Hangout Thread

I watched CATWS with my ma yesterday.

the only thing better than the movie was her reactions.

keep in mind, this is the woman who walks away from Disney movies because they have violent/scary/depressing parts. she won't even watch Cinderella with me because of the cat's evilness.

so that was fun.

CATWS?

Captain America The Winter soldier.

I keep forgetting that Tumblr abbreviations are not universal

edited 18th Sep '14 12:37:51 PM by Ellowen

Oh, that movie.

That's my third favorite MCU movie.

I liked it. I liked it a lot. My mother was not a fan. partly because she came in at the middle and has literally never seen a superhero movie ever.

Mum:Who is that?

Me:That's the bad guy.

Mum:why did he just shoot her?

Me:because he's evil.

Mum:but why?

Me:because he's the villain.

Talk about missing the point much?

her reaction to the "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight was even better.

Mum:who is that?

Me:that's Bucky. He's that guy's best friend

Mum:then why is he attacking him if he's a good guy?

Me:he's been brainwashed.

Mum:so he's a bad guy?

Me:no, he's been brainwashed, he's not a bad guy, we like him.

Mum:but he's acting bad

Me:yes, but he can't help it.They Brainwashed him

Mum: Who?

Me: the bad guys.

Mum: That's bad of them

Me: yes, because they are evil

Mum:but whhhhhyyyyyyyy?

and then she went on about bad guys needing the Light of Christ. Oy vey, my mother.

edited 18th Sep '14 12:48:33 PM by Ellowen

I'm glad I don't have anyone in my family like that.

she's getting old— she's nearly 66— and... yeah. She never used to be this bad. She literally refused to watch Cinderella because of the evil cat wabting to eat a mouse. Mum, I tell her, We have cats and they eat mice. "but that cat is evil! I don't want to watch it!" "Mum, it's animated and no one dies. the mouse is fine. cinderella is fine."

funnily enough, she loves and watches Castle.

Sixty-six isn't that old.

Is there something wrong with her?

no, she's just stretched too thin, really.has to much on her shoulders.

Oh dear, well that's never good.

My mom is like that ._. Like, I once had a thriller novel that I really liked, and I told about it, and there was this guy who, like, uses other people's blood to make himself immortal or something (that's not quite how it was but I don't remember the details cause its been forever since I read it) and she was all like "oh no thats a bad book cause that guy is like a demon and whatever blah blah blah" and im like "mom its a thriller, he's the bad guy, its just a book you cant take these things so seriously" but she did take it seriously, and i never saw the book again.

Keep in mind, my parents are the type of people who think all Harry Potter books should be burned. And I am not exaggerating. They literally burned my Harry Potter book.

edited 18th Sep '14 1:07:12 PM by bRaHiAn1

My classmate is into young adult vampire novels and apparently her aunt keeps telling her that this is ungodly and against christianity...she even gave her another novel to read that would be an example of "good" literature.

Well, to be fair, young adult vampire novels are pretty much against anything good and wholesome.

Dracula ftw

Mum's not that bad. She doesn't like to watch thrillers or scary or action, but she doesn't keep me from reading it. she liked harry potter. ( though she only saw the movies when they each came out, so she was more familiar with the later movies. thus, when we started reading book one, she wondered why snape was acting so mean when he was a "good guy")

I was always allowed to read anything I could. swears and sex and stuff went over my head until I was much older, so they didn't worry. Still, I mostly stuck to YA Fantasy, and still do, because I'm not fond of sex in books (or at all) and prefer characters that aren't lowlife scum with no morals. those are interesting characters, but I'm more prone to the Purity Sue type.

I don't care if it's acceptable in British English, stuff like "Disney are" or "Nintendo are" or "Tumblr are" will always, always be grammatically incorrect to me.

Even if it's in a sentence like "Disney are money making cash whores?"

It's like saying "The members of the community is meeting in the park today", to me. But I use wacky American grammar, so what do I know.

Americans think corporations are people. They even put it into their laws recently...

A fact which I still reject to this day as an American citizen. I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason that got accepted was because there was a majority of corporate lobbyists that managed to force that bill into law. That's all I'm going to say about that.

Not a bill. Case law. Citizens United, and more recently Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.

Hello?

Hey.