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I think he has because a little while ago he was asking Bonnie about specific plot points, including "The Vicious Caberet."

Either that or he does very methodical research for upcoming movies. ;)

It shits me to have to tip $1 for a drink. It's not as if the price of bar drinks in the USA is lowered by a dollar to offset the amount the bar owner is withholding from the staff.

 

Well said. My tipping habits in bars are far less generous. They pay their people shit and hike up the price of drinks. Fuck you, I ain't makin' up the difference.

Then again, if the barmaid is a known friend or is generous in pour I will shower her with duckets.

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This is a whole 'nother animal for me. I too don't like tipping a $1 minimum per round. All the bartender did was fill up a glass from a semi-automatic tap! Then walk it 2 feet over to me! BFD! But if I don't tip that $1 per round I'll be the last one served and be the recipient of cold glares.

I've bartended in college, and I made a killing on tips. Nevertheless, I think $0.50 or loose change or a buck every 2 rounds is perfectly acceptable.

I feel you Christian, sometimes I think my brain is going to drown in all the thoughts swimming through my head.

For me, I go lift weights or play basketball. With either one I go into a zone where I don't think so much as react.

Actually, I remember, as I took Kinki to task for it.

(all these explanatory posts are the result of my humor failing me....... :icon_cry: )

Anyway, to get back on track: I'd hit it.

A game of Balderdash almost broke out there for a second.....

I don't fancy him at all, even if he is looking suspiciously ginger in that picture.

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Ha!

The concept of the circle length or dimensions is merely perspective.

Whereas the man circle (if i may describe it as much) grows,

it does not follow that the God circle in any way shrinks.

Man just understands more, but in the process discovers more of the God circle?  Did it effectively shrink?  Not so that one would notice it, i daresay. How does measure what one cannot conceive?

 

Whereas man easily measures what he has learnt...

he cannot measure what he does not know.

 

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A much better way of stating what I was trying to say with the whole (sock) drawer analogy.

Thank you, GG, now my brain hurts less and my tongue is un-tied.

Ok, Paul Bettany is a good actor and is good-looking. But seriously, why is everyone on this forum on his jock?

I still don't think he should be Constantine. You may commence lobbing insults my way.

Personally, I'd rather do Johnny Depp or Steve McQueen's corpse.

Yes, the problem that arises from giving women a day and blacks a month is this idea of "there, we did it! We're good!".

The point was to bring the influence of those celebrations into the wider culture to be embraced every day!

Instead, we have a lot of white people in America going, "Man, blacks get a whole month now! Well, when do the whites get our month?" They miss the entire fucking point!

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In general, I try to avoid taking umbrage with a specific point that is not endemic of the larger argument, but this I think is a gross exaggeration. Maybe amongst white supremecists, but I like to think that most Americans aren't this close-minded.

However, I do agree with most of what you're saying. I think the point is lost quite often.

Sorry for the nitpicking and the late response. Carry on.

WTF? I didn't see that!

In regards to the whole Claudette/Lupus thing: I definitely think it will be revisited, but maybe not until next season. The writers rarely throw away a plot thread that has been followed through to completion (remember the black serial killer).

And I agree with Slick about Crowley's brother (for pretty much the same reason I used above).

Where Tina's storyline is going, I have no idea........

If you ever save up enough $ for trades, then you must MUST get the Invisibles. It will change your life.

Actually, come to think of it, you can get the back issues for pretty cheap online. Good on up to Very Fine conditions will go for less than current comic pricing (about $2.50).

As for a Marvel title: 1602 by Neil Gaiman. Again, back issues shouldn't cost too much, but there is a trade.

John: No thanks, I'm on a diet.

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John: Don't blame me, I voted for Thatcher.

It’s a terrific film. The most extraordinary thing about it for me was seeing scenes that I’d worked on and crafted for maximum effect in the book translated to film with the same degree of care and effect.

If you happen to be one of those people who admires the original so much that changes to it will automatically turn you off, then you may dislike the film - but if you enjoyed the original and can accept an adaptation that is different to its source material but equally as powerful, then you’ll be as impressed as I was with it.

I am now officially pumped for this movie.

