So you guys brought up cats and phisics in the same thread, in front of me, and I can't but make an old joke: All Schrodinger did was prove that cats really ARE our overlords, they cannot die.
@Shandyr Considering a mummy could be wearing the same underwear for the last 3000 years... I'd probably get nervous as well if the topic came up in conversation
@Shandyr Considering a mummy could be wearing the same underwear for the last 3000 years... I'd probably get nervous as well if the topic came up in conversation
You have captured the mindset of the typical mummie very well... I will rename you @Mlnevese - Ra in honour of your wisdom. Also, if you ever have the need to have your brain removed via your nostril to be mummified yourself, I am pretty handy with a coat hanger!
@Shandyr No need to apologise, most adventures fail a morale check reading my overly long posts anyway... Lets just not mention the *ahem* undieworld again...
@AndrewFoley Is it true you once tested your theory of time travel by folding space time, using a tumble dryer set to 1500rpm, a piece of string and a paperclip?
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And did the cat ever return or is it stuck in a state of quantucked?
@AndrewFoley Continuing the conversation concerning the quantucked cat... A cat quite possibly forever stuck in the extra drycycle of infinity... I have turned on my own tumble dryer, set it to fifteen hundred and one to break the time continuum barrier and thus fully forcing the conundrum circuit created by the paperclip and string to create the theoretical wormhole...
@AndrewFoley what movies will you be seeing at the cinema this winter? I assume enders game because Harrison ford will be old man Indian Jones, but anything else on your radar?
@AndrewFoley what movies will you be seeing at the cinema this winter? I assume enders game because Harrison ford will be old man Indian Jones, but anything else on your radar?
Warning: This won't be very funny.
I actually see very few films in the theatre these days, because somewhere along the line I turned into an impatient curmudgeonly old man. I don't make so much money, nor have so much energy, that I'm going to spend 40 bucks and three hours of my and my wife's time being made miserable by some jerk who thinks he's in his living room carrying on a full-volume conversation with a companion or someone on his cellphone. And that seems to happen a lot these days.
In the last ten years I've been to way too few movies where I haven't at some point felt the need to politely ask someone to please be quiet. And by the time I've been driven to the point of actually focusing my attention on something other than the screen, I'm already murderously enraged. If they actually do shut up (which is about 50/50, in my experience), I still end up sitting there for the rest of the film seething over how I had to ask them to be quiet to begin with.
I'll admit I've become hypersensitive to this over time. If you're looking for trouble you're more likely to find it, and when I go to a theatre, I feel like an exposed nerve. It doesn't seem to bother other people quite as much as it bothers me. But BOY, does it bother me.
When I do go, I generally get there more than half an hour early and try to get a seat in the back row, on the grounds that, while someone talking or texting in front of me during a movie is vile, having someone talk behind me is utterly intolerable. I'm a biggish guy, and I'm told my standard neutral facial expression is best described as "homicidally enraged". So if I do get in the back row, I usually end up with about a two seat radius around me and my wife, because I radiate unwelcoming vibes at anyone who thinks at sitting near us (also very handy for long bus trips.) But once the lights go down, the effect fades, and someone invariably shows up halfway through the trailers and takes the seats directly in front of us, pulls out their cellphone, and the "fun" begins.
Beyond that, it's the golden age of television. If I really need to see something, I've still got Breaking Bad and The Wire waiting for me. So where in my twenties, when I had a B&W TV and no cable, I felt driven to see the latest film the weekend it came out, frequently multiple times (I saw Congo three times in the theatre. CONGO.), these days the imperative to stay up to date on what's on the big screen just isn't there the way it used to be. Especially with the window between theatre and DVD release closing to a few months.
Add all that up and it's very rare for me to pay to see a film in the theatre. The last movie I actually saw was a free preview of Insidious2, the last I paid to see in the theatre was Star Trek: Into Darkness. Still haven't seen Iron Man 3, Pacific Rim, The Conjuring, This is The End, or World's End, though I'm looking forward to catching up with all of them on DVD.
