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At 5/9/09 07:03 PM, Tancrisism wrote:

He fought in the American Civil War in the movie, whereas in the actual account of him he was from Alberta, Canada. And then he tells him that he is a Canadian when Stryker tells him to serve his country, true, but that seemed to be more of a sarcastic remark because he lived in Canada with his new girlfriend.

I think the device there was that he and Victor were fighters and along their extended lives America brought more wars to fight. They could have also become American citizens by that point, I don't know.

Also, in the actual X-men series, the whole project that Wolverine was involved with (adamantium and so on) was done by the Canadian government, not American.

Actually they explained this. I forget who said this but I'm not passing it off as my idea. In the 60's when the series was created the main social topic was racism. At the time the movies were made the big fear was government run amock, and as such the guy hunting down Wolverine had to be American. The difference didn't bother me.

At 5/9/09 07:00 PM, stafffighter wrote: Just because you know why there's a guy with ahorsehead dressed like Thor doesn't mean it was your idea.

....?

I guess you're referring to one of the Weapon XI test subjects? I didn't get a good look at all of them.

You just had to take his fucking ducky, didn't you?

Yeah... injecting red hot molten steel below his muscles was fine, but taking his ducky was the FUCKING BREAKING POINT.

At 5/9/09 07:03 PM, Tancrisism wrote: He fought in the American Civil War in the movie, whereas in the actual account of him he was from Alberta, Canada.

And? It plays into the fact that the guy wandered quite a bit. Trips to the orient, anyone?

So your assertion is because products are sold to multiple stores, including Wal-Mart, buying them helps Walmart?

Pretty much. You're enabling that brand to continue doing business with Wal-Mart by supporting it financially.

What people don't get is that Wal-Mart is simply a retailer chain, they do not manufacture the products they sell; they just buy shit-tons of the stuff and sell it for less than what their competitors can sell them for. If you want to boycott Wal-Mart, you'll have to boycott the brands they carry in order to effect them any, not just boycotting the store chain as a whole.

At 5/9/09 07:22 PM, Proteas wrote: Pretty much. You're enabling that brand to continue doing business with Wal-Mart by supporting it financially.

So I should no longer purchase almost anything?

What people don't get is that Wal-Mart is simply a retailer chain, they do not manufacture the products they sell; they just buy shit-tons of the stuff and sell it for less than what their competitors can sell them for.

For one thing, you are wrong there. About 40% of Walmart's stuff is their own private brand: Linky.

Their foreign holds allow them to sell their stuff for much cheaper than what their competitors can. This is a legitimate practice in capitalism, but it is hurting small businesses which the country depends on.

If you want to boycott Wal-Mart, you'll have to boycott the brands they carry in order to effect them any, not just boycotting the store chain as a whole.

I'm not against the brands that are forced to sell to Walmart in order to stay afloat, though. I'm against the dishonest practices of Walmart, specifically.

At 5/9/09 08:46 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

ah screw it. Im tired. I've been at a workshop half the day and a graduation crawfish boil the other half.

mmmm. crawfish

Sorry yall.

Here's a cupcake.

mmmmm. crayfish

At 5/9/09 09:04 PM, stafffighter wrote: mmmmm. crayfish

I loves me some crawdads.

you know what you fuckers?

I'm bringing politics into the lounge!

I had my Pi Sigma Alpha induction ceremony tonight. That's the honor society for political science. They gave me a pendant, some ropes that apparently aren't supposed to be used for ritualistic suicide when your GPA drops a small percentage and a little certificate.

They had a really nice dinner for us. There were only 7 people being inducted into the society and only about 20 people who showed up for the ceremony, but it was nice. my dad liked it.

At 5/9/09 07:03 PM, Tancrisism wrote: He fought in the American Civil War in the movie, whereas in the actual account of him he was from Alberta, Canada. And then he tells him that he is a Canadian when Stryker tells him to serve his country, true, but that seemed to be more of a sarcastic remark because he lived in Canada with his new girlfriend.

