TheBoost

WhatsMyName said:

i disagree. Maul was badass! He wasn't whiny like Vader. This guy was pure evil and power driven.

 

Darth Maul was nothing.

He's quiet. He looked cool.  End of line.

He had no character of note. He has no personality. He did not have 'potential' he was not a 'wasted oppurtunity'

He's hardly a character. He's a plot device. Same with Boba Fett. Same with Greivous in the Clone Wars flash-cartoons (and everyone loved him too).

Any of them could have been replaced with any other character with a cool design who said nothing. Darth Maul or Boba could have been repalced wholesale with The Terminator, a Predator, the clockwork Nazi from Hellboy, Jason Vorhees, or Rinzler from Tron 2.

And these aren't FAULTS. But a plot device can't be compared to a character. Vader, even in ANH, had more personality, backstory, and story arc. Maul has none of these things, and isn't intended to.

Bingowings said:

I haven't had bacon for almost a quarter of a century, the weird thing was I rather liked it back then but now the smell of the stuff makes me feel ill.

 IF YOU SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLALALALALLL THE BACON BINGO IS COOKIN!!

Sluggo said:

This thread is about:

Defectively made clothing!

 Seriously. Is that a hoodie made for really really large nursing mothers?

Giant Nursing Mothers might be a good topic, now that I think of it!

Warbler said:

TheBoost said:

 

Raising livestock uses tens to hundreds of times more water, energy, spacem and fuel compared to raising foodcrops.

But damn I love me a roast beef.

what is spacem?

 It's what happens when you cross the space needed to raise livestock with a spaceman.

You know who woud make a great Jedi?

I lack the strength of character or the pallete to be a vegetarian, but have often wondered if it would be a moral choice- not based on the sanctity of animal life, but based on the human population and the appropriate use of natural resources.

Raising livestock uses tens to hundreds of times more water, energy, spacem and fuel compared to raising foodcrops.

But damn I love me a roast beef.

Maybe not my FAVORITE, but I sure enjoyed

and also

Warbler said:

those that hunt might question the logic of those that complain about those hunt and yet have not problem eating meat.

I'll give you that.

I often wonder, if I had to kill it to eat, would I be able to? I've killed chickens, ducks, and fish (ate them all) but I don't know if I could kill a cow. Their eyes are so big. Perhaps morally I should not eat beef.

TV's Frink said:

I don't mean to say that I don't think an embryo has value.  I just hate when people say "life begins at conception" as a blanket statement and that the destruction of any embryo is murder.

 I don't beleive that. I just think that human life, unique in all the universe, is worth more than animals, even potential human life.

And to reiterate, I'm pro-choice and love animals.

TV's Frink said:

TheBoost said:

TV's Frink said:

Life of deer to human embryo.

I'd kill a deer before an embryo.

I'd torture a dolphin to death to save a fetus.

And I'm pro-choice. I just think any human life, or potential human life, is worth more than an animal.

Any animal?  What about a dog?  What about your dog (assuming you have one)?

Why is a human embryo worth more than an animal?  What about an embryo that is not viable?

 If it was kill my dog or a pregnant woman miscarries? Goodbye April. (that's my dog).

Nonviable as in not ready to be born, or nonviable as in will never be able to survive birth (as in that article you posted)?

Frink hate The Rock.

TV's Frink said:

Life of deer to human embryo.

I'd kill a deer before an embryo.

I'd torture a dolphin to death to save a fetus.

And I'm pro-choice. I just think any human life, or potential human life, is worth more than an animal.

Warbler said:

no, it makes perfect sense for this thread.  The thread title is "If you need to B*tch about something. . . this is the place"  Frink has something to b*tch about: The Rock.   He do so.   It is perfectly on topic for this thread.

 It's just that it doesn't make sense. Sick of the Rock? Does not compute.

TV's Frink said:

I'm really sick of The Rock.

 Did you mean to post that on the Bizarro thread? Because it doesn't make sense otherwise.

Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

She was raped.  And equating an embryo to an even partially developed fetus makes no sense to me.

it may make no sense to you, but to some life begins immediately when sperm cell fertilizes the egg cell. 

