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The Artilleryman Rant, Part 1

Started by Idem, March 10, 2007, 02:28:38 AM

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The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Charley Brown on January 24, 2011, 03:28:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2011, 03:27:27 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 24, 2011, 03:27:01 PM
We need people like them. Where did the dreamers all go?

Farmville.

You just made my brain roll over in my arse.

You won't be needing it, anyway.  The Networks are due to release their new series pretty soon.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

I know. We have sacrificed imagination and thinking for mind numbing games and entertainment. Is it deliberate of did it slowly creep in while we were distracted?

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Charley Brown on January 24, 2011, 03:33:20 PM
I know. We have sacrificed imagination and thinking for mind numbing games and entertainment. Is it deliberate of did it slowly creep in while we were distracted?

It was deliberate, and began with radio.  When television became commerically available, the trend exploded, and the shit was crammed down the public's throats.  Mind you, this was in an age when people were conditioned to believe that they were told, and to accept what was given to them...And to brand any other thinking "communist" or "un-American".


Good thing we don't do THAT anymore.  Support the troops.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2011, 03:35:23 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 24, 2011, 03:33:20 PM
I know. We have sacrificed imagination and thinking for mind numbing games and entertainment. Is it deliberate of did it slowly creep in while we were distracted?

It was deliberate, and began with radio.  When television became commerically available, the trend exploded, and the shit was crammed down the public's throats.  Mind you, this was in an age when people were conditioned to believe that they were told, and to accept what was given to them...And to brand any other thinking "communist" or "un-American".


Good thing we don't do THAT anymore.  Support the troops.

I liked radio, back in the day. It was something to keep in the background while you were working or playing. Except in the evening when the shows like The Green Hornet, etc were playing. This was when we would all sit around the radio as a family.

As a kid television was something I watched on Saturday morning, or often we watched the news in the evening just before bed.

Adios

It smells like Roger is writing a rant.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Charley Brown on January 24, 2011, 03:47:08 PM
It smells like Roger is writing a rant.

It's percolating in the back of the cesspit I call my mind.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

I won't write mine until after I read yours.

The Johnny


Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hatetm for a rant, so be it.
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Don Coyote

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 08:07:10 PM

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hatetm for a rant, so be it.
That movie was only kinda like the book.

The Johnny

Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 24, 2011, 08:56:08 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 08:07:10 PM

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hatetm for a rant, so be it.
That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 09:03:06 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 24, 2011, 08:56:08 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 08:07:10 PM

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hatetm for a rant, so be it.
That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat?  :lulz:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Don Coyote

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2011, 09:05:14 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 09:03:06 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 24, 2011, 08:56:08 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 08:07:10 PM

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hatetm for a rant, so be it.
That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat?  :lulz:

So I saw this movie called "Legue of Extradinory Gentlemen" I thusly decree 20,000 Legues under the Sea to be a bad book because it had no ninjas.

The Johnny

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2011, 09:05:14 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 09:03:06 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 24, 2011, 08:56:08 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 08:07:10 PM

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hatetm for a rant, so be it.
That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat?  :lulz:

That book wasnt a big hit down here, you are reacting as if i was raised in Amurrica.
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 09:55:23 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2011, 09:05:14 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 09:03:06 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 24, 2011, 08:56:08 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on January 24, 2011, 08:07:10 PM

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hatetm for a rant, so be it.
That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat?  :lulz:

That book wasnt a big hit down here, you are reacting as if i was raised in Amurrica.

He wasn't an American, either.  Do you think we Anglos are all the same, like Mexicans and people from Belize?  No.  We are very different.  For example, we drink coffee, and they drink this horrible poisonous shit they call "tea", just to gross out the French (which takes some doing, they eat snails).
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.