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Just to be clear, do you actually have fencing skills? I was an Epeeist for about 10ish years. I stepped out of the sport about a year or so ago as I became the President of a successful club and eventually tired of the politics. It is fun to be able to brandish a sword from time to time ), however the message is quite applicable, especially with all the occupation movements happening around the world right now. ...You know the top 1% of people in the U.S. pay 39% of the total income taxes, right? And that 47% of U.S. citizens pay no income tax at all? I understand the U.S. is a foreign country to you and I don't pay a whole lot of attention to foreign politics either, but you might wanna do a bit more research before you throw out stuff like that. If anything, it's more of the other way around-- the U.S. is slowly turning into a welfare state.SilverfromOZ wrote:Alak: I concede that we are not in an entirely totalitarian society, however with CCTV cameras everywhere in the UK, social networking sites implementing spyware to monitor everything people do on their PC #cough cough# Facebook #cough cough# and the fact that 99% of the US society are propping up the very self-satisfied 1%
I'm thinking of Mr Burn's quote from the Simpsons "Fly my pretties fly!" #flying monkeys fall out window to their deaths# "Hmm... continue the research." ) however it does bring up some interesting perspectives and I have had some very heavy movie critics say that they were impressed with it. The basic thing is that the original story was written by Alan Moore and he is pretty much DC comic's supreme overlord of awesome. His list of achievements include: )No prob, we all only have so much time. Heck, I can't for the life of me name your country's Prime Minister... I need to get better at this stuff myself...SilverfromOZ wrote:Beastbot: Will take the advice and do lots more reading in future. Sorry if I ruffled any feathers
Heheh. You know what makes that movie a ton better? Rifftrax: http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/300yeeeah.. I'm a fan of comic books and I thoroughly enjoyed 300 for what it was... a crazy, pretty, historically inaccurate story about Spartans written by Frank Miller
Yes, of course I do! It's in my s/n after all!!SilverfromOZ wrote: blackrosefencer: It sounds like a wonderful ritual to me
). The last tournament I was in was over the summer and I ended up coming in third. I also have refereed for a few tournaments and have organized and run several tournaments as well. I've never really gotten into comic books or graphic novels either, but I loved "V for Vendetta" and also "Watchmen." Was "The Crow" based on a graphic novel? Cuz that was an awesome movie too! I watch that one once a year too, but I have trouble getting through that scene in the beginning, but other than that it's one of my favorite movies!Phoenix wrote:Yeah.. I'm really not a comic book (or "graphic novels" as our devoted friend who is all over those things) fan.. I have not read comics since I was 13 years old and at this point I just don't have the time and especially not the desire to pick one up. I did enjoy a few movies based on comics, specifically the two newest Batman movies, but that's pretty much it. I watched them once, had fun doing so, and never saw them again. I've always preferred psychological thrillers or cute cgi movies oddly.