I would like to see the new Thor film and I'm sure I'd enjoy Machete Kills, though the latter, like Ender's Game, will require some reflection on my part before I view it, if I do at all. Orson Scott Card and Mel Gibson are both talented men, but have repeatedly and publicly espoused world views I find so reprehensible I'm reluctant to support their work.
I did say this wasn't going to be very funny, right?
@Anduin There are days I feel that removing my brain would definitely be an improvement...
If there were someplace else to put it, getting out of my body would almost certainly be a good thing for MY brain. Then again, I'm speaking right now as someone with a killer sinus infection. It's been making the rounds of the office, where it has acquired a name: The Philness.
@andrewfoley you did say it wasn't going to be funny, and that was quite the post! I just watched star trek into darkness last weekend. My wife and I loved this is the end, and iron man 3 was fun. We Netflix (DVDs) a lot because between kids and work, catching a newer release is easier when we can do it at home. We may go catch rush or gravity one of these coming weekends, and plan on Thor and The Hobbit as well.
Anyway, thanks for the response, you seem like a cool cat!
Everytime we go to the theater (which is admittedly only once or twice a year) it's strangely not very crowded, so the audience gets their pick of seats. I haven't heard cell phones go off, but sometimes a toddler starts fussing in the middle of Two Guns or some other completely inappropriate movie.
ObQuestion: who takes a preschooler to an R-rated movie??
Not trying to push a brand here, but an Everyman cinema has just opened close to me, and it's a big change from most cinemas.
Tickets are more expensive, but this means kids don't go so it's quiet in screenings. Just about every seat is a 2-person sofa with a footrest and a table for drinks instead of a cupholder. And you can get olives and other grown-up nibbles as well as popcorn, and beer to boot. They even do screenings of cult films *sigh*.
There's also an independent cinema near where I used to live that avoided the usual drawbacks. They only did 1-2 screenings per day but had a lovely old restored cinema (from the 20s, I think) and just showed the best film out at the time daily with the basic refreshments done well.
I loathe sticky-floored multiplexes with their tacky carpeting, overpriced cokes and roving gangs of dead-eyed adolescents. I was pleased to see that alternatives exist. Now if only we could convince studios that big dumb blockbusters were not the only type of film worth making...
Dumb blockbusters aren't the only type at all. Where I go, there's no blockbusters at all and no-one phoning during the movie. But it's an arthouse-cinema. What's needed it's not more quality movies, they're there, but more arthouse cinema's. And great movies are made in Europe! If Hollywood would disappear, there won't be a lack of good movies at all.
Funny thing is, I don't have the patience sit through a whole movie at home, only in theaters when I am forced to have the patience to watch a movie in it's totally at once.
Actually, not so funny at all. At least not as funny as when @AndrewFoley answers a question. So here's one:
How many Buddha's does it take to enlighten Steam? And can I put DRM on my paper towels, so nobody else but me can use them?
i cant even sit through a movie because i need to be actively doing something. i bore easily just watching something. this is why i like games, and rpgs especially.
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All Schrodinger did was prove that cats really ARE our overlords, they cannot die.
(I added a hood.)
Marc, shapeshifter:
Jean-Michel, berserker:
Joan, wild mage:
Pablo, thief:
Edvard, monk:
last but not least, Piet, um, cleric?:
@Shandyr No need to apologise, most adventures fail a morale check reading my overly long posts anyway... Lets just not mention the *ahem* undieworld again...
And... @AndrewFoley Continuing the conversation concerning the quantucked cat... A cat quite possibly forever stuck in the extra drycycle of infinity... I have turned on my own tumble dryer, set it to fifteen hundred and one to break the time continuum barrier and thus fully forcing the conundrum circuit created by the paperclip and string to create the theoretical wormhole...
