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Aside from the one obvious thing, I just love all the questions that segments like this bring up. If Booker could have AJ arrested for stealing his property, why didn't he already do that before now? How did AJ know that Booker was going to call him out in order to have already been at the other side of the arena, waiting to jump him from behind? How did AJ get his entrance music and video and lighting to all play when he was standing in the crowd and not in the back? Why did the evil heels bravely call out the babyface? Why did the valiant babyface sneak-attack them from behind with a weapon, get his ass kicked, and then run away still holding his illegal stolen property? How did they know that AJ would assault them so he could be arrested? Who does Scott Steiner think he is, no-selling someone hitting him in the back of the head as hard as they could with a heavy blunt metal object? Why did the allegedly real police have such embarassingly cheap and fake-looking outfits? Why didn't the allegedly real police arrest Angle (a man who was supposed to be barred from the building by the owner of the company) for trespassing, not to mention beating up people and ripping their clothes off? How did Joe know these cops were gonna be there? Where did Joe get a uniform identical to theirs? How did the cops not realize there was an extra guy walking out to the ring with them? Why didn't the allegedly real police try to stop this attempted murder which was happening right behind them in the ring? Why isn't Joe arrested for repeatedly assaulting someone with a gigantic fucking meat cleaver? After segments like this, why does anyone ever try to defend either Vince Russo or TNA as anything but imbecilic trash?

In the spirit of our departed brother Truthiness, I took in Impact tonight. I will not burden you with my many, many complaints about this horrible show; let us consider only one. If anyone can somehow explain to me how the entire Booker-AJ-Steiner-Joe segment wasn't the stupidest fucking thing ever aired on any wrestling show ever, I would love to hear it. Please make it good. Don't force me to reply with "Joe tried to cut Steiner's head off with a machete", copied and pasted a hundred times.

If you don't want basically the entire movie spoiled for you, don't read that review/ What is it about hardcore conservative blondes which make them so aggressively insane? I know they're all just copying Ann Coulter's routine, but jesus that was painful. Worst of all was how she kept bitching and bitching and bitching about how this movie is allegedly marketed towards kids. She really doesn't understand what an R rating means, I suppose. She's also one of those "if you show something bad happening in a movie, that means it's a bad movie" dismissive types, which really do piss me off. Yikes. And somehow this useless person is actually a paid professional writer?

Which is another rather huge plot hole. A guy like Ben would certainly notice when, in 2004, a plane happened to crash on the island carrying some people who'd lived in the same village with him for at least three years back during his childhood. The actor playing Ben was born in 1955, so unless we're supposed to think for some reason that the character is a hell of a lot younger than the guy portraying him, he was definitely on the island by 1974.

Grape is the only one I ever eat. Maybe there are some awesome obscure jams out there, but all the non-grape ones I've had have been mediocre at best.

Oh my god that does sound terrible. Firstly, I love the part where the article offhandedly mentions that the producer of this show is currently busy shooting a movie... Demonic Toys 2, to be specific. Some might note that such humble beginnings do not guarantee future failure; Dark Knight screenwriter David S. Goyer started out writing the first Demonic Toys flick, after all. But it's still a pretty bad omen. Furthermore, apparently it's essentially gonna be H.P. Lovecraft's Smallville, with a young Herbert West going to school and learning his trade. Firstly: even the "good" Re-Animator movie was nowhere near good enough to merit an entire franchise. Secondly: a frigging "Lovecraft" protagonist with goofy MTV emo boy-band hair? Finally: have ANY of these people actually READ the original story, "Herbert West: Re-Animator"? Aside from being a generic Frankenstein ripoff, it's not one of Lovecraft's better works, and is possibly the most racist thing he's ever written (check out that unbelievable description of the unevolved gorilla-like black guy). This shit is so far from the original inspiration that it really makes me wonder why they even bother. I mean, really, are Howard Phillips Lovecraft's books so goddamn popular, 82 years after his death, that there's any kind of built-in fanbase to take advantage of? I've seen at least half a dozen movies based on his stories, and every single one of them has veered so far away from the original text that I don't even see the point of claiming it's an adaptation in the first place.

