RANDOM RAVES : Kick it up a notch! (term is over!)

[Ajidica]

Well, duh, it's English philology, so there's linguistics and phonology and that sort of stuff. Also history and culture of the British Isles.

Great, now a Spaniard will speak better English than I do, while my Spanish remains decidedly rudimentary.

 

[JohannaK]

Oh, don't worry, I will have a certificate for that in a month or two.

 

[LegionSteve]

Also history and culture of the British Isles.

you're going to study binge drinking then

 

[Farm Boy]

What fun is binge drinking without red solo cups?

 

[Borachio]

More fun than I can remember?

 

[Farm Boy]

But think of what it could have been!

 

[Arakhor]

Well, duh, it's English philology, so there's linguistics and phonology and that sort of stuff. Also history and culture of the British Isles.

You say that as if everyone should know, which is a little odd, given that for over 90% of us, English is our first language.

 

[Borachio]

But think of what it could have been!

Nope. Can't do that I'm afraid. My head is cram full with how much fun it really was.

No, actually, come to think of it I can't remember much about it at all. But if I could, I'm sure my head would be full of it.

I used to gauge a "successful" night by how far I had to walk home, after getting lost in some obscure region or other.

Well, sometimes. Not invariably.

 

[Kyriakos]

My own use of English is limited, i just have some sort of fixed equation with a reasonable number of factors and merely compute the (often infinitesimal) changes which result in any of my posts here.
In reality all of my posts are part of a sole, archetype of a post, and endlessly tend to present it in its complete form. Once that is achieved, i am almost certain i won't post again

 

[JohannaK]

You say that as if everyone should know, which is a little odd, given that for over 90% of us, English is our first language.

Well, it's philology, that implies linguistics and such.

 

[Takhisis]

Don't worry, folks, JoanK still watches Adventure Time in its original Spanish.

 

[JohannaK]

No, dear, no. I switch it to English when I can. Problem is I haven't seen Adventure Time for about... uhhh... weeks. D:

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

The sky outside my house yesterday evening (not just the sunset, the entire sky) was this absolutely awesome-looking bright yellow-orange color. Over the course of an hour it faded into a dull strawberry red and then a pinkish-purple color (while still managing to look awesome) There was also a rainbow.

Piiiiiics, man! Cameras were invented for a reason!

 

[Arakhor]

No, dear, no. I switch it to English when I can. Problem is I haven't seen Adventure Time for about... uhhh... weeks. D:

I last saw Thundercats when I was an adult, rather than as a child of the '80s, but I'd hardly admit as to when.

 

[Borachio]

The sky outside my house yesterday evening (not just the sunset, the entire sky) was this absolutely awesome-looking bright yellow-orange color. Over the course of an hour it faded into a dull strawberry red and then a pinkish-purple color (while still managing to look awesome) There was also a rainbow.

Pollution will do that.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Sharknado!!!!!

I just found out it exists and now I know what I'm gonna watch next time I'm drinking.

 

[Borachio]

Link to video.

What's not to like?

There's really nothing I can say.

 

[W|M]

Here's an interview with the writer:

io9: Is there any scientific basis, however tenuous, for sharknado?

Thunder Levin: Yes. There are numerous confirmed reports of fish falling from the sky, sometimes even on a clear sunny day. We just took it to the “logical” extreme.

How did you come up with such a blisteringly awesome concept?

Well, the Asylum (the company that produced the movie for Syfy) came to me just after I’d completed writing/directing duties on last year’s American Battleship (sorry, “American Warships&#8221 and asked me to pitch them ideas for a movie called “Shark Storm”. I asked if this would be a straight up movie about sharks attacking during a storm or a crazy storm made up of sharks. They said it would be straight, so I declined, feeling like we’d seen enough shark movies and enough storm movies. A month later they came back to me and said they really wanted me to write a movie called “Sharknato” (at least that’s what I thought they said), and I asked what sharks had to do with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? I was suddenly seeing the army battling sharks invading Europe… But they said “No, Sharknado!” They gave me about half a page of notes which I read and replied “This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read… I’M IN!”

Seriously, how drunk were you guys the first time someone uttered the word "sharknado"?

Alas, I wasn’t in the room for this historic moment, but they must have been pretty drunk!

Why a tornado and not a hurricane? Wouldn't that make more sense?

Actually, we have both. In the movie an unprecedented hurricane sweeps up the Pacific coast from Mexico towards L.A. driving all the sharks in this part of the ocean before it. The hurricane floods the streets of L.A., which is woefully unprepared for a hurricane. (Up to this point, it’s all fairly accurate and something we should be thinking about, disaster preparedness-wise). Naturally these floodwaters are filled with sharks! And then, as often happens, the hurricane spins off tornadoes over the ocean. As anyone would expect, the tornadoes suck up thousands of sharks. This all just seems like common sense to me…

How are the sharks cognizant enough to keep biting people while they're flying through the air?

If you were a shark and you found yourself flying through the air, wouldn’t you keep biting? I think you’d be pretty pissed about being plucked out of your nice familiar ocean where you’re king of the predators, and you’d probably take it out on whoever got in your way. Honestly, I don’t understand why people are so perplexed by this concept. The logic is undeniable.

How many sharks does an average sharknado contain? How many sharks are ejected per 5-minute period?

I can’t count that high.

Aren't the sharks at least as much victims of the sharknado as humans are?

Ah, well, now we’re into the larger philosophical issues of the film. What does it say about humans that when poor displaced sharks are ravaged by nature’s uncaring fury we try to kill them with chainsaws? I think we need to take a good long look in the mirror over that one.

What would happen if you spliced a shark with dark matter?

You’d have a sequel!

Would Man of Steel have been better if Pa Kent wasn't killed by a tornado, but a Sharknado?

That goes without saying. Now we don’t know much about dark matter. What if it’s really… Kryptonite?! Well, then you’d have some serious Superman-munching sharks flying around. Now we’re talking!

Has the shark disaster movie run its course, or are we just ramping up?

It’s called Sharknado. I think the shark genre has reached its natural and logical conclusion. (On the other hand, I heard a rumor that the Asylum is planning another sequel in its Megashark series. So you never know&#8230

 

[Borachio]

^ Hilarious!

“This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read… I’M IN!”

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah, the Megashark/Megacroc/Megashark vs Megacroc/Sharktopus movies are simply amazing. I can't emphasize how truly awesome they are. Just pure entertainment and cheap laughs.

Watch and be amazed:

Link to video.
edit: Glory starts at 45 seconds. Sorry for the curse word, can't find edited version.