Totally random thread

[DCHawk1]

That ain't right

I know, right? Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to let a Jesuit be pope?

[ousdahl]

Somewhere in there is a Catholic priest joke, but I don’t wanna be the one to make it.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Loves him some meat.

[TDub]

That's hilarious.

The "IRS" called me the other day to say I would be arrested for non payment of taxes...but, one option for payment was to use my Home Depot commercial account card. I declined and told them to send the feds for me. Amazing that anyone would actually fall for that.

[Deleted User 104]

Rise of Skywalker has a 55% Rotten Tomatoes score so far. Not a good sign.

[HouseDivided]

Rise of Skywalker has a 55% Rotten Tomatoes score so far. Not a good sign.

Should be expected when Disney hijacks a great and well-established storyline and turns it into a globalist/radical feminist propaganda piece in outer space.

My youngest dragged me to the last one, and on the drive home, I asked him to summarize it in one sentence. His reply: “Well, apparently men suck, and women are humanity’s last hope.”

Pretty astute for a 15 year-old at the time, and precisely why they won’t trick me out of my money this time. Heck, if I want to be insulted, I can come here and get all I want for free.

[Deleted User 104]

Rise of Skywalker has a 55% Rotten Tomatoes score so far. Not a good sign.

Should be expected when Disney hijacks a great and well-established storyline and turns it into a globalist/radical feminist propaganda piece in outer space.

My youngest dragged me to the last one, and on the drive home, I asked him to summarize it in one sentence. His reply: “Well, apparently men suck, and women are humanity’s last hope.”

Pretty astute for a 15 year-old at the time, and precisely why they won’t trick me out of my money this time. Heck, if I want to be insulted, I can come here and get all I want for free.

He's wise beyond his years then if he can recognize that at such a young age.

I hope Disney fires Kennedy and considers doing some research on what SW fans actually want. Just for laughs, here's a photo of their diversity team.

[HouseDivided]

Rise of Skywalker has a 55% Rotten Tomatoes score so far. Not a good sign.

Should be expected when Disney hijacks a great and well-established storyline and turns it into a globalist/radical feminist propaganda piece in outer space.

My youngest dragged me to the last one, and on the drive home, I asked him to summarize it in one sentence. His reply: “Well, apparently men suck, and women are humanity’s last hope.”

Pretty astute for a 15 year-old at the time, and precisely why they won’t trick me out of my money this time. Heck, if I want to be insulted, I can come here and get all I want for free.

He's wise beyond his years then if he can recognize that at such a young age.

I hope Disney fires Kennedy and considers doing some research on what SW fans actually want. Just for laughs, here's a photo of their diversity team.

Diversity. Lulz.

[Shirley]

[Geezer]

I see Darden Restaurant group is having a good day.
BTW Eddie V's is a wonderful place for dinner.

[Shirley]

I see Darden Restaurant group is having a good day.
BTW Eddie V's is a wonderful place for dinner.

Are you insane? Darden's down ~ $4.30!

Yes, Eddie V's does pretty work.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Bananas Foster at EV's, yum.

[pdub]

The new Star Wars movies aren't great but are still a fun trip to the theater.
I agree there's some forced agenda that you just roll your eyes at but the fight scenes have been pretty legit in both.
( though in the last movie, Snoke was just so stupidly and easily killed - his bodyguards were bad ass though ).

I'll be going to see the last movie despite the reviews and youtube lobster takes.

[ChalkRocker]

That's hilarious.

The "IRS" called me the other day to say I would be arrested for non payment of taxes...but, one option for payment was to use my Home Depot commercial account card. I declined and told them to send the feds for me. Amazing that anyone would actually fall for that.

uhhh...fall for what? You may be cool with gettin' busted by the feds.

Not this guy.

[HouseDivided]

That's hilarious.

The "IRS" called me the other day to say I would be arrested for non payment of taxes...but, one option for payment was to use my Home Depot commercial account card. I declined and told them to send the feds for me. Amazing that anyone would actually fall for that.

uhhh...fall for what? You may be cool with gettin' busted by the feds.

Not this guy.

My favorite part of those calls is when the caller, speaking in a thick Indian or Packistani accent, identifies himself as "Kyle" or "Randy" or herself as "Brittany" or "Carly". They fool me every time with those stereotypical American names.

[ousdahl]

Time was, kiddies, Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell (who inspired Lucas’ mythopoetic vision in the first place) talked like this about a spaghetti western set in space:

Is that supposed to be a real sentence?