True, but one of the major problems people have had with stories like "Origin" was that all we really wound up with was "the very early years of Wolverine" and Wolverine: Origins nobody paid attention to. This is a character who still has a large part of his history left dangling and undefined. It's probably in the best interest of Marvel to continue doing that. Wolverine knows his life story now, but that doesn't mean every detail absolutely should or must be nailed down. Though I need to research that son of his a bit more...that was a curve ball.

Also, in the actual X-men series, the whole project that Wolverine was involved with (adamantium and so on) was done by the Canadian government, not American.

Can't argue with that, but see to me these are the sort of things that I'd file under "fanboy quibble" I love comics. I really do, I have thousands of dollars worth of comic books (that's the stone cold truth) but look, that doesn't mean every idea was good and correct. That doesn't mean that's the most perfect way to do a movie and damn you if you don't follow it all the way through. They had parameters to work with so this fit the story they'd been telling in the main film series, and they made it work for me. To really do his Weapon X portion of the origin you have to involve Alpha Flight and all that. Needless. Let's bitch about stuff that matters please.

At 5/10/09 12:15 AM, aviewaskewed wrote: Let's bitch about stuff that matters please.

I thought the movie was pretty bad in general, but I've always hated it when movies distort the truth. The truth!!!!!!

True, it's fiction, but still, why can't people be faithful to the original plots? It's something that matters quite a bit to me, although I'm not sure why.

It was cool and fun, but the dialogue was cheesy and cliché, the characters were underdeveloped... It felt like the movie should have been three hours long, but they had to pack everything into an hour and twenty-minute long pistachio shell in order to make it acceptable to the Hollywood crowd.

I've saw my short play performed today. Just wow...
Lots of mistakes, but what an experience.

At 5/10/09 02:07 AM, fli wrote: I've saw my short play performed today. Just wow...
Lots of mistakes, but what an experience.

Congrats man.

saw Star Trek tonight and was fairly entertained. i also happened to notice a disturbing propensity to ram federation ships into things in order to solve problems.

At 5/10/09 12:43 AM, Grammer wrote: That's something I never understood about politics. Oh, I posted a link to a website that agrees with me, so it's true. If you go on webmd, and search marijuana, the first link says it isn't harmful, the second link says it is. They contradict each other. Your arguments should not be based solely on a single link. You should make a comprehensive argument, backed up by different sources, covering different points and counterpoints. Don't just post one link about marijuana doing x and therefore it should/shouldn't be okay. It's just silly.

But there's no fun in actually having to think about stuff is there? Isn't it just better to ignore everything else and insist you're right all the time. Or hey, you can always just leave the thread if it isn't going your way and act like somehow you've proven your correct. I like when people do that, it's pretty funny.

Holy fuck, have you guys played Dead Space?

My mind is too stimulated now by this. And by stimulated I mean piss my pants holy fuck.

At 5/9/09 08:46 PM, SevenSeize wrote: and I'm not about to start any politics in the lounge, but that conversation ended badly with her telling me Im going to hell because I disagree with her muchly.

*looks around*

"Jesus will cum again (SFW).

I laughed my BALLS OFF when I watched that.

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Well shit. After 5 minutes on the phone with the Comcast people, I have discovered that my router has started to crap out. Well, actually, it's my brother's router than he and my mother use to get online. But since it sits next to my computer, the argument now is going to be what did I do to their router to cause it to fuck up. YAY!!!

At 5/9/09 08:46 PM, SevenSeize wrote: and I'm not about to start any politics in the lounge, but that conversation ended badly with her telling me Im going to hell because I disagree with her muchly.

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Well , isn't that nice.
I guess I'll definately get to meet you someday now for sure.

My mom, grandmother, & several other aunts etc. have been telling me for years I'm going to hell.

