I think the only thing that was a big deal for me from childhood was Transformers. Thanks for the effort, Michael Bay *rolls eyes*

the deals were bigger when TV and movies were limited. now you can see anything youw ant whenever youw ant to pretty much. nothing to get excited about.

But then, I was never wowed much by special effects anyway; the part of my mind that normally might be would usually just say "Well duh, that's what it's supposed to look like"

i never thought of them as special effects. even when they were quite bad, i just accepted them.

 

big movies were like events. a social phenomenon. na? non? no clue.

 

it wasn't like you could just get the DVD and see them again. it could take years for them to ever be on TV, and if they ever were.... really crappy little screens, edited all to hell, cut to shreds with commercials. and once a year at best.

 

plus these were movies kids would be set loose in - the parents would just leave. it was an unaccustomed freedom. took as much advantage of it as possible.

Edited November 6, 201113 yr by cindy

Hm, free-range children. You don't see those that often anymore. Now the news media has everyone too terrified of the same kidnappers, child molestors, and serial killers that have always existed.

kidnappers, child molestors, and serial killers would have feared o enter those theaters...

 

children are in the most danger from their immediate family and friends, anyway. but fear is good for the economy.

Or from the slow stripping away thereof, or whatever.

trying to parse that.... you're too smart for me.

Imagine how much fun my assistant had at the sign shop I worked at in Phoenix, who when I got there spoke very little English.

you corrected that, i presume.

She didn't really have much choice; as you pointed out, I'm hard enough to keep up with for native English speakers.

Probably taught the assistant how to say "moving forward" like a real American.

i'm from brooklyn, so i'm not sure i qualify as a native speaker. but yes, barring sign language, she would have had no choice.

Told wifey I was coming up here to RP...better get at it, huh?

you're toast if she checks your history anyway.

She only uses the computer for pictures. Anyway. After 38 years she knows me pretty good.

 

But, she still says that I shouldn't be sitting on my butt on "that stupid internet" for so long of a time. Don't I just hate it when she's right? Not really.

and you don't use the computer for pictures?

I dunno, Gwampy, depending on which columnist/commentator you ask, I probably don't qualify as a real Amerikan.

you were born in america you real.

Tell that to Sarah Palin. Or Ann Coulter.

 

Ever notice that it's the women on each side of politics that manage to be the most vicious? Maureen Dowd is a pretty horrible person sometimes too.

wouldn't cross the street to spit on them if they were on fire, as they say.

 

there's a lot of people in this country. by definition, half of them have IQs under 100. by logic, half of the ones above the 100 are idiots of another sort.

 

and they all have a forum.

 

sound and fury signifying nothing.

 

i learned to ignore the vile stupidity of the masses early on. you really just have to, until they drag you onto the trains.

I mean, the guys can be pretty unpleasant too (O'Reilly, Olbermann), but the women on both sides are the worst.

yes. i raised dogs. it was true for them as well.

And you have the missing appendages to prove it.

the only scars i still have are from breaking up a fight between males, from which i learned to not break up fights by putting ahand between fighting dogs.

 

the females i knew enough to give more space.