What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

December 3rd, 2018 at 10:53:06 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: kenarman
What I sheltered life you must have had EB. I was in grade 9 in 1962 in a little hick town in Canada and we all knew what a blow job was.


Had 210 kids in my HS class,
which was large in those
days. Never heard sexual
references, never heard the
F word till I was a Junior.
Saw it written as grafitti, had
no idea what it meant.

I remember phrases like
'eat it raw', which I still have
no idea what it means. I
said it to my sister once
and my dad chased me around
the house with his shoe.
Years later I asked him what
it meant and he didn't know
either, just that it was probably bad.

Heard faggot a lot, and fag, and
queer, but didn't know it was a
sexual reference. In the early
60's we just didn't discuss sex
all that much. Late 60's it was
talked about all the time.

As an example of the times, Lenny
Bruce was arrested in 1962 for
using the word 'schmuck' onstage.
That's where we were in the early
60's.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
December 3rd, 2018 at 1:21:08 PM permalink
kenarman
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Quote: Evenbob
Had 210 kids in my HS class,
which was large in those
days. Never heard sexual
references, never heard the
F word till I was a Junior.
Saw it written as grafitti, had
no idea what it meant.

I remember phrases like
'eat it raw', which I still have
no idea what it means. I
said it to my sister once
and my dad chased me around
the house with his shoe.
Years later I asked him what
it meant and he didn't know
either, just that it was probably bad.

Heard faggot a lot, and fag, and
queer, but didn't know it was a
sexual reference. In the early
60's we just didn't discuss sex
all that much. Late 60's it was
talked about all the time.

As an example of the times, Lenny
Bruce was arrested in 1962 for
using the word 'schmuck' onstage.
That's where we were in the early
60's.


I was in high school from 1959 to 1965 and that was not my experience at all. Sex was the main topic of conversation among the boys and the girls although not necessarily in a mixed group. This was in a small conservative town where ranching and logging were the only industries. Probably half the marriages were shotgun marriages.
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December 3rd, 2018 at 1:37:09 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: kenarman
This was in a small conservative town where ranching and logging were the only industries..


My HS was in upper class suburbia,
all doctors and lawyers and business
owners kids. The guy who invented
the Lear Jet, his kids went there. The
Amway founders kids went there,
one of them is married to our sec
of education, DeVos. Bill Seidman,
former Reagan admin financial
adviser, his kids went there. I was
at their house once, they had live-in
servants.

So everybody was pretty polite, not
a single black or Hispanic or Asian
in the entire school. If there was
sex talk I never heard it. We used
to joke about it, when I was getting
older, but I never really started
hearing all the graphic details till
the mid 60's.

Farm kids are around sex all the time,
animals are always going at it. I'm
betting they were much more savvy
about it than we were.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
December 3rd, 2018 at 1:56:44 PM permalink
rxwine
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If you weren't talking about blowjobs by a certain year, you certainly were after the Clinton administration.

I remember the news casts being awkward. Talking about sex was already somewhat awkward, but bjs brought a whole new level of awkwardness to the discussion.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
December 3rd, 2018 at 2:00:17 PM permalink
Ayecarumba
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Quote: zippyboy
there's no reason to keep remaking the same movie over and over and over for 15 years like Spider-Man. why don't they remake movies from my childhood, like Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Million Dollar Duck, Logan's Run?


I have been trying to watch Logan's Run for the past three nights, but I keep falling asleep and can't get to the end. The special effects are comical now, but it seemed really state of the art back in the 70's. One thing I didn't remember was how gruesome it was when Farrah Fawcett Majors got blown up.

I guess you really can't go back. Better to not remake this one.

December 3rd, 2018 at 2:13:39 PM permalink
Dalex64
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Quote: kenarman
I was in high school from 1959 to 1965 and that was not my experience at all. Sex was the main topic of conversation among the boys and the girls although not necessarily in a mixed group. This was in a small conservative town where ranching and logging were the only industries. Probably half the marriages were shotgun marriages.


You have to realize you are arguing with Bob's perception of the world. If he didn't see it or hear it himself, hadn't heard it from someone else, or decided not to believe what he heard from somewhere else, then it didn't happen. Similar for the other way around - if it happened in Bob's world, it happened that way everywhere.
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December 3rd, 2018 at 2:14:07 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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I think the Profumo Affair's 'one screw and the cabinet fell apart' preceded Clinton.
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December 3rd, 2018 at 2:46:41 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Dalex64
If he didn't see it or hear it himself, hadn't heard it from someone else, or decided not to believe what he heard from somewhere else, then it didn't happen.


Never said or implied that. In WWII
the F word and sexual references
were frequent in the military. In the
poorer neighborhoods of big cities,
profanity was frequent. Where I went
to school, in upper class suburbia,
if you swore or made sexual innuendo
jokes, you were sent to the vice principals
office and may be expelled. They would
expel you as a male if your hair touched
the top of your ears, or you wore blue
jeans to school.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
December 3rd, 2018 at 4:36:49 PM permalink
Wizard
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Quote: Evenbob
He meant her mouth was just big enough
for him to kiss. Nobody in a 1962 audience
would think he meant it was big enough
for his penis.


That is how I interpreted it, but not until I was old enough to get the reference, in the 80's. However, I still think he meant it that way at the time. Can any of the other old timer's way in?
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December 3rd, 2018 at 4:38:15 PM permalink
Wizard
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Quote: Ayecarumba
I have been trying to watch Logan's Run for the past three nights, but I keep falling asleep and can't get to the end. The special effects are comical now, but it seemed really state of the art back in the 70's. One thing I didn't remember was how gruesome it was when Farrah Fawcett Majors got blown up.


Logan's Run is great! I've seen it about 20 times. If it ever comes on when I'm flipping through the channels, I will probably watch until the end.
Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber