Milo Minderbinder: How did a Neil Armstrong thread turn into a Dr. Who debate? If there is a less justified reason for calling someone an asshole then their opinion on episodic tv, I have not seen it. Grow up, people.

You've been here for 7 years, you should know that threads very often are about the headline rather than the article.

According to a blinking red light in my palm subby gets a +1.

I'm not sure why, but whenever I read that headline, I feel like I just bludgeoned a large humanoid to death with a mop handle.

Milo Minderbinder: How did a Neil Armstrong thread turn into a Dr. Who debate? If there is a less justified reason for calling someone an asshole then their opinion on episodic tv, I have not seen it. Grow up, people.

No one called anyone an asshole over their opinion on episodic TV. Someone got called an asshole because they were acting all assholy.

Reading comprehension: the other white meat.

/funny headline. Props to subby.

So what happens to all the Silence's bodies? Do people dispose of the bodies when they see them lying around everywhere and then forget that they disposed of them? Do they still hold their memory-erasing properties as they decay?

irving47: Oh goody. I get to explain it.
Doctor Who...
The race is referred to as the Silents or Silence...
You can't remember anything about them the moment you look away from them, but whatever they say when you do, is interpreted by your brain as a post-hypnotic suggestion. Unaware, one slipped up and said you should kill us all on sight to someone making a video recording of it. To rid the planet of them, The Doctor inserts the video into the live feed of the moon landing. It is absolutely freaking brilliant.

Because Plantronics headsets have ALWAYS SUCKED.

Have you seen the ad where the astronaut gets yanked back by the cable? And then they go on to say how great the transmission was because of Plantronics?



But they conveniently cut off the transmission when he gets pulled back by the cable, hence not reminding the audience what the actual transmission was, which was A BUNCH OF farkING UNINTELLIGABLE NOISE!!!

Hey, Plantronics, why don't you sufdhdgsojdxxxshshsh my didifffieeshshsskkkssgg

It's so ironic that they make a commercial about how their headsets aided transmission, and in the very same farking commercial they had to hide how shiatty they are. The only thing I can think of like it was when Hillary said (sniper fire) "I don't think I was serving tea", when it turned out that in reality, far from sniper fire and tea serving, she was being read poetry by an 8 year old girl.

Congratulations, Plantronics. You are the Hillary Clinton of headsets.

taurusowner: Can we stop pretending "Doctor Who" is or ever was a good show? You're not more sophisticated or smarter for liking some hack British sci-fi show.

\Doctor Who fans are sci-fi hipsters

dennerman: Lernaeus: taurusowner: Can we stop pretending "Doctor Who" is or ever was a good show? You're not more sophisticated or smarter for liking some hack British sci-fi show.

\Doctor Who fans are sci-fi hipsters

stoplikingwhatidontlike.jpg

Seriously, shut the f*ck up and find a thread where they're talking about a show you like.

Who fans may be "sci-fi hipsters," but people who show up in threads just to insult everyone else's taste are just plain assholes.

Asshole.

I agree. There's a whole mentality that exists where people get infuriated when people like things that they don't, and conversely they are also infuriated when things they like are loved by everyone. I think it has always existed, and has become much more pronounced now that the internet provides such instant feedback.

I hope someone is doing a study on this to understand it better. It's like people feel their whole sense of self is invalidated if everyone else's opinions and taste doesn't align with them. It's absurd, but it's obvious that this issue is widespread.

DjangoStonereaver: Whether he said "man" or "a man" has been a bone of contention for years.

Yes, that was my point. I guess I was being too sarcastic.

Purdue_Pete: "Oh look, someone died a few months ago and now I think enough time has passed to start revising history now that the person can't refute my version of the truth"...

Yeah, your sarcasm was better.

/feels shame

After I understood WTF it was about... golf clap. Well done, subby.

omgbears: So what happens to all the Silence's bodies? Do people dispose of the bodies when they see them lying around everywhere and then forget that they disposed of them? Do they still hold their memory-erasing properties as they decay?

So many Doctor Who villains have never stood up to scrutiny beyond the episodes they appear. They're walking plot devices. They all have that "how do Daleks walk up stairs? *" issue that comes up once you think about them too long.

*yeah, yeah that's been answered

Very well done, Subby.  +1

jack21221: Lol! Funny thing was I saw that episode (and every episode since the reboot). I just don't have every line memorized. :-/

Most people just google the quotes they need for a headline.

Lernaeus: taurusowner: Can we stop pretending "Doctor Who" is or ever was a good show? You're not more sophisticated or smarter for liking some hack British sci-fi show.

\Doctor Who fans are sci-fi hipsters

stoplikingwhatidontlike.jpg

Seriously, shut the f*ck up and find a thread where they're talking about a show you like.

Who fans may be "sci-fi hipsters," but people who show up in threads just to insult everyone else's taste are just plain assholes.

Asshole.

dennerman: dammit, i have a type in there. It should read "are also infuriated when things they like aren't loved by everyone".

Actually, you are correct both ways. It's amazing how people will turn on something they love when it becomes "too popular."

OtherLittleGuy: jack21221: Allow me to be the first to say "I don't get it."

Check your arm for marks.

/was watching last night, of all things, Fox News with Cavuto, giving a presentation on the the Space Age to the Moon landing
//very good

FOX NEWS!??? YOU WATCHED FOX NEWS???? APOSTATE!!!!! DEMON!!!!! UNCLEAN!

subby must have been watching the Dr Who Years Eve marathon on BBC...

One thing always bothered me about that episode.. Wouldn't there have been a period of time where the planet would have been littered with the rotting corpses of dead aliens?.. Or are we supposed to believe that we'd forget the smell just as quickly?

Perhaps there was a sudden rush on vics vaporub around that time...


