I have shamed myself and now must report to the nearest disintegration chamber, an abscure reference to the episode A Taste of Armageddon on Star Trek, an obscure science fiction series from the 60s starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. 
Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was the United States of ROCK AND ROLL! WOO!
We have the same mother! My mother gets distracted by a mole and spends half the movie wondering why the actor hasn’t had it removed. She’s also a G rated Mom and it’s hard to find a movie that’s not a cartoon that she’d like.
My Dad was the worst when he was older. We got him all sorts of contraptions like little speakers so he could hear better in a movie but they’d never work.
He’d spend half the movie asking me what they said. Once the character said she had her vagina tightened and my dad said “what did she say?” I wanted to crawl under the seat. I said I didn’t know then she said it again and he heard her. It shut him up for the rest of the movie.
All right, fine, but this “tdn” you call yourself? What the hell’s that supposed to mean?
:rolleyes: Ever heard of Google? Sheesh!
I’m sorry for the hijack, but I just think it’s just a little too American centric for my comfort.
One of the things I enjoy most about this board is that it grows more international all the time. It bespeaks a self importance that is very Western, in my opinion.
Not everyone is as exposed to western culture, not everyone is in America. I find it somewhat exclusive to non western users, who’s presence I find one of the most enchanting things about this place.
I understand that having to retype a long explanation is annoying, and I’m willing to look things up I don’t understand (and often do!). But at least it should be spelled out the first use, and abbreviated whenever repeated. I don’t need you to explain the plot of the show, but jeeze the name would be nice.
It’s like speaking with someone who is showing off they know Chinese, they speckle the conversation with it and you have to keep asking, “What does ?? mean?”.
But I can see I’m in the minority here, so I’ll just move along. I do, certainly appreciate what you are saying. And I will, no doubt, continue to be the one asking, “What’s ??? mean?”. 
If it’s makes you feel better I’m from the US and most of the initials are lost on me too. I didn’t know what MST3K was either but I figured someone would ask. And you did!
Which 60’s would that be?
What in the goram 'verse are you talking about?
The one with all that one time for 20 minutes stuff. Not the one with the death rays.
C’mon now, stop using references that not everyone will get. Dong ma? Okay, shiny.
Because it’s not cryptic. At all. It is very, very, very, very commonly known as MST3K. The abbreviation is perhaps even better known than the title. (And it’s not American centric, I’m in Canada too and I know what it means).
What kind of computer do you have elbows? Are you gong to tell me you have an “International Business Machines” computer, or an “IBM”?
If you didn’t know what MST3K stands for, you’d still have to Google it to understand the reference.
Ahem.
See post #46.
But back to the OP… My girlfriend and I have an unspoken rule for watching movies. If it’s something goofy like James Bond, then it’s okay to occasionally voice a quick opinion or speculation “Hey, I be the guy with the black fingernails really works for the CIA and will turn out not to be a bad guy after all!”
For more serious fare, if there’s something we didn’t quite get, we’ll politely wait until the end of the movie, so that a) we don’t miss anything and b) in case the movie elaborates or explains it later.
Example/ There was a very quick cut in a recent movie. I thought I saw something that put a significant spin on an otherwise mundane act, but I had to ask her later to confirm what I saw. If I’d asked at the time, I would have missed a lot of other important stuff in the rapid scene.
My lovely, darling wife has a desired listening range in regards to volume that is entirely impossible to cater to, especially with modern movies.
OK, two complaints here.
- Movies where the sound range constantly shifts. LOUD explosions followed immediately by whispered dialogue.
Now, this leads into #2.
- Wife first complains that it is too loud. Then, when the dialogue comes on, keeps asking, “what did they say?” If I then try to explain, I miss the next bit of discussion that she WILL ALSO ASK ME ABOUT!!! I argue to just keep the volume up, but she does not like that.
Grr. I love her, but watching something with her can be REALLY annoying.
If we are watching a movie, I can pause it at least.
If we are watching network TV, we don’t have cable or tivo so it is a lost cause.
Maybe I should just give up and upgrade our home system to cable & tivo. That or buy her a personalized pair of headphones, but she will still adjust the volume constantly and ask, “what did they say?”
Sounds like my sister’s friend who watched Star Wars with us when it was first released. Drove us crazy, too.
Tead the Fucking Nanual?
I remember one poster years ago talking about watching the entire LOTR series with a couple of dumb chicks, and them asking all sorts of inane questions. “What’s so special about that ring again?” and “Who’s that that blond guy with the ears?” And that was during RotK.
No, it’s not. It is very commonly known among a very, very small subset of the population known as Science Fiction geeks. This subset just happens to be very overrepresented on these boards.
TTFN ???
Anybody?