Thread: The Nanny State

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

There you go focusing on size again. Let's not hijack this thread anymore.

Dang!! You quoted me as I was deleting he post... busted.

At the shop it took me a year but I finally got two of the crew to watch "The Maltese Falcon." One of them, they are both 30 years old, asked me who that actor was when Humphrey Bogart was on screen. 15 minutes of fame.

Originally Posted by MJC

Soylent Green....is....people....!!!

Next it will be the Logan's Run comments/thread...

Yeah, I did figure that out. "Now back to our regularly scheduled programme..."

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

BobH --
I'm in my early 50s. I just never saw the movie. I never saw The French Connection either.

Wow, what a difference a few years makes, I am 59, either that or you had a sheltered life. Even such a small age difference might be a contributing factor on why people see things differently on certain subjects. Everyone's sum of life experience is different and so is their outlook.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Wow, what a difference a few years makes, I am 59, either that or you had a sheltered life. Even such a small age difference might be a contributing factor on why people see things differently on certain subjects. Everyone's sum of life experience is different and so is their outlook.

Bob

No, Bob, I just grew up in a fairly remote area in B.C. Not many theatres around, so I didn't see many movies as a kid.

Originally Posted by BobH

Wow, what a difference a few years makes, I am 59, either that or you had a sheltered life. Even such a small age difference might be a contributing factor on why people see things differently on certain subjects. Everyone's sum of life experience is different and so is their outlook.

Bob

I'm 63 and very familiar with films from the silent era up through the early 70s. Growing up in the early years of TV .... before made for TV movies began, they would show all of the movies from the '30s, '40s, and '50s. So I got to know a lot of the classics and the grade B stuff. By the early '70s I just stopped going to new movies.

So in '93 I was at a tattoo convention eating in a restaurant with some of the younger guys. The check came and we were figuring up how much we owed individually and I asked one 20 something guy why he wasn't leaving a tip. He told me he was "Mr Pink". I had no idea what he was talking about. I did get him to leave a tip .....everyone else did so I shamed him into it ..... and I found out about Quentin Tarantino and Reservoir Dogs. I would have been better off not knowing BTW.

I've never been able to stay awake through Reservoir Dogs. Doesn't sound like I missed much.

Jusrt read an article on pipes magazine.com about the New york tobaccoo ban. Bloomberg is outta control.Maybe like in Soylant green,he'll outlaw straberry jam. And Logans Run...sure why not it could happen. Get rid of the old generation so the young gens will never know the truth of the past world. It's only gonna get worse from here. Mapleleafalumnus...you mentioned something about farts a few comments back ? Did someone fart again.....really !? Sheesh !

Originally Posted by earcutter

Dang!! You quoted me as I was deleting he post... busted.

GOTCHA!

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Get rid of the old generation so the young gens will never know the truth of the past world. It's only gonna get worse from here.

This is truly one of my pet peeves. Young folks today have no idea of the USA as a manufacturing economy where a man could support his family, have a home with two cars, wife who had the option of staying home and taking care of the kids ... made enough to support all that and send the kids to college and had a viable retirement through pension plans. It is as Gary Oldman's character in Dracula says in disgust, "Only a tale to be told."