Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136

[Recaiden]

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New Year's Fireworks:

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Have fun.

[Ikialev]

Well damn, NOW it's a written rule. Thanks for carrying the Bus over to new RB not anymore.

[Dogmantra]

New and improved, what a delicious new RB this is turning out to be.

[Quincunx]

[EDIT: Migrating the discussion since a new RB was created as I wrote.]

Watching a film from the '60s or so about the aftereffects of the nuclear war, with its subtle rebuke of those authority figures it places on screen to speak about "a just war" and "moral authority" and "learning to live with the nuclear bomb, but not to love it" amid the mortality projections, the facts and figures of burn radii. They haven't spoken to a single individual whose answer hasn't been small, or petty, or bloodthirsty, or dehumanized. It's a fine piece of propaganda but it demands the intelligence of the viewer to make the connections--it wouldn't have been widely viewed today, or seen as effective.

Originally Posted by Recaiden

But the piece was made for its time, was it not? It has no need to remain relevant over time, as long as it was watched then.

My ear is attuned to its age, shall we say. When they say "weapons of nuclear power", I have been filling in "weapons of mass destruction". . .and the film remains relevant in its message. Styles of film-making change, though. The modern equivalent would probably be United 93, the informative/speculative mockumentary, without the soothing voice-over of authority yet with authentic scraps of multi-media evidence.

[Dragonrider]

Yeah. My last (and only) RB was #92, so I have to wait till #142.


Also, good morning, 2010!

[Uncle Festy]

I banter in your general direction!

[Neko Toast]

This is the first year in a while where I went to bed before midnight on New Year's Eve. Stupid pounding headache. And I was having fun at the party I was at.

How was everyone else's New Years?

[Phase]

No, no! You banter in a random direction. You silly english person.

[Dragonrider]

I went to bed at 12:10 and fell asleep by 12:20 (didn't sleep through the night because I never do, but it was still a victory).

And we've got slush on the ground and it is going to rain. Or that's what the waether report says - the sky looks bright bright blue to me!

And I had a yummy breakfast. One egg omelette with no cheese but a touch of imitation crab meat.

The end.

[Player_Zero]

Originally Posted by Slayer Draco

This is the first year in a while where I went to bed before midnight on New Year's Eve. Stupid pounding headache. And I was having fun at the party I was at.

How was everyone else's New Years?

Interneted for a few hours then I went to bed before midnight too.

Rather predictable really.

[EmeraldRose]

Happy Random New Year's Banter!

The cartoons are on TV and the coffee is flowing

[Mauve Shirt]

Ate much too much, black-eyed peas and other lucky foods. Stayed up til midnight playing Rock Band and Foosball, toasted the new year with sparkling limeade. Went to bed around 2:00.

[Rutskarn]

I used the internet, watched the Twilight Zone marathon and went to bed.

The whole spectacle loses its mystique once you're staying up till 1:45 anyway. Also, once you get a good grasp on how time zones work, and can easily get in contact with someone for whom it's been a new decade for hours.

[Dragonrider]

Mauvey, my browser was still loading the page when I hit the "post reply" button and instead of clicking on it I hit "report" at the bottom of your post. Good thing there's no automatic reporting system, huh?

I ate not much too much last night, to my surprise, but this morning made up for it with some apple twist bread just now which isn't very good (my mum bought it for some charity or cause thing or another, probably with my grandmother's church, because all the money we spend on bizarre baked goods seems to be for Grandma's church) but which smelled wonderful so I had to have a piece though I wasn't hungry after my egg. Ah, well.

[Dogmantra]

Originally Posted by Rutskarn

The whole spectacle loses its mystique once you're staying up till 1:45 anyway. Also, once you get a good grasp on how time zones work, and can easily get in contact with someone for whom it's been a new decade for hours.

I send you messages from the future. About five hours in the future. Woooooo.

That was the noise a ghost makes at the end, but if you read it as the sort of party whoo that you make when you're partying on down then that's okay too.

Originally Posted by Dragonrider

Yeah. My last (and only) RB was #92, so I have to wait till #142.

Heh... so it's actually only possible to have had two RB threads. Doesn't seem that much when you think of it like that.
It does seem like much when, taking the average post to be 50 words, and the average thread to be 1 500 posts, that means there have been 10 125 000 words of Random Banter.

