Happy Chinese New Year Everyone !!

[editman]

(WOW: I am a Snake!! The Chinese Sure Got It Right!!)

No sh*t, O Slimey One. j/k

Here's an interesting tidbit: I was born on the 30th day of the 2nd lunar month, and not every lunar year has a 30th day on its 2nd lunar month. Meaning according to the lunar calendar, I don't always have a birthday every year (eg I don't have a lunar birthday since last year and won't have one until 2009. Guess that's probably why most people treat editman as he doesn't exist...).

The bright side is, I'm only half-lived my solar years in my lunar years (if there's such a thing). Upon a quick check, in fact, I'm only 17 lunar-years old.

Oh, as for my Chinese zodiac, please refer to the first post.

Re: Jax below: oh I'm a big fan alright. A fan so big it sucks out all the air of the entire Forum and blows.

[Jax]

No sh*t, O Slimey One. j/k

I don't know about everyone else but that realy made me laugh , I get the fealing editman isn't a big fan of J7

[st39.6]

oh I'm a big fan alright. A fan so big it sucks out all the air of the entire Forum and blows.

oh, so thats why I can never breathe when I see those GG threads

[j7wild]

Re: Jax below: oh I'm a big fan alright. A fan so big it sucks out all the air of the entire Forum and blows.

yeah a Fan that sucks all the fun out of this forum!!

[editman]

I think Oldfart is older

bebbaboo is 59 (apology for stating blatantly in the open Forum).

yeah a Fan that sucks all the fun out of this forum!!

That won't be necessarily: all the high-brow type of fun we experienced prior to Jun 2005 had been flooded out. 'Good' 'job'.

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Alas, at least in the old days we had style. Now it's as if I'm at KFC - all I can see are breasts and thighs, mingled with the kind of empty remarks pimple-infected teens (and perhaps some people over 35) would make while munching their 3-piece Feed away.

I miss those debates in the good old days where tisoy and carl would argue about compression bitrates or the correct way to do a 3:2 pulldown, or something like that. Those are worthy of the time even just reading.

Kind of reminds me of an old Chinese saying about getting through the New Year: Each Year gets more difficult than the previous.

So, for those who are still hopeful about the Year(s) to come (which is already here): 恭喜發財

oh, so thats why I can never breathe when I see those GG threads

I wish I could be the scapegoat for that but as stated above, I'm only 17 lunatically speaking... I mean counting in lunar years. I'm not OLD enough.

[st39.6]

Alas, at least in the old days we had style. Now it's as if I'm at KFC - all I can see are breasts and thighs, mingled with the kind of empty remarks pimple-infected teens (and perhaps some people over 35) would make while munching their 3-piece Feed away.

I miss those debates in the good old days where tisoy and carl would argue about compression bitrates or the correct way to do a 3:2 pulldown, or something like that. Those are worthy of the time even just reading.

I´ve been thinking about the same few weeks ago, but you know ... u cant stop evolution, can you? Even tho this evolution works in different direction

[editman]

u cant stop evolution, can you? Even tho this evolution works in different direction

I believe the word you're looking for is devolution. Cos I rememeber some academic theories back in uni saying about one of the benefits of the internet, online forum, chatroom and so is finally giving the general public a voice, an affordable channel of publication to finally voice themselves out (since other means of publications - books, audio-visual recording, etc, are expensive to produce and hence had always been reserved for the elites). Sounds utopian, except it turns out that the majority of the geneal public doesn't want to voice out their opinions, share their insights and creativity. They prefer to use the channel to share and view sexy women's pics, or silly low-quality videos for cheap laughs, or a few lines of smiley-studded feedback which don't really say anything at all other than the posters' primal reaction to the pics/videos/other's remarks. Didn't expect that hey, professor? j/k

I'll say this once and for all:

With all the threads being posted here these days, the Forum's probably attracting a crowd not quite what it was intended to. That's sad, being one of those who love the Forum very much, seeing where it could have gone to and the current status being not so. But JPB's probably getting revenue of some sort from the banner ads generated from the hits. Some of you probably get kicks with increasing post counts and points. Seems like everybody wins, except me who's one of the few who bothered to lament about what it could have been, but I'm too busy to scrutinize them all, let alone work myself up over it these days.

Just keep it in mind that no one can have McDonalds, or KFC, or any kind of junk every single day without getting mighty sick, mighty sick of it, or dangerously obese and physically UGLY. True story: I've been fond of Meccas since I was a kid. When I was at uni there was a time I had Meccas almost every day. Until one day, I finally got so sick of it, I turned away from them for a long long time (probably more than a year or so).

