Da_bang80
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I've seen Hervey Birdman. Funny show.
The Jurassic Park Books/Movies are sort of like time travel. Not in the sense that you step into a machine and get zapped to the past. But more like they brought the past to the present.
Also, that one Star Trek movie where they go back in time to save the whales. I can't remember which one, I think it was the fourth one. That was a funny movie.
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quote:Originally posted by Hobbes: It's times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by The Jetsons. According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That's the problem with TV, it always lies to us.
I think they are actually working on the flying car. Of course making one that works is one thing, making one safe and affordable is something else alltogether. Imagine the traffic problems they'd cause though, what happens when some idiot though he could make it to work with only five quid in the tank? Messy.
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We'll never have flying cars- so many assholes cant drive on roads already -with their cell phones and GPS and general stupidity- that given the whole sky to crash around in is a horrid idea.
Here in South Florida, we had a woman crash her SUV into six cars (SIX!) while on her phone. She lost control of her SUV after hitting the first car and never thought to put down the phone to, you know, regain control of her vehicle. Bitch did not even lose her liscence.
(steps off soapbox)
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Shik
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As one reviewer said about that ad spot, "The flying-cars spot, for instance, plays to the viewer's weariness of dumbass prognostication. That seems like a reasonable instinct: Pie-in-the-sky predictions of the sort that used to be limited to the World's Fair are now pretty much inescapable, so a small dose of actual skepticism seems like an interesting gambit. But it's a very small dose, because it turns out that the only reason we don't have flying cars is that the Internet is actually better than flying cars. There are still no limits to what technology can accomplish. So, I guess those suckers stuck in traffic on the bridge just haven't yet taken full advantage of IBM software. Or something."
Tales of Future Past is a neat little site that collects all those funny prognostications for our comedic review.
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Funny I remember that commercial. I used to raise my hand up in the air whenever I saw it and say,"Damn Right". I guess that the reason why is that when it comes down too it flying cars are impracting for the reasons stated above. We wish for things like flying cars and transporters because they seem ideal in a particular situation we may be in, yet we fail to realize that if released to the public, they may do little to improve quality of life and may in fact make it worse. So the question really is not what we can do with technology, but why do it at all?
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quote:Originally posted by Hobbes: It's times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by The Jetsons. According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That's the problem with TV, it always lies to us.
Yeah, Notice that there are no ethnic groups in either the Flinstones or the Jetsons? What type of message is THAT?
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The message is that Hanna-Barbera hates spics, niggers, Kikes, fags, chinks, gooks, wetbacks, micks, Commies, dykes, towelheads, Nips, wogs, injuns, Krauts, & pineapples. Oh, AND the damn dirty Belgians. All have been removed from the gloriously Caucasian world.
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I think you missed a few, but hanna-barbera didn't.
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"The message is that Hanna-Barbera hates spics, niggers, Kikes, fags, chinks, gooks, wetbacks, micks, Commies, dykes, towelheads, Nips, wogs, injuns, Krauts, & pineapples. Oh, AND the damn dirty Belgians. All have been removed from the gloriously Caucasian world."
I hate to tell you this, but three of those are caucasian, and three aren't even race- or nation-based.
Also : "pineapple"? I can only assume the implication is "Polynesian", and state that that must be the least original attempt at a racial slur of all time.
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quote:Originally posted by Hobbes: In BttF 2 they establish that when a person encounters their past/future counterpart something bad can happen. Only doesn't when 2015 and 1955 Biff meet.
The reason something bad happened to the Jennifers (unconvincingly portrayed by Elizabeth Shue) is because neither one was aware of what was going on, I think. The problem came when the two versions of Jennifer recognized they were the same person without understanding it. Old Biff new he was talking to his past self, and Young Biff was too stupid to see the resemblance. I always thought that was the implication, since they made such a big deal of it earlier.
quote:Originally posted by Shik: The message is that Hanna-Barbera hates spics, niggers, Kikes, fags, chinks, gooks, wetbacks, micks, Commies, dykes, towelheads, Nips, wogs, injuns, Krauts, & pineapples. Oh, AND the damn dirty Belgians. All have been removed from the gloriously Caucasian world.
Or possibly the whites in Jetsons/Flinstone land killed off all the other races with their clublike or super-pointy noses.
Or mabye the other races in Jetsons just live on the fucking ground.
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