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RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Twitchin Kitten - 08-21-2013
(08-21-2013, 05:17 PM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote:(08-21-2013, 04:35 PM)Rhubarb Wrote: It's been deleted
Just have to see it when we get to you
What's been deleted?
Oh the dog house link!
We we got it home last night and I scrubbed it this morning. I need to stain it so it doesn't look so worn in the places the stain wore off and I want to flip the floor boards so the scratches / gouges are not under her. I also need some nuts and bolts to put it together and a little roof repair because there is black mold on it that I want out of there. About two hours work and it'll be good as new for her.
I'll take pictures.
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Twitchin Kitten - 08-24-2013
Well, it rained last night and broke the sweatbox called NJ. Nice out and I'm glad. Got a fundraiser to go to where our fave rockabilly band is playing and I was not in the mood to do it in a humidity laced day.
Not sure if we'll see the restored bass yet though. I think it's still being put together.
You guys got anything fun planned for today?
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - TenFour - 08-24-2013
I went to see elysium last night, i was one big ass liberal pandering fucking bullshit movie, i got all the subliminals and i almost walked the fuck out about 3/4 of the way through the movie.
1) People only commit crimes because they are poor and underprivileged
2) all rich people are evil
3) free healthcare for everyone
yeah fuck that movie.
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Twitchin Kitten - 08-24-2013
Oh I hate that shit too. Just make a good movie and leave politics out of it. Make a political movie and just be fair - leave your personal opinions out of it thankyouverymuch.
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - AnthonyG - 08-24-2013
Was the fundraiser, Chelsea Delivers Hope?
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Twitchin Kitten - 08-24-2013
(08-24-2013, 08:38 PM)AnthonyG Wrote: Was the fundraiser, Chelsea Delivers Hope?
No. Not that I know of. We never made it out. Matt wound up working later than expected. It was some kind of gathering after a parade at the Lakehurst fire house.
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Twitchin Kitten - 08-25-2013
So I spend the day painting and refinishing the roof on the dog house. Matt went to Home Depot for a hunk of wood for the roof and new shingles. He decides to go "fancy" and get the 'dimensional' things. WRONG. Bad idea. Go simple. After trying to put the frame back on the roof, the shingles are too thick where they overlap because instead of being single layers each one is twice as thick as normal. Gotta get new shingles tomorrow.
I also need another quart of stain/paint for touching up and other things that are just soaking it in.
It'll be done tomorrow night I think. It can dry now and set nicely until then.
So far Daisy likes having a house. She keeps lying in there without the floor or roof on it
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Gunnen4u - 08-25-2013
(08-24-2013, 12:07 PM)TenFour Wrote: I went to see elysium last night, i was one big ass liberal pandering fucking bullshit movie, i got all the subliminals and i almost walked the fuck out about 3/4 of the way through the movie.
1) People only commit crimes because they are poor and underprivileged
2) all rich people are evil
3) free healthcare for everyone
yeah fuck that movie.
You have misunderstood the genius that is Blomkamp. The movie itself is set in a future where open borders and a flood of immigration have reduced America to one vast third world shithole, while the people who run things have made tons of money off the whole venture and now live up in gated communities away from the mess of the unwashed.
Basically is it a movie on what will happen when America reaches such a point of open borders and degradation, and the consequences that will be had for those who, while engineering things thus for some supposed ideal, still shut themselves off from it to preserve their own social/economic class.
Blomkamp is anything but a left winger.
Critics either understand and do not like the movie, or don't understand it all so they foist their own critiques and understanding of it on others and the movie itself.
Quote:Similarly, Elysium is another Malthusian tale about open borders, set in a dystopian 2154. By then, Los Angeles has been completely overrun by Mexicans, who have turned it into an endless, dusty slum that looks remarkably like urban Mexico today. (Blomkamp filmed for four months in Mexico City.)
The auteur explains that he is:
…painting this realistic image of a future Earth…which meant the borders being erased entirely and having this fluid population group that basically moves from Chile all the way up to Canada. It just flows, because it can.…The numbers of people that are Latin are going to overwhelm the numbers of people that aren’t.
The rich, continuing to get richer from the collapse of the borders, have decamped for a gated community in the sky, recreating Beverly Hills in a delicate space station that rotates gently to produce gravity along its inner rim.
“The notion that art is about equality and niceness is just a cover story put out by artists to keep us poor schlumps from realizing what they are up to.”
Blomkamp, a gun-loving Afrikaner whose movies are based around his fear that the rapid breeding of Third Worlders threatens to bring down civilization, says Elysium originated in a disastrous visit to Mexico in 2005. While shooting a Nike commercial in lovely San Diego, the Boer crossed the border one evening to see Tijuana, where he was abducted by corrupt Mexican cops who shook him down for $900 in return for not killing him.
...
Blomkamp, however, is unusual in that he barely tries to hide his worldview. So the NLDs just make up for him a worldview more acceptable to themselves. In dumbed-down 21st-century America, who will notice?
http://takimag.com/article/elysium_neill_blomkamp_fools_the_critics_again_steve_sailer/print#axzz2d1m7U9wX
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Gunnen4u - 08-25-2013
The smartphone has had social consequences that will be the death of traditional society as culture plummets into a virtual world of false livelihoods and identities, centered around instant feedback and ego boosting. People will create lies out of their lives and become spectators to their own existence. So focused are they/will be around their phones and social networking/staying connected that they will cease to actually not live in the moment.
Social networking for the few cognizant types has had profound usefulness and power, but, as usual, the public, the mob, the most of the population, has taken it and put it to ill use with ill effects.
I want the power grid to be destroyed.
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread II - Twitchin Kitten - 08-27-2013
(08-25-2013, 08:00 PM)Gunnen4u Wrote: The smartphone has had social consequences that will be the death of traditional society as culture plummets into a virtual world of false livelihoods and identities, centered around instant feedback and ego boosting. People will create lies out of their lives and become spectators to their own existence. So focused are they/will be around their phones and social networking/staying connected that they will cease to actually not live in the moment.
Social networking for the few cognizant types has had profound usefulness and power, but, as usual, the public, the mob, the most of the population, has taken it and put it to ill use with ill effects.
I want the power grid to be destroyed.
I agree with you on the phones Gunnen. I love my smart phone but I do not let it rule my life. I find it funny that the 'drones' cannot put it down. I'm in a concert, they're in the row in front of me on Facebook! People walking down the street not looking where they're going, most likely on stupid Facebook too. They can't let it let alone turn it off for a couple hours!
It's like a mob mentality like you say. They're afraid they'll "miss something" if not connected to the frivolous chatter online. Proper conversation ceases to exist. You want the power grid to be destroyed, I want facebook to go down forever along with the other insipid social network sites.