Lesson 1: Home Alone is as morbid as it is cute. Lesson 2: So is Looney Tunes, I suppose.

Hey, I used to live right next to this county. I don't blame him for not wanting his kids walking home alone. That area is fucking scary!

In defence of @arekin, he's not saying he agrees with the law, but that the cop was carrying out his duty in regards to an existing law. We really don't want a situation where the cops get to pick and choose what laws are enforced.

That said, I don't feel his actions merited an arrest.

The school may legally have been within their rights (don't really have all the facts), but I'm pretty sure arguing with a school official isn't actually a crime.

It's basically a problem with the law itself. The law makers only thought of two possible scenarios:
1: Parents pick up their kids in a car.
2: The kids walk home alone.

The possibility that a parent might walk obviously never occurred to them.

Which is kinda sad, really.

This made me think of Home Alone!

This is what I came to say. Having TWO huskies left alone in an apartment is just careless ownership.

>> ^legacy0100:

Huskies need lots of exercise, otherwise this happens...

Thanks!

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Huskies need lots of exercise, otherwise this happens... But damn, Serenity is just too darn precious!!! *promote

I heard the next target is a total reboot of the Home Alone series with Macauley Culkin, but this time as a strung out adult who actually kills the invaders and keeps them from installment to installment.

I was on my way home from Gymnasium (sorta equivalent of high school, but a little older) and was home alone. I had fallen asleep on the couch with the TV on, and woke up intermittently to see smoking buildings. I think I left the TV on the whole day to constantly follow what was happening.

I remember the media was quick to try to figure out who would do it, and it took them a while to get to the right names.

I remember it was very scary watching people jump from the towers, so they wouldn't burn.

Seeing the many angles was almost like being there yourself. It also helped that whole incident took a whole day to unfold, rather than the typical terrorist act - action (explosion) -> aftermath done in 10 minutes. Here the action part lasted the whole day, which I think it one of the reasons it made such a huge impact - lots of pictures. If it had just been a bombing like in 93(?) which had leveled the buildings, it would have had less of an impact with the general public.

If we could see as many pictures of all the other atrocities happening around the world, you'd think people would care more about them too. 9/11 wasn't a huge event, but because everyone saw it, it's impact was bigger than damn near any other single event in history.

If you ask me, I don't think light saber battles look anything like kendo. Sure they're fast, but Olympic fencing is even faster.

That's one thing I've always wondered though: do light sabers (the "light" or blade part anyway) have any weight? Because they always use moves that incorporate the momentum of the blade. To me, light saber battles in the new movies look more like wushu than anything else. I used to have a book with a chapter about how Bob Anderson and Peter Diamond choreographed the fights for the original Star Wars movies but I can't find it now. Anyway, they based the styles off of older fencing styles. You can see that when you watch the movies how Luke's "Ready position" is with his feet well apart and his light saber off to the side, whereas Darth Vader has a more upright Kendo position with his blade always in front. But they also chose those styles because they looked good on camera, and they changed them further still so that they had a "wow" factor.

Either way, I think the fencing would look completely different if they were really using blades that only had mass in the handle. They would be able to change course instantly, making for a lot of very tricky (not to mention insanely fast) moves. But it would still probably look closer to European fencing. And the actors in the movies need something (which in Star Wars props I believe is a carbon fiber rod) that they can swing around and bang on another person's sword creating the illusion that the light sabers in the final product are actually touching. If they represented it accurately though (which no movie ever does) then a person who new nothing about fencing would probably have a very hard time seeing what was actually going on. And there would probably be a lot more missing hands and fingers like Luke's in Empire. The actual techniques of any fighting style usually need some sort of introduction before anyone can really tell what's going on though.

That said, I can see Xaieleo's point about how the older movies seem more realistic. Although I think "more determined" is a much more accurate way of describing them than "slower". So I can see your point as well Sheppp. As time goes on, everyone has just gotten used to the Chinese "fling your blade around like crazy style" that is taught in wushu, which is really more of an exercise anyway but looks WAY cooler on camera than most "realistic" combat moves.

And another thing...
The Darth Maul dual-ended staff thing has always bugged me. I can't think of any reason that one double-sided staff like that would ever be more effective than just using a light saber in each hand. It would be much more adaptable and the dual-staff thing just seems way too dangerous to the wielder.

One thing that I would love to have seen instead of the "dual-staff-thing", which I think is a cop out, are new types of light sabers, like Count Dooku's french-handled light saber. I would have loved a little more creativity. I don't get paid to come up with new ideas but I'm sure if I spent a little time, I could come up with a variation that was more impressive than just: "LOOK! This guy uses TWO light sabers glued together!!11!" I don't know, maybe a light-saber-parrying implement or something. I for one was not impressed.

There, I said it. Now you know what kind of things I think about when I'm sitting at home alone and the internet goes out.

>> ^dag:

I'm loving Netflix as a source of good movies that didn't get a chance at the Cineplex though. Watched this the other night -it was great.>> ^peggedbea:
one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.
i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.
1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2
etc, etc, etc
i would beg her to watch highlander II.



In that respect, Dag, you should check out The Chaser, if you haven't already seen it...

btw dag, my kids just saw your avatar and asked if dr. who regenerated again. ummm.... >> ^dag:

I'm loving Netflix as a source of good movies that didn't get a chance at the Cineplex though. Watched this the other night -it was great.>> ^peggedbea:
one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.
i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.
1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2
etc, etc, etc
i would beg her to watch highlander II.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I'm loving Netflix as a source of good movies that didn't get a chance at the Cineplex though. Watched this the other night -it was great.>> ^peggedbea:

one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.
i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.
1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2
etc, etc, etc
i would beg her to watch highlander II.

one of the young women i work with has the most horrific taste in movies and a netflix account.
a good way to get her to do her lower extremity stretches without a fuss is just to let her watch a movie during them.

i have seen the worst movies ever as a result.

1. home alone 3
2. ski patrol
3. soccer mom
4. father of the bride 2

etc, etc, etc

i would beg her to watch highlander II.

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"My parents aren't home this week."

What kind of parents leave their teenage son home alone for a freakin' week?
Also, this is one of those videos that makes me cringe with embarrassment so much that I just can't watch it.