The Off Topic Topic

[jimmy olsen]

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

[Darth Wagtaros]

 

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.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Cobra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Neil]

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

A remorhaz doesn't get anywhere near that size.

[Neil]

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.

I like monotheism, but I'm not a fanboy of Arabic culture.

[jimmy olsen]

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

A remorhaz doesn't get anywhere near that size.

Pay attention, I said it was based on a scene from a children's book. It isn't a remorhaz.

[DisturbedPervert]

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.

Never heard of kaiju before.  Don't think it's nearly as widely known as other terms, like bukakke.

[Neil]

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

A remorhaz doesn't get anywhere near that size.

Pay attention, I said it was based on a scene from a children's book. It isn't a remorhaz.

It looks like a remorhaz.  The artist is a rip-off man and a piece of shit.  Hopefully he gets sued into nonexistance.  Although the Japanese are fairly lax on that sort of thing.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Bonzai!!

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.

Never heard of kaiju before.  Don't think it's nearly as widely known as other terms, like bukakke.

[Eddie Teach]

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.

Only if we also agree that all people who refer to this thread as tOTT should be shot.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Hmmm. No.  No, I don't think that would be a good idea. tOTT depends on the free exchange of ideas.

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.

Only if we also agree that all people who refer to this thread as tOTT should be shot.

[Weatherman]

 

[jimmy olsen]

What's wrong?

[Razgovory]

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?

He called it Bartisu I think.

[Razgovory]

I don't even know what that is.

You should be flogged! 

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

Now that I think of it I may have heard the term once in a review of Spielberg's War of the Worlds.  But I must have forgotten it.  I thought it was some kind of horrid thing the japanese eat.