I'm kind of relieved actually, it would be a HUGE SHOCK ( I think ) to be in the line to go to heaven & get rejected at the gate ! ! ! Seeing as I've already been judged & found wanting, by the religious experts in my family LOL (sorry couldn't keep a straight face)... Knowing that I'm going to hell & most of my friends will be their ,plus all kinds of other great people (I think most of you are great) that I run into here & in other spots will be joining me there , or be there waiting, will make it a much better experience .

At 5/9/09 08:46 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Here's a cupcake.

Yum, yum. That's one tasty cupcake.

POLITICS!!! AYAY!!!!

So, according to the bible, hell is neither permanent nor filled with fire.

At 5/10/09 03:19 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: So, according to the bible, hell is neither permanent nor filled with fire.

;;;
THat's good news.
Any word on whether there's any beer down there ?

Or papers...should I bring a couple of packages ?
I suppose we could always just jury-rig a pipe ;)

At 5/10/09 03:19 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: So, according to the bible, hell is neither permanent nor filled with fire.

I thought the Biblical version "hell" you hear people talking about wasn't ever mentioned in the Bible, just the Lake of Fire at the end of Revelations.

At 5/10/09 03:43 AM, Tancrisism wrote: Holy fuck, have you guys played Dead Space?

My mind is too stimulated now by this. And by stimulated I mean piss my pants holy fuck.

I haven't played it, but I've made the mistake of watching Steve play it before bed. There is no way to express that feeling via the internet.

At 5/10/09 03:37 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 5/10/09 03:19 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: So, according to the bible, hell is neither permanent nor filled with fire.

I thought the Biblical version "hell" you hear people talking about wasn't ever mentioned in the Bible, just the Lake of Fire at the end of Revelations.

Pretty much.

AYAYA!!! POLITICS IN THE LOUNGE!!!

OMG, OMG, OMG.

There's still the inspection and the appraisal and the closing and all that nonsense, but...our offer was accepted! Barring any unforeseen disasters with the inspection and appraisal, we got the house!

This place is amazing, I'm so happy. Lots of room for gardening, great deck, plenty of space inside, near a lot of stuff, already fenced in for the new doggy.

Yay!

Congrats, Skunky!!

our downstairs bathtub had so much rust in a pipe that the faucet snapped off. I need to call my landlady tomorrow about it and set up some times that she could have a plumber come by. I know our pipes are all shot in this condo because whenever you turn on the hot water it comes out brown/yellow with rust deposit.

called my mom today for mothers day. My sister was there and they were eating sandwiches and blueberry pie made for my brother's birthday (yesterday) that he hadn't showed up to get. lol.

At 5/10/09 03:42 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: AYAYA!!! POLITICS IN THE LOUNGE!!!

*shrug*

Just a small observation. It's not like we've got a certain canadian mod in here going "YOU'RE ALL MORONS!!!"

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I HATE DOING TROUBLESHOOTING ON A COMPUTER. Hate it. I just want to load myself for bear and open fire on my mother's laptop. Replaced the router and cables, got my computer working, went through all the neccesary steps to configure her wireless card to the new router... and it's not connecting despite showing signal reception AND network connection. FUCK AH!!!

Also; I got to play on one of these today when I was at Sam Ash. Basically it's a bass with a pair of octave strings placed adjacent to each bass string, so you get this AWESOME sound of a bass and two guitars being played at the same time. The most obvious use of one was Mike Ament's intro on "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam, but sitting there playing "Schism" by Tool was just eerie sounding.

I need to start saving my money, like, badly.

At 5/10/09 05:45 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Yay!

Congrats, skunky!

At 5/10/09 05:45 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:
Yay!

Congradulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!

At 5/10/09 07:46 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Isn't the sixth or seventh circle of hell freezing cold? We could store the beer down there.

9th, actually. The River Cocytus is frozen solid with Satan trapped in the middle from the waist down, and it is kept perpetually cold from the gusts of wind of his flapping wings.

Perfect place to keep a cooler full of cold ones, or a cooler full of PGA and Hawaiian Fruit Punch with chunks of fruit thrown in the mix.

And then the guy wrote two more books about relitivly nice places that no one reads because we're all morbid bastards.