[Deleted User 104]

The new Star Wars movies aren't great but are still a fun trip to the theater.
I agree there's some forced agenda that you just roll your eyes at but the fight scenes have been pretty legit in both.
( though in the last movie, Snoke was just so stupidly and easily killed - his bodyguards were bad ass though ).

I'll be going to see the last movie despite the reviews and youtube lobster takes.

I never said "don't see it." I'll probably get around to seeing it in a few weeks. From what I've read, JJ was basically trying to patch the damage done from Rian Johnson. Can't be too hard on JJ for this. Rian is the one who fucked it up.

The ending is going to remind some people about how some of us in society call ourselves "women" even though they are a man. You'll get it when you see it.

[Deleted User 104]

I agree there's some forced agenda...

Be careful with that. Agreeing with lobster isn't popular around here. Admitting he's right makes some hysterical.

[Shirley]

Time was, kiddies, Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell (who inspired Lucas’ mythopoetic vision in the first place) talked like this about a spaghetti western set in space:

Is that supposed to be a real sentence?

Define "real".

Mythopoeia (also mythopoesis, after Hellenistic Greek μυθοποιία, μυθοποίησις "myth-making") is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where a fictional or artificial mythology is created by the writer of prose or other fiction. This meaning of the word mythopoeia follows its use by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s. The authors in this genre integrate traditional mythological themes and archetypes into fiction.

Mythopoesis is also the act of making (or "producing") mythologies. Notable mythopoeic authors include J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, William Blake, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, George R. R. Martin, Mervyn Peake and George MacDonald. While many literary works carry mythic themes, only a few approach the dense self-referentiality and purpose of mythopoesis. It is invented mythology that, rather than rising out of centuries of oral tradition, are penned over a short period of time by a single author or small group of collaborators.

As distinguished from fantasy worlds or fictional universes aimed at the evocation of detailed worlds with well-ordered histories, geographies, and laws of nature, mythopoeia aims at imitating and including real-world mythology, specifically created to bring mythology to modern readers, and/or to add credibility and literary depth to fictional worlds in fantasy or science fiction books and movies.

...Frank McConnell, author of Storytelling and Mythmaking and professor of English, University of California, stated film is another "mythmaking" art, stating: "Film and literature matter as much as they do because they are versions of mythmaking."[22] He also thinks film is a perfect vehicle for mythmaking: "FILM...strives toward the fulfillment of its own projected reality in an ideally associative, personal world."[23] In a broad analysis, McConnell associates the American western movies and romance movies to the Arthurian mythology,[24] adventure and action movies to the "epic world" mythologies of founding societies,[25] and many romance movies where the hero is allegorically playing the role of a knight, to "quest" mythologies like Sir Gawain and the Quest for the Holy Grail.[26]

Filmmaker George Lucas speaks of the cinematic storyline of Star Wars as an example of modern myth-making. In 1999 he told Bill Moyers, "With Star Wars I consciously set about to re-create myths and the classic mythological motifs."[27] The idea of Star Wars as "mythological" has been met with mixed reviews. On the one hand, Frank McConnell says "it has passed, quicker than anyone could have imagined, from the status of film to that of legitimate and deeply embedded popular mythology."[28] John Lyden, the Professor and Chair of the Religion Department at Dana College, argues that Star Wars does indeed reproduce religious and mythical themes; specifically, he argues that the work is apocalyptic in concept and scope.[29] Steven D. Greydanus of The Decent Film Guide agrees, calling Star Wars a "work of epic mythopoeia".[30] In fact, Greydanus argues that Star Wars is the primary example of American mythopoeia:

"The Force, the Jedi knights, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan, Princess Leia, Yoda, lightsabers, and the Death Star hold a place in the collective imagination of countless Americans that can only be described as mythic. In my review of A New Hope I called Star Wars 'the quintessential American mythology,' an American take on King Arthur, Tolkien, and the samurai/wuxia epics of the East ..."[30]

Roger Ebert has observed regarding Star Wars, "It is not by accident that George Lucas worked with Joseph Campbell, an expert on the world's basic myths, in fashioning a screenplay that owes much to man's oldest stories."[31] The "mythical" aspects of the Star Wars franchise have been challenged by other film critics. Regarding claims by Lucas himself, Steven Hart observes that Lucas didn't mention Joseph Campbell at the time of the original Star Wars; evidently they met only in the 1980s. Their mutual admiration "did wonders for [Campbell's] visibility" and obscured the tracks of Lucas in the "despised genre" science fiction; "the epics make for an infinitely classier set of influences".[32]

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[Deleted User 89]

smh...no mention of the millennium falcon