Shoot the Wall (A.K.A. The Rant Thread)

[Van Buren Supernova]

You think?

I don't know what Rocky Horror is, now I'm imagining Sylvester Stallone in fishnet with umbrella throwing water and toast. :blanket:

I'm too scared to google!

Have you ever seen me that speechless before?? :o :o :o

[Pseudonym]

Well, it's Tim Curry which might not be much better. 

[Boton]

:lol:

 

 

Going to a proper Rocky Horror showing at the cinema is definitely on my bucket list. I'd probably feel very awkward and out of place, wouldn't have the faintest clue as to what to do when or what to wear. Maybe I'll wait until I'm Mrs Hudson's age, at that point, I think fans would be most forgiving towards me.

 

Come on over, Toby.  It's been an age, but I'll take you.  If it is your first time, you are considered a "Rocky Horror Virgin," and you are auctioned off before the movie starts (although you are usually allowed to return to the people who brought you, so it's just fun).  There are all kinds of guides online, but when I was a RH virgin, all you needed to know was to bring a water gun, toilet paper, toast, a Bic lighter (now your cell phone light), and a copy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  You can have a lot of fun by just learning to dance the Time Warp before you go (although they talk you through it..."it's just a jump to the left...."), although for added fun, you can learn to yell "a$$hole" at Brad every time he's on screen, "$lut" at Janet, and heckle the criminologist about his neck ("hey, that man's got no neck!").

[T.o.b.y]

 

:lol:

 

 

Going to a proper Rocky Horror showing at the cinema is definitely on my bucket list. I'd probably feel very awkward and out of place, wouldn't have the faintest clue as to what to do when or what to wear. Maybe I'll wait until I'm Mrs Hudson's age, at that point, I think fans would be most forgiving towards me.

 

Come on over, Toby.  It's been an age, but I'll take you.  If it is your first time, you are considered a "Rocky Horror Virgin," and you are auctioned off before the movie starts (although you are usually allowed to return to the people who brought you, so it's just fun).  There are all kinds of guides online, but when I was a RH virgin, all you needed to know was to bring a water gun, toilet paper, toast, a Bic lighter (now your cell phone light), and a copy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  You can have a lot of fun by just learning to dance the Time Warp before you go (although they talk you through it..."it's just a jump to the left...."), although for added fun, you can learn to yell "a$$hole" at Brad every time he's on screen, "$lut" at Janet, and heckle the criminologist about his neck ("hey, that man's got no neck!").

 

 

:D That sounds like quite an experience...

 

I've seen the movie often enough but before I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", I knew nothing of the fan culture surrounding it. I bet it's a lot more fun when you see it with other people.

 

 

[Caya]

Here you go, have a Virgin's Guide ... but generally, I'd try to find out more about the local theatre's customs first. Like, the one where it aired every Saturday when I was a teen forbade the rice and toast parts because it was pretty close to some major sewer channels and didn't want to give the rats any incentive to come and participate too. Or maybe it's a partici...pation-free showing and you'd be getting curious looks when you show up with your umbrella and super soaker. ;)

 

Audience participation, both ritual like Rocky Horror's and spontaneous, can be so much fun. Many years ago, my best friend and I were bored (was before the Internet :P) enough to go to the first showing of Masters of the Universe, the real life version with Dolph Lundgren, that is. We ended up at a small inner city cinema, and for some reason the audience was no children whatsoever, as we expected, but mostly teen nerds like us. The showing quickly turned into an improv MST3K-like audience party, and while I've utterly forgotten any details of the film (probably for the better), everyone present had an absolute blast. :lol:

[Van Buren Supernova]

:blanket:

:o :o :o

Am I the only one who never heard of Rocky Horror?

I feel like I'm reading conversations from another planet!

 

But don't mind me, go on guys.. XD

I probably forget it tomorrow.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Am I the only one who never heard of Rocky Horror?

I feel like I'm reading conversations from another planet!

 

That sounds like me, a few decades back. I had just joined a science-fiction club, and Rocky Horror was only one of the things that sounded pretty alien to me.

 

You might want to check out your options for watching the movie. It's a campy satire of horror films (with no actual horror of its own).