To defend the region of my birth, let me note that nearly the entirety of Memphis which isn't on Beale Street tends to be a real shithole. Yes, I mean a shithole even as compared to the rest of the South. Never been to another country. To the best of my recollection, these are my states: Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, New York, and Massachusettes. There might be a couple more I'm not remembering, since lots of these trips were done many years ago, and some of the more recent ones were just driving through them without stopping, ergo never getting a look at infamed WV. Best state... truthfully, nothing comes to mind, all of them have their bad points and bad areas. Worst: I'm gonna go with Maryland here. Entirely based on a one-day trip me and my brother took up there, in and around Baltimore, which was one of the more miserable collection of bad experiences either one of us have had. Everything blew in terms of physical layout of the place, poor quality of food we had everywhere we stopped, and an assortment of really fuckin' strange people we met.

Aw. One of my favorite surreal TNA memories was watching Sharkboy go head-to-head in a game of pool with none other than Stephen Popick at a party. Terribly nice guy. (Big Poppa Popick lost, btw. Apparently Sharkboy really is a pool shark.)

We got Anthem too. At least it was short and simple, even if its general theme of "Communism is a concept which sprung directly from Satan's asshole" was heavy-handed. As compared to Brave New World, about three times as long, and still one of the more perplexing "if we're not careful the future's gonna suck" books I've ever read. Why hate on Lord of the Flies, though? Not the greatest literature ever written, but at least it had children murdering each other so it wasn't boring. Huh. Well. Never read the book, just saw the Oprah movie when we screened it for our movie club in college, and slept through at least half of it. I guess that is true about it being simpler and easier to digest, as opposed to many of his other plays. How much Shakespeare is common, these days? I remember having R+J and Julius Caesar, but am blanking on anything else. We maybe might've done Tempest, but upon reflection I think that was in theater class, not english. Didn't help that at my high school we had regular, honors, and AP English classes, all with completely different curriculums. And sometimes even the teachers within the same levels in the same grades just decided to teach different stuff. Thus somehow stuff like Catcher in the Rye and Hamlet were never taught in any class I attended. It's not an uncommon interpretation, everyone from Laurence Olivier on down has delved into that one.

It's an interesting theory, but I especially like the irony of this idea coming from a guy whose post count is such that it would take sixteen years for him to get banned if this method was applied to everyone.

Am I the only guy who didn't like Event Horizon? Aside from just never enjoying Anderson's ADD style of directing and poor dialogue, it felt just way too damn similar to way too damn many other movies. It was freely ripping off stuff from Solaris to Hellraiser to countless haunted-house movies. And if you go back and watch it now, good lord those mid-90s computer effects do not age well at all.

This is an odd one with me. I was born utterly unable to whistle at all. Until one day, I was 17 or 18, when outta nowhere I suddenly woke up and was able to whistle. No clue how this happened or what changed, but it was literally an overnight thing. Totally blew my mind. At school that day, I was grabbing all of my friends and being all "Listen to this, it's a miracle!" and getting some really odd looks. So cheer up all you non-whistlers, the same could happen to you. (It probably won't. But it could.) As for style of whistling, it's weird. I'm also unable to do the fingers-in-mouth insanely loud whistle which makes the ears ache, I don't even understand how that's supposedly to physically work. Come to think of it, I can't whistle very loudly at all, it's basically just normal talking volume. And it has a kind of breathy quality which makes it sound less musical. However, I did get a couple of freebies: not only do I have surprisingly good control over the pitch of the notes, I can also whistle while either exhaling or inhaling. Apparently most people can't do it while breathing in, so yeah, totally an unique and special snowflake right here.

Evidence to the contrary from tonight's Raw thread: ...what? Don't bother looking up the post itself, hoping that the context of the prior posts will help things make sense. Everyone's just talking about the Edge/Cena match, and BANG our young Spaceman hits that outta nowhere. Usually I can make out what someone is trying to say, the general gist of their communication, no matter how poorly it's stated. But this?

I assume you mean Ellison Invisible Man and not Wells? Weird, cuz that book had plenty of its own controversial content. Some sex, a little bit of abortion talk, a shitload of various racisms, violence, and even a segment where the main character becomes a Communist. Heh, we had the same film shown in 9th grade too, though I don't recall if permission slips were involved or not. (This is only made better by that old maybe-true story about 16-year-old Olivia Hussey being denied entrance to watching that movie back in the day, since it featured nudity... her own nipples.) Why do English teachers invariably hit kids with Romeo & Juliet anyway? Just because the main characters are roughly their age? It's not one of Shakespeare's better masterpieces, and you'd think that having two idiot kids who commit suicide over their puppy love would not be a role model you'd want to teach to impressionable teenagers.

