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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Sept 12, 2021 7:00:28 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Sept 12, 2021 10:51:11 GMT
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Post by barnabaslives on Sept 13, 2021 16:59:36 GMT
I've been listening to War's Greatest Hits a lot lately and it occurred to me that I still don't know all the lyrics to "Cisco Kid", so I looked it up but the top two sites still have a line wrong so I moved on to a third site devoted to misheard lyrics. Apparently someone's ear managed to misinterpret the lyric "Cisco Kid was a friend of mine" as "Cisco Kid was afraid of mice".
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Sept 16, 2021 9:16:36 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Sept 19, 2021 22:32:26 GMT
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Post by timegirl on Sept 22, 2021 14:43:53 GMT
My mom just pointed out to me recently that she always thought the late George Harrison and my late Nanny (my maternal grandmother/her mom) looked a lot a like. I thought that’s odd but then I was watching a George Harrison music video and I had never noticed it before but sure enough George Harrison looks almost exactly like a male version of my Nanny! They both have the same face shape, similar floofy dark hair, arched eyebrows, and long skinny frame😄 I am now wondering if George Harrison was a distant relative of mine?! My Nanny and most of my British relatives are northern so I suppose it’s possible he could have been a distant cousin or something🤔
Sidenote: My mom also pointed out that she always noticed one of my uncles (also a northern relative) also really looks like George Harrison which checks out too!😁
Sidenote: Yorkshire (where my relatives are from) and Liverpool (where George Harrison was from) aren’t that far away 🤔😁
Sidenote: R. I.P. to both George and my Nanny
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 26, 2021 0:54:32 GMT
Oh god. I just died laughing. Check out the David Attenborough bit. I somehow have a slight suspicion this was NOT a fake. It would just be in line with Sir David's humor to do this FOR REAL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CopbQ_QgmM
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Post by Whovitt on Sept 26, 2021 1:13:55 GMT
Oh god. I just died laughing. Check out the David Attenborough bit. I somehow have a slight suspicion this was NOT a fake. It would just be in line with Sir David's humor to do this FOR REAL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CopbQ_QgmMThat was fantastic! There's was a little too much of James at the start, but once the voice gets going it's gold! "Oh yeah, I remember when there were bees" was just brilliant.
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Post by timegirl on Sept 26, 2021 17:31:36 GMT
Just randomly came across this tweet today and now I can’t get the adorable image out of my head of little PCap running around in a cape all the time😊😁 Sidenote: Knowing this makes me feel better about my own equally odd childhood eccentricities. Sidenote: Capaldi should go back to wearing a cape everyday, I bet he could really pull off the cape look now!😁
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 28, 2021 20:51:53 GMT
Some troll on a Star Trek forum just said he preferred Star Trek before it became "woke". Basically everybody else fell to the floor laughing and called him out on that one. Also made me laugh out loud. Star Trek is basically the literal definition of the original meaning of "woke" before whiny entitled white males changed the meaning of the word into an insult.
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Post by timegirl on Sept 28, 2021 21:03:17 GMT
Some troll on a Star Trek forum just said he preferred Star Trek before it became "woke". Basically everybody else fell to the floor laughing and called him out on that one. Also made me laugh out loud. Star Trek is basically the literal definition of the original meaning of "woke" before whiny entitled white males changed the meaning of the word into an insult. Sounds similar to DW in that way🤔
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 28, 2021 21:09:46 GMT
Some troll on a Star Trek forum just said he preferred Star Trek before it became "woke". Basically everybody else fell to the floor laughing and called him out on that one. Also made me laugh out loud. Star Trek is basically the literal definition of the original meaning of "woke" before whiny entitled white males changed the meaning of the word into an insult. Sounds similar to DW in that way🤔 Indeed it does. Probably even the same people using different forum names.....
But honestly, all of these trolls are interchangeable. Because they post exactly the same things about pretty much anything everywhere. Maybe it is just one guy and an army of bots? One reason I am not using comments on social media or Youtube anymore..... But I love it when one of these guys arrives, makes a statement like that and then everybody just turns around, points a finger and starts laughing.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Sept 28, 2021 22:22:45 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 28, 2021 23:50:18 GMT
Some troll on a Star Trek forum just said he preferred Star Trek before it became "woke". Basically everybody else fell to the floor laughing and called him out on that one. Also made me laugh out loud. Star Trek is basically the literal definition of the original meaning of "woke" before whiny entitled white males changed the meaning of the word into an insult. ... Have they actually ever watched 1 second of the original show? LOLZ
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 29, 2021 0:15:44 GMT
Sounds similar to DW in that way🤔 Indeed it does. Probably even the same people using different forum names.....
But honestly, all of these trolls are interchangeable. Because they post exactly the same things about pretty much anything everywhere. Maybe it is just one guy and an army of bots? One reason I am not using comments on social media or Youtube anymore..... But I love it when one of these guys arrives, makes a statement like that and then everybody just turns around, points a finger and starts laughing.
On the plus side, it does make you wonder just how far our prejudices have been eliminated in society that Classic Trek isn’t considered progressive any more by the more regressive elements in the fandom.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 2:03:32 GMT
Indeed it does. Probably even the same people using different forum names.....
