Progressive Pets

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24 hour alpaca

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You gonna eat that all by yourself?

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[Prometheus]

Jun 17, 2022 16:00:31 GMT merh said:

Jun 17, 2022 11:11:10 GMT Prometheus said:

I work with kids. I've tried over the years to keep up on what's popular.

No one I know wants to see Lightyear or Minions...
Dont care so much about Lightyear as I'm not a big Pixar fan.

I found "Despicable Me" to be... despicable. I turned it off after about 10 or 15 minutes.

"Lightyear" doesn't interest me and since I doubt it will get a release here, I probably don't have to worry about it.

[abbey1227]

Jun 18, 2022 0:16:46 GMT Prometheus said:

Jun 17, 2022 16:00:31 GMT merh said:

No one I know wants to see Lightyear or Minions...
Dont care so much about Lightyear as I'm not a big Pixar fan.

I found "Despicable Me" to be... despicable. I turned it off after about 10 or 15 minutes.

"Lightyear" doesn't interest me and since I doubt it will get a release here, I probably don't have to worry about it.

The first one was actually pretty good...........but like most things, they beat it into the ground with sequels

[Prometheus]

Jun 18, 2022 0:37:54 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 18, 2022 0:16:46 GMT Prometheus said:

I found "Despicable Me" to be... despicable. I turned it off after about 10 or 15 minutes.

"Lightyear" doesn't interest me and since I doubt it will get a release here, I probably don't have to worry about it.

The first one was actually pretty good...........but like most things, they beat it into the ground with sequels

Never bothered with the sequels since I never finished the first movie

[abbey1227]

Jun 18, 2022 0:43:34 GMT Prometheus said:

Jun 18, 2022 0:37:54 GMT abbey1227 said:

The first one was actually pretty good...........but like most things, they beat it into the ground with sequels

Never bothered with the sequels since I never finished the first movie

I figured that.

It's sorta like picking up Young Perky Breasts 4 .......without having seen the previous offerings. You're completely lost on the story line.  

[merh]

Jun 18, 2022 0:16:46 GMT Prometheus said:

Jun 17, 2022 16:00:31 GMT merh said:

No one I know wants to see Lightyear or Minions...
Dont care so much about Lightyear as I'm not a big Pixar fan.

I found "Despicable Me" to be... despicable. I turned it off after about 10 or 15 minutes.

"Lightyear" doesn't interest me and since I doubt it will get a release here, I probably don't have to worry about it.

Same sex kiss.
So stupid.

Minions are adorable.
We are all Minions, aren't we?

Megamind was way better.

[merh]

Jun 18, 2022 0:49:26 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 18, 2022 0:43:34 GMT Prometheus said:

Never bothered with the sequels since I never finished the first movie

I figured that.

It's sorta like picking up Young Perky Breasts 4 .......without having seen the previous offerings. You're completely lost on the story line.  

I have an excellent ability to pick up a story anywhere.

I accidentally bought Two Towers & dove in without waiting to buy Fellowship.  Sort of spoiled the whole Gandalf thing...

I am seeing Thor July 7th.

[abbey1227]

Jun 18, 2022 1:40:03 GMT merh said:

Jun 18, 2022 0:49:26 GMT abbey1227 said:

I figured that.

It's sorta like picking up Young Perky Breasts 4 .......without having seen the previous offerings. You're completely lost on the story line.  

I have an excellent ability to pick up a story anywhere.

I accidentally bought Two Towers & dove in without waiting to buy Fellowship.  Sort of spoiled the whole Gandalf thing...

I am seeing Thor July 7th.

WHY.........do I suspect you didn't even smirk or chuckle at that line?  

[abbey1227]

Jun 18, 2022 1:35:50 GMT merh said:

Jun 18, 2022 0:16:46 GMT Prometheus said:

I found "Despicable Me" to be... despicable. I turned it off after about 10 or 15 minutes.

"Lightyear" doesn't interest me and since I doubt it will get a release here, I probably don't have to worry about it.

Same sex kiss.
So stupid.

Minions are adorable.
We are all Minions, aren't we?

Megamind was way better.

I thought it was kind of a replay of the original Grinch tale

a little sweet girl melts the heart of a fiendish old grouch? 

[Prometheus]

Jun 18, 2022 1:35:50 GMT merh said:

Jun 18, 2022 0:16:46 GMT Prometheus said:

I found "Despicable Me" to be... despicable. I turned it off after about 10 or 15 minutes.

"Lightyear" doesn't interest me and since I doubt it will get a release here, I probably don't have to worry about it.

Same sex kiss.
So stupid.

Minions are adorable.
We are all Minions, aren't we?

Megamind was way better.

The same sex kiss thing is stupid because it's gratuitous. It doesn't advance the plot. It's pure virtue signaling and they deserve to lose access to markets because of it.

[merh]

Jun 18, 2022 1:44:37 GMT Prometheus said:

Jun 18, 2022 1:35:50 GMT merh said:

Same sex kiss.
So stupid.

Minions are adorable.
We are all Minions, aren't we?

Megamind was way better.

The same sex kiss thing is stupid because it's gratuitous. It doesn't advance the plot. It's pure virtue signaling and they deserve to lose access to markets because of it.

And it is something they keep using rather than add real plot.
It is something they could easily cut

[Prometheus]

Jun 18, 2022 1:52:10 GMT merh said:

Jun 18, 2022 1:44:37 GMT Prometheus said:

The same sex kiss thing is stupid because it's gratuitous. It doesn't advance the plot. It's pure virtue signaling and they deserve to lose access to markets because of it.

And it is something they keep using rather than add real plot.
It is something they could easily cut

Yup.

