TCTTS said:
PaulSimonsGhost said:
TCTTS, I'm only blowing off steam and maybe triggering one or two people for $h!ts and giggles.
Don't be mad at me. I know this is "your house" - you're the Entertainment Board's Don Vito, Brian Earl Spiller is your Michael Corleone and these are your people. I mean no disrespect, Godfather.
However, Disney Star Wars sucks donkey balls. If you've ever been to a Mexican boarder town there are establishments where a woman for a small fee will get up on stage, approach the donkey after applying liberal amounts of Carmex and... well, it's not easily forgotten.
And that's what Disney Star Wars is.
That's all I'm saying.
I hear you. Admittedly, you seem to be having more "fun" others of your ilk who enjoy "triggering" less for sh*ts and giggles and more because they're miserable people.
That said, me speaking up from time to time has nothing to do with this being "my house" or whatever. Despite what some might say, I could not care less about that crap. There are just certain things here that set me off - rants from forum 16 regulars, endless b*tching without being constructive, and hypocrisy, to name a few. Some of your posts have grazed a few of those, and one of my weaknesses is not being able to bite my tongue when I see those things. It's as simple as that. It has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of self-inflated importance or trying to be the board sheriff or whatever.
Still, I appreciate your candor, and actually agree with many of your Star Wars points. I just think they can be delivered better, that's all.
My rant wasn't really intended as a representative of Forum 16. That was just me talking outta my ass. I think this "us" versus "them" thing b/t our boards is weak but I don't see it dissolving.
The posters on 16 are pretty passionate about our beliefs. Some of us have really invested in the whole America thing and Hollywood kind of makes it their aim to **** all over that. So some guys take that pretty hard.
We're really not all a bunch of bitter @$$hol3s running around with sticks up our butts shaking our fists in the air (actually I can think of 2 or 3 guys who are and they're probably the same ones who come over here and take a $h!t on your front porch).
I won't throw those guys under the bus but it does stink they perpetuate the animosity.
Look, I love film. I love movie making. I love set design, costumes, story telling, the intrigue of what goes on behind the scenes. Basically I love what you do. Most people do.
I am hypercritical of film to a fault; guilty. Action movies in particular. I served two deployments in Afghanistan as an officer in the
Navy Seabees and so anytime Jason Statham walks away from a bomb blast's radius w/o his torso
being eviscerated or a ballerina sized actress overcomes a 220lb man using CQC I just roll my eyes.
I can shrug that off. The pronounced woke politics in film warping organic story telling bothers me. They vilify me as a white guy, as a veteran, as a (inactive) Christian, as a Republican, as a heterosexual and as an American.
That $h!t gets old b/c I've invested a lot in this country doing things I didn't really want to, going places I didn't really want to and engaging people with lethal intent that I didn't really want to.
I'm getting side tracked, but my point is I'm sorry for the conflict b/t our 2 boards. It probably won't get better.
In fact, like our country as a whole, most signs point to a downward trajectory in civility.
But I personally will make an honest attempt to not contribute to that negativity. I won't necessarily try to protect the self esteem of bad movies like the
Terminator Estrogen disaster, but I can dial down the intensity. The mocking will continue though

And finally, weather or not you consider yourself the sheriff, people still see you as Gary Cooper. And that speaks volumes about you my man. Good stuff.
Me? I'm Loki. I'm here just to have a good time and start a few bar fights. I don't want to hurt no body. I just want to make a little love, watch a good movie and sip my coke and rum while telling a joke or two.
Gig'em Sherriff
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