SilverWook

The way some people drive in the U.S., adapting to the U.K. won’t be a problem. 😉

Possessed said:

I never thought he was being racist, just gross for the sake of it.

I mean hey if you want to post pictures of cats fucking each other you could at least put it in double quotes so people have the option of not seeing it.

Did you see the sentence under that photo? That’s what was the problem here.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Possessed said:

What the fuck

Just my own way of saying racial differences are only superficial and anyone who’d consider interracial admixture wrong/evil/bestiality/etc. are bigoted dumbshits who don’t deserve to breed.

You could have been a little less cryptic. With the foot in mouth bug that’s been going around here lately, you could have gotten a temp ban.

The best part of the theatrical is seeing all that unused footage from The Shining. 😉

TV’s Frink said:

I think you’ve confused Muppets with puppets.

And a Star Wars puppet making an appearance on The Muppets doesn’t count!

So did Clerks. 😉

And when did Yoda do the Muppet Show?

Apparently this is a real product.
https://youtu.be/i9qv8RSreIM

nhoj3 said:

ray_afraid said:

I agree, but this set in during the carbon freezing scene in Empire. 3PO suddenly becomes the voice that tells the idiots in the audience what’s going on and that trait follows him to Jedi.

SilverWook said:

It’s plot exposition. It has to go somewhere.

With respect, it’s bad plot exposition when it breaks the “show, don’t tell” rule of writing.

IMHO his exposition in ESB is forgivable as the audience is obviously completely unfamiliar with the potential outcomes of carbon freezing a human being. Having Threepio inform the audience is beneficial, and the way it was written was handled quite deftly.

Oh, they’ve encased him in carbonite. He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is.

Yes he comments directly on what’s happening on screen, but the primary comment is on the technical result of the process, with Han’s well-being a secondary thought. Exposition is delivered in an organic way with a dash of humour.

However in ROTJ it’s just amateur writing. The DarthRush edit trims this dialogue and the movie is better for it.

It’s a joke. Somebody never saw The Great Muppet Caper. 😛

I would hope both versions are on the eventual home video release. And the Tom Baker links from the old VHS.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4487111/tom-baker-playing-doctor-who-return/
I sometimes think Tom Baker really is a time lord. He looks better here than in the 50th special!

Am I going it alone on the Halloween avatar thing this month?

Bagging on someone who’s been away a long time is as fair as bagging on someone who’s banned and can’t respond. Let’s refrain, okay?

Well, if you find such a post, link me to it so I can look at the code. 😃

That’s what I had to do to help keep Warb’s sig image within limits.

It couldn’t hurt to ask Jay if it’s possible though.

Warbler said:

So does anyone know how to post pics side by side?

I don’t think there’s any way to do it. It would probably break the page formatting and everyone would kvetch about having to side scroll anyway.

Ferris was always civil, wasn’t he?

THX is going to be on Turner Classic Movies on Oct. 26th at 9:15pm PST. Probably the buggered version again, but maybe someone could DVR it just in case?

I’ve been hearing video games are bad for kids since I was a kid. The first video game to cause controversy came out in 1976.
https://kotaku.com/5889166/death-race-the-first-scandalous-video-game

And decades before Pong, pinball machines were demonized.
http://www.history.com/news/that-time-america-outlawed-pinball

yhwx said:

In other news, the president continues to be an ass.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/us/puerto-rico-trump-hurricane.html

WASHINGTON — President Trump ventured on Tuesday to a storm-ravaged American island territory where residents have felt neglected by their government, telling local officials that they should be proud that, so far, only 16 people are known to have died in Hurricane Maria.

“Sixteen versus in the thousands,” Mr. Trump said, comparing the storm’s certified death toll to the 1,833 killed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. “You can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. Sixteen versus literally thousands of people. You can be very proud.”

It was a well-worn routine for a president on his fourth visit to a disaster zone in two months: a pep rally-like briefing with officials in an aircraft hangar, a quick drive past twisted houses and uprooted trees and a brief, friendly encounter with victims of the destruction.

And like his earlier travels, it had its peculiar moments: He also gently tossed rolls of paper towels into a crowd that gathered to see him at Calvary Chapel, outside the island’s capital, San Juan.

This time, however, Mr. Trump flew into a different kind of turbulence. Over the weekend, the president lashed out at the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, after she complained that the federal response in Puerto Rico had fallen short of the responses in Texas and Florida. She was not mollified after meeting him.

“The first part of the meeting was a public-relations situation,” Ms. Cruz said in an interview with CNN about the briefing she attended with the president. While she said the White House staff was helpful and receptive, Mr. Trump’s communications style sometimes “gets in the way.”

“I would hope that the president of the United States stops spouting out comments that really hurt the people of Puerto Rico,” she said, “because, rather than commander in chief, he sort of becomes miscommunicator in chief.”

And the official death toll has gone up since this evening.

Surprised he didn’t bring one of those T shirt cannons.

Welcome back, Warb!

YodaFan67 said:

SilverWook said:

I can only think of one or two from the 80’s versus how many we’ve had in the space of two years?

I see your point but with all due respect I feel that you are missing the underlying issue. Gun violence has gone down in recent years. That is a fact.

These mass shootings are committed by people with major mental issues. Adam Lanza spent his time locked in his room on deep web boards talking about school shootings. The VA tech guy had become obsessed with violent porn and violent video games, even going so far as to buy armour so he could dress up like the killers in the games he played. The Orlando guy was a radicalized Muslim who was also apparently quite confused about his sexuality (which was in obvious contradiction with his extremist beliefs). This guy we don’t know much about yet, but it seems he was likely an obsessive gambler, and his father apparently had run-ins with the FBI. Mental health is what causes these atrocities to be committed.

This is just my opinion, but I think the fact that these shootings have become so common is evidence of how sick our culture has become. The deep web is littered with horrible child abuse and torture videos. Person-to-person interaction is decreasing daily. Social Media leads people further into loneliness. The first world is safer and richer than it’s ever been, and yet people seem paranoid of ISIS, global warming, illegal aliens, etc. Granted these things are problems, but nothing to loose sleep over.

Can we change this? I don’t think so. I actually think we’ve entered a state where life is too easy, so easy in fact that it messes with our natural instincts. The hardest things in our lives are traffic on the way home, not having enough money to upgrade to a 4KTV, etc.

Yet for some reason politics is more desperate than it’s ever been. Socialism, the altright, and various fringe groups are gaining popularity. They all have in common a sense of paranoia about our mostly uneventful western world.

It seems there are no heroes anymore that we can all rally behind…but perhaps that is because there are no more villains?

The selfless actions of people in that crowd that awful night tells me our culture isn’t as sick as you think it is.

It’s plot exposition. It has to go somewhere.

I can only think of one or two from the 80’s versus how many we’ve had in the space of two years?

What was the state of the art in firearms when the second amendment was written? A musket?

But did he bring the golf trophy with him? And are paper towels what people need most right now?