't get the feeling that the makers hated everyone one the planet and would like nothing better then to watch me and everyone get torn limb from limb by rabid rats.  Seriously I do not understand how a guy who seems to hate everyone can be the most popular person on the planet at the moment, every time i see his smug hate filled face I just want to punch it.

You don't seem to understand the difference between a comedic persona and a real life individual. I guess maybe this particular brand of humour is just not for you.

I wish I had an idea for a story. :(

There's also this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhVcWk-WH8

Most versions I've seen look like this one

(it's on Archive.org so I reckon it's alright. If not feel free to delete it)

http://archive.org/details/1979StarWarsDrunkDrivingPSA

They probably originate from that.

While this one on youtube looks fairly decent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JQid50UNE

For one thing, the colors are correct and the speed is finally right.

Jedit: although upon further inspection, the blown out copy looks like it has more stars.