[Van Buren Supernova]

Thanks.. but I don't know. It sounds horrifying for me actually, it sounds.. like a party.

 

Maybe I'd enjoy those with right companions, but I never actively seek out for a party.

[Caya]

Go to a non-participation screening then - the music still holds up, even after all these years, and there are some, er, memorable performances. Give the show a chance.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Or watch it in the comfort of your own home.

[Pseudonym]

Going back to ranting - I have the glass doors locked. The metal roller shutters down. And still some idiot knocks to be let in. What the f**k makes you think we're open?! What makes you so friggin special?!

 

Nothing that's what. 

 

 

[Arcadia]

What the heck is that gif from?

[Pseudonym]

As usual I have no idea 

[Arcadia]

That's okay, I can never remember where I read a "fact". Or an "alternative fact," for that matter.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Go to a non-participation screening then - the music still holds up, even after all these years, and there are some, er, memorable performances. Give the show a chance.

 

  

Or watch it in the comfort of your own home.

It is unlikely that I will get the chance to, but I promise if it crosses my path one day I will give it a try. It sounds like you guys enjoy it so it's quite an endorsement.

After all, I am on for trying everything at least once (well I have to find a better phrase because apparently there are a lot of things I don't want to try! :p)

 

Going back to ranting - I have the glass doors locked. The metal roller shutters down. And still some idiot knocks to be let in. What the f**k makes you think we're open?! What makes you so friggin special?!

 

 

Is it something urgent?

I backed off when I see a business is closing/closed, but there was one time I pried open a half down metal shutter, of course I asked politely but still I moved that door, it was midnight and that was the last doctor that opened, we ran around two other places but too late. Just spent total three quarter day on boat and road, half my neck and lower chin was flaming hot and itching from something in the water, it got worse even after I applied my usual medication, needed injection and if I didn't get in, I had to go to hospital, it would be too troublesome I'd probably just slept on it.

[Pseudonym]

Nope, I don't work anywhere important. It's mainly an online business though we get people popping in from time to time to buy things. Which I hate, because we're not a shop, and I hate having to interact with people at the best of times, so if my brother isn't here I just lock the doors and don't do it. Plus it's always old men. 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Oh I see.. that's annoying then.

I'm tempted to ask if there is any difference with young men though... :p

 

When we had hardware shop (not proper shiny one, but basic rusty one), I remember someone banging on our fence after we were closed, and they needed some handsaw. To saw off a handcuff from a kid who played with his dad's handcuff (The dad was a security or something) and locked himself to some balcony railing. :o

[Pseudonym]

The odd young bloke that turns up at a tradeshow is the kind of nerdy I can't get on board with, so no. ;)

 

Heh, that's pretty funny.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I *love* basic rusty hardware shops! They seem to have all the stuff that I can never find at the big home centers. Same with dusty little drugstores.

[Arcadia]

I love them too. Only one left now, but I go out of my way to shop there. Plus the staff is so knowledgeable. They were bought out by Ace years ago, but they haven't changed a thing, it's great. All those metal drawers with bits of this and that, and peg board everywhere...

[Van Buren Supernova]

We didn't sell any furnitures though, but yes, you could find small nitty gritty and you could even buy *just* one screw. And yes, we had to be knowledgeable for every single thing including the base cost to know how far you could give dicount to regular costumer, eventhough I was only my mom's helper and worked for free. :p

I was quite handy to climb the highest shelf just below the ceiling to retrieve those heavy porcelain squatting toilet (it was loooooooong time ago).

 

But it was history, the shop was destroyed, but we had good memorable five years; I could get weird things I needed for my school or study, we had cats to control pests and dogs for guard and tiny hills of rocks and sands to run around.

[J.P.]

What the heck is that gif from?

 

Adobe Summit in spring 2015, few days after Sherlocked. I saw the rooms built for this at ExCel.

The whole thing could still be online on YouTube.

[Pseudonym]

Do you know who/what he's telling to F off?

[J.P.]

 

The said moment is around 24:00, but all the video is really worth watching.

[Fantasy Lover]

My mom's worthless boiler, that thing was always incapable of producing enough warm water but this is getting outrageous: for the past week we had nothing but cold water and we have to wait a week before they fix it!