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I caught all the Star Wars references because I am a big geek.
And of course I have cats. Sophie and Mose. Sophie is twelve so she won't be very good in a cage match but Mose is 15 pounds and has all his claws so he's up for it. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._4250621_n.jpg I want a dog when I'm in a house and not an apartment. |
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You're one of the most respected/anticipated posters on the Weird Pics from the Internet v2.1 thread. You know the Sith. Oh, I'm wrong? Would Blitzgal ever approve something without at least googling it? You're showing your hand Darth Maulrina. |
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/...2f44b4901d.jpg And she mostly cares about sleeping: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/...f368eb0023.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/...2bc06b97f1.jpg But she's fast: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/...ee03120507.jpg And vicious: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/...f95cd1f469.jpg Also incredibly soft. I wanted a dog too. I still want a dog. Dr. BF and I are also planning on getting a dog as soon as we move into a house. |
Mose is totally gonna win.
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Oh girls. You act all badass and then post pics of your KITTENS?
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Aw, c'mon, you guys aren't all gobsmacked about remembering we could double quote are ya? I'm gonna start walking away, maybe light a cigarette. Take a puff. Aaaah, Junkenstein. Just one more thing. (I'm holding my cigarette to the side of my forehead, also, one of my eyes seems to be made of glass and is askew.) You ahhh, seemed to have a pretty good knowledge of the works of Harrison Ford in the Science Fiction Milieu, yet have no knowledge of Star Wars? Bahh, What...eeeeh, were you doing in 1976? Anyway, you and Brian either own lightsabers or don't--but because they aren't 'real' enough. Long/Short little jealous that you two and Marina (at least) have a Star Wars club and I never even got to be a page. Fine Padu Pada Pade. Fine, I'm gonna go put on a red shirt and join that other It's a trap. Khan! |
Let me say it once and spell it out:
I. HATE. STAR WARS: I've seen them all because they look pretty when you're high or you'rea kid (much like avatar). But i found them all retarded, juvenile and badly done. they're like the special ed kid of pop culture. People smile and know 'em but genrally know they're an abomination. And, yeah Star Trek's even worse. It's the gay special ed kid. |
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I'm gonna cry a little, but I will shoot first. (because I was born in America, duh.) |
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My nostalgia for the original trilogy is definitely from childhood. The acting is beyond hammy, the special effects aren't great, and Lucas cannot write a romance or decent dialogue to save his life. But did I squee like a little girl in the last moments of the last film when that helmet gets lowered towards the camera and we see from Vader's perspective? Why yes, yes I did. Keith, due to "popular demand" KFC is extending the sale of the Double Down through the rest of the summer. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. |
I dont hate the first one, i have two reviews for it:
Me at age 5, looking STar Wars on the "Big TV" of the house. I sit on my mother knees and use two pens to shoot and go pew pew when the x wings. My father groan this is BULLSHIT. But i like the starships, R2D2, Chewbacca. i fall asleep dreaming Me at age 20: Jesus fuckin christ what a borefest, gimmie The Matrix. That's a good movie. Me now: Well, it defnitely looks good and it has some great moments that look great but on the whole the cheesiness is more than the coolness. But if i could catch a BR copy of the empire strikes back... Hmmm Why Not. |
I didn't see Star Wars as a kid, when I saw it later (17+ or so), I didn't really care for it. And the starwards nerds ruin whatever appeal it might have to me as a nerd.
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I don't like Star Wars, against type. Lucas was a great technician at some point but he lost it and he was never a good filmmaker.
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No way, I can't agree with that. The original Star Wars, Episode 4, whatever you want to call it was a ground breaking movie. Admittedly, it may not stand up for a modern audience as things have moved on but I feel we have to respect Lucas for creating a whole genre of cinema. Also, Raiders is a good movie I think and that one does hold up. BTW, sorry for jumping ship on you back there Standardman. |
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Raiders is great but Lucas didn't direct it. Don't worry about it, I wasn't expecting or after any support from the show/community and it doesn't really matter what people who don't know me or Maddie think of myself and Maddie. Just needed to actually talk to Maddie and try and make things more...cordial. It was a little drastic but it kind of needed to be. |
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Nah, I'm kidding. I added you to my sig, though, for the sake of posterity. You make me laugh, sir, thank you. *edited to add: That poem seemed dumb, then I read your explanation, and now I think it's hilarious. Quote:
Just curious, how did you feel about the new Star Trek? I always loved the Shat, but never cared for the rest, the new JJ Abrahms Star Trek, though, I admit to liking quite a bit. |
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I hope you didn't think that I was criticizing you over the thing with Maddie. My intention was certainly not to make you feel bad. I was trying to be supportive, believe it or not. At the risk of poking my nose in where it's not wanted. My advice is to just give it some time. |
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I'm not going to talk about me and Maddie too much but we're trying being twitter friends. |
As for the new Star Trek, Abrams basically remade Star Wars. It was ok but i'm not a fan of the man.
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A sci-fi conversation without me?
The Star Wars movies blow, hard. Tried to get my roommate to watch one last night and she couldn't stay awake. I found it fairly boring as well, and wouldn't have watched it if it was not for her having never seen a single one. The Star Wars games and cartoon, aces 10. Dialogue that makes sense helps a ton I think. Star Trek is high brow Star Wars, much more tolerable writing. On the flip side their games and cartoons are fairly awful, and quite a few of the series blew as well; Voyager, Enterprise. The new Trek movie is devoid of anything that was Star Trek. I enjoyed it, but it was enjoyable as a movie and not as Star Trek. |
I find it funny that you can "donate" plasma for money. I give blood and have given plasma a few times but they only payment is some cookies, crackers, cheese, chocolate bar and a cuppa tea. I'm guessing the donation rate is so low that they need to entice people with money to sell their plasma.
