What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

I think the difference between Joan Rivers and Robin Williams, is that Joan had been sick for some time and in a coma for what two weeks, while Robin was a suicide.

Both were brilliant in their own ways and both will be missed.

Just food for thought, Robin was sick his entire life. I get what you're saying...but the outpouring for Williams was really intense. And I'm not saying that is a bad thing. but it became an "it" thing to comment on.

[fastbilly1]

I am picking up what you are putting down. Even if it isnt delicious red dogs with a bag of rags.

[Forlorn Drifter]

What is this fucking world coming to?

I don't believe the world is going wrong, its just going back to what's natural. There's too much getting in the way of what people want, or causing them to feel like they having no power, or causing them emotional distress. Humanity is tribal at its base, and what does a tribe do when they have a problem? Fix it. I don't have food, but he does. I'll kill him and take his food, or steal some. These guys hurt me. I'll hurt them back. Etc etc.

Actually you're not alone in believing this. The author Robert E. Howard believed that civilization was unnatural, built for the weak, and would inevitably collapse and succumb to barbarism every time, when the strong willed would dominate the weak. He then did us all a favor and created Kull the Conqueror, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and eventually Conan the Barbarian.

I happen to be a big Howard fan, but I believed this prior to reading his material. The point just makes sense, its evolution trying to work. I think humanity would be in a somewhat different place today if we didn't have modern medicine, or had the ability to raise those who wouldn't have survived otherwise.

[noiseredux]

<3 Jenny McCarthy.

I got to see Joan Rivers perform last year.

[Michi]

Williams may have been sick his entire life, but what made his death so much more painful was that we didn't know about it. Many of us grew up watching this man make us laugh. We saw the movies, the specials, the stand-up, laughed through it all and didn't see the real pain. He may have spoken about it, but he hid its severity, and that's what made it so painful. It was right there and we, the general public, didn't know. Because he was so good at hiding it behind the laughter. That's what made it hurt and feel like it came out of left field. The laughter shielded the pain and we didn't see it coming.

Joan's death is just as sad and just as tragic, but not as shocking. She was taken from us more slowly, we were updated on her condition for the last week. We heard about the complications. We heard about the cardiac arrest. We heard about the medically induced coma. So while her death is just as sad, it wasn't as shocking. Sad as it was, we did see it coming. I, for one, will greatly miss her honesty and wit.

We've lost two great comics in too short a time.

[SamuraiMegas]

completely fucked up my timed writing in english. I have been having some troubles sleeping and during 4th period i was tired and hungry and did a quote per paragraph instead of 2 quotes in each body paragraph.

edit: completely unrelated, but does anyone know the name of that show that the Colbert Report used a clip of the other day? It was some old english lady telling a bunch of people they were below her or something. It started with an S i think, I've seen something else about it and i wanna see what it is.

[MrPopo]

Astraeus Orbital Transport: 600 Metal
Advanced Fabrication Vehicle: 2100 Metal
Halley Rocket Engine: 40000 Metal

Dropping a moon on your opponent: Priceless

[Xeogred]

Great pic of these two.

[Luke]

<3 Jenny McCarthy.

Gorgeous. but she's pretty insane. When Jim Carrey calls you nuts, that says something.

[Stark]

<3 Jenny McCarthy.

Gorgeous. but she's pretty insane. When Jim Carrey calls you nuts, that says something.

Maybe he just really likes Red Alert 3.