TheMongoose

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TheMongoose,

The song goes “We wish you a merry Christmas”, so that’ll always be there for as long as the song is popular.

Plus (also because of the song, I assume), you say “merry Christmas and a happy new year”, not “happy Christmas and a happy new year”. Too much happy there.

TheMongoose,

Should copyright for works that old be expired? Yes!

In the actual world we live in, was this guy ever going to avoid being sued so hard that his grandchildren will be embarrassed for him? No!

You've got to admire the lemming-like devotion to the legal cliff he threw himself off though. Writing a sequel to not only a copyright work, but one that is still in the cultural zeitgeist thanks to a 20-year old wildly successful series of films? Ballsy. Subsequently suing one of the largest companies in the world and the estate that produced the original works as infringing his copyright?

Chutzpa, I believe the term is.

TheMongoose,

Jaxo is looking at him with the 'damn it, I still thought you were going to start Ice Ice Baby..." expression.

TheMongoose,

It's security software - firewalls, VPNs, that sort of thing. It's not that it's not available anywhere else, but the Israeli stuff was always considered among the best before this conflict kicked off.

TheMongoose,

Ah, but from where I sit (a long way from the US), it looks more like a pissing contest between the Republicans to see who can be the most terrible human being in government, than it does look like any sort of actual policy or principal.

It's not about helping Ukraine, or avoiding the mistakes of Afghanistan - it's about trying to make Biden (and/or 'The Dems' in general) look bad, even if that involves civilian deaths.

Are they evil, Russian agents or just absolute clowns? It doesn't really matter, does it. The end result is the same.

TheMongoose,

I've seen a story where one of the faire participants had a commbadge hidden in their costume, pulled the Trekkie to one side, showed it to them, then told them off for breaking the Prime Directive...

TheMongoose,

His face, his voice, his... everything...

"By Grabthar's Hammer... ... what a savings"

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  • TheMongoose,

    I was going to tell you a time travel joke, but you didn't like it.

    TheMongoose,

    “Rent for £3.99”

    But I already pay for Amazon Prime, wtf? Greedy bastards…

    TheMongoose,

    Proof we need more Brits around here, the answer is clearly “sausages”… 😁

    TheMongoose,

    Do you wanna run this ship?

    Yes

    Well... you can't.

    TheMongoose,

    Personally, I think the problem with Galactica nowadays is that the world is generally far more depressing than it was when the show came out. I can take dark and gritty, but it was more fun then. Now, I prefer something more lighthearted.

    Like the flashback episode of SNW, where we saw Chapel and M'Benga during the Klingon War. My first though was "this is awesome, I could watch a whole show like that", but shortly afterwards, I realised "nope, that would be way too much, bring back Captain Daddy making jokes about how flipping the communicator open is better than tapping a commbadge.

    Or maybe I'm just more of a miserable bastard than I was 20 years ago. IDK.

    But hey, for any sci-fi fan, I'd certainly recommend at least watching the miniseries that kicks it all off. Get a feel for the characters and the universe they're in.

    I've never watched Babylon 5. Everyone always raves about it, but I don't know if I could get past the extremely dated looking effects.

    Plus there's so much new content coming out. I can't criticise anyone who doesn't want to watch older stuff, because who has the time to watch it all?

    That being said... you have seen Firefly, right?

    TheMongoose,

    “So we were being chased by bad guys through a really explosive gas cloud nebula thing. Weapons were on the fritz and we couldn’t use shields because if the aforementioned nebula. So I ejected the warp core and blew it up, detonating the nebula and the bad guys while we just scraped out in the nick of time”

    My god man, that’s actually impressive. How were you planning on getting back to literally anywhere else without a warp core?

    “Ah well, I was only the acting captain at the time, so I figured that would be Picard’s problem when he got back…”

    TheMongoose,

    Alternatively

    "Oh, are you reading?"

    ... No, I've got headphones on and am staring at this Kindle because I want to have a conversation. Dick.

    TheMongoose,

    So you're saying... only a clanker can call another clanker 'clanker'?

    TheMongoose,

    Christ, the Gammons would canonise Churchill if they could, and the man was a monster.

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