You're bashing season 3... seriously? The Season with Flaming Moe's, among many other classics. Simpsons bashing is so in vogue, you'd think it's a JJ Abrams Star Trek movie trailer.

Dunno why people are pissed. JJ has always been about the good popcorn flick thrill ride.

When I first heard about the reboot, I was disgusted, but I cannot deny that the first movie was good etertainment (cept for the ending though)

I always say that some of my friends might be gay, but I just don't care enough about it to ask.

Except for Chris and JJ. They're married, so it's sorta obvious.

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it's odd. for a long time, I've wanted someone to take over the reins of Star Wars because Lucas is a shit writer/director that surrounded himself with yes-men. I wanted him to see over and over what Star Wars could be like without his ego mucking shit up.

Hell I remember how adamant he used to be that VI was the end. It was the story of Anakin and when Anakin died, it's over. Now he's saying he'd been working on VII VIII and IX? Yeah fuck you George. You have become the evil empire.

At the same time though, now that it has happened and JJ is directing the next movie and George is out of the picture for good. I just derive no joy out of it. I would have preferred a lesser known director. I have enjoyed JJ's movies, but at the same time, the guy has his stupid tropes and hangups too.

I guess im just getting more and more fed up with Hollywood. Of course I'll go see the new movies. I'm so sick of the beating of the dead horse though

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*length=2:58 HAHAHAHA!! One of the road tech's for Little Feat was on JJ awhile back. He won [he knew better than to argue with her unlike the plaintiff]

As with all things, it's not necessarily a law change that need to happen. Laws don't drive the zeitgeist, the zeitgeist drive laws (or should).

People need to be dissuaded from wanting to have guns. In Europe, people don't really want a gun, and don't even see a need for one. Sure, there are hunters and they have guns, and sure you can get one if you're in a dangerous area with bears and shit, but actually getting a gun is when you're hunted by mafia or something like that and you're desperate. Why would you ever want to walk around with a gun? I don't really get it.

Perhaps people have a fantasy about being a hero, where they shoot the bad guy. Everyone has that as a kid; most kids also grow up.

There's something deeply satisfying about firing a gun - power at your fingertips. Control. Maybe it's a control thing. People don't like to be out of control, with a gun they always have something to fall back on to control the situation.

Maybe it's a macho thing, although women carry guns too. I don't know the statistic of it, but I would imagine more men do than women. Men are intrinsically destructive while women are creative - it's our nature. We men beat up our rivals to gain access to that sweetest fruit of all: peach. Perhaps it's an extension of power; an penis extension. Don't pull the trigger, squeeze it tenderly. You are the gun; look down the aim at your target and fire.

Maybe there's some brain vs brawn in it. I would wager good money that as intelligence goes up, gun ownership goes down. No statistics to back it up, but I'd love to see if it's true. Brains are taking over everything - it's the decade of the Nerd. Joss Whedon and JJ Abrams could get all the girls and gets all the admiration in the big world, while Dick McKickaball failed to make the team and married Candace the exotic dancer his friends hired for him on his 21st birthday. But at least he could shoot JJ Abrams in the face with his 4½ inch death stick.

Society doesn't really gain much from guns does it?

It has its own market and thus gets people to move money around with someone around to skim the top. dft said this in point 2 as well. This could be done for worse stuff though - snuff porn has a market; heroin has a market.

Mutually Assured Destruction is always a fun acronym to throw around. If everyone does eye for an eye, the world will go blind, I've heard somewhere. Probably a shitty western or something.

Feelings of security? If I have a gun, do I feel safer from the people around me that may or may not also have guns? I would feel safer in my home, I think. If I feared home invasions. Home invasions are a weird thing; very rare in europe to the best of my knowledge, even though we don't have guns. Seems like something that would only happen if there was an enormous disparity between poor and rich, making the poor desperate (and lazy) enough to want to do a home invasion. If Brian the Aryan Man-God makes 10 million billion $$ a year, and Rommel the Dirty Mexican doesn't get anything because he has to pay child support off his social security and also cover his meth addication, then the chance of Rommel doing a home invasion is greater than if Rommel makes half of what Brian does. Maybe we need to raise the floor, instead of raising the ceiling on the extrema of wealth to lose the desire of guns.

Maybe it's all of the factors at once, and we have someone like the NRA pushing everyone to want all of them. I want security. I'm afraid. I have a small dick. Home invasions happen all the time. Schools get shot by crazies, I need to defend myself.

Bang!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

There... the demons went away. Guns are your friends.

Ha, thanks.

I was actually regretting that I didn't go for my original impulse and ask whether this might be a clip from JJ Abrams old childhood home movies.

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>> ^Yogi:

>> ^bmacs27:
@JiggaJonson
Only one player has ever died on field in the NFL. He died of a heart attack. Your story comes from before they wore helmets and American Football was more closely related to rugby.
89 players have died on field during sanctioned FIFA matches.
What was your point?

Kids die every year playing this game...also people die from injuries as a result from playing in the NFL and Football in general. Almost every year in this nation there is a story simply about a kid dying in practice during the summer due to overheating or exhaustion. That's why they forced us to drink TONS of water until our stomachs hurt. But because they don't die ON THE FIELD that is supposed to mean something? Do you think that because tons of people die in the hospital of cancer that hospitals give people cancer?


Yeah, this whole thing is a bunch of bullshit. They're modern gladiators, and people who tell themselves otherwise are lying to themselves.

To read some of the comments though, you'd think I said I laugh when people suffer heart attacks and collapse.
Read my comment below yours when you get a chance. -jj

>> ^radx:

Well, this seems to work, sort of. But it's as wonky as it gets, if you ask me.
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If you want to embed other Team Coco videos, just replace the "41587" with the respective ID of your clip. Twice. >> ^ant:
>> ^radx:
@lucky760, could you take a look at this? Or are those iframe shenanigans on hold until 5.0 is deployed?

Bah, http://teamcoco.com/video/jj-abrams-gives-an-exclu
sive-sneak-peek-of-star-trek-into-darkness as well.



Thanks. I will try that later. We need an automated iframe converter for VS.

Well, this seems to work, sort of. But it's as wonky as it gets, if you ask me.

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If you want to embed other Team Coco videos, just replace the "41587" with the respective ID of your clip. Twice. >> ^ant:

>> ^radx:
@lucky760, could you take a look at this? Or are those iframe shenanigans on hold until 5.0 is deployed?

Bah, http://teamcoco.com/video/jj-abrams-gives-an-exclu
sive-sneak-peek-of-star-trek-into-darkness as well.