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jimmy olsen

#1935
July 07, 2009, 11:08:57 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 07, 2009, 11:06:09 PM
Quote from: Neil on July 07, 2009, 06:43:57 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 07, 2009, 02:36:41 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 07, 2009, 01:36:11 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 07, 2009, 01:32:16 PM
I don't even know what that is.

You should be flogged!  :mad:

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.
I thought he knew jujitsu?
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Syt

#1936
July 08, 2009, 12:51:23 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 07, 2009, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 07, 2009, 06:17:13 PM
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.

How about: dark
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Eddie Teach

#1937
July 08, 2009, 01:31:40 AM Last Edit: July 08, 2009, 01:34:58 AM by Peter Wiggin
Quote from: Syt on July 08, 2009, 12:51:23 AM
How about: dark

Too broad. Friday the 13th is dark. Eraserhead is dark. Boxing Helena, Audition, War of the Roses... you get the picture.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#1938
July 08, 2009, 02:05:30 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 08, 2009, 01:31:40 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 08, 2009, 12:51:23 AM
How about: dark

Too broad. Friday the 13th is dark. Eraserhead is dark.

They're horror films, not dark films.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Eddie Teach

#1939
July 08, 2009, 02:21:57 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 08, 2009, 02:05:30 AM
They're horror films, not dark films.

:lol:

Dark is simply a description of the mood, not a genre. If one wants to specify a morally ambiguous crime drama, he'd simply use the term "noir" as it's the one we use.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Lettow77

#1940
July 08, 2009, 02:49:11 AM
Lest their be any doubt- Using the term kaiju is certaintly some weeaboo japanophilia, and not the sort of thing that should be encouraged.

It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Grey Fox

#1941
July 08, 2009, 06:10:16 AM
Fight the good fight Tim! One day Kaiju will be accepted just like Cool is.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Josquius

#1942
July 08, 2009, 06:32:22 AM
'Giant monsters' is a far cooler term.
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Admiral Yi

#1943
July 08, 2009, 07:35:50 AM
Quote from: Lettow77 on July 08, 2009, 02:49:11 AM
Lest their be any doubt- Using the term kaiju is certaintly some weeaboo japanophilia, and not the sort of thing that should be encouraged.
Aren't you dating a girl with a cat's tail and ears?

Neil

#1944
July 08, 2009, 08:20:48 AM
What the fuck is a weeaboo?
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Mr.Penguin

#1945
July 08, 2009, 08:40:55 AM
Quote from: Neil on July 08, 2009, 08:20:48 AM
What the fuck is a weeaboo?

a wanna be Japanese or Wapanese from some word play on 4chan, its a internet geek thing... :nerd:
Real men drag their Guns into position

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Admiral Yi

#1946
July 08, 2009, 08:42:01 AM
A female weeazel.

Tamas

#1947
July 08, 2009, 08:46:26 AM
So what is 4chan exactly? It does appear to be the gathering place of the lamest and worst of the Internet, but I don't know.

Mr.Penguin

#1948
July 08, 2009, 08:55:55 AM
Quote from: Tamas on July 08, 2009, 08:46:26 AM
So what is 4chan exactly? It does appear to be the gathering place of the lamest and worst of the Internet, but I don't know.

pretty much what you said...
Real men drag their Guns into position

Spell check is for losers

Grey Fox

#1949
July 08, 2009, 09:30:45 AM
Quote from: Tamas on July 08, 2009, 08:46:26 AM
So what is 4chan exactly? It does appear to be the gathering place of the lamest and worst of the Internet, but I don't know.

Think somethingawfull but less assholish, younger & in love with Japan.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.
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