Is putting "Hellblazer" somewhere on all the images necessary? I personally find it a little redundant, seeing that we all know we're dealing with a Hellblazer-based deck.

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True, I wasn't necessarily excluding any positivity from it, I just decided to focus on the negative reasons. I've been particularly frustrated by Western Society, Capitalism, and so-called "Democracy" of late. I think I'm becoming a commie.

I could agree with that.

I don't see the need to earmark certain days to celebrate certain groups and/or causes. Black History Month? What a joke. Valentine's Day? Please. Father's Day? Flag Day? Christmas? Woman's Day?

How about we celebrate these things all year? Compartmentalizing them into a day or series of days just trivializes them. So we celebrate Martin Luther King for one day and then forget about him for the other 364 days? The fact that we need to have such holidays is a sign of Western Civilization's descent into cold, uncaring Capitalism. Our society is becoming a soulless machine, with cogs instead of humans.

(sorry for the rant)

Then we agree.

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Probably. I guess I was just so overwhelmed by the extremist/black & white arguments on both sides that I failed to see forest for the trees..... Or the trees for the forest...... Of if no one's around and a tree falls does God hear it?..... I don't know......... Simply put: I take my spirituality with 2 lumps of science and dash of blind faith.

Except, to be honest, I don't know if it will ever be truly empty. There very well might be some higher power out there. But that also wouldn't erase all of science's discoveries. God/an alien race/whatever may have setup all the rules (ie "science") and then walked away, making science still valuable and true, while keeping that lone sock that never gets paired up in the God drawer.

I step into this debate hesitantly, but isn't the whole point concerning the 2 circles simply: that there are things humans don't understand and attribute to God/a higher power or being and when we figure out/understand those things previously attributed to God they become a part of our circle, increasing our circle and decreasing God's??

 

Which isn't to say that as we learn things (in a general sense) our circle grows and God's shrinks.

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Yeah, but I don't think that's true. For example, we learned how weather worked, but we didn't stop believing in God. We simple said, "This is how the weather works on God's green earth." In my view, God's circle never shrinks unless we somehow scientifically discover there is no God.

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I don't think I'm articulating myself properly. It's not that we discover something that was previously attributed to God's work and then stop believing in God or believe in Him less. It's more like we move this phenomena from the God circle to the human science circle. I think of it in terms of this poor analogy: We have two drawers, each filled with clothes. We move things from one drawer to other, but we don't get rid of the drawer that we removed things from.

I think the argument about the weather is a logical fallacy, namely, a slippery slope (see, college can teach us useful things for life!).

Religion and Science are niether mutually inclusive nor mutually exclusive.

there are TWO Punisher movies?

And a Ghost Rider movie?

(already?)

Or do you just think they will be bad?

And im this forums pet-Constantine-film-admirer :)

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The first Punisher movie was from the late 80's/early 90's and starred Dolph Lundgren. As you can imagine, it was horrible.

The Ghost Rider mention was a joke, that's why I said "preemptive" which (in my basterdization of the term) means "I will judge it before I see it."

And I know about you and Constantine, we've discussed the movie in the past..... in one of my other incarnations. That is all I am legally allowed to say.

Fantastic Four was terrible. It makes me mad just thinking about it. I don't think the studio could've picked a worse director. You don't hand a special-effects heavy project that has a built-in audience with massive expectations to the guy who's best known for directing Barbershop and Taxi (2 horrendous films). Terrible, terrible choice. He also helped pen the script (for the 40th time). The film was a disaster from the get-go. Numerous re-writes, numerous directors attached who each had their own vision...... and we end up with Tim Story? No thanks. I'm not even a fan of the comics, but I expected much better. I bet Roger Corman's unseen version is better.

Persistent little bugger ain't he?

The swimming was sweet. Especially the "underwater dancing" at the end.

I was only joking. I wouldn't waste another minute on that place.

Do these robots believe in God?

(kidding, kidding)

I don't think science and religion are mutually exclusive (not addressing anyone in particular here, just expressing my personal thoughts).

I choose to think of myself as a man of science, and I tend not to attribute things I don't understand to the workings of God. That said, I can still be spiritual and believe in things that are as yet unexplained. However, I probably draw more from Buddhism or Taoism than the Judeo/Christian pantheon.