|
Fisticuffs posted:Tell me more about fast snails please GoFast Snail was Dreamworks' attempt to create a franchise analogous to Cars. Everyone knew this wouldn't work and was a terrible idea but for some reason it moved forward anyway. It had what is a modest budget for a Dreamworks film--about $125 million, where their current target is about $140 mil/film. It made a little over a quarter-billion dollars, which seems okay until you realize the returns were comparable with Epic. It's not actually a bad film, it's just a totally unnecessary one. It's unmemorable and though not a stain like Bee Movie, it's nothing to be proud of either. Disney perceived this as a threat for some reason, so DisneyToon Studios' Planes was released in theaters. It made about 2/3 as much as Turbo, but on a budget of more like $50 mil. Planes is worse than Turbo but both are crud.
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:11
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 01:07 |
|
|
Crow Jane posted:I'm the only person with my first/last name combo in the US, probably the world. I don't have a massive web presence or anything, but I'd rather not take any chances, y'know? Whatup, other person with the only first/last name combo in the US. I dunno about the world. There are a few people out there who are close, since my legal first name is also a nickname for a very very common first name, and there are some different spellings of my last name out there. That fact gives my paranoid mind some relief. My last name is what it is from my paternal grandfather changing his surname to avoid the law. Kinda cool, but I wish he'd told anyone what his name was before, because that cuts an entire quarter of my genealogy/family tree off. There were other people who knew, cousins and such, but I happened late in my father's life, and he was the youngest of his siblings, so everyone who knew died long before I could try and get them to tell me.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:16
|
|
|
Spanish Manlove posted:Lmao lame. Abuelo franco was a stevedore (also costelero come Easter) and a truck driver. Also A cousin of my father is a renown flamenco guitarist who now teaches at the university in cordoba. He doesn't sing for some wussy king. Medieval trucker sounds better. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:21
|
|
|
Crow Jane posted:I'm the only person with my first/last name combo in the US, probably the world. I don't have a massive web presence or anything, but I'd rather not take any chances, y'know? I know I'm 100% the only one with my name in the world.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:23
|
|
|
VanSandman posted:I know I'm 100% the only one with my name in the world. Turkeyflume Hogswallop Esq.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:25
|
|
|
Pick posted:GoFast Snail was Dreamworks' attempt to create a franchise analogous to Cars. Everyone knew this wouldn't work and was a terrible idea but for some reason it moved forward anyway. It had what is a modest budget for a Dreamworks film--about $125 million, where their current target is about $140 mil/film. It made a little over a quarter-billion dollars, which seems okay until you realize the returns were comparable with Epic. It's not actually a bad film, it's just a totally unnecessary one. It's unmemorable and though not a stain like Bee Movie, it's nothing to be proud of either. I thought you meant something like the remote control thing that you can hook up to cockroaches and make them run in circles or whatever. But that is pretty cool too. Thanks Pick.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:31
|
|
|
Jabberwocktopus Sludge e. Charizard Q. Milkybitch unlimited shrimp fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jan 15, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:31
|
|
|
mods namechange to Jabberwoctopus pls tia
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:33
|
|
|
Megatron McSmugMug
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:34
|
|
|
My mom's side of the family is super into genealogy, and my great-aunt even self-published some novelizations of my great-great-great whatever's journey from Norway/Denmark to North Dakota. This was only an upgrade in situation because they got their own farm in ND as opposed to being indentured servants in Europe. My favorite family story is, though they were poor as dirt, my great-great grandfather always put out food for the wild birds on Christmas 
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:34
|
|
|
VanSandman posted:I know I'm 100% the only one with my name in the world. same. and if when i go through with my plan to change my surname to my mum's i still will be also when i have biokids they will have my last name even if i have them with a dudepartner. matriarchal lineage is really important to me and it breaks my heart that there's no way i'll ever know who each of the women who bore me are. my mum raised me and she decided to keep her father's name (though i wouldn't have if i were her bc he was a horrible piece of poo poo), and i want to take the name she chose and give it to my kids as a new, reclaimed maternal line i have no idea what to do when it comes to adopted kids. i want to adopt. i guess i'd adopt them and give them the same surname i would a biokid if they were very young and then leave the option open to them to change it later whenever they want without judgement and with full-hearted help
