Jules NYC wrote:
Yikes!

I talk face to face and moments like such are private.  That's just me though.  I'd rather be out playing ball so to speak.

Yup, it's just a different approach. It involves both face to face and online interaction and neither one is necessarily "better" or "more meaningful" than the other. One set of interactions merely enhances the other.

Jules NYC wrote:

Yeah, that's probably taking it just a tad too far.

kickfight wrote:

Yeah, that's probably taking it just a tad too far.

Will Ferrell: Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Ha ha

I think my love for the internet is finding information quickly, that's it.  Not social media at all.

Jules NYC wrote:
Ha ha

I think my love for the internet is finding information quickly, that's it.  Not social media at all.

I consider MM forums to be social media, kinda sorta.

kickfight wrote:

I consider MM forums to be social media.

Sure, but it holds a different format than Facebook in the context I use it for.

kickfight wrote:
I consider MM forums to be social media.

Jules NYC wrote:
Sure, but it holds a different format than Facebook in the context I use it for.

That's one of the advantages of social media as I approach it: various contexts, depending on the user.

kickfight wrote:
That's one of the advantages of social media as I approach it: various contexts, depending on the user.

.. but I think it goes too far when people are posting every minute detail and pretty much this:

Jules NYC wrote:
.. but I think it goes too far when people are posting every minute detail and pretty much this:

Exactly. The compulsive aspect of it is when it gets weird. I've had to unfollow some people who post every 5 minutes or so about everything in their lives. On the other hand, there's this one woman who I used to work with and she's between cancer treatments, and FB is basically her access to the world, and her over-sharing is actually amazing to behold.

Jules NYC wrote:
I have to get a copy of this -

May I suggest you to watch 'shipping news' ?

scrymettet wrote:

May I suggest you to watch 'shipping news' ?

Elaborate?

I posted this for all that zoomed in on the poverty of said wishful times.

Jules NYC wrote:

Elaborate?

I posted this for all that zoomed in on the poverty of said wishful times.

you will never look deceased ashes the same way

beside good actors,good script

ps too much vodka in my martini. expect more typos

scrymettet wrote:

you will never look deceased ashes the same way

beside good actors,good script

ps too much vodka in my martini. expect more typos

For some reason I wanted a photo of the kid/movie poster without the text.  I saw it in a bar once and was moved by the image.

/threadjack

Jules NYC wrote:

For some reason I wanted a photo of the kid/movie poster without the text.  I saw it in a bar once and was moved by the image.

/threadjack

get the poster with the text and cut it out

scrymettet wrote:

you will never look deceased ashes the same way

beside good actors,good script

ps too much vodka in my martini. expect more typos

How is there too much vodka in any martini??

Amadea T wrote:

How is there too much vodka in any martini??

11/12

scrymettet wrote:

11/12

No dirty pickle water for me, bro.

Vodka. Bruised. Two olives. Blue cheese. Keep 'em coming until I start reciting Goethe. Then continue with the oyster shots. I'm taking the rest of the month off. Skôl.

Amadea T wrote:

No dirty pickle water for me, bro.

Vodka. Bruised. Two olives. Blue cheese. Keep 'em coming until I start reciting Goethe. Then continue with the oyster shots. I'm taking the rest of the month off. Skôl.

big softie.

scrymettet wrote:

big softie.

See if You can drink your body weight in Vodka.

Amadea T wrote:
Otoht, you may be somebody who appreciates pernoD?

yup. guilty

Amadea T wrote:

See if You can drink your body weight in Vodka.

220 lbl ? I am not rich enough, are you paying ?

Looknsee Photography wrote:

Noble thoughts, but I don't believe that these views are realistic:

...  As long as there have been human beings, there has been war.  Early man fought over hunting grounds, and the tribe that was successful in wiping out the competition got to survive.

...  Indeed, early tribes were the source of our inclination to be prejudiced.  Our tribe is better than your tribe, therefore, your tribe deserves to die.

...  Early man created religions to justify prejudice, to motivate warriors, and to answer the questions that cannot be answered.  I note that many of the early religions featured gods who were powerful warriors.  Even those religions that featured peaceful gods were perverted to justify war.

...  The earliest pieces of art were pornographic.

...  The tribe that took care of its members had the best chances of survival.  Isn't that welfare?

I don't think the Stone Age was as pleasant as you describe.

QFT

scrymettet wrote:

220 lbl ? I am not rich enough, are you paying ?

Do you have life coverage?