TheBoost said:

 The EC "Morning After" pill prevents a potentially fertilized egg from even implanting on the uterus.

exactly, AFTER the egg has been fertilized.   AFTER, in the opinion of many people, life has begun.

 I wasn't offering an opinion. Just a clarification on what an EC pill does.

It seems to me there are lots of branches of medicine one can get into that wouldn't clash with someones Christian beleifs. An anathesiaologist or optomologist would never have to feel these terrible conflicts.

If a medical student puts a great deal of time and effort in specializing in reproductive medicine or gynocology, and has religious views that will interfere with a large portion of their job, I can't shake the feeling they must get a nice little righteous tingle everytime they get to use their power to put one of these fallen women in their place.

I really hated the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

I just sucked on so many levels.

ChainsawAsh said:

  Avoid the Keanu version at all costs.

 This

Murry Sparkles said:

The Expendables, i actually thought it was a very good action movie. Doesnt make any sense but its worth watching.

I loved it cuz it was a live action "R" rated GI Joe Cartoon.

• Good Leader: Duke/Stallone
• Evil Businessman Baddie: Destro/Eric Roberts
• Mad Meglomaniac Baddie: Cobra Commander/David Zayas
• (and the baddies don't like eachother)
• Merry Group of wierdos: GI Joe/The Expendables
• Good Guy who exists just to fight the other guy like him; Snake Eyes/Randy Couture
• Bad Guy who exists just to fight the other guy like him: Stormshadow/Stone Cold

TV's Frink said:

Warbler said:

  If you truly believed that the fetus from conception on was a human life equal to that of any other human already out of the womb, with just as much right live,  would you not think that the morning after pill is murder?   Would you possibly assist with something you believed to be murder?   I am assuming in all of this that what this morning after pill does is kill the embryo 

And equating an embryo to an even partially developed fetus makes no sense to me.

 The EC "Morning After" pill prevents a potentially fertilized egg from even implanting on the uterus.

Aladin.

Never liked this movie. Given the abject crime, poverty, and injustice of her realm, its hard to sympathize with the poor little princess who doesn't want to marry to keep the peace.

Warbler said:

TheBoost said:

Yeah Warb, but that's ENGLAND. They still have a king, and have to pay taxes on tea.

um, at the moment they have Queen and if I am not mistaken, the Queen is only a figurehead.   The real power in England rests with the ELECTED Parliament.

 That's just what King George wants you to think. You sound like a torrie!

TheBoost said:

 I believe there are extensive rules about under what conditions a doctor can refuse to see a patient. Much of it falls under the same laws that dictate that a restaurant owner can't keep all the colored folk out.

 My understanding was wrong. Apparently a doctor can use his power to enforce his religious morallity on others.

As long as the other is a woman.

I doubt a Jehovah's Witness doctor would be allowed to refuse to perform a blood transfusion (against his religion).

TV's Frink said:

Slippery slope argument.  I don't buy it.

And they already decide, don't they?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19190916/

 What a bunch of a******s.

Warbler said:

well, I guess I'll never be visiting the UK,  I'm not going to risk dying there cause I can't get medical treatment if needed.  

Do everyone now see where refusing to treat unvaccinated kids can lead?   Do we really want doctors and hospitals deciding that there are certain groups of people that should be refused treatment?

Yeah Warb, but that's ENGLAND. They still have a king, and have to pay taxes on tea.

adywan said:

One thing that makes me sick with some parents now is that they will have "sickness parties". If one child gets chicken pox (yes i know this isn't part of the vaccinations unless its changed since my children were young), measles, mumps etc these parents  will gather all their children together and have these so called parties in the hope that all their children will also get whichever illness the one child has so they can get it earlier in life, instead of getting any of the vaccinations. Now this has become acceptable without any regard for the safety of their children or anyone elses.

 I'm not sure these are new. My mom took my to these when I was little, since chicken pox is so much less dangerous when you're young. I have a friend whose wife was hospitalized from adult chicken pox. Before the chickenpox vaccine was developed, these parties seem to have made a lot of sense.

I think the chicken pox vaccine only dates from the late 90s (I could be wrong). The MMR vaccine predates that a lot, so I can't imagine why people would have a 'party' for mumps or measles.