The most random thread ever!!!

[Vilu Daskar]

Weird.

[Amarith Waterspring]

That is sort of the point of this thread..

Weirdness.

By the way, I am wearing socks.

[The Skarzs]

For the birds!

[Lady Ashenwyte]

I'll be getting Twilight today. *Shudders a little* It'll certainly be an experience. I do have backup in the form of Kim and The Canterbury Tales if it's too bad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And for heaven's sake keep an open mind, okay? You don't even know if you like the book or not until you actually READ the darn thing. Don't take other people's opinions and make them your own without ever reading/watching/doing/whatever it. Okay? Because that's just stupid. "Don't judge a book by it's cover." What happened to that, huh people?

I have seen the movies though, and they are utter garbage. I can't say anything about the books, but I dislike the movies.

Also, I think Christopher Columbus is the wrong man to celebrate a holiday for. That man was terrible.

[The Skarzs]

He was a bad man for government, but other than that he was far from "terrible".

[James Gryphon]

He was a bad man for government, but other than that he was far from "terrible".

I'm not sure we're talking about the same person.

Aside from being erroneously credited with discovering America, his "accomplishments" consist of the completely unprovoked mass murder, enslavement and inhuman abuse of the comparatively defenseless natives.

[The Skarzs]

What mass murder, hmm? What inhumane abuse? How many slaves were made?

When he arrived in the islands, Columbus sailed around looking for the mainland, poking around for gold or other valuables, and did nearly nothing with the natives other than a few who stayed on his ship to be brought back and shown to the king and queen of France. When he sailed back he left only a small group of forty men to found a settlement, who were themselves all killed shortly after his departure, which he learned in his return in later years. The only accounts of slavery were of black slaves brought from Africa; the natives people escaped far too easily. Even then, Columbus was governor of his own place for a very short time, and replaced by other men who were more slavery-prone than he was.
While the blame may not lay entirely on him, the questions of ill-treatment and disease cannot be shunned away since he is looked to as a symbol of the finding of the new land. He may have been an unpleasant person, but he was not a terrible man.

[Søren]

This is pretty much my favorite gif right now. I can use it for so many, many things. Lurking the Presidential Candidate thread in Cavren Hole, Looking around to see if V has shown up yet, accidentally going into the "Girls thread", looking over after at someone who walks out of the bathroom without flushing, etc.

[Rainshadow]

[Søren]

#2 favorite Gif^

[Cornflower MM]

I'll be getting Twilight today. *Shudders a little* It'll certainly be an experience. I do have backup in the form of Kim and The Canterbury Tales if it's too bad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And for heaven's sake keep an open mind, okay? You don't even know if you like the book or not until you actually READ the darn thing. Don't take other people's opinions and make them your own without ever reading/watching/doing/whatever it. Okay? Because that's just stupid. "Don't judge a book by it's cover." What happened to that, huh people?

No kidding. It's annoying.

I'll be getting Twilight today. *Shudders a little* It'll certainly be an experience. I do have backup in the form of Kim and The Canterbury Tales if it's too bad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And for heaven's sake keep an open mind, okay? You don't even know if you like the book or not until you actually READ the darn thing. Don't take other people's opinions and make them your own without ever reading/watching/doing/whatever it. Okay? Because that's just stupid. "Don't judge a book by it's cover." What happened to that, huh people?

How do you know they didn't read it.

Because they proudly say so! And say they'd not touch the books with a ten foot pole!

I'll be getting Twilight today. *Shudders a little* It'll certainly be an experience. I do have backup in the form of Kim and The Canterbury Tales if it's too bad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And for heaven's sake keep an open mind, okay? You don't even know if you like the book or not until you actually READ the darn thing. Don't take other people's opinions and make them your own without ever reading/watching/doing/whatever it. Okay? Because that's just stupid. "Don't judge a book by it's cover." What happened to that, huh people?

I have seen the movies though, and they are utter garbage. I can't say anything about the books, but I dislike the movies.

Why are they utter garbage? Seriously. Give me one good, valid reason.

[James Gryphon]

@Skarzs: I'll respond later, when I get a convenient time.

Why are they utter garbage? Seriously. Give me one good, valid reason.

Doesn't whatshisname disassemble the girl's car to keep her from escaping leaving him? That takes things up to a whole new level of creepy.

[Cornflower MM]

And I am so sick of hearing about that! And the fact that the vamps sparkle! And Bella's visions in New Moon - Which, by the way, is my least favorite book. Because Edward is a total idiot, it features Jasper as a crazy bloodthirsty mindless monster, and she acts like a mindless brainless idiot. Which is another thing I'm sick of hearing about. If people would just read the first book, and judge for themselves! I don't care if they read it and decided they didn't like it AFTER - That's totally fine, because they judged for themselves and in fact I've done the same thing. And, James, Edward took apart Bella's car to keep her form going to La Push, which is the shapeshifter's territory and he IS a bit too overprotective. (In fact, is annoyingly so. But that only makes Bella more relatable. And he does get better.)

[Jetthebinturong]

I'll be getting Twilight today. *Shudders a little* It'll certainly be an experience. I do have backup in the form of Kim and The Canterbury Tales if it's too bad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And for heaven's sake keep an open mind, okay? You don't even know if you like the book or not until you actually READ the darn thing. Don't take other people's opinions and make them your own without ever reading/watching/doing/whatever it. Okay? Because that's just stupid. "Don't judge a book by it's cover." What happened to that, huh people?

No kidding. It's annoying.

I'll be getting Twilight today. *Shudders a little* It'll certainly be an experience. I do have backup in the form of Kim and The Canterbury Tales if it's too bad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And for heaven's sake keep an open mind, okay? You don't even know if you like the book or not until you actually READ the darn thing. Don't take other people's opinions and make them your own without ever reading/watching/doing/whatever it. Okay? Because that's just stupid. "Don't judge a book by it's cover." What happened to that, huh people?

How do you know they didn't read it.

Because they proudly say so! And say they'd not touch the books with a ten foot pole!

I'll be getting Twilight today. *Shudders a little* It'll certainly be an experience. I do have backup in the form of Kim and The Canterbury Tales if it's too bad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And for heaven's sake keep an open mind, okay? You don't even know if you like the book or not until you actually READ the darn thing. Don't take other people's opinions and make them your own without ever reading/watching/doing/whatever it. Okay? Because that's just stupid. "Don't judge a book by it's cover." What happened to that, huh people?

I have seen the movies though, and they are utter garbage. I can't say anything about the books, but I dislike the movies.

Why are they utter garbage? Seriously. Give me one good, valid reason.

Characterless protagonists (c'mon, Bella doesn't even smile at her freaking wedding), terrible acting, forgettable villains, glaring plot holes, plot inconsistencies, Jacob imprinting on a child, the terrifying CGI baby/kid, awful shot composition in BD, cop-out ending.

[Jukka the Sling]

I mean, they sound kind of interesting (I read up on stuff on the official wiki), but I also think SOME aspects are rather dumb (and I've heard a lot about various plot points).  Like, why does Bella fall for Edward when, besides his looks, there's nothing attractive about him?  (I mean, he's undead!)