The Thread About Ponies, Logistics and General Weirdness (And Gilda)TV

[MercilessOne]

And all this time I thought the Ponies were trying to capture more people than to push them away.

Wouldn't we have such a good laugh if you guys somehow manage to convert W&N?

I would definitely.

This is the situation right now.

 

[Robin]

And all this time I thought the Ponies were trying to capture more people than to push them away.

Wouldn't we have such a good laugh if you guy somehow manage to convert W&N into a Brony?

Well this thread is not even about MLP anymore, reading the last few pages its turned in to a fighting match trying to defend reasoning that doesn't need defending!.... I just wana post ponies but all this is off putting.

I suspect W&N is a closet Brony seeing as he is so invested in it, how does he know Pinkie Pie's personality so well... hmmm suspicious.

 

[Northstar]

Awesome + Awesome=

 

[FoolKiller]

No comment. I can't really come up with one. Note that some of this went over my head, since after I turned 10 or 11 I mostly stopped watching TV except for sports and occasionally news or gameshows.

It was to show a contrast. Dexter = serial killer crime drama. Serial killer is the good guy. Arrested Development = teenage boy secretly in love with his cousin. Firefly = best gorram Sci-Fi show, canceled way too early. The ship's captain shoots first, asks questions later. And a prostitute, which is legal in that universe, rents out a room on the ship. And the Reavers...ugh. Malcolm Reynolds is my hero.

That's a bit... hmmmmmmm...

I believe the word you are looking for is educational. It was the first live show I ever saw that included a closed captioning monitor.

What's that?

Atlas Shrugged? Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is a movie coming out this Friday based on my favorite novel. The novel is where the quote in my sig comes from.

I seriously can't come up with anything. I seriously can't. You're just... I don't know... hmmmmmmm... I still can't get my head around it, but it couldn't be as bad as MLP (well, except Strawberry Shortcake, Sesame Street, and Dr. Seuss*).

Try well-rounded, well-versed, and someone who enjoys a bit of everything. When it comes to movies I have one rule: I will watch everything once. I haven't taken the time to watch the new MLP yet, though I imagine it will be something my daughter and wife enjoy once my daughter gets older (she's only 13 months now).

But what is wrong with Dr. Seuss? He has important life lessons, as well as a development of language skills, and does it all while encouraging you to be a free thinker and not pay attention to what others say you can and cannot do. People give "Oh, the Places You Will Go," as a gift to high school and college graduates. I read it to my daughter now.

I wish I could lighten up, but I've already invested too heavily in the other side. I've already raged about MLP to several people I know, both in real life and on other forums. I've gotten most of them to agree with me. I've already made an irreversible decision to oppose MLP, and if I were to change it now I would fall foul of my own previous comments about MLP, not to mention my massive opposition to it in the funny pics thread.

In general, don't take small things so serious...ever. That would be another life lesson I learned from Dr. Seuss.

*By the way, I bet you'd love to hear how Dr. Seuss came about.

Which bit, his political cartoons and outspokenness in support of the US entering WWII, not thinking that Communism is all bad, or his support of the internment of Japanese-Americans, accompanied by some not so sensitive remarks, during WWII?

 

[MercilessOne]

 

[Terronium-12]

As if any of the random things Pinkie does make sense enough to be considered a plan other than by herself.

 

[Northstar]

As if any of the random things Pinkie does make sense enough to be considered a plan other than by herself.

How do you know that not making any sense isn't the plan?💡

 

[Terronium-12]

How do you know that not making any sense isn't the plan?💡

That would have to be the best plan ever then.
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[AOS-]

It takes a genius to be able to pull that off.

 

[White & Nerdy]

I suspect W&N is a closet Brony seeing as he is so invested in it, how does he know Pinkie Pie's personality so well... hmmm suspicious.

You should know this, being a brony and all, but Pinkie Pie seems pretty one-dimensional. You don't need to be obsessed to know her personality because there isn't much personality there...

As I said before, I've only ever watched and will only ever watch one episode. Considering the number of people around me that agree MLP is horrible, I couldn't switch sides even if I wanted to.

White & nerdy, how old are you to already be this stubborn and judgmental? And do you also have issues with any group that doesn't fit in with your notion of "normal?" You seem like you think you have to dislike something because you're expected to dislike it, which is just silly.

See above. Even if I wanted to roll with the bronies, I couldn't because I've got several people convinced of the stupidity of MLP. If I were to become a brony myself I would be the world's most laughable hypocrite.

