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#27 Feb 08 2012 at 9:33 PM Rating: Good
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No, the abortions would be if they preferred the prequels.

To spare them the horror of having to compare them to the originals?
#28 Feb 09 2012 at 8:04 AM Rating: Good
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No, the abortions would be if they preferred the prequels.
To spare them the horror of having to compare them to the originals?
I was thinking more to spare the parents the horror of spawning such failures, but that works too.
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#29 Feb 09 2012 at 8:27 AM Rating: Good
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I don't know if I'd call my kid a failure for merely comparing the originals to the prequels. Liking it over the prequels, sure.
#30 Feb 10 2012 at 3:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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Not seeing a single Star Wars film. Nobody gives a crap about Barbara Walters except for the people who make soft focus filters.

Though I do think threads that have a question posed but the OP refuses to answer his/her own question should be auto-locked.
#31 Feb 10 2012 at 7:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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Nah, keep the thread open, ban the OP.
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#32 Feb 10 2012 at 10:20 AM Rating: Decent
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What is it with late-20s to early-30s people trying to claim that not having seen Star Wars is somehow a cultural abomination? They're just movies, dammit.
#33 Feb 10 2012 at 10:38 AM Rating: Excellent
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Tee only abominations in this thread are Alma and Barabara Walters.
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#34 Feb 10 2012 at 10:56 AM Rating: Good
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Who the crap is Barbara Walters? I want someone to tell me because I don't care enough to google it...
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#35 Feb 10 2012 at 11:04 AM Rating: Good
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Who the crap is Barbara Walters? I want someone to tell me because I don't care enough to google it...
You could have googled her with less effort than it took you to write that post. Do your own homework.
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#36 Feb 10 2012 at 11:07 AM Rating: Good
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Who the crap is Barbara Walters? I want someone to tell me because I don't care enough to google it...
You could have googled her with less effort than it took you to write that post. Do your own homework.

This is an Alma thread. I thought that meant you just demand information and when no one gives it to you, you claim victory?


Also I googled her and still have no idea who she is. So the Star Wars thing.

Or whatever.
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#37 Feb 10 2012 at 1:57 PM Rating: Good
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Nilatai wrote:
Uglysasquatch wrote:
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Who the crap is Barbara Walters? I want someone to tell me because I don't care enough to google it...
You could have googled her with less effort than it took you to write that post. Do your own homework.

This is an Alma thread. I thought that meant you just demand information and when no one gives it to you, you claim victory?


Also I googled her and still have no idea who she is. So the Star Wars thing.

Or whatever.


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#38 Feb 10 2012 at 7:00 PM Rating: Decent
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Normally, when someone makes a post, they do so because A) They have an interesting story to tell or B) They feel they can create a meaningful or entertaining discussion. I have a hard time believing a functional (and I use the term liberally) human being could conceive the big "Barbara Walters vs. Star Wars" debate as falling under either of those categories.
#39 Feb 10 2012 at 7:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Normally, when someone makes a post, they do so because A) They have an interesting story to tell or B) They feel they can create a meaningful or entertaining discussion. I have a hard time believing a functional (and I use the term liberally) human being could conceive the big "Barbara Walters vs. Star Wars" debate as falling under either of those categories.


And yet... you were post #38. We're all just suckers, aren't we? Smiley: laugh
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#40 Feb 10 2012 at 9:52 PM Rating: Default
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It doesn't matter what you actually think. People will say the opposite of whatever I say. From what I hear, it's called "trolling".
Wait, you're the one who's never seen Star Wars? I assume you found this site due to gaming, so I can't imagine how you could never be intirgued enough to watch Star Wars.


????

I was referring to your comment about what people here would think. I said that it doesn't matter what I say, people will want to argue the opposite. That's why posters were hesitant to respond.
#41 Feb 10 2012 at 9:56 PM Rating: Default
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LeWoVoc wrote:
Normally, when someone makes a post, they do so because A) They have an interesting story to tell or B) They feel they can create a meaningful or entertaining discussion. I have a hard time believing a functional (and I use the term liberally) human being could conceive the big "Barbara Walters vs. Star Wars" debate as falling under either of those categories.


Do you honestly believe that most threads fall into those categories? I haven't checked recently, but I'm just asking.
#42 Feb 10 2012 at 10:16 PM Rating: Good
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If a 20-30 year old in USA hadn't seen a Star Wars filmed I'd be really surprised.

If they had no clue as to who Barbra Walters is, I'd be not surprised in the least. That's be like expecting people of my generation to know who Will Shirer or Edward R Murrow are. I mean, I know who they are but most of my contemporaries don't have a clue.



For those who asked, Barb was a big deal back in the day because she was the first woman in the US to chair a national TV news desk (as opposed to being just another pretty reporter). I use "pretty" as a relative term, here.Smiley: laugh

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#43 Feb 10 2012 at 10:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm still curious what Alma thinks.
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#44 Feb 11 2012 at 12:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm still curious what Alma thinks.

Take what the majority of people are saying and it will likely be the opposite. Not because it is his actual opinion but because he will have to take the opposite viewpoint so he can "prove" everyone says the opposite of him.
#45 Feb 11 2012 at 5:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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I suspect he thinks the answer is Star Wars as well, but he can't say that because people won't change their minds and argue against him, completely destroying his claim that people always chose the opposite of him when in reality, we usually choose the opposite of him because he's stupid and wrong and not just for the sake of picking the opposite of him.

Edited, Feb 11th 2012 7:53am by Uglysasquatch
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#46 Feb 11 2012 at 10:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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when in reality, we usually choose the opposite of him because he's stupid and wrong and not just for the sake of picking the opposite of him.

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#47 Feb 11 2012 at 10:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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And for the record, I'm olde like Bijou, so I know both Star Wars and Babah Wahwah.
#48 Feb 11 2012 at 11:25 AM Rating: Good
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I'm 27 and I have seen Star Wars and know who Barbara Walters is.

I'm not sure I'd call it "socially depriving" if someone hadn't seen one or known of the other, but I'd be more surprised if someone in the specified age range hadn't seen a single Star Wars movie, given the prevalence in the entertainment media.

I saw the original trilogy when I was young. I used to rent them from the library. Episode I was released in 1999, when I was 15. I was part of the targeted audience, and many of my friends who hadn't seen the original movies ended up seeing the new ones.

Without researching it, I'm going to assume that most Americans in the 0-20 age range are more familiar with current entertainment media than news media. Chances of exposure to the Star Wars movies during those years is likely higher than chances of exposure to Barbara Walters' news programs. My parents typically watched the NBC news programs, so I probably wasn't more than tangentially aware of Walters for some time.

Anyway, with all the releases and re-releases of the Star Wars movies, as well as their frequent airing on many television channels, combined with the general news/political ignorance of the American populace I'd feel safe with the assumption that more 25- to 30-year-olds have seen a Star Wars movie than know who Barbara Walters is. I don't think that either is necessarily socially crippling.
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#50 Feb 12 2012 at 6:05 AM Rating: Good
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And for the record, I'm olde like Bijou, so I know both Star Wars and Babah Wahwah.


Me too and I can add Edward R. Murrow to that list too.
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And for the record, I'm olde like Bijou, so I know both Star Wars and Babah Wahwah.


Me too and I can add Edward R. Murrow to that list too.
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