But honestly, all of these trolls are interchangeable. Because they post exactly the same things about pretty much anything everywhere. Maybe it is just one guy and an army of bots? One reason I am not using comments on social media or Youtube anymore..... But I love it when one of these guys arrives, makes a statement like that and then everybody just turns around, points a finger and starts laughing.
On the plus side, it does make you wonder just how far our prejudices have been eliminated in society that Classic Trek isn’t considered progressive any more by the more regressive elements in the fandom. It's a hopeful thought, isn't it? I think part of it is also not knowing the context of some of the original episodes. A Private Little War, for instance, was a veiled Vietnam War allegory ("100 serpents for the Garden of Eden."). In a time where talking about the conflict in anything less than a glowing light got you harassed by the government. Particulalry in show business. Bob Holmes's "It's not patriotism to lead your people into a war they cannot win," in The Krotons would have raised a few eyebrows back while it was airing. Context. The context shifts, broadens, but the message stays the same. Until it becomes so deeply embedded, sometimes people don't notice it.
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 29, 2021 7:51:33 GMT
Indeed it does. Probably even the same people using different forum names.....
But honestly, all of these trolls are interchangeable. Because they post exactly the same things about pretty much anything everywhere. Maybe it is just one guy and an army of bots? One reason I am not using comments on social media or Youtube anymore..... But I love it when one of these guys arrives, makes a statement like that and then everybody just turns around, points a finger and starts laughing.
On the plus side, it does make you wonder just how far our prejudices have been eliminated in society that Classic Trek isn’t considered progressive any more by the more regressive elements in the fandom. EXACTLY that.
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 29, 2021 7:55:21 GMT
On the plus side, it does make you wonder just how far our prejudices have been eliminated in society that Classic Trek isn’t considered progressive any more by the more regressive elements in the fandom. It's a hopeful thought, isn't it? I think part of it is also not knowing the context of some of the original episodes. A Private Little War, for instance, was a veiled Vietnam War allegory ("100 serpents for the Garden of Eden."). In a time where talking about the conflict in anything less than a glowing light got you harassed by the government. Particulalry in show business. Bob Holmes's "It's not patriotism to lead your people into a war they cannot win," in The Krotons would have raised a few eyebrows back while it was airing. Context. The context shifts, broadens, but the message stays the same. Until it becomes so deeply embedded, sometimes people don't notice it. This is one of the reasons these whiny entitled white male trolls are so dangerous. They have no idea of the context, they do not acknowledge the legacy of what they are ranting about and make everything about themselves and their agenda. They have no idea of the battles that have been fought before they appeared, of how far we have come, they cannot turn around and look down the mountain society has climbed since then. They just look up at the rocky path before them and complain about the colour of grass beside the path.
And they are totally willing to burn down any bridges in their way.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 8:31:29 GMT
It's a hopeful thought, isn't it? I think part of it is also not knowing the context of some of the original episodes. A Private Little War, for instance, was a veiled Vietnam War allegory ("100 serpents for the Garden of Eden."). In a time where talking about the conflict in anything less than a glowing light got you harassed by the government. Particulalry in show business. Bob Holmes's "It's not patriotism to lead your people into a war they cannot win," in The Krotons would have raised a few eyebrows back while it was airing. Context. The context shifts, broadens, but the message stays the same. Until it becomes so deeply embedded, sometimes people don't notice it. This is one of the reasons these whiny entitled white male trolls are so dangerous. They have no idea of the context, they do not acknowledge the legacy of what they are ranting about and make everything about themselves and their agenda. They have no idea of the battles that have been fought before they appeared, of how far we have come, they cannot turn around and look down the mountain society has climbed since then. They just look up at the rocky path before them and complain about the colour of grass beside the path.
And they are totally willing to burn down any bridges in their way.
Well, here's a bit of history for you. The exact example I am thinking of for the above was Eartha Kitt. A singer who realised, sitting at a White House luncheon for the Johnson administration, that she was intended to be the woman of colour seen and not heard. This was someone who had been threatened in elevators, she wasn't cowed, so she made her voice heard. After that, she couldn't get any work. Not anywhere in the United States. She was driven out into Europe and Asia where she could still perform and did. Quite extensively. She came back, eventually, but that wasn't until much, much later, when the dust had settled. There is no better example of that dynamic than the end of The Power of the Daleks's first episode. The Doctor trying to tell the Vulcan colonists the danger of the Daleks, while it rants over the top of him with the same snippet of rhetoric (in its case, the lie: "I AM YOUR SERVANT."). Both getting louder and louder. And it's one of the big things -- it's not unique. It's not special, it doesn't make them special. It's the Two Minutes Hate against Goldstein from Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's the driving force behind what makes a Dalek, a Dalek. Trying to co-opt a work of fiction to fuel someone's personal entitlement is just as old a story as fiction itself. It's testament, actually, to so many of these stories that they've withstood the test of time. The majority of what people tend to remember are the stories themselves. Things like Kirk saying, quite simply: "I will not kill today." That has staying power. Even for people who believe in the very worst of human nature, there is still power in those thoughts. Otherwise, they wouldn't try to stop it.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Oct 1, 2021 10:10:55 GMT
Real life Simpsons joke:
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