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- Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:19 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Recent underrated movies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5210
Re: Recent underrated movies
I loved Rango ..ergo Rango was awesome
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:46 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Hold on to your intestines ....
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5429
Re: Hold on to your intestines ....
"Carol, Morgan, Heath and Tara weren't there. Morgan and Carol ended the season with their first encounter with members of Ezekiel's Kingdom. Tara and Heath were on a supply run. Plus all four have been shown in the trailers for the next season. " Arh - well, I figured I had that list wron...
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Re: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
"I support the coalition of voters that make this possible. If they supported Stein or Johnson and gave them a reasonable chance of winning, I would support those candidates too. But, as it stands, they are with Hillary, so I'm with her. It's more than about Clinton's record or personal charact...
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:24 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Hold on to your intestines ....
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5429
Re: Hold on to your intestines ....
I dunno - how useful a person is to the group doesn't seem to factor that greatly into how likely a person is to survive especially given they've killed off a couple of people with key medical knowledge over the seasons and, as you said, ammo seems plentiful. The only other really likely candidate i...
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:02 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Movies to look forward to
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3505
Re: Movies to look forward to
Well - I'm looking forward to Passengers but that's mostly cos I love big budget Sci-Fi's that look promising.
Can't really think of anything else that's on my "go to the cinema to see" list
Can't really think of anything else that's on my "go to the cinema to see" list
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 2:36 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Recent underrated movies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5210
Re: Recent underrated movies
lol - yeah, there's that and there's that they didn't actually film the movie here like all the others - I mean, I get that there were heavy rains where they intended to shoot and it all went too green .. but its not like we're short of desserts in Oz. **edit** Also - if it helps any, I totally agre...
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:49 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Recent underrated movies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5210
Re: Recent underrated movies
@Cash, yes. However, for all its awfulness, the Wachowskis should at least be commended for at least trying to make something creative, experimental, and original, especially when we're saturated in soulless reboots and assembly line-superhero movies, and no one is. @Gendo, I'm glad someone else re...
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:37 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Hold on to your intestines ....
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5429
Re: Hold on to your intestines ....
I thought it would be Eugene, just cuz he's got plans to make bullets and he's educated, and educated people with plans to build stuff for the future have a terrible survival rate on this show. Pretty much this - also because Eugene seems on the verge of some sort of turning point where is all comm...
- Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:50 pm
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Off to Paris this Saturday
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3060
Off to Paris this Saturday
Last minute business trip again - been a busy this sort of thing for me so far having already had to travel to the UK, USA (Twice) and one unexpected holiday on work to Costa Rica (which was awesome) But - Saturday I'm off to Paris for a conference which is something a bit different than my usual tr...
- Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:46 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Recent overrated movies
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2366
Re: Recent overrated movies
Lego movie Frozen - as much as I liked it, it relly shouldbn't be as popular as it is & does overhadow a better movie made a year before it. Jurassic World - Fun movie, but not remotely good. Pretty much agree with all of that - Frozen was a fine enuff movie but way more generic that the hype a...
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:43 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Jupiter Ascending
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1265
Re: Jupiter Ascending
^ pretty much agree with everything you said except Eddie Redmayne. I thought he was way way too over the top - like some sort of hyper Voldemort ..
I've like him on most of the stuff he has been in - but just couldn't find anything redeeming in this performance.
I've like him on most of the stuff he has been in - but just couldn't find anything redeeming in this performance.
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:39 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: If you're bored and want to troll someone
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3480
Re: If you're bored and want to troll someone
Personally - he doesn't sound like a troll to me given what he is saying isn't all that uncommon a mix between arrogance and ignorance.. I guess the choice thing, if by choice people mean an actual conscious choice to be attracted to same sex people .. comes into play if the individual considers bei...
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 12:04 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hello People
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3391
Re: Hello People
Hey Mur -
Also haven't been round here much cos - super busy.. But, welcome back!
Also haven't been round here much cos - super busy.. But, welcome back!
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 11:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: If you're bored and want to troll someone
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3480
Re: If you're bored and want to troll someone
"I just do not believe that people are born gay. I was not born gay. Some gay men are effeminate. But that does not mean that they were born that way. " this guy is a mess - the above statement seems to be all you really need to know about him. His experience is, apparently, the model for ...
- Wed Aug 31, 2016 2:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy birthday Cash!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3423
Re: Happy birthday Cash!