[Trobby]

I was up until at least 2 AM, sharing the first couple of hours of New Years with my AIM friends.

...Or maybe it was 3 AM...@_@; Either way, I'm very tired right now. And my allergies have been bugging me nonstop. ><;

[Phase]

I was up till three, browsing the nets. Before then I was at a friend's party and had some fuuuuunnnnn taaaaaaaaiiiiiimess

[Zain]

I was awoken by fireworks at midnight...

At least i did not miss the new year thingy

[Player_Zero]

...The Sun is trying to kill me

[Phaedra]

Originally Posted by Player_Zero

...The Sun is trying to kill me

The actual sun or the newspaper?

Oh, and I did very little for New Years except get called for brief drunken chats by The Boy who mostly just made me talk to the people he was with. Most of whom I've spoken to for all of 5mins previously. I turned my phone off and went to bed at midnight. I'm a crazy party person.

[SDF]

First post of the new year!

Had fun new years party with old friends and new. Got my new years kiss. Woke up with Chinese writing on my arm that my friend claims says I'm an, "intellectual." Little bit of a headache, a little dehydrated. But overall doing just ducky. Went over to my 'rents house today and came in to see my dad playing Dragon Age. XD

[Perenelle]

gasp! new thread!

anyways, my new year was rather interesting. I was at my aunts with a whole bunch of other people, including the head of a Tang Soo Do school and his family. me and the other two sane 14 year olds stayed upstairs trying to stay away from the crazy little kids that were attacking each other and running around like maniacs.

We had an epic pillow fight though.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I do believe this is the fiftieth RB I've ever posted in. Happy Anniversary me!

The New Year was less interesting than most nights. I only really stayed up 'til half one; and that was just because I was reading a story.
Frankly, when one's stayed up past one or two o'clock for a significantly large number of nights staying up past midnight, even for a New Year and a New Decade is . . . uninteresting.

I'm also watching the repeat of part two of that Doctor Who special. Meh. There are cactus people. And the Time Lords look like Cardinals. Except some of them who have freakily large collar thingies.

Oh, did I mention cactus people? And how can an old WWII veteran intuitivey make leaps of logic that takes the Doctor quite a while?
Why are the cactus people neon-green?

Also also: do you have any idea how surprisingly hard and annoying a little brother is to ignore? Supposedly, he's watching this for the first time, but during every single action sequence so far he's talked his way through.
Despite my cynicism and general inclination to mockery today, this isn't that bad. And he insists on talking through every action sequence. Oh, and why is a Super-Advanced Ship Thingy possessed of lasers whose design and calibration seem to be very similar to that of WWII Hurricanes?
Planes are being shot down by lasers over the Bay of Biscay (I think) and he's talking about books. Normally, I wouldn't mind, but he's the one who decided to watch Doctor Who before his comics. Buh.

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by Player_Zero

...The Sun is trying to kill me

Well, Pelor just likes giving people sunburn, is all. And skeletons don't sunburn. So, yeah.

[Cobra_Ikari]

My New Year has had drinking games, Pokemon Cards, GI Joe, and Smash Brothers. Is a good year so far. =3

[Dogmantra]

Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

I'm also watching the repeat of part two of that Doctor Who special.

It was the first time around, if I'm not mistaken. Also, the new doctor is

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still not ginger

which is very much a disappointment.

[Trobby]

Bah...still not much of an improvement this year. ;-; The girl I love is sick,, and all I have done so far is getting a computer out of the corner of this crowded room.

Ah well...at least I have coffee.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Originally Posted by Dogmantra

It was the first time around, if I'm not mistaken. Also, the new doctor is

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still not ginger

which is very much a disappointment.

You sure? Because I could've sworn I'd heard all about how it ended off'f someone here. Because I was 'predicting' everything left right and centre up the the incredibly drawn out death.

ION: On the plus side, at least I can watch the good The Italian ob all the way through. For once.

[Dogmantra]

I'm starting to doubt myself here...

No, I'm sure it was the first time. They would have played it on BBC 3 if it had've been a repeat.

[Dragonprime]

So, New Years was nice I went to a fun party, and stayed up until 5 AM. Kinda wish I hadn't though. I just had to work for 6 hours while being sleep deprived and hung over.

Ow.