The Ranting Room

Talk to friends without talking.

NaturalScience wrote: Can you block this user?  Or "de-friend" him, or whatever it is?

Yeah, but before I could, he kinda/sorta apologized and said he needed to let off steam. Why he needed to do so on my Facebook note talking about a f**king monster movie is beyond me. I guess his right hand dumped him or something.

OK, so I posted my thoughts on the film Cloverfield on Facebook, and all my friends had similar opinions. Then someone I barely know and don't even remember friending comes in and spams my account because he loved the film and wouldn't hear a word against it. He accused me of being "whiny" because I wanted some intelligence behind a film (he called me this while he was spamming fanboy love). Then he called me pretentious and an elitist. That's pretty funny, cause out of the hundreds of movies I've seen, I've truly disliked less than ten (Cloverfield, Spider-Man 3, The Matrix sequels, Deuce Bigalow, Fast and The Furious, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Transformers, and Baby Geniuses). With the exception of Fast and the Furious, Baby Geniuses, and Deuce Bigalow, the running theme is films that were a huge letdown for me.

Here's my point, if someone doesn't like a movie you do, who gives a f**k? What are you, five? I like films many don't, and I hate films some love. I never insult anyone over their tastes, though (other than mild ribbing, which is not insulting). I can't cope with the kind of childishness it takes to get mad over something you had no involvement with.

Man Erg wrote: Blacksword wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Or listen to them for three minutes Steady on Jim, there are limits to torture in a civilised society.. I'm sure that Amnesty International would 'turn a blind eye' in this case.

Edited by Heavyfreight - January 24 2008 at 13:17

Jim Garten wrote: Or listen to them for three minutes

Steady on Jim, there are limits to torture in a civilised society..

Edited by Blacksword - January 24 2008 at 07:24

A B Negative wrote: Who in their right mind would be presumptious enough to think "what that tune needs is to take off Keith Moon's drums and replace them with asomething a bit more dancey"? I'm talking about you, CSI producers!  If you think The Who's music is actually improved by replacing one of the best rock drummers with an indie-dance beat worthy of such musical greats as The Paris Angels or Northside, you should be forced to eat your drum machine!

Sounds like you're describing a very definite crime against music and good taste! This would be like replacing Bonhams drum track on 'When the Levee Breaks' with some ghastly hip hop drum loop, complete with scratches.. Offensive!

The producers should be forced to EAT Phil Collins CD's for a month..

Edited by fandango - January 24 2008 at 05:33

Ch-Ching!

Cheers, Andy

I allow free use to all friends ; here's another one to describe a scutter sub-species: ICBM

Irretrievably
Common
Breeding
Machine

There's another one in development too:

Fat
Ugly
Common

Can't quite finish that one... somehow King Crimson fan doesn't seem appropriate

NaturalScience wrote: After reading all this, all I can say is, "big ups" to my fellow GRoomers and Ranters!  Fo' real, yo!