The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[Newt]

I wonder if Tom Cruise at any point shouts "Show me the Mummy!" in his new film?

Nah. That'd almost make it worth seeing.

[Alex]

On guard duty this week. When I am doing control of entry this means having an undershirt, combat smock, field jacket, stab proof vest and then a high vis vest on top of that. I feel pretty confident in the event of a zombie invasion none of them will be able to bite through all these layers. However on the other hand equally I have very little mobility and wouldn't be able to get away from them or fight them off very well.

[ER]

Supposed to shoot guns here in a minute with my semi-sort of-pseudo-surrogate sibling*, who once gave me the date rape drug. Sounds like a safe undertaking to me...

(* Former neighbor.)

[AoTFan]

Am I the only one here that knows of/likes The Amazing World of Gumball?  Don't be turned off that it's a kid's show, it's freaking hilarious. 

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"That's reckless driving!"
"Not without a car it's not!"

[ER]

Sometimes I think childhood doesn't end until the day you realize Shaggy and Scooby were likely lovers.

[LilCerberus]

Sometimes I think childhood doesn't end until the day you realize Shaggy and Scooby were likely lovers.

I dunno...
I mean, it's one thing to see that Shaggy had all the stereotypical character traits of a stoner, but, a stoner and his dog?
Besides, I would've assumed Scooby was fixed.

[AlbertMond]

I forget - is this the "general stuff" thread?

An observation - Newsies tonight are talking about the anniversary of the Pulse attack. It always struck me, though, that in "going out dancing" terms, the Pulse attack occurred as much on the night of 6/11 as on the morning of 6/12. It certainly didn't occur on the night of the 12th.

Also, a more controversial observation: Scooby-Doo isn't just fixed, he doesn't have a dick at all.

[indianasmith]

You know what that means - Scooby was one of the Unsullied Ones!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[Leah]

You mean to tell me that Scooby wasn't a robotic dog that Velma made to keep Shaggy company while she kept an eye on Fred and Daphne?

[ER]

I was supposed to go some places just now but it is storming like crazy, so being a sensible American Midwesterner, I am sitting it out til it passes. (Our skies routinely try to kill us. Never completely trust a Midwestern sky.)

What follows, insane though it sounds, is a true story....

I heard from my cousin Celia (the Hand Stabber), and she was cheerful, which means she's back on drugs, naturally. She had just set up her new iPhone7, and I said, "Didn't you just get one of those in February?"

She said, "Yeah, but I needed a new one, the other one got destroyed by a bird.

I settled in to hear this tale and said, "Do tell."

"Okay, well I was smoking salvia with Elvis, but Elvis didn't show up til after I started tripping, and the man whose house we were in had his grandma's parrot in a big cage, and I started being able to telepathically communicate with the parrot, and it was like I could hear the parrot's thoughts and the parrot could hear mine, and I asked what made it unhappiest, not being free? And it said no, it's forty years old and too out of shape to fly but it did miss pooing on the newspaper that used to always line its cage. So I thought about that, and it's true, who has newspapers anymore? I got out my phone and pulled up a page with the local paper on it and set it on the cage floor, and in about one second the parrot pooed all over the article on my phone, like doing that made it spectacularly happy."

"And that's why you needed a new phone?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

I repeat: true story. (And I still don't know if "Elvis" she mentioned was a real person she knows named Elvis, or if she had some sort of communion with the King of Rock & Roll. Should've asked...)

[Flangepart]

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Uh-huh...not doubting you, trust me. Just imagining the look of peoples faces when she tells them "Elvis pooped on my phone."

[Alex]

Looks like I am going to have to do a report on what I think is the most important battle of WW2. Trouble is that happened a couple of months before the war even started and hardly anyone has heard of it. Oh well, maybe I'll go with the Battle Of Kursk instead.

[indianasmith]

Interesting choice.  You think Kursk was more important than Stalingrad?

[Alex]

Interestingly, last year I was at a seminar given by a Russian historian who argued that the defence of Moscow was the most important battle of the second world war. He put up a fairly good arguement about it being so central to Soviet psyche at the time (and still today, which ties into why Russia today is so worried about NATO expansion but thats something for another time) that its collapse would have been such a blow to Soviet morale that effective resistance would have collapsed.

Anyway, I digress. I would argue that Kursk was Germany's last chance to win the war. Yes, they lost more men at Stalingrad but they could have regained the inititive at Kursk (if the Soviets hadn't found out exactly where they were going to attack and had loads of time to prepare). Where I'd really like to do my talk on though is Khalkhin Gol where Zhukov destroyed the Japanese.

[ER]

My two youngest children have been away this week at a wildlife summer day camp, and one thing they learned there is that among wildlife the lowly coyote is now the apex predator in this area, when for all but the last maybe two-hundred years cougars and bears and timber wolves vied for the title. Some archaeologists have even suggested that farther back, it is slightly possible jaguars were present here in small numbers, since their teeth have been found, though this may because they were traded north in Hopewell times, 1,600 years ago, for their ceremonial value.