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Yeh, but he didn't live long. He finally got his, as did Hitler.
I'd be pretty pissed off, I wouldn't hesitate to state what's on my mind, and I'd be well within my right to do so.
.Unlike you, jamesboland, I think this kind of rudeness and inconsideration sucks, and is totally unacceptable. What right do people have to pull rank, and be rude like that, and keep others waiting.
Here's another thing, jamesboland: How would the boyfriend know who I was? That's ridiculous.
The fact remains, kskap, that guns are not only designed and built to kill people and do precisely that, but that guns are far too accessible and easy to obtain here in the United States. If it wasn't so easy for people to obtain guns, especially on the black market (inotherwords, illegally), as well as for people with histories of substance/alcohol abuse, mental health issues and anger-management issues to obtain firearms(one just has to not be a felon, or not have a criminal record.), many more lives would be and would've been saved.
Blame the NRA, the Gun Lobby, and the fact that various lawmakers, from our Presidents on down, have not had the gumption to stand up to the bullying tacts of the NRA and the Gun Lobby and enact stronger, more affective gun safety and gun control laws.
Here's another point, mxpowers43: Societies and cultures that depend on and revolve around the gun (as the United States does and has since day one) have much higher murder and suicide rates, because guns are so much easier to use than other weapons, because they're just picked up, aimed towards, and fired at their target from a distance, whereas, when one wants to stab, strangle, or beat somebody up, they have to be right up close to the person in order to do so.
Moreover, a bullet inflicts much more intensive and more extensive damage, and is even more likely to kill somebody, partly because bullets travel at a much greater velocity, and partly due to the fact that they're made with metal, which can and will shred within a person.
Good point, Dazed! Regardless of what anybody says or thinks, having a gun or guns around the house is a round-trip ticket to trouble. It's all too easy to commit a murder and/or a suicide with a gun, plus all too many kids get hold of them and play games, not realizing that the gun's loaded, and killing/seriously injuring a sibling in the process.
Landmines are also dangerous. Suppose somebody who has a legitimate reason for entering your house or going on your property accidentally steps on a landmine and gets one of his/her feet or whatever blown off?
Eddie Izzard? I've admittedly never heard of the guy, but I probably wouldn't be a fan of his.
Wrong, jamesboland.
If people are going to be so defiant and rude, then maybe the owners/proprietors of small businesses and large and/or franchise businesses alike should make hard-and-fast rules about the no-cellphone-use while waiting in the checkout lines and holding up other people, and they should have those same rules for both cashiers and shoppers alike.
Guns do kill people. That's precisely what they're designed and built for.
That's why the Democrats at large get their asses kicked every time. They've gone in lockstep with the GOP on just about everything, for far too long.
Hi, ShogunofYonkers. Sorry about the loss of your good friend.
Carelessness in handling a gun, whether it's through failing to clear the chamber, or just plain careless handling, can and will cause a gun to go off.
Again, I'm very sorry about the loss of your good friend, ShogunofYonkers. It must still be tough on you. An awful lot of people have little or no idea how dangerous guns really can be.
It's agreed....guns should be locked up and unloaded, and the ammo should be kept separately and also locked up.
Okay, I can't help jumping in here, but here are mine:
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lion King
The Sound of Music
Bonnie & Clyde
In the Heat of the Night
To Sir with Love
That site's been dead since the abolishment of the message boards took place.
That's a great song, Daisy! One of my favorite songs. Petula Clark was great, also.
Again, you're welcome, ShogunofYonkers. Thank you for your compliments, and for the sharing of your neat memories of seeing this great golden oldie-but-keeper of a classic movie-musical. It sounds like you and your friends also had lots of fun that year!
I like this film for the same reasons you do/did, and for the fact that it's not only a great work of art, but I also liked it for the fact that when West Side Story was transferred from stage to screen, it was preserved as a larger-than-lifesized piece of theatre. That is one of the things that sets WSS apart from most other movie-musicals.
Since I was still a teenager in high school when I first saw the film version of West Side Story, I identified with the Jets, the Sharks, and their girls, regarding kids being kids and so on, but when I got a little older and began seeing WSS in repertory movie theatres in and around Boston, I began to appreciate it more for the work of art that it really is, as well as other things. Thanks again for your compliments, and for sharing your experiences, regarding a fabulous movie.
You're welcome, ShogunofYonkers.
Thank you for seeing where I'm coming from on this one.
I see where you're coming from, also.
Hi, ShogunofYonkers.
Glad to see that you also like the film West Side Story.
My love for West Side Story began with my introduction to it through the soundtrack of the original Broadway stage production of it, during the summer of 1962, prior to entering the sixth grade, while attending day camp out west, in Tucson, AZ. One girl in the group I was with who'd received a copy of the LP soundtrack to the original Broadway stage version of West Side Story brought it to camp one day and played it for the rest of the group. My love for West Side Story and the very story behind it took off, instantly.
West Side Story-mania was in the air that summer, as kids roamed the halls in packs, snapping their fingers and singing all the songs from West Side Story. The WSS songs rang through the bus to and from camp 5 days a week. When I got home, I played my parent's copy of the same LP soundtrack on their Hi-Fi whenever I could, and liked to bang around with the songs on the piano, much to my parent's distress.
I didn't get to see the film version of West Side Story until around Christmastime of 1968, as a high school Senior, at a now-defunct cinema north of both Boston and the suburb that my siblings and I grew up in, during a big national re-release of it. I fell in love with the film version instantly.
For afew years afterwards, I put West Side Story on the back burner, and got into seeing other films. In the spring of 1972, three years after graduating from high school, West Side Story came on TV in two parts. I watched it, along with other people in my evening jewelry-making class at the School of the museum of Fine Arts here in Boston. That summer, while on a six-week trip to Europe, my love for the film West Side Story was re-awakened when another person in the group I was with had brought along a cassette tape of the soundtrack to the film version, which was played almost every evening during free hours.
Some Like It Hot was funny, light-hearted and silly, but in the end, when everybody was inside the hotel partying and celebrating a birthday, two men came out of what looked like a life-sized birthday cake and opened fire on the crowd with machine guns. That, to me, was a rather sadistic ending. It was a weird twist to an otherwise funny movie.
Well, the fact that everybody in the hotel was in the middle of partying and celebrating, and then all of a sudden, two men with guns emerged from what looked like a huge, huge birthday cake and started shooting into the crowd with machine guns was a rather sadistic ending.
I think that there's definitely been a considerable drop in imdb.com traffic since the message boards closed. It's unfortunate, but I think it's something that was bound to happen, and had to happen, due to all the "flaming" that frequently took place on the imdb.com message boards. Had there been some real moderators who really got firm with chronic "flamers" and "trollers" to the point of giving them a "3-strikes-and-you're-out" warning and banning them if they were persistent, the message boards on imdb.com might still be open right now.