Burning sense of disgust

[harryslimes]

harryslimes,

To what does your name refer?

Also whats with the trollish post? Surely you can write a better diatribe than that, and more importantly, on a more thought provoking and stimulating subject?

I believe in you, show us what your keenly veiled intellect is capable of!

The Infamous Chalfag

My name Chalfag refers to the character Harry Lime played by Orson Welles in the film "The Third Man".

If you have not seen said film then I suggest you do post haste!

Quote from "The Third Man" by Harry Lime :
"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

[peterb]

Harryslimes,

Welcome to HEXUS - please read and inwardly digest!

[Chalfag]

I'm afraid, Harry, that black and white films do not do it for me. I mean, sure, you can get an HD of a B&W, but what's the point?

Anyway Orson Welles was a terrible actor and overweight to boot. The only good show he ever did was Pinky and the Brain.

Chalfag

[harryslimes]

Indeed. T-Mobile do one for £40 (£30 + £10 top up) and although it is pretty terrible it is a long way from £600. Then there is the Orange San Francisco with is about £120.

Sorry I just cannot agree with the general sentiment that "things were better before we had technology". They weren't, they were pretty rubbish if you ask me. No rose tinted glasses here, yes life was simpler, but it was also pretty boring.

The world was a horrible unforgiving place without technology granted. However if science fiction has taught us anything it's that technology may one day make it even worse.

[harryslimes]

I'm afraid, Harry, that black and white films do not do it for me. I mean, sure, you can get an HD of a B&W, but what's the point?

Anyway Orson Welles was a terrible actor and overweight to boot. The only good show he ever did was Pinky and the Brain.

Chalfag

You have to admit Orson Welles was pretty talented. Such as having the ability to the do the voice acting in a cartoon from beyond the grave.

[Funkstar]

The world was a horrible unforgiving place without technology granted. However if science fiction has taught us anything it's that technology may one day make it even worse.

It might do. But then again it might end up far far better than it's ever been. Who knows.

[harryslimes]

It might do. But then again it might end up far far better than it's ever been. Who knows.

I'm willing to put a very large bet on the world getting worse and worse and worse. I think people in the western world right now are probably as close to being in an utopia as the human race will ever be in. Won't be long before we lose net neutrality and this beautiful thing we had called the internet just disappears.

Also I'm not sure how much more we can invest ourselves in consumerism and still have souls.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It could be worse - a Moose could practice skyplummeting on you!

[Prya]

It could be worse - a Moose could practice skyplummeting on you!

What is skyplummeting? If it's moose starts at point A in the sky and ends at point B on the ground, how can they practice it more than once?

[blueball]

You are a very stupid person Chalfag.

Don't be abusive to people in the forum please.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

how can they practice it more than once?

Moose are not known for their intellect!

The sport has a lot of beginners!

[Chalfag]

You have to admit Orson Welles was pretty talented. Such as having the ability to the do the voice acting in a cartoon from beyond the grave. You are a very stupid person Chalfag.

How uncouth and completely uncalled for. I am used to being called stupid by my friends, family, lecturers and partner, but to be decreed a moron by someone who I don't even know is quite distressing.

Anyway, I do agree with some of your comments, I do hope that information screening won't become worse in the future. As far as technology is concerned I doubt we have anything to fear, since it seems to stupify people to the point that they are unable to function reasonably in the evening unless some soporific soap is churning out it's emotional propaganda in an entirely unrealistic fashion. In that sense people are becoming less of a threat to society.

Chalfag

[Prya]

However if science fiction has taught us anything it's that technology may one day make it even worse.

Science fiction has taught me that one day we will all have personal jet packs, fly through space and have light sabers! How is that a bad thing?

[Andeh13]

ahahahaha, the bus...who catches the bus!?


But really, no problems on the bus....its then you see them in the middle lane of the motorway on their phone that desperately worries me.

[funke_munke]

I wonder if people say the same of me when I read Hexus on my rss reader on my Galaxy S?

[Lucio]

Still, Technology is good! I have friends who I never see, who never need to ask how I am and generally only talk to me in messages of 140 characters or less