If everyone on earth got to kill someone... well, simple math would point out the problem there. Especially if there was a rule that everyone had to pick their own unique victim with no duplicates.

Whoever Echo was, in the first episode it was made pretty clear that she was somehow forced into being a Doll in the first place. So what she knew about the job ahead of time is irrelevant. The rape thing... it's a touchy subject, and unless the show goes deeper into that aspect it currently has no good answer. Obviously, when she has sex with these guys, "Echo" wants to do it and is a willing, happy participant. Then it boils down to a free will argument and if it's wrong for an outside party to make her want to do it. Although I do think it really was necessary to bring up the prostitution thing for purposes of realism. If they ignored the sex angle, it would be much worse; what is the most obvious thing that spoiled rich people would want to hire an organization like Dollhouse for, anyway? Obviously it's to buy a combination of their dream woman and a the world's best hooker in one perfect package. If they'd pretended that the Dolls only get sent on superhero rescue missions and are never just hired for purposes of fucking, it would've been a shallow lie. Well that's just... odd. Somewhat encouraging, but terribly odd.

CoOS wins.

The first Mortal Kombat was enjoyable trash, indeed better than most other video game movies. Good enough if you were a young teenage boy who's a fan of the games, as I was at the time. As for that guy's other movies, well, let's just say that out of everything Paul W.S. Anderson has ever made, I think I actually liked MK the best. What a hack that guy is.

I was about to say I can't understand how anyone would like any of Hawthorne's stories, until I remember I actually kinda enjoyed "Rapaccinni's Daughter". Still, stuff like Young Goodman Brown were so thunderingly unsubtle with their metaphors, shoving the subtext in your face like you wouldn't get it otherwise, that even as a teenager I found them to be far too blunt and inelegant. We had to do the same thing for Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land due to the sex stuff in there, although it was fairly softcore and pretty vague about the specifics. Which was ironic for a couple of reasons. Firstly, this was senior year, so at least half the kids there had already definitely had sex themselves. Secondly, nobody gave a shit about the violence in that and other books, which was described in way more graphic detail than the sex ever was. And thirdly, in this same class for some reason we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail and didn't need permission for that. Although one girl did complain about the line of dialogue which mentioned oral sex, but nobody cared since that girl herself had once been caught giving some guy a blowjob in the back of a schoolbus.

I can't remember where, but he's mentioned it before. He's said it's the best rendition of one of his stories on film. That could be taken as a backhanded compliment, but the episode was really well done, so I think he actually meant it for the best. Weird, I've actually read that comic, and had no idea that episode existed. I really need to watch more Justice League. Let's fire up the handy-dandy list of illegal straming sites, and aha... Wonder Woman: Oh Bruce, you didn't get him a gift certificate?! Batman: No... cash. Heh heh.

Czech, have you ever gotten drunk, or (perhaps more important) stoned? Legit curious, since until this explanation I was always puzzled by your adamant sXe stance. "Who would you kill" is always a rather moot question for me. I mean, once I've had a sociopathic maniac who shot my father full of holes and planned to kill others in my family as well, it's pretty much a gimme.

It's a fair cop.

Apparently the powers-that-be want the matter contained within this thread, so, yeah. Points: Yeah. You do. I'm hardly the only one to notice it. If you happen to post in a thread I've posted in, it feels like about half the time it's for the purposes of insulting me. "But mom, everyone else was doing it too!" Irrelevant. Still a bitch move to take something which was sent to you in private confidence and plaster it up on the main board. Alright, this one might be fair, I might've confused you with someone else. I thought during the most recent Leena debacle you said something to the effect of "I wish I still had my account at the Pit so I could see how they reacted". But upon looking back, I realize it was probably Byron who said it. BTW, regardless, if anyone wants an account at the Pit, there's one simple step: sign up under the name we know you by. No person is arbitrarily rejected (not even you), only pseudonym accounts where the person in question is for some reason apparently scared to let us know who it is. Yeah. I do that. I'm a complainer. So are 80% of the other posters here. If my arguments are so stupid and incoherent, why do you have such difficulty in simply pointing out the flaws? Instead you content yourself with "you suck, fuckin' faggot" and don't even attempt to have any sort of meaningful discussion. Bring up some examples, then. And if it's about horror movies, I'm still waiting for a detailed answer about why I'm allegedly so wrongheaded about those. God knows that's the truth. We got everything from conspiracy theorists to virgins to borderline illiterates to Marvin's Proxy Brain's remoras. EDIT: "Marvin's Proxy Brain" is the new word filter for G.l.e.n.n. B.e.c.k., apparently. That's... kinda funy... kinda.

