Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I didn't realize if there are 3 Disney movies on this year : Dumbo, Alladin and Lion King.
I have watched Dumbo and it was pretty good with completely different plot story than the cartoon version. I wonder what will happen to Alladin and Lion King. I still haven't see HD 3D of Timon and Pumba.

It's all about animaniacs

Helloooo nurse

Love that line. Used to use it Every time a nurse walked in when I went to the Dr as a kid

@NEStalgia I have nothing but respect for people who sign up to serve their nation putting themselves into mortal danger to do so. Well, respect and pity because I believe America and other nations abuse that loyalty and service - but that is another discussion.

My issue is that I think it is ridiculous to consider someone old enough to vote in elections and to make the choice of joining the military at age 18, but to say at the same time, they are not mature enough to be allowed to drink alcohol.

When I was under 21 people often brushed off this opinion from me saying "Oh you just want to drink!". And yet, here I am distinctly past 21, now 27, and my opinion remains totally unchanged.

If it were up to me, the legal age of adulthood would be 18 and everything would start there, drinking age, voting age, driving age, age that you can enter into a legally binding contract without parental consent... And part of secondary education, high school, would be preparation for these things.

That reminds me....I need to check theater times for Dumbo. XD 2019 is gonna be a big movie theater year for me. Too much stuff I wanna see.

@ThanosReXXX
i wish i was an octopus so i can put 8 feet in 8 different peoples a**** at once for putting pineapple on pizzas

@NEStalgia While it's true that a lot of the military nowadays requires recruits to be able to do more than just function, there's still a disparity between soldiers and their commanding officers/management. Besides that, the brain not being fully developed yet still counts as a factor today, so that's also something that hasn't changed through the ages. Perhaps needless to say, though, that I was only half serious. Why else would I have put a smiley right next to a sentence mentioning cannon fodder being sent to die?

As for Wayne Knight's Adult Pinball: no, man. Just no. As in: not in a million years. We're never going to agree on that one. And Brazzers just isn't dungeon-y, so it really doesn't fit at all. It's all about high-class, aesthetically pleasing adult entertainment. It features good-looking people, beautiful locations, and besides it obviously being adult entertainment, it still has some class in its own category, something that I don't associate with dungeons, which is definitely more into SM and dominance territory, which doesn't appeal to me at all. Far too harsh, and not really enticing to me. Then again: apparently some people like it, otherwise it wouldn't be there in the first place. Personally, I've just never understood it.

@Tyranexx Not to worry. You can't make me feel old. Only I myself have that power. I do frequently feel smarter and more world-wise than a lot of other people, though...

And I think that people around your age or younger are in the majority here anyways, so you could only have affected a small group of people anyways.

Oh, and you missed nothing about Knight's popularity. I found it okayish at best. Then again: that's only my opinion, obviously. I do think (re-)watching the old Jurassic Park movies now loses some of the massive impact that they had back in the day, although some would argue that the dinos in that movie still look better than the ones we see in Jurassic World nowadays. But you can judge for yourself, once you get to them. The story of the first two movies still holds up pretty well, though, so you could definitely still get some decent entertainment value from watching those.

@ogo79 A bit late with the pineapple reference there, my friend. Now all you've done is bring the topic back to the front of the line, whereas most of us, including the pineapple fans, had already moved on.

@AlohaPizzaJack Pineapple is back in the conversation, so you're up.

@Heavyarms55 Some good points. And I too have respect for those who serve, even though I did make a bit of a joke of it earlier. I massively respect those who served in the last great war, and my grandparents told me lots of impressive stories about it, which really drove the point home that without their sacrifice, the world as we know it today wouldn't even exist. Having said that, though, it did also make clear that almost an entire generation of way too young men died to accomplish that, and it kinda makes you wonder if they did really know what they were doing, at that age. They probably did do some accelerated growing up, though...

