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CC99
Say yes to the sex industry!
- more TV shows about the Revolutionary war. It's really surprising to me that such an important era of our history has had so little screen time dedicated to it. I feel like there's a lot of missing potential here.
- Sitcoms that are historically based in different time periods. Kind of like "that 70s show" but it would be in Medieval Times or Ancient Greece.
- A show about Ancient Roman politics that doesn't feel like an excuse to shoot what is basically a porno (cough, Spartacus, cough).
- A sitcom style show about pre-historic humans trying to figure out things that modern humans are currently arguing about or have them putting certain radical philosophies as "the rule of the tribe" and seeing the results.
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Well the point isn't to show characters like that who's experiences we can relate to but rather to show a completely different world from our own. I think a lot of people actually don't know how different the past really was. Have characters going through puberty at 18 for example, having other characters randomly die from tuberculosis, portraying feasts and festivals. I like watching historical battles and politics on screen too but I'd really like to watch something that shows all the cultural differences. The characters should be a product of their time and not characters created just to be relatable to a modern viewership.
My dad has mentioned before that he actually dislikes almost all of the characters in game of thrones but still finds it interesting enough to want to watch. This tells me that maybe every show doesn't necessarily need relatable characters to be good.
But if there were no limits
- A comedy sitcom about aliens teaching humans how to do shit in ancient Egypt or prehistoric times.
- A docudrama about the lives and interactions of poor whites and African slaves in the south.
- A reality show like Jersey Shore but with TUSCL members, with each season set in a different city like Tijuana, Vegas, Atlanta etc
As far as porn goes. I'd love to see Smurfette gangbanged.
Omg that would be hilarious.
Death Note for example is considered one of the greatest animes created and one reason why its great is because it doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator. It is very intelligently written, explores human psychology, and has lots of plot twists. I think L is pretty likable, and Kira is a fascinating character although I wouldn't really call him "likable." A lot of shows that really obviously only appeal to the lowest common denominator end up being considered trash TV (sorry but Jersey Shore is a perfect example of trash TV).
Another example of a great show that doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator is Black Mirror. Black Mirror is designed to disturb you and to make you think. Its not created for the lowest common denominator at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTBSGoY…
SJG
SJG
Obviously the Revolution and the Revolutionary War has been studied a lot by academics. What I meant though is the lack of screen time that's really been dedicated to it. The Patriot was a good movie but its pretty much the only major film on the Revolutionary War that I can think of.
Game of Thrones I’ll watch some day to see what I’ve missed.
I also think that would be a great show.
We need more documentaries like that!
CC99....if you smoked more you'd get more munchies and put on weight.
But can you imagine the TUSCL reality show.......that could be an episode, where the geriatric clique has an intervention for you coz they don't want loser leaf in the TUSCL house... and then a fight breaks out when I accuse them of being hypocrites coz they have no problem buying black market Viagra....which is more dangerous than loser leaf.
I think the last show I watched that had a SC in it involved the stripper getting murdered. It was from a vampire POV though.
https://trueblood.fandom.com/wiki/Anne
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I mostly watch whatever with other people, and not that picky with it. I’m not big on TV, though anime is my favorite genre. I’d agree that a lord of the rings type of serious would be pretty great.
We'd probably all get drunk before riding to HK on bikes so Juice would be falling off of his bike and we'd be struggling to get all of us to HK, but once we get there there would be hot girls ready to make everybody's day.
In the TUSCL reality show we'd also be the ones watching anime until like 3:00 in the morning and annoying everybody else in the house who just wants to sleep.
CC99, the TUSCL show would make tv history...
The first season would probably be everyone at Vegas until we decide its way too fucking expensive and move the house to Tijuana instead. Then at the end of the Tijuana season though Flagooner accidentally drinks the tap water and gets really sick so we decide on Miami for the third season as it has the best mix of latinas,
strip club extras, and first world healthcare despite Countryman begging us all to stay in Tijuana.
We'd start out in Tijuana... Shadowcat gets fitted for third world dentures before going to HK. Gawker gets in trouble with a drug cartel... 25 gets kidnapped. A front room make out special episode...
....and confidence can be learned.
that would be interesting . question is what is making a second season...
I mean us PL’s are so shallow...
Documentary material might air on TV, but best if it can also be accessed via recording.
I have seen most everything about 20th Century Warfare.
There are documentaries on the Revolutionary War, non-academic.
Then a feature film:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089913/?re…
Interesting, challenges some widely held assumptions.
Documentaries about things like Revolutionary War, best found in Public Libraries. I sit and do paper sorting work while I watch them over and over and over.
SJG
i like historic documentaries too.
SJG
¡ASK A MEXICAN: ARE DONKEY SHOWS REALLY A THING IN MEXICO?
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There is that sign hung up on a building in the Nuevo Laredo walled Boys Town. Supposedly the sign was there, at least for a picture. But still not first hand account. I did though post pictures found on line, of what seems to be a real donkey show.
SJG
There are non-academic video documentaries on the Revolutionary War. Just look in public libraries.