I thankfully dodged the Scarlet Letter bullet, double thankful since I hated most of Hawthorne's short stories that we had to read. Unfortunately I didn't dodge Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which might be the most terrible "classic literature" I've ever seen. The only book I can recall just straight-up refusing to finish was Their Eyes Were Watching God; the dialogue was written in Twain-style backwoods phonetic spelling, but the rest of the prose was so ridiculously hifalutin' in its English Major vocabulary that just about every paragraph had a word or two I'd never seen before, and the contrast between the two was unbearable.

I didn't respond before now because, really, what's the point? What's the etiquette for responding in a thread like this? You could be facetiously self-deprecating with a "lol, you're right guys, I really do suck", which doesn't seem right. Or you could be "fuck you, faggots!" which also seems improper. But since Spoon seemed so disappointed that I didn't RSVP here, I might as well make an appearance. So, in response to your using years-old bits of obsolete information, allow me to retort in the same vein: oh shit, he might beatbox at me with his virgin fingers covered in ballston, look out! Besides, I wouldn't even have to fight you, all I'd have to do is say "hey, remember when Kylie got cancer?" and you'd curl up into a fetal ball and sob all night. Ultimately I feel your heart isn't in this; you just don't seem to have that really condescending style of trolling which defines the true champions here. Various other points: -Velcro shoes. Yeah, I still have them, somewhere in my closet. And? They're not my primary shoes, I've got other pairs now, but even so I've never understood why they're supposed to be so awful. They were incredibly cheap, surprisingly comfortable, shockingly durable, and you could put them on in about three seconds. I wore them one week at the wrestling show when my nicer shoes I had worn had gotten ripped up, and the chick in the videos bizarrely marked out for it and spent the next two years yanking the velcro open every time we were in the ring together. Why? Who knows, but it amused her to no end, so I kept wearing them. -Edwin's pic: where the hell did you find that? Even I don't have pictures of my wrestling stuff, not more than half a dozen anyway, and I don't think that's one of mine. -The N word: when EHME arrived at the Pit, it might shock you to learn that he quickly found himself in heated name-calling sessions with other posters. Someone threw the N-bomb down not as a joke but as a serious slur, and we said, hey, don't do that again. -My opinions on movies: if you want to discuss with me in depth about why you think I'm wrong, that's totally okay. Don't just say "never talk about horror movies again", as Gary has on multiple occasions, and not even provide a single reason why. -Cough syrup: haven't drank that shit in... hell, I don't remember exactly, but at least two years, maybe more. Curious as to why that's still a joke about me when it's something I don't do. -pbone: when did I piss in your cheerios? You always acted friendly before, so the sudden change of heart was rather strange. -Wrestling shows: I quit a couple years ago when I moved out of Tennessee (where there were a million tiny indy shows all over the place) out here to Dallas (where there are none). It had been coming anyway, since I was getting pretty burned out; the low-budget wrestling show scene in Nashville is actually worse than you might imagine. And finally, Gary Floyd. You follow me around, constantly insulting; that's being a troll. You take private messages I sent you and post them in public; that's being a bitch. You used to have an account at the Pit under a fake name; that's being a pussy. And most puzzling of all, you consistently refuse to give even the most cursory explanation of why you act in such odd and immature ways. That's being... hell, I don't even know what you'd call that. Why are you even on these boards? When I say "hey, let's be adults and talk this out", you respond with "lol, jinguz wants to talk in a reasonable fashion, wut a fuckin faggot!"? It's not just counterintuitive, it's pathetic. Hell, it's even against the rules of this forum, since you're repeatedly derailed discussions in various folders with your creepy obsession with attacking me. Christ, what a sad life you must live if you're forced to wring your pleasure out of such pathetic activities as insulting someone on the internet. That is all.