The Interview

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 4:38 pm

Bruv;1470266 wrote: I know what you mean..........but Mid West you would logically take to be halfway to the most western point.

"Going West" to the Californian gold rush would have meant they all ended up in.........Japan ? ish ?

I live in the South East which is bottom right of the country. The UK Midlands is........in the middle, where else?

Semi-officially, the Midwest covers Northern Plains and Mississippi watershed in the northern regions.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 4:44 pm

LarsMac;1470271 wrote: Semi-officially, the Midwest covers Northern Plains and Mississippi watershed in the northern regions.

The illogic of that map is blatant. You have an entire section labelled "West", but "Midwest" isn't in the middle of it? What on earth is wrong with labeling that central Northern section "North" like any self-respecting explorer of terra incognita would, with a subscript "here be monsters" and a drawn-in dragon or two. Midwest, phooey.

eta: I expect what the original namers really meant was "Half-Way West".

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 4:46 pm

FG;1470272 wrote: The illogic of that map is blatant. You have a section labelled "West" but "Midwest" isn't in the middle of it? What on earth is wrong with labeling that central Northern section "North" like any self-respecting explorer of terra incognita would, with a subscript "here be monsters" and a drawn-in dragon or two. Midwest, phooey.

eta: I expect what the original namers really meant was "Half-Way West".

Like I said, everything is relative. The guys who drew up the dividing lines lived in New York.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 5:19 pm

I paid $5.99 USD last night to You Tube and watched the complete movie. Not well done at all and not very funny. Mel Brooks should have produced it.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 5:23 pm

I'll wait until it makes the rounds on Netfix.

Or, perhaps, just watch 'Dumb and Dumber 2'

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:21 pm

FG;1470269 wrote: We have a similar problem with relative geography in England too. Londoners notoriously claim The North starts at the Watford Gap, which most people (erroneously) think means the Watford Service Station on the M1, 15 miles north of Trafalgar Square. Part of the joke is that the big guns on HMS Belfast, permanently moored near the Tower of London, are trained on the Watford Service Station on the M1, presumably to deter Northerners from invading.

From the perspective of a Bristolian, the West of England starts at Exeter, a notion everyone else in England heartily laughs at: Bristolians speak more West-Country Pirate fashion than anyone else. Vicky Pollard is not, in my memory, an exaggeration.
You think you've got problems. I live in Southampton, which is on both sides of the River Itchen. As with the region we cover at work, I would consider this as being South-Central. However, when it comes to many multiple choice options (mainly online), the choice is either South-East or South-West, when, of course, it is Neither or Both. On the whole, the regional selections tend to assume Southampton as being South-West. Go figure.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:35 pm

FourPart;1470293 wrote: On the whole, the regional selections tend to assume Southampton as being South-West. Go figure.They're mad - if I started driving East this minute, I'd not get to Southampton before the sun comes up. Well... if I have a coffee on the way. The RAC route planner says "4 hours 14 mins 220.87 mi". By comparison, Southampton to Dover is "2 hours 23 mins 149.52 mi". I think that puts Southampton firmly in the South-East of England.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:50 pm

FG;1470294 wrote: They're mad - if I started driving East this minute, I'd not get to Southampton before the sun comes up. Well... if I have a coffee on the way. The RAC route planner says "4 hours 14 mins 220.87 mi". By comparison, Southampton to Dover is "2 hours 23 mins 149.52 mi". I think that puts Southampton firmly in the South-East of England.
Even then it depends on which map you choose to believe.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:58 pm

If you crawl up the length of the Bristol Channel until you come to the Hinkley Point nuclear power station and drop anchor, everything behind you is the South West of England, the stuff to the north is called Wales and the wasteland stretching eastwards is the South of England. Stands to reason. It's flat, boggy salt-marsh for thirty miles whichever way you walk unless you climb Exmoor and get gored by a passing stag.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 7:04 pm

If you are joking, I'm not laughing. If you are serious, you owe me an apology.

I have personally met some of the Apollo astronauts. They are men of honor. They do not lie. To cast aspersions and doubt on their accomplishments is detestable and wrong.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 7:10 pm

Saint_;1470306 wrote: If you are joking, I'm not laughing. If you are serious, you owe me an apology.

I have personally met some of the Apollo astronauts. They are men of honor. They do not lie. To cast aspersions and doubt on their accomplishments is detestable and wrong.
Why should he apologise? He stated a fact. He said that there were rumours that they never landed on the moon, but that it was a Hollywood facade, and there are such rumours. He never said the rumours were true. The Faked Moon Landings are one of the biggest, and most ridiculous Conspiracy Theories of all time.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 9:48 pm

He should apologize for even repeating such vile slander.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:19 am

Saint_;1470323 wrote: He should apologize for even repeating such vile slander.

Your notions of a right to free speech are completely bogus, it seems to me. He should apologize for mentioning there's Lunar Lander Deniers in the world, but Sony Pictures shouldn't apologize for their "comical" fictional assassination of a world leader the US government demonizes? Do I not recall that the US government paid for the real-life assassination of a whole raft of world leaders it had previously demonized, invariably to the detriment of the citizens of those countries affected? Would you like a list? The Sony Pictures "comedy" just makes such genuine terrorism seem acceptable to the increasingly brainwashed unquestioning US public.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:54 am

Saint_;1469561 wrote: Nothing is more detestable than someone putting themselves on high and dictating the proper tastes and habits to other people they have no clue about.

..............Actually, intelligent people take free speech quite literally. Without the bad, there is no way to judge the good.

Saint's opening post on this thread, edited obviously, but not to alter context and showing his strong feelings on censorship and free speech.

Saint_;1470306 wrote: If you are joking, I'm not laughing. If you are serious, you owe me an apology.

I have personally met some of the Apollo astronauts. They are men of honor. They do not lie. To cast aspersions and doubt on their accomplishments is detestable and wrong.

So I can only assume this post was directed at my post, and so MUST be seen as a joke..................I laughed anyway.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:56 am

I met some of the Apollo Astronauts, too. Even met a Mercury, and a couple of the Gemini guys.

Most of THEM had a sense of humor.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:58 am

I've just watched it & it's certainly no Oscar winner. In my opinion, just as the leaks said, poor script, badly acted, and not very funny. More like a low budget movie made by a bunch of students when they had a weekend to spare.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 1:04 pm

LarsMac;1470234 wrote: How is this about rights?

saying that I don't think they should have made the movie has nothing to do with their right to do so. SONY owned the movie, and it is their right to decide whether to put the movie in the theaters. The theaters have the right to run it, or not. The customers have a right to either buy tickets and view it, or not. No rights were violated in this event.

OK, fair enough.

I misread or understood what your posted. mea culpa