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I always smile when I hear Sean Connery put down the Beatles in Goldfinger.CharlesB said:Even my grandfather loved the Beatles. How can someone not like the Beatles? Seriously.....my mind is blown.
fascinating, is this movie worth taking a look at ?pgoat said:
Maguire said:the point is stick to it STAND UP AGAINST THE TIDE, etc. the soul is more important than the material aspects of it. you may end up influencing people positively by example.
I take it you read Wired magazine then?CharlesB said:$chan has given us the LOLCats so that = MFW
DerMann said:I take it you read Wired magazine then?
In the even that your knowledge of 4chan does come from Wired, and not from first hand accounts of the actual board, 4chan has indeed given us much more than LOLcats. Most of it isn't necessarily SFW either...
My girlfriend and I both got really bored with it because there is a definite end to 4chan. Once you have seen all the memes, it's very easy to see the same image/joke used multiple times on multiple threads within 20 minutes. There is no original content on /b/.
They definitely have some very nice wallpapers on /wg/ from time to time, though.
I know what you mean. For the longest time, I had a pile of Jeeves and Wooster books just sitting around. However, whenever I got free time I would open up 4chan instead of cracking open Wodehouse - knowing that Wodehouse was twice times as funny and ten times as clever.Maguire said:For me, the clothing is not really the most important aspect. I agree that computers and the internet may be great, but honestly, once i get myself settled i'd like to cut myself away from it as best as possible, as it drags me away from books or just enjoying other aspects of the Real world.. It ends up being pure escapism.
perhaps, but its not good for the eyes, i imagine. I prefer physical copies, even of works i can find online.DerMann said:I really wish I would read more, but sometimes it is very hard to pry myself from the computer. I've taken to reading books from Project Gutenberg on my laptop before bed. A step in the right direction, right?
Absolutely, Amy Jeanne - I have a fondness for these aspects as well (it would be hard to love the twenties and not have a soft spot for what sometimes edges into the loud or OTT...it's part of the charm of the era).Amy Jeanne said:I'm not 100% "old fashioned" in my way of life or thinking. I actually prefer the lurid, gaudy, and "offensive" parts of the "Golden Era." That's why I love off-colour pre-Code cinema and exploitation films. I like it that so many people think the "good old days" were so pure and wholesome, yet I've got all this evidence that it wasn't. Sure, it's not as "in your face" as today, but it was still there. Imagine what it was like to all these people who just came out of the uptight Victorian and Edwardian eras! It must've been totally offensive to see a woman 30 feet high in nothing but her step-ins!
Which brings this to me! I swear a lot. I like vulgar and trashy things. I like to laugh and LAUGH HARD! But I'm also very "moral" (I love my husband and no one else!), I'm polite when around those I don't know, I always use Please and Thank You, I never use swear words around family or those I don't know. I don't even put other people down on this message board just because they might not dress like me!!! I don't think I'm any different than a woman my age from 1934. Or any woman from any time for that matter! I've heard that my grandmother (b. 1901) had a vulgar sense of humour and I guess I get it from her!
Mojito said:When we see the golden age through rosy glasses and draw negative comparisions with life today, I'm always reminded of Louise Brookes' comment about hypocrites who "prayed in the parlour and practiced incest in the barn" (she had reason to be angry - she'd been a victim of sexual abuse herself). I have relatives on both sides of my family who were only able in recent years to reveal that they were abused by trusted family friends and authority figures in the 30s and 50s - and these were from "nice" families in "safe" suburban areas. Which is not to say that these things do not occur today - only that the past isn't perfect. One of the things that so fascinates me about studying social history is the surface gloss, the underbelly, and everything in between.
freebird said:I have never been drunk, the closest I have come to alcohol was my High School science project - building a scale model still and running it. Someone snuck in and drank the mash - but I got an A+ for trying. I drive close to the speed limit-5 mph over. Punched a time clock until I was unable to continue to work. I was and am considered quite boring. The wildest thing I do on a regular basis is shave with my straight razors.[huh] I wasn't in the scouts, so I have to blame it upon my being raised by old fashioned parents in an old fashioned family.
Mojito said:Which is not to say that these things do not occur today - only that the past isn't perfect.
Maguire said:Well it really seems to water down any genuine emotion as far as i'm concerned, when you're in a relationship with someone who was in 10 relationships before. And you yourself having had a similar number. How can it be special, how can an "i love you" really have any value?
Ahem! ahem! i like to think that some of us are gentlemen, i give up my seat to ladies on crowded trains and always hold doors open just like my dear old granny taught me, (so it was a lady who taught me manners )- but you are right retro, judging by the astonished looks and gushing thanks i receive from ladies my behaviour must be the exception rather than the rule...retrogirl1941 said:The opinion of most people I work with is that; I am stuck in a leave to beaver episode. I always try to act like a lady(or as much as one can in world where all the gentlemen have disapeared.).I know when to stand up for myself but do it with out being unnessarily mean or hurtful. I consider that if I dress like a lady, I should attempt to act like one.
Samantha
Flivver said:I was also raised by old fashioned parents (born 1918 and 1919) who taught me their values. And since I was an only child, those values stuck. I also have never been drunk (I don't even drink, and never have) and I try to treat others as I'd like to be treated.
I find that most of my friends are ten years older than me. I guess that's because our values are more alike. I don't try to be old-fashioned...it's just who I am. People my own age never understood me nor I them. That's why I find the Lounge to be so much fun...it's full of people who are displaced in time - like me!
byronic said:Ahem! ahem! i like to think that some of us are gentlemen, i give up my seat to ladies on crowded trains and always hold doors open just like my dear old granny taught me, (so it was a lady who taught me manners )- but you are right retro, judging by the astonished looks and gushing thanks i receive from ladies my behaviour must be the exception rather than the rule...