[abbey1227]

Jun 18, 2022 1:53:01 GMT Prometheus said:

Jun 18, 2022 1:52:10 GMT merh said:

And it is something they keep using rather than add real plot.
It is something they could easily cut

Yup.

Chris Evans on critics of Lightyear’s inclusion of a gay couple.

"The real truth is those people are idiots… There's always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs.”

[merh]

Jun 18, 2022 11:57:56 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 18, 2022 1:53:01 GMT Prometheus said:

Yup.

Chris Evans on critics of Lightyear’s inclusion of a gay couple.

"The real truth is those people are idiots… There's always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs.”

The thing I'm bitching about is they throw in a same sex kiss like it's A BIG THING when it's really the very least they can do to add LGBTQ to the plot.

Remember in the olde days of video tape?
That service that cut "offensive" stuff out?

[abbey1227]

Jun 18, 2022 12:03:21 GMT merh said:

Jun 18, 2022 11:57:56 GMT abbey1227 said:

Chris Evans on critics of Lightyear’s inclusion of a gay couple.

"The real truth is those people are idiots… There's always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs.”

The thing I'm bitching about is they throw in a same sex kiss like it's A BIG THING when it's really the very least they can do to add LGBTQ to the plot.

Remember in the olde days of video tape?
That service that cut "offensive" stuff out?

I don't remember that service.......but I do recall the FCC on TV and radio censoring things. Unasked for, imo

I love how Evans and others always insist it's got something to do with fear or something, too. 

It's tokenism. I've watched many Netflix series over the last year and it's amazing how almost every show has to include it in some way.

When the old forum still welcomed me, you remember me asking if ANYONE ELSE noticed the sudden uptick in the amount of black people in TV commercials? And if anyone felt patronized by it?

It's ridiculous virtue signaling

[merh]

Jun 18, 2022 12:27:21 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 18, 2022 12:03:21 GMT merh said:

The thing I'm bitching about is they throw in a same sex kiss like it's A BIG THING when it's really the very least they can do to add LGBTQ to the plot.

Remember in the olde days of video tape?
That service that cut "offensive" stuff out?

I don't remember that service.......but I do recall the FCC on TV and radio censoring things. Unasked for, imo

I love how Evans and others always insist it's got something to do with fear or something, too. 

It's tokenism. I've watched many Netflix series over the last year and it's amazing how almost every show has to include it in some way.

When the old forum still welcomed me, you remember me asking if ANYONE ELSE noticed the sudden uptick in the amount of black people in TV commercials? And if anyone felt patronized by it?

It's ridiculous virtue signaling

More people of color in commercials upset you?

Sorry.

Does.it matter?

Censoring Unasked for?
What universe you live in?

In the 1920s, Hollywood was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and the alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic and political organizations. Many felt that the film industry had always been morally questionable,[3] and political pressure was increasing, with legislators in 37 states introducing almost one hundred film censorship bills in 1921. In 1922, as they were faced with the prospect of having to comply with hundreds and potentially thousands of inconsistent, easily changed decency laws in order to show their films, the studios chose self-regulation as the preferable option, enlisting Presbyterian elder Will H. Hays, Postmaster General under former President Warren G. Harding and former head of the Republican National Committee,  to rehabilitate Hollywood's image. The move mimicked the decision that Major League Baseball had made in hiring judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as League Commissioner the previous year to quell questions about the integrity of baseball in the wake of the 1919 World Series gambling scandal; The New York Times even called Hays the "screen Landis". Hays was paid the lavish sum of $100,000 a year (equal to $1,620,000 today), and served for 25 years as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), where he "defended the industry from attacks, recited soothing nostrums, and negotiated treaties to cease hostilities".

In 1924, Hays introduced a set of recommendations dubbed "the Formula", which the studios were advised to heed, and asked filmmakers to describe to his office the plots of films they were planning on producing. In 1915, the Supreme Court had decided unanimously in Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio that free speech did not extend to motion pictures. While there had been token attempts to clean up the films before (such as when the studios formed the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry (NAMPI) in 1916), little had come of the efforts. New York became the first state to take advantage of the Supreme Court's decision by instituting a censorship board in 1921. Virginia followed suit the following year, with eight individual states having a board by the advent of sound film, but many of these were ineffectual. By the 1920s, the New York stage, a frequent source of subsequent screen material, had topless shows, performances filled with curse words, adult subject matter, and sexually suggestive dialog. Early in the sound system conversion process, it became apparent that what was acceptable in New York might not be so in Kansas. Filmmakers were facing the possibility that many states and cities would adopt their own codes of censorship, necessitating a multiplicity of versions of films made for national distribution. Self-censorship was deemed a preferable outcome.

In 1927, Hays suggested to studio executives that they form a committee to discuss film censorship. Irving G. Thalberg of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sol Wurtzel of Fox Film Corporation, and E. H. Allen of Paramount Pictures responded by collaborating on a list they called the "Don'ts and Be Carefuls", based on items that were challenged by local censor boards. This list consisted of eleven subjects best avoided and twenty-six to be handled very carefully. The list was approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Hays created the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) to oversee its implementation; however, there was still no way to enforce tenets. The controversy surrounding film standards came to a head in 1929

There have ALWAYS been cries for protecting our poor innocent children.

Do I need to paste the anti violence thing that got Wild Wild West canceled in the 60s?

[Prometheus]

Jun 18, 2022 11:57:56 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 18, 2022 1:53:01 GMT Prometheus said:

Yup.

Chris Evans on critics of Lightyear’s inclusion of a gay couple.

"The real truth is those people are idiots… There's always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs.”

No one cares that there's a gay couple... except in the countries that are banning it. You just don't need to show people kissing in order to reveal it.