I keep opening the tumble dryer expecting a cat.
So far.
No cat.
But I got a banana...
I actually see very few films in the theatre these days, because somewhere along the line I turned into an impatient curmudgeonly old man. I don't make so much money, nor have so much energy, that I'm going to spend 40 bucks and three hours of my and my wife's time being made miserable by some jerk who thinks he's in his living room carrying on a full-volume conversation with a companion or someone on his cellphone. And that seems to happen a lot these days.
In the last ten years I've been to way too few movies where I haven't at some point felt the need to politely ask someone to please be quiet. And by the time I've been driven to the point of actually focusing my attention on something other than the screen, I'm already murderously enraged. If they actually do shut up (which is about 50/50, in my experience), I still end up sitting there for the rest of the film seething over how I had to ask them to be quiet to begin with.
I'll admit I've become hypersensitive to this over time. If you're looking for trouble you're more likely to find it, and when I go to a theatre, I feel like an exposed nerve. It doesn't seem to bother other people quite as much as it bothers me. But BOY, does it bother me.
When I do go, I generally get there more than half an hour early and try to get a seat in the back row, on the grounds that, while someone talking or texting in front of me during a movie is vile, having someone talk behind me is utterly intolerable. I'm a biggish guy, and I'm told my standard neutral facial expression is best described as "homicidally enraged". So if I do get in the back row, I usually end up with about a two seat radius around me and my wife, because I radiate unwelcoming vibes at anyone who thinks at sitting near us (also very handy for long bus trips.) But once the lights go down, the effect fades, and someone invariably shows up halfway through the trailers and takes the seats directly in front of us, pulls out their cellphone, and the "fun" begins.
Beyond that, it's the golden age of television. If I really need to see something, I've still got Breaking Bad and The Wire waiting for me. So where in my twenties, when I had a B&W TV and no cable, I felt driven to see the latest film the weekend it came out, frequently multiple times (I saw Congo three times in the theatre. CONGO.), these days the imperative to stay up to date on what's on the big screen just isn't there the way it used to be. Especially with the window between theatre and DVD release closing to a few months.
Add all that up and it's very rare for me to pay to see a film in the theatre. The last movie I actually saw was a free preview of Insidious2, the last I paid to see in the theatre was Star Trek: Into Darkness. Still haven't seen Iron Man 3, Pacific Rim, The Conjuring, This is The End, or World's End, though I'm looking forward to catching up with all of them on DVD.
I would like to see the new Thor film and I'm sure I'd enjoy Machete Kills, though the latter, like Ender's Game, will require some reflection on my part before I view it, if I do at all. Orson Scott Card and Mel Gibson are both talented men, but have repeatedly and publicly espoused world views I find so reprehensible I'm reluctant to support their work.
I did say this wasn't going to be very funny, right?
Anyway, thanks for the response, you seem like a cool cat!
ObQuestion: who takes a preschooler to an R-rated movie??
Tickets are more expensive, but this means kids don't go so it's quiet in screenings. Just about every seat is a 2-person sofa with a footrest and a table for drinks instead of a cupholder. And you can get olives and other grown-up nibbles as well as popcorn, and beer to boot. They even do screenings of cult films *sigh*.
There's also an independent cinema near where I used to live that avoided the usual drawbacks. They only did 1-2 screenings per day but had a lovely old restored cinema (from the 20s, I think) and just showed the best film out at the time daily with the basic refreshments done well.
I loathe sticky-floored multiplexes with their tacky carpeting, overpriced cokes and roving gangs of dead-eyed adolescents. I was pleased to see that alternatives exist. Now if only we could convince studios that big dumb blockbusters were not the only type of film worth making...
Actually, not so funny at all. At least not as funny as when @AndrewFoley answers a question. So here's one:
How many Buddha's does it take to enlighten Steam? And can I put DRM on my paper towels, so nobody else but me can use them?