It's not like I don't like women or viewing sexy pics of good looking ones for pleasure, but these threads, and the tagged-on silly remarks which are intended to be funny but they're not, gets pretty tiresome after about the 50th one.

Ideally, for every piece of breast you gobble (oggle) you should have 5 times as much of vegies and fruits as well (5 other threads of serious discussions) as a balance diet. It didn't happen. It's not happening. It probably won't. That's too bad.

But who am I to stop anyone turning themselves into ugly fat slops, if you're having so much fun wolfing down them breasts and thighs? So don't yack about me killing all the fun around here - I'm just moderating, making sure it's borderline family-friendly and user-friendly, and occasionally having my share of fun, as in above.

BTW sticking with the subject: the third day of the Chinese New Year is traditionally regarded as a day when people easily fall into fights and arguments (The Day of the Red Dog). Therefore most people stay home on that day insteading of visiting friends, relatives or acquaintances in order to avoid unnecessary brawls... Well, it's only the second day... I guess I'll have to try not to reply tomorrow.

[corfy]

With all the threads being posted here these days, the Forum's probably attracting a crowd not quite what it was intended to. That's sad, being one of those who love the Forum very much, seeing where it could have gone to and the current status being not so. But JPB's probably getting revenue of some sort from the banner ads generated from the hits. Some of you probably get kicks with increasing post counts and points. Seems like everybody wins, except me who's one of the few who bothered to lament about what it could have been, but I'm too busy to scrutinize them all, let alone work myself up over it these days.

I understand what you are saying... to a point. But ultimately, forums like this are what everyone makes it.

I work for a newspaper. We have a daily feature in our paper where the general public sends in comments/complaints/praises/thanks/etc. (A lot of papers do similar things, and they go by a number of names... our paper's mascot is an owl, so we call ours "Hoots 'n Hollers".) There is only room for about 100 words or so per comment, so they are fairly short.

Often, I will hear people in the general public complain about that column. The biggest complaint I hear about it is people saying that it is too negative, and there aren't enough positive things written in it.

I usually counter with, "Well, have you sent in any positive items?" Every single time, I am told "No" (or some variation of that).

If they want to see more positive things in that column, all they would have to do is write a positive item or two and send it in. And if everyone who complains that there aren't enough positive items would send in a positive item, it would very quickly turn into a very positive column. But they would rather sit back and complain about how negative it is rather than doing anything to change it. Or what really gets me is when they send a submission to the column complaining about how negative the column is.

Now, will more positive comments lead to little or no negative comments? No, but it will spread out the negative comments and make it more balanced. And if it keeps up, it is possible that eventually the positives will outnumber the negatives.

So where is all this leading? Simple. If you want to see more intellectual discussions on ML, you should start a few yourself rather than complain about how there aren't any. I did a quick search, and the last thread you started that wasn't about Trailer News or DVD releases and didn't involve someone's death (James Brown, Steve Irwin, etc.) was April 30, 2006, and before that, it jumps back to Oct. 25, 2005. (And for the record, I didn't respond to either of those posts because, for one, like you, I don't get it, either, and the other, I never saw it.)

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with trailer news, DVD releases, or informing people about celebrities that have recently died (far from it, after all, trailer news is what ML is all about), and I certainly don't mean to attack you or anyone else (although I realize it might sound that way, but I really don't mean to attack anyone) but somehow, I don't think those posts fit in with what you are talking about not seeing enough of on the forum.

Just remember, you have as much voice in this forum as anyone.

[Oldfart]

BTW sticking with the subject: the third day of the Chinese New Year is traditionally regarded as a day when people easily fall into fights and arguments (The Day of the Red Dog). Therefore most people stay home on that day insteading of visiting friends, relatives or acquaintances in order to avoid unnecessary brawls... Well, it's only the second day... I guess I'll have to try not to reply tomorrow.

The day of the red dog
Oops! Im supposed to be at Pub Quizz Night tonight . Our team usually go to kick figurative a** , but I'm in no shape for a physical brawl! It nearly came to that last Tuesday when a pic was shown which any fool could see was of Bette Davis, but the Quiz Mistress said she had to go by the answer she had in front of her which was.............. Mae West!

Maybe tonight I should make my apologies to the team and stay home or is that just me being a rabbit?