Last thing you Watched/Read.

[Skul]

I'm waaaiiitiiin'...

(Cookie to anyone who gets the reference. )

[Fat Man]

Hey Polite24 we are all waiting!!!

Everybody here on this forum, we are ALL still waiting!

I'm still waiting!

My bunny is still waiting!



STILL WAITING! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

STILL WAITING! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

STILL WAITING! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

You really don't wanna get him pissed off! He'll clobber you with his drum sticks!

And my four little dancing fat men are still waiting!

[Earl]

I'm waaaiiitiiin'...

(Cookie to anyone who gets the reference. )

It's Sonic the Hedgehog in the cartoon series (the funny Sonic show, as opposed to the serious ones) on TV addressing Dr. Robotnik and/or Scratch and Grounder when they're trying to get him; right?

[Skul]

Yep! You get a coo... damn it!



Sorry, Earl, your cookie got eaten...

Ah, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (or AoStH). Long John Baldry did an excellent job of Dr. RRRobotnik. He died on July 21st, 2005.

R.I.P.
(Rest In Pingas)

And yes, the last thing I watched was AoStH. What? It's one of my childhood cartoons. You got a problem with that? I've got the first two DVDs; just waiting for them to bring Season 3 out. Until then, I've had to, er... torrent the last few episodes. *ahem* Shhh...

[Lewis]

Angels and Demons (DVD)

[Earl]

Yep! You get a coo... damn it!



Sorry, Earl, your cookie got eaten...

That's okay. Besides, what I really want is a chili dog instead.

[abitagirl]

That's okay. Besides, what I really want is a chili dog instead.

Ask and ye shall receive.





Oh wait, you said chili dog? I thought you said CHILLY DOG! Ha ha ha ha ha!

*runs away from Earl*

[Fat Man]

That's okay. Besides, what I really want is a chili dog instead.

Ask and ye shall receive.





Oh wait, you said chili dog? I thought you said CHILLY DOG! Ha ha ha ha ha!

*runs away from Earl*

I would like a hot dog!

Kosher all beef of course.

[Fat Man]

OK MR POLITE24!!!

I'm still waiting for your opinion on my book review of the science fiction novel NOAH II.

It was Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:10 am on page 9 of this topic.

Back on page 10 you promised . . . . .

Fat Man I'm going to get to your post

which was Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:33 pm.

And now, we're on page 11 of the topic.

So, I have to assume that you are not going to read my book review of the science fiction novel NOAH II by Roger Dixon.

You're afraid that you're going to see yourself in that novel, that if you were living in the future age a thousand years from now, you would be one among all the shallow and decadent pleasure seeking mindless hoards of people in the communities who sat back and did nothing while the machines provided for their every comfort and pleasure, the people who forgot how to think for themselves. You remind me so much of them, with your single minded interest in SPORTS ONLY!

I saw myself in the novel. The character, young Preston as a kid who's biggest pleasure was reading books, the ancient text books on science and books on how people use to live before the machines did everything for them, including their thinking. Young Preston as a kid was bullied around and another kid took a book away from him and chucked it into the swimming pool. I saw myself in Preston as a kid.

But I can see now, that you have no intention of going back to page 9 to read my book review on NOAH II, and that you will have no opinion on it, simply because you do not care.

ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS SPORTS!

Like, DUH, I love football! DUH, I love basketball. DUH! I love hockey! DUH! HUH! HUH! HUH!

I don't know, but I think your parents must have taken a head-first dive in the shallow end of the gene pool before they had you!

I'm really disappointed.

Actually, I'm not disappointed. This is exactly what I expected from you!

Thank you very much for the confirmation.

Good day sir.

[Katrin]

Yeah, I asked him to recommend me some 1980s rap songs and he never gave me them. I get the feeling our friend Polite27 is not a very reliable individual...

[blackdog4444]

Yea he's about as reliable as my sanity.

OMG "THE PUNISHER" IS STILL AN AWESOME MOVIE!.... "Sin City" was too Las Vegas style for me.

[Sergey]

I'm watching Chaos Rising info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM7rZDyaYa4


All I can say is... I WANT IT IN FEBRUARY!

[Polite24]

Yeah, I asked him to recommend me some 1980s rap songs and he never gave me them. I get the feeling our friend Polite27 is not a very reliable individual...

Look up RUN DMC or Wu-Tang Clan. To be honest 80's rap really isn't my style since i was born in 91, and the 80's was when rap was in it's infancy.

and Fat Man, I read your book review and it did look like a very interesting book and one I'd actually consider reading. Could something like that happen in the future? It's an interesting question, as I was just thinking the other day how almost everything these days is automated and so much communication is on the computer instead of in real life, preventing people from developing true social skills. Maybe it's because I didn't live then but nothing seems as lively as it used to be.

[Fat Man]

Fat Man, I read your book review and it did look like a very interesting book and one I'd actually consider reading. Could something like that happen in the future? It's an interesting question, as I was just thinking the other day how almost everything these days is automated and so much communication is on the computer instead of in real life, preventing people from developing true social skills. Maybe it's because I didn't live then but nothing seems as lively as it used to be.

Thank you!

Now we're getting somewhere!

You ask, if something like that could really happen in the future.

Well, if your question is in reference to the level of decadence and shallow-mindedness of people in that future society a thousand years from now, yes, I believe that it could happen, just as depicted in the science fiction novel, NOAH II.

In fact, it's beginning to happen now.

I'm guessing that you're about 18 or 19 years old right now.

