FormCritic wrote:South Park - An American classic. (I suppose it must have been based on a British series?)Everyone gets skewered. Liberal crap gets skewered more often because it's more funny. But, basically, if you watch the show it's your own fault.There is a South Park episode that satires and basically flattens Family Guy....which is to South Park as ogre is to storm giant. (Smaller, weaker, stinkier and less intelligent.)
faro wrote:(Hey, ho... Games Workshop on the front page of the BBC news website without having anyone die IRL; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ -> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17274186 .Good quote from Gary Chalk, anyhow ^^)
+123Comment number 3.InglewoodJack7 Hours agoWell God forbid anybody should try to enjoy something that isn't football.+104Comment number 1.Damian Cunliffe7 Hours agoThe same reason grown men are still playing World of Warcraft or playing tabletop Dungeons and Dragons - because none of those things are for kids, they're passtimes for all ages. Only the media hasn't grown out of the mindset that things like this are for kids.+81Comment number 23.MichaelST7 Hours agoTo the people who say "Grow up" let me ask you, do you ever play a computer game? Do you ever watch a film? Read a book? Go to the Cinema? Play a card game/board game? What exactly makes this type of entertainment so much more "immature" than others. I'm not a tabletop gamer myself, but I've known plenty in the past. They're just having fun with a hobby. At least they have a passion!+72Comment number 69.Rick Priestley6 Hours agoNow you'd think after all these years the beeb would dig out the chap who invented the game wouldn't you! Ah well... nice to see Warhammer 40K is still round and obviously retains its ability to enthrall, challange and entertain after 25 years. I only wish I could say the same:)Rick Priestley+60Comment number 27.Andy7 Hours agoDisappointed in Samira's somewhat condescending title. This is a really fun past time, along with other board games such as Settlers of Catan. Its like these have just been "discovered" by the media. You don't have to be a gym-a-holic or spray-tan-queen with your two holidays a year and SUV to be happy.Why is the media so down on any hobby that requires an ounce of intellect and is still fun?+49Comment number 2.PrymuzComment number 2 is an Editors' Pick7 Hours agoYes I'm a geek, I'm 30 and still enjoy reading and playing war games including tabletop (warhammer et al). Been playing with my dad and brothers since I was 7. The skills it has taught me i.e. application, research, dedication, forward planning and enchanced vocabulary has had a big and positive impact on my life.You dont know what you are missing! Horus ftw+48Comment number 340.JohnComment number 340 is an Editors' Pick3 Hours ago306.fishinmad"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence." - C. S. Lewis.+44Comment number 15.Scribblet7 Hours agoThere is no age limit on imagination and creativity - or at least there shouldn't be.Would people have the same dismissive attitude toward a chess grandmaster who chose to create his own custom chess set? It's the same kind of principal, only there are more players involved in each game.+42Comment number 22.Msproston7 Hours agoBoth my boys play the hobby and I help run two local library clubs.For me the best bit about the hobby is my boys are leaning without realising they are learning. There is alot of reading, a considerable amount of maths involved in the game play and skill in building and painting of the models. They socialise, learn the art of negotiation and its better than being plugged into a computer screen.+41Comment number 201.Pdibbs5 Hours agoTo Quote Terry Pratchett:"Isn't it ironic that dressing up in your teams kit and having football posters on the wall is 'normal', but dressing up as an Elf and having Fantasy/Sci fi posters on the wall is 'weird'?"+35Comment number 311.Necrothesp4 Hours agoIt's truly strange that being obsessed with watching 22 vastly overpaid, often not terribly bright men in funny clothes kicking a ball around a field for 90 minutes (not doing it yourself, mind) is considered to be normal and manly, whereas actually taking part in a creative, intelligent, thoughtful hobby is considered geeky and wet. Who are the sad acts here exactly? Isn't society fascinating?
Prufrock wrote:Was promoted today at work. I'm now the Senior Editor in charge of N. and S. America. My management also stated that they want me to take over Management of the Document Finalization Team in the Future. More money for me means I will be able to challenge BlackMoor, Stratochap and Malc in the auctions for the really rare stuff. I will not win but Jeff will have to fork out more money (that makes me feel better about my losses). Martin
bombadil wrote:Versimilitude wrote:Hi,have to admit, I do love the BB Theory, even the later series - tho thats probably because I can ifentify with the Amy character :roll: Hmmm, really? In what way(s)?Can't stand Big Bang Theory. Or Futurama. Or South Park. Absolute crap.TV comedy likes (not necessarily in this order): Family GuyKing of the HillMr. BeanBlack AdderColumboRobot ChickenArcherThree Stooges
Versimilitude wrote:Hi,have to admit, I do love the BB Theory, even the later series - tho thats probably because I can ifentify with the Amy character :roll:
Gnat the Beggar wrote:Archer is the best adult cartoon I have ever seen.
FormCritic wrote:Gnat the Beggar wrote:Archer is the best adult cartoon I have ever seen.I can't stand Archer. It strikes me as perverse rather than funny. I watched one episode. I didn't even feel slightly amused at any point.
HermitFromPluto wrote:Prufrock wrote:Was promoted today at work. I'm now the Senior Editor in charge of N. and S. America. My management also stated that they want me to take over Management of the Document Finalization Team in the Future. More money for me means I will be able to challenge BlackMoor, Stratochap and Malc in the auctions for the really rare stuff. I will not win but Jeff will have to fork out more money (that makes me feel better about my losses). MartinCongrats Martin!I got a promotion this year in January too. But I am throwing away my chance to join the big league as I just made an offer on a house and will have a loan for the first time. So for a while my money will be going into "collection housing infrastructure" rather than my collection per se!!!
HermitFromPluto wrote:Alas. It wasn't to be. Someone beat our offer on the house by $11,500. My boys will have to wait for their own rooms and my collection too!!! (I had planned to turn the formal area into a library and games room). Perhaps I should bid on the first print woody to console myself :|