When I got plasma done the nurse told me the exact same thing about the plasma being milky white after eating shite like KFC. That really turned me off that shit. She also said that alcohol gives you super powers so that is why I still drink. |
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Maybe 10 years ago you could, but it's gone now, or on it's way out the door. |
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I gave plasma once, after years of regular whole blood donation. It was gross and populated by homeless people, and Jimmy had to remove his pants during his preliminary medical exam, something the rest of us who went did not have to do. The whole thing seemed shady, nevermind the blood machines being reused with no apparent internal cleaning between donations. I'm 100% positive it was all on the up and up, but my spoiled ass would prefer to see disposable equipment. So I never donated again. Also, the time it takes to donate, including waiting room time, you wind up making like $7 an hour. |
Donating plasma is very regulated in Italy. We never got money out of it. Also, much less people can do it lately, since your health is severely checked out before every donation.
I used to be a frequent donor, not out of generesity, mostly because it helped me feel physiclly refreshed, i dont know if there is a scientific explanation for it. Then i started drinking heavily and using drugs (legal and illegal) so i was put on a sort of blacklist. My father had the same problem, because of the drinking. But no one ever got a dime out of it. And it's weird in a country where pčeople would sell their children's organs for a few bucks (actual news, no joke). |
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It's the same in Australia. You don't get paid for donating anything - sort of why it's a DONATION. e.g. in the US you can get paid as a sperm donor and as a plasma donor. A friend of mine basically paid his rent at college donating plasma and sperm. In Australia you can't be paid for that stuff. And even if you want to donate it there's a super enormous questionnaire to complete. Like obviously I don't know what the sperm questionnaire is like, but the plasma and blood one includes everything from have you taken any paracetamol in the last two weeks to when was the last time you ate semi-sundried tomatoes from a deli (not in a jar) |
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The NEW ones suck balls. Majorly. But the old ones are brilliant. Maybe I'm unduly sentimental because I grew up with them. But there was nothing like them and there's been nothing like them since in terms of story and cinematography and yada yada yada. I think there's a special magic in the old ones just for the scale of them. With the new ones, all the crowds are CGI. All the landscapes are computer and it just doesn't feel real. Give me a tall dude in a furry suit any day rather than a character honed for years by computer engineers. |
Are you sure that the special magic isnyt made up because you were young and gullible when you saw them?
Yes, they were nice and ahead of the times for the FX. But the whole thing is quite sad oif you watch them with a cool head. "Empire..." is the only one of all six that really stands. The first one is slow, badly put together and only Harrison Ford is a really cool character in it. Even Darth Vader is more cool in thory than in practice. He's a very generic sum of any bad guy from comic books but with a nice outfit. The rest is basically a msh mash of different things: LOTR (the books), swordfighting movies, action stuff from the golden age, war movies from the 30's (Just put the nazis instead of the empire and you have it), a bit of new age philosophy and a loooooooooot of comic books. It's pleasant stuff, but as movies (again, excluding Empire...) they're very mediocre. Mostly because Lucas is one of the most mediocre movie people on the planet. |
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The heroic quest long predates Tolkien. This isn't to discount your point, just to add that you can't even tie it back to LOTR -- even Tolkien was ripping off some major fictional tropes with his work. |
why is it always star wars vs star trek. what about us poor star gate fans. (battlestar galactica dosnt count cos the stars in the middle.)
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If i have to go for star, i'll go for Starship Troopers. At least i had fun watching that. |
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The movie looked like Emmerich was trying to do a BIG SPACE EPIC but ended up mostly using stuff already overused.
The series had a better cast, but was still no Battlestar (which BTW, after the first 2 seasons became interesting as watching paint dry) |
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That doesn't sell me too much. I've watched all of Lost but now it's mostly because I feel obligated to know what the fuck is going on. It meandered so pointlessly through the middle seasons that it never really got me back on board even when they started trying harder in the last season. And now that it looks like it's all boiling down to your basic good vs evil crapfest I feel like I should've just re-read Good Omens instead, because at least that was funny. I have a similar "disease" that Keith does, but for me it's having to watch all sci fi knowing that the majority of it is badly written hackery that is sheer torture to watch. |
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Agreed! Another series that started so strong and then completely fell off the cliff. Way too much filler side-plot shit for a series that has shorter seasons and so should not have to rely on filler like the 22 episode network series all seem to. |
Ah, I still like the original Star Wars movie. Yeah, some of it is seeing it when I was a kid. But it's so...self contained. I can still watch it. I can actually watch all of them, sometimes shaking my head in disgust.
I think at one point Natalie Portman could act, but it seems like working with Lucas ruined her. I mean, holy crap he can write some horrible dialogue. Which is why Obi Wan, all movies, is such a surprise. Maybe it was just two great actors pulling it off, but I think that's one underrated motherfucker. I think he was 3 steps ahead of Yoda, but didn't want the old dude to look silly. I like the Trek too, can get into some of the Gate. Didn't have the ability to watch the Battle, but for all time Sci Fi bad acting space opera cheese, nothing beats Babylon 5. Holy God I watched it all, cos I needed a sci fi fix and had too much time on my hands. Side Noting: Yes, Tolkein lifted much from the Norse Prose and Poetic Eddas, right down to just about every dwarf name and Gandalf, the wand elf. |
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