Jeff and Will Save the World
8Do you watch Independence Day every year around well July 4?
What’s your favorite part and how is that different than when you first saw it.
I really feel that Bill Pullman stole the show with his speech. It showed hope that seems lacking in the world today.
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Watching the Obama’s speak at the opening of his Presidential Center “showed hope that seems*/is lacking in the world today”.
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Sorry for being the grammar polizia, but the sentence": “Watching the Obama’s speak at the opening of his” doesn’t need the apostrophe…
Just saying…
I am gonna save the world. But after my nap.
Maybe someone will beat me to it.
(Zero zero zero politics pls. There is a dedicated forum topic for politics.)
/giphy “save the world”
@f00l …sorry
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No prob.
If people start by saying something gentle but even slightly political, things get toxic and endless and repetitive FAST.
That why there’s a dedicated topic, and many of us avoid it because …
anywhere one goes, in conversation, or by reading the news or blogs or watching vid, one can find the same repetitive and tiresome stuff.
So I guess most of Meh plays by the “Thanksgiving Rules” many families follow:
“Just talk about anything else”.
When Meh started up, the need for segregation of political commentary (to its own area within the forums) wasn’t really obvious.
But that was then. Things changed.
@bee1doll @f00l well, personally I am weary of hearing “both sides” on things that used to be completely non-political, like pineapple on pizza (them’s fighting’ words!).
Also I noticed news writing tends more towards inflammatory words. Clearly it must be profitable. You hear terms like pushback, outraged, “up in arms” about simple topics. The latter I believe refers to bringing your muskets.
When I first saw it I was probably in my “tweens”. I hate the word.
And I know what my dad did. Was get the VHS from somewhere. I’m not sure if it was the library or he bought it.
And I know he went through it in real time recording to another VCR. Pausing it and stopping recording and rewinding to try and take out the cursing.
This was only PG13. And maybe it was before he stopped going to church with us. But I also don’t know how we would have known about it or wanted to go see it…
So every time since has been different than the first time. No jump skips. Some cursing. But I’m sure die hard is more a Christmas movie than watch independence day