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:40
|
|
|
googling my name gives 205 million hits sometimes I get sad at being so generic, but it's pretty sweet being ungoogleable
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:41
|
|
|
In retrospect I am also the only person in the world with my name. ... That's disconcerting.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:45
|
|
|
There is one old lady in Canada with my full name. Strippers and mean bitches are always called Shannon in American TV programmes. And Melissa McCarthy's character in Heat, which I liked, but she's also kinda a mean bitch.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:49
|
|
|
bathroom sounds posted:Before coming to Canada, apparently my great great great great whatever grandfather was a medieval trucker (apparently he drove a wagon around Braunschweig or something). Ahahaha that owns. Btw a costelero is a tough, strong bull of a man who works in a team of other costeleros to carry around golden religious icons every Easter for the parades. Look up "semana santa" for more, non-phone typed information.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:53
|
|
|
My parents took two toddler sons onto a fishing boat in the dead of night and escaped from Vietnam to Thailand. Not without my mom and brothers getting sent to jail for a month where one of my brothers almost died of dysentery. My family has a pretty epic story
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:01
|
|
|
Fruity Gordo posted:same. and if when i go through with my plan to change my surname to my mum's i still will be I changed my last name to my wife's because my bio dad is an alcoholic wife beater. Made her family ecstatic since it was my idea and my choice. Also they have no breeders from this final generation except my wife. Has caused me a lot of grief while applying for police work because changing your last name as a male implies you might be hiding something.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:02
|
|
|
Ahahaha you cucked nerd, aren't you jealous that the socially backwards wife beating Spaniards all do the hyphenated last names thing and will track names back for generations as a holdover from aristocratic times?
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:04
|
|
|
According to Google, I'm the only one with my name, probably because I have an uncommon Swedish spelling of a more common name.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:09
|
|
|
Spanish Manlove posted:Ahahaha you cucked nerd, aren't you jealous that the socially backwards wife beating Spaniards all do the hyphenated last names thing and will track names back for generations as a holdover from aristocratic times? I'd be angry at you or/and offended but I'm too busy living in a house my wife's family bought for us in the Bay Area, CA. My father on the other hand was too drunk to move so he missed my birth.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:17
|
|
|
This is no pity party it's a paws party *all my favorite dogs from anime, video games, and image macros show up*
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:34
|
|
|
LingcodKilla posted:I'd be angry at you or/and offended but I'm too busy living in a house my wife's family bought for us in the Bay Area, CA. its a really cool and meaningful and thoughtful thing you guys did so high five brotherfriend apparently also lucrative so MEGAHIFIVE CAN I COME TO YOUR HOUSE
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:41
|
|
|
Fruity Gordo posted:its a really cool and meaningful and thoughtful thing you guys did so high five brotherfriend Seriously for someone so into women's rights and matriarchal dominance a positive example of it should be a good thing in your eyes. Besides the house didn't come until 7 years after the marriage from a dowager great aunt.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:59
|
|
|
my family ended up with a generic swedish surname through miscegenation and then my mother gave me a swede-rear end first name and compounded the problem and now i have the saddest whitest name and it breaks my little jew heart  also last night i dreamt that a cupboard in my house started spontaneously producing dozens of golden retriever puppies and i was meant to somehow stem the flow but there were just too many puppies and suddenly my house was full of them and they were chewing everything and they were all so fluffy nooooo i know EXACTLY who is to blame for this
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:00
|
|
|
I'm Anglo as hell, it owns. My life is basically drinking Earl Grey while getting my dick sucked. Let me know if any of you need me to intervene with the Illuminati for you, I'll put in a good word.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:15
|
|
|
Avshalom posted:my family ended up with a generic swedish surname through miscegenation and then my mother gave me a swede-rear end first name and compounded the problem and now i have the saddest whitest name and it breaks my little jew heart I'm really jealous. I was watching Veep before bed so my dreams were basically just Veep clips and not even really funny ones.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:22
|
|
|