As for the Dr. Seuss thing, his painfully simplistic children's books were actually based on a faulty idea of how children learn and how fast they can learn. Here's something he said in 1981:

I did it for a textbook house and they sent me a word list. That was due to the Dewey revolt in the twenties, in which they threw out phonics and went to a word recognition system as if you're reading a Chinese pictograph instead of blending sounds or different letters. I think killing phonics was one of the greatest causes of illiteracy in this country.

Anyway they had it all worked out that a healthy child at the age of four can only learn so many words in a week. So there were two hundred and twenty-three words to use in this book. I read the list three times and I almost went out of my head. I said, "I'll read it once more and if I can find two words that rhyme, that'll be the title of my book." I found "cat" and "hat" and said, the title of my book will be The Cat in the Hat.

Interesting, no?

 

[SohnVonStig]

See above. Even if I wanted to roll with the bronies, I couldn't because I've got several people convinced of the stupidity of MLP. If I were to become a brony myself I would be the world's most laughable hypocrite.

So you're young and stupid enough that you are that affected by peer pressure that heavily? You already are a contradiction, why not be a hypocrite. You are being immature by condemning the views of others (pathetic since this is about a childrens' show) when the very thing you are accusing us of is being immature.
Question, before the ponies had you ever even come CLOSE to the off topic movies subforum? Is this some sort of vendetta for you?

 

[Terronium-12]

I'm tired of reading that crap to be honest. Welcome to my Ignore List.

 

[White & Nerdy]

No, you don't get it. I've literally raged about MLP to several close, important people in my life, and if I were to come out and say, "sorry, but I'm a brony now", it would severely damage the quality of my life.

I would never be able to tell anyone. I would be a hypocrite. And, as odd as this may seem, I don't particularly care for being a hypocrite.

 

[AOS-]

I'm tired of reading that crap to be honest. Welcome to my Ignore List.

Way ahead of you, braahh 👍

 

[SohnVonStig]

I think you may be taking the ponies a tad bit too seriously mate The internet, in no capacity, should ever affect your life to that extent. I wish you the best in your psychological recovery from this, the most traumatic event in your life.

 

[Azuremen]

No, you don't get it. I've literally raged about MLP to several close, important people in my life, and if I were to come out and say, "sorry, but I'm a brony now", it would severely damage the quality of my life.

I would never be able to tell anyone. I would be a hypocrite. And, as odd as this may seem, I don't particularly care for being a hypocrite.

You don't seem to understand what that word actually means. You are more of a hypocrite now than you would be if you decided to like it. Reason being is a hypocrite is someone that says one thing and does another, which is not to be confused with someone that has a change of heart.

And if the quality of your life would be severely impacted by you switching views on something as trivial as a cartoon, I must seriously question the quality of your peers. Peer pressure is such a childish thing to be concerned with, and a huge sign of immaturity.

Honestly, I just feel sorry for you at this point.

 

[MercilessOne]

BACK ON ****ING TOPIC.












Proof that Fluttershy is the one pony to rule them all.


She's so f'ing cute. X3

 

[Terronium-12]

I too am so frustrated I could just scream: Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Northstar]

She has some serious rage issues.

 

[Wiegert]

I'll add to that:

 

[Joey D]

Ya, so I pony-fied my Cooper avatar. I guess I'm a Brony now .

 

[AOS-]

*saw Joey made a post in the Pony thread* *thinks to myself, wait, that's that mini cooper guy! Could he have changed his avatar?* *page loads to most recent post*

I was correct.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Ya, so I pony-fied my Cooper avatar. I guess I'm a Brony now .

Eyup.

 

[Wiegert]

I'd say your Cooper avatar is now about, oh I dunno, 20% cooler?

 

[AOS-]

The shrugging pony emphasizes your post's tone once again. Are you sure you're not doing that intentionally?

 

[Terronium-12]

The shrugging pony emphasizes your post's tone once again. Are you sure you're not doing that intentionally?

AJ the Wise (Shrugger).

 

[Wiegert]

The shrugging pony emphasizes your post's tone once again. Are you sure you're not doing that intentionally?

Nope. Purely coincidence.

 

[Azuremen]

And I should probably stick with an avatar for more than a day but so many options... I think this is the 8th or 9th one I am on in the past week.

 

[AOS-]

You've got one of my avatar fans beat. He's changed his with every new batch of avatars I made, but he's only changed it like 2 or 3 times so far.

 

[Joel]

I'll have to make a Montreal Canadiens pony avatar of some sort. I can't leave the habs out of my avatar, it's playoff time!