The Off Topic Topic

[Ed Anger]

You folks are just too nitpicky and unwilling to enjoy a good thing.

Wahhhh! People on the internet won't like what I like! Wahhh!

[jimmy olsen]

You folks are just too nitpicky and unwilling to enjoy a good thing.

Wahhhh! People on the internet won't like what I like! Wahhh!

[Malthus]

I don't even know what that is.

You should be flogged! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once had his famous character Sherlock Holmes say something along the lines of 'a man can only remember so much stuff, unnecessary facts crowd out the necessary, so one should forget the worthless in order to remember what is important'. I believe it was in the novella "A Study in Scarlet".

Personally, I do not agree: the human capacity for minutae is practically unlimited. But there are some things that remind me of that passage.

[jimmy olsen]

I don't even know what that is.

You should be flogged! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once had his famous character Sherlock Holmes say something along the lines of 'a man can only remember so much stuff, unnecessary facts crowd out the necessary, so one should forget the worthless in order to remember what is important'. I believe it was in the novella "A Study in Scarlet".

Personally, I do not agree: the human capacity for minutae is practically unlimited. But there are some things that remind me of that passage.

It's not like it's an obscure genre, giant monster movies have been popular since the 30s.

[Sophie Scholl]

It's not like it's an obscure genre, giant monster movies have been popular since the 30s.

Exactly.  Giant Monster Movies.  Not the Japanese term.  You're in America, we use American terminology.

[jimmy olsen]

It's not like it's an obscure genre, giant monster movies have been popular since the 30s.

Exactly.  Giant Monster Movies.  Not the Japanese term.  You're in America, we use American terminology.

The word Noir is french but we still use it to label American movies. Same thing with kaiju.

[Eddie Teach]

The word Noir is french but we still use it to label American movies. Same thing with kaiju.

Noir doesn't have an English equivalent, if you said "black" movies people would think you meant ones with primarily black casts.

[Sophie Scholl]

It's not like it's an obscure genre, giant monster movies have been popular since the 30s.

Exactly.  Giant Monster Movies.  Not the Japanese term.  You're in America, we use American terminology.

The word Noir is french but we still use it to label American movies. Same thing with kaiju.

Noir yes, kaiju, no.  Poll it.  Be proven wrong.  Unless you're a Japanese culture fanboy, you don't use it I'm willing to bet.  See what the prior post says about noir.

[Neil]

Bullshit.  There's no fucking way that a remorhaz could get that big.

[Neil]

I don't even know what that is.

You should be flogged! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once had his famous character Sherlock Holmes say something along the lines of 'a man can only remember so much stuff, unnecessary facts crowd out the necessary, so one should forget the worthless in order to remember what is important'. I believe it was in the novella "A Study in Scarlet".

Personally, I do not agree: the human capacity for minutae is practically unlimited. But there are some things that remind me of that passage.

Sherlock Holmes?  Wasn't he that guy who did kung fu, blew a lot of shit up and scored with chicks?

[ulmont]

Sherlock Holmes?  Wasn't he that guy who did kung fu, blew a lot of shit up and scored with chicks?

Almost right; don't forget all the coke and morphine he was doing as well.   

[Tonitrus]

Ugh...it's topping 80 degrees here.

If I knew where I could by one of those $300-ish portable AC units in Anchorage, I'd be out at the store right now, instead of wallowing in this heat.

[Eddie Teach]

Ugh...it's topping 80 degrees here.

If I knew where I could by one of those $300-ish portable AC units in Anchorage, I'd be out at the store right now, instead of wallowing in this heat.

80 in Alaska? 

Makes you wonder what you're putting up with those winters for. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

tOTT is in a sad state compared to the old forum.  Back in the day people cared about tOTT.  People took special care to SPAM it, it was a duty.  Like part of the dues you pay for posting on Languish.  Bump up tOTT. 

There should be a new rule: everyone posts six times daily in the Off Topic Topic thread.

[jimmy olsen]

It's not like it's an obscure genre, giant monster movies have been popular since the 30s.

Exactly.  Giant Monster Movies.  Not the Japanese term.  You're in America, we use American terminology.

The word Noir is french but we still use it to label American movies. Same thing with kaiju.

Noir yes, kaiju, no.  Poll it.  Be proven wrong.  Unless you're a Japanese culture fanboy, you don't use it I'm willing to bet.  See what the prior post says about noir.

If you're a fan of giant monster movies, you're a fanboy of at least that part of Japanese culture by default because Japanese films are among the most iconic in that genre.