When I was that age, I was very intensely aware of the political climate of the times, back in the 1960s and 1970s. When I turned 18, I was afraid that I might get drafted and have to fight in Viet Nam. Back then, an 18 year old did not have the right to vote, but we could get drafted. Another words, 18 was that awkward age. Old enough to kill or die, but not old enough to vote.

My generation, we took to the streets protesting against our involvement in Viet Nam, and we protested to have the voting age lowered from 21 to 18 because we felt that if we were old enough to get drafted and get killed fighting in some stupid war, we should be considered old enough to vote.

By the time an 18 year old was finally allowed to vote, I was 20 years old, so I never got a chance to vote at 18, even though I was among those fighting for our right to vote.

So, my generation, we were very much involved in political issues. Many of us didn't didn't care about sports. We only cared about political issues. We stood up against racism, we protested the war, and many of my generation got clubbed over the head with billy-clubs by the police, so we had to protest against police brutality.

Back in the early 1970s on Kent State Campus, collage students protesting against the war were shot by police, and some even died while protesting the war.

Of course, back then, all the sports fans were safe, and the jocks were allowed to run rough-shod all over the schools and bully the other students around, and if you were a sports fan or a jock, you were considered a patriot, and if you didn't like sports, you were called a Commie!

Back then, we didn't have home computers or PCs. Only the Government, some businesses, the military, and NASA had computers, but in 1972 the first pocket calculators came out, and electronic digital watches. Back then, a computer was rows of large cabinets with circuit boards inside with transistors, resisters, diodes, and capacitors mounted on them, and the cabinets had multi-colored lights flashing, and reel-to-reel memory tapes on them. A typical computer back then would fill and entire room.

And rap was not music. To rap simply meant having a discussion, or rap session.

But I see today's younger people in their late teens and 20s as being rather shallow. In my generation, when we were only in our late teens and early 20s we were already political animals. Back then, politics was a sport.

HEY HEY LBJ! HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TO DAY???

HELL NO! WE WON'T GO!

Then there was Watergate, and good ol' Tricky Dicky. That was President Richard Nixon.

Yeah, my generation, we were real political animals!

But today's younger generation, so many of you are shallow compared to my generation, especially the sports fans.

Now, even the art of conversation is dead.

But it's not all due to having home computers or the Internet. The Internet is actually a good thing, because we wouldn't be having this discussion if it weren't for the Internet.

No, what I really mean to say is, that the art of conversation is dead, even when going out with friends to eat in a restaurant.

It use to be, after a meal, we sat around drinking coffee, and discussing the social or political issues of the day, or anything of interest, which sometimes did include sports, but we also discussed other issues.

But now, you go into a restaurant, they have a big flat screen TV on with the volume up full blast, and it always has a football game on.

We can no longer sit around the table with friends and hold an intelligent conversation because the TV is blasting too fucking loud. It use to be mostly in bars, but now, it's even happening in family restaurants. Everything is being taken over by sports to the point where the art of conversation is dead.

We can't hold any kind of intelligent conversation.

We have to sit there with our mouths shut and listen to . . . . .

DUH UH HUH! HE THROWED THAT BALL REAL FAR! HE KICKED THAT BALL REAL HARD! HE PLAYS REAL GOOD! DUH HUH HUH HUH!!!

Now, I don't mind people watching a game, but does the volume have to be so fucking loud that friends can't hold an intelligent conversation around the table???

It's another way of controlling us, to take away our freedom, another form of censorship. You see, they don't want people holding conversations and talking among themselves about various issues. It's probably because they're afraid we'll plot against the government, so sports is played really loud, and we all have to shut up and listen to drooling moronic monkey-boys.

Our society is becoming more and more decadent. We are no longer allowed to think for ourselves. We are required to let those in power do all the thinking for us. In another century or so, we will be well on the way to the kind of society as depicted in NOAH II.

So yes, Mr. Polite24, something like the society as depicted in the novel could very well happen.

It's happening now!

[Fat Man]

Last night, at 12:00 Midnight on Spike TV, I watched Beavis & Butthead Do America, a 2 hour cartoon movie that was over at 2:00 AM in the morning. Believe me, it was worth watching, and funny as all Hell.

It was actually a very good movie, and the cartoon scenes of the Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Santa Fe New Mexico, and Washington DC, etc. etc. all those scenes were true to life even though it was a cartoon.

I have been to the Grand Canyon, and I have seen Santa Fe New Mexico and the Mission, and everything as depicted in the cartoon is true to real life in every detail.

When Beavis & Butthead were in Washington DC, they took a guided tour of The Whitehouse, and in the end they even got to see President Clinton, who made them Honorary Members of The BATF, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis & Butthead is a pretty good artist.

I like Beavis & Butthead. They get away with a lot of crap that I wish I could have gotten away with when I was that age!

Yeah! They are both a couple of morons, but they're cool because they like rock music and they are not into sports. So, even though they're morons, they are still much brighter than most sports fans and jocks. Beavis is the real moron, while Butthead dose sometimes come up with some interesting ideas. Yeah, stupid ideas, but interesting ideas nonetheless. Butthead may be a moron, but at least he does have an imagination, while Beavis only has hallucinations.

I remember when Beavis & Butthead use to be on M-TV, and one day they showed a rock video by Human Wheels and there were some people in the black and white rock video were really fat, and during the video Butthead said "Huh Huh Huh! Fat people are cool!" so, as far as I'm concerned, anybody who thinks that we fat people are cool is OK in my books!

Actually, we fat people are kind of cool!