SJG
I pity the poor soul who has that job.
page 39, What Would Jefferson Do?
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson together embody the Declaration of Independence, the former as the document's most compelling sponsor, the later its author -- then together through the stirring coincidence of their both dying on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day it was published.
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Theologically, the second and third U.S. presidents were unitarians: Adams, a member of the Quincy, Massachusetts, congregation; Jefferson a sect unto himself.
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As the election of 1800 drew near, Adams faced that looming electoral rematch against Jefferson, his vice president and political enemy. The Federalists derided the politically potent Virginian as an "atheist" (untrue), a "deist" (true), and a "Jacobin" (i.e., "French radical," also true). The Federalists summed up their two greatest nightmares, atheism and popular democracy, by hurling the epithet "Jacobin" at their opponents.
Adams had no sympathy for the French Revolution. Years later, he looked back bitterly on the "hot, rash, blind, headlong, furious efforts to ameliorate the condition of society, to establish liberty, equality, fraternity, and the rights of man." Adams especially scorned Democratic-Republicans like Jefferson who admired the revolutionary French Republic.
(speaking of Independence Day celebrations) The Democratic-Republicans wore French colors (cocked hats with a knot of red, white, and blue ribbons pinned to the side), in saucy contrast to the less frivolous black cockades Federalist stalwarts wore, harking back to the Revolutionary days. To Federalist eyes, Democratic-Republicans with their tricolor cockades had taken the Fourth of July hostage by drawing undue attention to the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence. In writing the Declaration, Jefferson had introduced three lofty principles (the right to liberty, God-given equality, and popular sovereignty) and one incendiary one (the people's authority to overthrow their government). The Federalists' problem, as they themselves soon recognized, lay in the Declaration of Independence itself.
Early in Adam's presidency, proper Philadelphians boycotted Independence Day, which might as well have been Bastille Day as far as the local Federalists were concerned. Nary a black cockade was to be seen on the anniversary of the nation's birth. Many church bells remained silent. And every reveler crowding Independence Square was indecently festooned in heretical red, white, and blue. In New England, separate tricolor and black cockade Fourth of July celebrations became the rule. In their orations, Federalist preachers and politicians dedicated their energies on the nation's birthday to critique the un-American, anti-Christian dogma that Jefferson so impudently inserted into the nation's founding document. In his Boston Independence Day oration in 1799, John Lowell warned his listeners to beware "the seductive doctrines of 'Liberty' and 'Equality.'"
The year before, Alexander Hamilton had no difficulty convincing Adams that for the government to proclaim a national fast day, a federal request honored by all the churches that chose to participate, would galvanize his more conservative Federalist political base. Indeed it did. Raising a host of traditional black cockades, hundreds of New England preachers seized this governmentally sanctioned opportunity to pronounce French and Jeffersonian infidelity a demonic double threat to the future of America's Christian republic.
Later in life, Adams looked back ruefully on his decision to promote a religious event for political gain. He went so far as to claim that it cost him the presidency. for one thing, it left the plausible impression that he had buckled under pressure from Presbyterian church leaders, who urgently were calling for the president to proclaim a day of national worship.
Declaring a national fast was like poking a stick into a nest of hornets. In alarm, dissenting Christians (Baptists, Methodists, and the like) howled that Adams was compromising church-state separation. For sound religious reasons, not only did they boycott the fast, but they also came out in droves to support Jefferson, the more secular candidate.
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The Declaration of Independence elevated people's sights by placing human law on a higher moral pediment. The result was a civil ethic in which the ideals of liberty and equality received unprecedented priority.
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In its ringing, redemptive moral urgency, Jefferson's Preamble is rightly remembered as the American Creed.
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I tell you, this F. Forrest Church, son of Idaho Senator Frank Church, he really knows his stuff, and he writes well too. If his kind of thinking and reasoning were typical in America, this country, then it would be an entirely different sort of country, and the entire world would be different too.
SJG
Georges Delerue, Music for the film Dien Bien Phu
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Ten Years After - Good Morning Little School Girl - 8/4/1975 - Winterland (Official)
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Monterey Pop Festival 1968 CD1 cut (really good)
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And of course his own Preamble had much influenced France.
What the above excerpt shows was that Federalists saw the Democratic-Republican Party as part of the French Revolution.
I know that Madison had taken to calling the Federalists "The British Party".
As I know, President 6 , John Quincy Adams, Had originally been a Federalist, but he was elected as a Democratic-Republican. So the Federalist party then died with John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. But then after that, with the election of Andrew Jackson, the opposition Whig Party came to be.
SJG
SJG
D-Day, first news broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxBO-Ynx…
I would think you need a certain size population and relaxed business rules allowing such fringe elements of society to operate freely and enough of the population able to enjoy such clubs.
I would imagine this might be 50 to 100 years in the future since If a population of 100,000 or larger is required to have relaxed business rules and allow business to operate more freely independent of Earth governments, then it will be a long time. I imagine explorations and settlements could take 20 to 30 years and that things could accelerate after that if businesses and Earth laws allow settlements on Mars.
Or a lingerie lube wrestling league that gets aired on tv