/yes, i know it's fiction
//still fun to ponder these things.

/+1 on the headline, subby.

Cheron: jack21221: Allow me to be the first to say "I don't get it."

Link

I have to say, that was SUPER clever... (no snark, honestly!) How did you do that!?!? (I could use this for some of my friends who are google challenged)

/I LITERALLY LOL'd!
//tell me!
///d*mn you!

+1 subby.

Just watched that episode again last night.

Purdue_Pete: "Oh look, someone died a few months ago and now I think enough time has passed to start revising history now that the person can't refute my version of the truth"...

Fortunately, Buzz Aldrin is still around to smack smartasses like this right in the mouth.

On the case...



/Hot as David 8.

fradix: One thing always bothered me about that episode.. Wouldn't there have been a period of time where the planet would have been littered with the rotting corpses of dead aliens?.. Or are we supposed to believe that we'd forget the smell just as quickly?

Perhaps there was a sudden rush on vics vaporub around that time...


/yes, i know it's fiction
//still fun to ponder these things.

I was going to make a joke about the bodies being burned in the Cuyahoga, but unfortunately for my sense of humor, that happened a month before the moon landing.

How Alien life might greet a human...

"Morning sir, or madam, or neuter," the thing said. "This your planet, is it?"
"Well, er. I suppose so," Newt said.
"Had it long, have we sir?"
"Not personally. I mean, as a species, about half a million years. I think."
The alien exchanged glances with its colleague.
"Been letting the old acid rain build up, haven't we sir," it said. "Been letting ourselves go a bit with the old hydrocarbons, perhaps?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you, sir, but your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir."
"Oh, dear," said Newt.
"We'll overlook it on this occasion, sir."
The smaller alien walked past the car. "CO2 level up nought point five percent," it rasped, giving him a meaningful look. "You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?"
― Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)

ashinmytomatoes: On the case...

[whatculture.com image 600x300]

/Hot as David 8.

Watched Prometheus this weekend, too. Are you spying on me?

Milo Minderbinder: How did a Neil Armstrong thread turn into a Dr. Who debate?

Disposable Rob: omgbears: So what happens to all the Silence's bodies? Do people dispose of the bodies when they see them lying around everywhere and then forget that they disposed of them? Do they still hold their memory-erasing properties as they decay?

So many Doctor Who villains have never stood up to scrutiny beyond the episodes they appear. They're walking plot devices. They all have that "how do Daleks walk up stairs? *" issue that comes up once you think about them too long.

*yeah, yeah that's been answered

Just to throw an answer out there, I'd say they decompose where they died. Ever had a dead animal smell in your house that you just can't find? Maybe it's because every time you find it and then look away you forgot about it. Not a perfect answer, but still an answer.

taurusowner: Can we stop pretending "Doctor Who" is or ever was a good show? You're not more sophisticated or smarter for liking some hack British sci-fi show.

\Doctor Who fans are sci-fi hipsters

While I will admit to watching a few episodes of the latest version, and liking a couple of them...you are correct overall.

/B5 rules

I always thought the Silence evacuated ASAP (leaving the number of dead far lower than the number originally on Earth) and/or returned for the bodies. I haven't watched every Silence episode, but going back for their own dead doesn't seem too far fetched.

Oh, and subby? Fantastic.

Whatsamatter, BI, you jealous of someone who has gone beyond and can't speak for himself here on Earth anymore?

Departed or no, Neil does not require a f*ckup like me to defend him, his deeds speak for themselves.
ALL OF THEM, not only the One Small Step for which you seem to so hate him.

But the f*ckup will speak and dare you to deny the truth.

One small step. The single deed in modern times through which the entire human race was ennobled.

Even you.

And far be it from me, the f*ckup, to deprive you of the right to fill the air with your laughable flailing for attention.

You alleged "journo" AW brats at Bullshiat Investors will be unhappily forgotten within a couple years IF THAT
while ten thousand years down the halls of history the name of Neil Armstrong will still shine
bright and wholly untarnished.

Squeak on, jealous ennobled human biatches.  ;3

taurusowner: Can we stop pretending "Doctor Who" is or ever was a good show? You're not more sophisticated or smarter for liking some hack British sci-fi show.

\Doctor Who fans are sci-fi hipsters



Also, 8/10.

Kittypie070: Whatsamatter, BI, you jealous of someone who has gone beyond and can't speak for himself here on Earth anymore?

Departed or no, Neil does not require a f*ckup like me to defend him, his deeds speak for themselves.
ALL OF THEM, not only the One Small Step for which you seem to so hate him.

But the f*ckup will speak and dare you to deny the truth.

One small step. The single deed in modern times through which the entire human race was ennobled.

Even you.

And far be it from me, the f*ckup, to deprive you of the right to fill the air with your laughable flailing for attention.

You alleged "journo" AW brats at Bullshiat Investors will be unhappily forgotten within a couple years IF THAT
while ten thousand years down the halls of history the name of Neil Armstrong will still shine
bright and wholly untarnished.

Squeak on, jealous ennobled human biatches.  ;3

There's a reason we've never gone back to the moon.

fradix: One thing always bothered me about that episode.. Wouldn't there have been a period of time where the planet would have been littered with the rotting corpses of dead aliens?.. Or are we supposed to believe that we'd forget the smell just as quickly?

Perhaps there was a sudden rush on vics vaporub around that time...


/yes, i know it's fiction
//still fun to ponder these things.

My question to the wife the first time we watched that episode was:

Towards the end, when the secret service agent was drawing his weapon to shoot the Silence standing in the hallway, wouldn't all of those people sitting on the couch (who were not in a position to see the Silence and thus be affected by the memory loss) wonder WTF he was doing shooting inside the White House?