Amadea T wrote:

Do you have life coverage?

yup
but can you drink your weight in Vodka ?

scrymettet wrote:

yup
but can you drink your weight in Vodka ?

Several times over.

Amadea T wrote:

Several times over.

braggart !!
in one helping 124 lbs of vodka would kill anybody fool enough to try but
you are friggin' f... to party with

scrymettet wrote:

braggart !!
in one helping 124 lbs of vodka would kill anybody fool enough to try but
you are friggin' f... to party with

I never said anything about one helping.

Amadea T wrote:

I never said anything about one helping.

yeah,right

Connor Photography wrote:
...........when life was simpler and hard.  Everyone was just trying to get the next meal and keeping the fire going to keep warm.  There were NO extremists of any kinds.  There is no vegans, no religion, no peanut allergy, no green peace, no animal rights, no welfare, no soccer mom, no porn, no escorts.  More importantly, we did not have a mean of killing a lot of people.  Everyone was focusing to survive but not trying to kill others for no reason.  All animals will kill each others for food.  Only human is the only animal that will kill another human other than food.

Might I suggest actually reading up about anthropology?
Or perhaps just look at wildlife outside of the zoo.

Predators attack and kill their own species outside of food.
There were extremists, not just the socially classified ones we had now but there were definitely tribes that slaughtered each other.
Peanut allergy has nothing to do with life being simpler.
Even back then, they killed people for no reason too, in fact they killed more cause there's less repercussions for it.

I think you've deluded yourself into thinking that the stone age is some sort of happy everyone eats berries and gets along.

Connor Photography wrote:
I am just a mad scientist playing with drugs, animals and humans.

Which drugs in particular?

Connor Photography wrote:
I am just a mad scientist playing with drugs, animals and humans.

Have you done a mad double blind control study?

Kevin Connery wrote:
Without the ability to vote, and with very limited abilities to own property? I'm surprised a woman would want that.

Still, dying of smallpox, polio, measles, whooping cough, etc., and even simple infections being potentially life-threatening (penicillin wasn't around before 1900) isn't my idea of a Good Time.  No TV, no instant-access to books, films (or films at all, if you go back more than a century), etc. Limited access to recorded music (More exposure to live music, though). If the local stores didn't carry something, you were pretty much out of luck; Sears did do mail-order, but their catalog, while considered very extensive, pales before the options today.

I'll grant that there were very different aesthetics in the past, and some things were better for the moderately wealthy and up, but the majority of people then weren't as well off as they'd be now.

Screw smallpox, it might be a blessing - how about being sold from your father to your husband as property, never being able to be without a chaperone, having sex out of duty rather than desire (and that's if you have a choice, Europe only outlawed spousal rape in 1997...), being denied an education, not having any real life choices, being defined entirelyl by who you marry, and essentially being a poorly-treated baby-making factory until you die of a vaginal prolapse, in child birth. get put into an institution for 'hysteria', or go to a doctor who thinks drilling holes in your head will cure that headache?

Fuck that noise. Modern life can be improved but the whole point of progress is that it's better now.

ValHig wrote:
Screw smallpox, it might be a blessing - how about being sold from your father to your husband as property, never being able to be without a chaperone, having sex out of duty rather than desire (and that's if you have a choice, Europe only outlawed spousal rape in 1997...), being denied an education, not having any real life choices, being defined entirelyl by who you marry, and essentially being a poorly-treated baby-making factory until you die of a vaginal prolapse, in child birth. get put into an institution for 'hysteria', or go to a doctor who thinks drilling holes in your head will cure that headache?

Fuck that noise. Modern life can be improved but the whole point of progress is that it's better now.

I went to a doctor who drilled 2 holes in my head.  It cured my headache, my loss of balance and slow speech.  I'm very grateful to him.

ValHig wrote:
Screw smallpox, it might be a blessing - how about being sold from your father to your husband as property, never being able to be without a chaperone, having sex out of duty rather than desire (and that's if you have a choice, Europe only outlawed spousal rape in 1997...), being denied an education, not having any real life choices, being defined entirelyl by who you marry, and essentially being a poorly-treated baby-making factory until you die of a vaginal prolapse, in child birth. get put into an institution for 'hysteria', or go to a doctor who thinks drilling holes in your head will cure that headache?

Fuck that noise. Modern life can be improved but the whole point of progress is that it's better now.

That brings up a good point. When going back in time, would the traveler get to pick where they land as well as when? If not, all but the last 2 of your points could happen if the way-back machine was set to, say, 10 seconds ago. Not 'here', but all but two of them are taking place somewhere now. (And the last 2 might still be happening.)