But to get back to your main point: yeah, it really IS weird how you can vote, join the army and drive but not drink. Don't know about your whereabouts or the US, but over here, you can even already start your political party at 14 or 15, and actually have a say in things within respective parties, which really is kinda weird, because it theoretically means you could gain a measure of control over rules and regulations of a government, but you couldn't even buy a beer to celebrate your victory if you'd be able to achieve that goal...

@ThanosReXXX
Psst...
Random thing.
Just want to share some informations.
Young girls with at least 15 or 16 years old are allowed to pursue Modelling career, like Tyra Banks did when she was 15 years old.

And here in my country, young girls at least 18 years old or graduated from Senior High School are allowed to work as Kindergarten Shadow teacher (with training) / Kindergarten assistant teacher.

Pineapple is always part of the conversation, whether the party involved is aware or not.

Put him in a body bag, Johnny!!

@Heavyarms55 Actually I generally agree with the majority of what you said, especially the last paragraph. Though I still feel 18 is far (far) too young for voting. Politicians love pushing the ages down because the young generally lack the experience to understand the long term implications of any political arc and are easy to sell any promise. Frankly I think the voting age should be the same age as the requirements for the Presidency (35). It's that age for a reason. You can't make fully informed decisions without being a part of the long term effects of policy for a long time. I think we'd have much, much more stable policies at large. Yes, senators can be 30, reps 25..... but seeing as how Congress never has an approval rating over the teens, it's safe to say they're not an example worth following. Technically thats' what the founding fathers were getting at with "only land owners" voting, both a more mature voting base, and those with "skin in the game" (rather than voting what to do with other people's money which is what we have now.) For various reasons that was a bit too targeted and didn't work well with later changes in the socio-economic system, but the real thinking behind that system was to achieve a similar result.

@ThanosReXXX As for the WWII generation, from most of the guys I've had the pleasure to talk to (including, not discussion, but letters and such left behind from my grandfather from when he signed up, etc), they knew full well what they were getting into. They were a lot more mature at a much younger age than today, because they had to be. Most of them had jobs in their childhood. Not "take your kiddy to work day"...actual jobs. It wasn't fluffy-butt career planning like today. You're born, you do stuff to make money, that's your life, forever. It was the Depression. Survival was their job starting as children. But back then there was a sense of national unity. The public was ambivalent about the war in Europe. But Pearl Harbor, even moreso than 9/11, struck a chord for many. Life was bleak but a sense of national self carried the mood. And then someone dared to take that war from "over there" and bring it "here" (geography notwithstanding.) To so many of them it was a very personal attack, and the knew fully what they were getting into and they were beyond eager to do something about it. Granted, some of them changed their minds once they saw the things they saw in the worst places, Iwo Jima, Normandy, the concentration camps. But I don't think that result would be different if you're 18 or 81 and knowing what you're getting into. But those guys had more life experience by 18 than we'll probably have when we're 81.

Wayne's Pinball: MAKE IT HAPPEN NINTENDO!

Braz: ok, we're crossing the TMI line....

I'm bored right now. 😪
At the same time it's time for bedtime, but i still want to play something for a while before i sleep.
Which should i play?
3DS or Switch (Handheld mode) ?

Play “my 3DS died because I fell asleep playing 3D”

That's Anti's most played title

@Anti-Matter Psst... random answer:

I'm not interested in anything concerning modeling agencies or programs.
Not unless the models wear lingerie or nothing, that is...

@AlohaPizzaJack Hey, man. Preaching to the choir here. Bring on them tropical fruits!

@NEStalgia So, you think they're too young to vote, but not too young to join the army?
Semi-agreed on the whole different times thing, during the great war, but brain development still applies, and that's a biological thing, not a social or economical thing, so hard times do literally nothing to hasten the development of the brain. The very thing you described about younger people basically not being able to see long term effects and so on, applies here as well, albeit only to some extent, seeing as often times, there was no long term effect for the individuals in question. It was of course more of a "for the greater good" thing, and many of them probably went in thinking on the one hand that they were invincible (which is also a pretty good explanation/reason for the supposed eagerness you mentioned), seeing as that is the exact sentiment that often comes with that age (even to this day, in youths of this generation), and on the other hand, most of them will probably have known full-well that there was a considerable chance that they weren't going to come back unscathed, if at all.