Late to the party but - Happy birthday mate
- Sun Aug 14, 2016 1:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy birthday Opiate
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3243
Re: Happy birthday Opiate
Happy Birthday!
- Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:51 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Suicide Squad trailder
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5771
Re: Suicide Squad trailder
I actually enjoyed BvS more than I enjoyed Suicide squad - both suffered from similar faults, too much squeezed into the movie making the whole experience disjointed and non-cohesive. Both felt like a whole bunch of disconnected scenes crammed together rather than one seamless story. To me, Suicide ...
- Sat Aug 06, 2016 5:23 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Suicide Squad trailder
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5771
Re: Suicide Squad trailder
off to see it tonight with the kids - ignoring the reviews until I know for myself
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Be honest - your first crush.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6190
Re: Be honest - your first crush.
Olivia Newton John - she made a guest appearance on a show called "Cartoon Corner with Daryl Summers when I was probably about 6 or 7 .. and the crush lasts till this day
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 7:19 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Sulu revealed as gay in Star Trek Beyond
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3358
Re: Sulu revealed as gay in Star Trek Beyond
George Takei made a post on his Facebook to clarify his stance, saying that headlines were misleading (as they tend to be) I dunno if young George cleared ..that up at all really .. I mean, from what I can tell he is saying something to the effect of, there was interest in including a LGBT characte...
Detroit
So - I'm here in Detroit at the moment and have been coming to Detroit for say the last 11 years on and off.. and I have to say, this place has changed enormously. The first time I came here the place was all Mad max post apocalyptic scaey arse bullshit .. burning barrels in the street surrounded by...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:26 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Re: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
Yeah - I'm not sure Trumps not in here with an excellent chance and I certainly wouldn't be acting like it is inevitable that he will fail .. he's made it this far against all reasonable expectations and he's still (at least until recently - haven't checked for a few days following the DNC) .. polli...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 11:25 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Sulu revealed as gay in Star Trek Beyond
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3358
Re: Sulu revealed as gay in Star Trek Beyond
Yeah - so I watched Beyond on the weekend (I really liked it) and all this jazz about Sulu's sexuality just seems misplaced. There was like a 5 second scene where Sulu meets his daughter and husband while Kirk looks on and smiles .. if I had any complaint about the scene its that Kirk looking on ben...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:52 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Supposedly this guy made some anti-Semitic remarks.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2079
Re: Supposedly this guy made some anti-Semitic remarks.
the "don't anticipate that" really should have a "because it is literally impossible you colossal dumb arse" appended to it.. It was an amazing feat of self restraint in its current form
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Re: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
. Also - why can't you get a decent cup of coffee in this country ?? It's our punishment for throwing tea into the harbor. Also: http://www.traveller.com.au/how-to-survive-north-americas-terrible-coffee-2y9yx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(t...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:41 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Re: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
As a side note - I'm actually in the States at the moment so - if anyone is in the Detroit area .. Give me a hoy. Being here is why I'm renewing my interest in your politics .. It's driving me nuts that I literally cannot turn on a TV without seeing Hilary or Trump every five minutes - I realise tha...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Re: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
Until a system is developed to end this, the situation will never change. Even in state legislatures there are few independents and minor party representatives. However, the two parties will continue to vote for laws that guarantee that only those two parties will remain in power. For all their fau...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:49 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Re: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
I disagree strongly with the lesser of two evils approach. When you vote for the lesser of two evils that means you are still voting for evil. That kind of "surrender to complacency" is how we end up with such a horrible choice in major party candidates. Both Trump and Clinton are not jus...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Re: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
I can certainly understand that there is a temptation to vote against the established status quo and that from a democratic perspective, Bernie fit into that space well given his policies for the most part, seemed reasonable. I dunno if what you are saying is that Trump, being the only remaining Ant...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
- Replies: 241
- Views: 38277
Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary.
Ok - so I get that Hilary is far from a perfect candidate and this isn't a discussion around why she would be awesome. But its mystifying to me that there seems to be a whole heap of rhetoric from Democrats saying that they will never vote for Hilary at all even now that Bernie is out of the running...
- Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:31 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Movies I've seen in 2016
- Replies: 221
- Views: 36438
Re: Movies I've seen in 2016
High Fidelity - Great movie. I think I couldn't appreciate it quite as much as someone who's really into the music scene. And, Rob wasn't supposed to be likable, was he? I hope not. Kind of like JGL in 500 Days of Summer; he's not a character to be looked up to at all. I really enjoyed High Fidelit...