LingcodKilla posted:Seriously for someone so into women's rights and matriarchal dominance a positive example of it should be a good thing in your eyes. no for realzies the fact that this idea came from you, A Bloke, is even more excellent to me than the other possibility that it was floated to you and you happily agreed. i didn't mean for the second bit of my post to make light of it, i honestly admire you and am thrilled that men like you exist. and as you demonstrate it's not even a thing about privileging women over men, it's about acknowledging where familial and cultural influences lie and will lie in the future and trying to place children in a nomenclatural tradition that matches their lived experience, way beyond basic poo poo like acknowledging that women usually are the ones who bring up children. insisting everyone name their children after dudes is the prescriptive, intolerant poo poo and purposefully rejecting that is brave and revolutionary and i dig it i still want to come to your house tho Fruity Gordo fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Jan 15, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:25
|
|
|
vaguely posted:googling my name gives 205 million hits My birth name is so loving common sometimes I don't even respond to it when called, under the assumption that they're asking for someone else. It is like, literally synonymous with the lowest common denominator.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:27
|
|
|
i'm a bit simple and am always genuinely surprised when other posters don't go by their usernames irl like i just assumed until now that your rl name is ariadne and i guess fruity gordo is actually named fruity gordo my real name isn't avshalom so i don't even know where this idea comes from
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:33
|
|
|
I made a twitter list of everyone with my name and sometimes I peek into the alternate taco show world. It's about 80% frank ocean lyrics
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:36
|
|
|
I am the top google hit for my name. There's at least one more out there, though, because I get emails meant for her sometimes (I got the gmail account, fucker! No need for numbers here). E: taco show that is brilliant
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:40
|
|
|
Avshalom posted:i'm a bit simple and am always genuinely surprised when other posters don't go by their usernames irl My old SA name was a pun on my last name but then brother Jonathan ruined it so I asked garbage day to change it to what I normally use for video games and it's been uphill ever since.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:51
|
|
|
bathroom sounds posted:In retrospect I am also the only person in the world with my name. same
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:55
|
|
|
Spanish Manlove posted:Ahahaha that owns. Btw a costelero is a tough, strong bull of a man who works in a team of other costeleros to carry around golden religious icons every Easter for the parades. Look up "semana santa" for more, non-phone typed information. the spanish do holy week best, sorry every other country
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:56
|
|
|
Avshalom posted:i'm a bit simple and am always genuinely surprised when other posters don't go by their usernames irl My username is my real name. Well, a shortened version of Vanessa, but I never liked Vanessa. Surprised it wasn't already taken when I registered here. It's taken everywhere else. Even Nessabee is usually taken on other sites.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:11
|
|
|
In middle school I started going by my middle name because my first name was so common, but my last name is super weird/rare so either way I'm uniquely named.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:15
|
|
|
Nessa posted:My username is my real name. Well, a shortened version of Vanessa, but I never liked Vanessa. Surprised it wasn't already taken when I registered here. It's taken everywhere else. Even Nessabee is usually taken on other sites. I thought you were the Loch Ness monster
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:16
|
|
|
Avshalom posted:i'm a bit simple and am always genuinely surprised when other posters don't go by their usernames irl embarrassingly, when someone says "portals" irl I have to stop myself from responding as if I heard my name Portals fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Apr 3, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:17
|
|
|
Nessa posted:I eat meat, but I don't think I have it in me to ever kill an animal. I can't even kill insects. You unknowingly kill animals and insects all the time, try not to blame yourself for the human race lacking the technology necessary to wean ourselves off of the meat farms, and instead do your part to work towards that future.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 01:07 |
|
|
Goons w/ weird names: I read a study(years ago so my memory is foggy) that postulated that people with unusual names end up being more likely to be criminals, drop-outs, and anti-social... all owing to their names/identity being made fun of an assload as a child. Did people make fun of your name a lot when you were a kid? My name is a homonym for an underwear company so I definitely go that, but it's really not that weird so it wasn't constant or anything.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:33
|
|