PT Rethink Your Life: The PT Social Thread (image and gif-heavy)

I believe TeenNick exists still but I'm not sure. Wasn't it like Degrassi and something? I think Drake was in there....

True, but compared to competitors, they have a sizable fanbase with Adventure Time, Adult Swim, Regular Show and others. I have a soft spot for Chowder and of course, the old Clone Wars show from 2003-2005 and the The Clone Wars. Also, Transformers Animated was my **** when I was younger.

 

Yep, yep

 

haha I'm good thanks Del

 

Hi heels!

Does TeenNick exist anymore. It was a very mid 2000s thing I remember. Disney XD is actually pretty good. I have been meaning to watch Star Wars Rebels but ah well.
I have heard Gravity Falls was a great show. Nostalgia Critic said so . Doesn't XD also have the Marvel property shows, too?

 

Drake and Josh, yeah.

I know they do now! It's just not as much as before. I still love CN and watch it whenever I'm in the States. My grandma is forced to watch silly cartoons with me lol.


I love Phineas & Ferb and Gravity Falls. XD hasn't played Rebels here yet, I don't think.

 

Oh I agree! Cartoons can still be fantastic!

Ultimate Spiderman and Guardians are two I really want to check.

Agree! Rebels would be the main priority for me to get back into it. Phineas and Ferb was enjoyable when it was on Disney.

Does anyone remember Samurai Jack and the Spiderman CGI show from 2003?

 

Remind me to never move to Canada for entertainment.....

 

Samurai Jack I definitely remember. CGI Spider-Man, I'm not sure.

Does anybody remember Sitting Ducks on CN?

 

The only things I watch on TV are hockey (go Blackhawks!), Spongebob, and the BBC.
Occasionally I'll watch a film or something, but that's rare.

I watch most of my TV online.

 

Well for anyone who is interested, new Samurai Jack episodes are coming this year on Adult Swim.

 

Better be old Spongebob.....

 

I had an ex-girlfriend who's obsessed with the Blackhawks. Her family's from Chicago.

 

slightly spoilery.

 

Let's go Hawks! Let's go Hawks!

 

I shall never again pause a show on Hulu, for it causes the video the stutter every two seconds unless I close the app and open it back up. Boo Hulu.

 

Rather late comment.

No, I haven't been to the U.S., but one can apply certain patterns across multiple areas. Over here, we have a similar problem with over-incarceration of Aborigines, and most people seem to concentrate simply on the fact that they are overrepresented in the prison population and sheeting it home to racism or discrimination rather than thinking about whether there are causes springing from the relevant sub-culture. For example, many Aborigines are much poorer because they are stranded out in remote communities with no facilities and which are only supported through government welfare; and those living successful lives in the city oppose attempts to consolidate these failing settlements. Alcoholism, drug use, child abuse, assault, and family dysfunction are common in these places, and this can effect entire families and communities; these are also often correlated with high crime rates, so consider whether or not there are similar correlations in America. We also have problems with immigrant ethnicities, particularly Sudanese, and there is a persistent failure amongst the governing officials to even recognise a disparity in crime rates (which does exist), let alone that cultural problems may be to blame.

If crime rates are higher amongst blacks/aborigines, (which is saying that they are, going by, well, statistics), then police attention will be drawn to that population; if crime is concentrated in particular areas of a town then police will probably be drawn there as well, and if this area just happens to have a higher concentration of a particular race/ethnicity, then there will be a disproportionate impact upon that ethnicity, particularly as police resources are finite, drawing them away from other places. (And I do know about the disparity in sentencing, I acknowledged it in my original comment).

This is also an example of the prevalence of a pattern being repeated worldwide: an externalisation of blame. Over here, we have had several attacks by Muslim radicals, and each time it made the news, our political superiors moved quickly to condemn, not the terrorism, but the non-existent 'racist backlash' by the supposed crazed whites that make up our dominant society. And Muslim community leaders always blame it on some sort of discrimination or racism from the general population in spite of the fact that no other ethnicities seem to have problems with its members going out and shooting people whilst yelling religious slogans. No one in power (except for one person) tried to address some of the actual causes of these attacks: radical appeals to their religious views; availability of such material on the internet; inadequate parental supervision therein; the importation of religious leaders from places such as Saudi Arabia that have very hard-line views, views which they then air to the more general Muslim population. Instead, much of the media and those in politics and the government services prefer to bury their heads in the sand, and blame everything on the rest of us.

The idea that people objecting to the exclusivism of the B.L.M. ideology is 'obnoxious' is rather ironic given that, going on whatever gets in the news, they seem to be rather the same way. In common with many of these 'anti-racism/discrimination/whatever' movements, they seem to just simply act with a big hissy-fit whenever anyone disagrees with them, and although they may claim otherwise (as you two do), they betray through the tone of their campaign, language and what they choose to address a loathing (if not hatred) of whites and a tendency to blame things on whites as a population and as a whole. Again, after the mass shootings of blacks in the U.S. by white gunmen, there is always a large segment of people sheeting everything home to actions of whites, legacy of past injustices and implicit and explicit statements that, 'all whites should feel some shared responsibility for what has happened. All whites need to go and have some self-introspection and self-flagellation'; whenever Muslims carry out terrorist attacks, we are told, usually by these same people, that 'we should not blame it on all Muslims; it was a minor party in no way representative of the general Muslim population; don't you dare blame it on their religion.' I know that in one case last year in America, a black man died at the hands of police, and the B.L.M. people blamed it on whites and you-know-what (I don't remember whether there were riots or not), but they overlooked the fact that, of the six officers charged, three were non-white (at least on visual inspection) including the one charged with the most serious offence. And when these things are pointed out, the people who before were magically somehow whities may not remain white, instead they become sellouts or enablers. Over here, when several Aboriginal people dared wade into the racial-political debate here with opinions that are unfashionable amongst the trendy left-wing classes (in political parties and racial identity), they were slandered with racial epithets (many of American origin, incidentally) because they supported a course of action that they thought might work or be sensible, but which deviated from the line that people of their race are supposed to take on these issues: they were explicitly labelled 'traitors to their race' which of course evokes a much more extreme racial ideology prominent in the 30s.

In general, it is quite easy to stick to sloganeering and us vs. them thinking (an example of which I mock in my current status post), but I suggest that you, rather than responding reflexively to things with, well, the same empty points, go away, perhaps look a few things up from a broad spectrum of perspectives, and just spend several hours gathering information and thinking things over.

 

Yippee!

Keep 'em comin' traitor!

 

Well, I'm beat, I'm signing off for the night, I think.

Deliveranze In the immortal words of Rian Johnson, "Live Long and Prosper fellow nerds of The Star Wars, and also Luke remember to turn on you targeting computer.

And also remember, the Vulcan will be with You, always."

(Fig. 1.a: Simon Pegg, J.J. Abram's space-comrade and world's biggest fan of the Prequel Trilogy, demonstrating the traditional salute practiced among fans of The Star Wars)

 

Goodnight Huttese. See ya tomorrow!

 

As usual, when I'm in, everybody else has cleared out.

 

Hey, India are playing New Zealand tonight, so I guess the World T20 is actually starting only now.