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy birthday to the blonde chick.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1665
Re: Happy birthday to the blonde chick.
But happy birthday
- Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:05 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: On the election and stuff
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7201
Re: On the election and stuff
I was wrong. He got the nom and this week he upped the racist crazy to eleven. He's even worse than he usually is. His numbers are dropping like a rock. The only thing I wouldn't have predicted about this entire Trump nonsense is that this would cause his numbers to drop .. I mean, he built a platf...
- Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:55 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Need help with appropriate emotional reactions to Orlando
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2720
Re: Need help with appropriate emotional reactions to Orlando
Oh, I grok that 'just fucking done' feeling. In the past fortnight, there's been the gang-rape of a Brazilian teenager, an Italian woman set on fire by her ex, Brock Turner, all the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard stuff, and I've heard of at least three women being killed by their current or former par...
- Sat Jun 11, 2016 6:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6384
Re: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
I don't think alcohol works the way you think it works. I don't think people suddenly have sex with someone they despise because they're drunk. They might consent to sex with someone they like but haven't hooked up with because they have reservations about certain things, and alcohol destroys those...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 5:27 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6384
Re: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
I had this conversation with a lawyer mate of mine a while ago and the answer was .. well, complicated. I may have misunderstood what you meant by this statement. If you mean it's easy to tell when both parties are consenting, but there are many factors that must be considered other than, "how...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:39 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6384
Re: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
I think he's made the case that (I could be wrong) consent basically comes down to common sense. I agree with him. I tend to be suspicious of "common sense" but I think it applies here. If you're trying to analyze consent or parse it out, you're doing it wrong. But I think that also means...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:10 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6384
Re: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
Castor has repeatedly made the case that consent is not difficult or complicated, and to say otherwise is to engage in rape apologetics, and I agree with him. From the second paragraph down, your post basically says that it's difficult to tell if someone is actively participating in sex. If a perso...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:58 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6384
Re: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
I think if both people are able to actively and willingly participate, there's consent. If one person is not both an active and willing participant, it's rape. Not complicated at all. I dunno if this is really gonna do it tho. The entire issue centres around establishing not only whether both parti...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:05 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6384
Re: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
How does consent work with drunk people, though? If one is sober it's usually considered rape if they take advantage of a drunk person, but what if two drunk strangers consent to sex they otherwise wouldn't have consented to? I had this conversation with a lawyer mate of mine a while ago and the an...
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 10:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6384
Re: Letter the Stanford rape survivor read to her attacker
I'm still wary of the drunk thing, though. Given that the victim had no memory of the event, it's also not unlikely that the guy likewise had no memory of it, where one moment he was drinking and the next he discovered he had just brutally raped someone. I'm guessing that could be why he keeps sayi...
- Tue May 17, 2016 11:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Made a major miscalculation...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5081
Re: Made a major miscalculation...
Went on a 5 mile hike Saturday. Sunday, pushed myself in my gym class then toured the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. My legs are screaming at me "why?!?" There are two solutions. 1) Exercise every day, and your legs will get used to it. 2) Don't exercise at all. The best place for...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 6:04 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Apparently there's going to be a Jumanji remake.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5401
Re: Apparently there's going to be a Jumanji remake.
I'm going with your original comment - there is absolutely no reason to change a frame of that movie
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 5:57 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Do you have one of those friends who shares everything on FB?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1416
Re: Do you have one of those friends who shares everything on FB?
IF you hadn't said that was Ewan - I don't think I would have got the joke on my own ..
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 6:11 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: True Detective
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2231
Re: True Detective
Ive heard it all kinds of awesome but haven't got round to watching it yet unfortunately - maybe the next thing on my Netflicks watch list!
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:39 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3051
Re: Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Life down under is going well thanks, just crazy busy.. Just wound up our financial year so, should have a little more breathing room now. Just made my way from London to Detroit at the moment tho - so, not actually down under to speak from first hand experience for the past few weeks at any rate. I...
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:17 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3051
Re: Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Yeah - it wasn't the best, but then again, the last book wasn't the best either and all things considered, they did a pretty good job with what they had to work with. In fact, I was surprised that I enjoyed Mockingjay Part 1 at all .. and I did. In my humble opinion - The first movie was probably th...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:06 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2502
Re: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump
Oddly enuff - I can see the original now !
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2502
Re: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump
"The Uploader has not made this video available in your country"
Sad
Sad
Re: Dad Jokes
I'm probably gonna use some of these