Then again: you'd have to wonder if, even while realizing that, they were already fully and mentally aware of the implications and ramifications of that possibility. My sincere guess is that they didn't fully realize all of those factors involved. And I too have spoken to several people (besides listening to wartime stories from my grandfather, who was a prisoner, put to work in a bicycle factory, so he wasn't really a source for that kind of information, but he certainly was able to tell me a lot of stories regardless).

@ThanosReXXX Well, it's a fair bet those models are wearing lingerie...or nothing....so I guess it's game-on for you......

Though I think Anti's point was the age difference of 15-16 (lingerie included) versus 18 for teacher's apprentice, relating to the weird differences in age gaps between allowed things (I think that was the point, anyway.)

As for brain differences....true...but also a different context. Politics is a long, slow, subtle thing that if you haven't experienced it over the long haul, seen the manipulations, seen how well meaning sounding ideas warp and diffuse when applied to humans with power, and develop a lot of cynicism toward ideas that sound good, you can't really understand how voting on one person/idea today might affect things 40 years later if a protected childhood is most of your entire experience with the world. OTOH warfare is a lot more straightforward and less subtle. Sure the politics that determine the escalation of said conflict are intricate, but that's handled by the voting age. Addressing the conflict is generally straight forward of having the iron will and, generally, emotional conviction to see it through. You don't need as much life experience to decide you agree/support a given side of a conflict and want to contribute to it's victory/safety even enduring suffering to do so as it's an immediate risk/reward with obvious ends.

Plus, there's the little problem that by the time you're old enough to understand what's going on, you're in no way physically fit enough, or economically able to drop everything to fight a war. Even if you and I could go and wanted to go into the military.....who would want to carry us back to base every day? I can't even make it back in Quake CTF

Or put another way, military activity is an almost hardwired primitive part of our brains. Defense, aggression, fear, reaction, territorialism, group protection. You don't need elaborate thought from seasoned thinking to have a full understanding of it's directly related to our hardwired thinking. Politics is all in the intellectual spehere that takes a lot of seasoning of nuance to comprehend. OTOH generally the ones that join the military, ALSO understand the nuance of politics at said young age too as it directly affects their present reality in a way that us civvies don't experience, so we're kind of talking "on average" for the population as a whole. However, yes, that feeling of invincibility goes with that age, which is part of why that age us chosen for military use. It's a useful tool. Albeit in real conflict, once they saw action they generally learned otherwise. In that conflict though there was the advantage of the war having been going on in Europe for years already....they'd already heard the reports of how bad things were getting. But at the same time they'd also heard of places important to them getting ravaged considering how much of the population was first, second, or third generation German, French, Italian, Polish, English/Irish at the time, that was the homes of their parents/grandparents getting obliterated, and in some cases distant or not distant relatives being killed over there. It really was personal for so many of them. It's a little different from Nam, Korea, or the Middle-East today, where it was "some other place unrelated to anything personal" for most involved.

Yeah, I don't think it's possible to be FULLY aware of the implications until you see it yourself. But I also don't think that's age dependent. I think it's just seriously not possible to really internalize that without seeing it yourself. And that's what separates the hardened career guys, the guys that proudly get it done, go home, and don't talk much about it, and the guys that are messed up for life. An innate ability to deal with it or not. But you don't find out until you get there.

So, it’s totally acceptable for someone entering a legal name in a medical record to write “Addicted to crack” in the Alias field, right?
Bob “Addicted to crack” Johnson.

Just found 825 records with notes and crap like that populating the alias fields. And the ever so lovely “NA” trashing it up, too. Even putting 3 people on this pulls a caseload of 4 hours.