Starship Troopers

Rodney · Postby **Rodney** » May 23rd, 2007, 4:32 pm

No one EVER thinks movies based off books are "good enough". Seems to be the popular thing to say.

Alienblue · Postby **Alienblue** » May 24th, 2007, 4:55 am

I didn't like two things about the movie: the co-ed shower scene was totally unnecessary and I'M the one who is ususally not offended by nakedness. But I couldn't help think how co-ed showers would be COMPLETE turn offs (sorta like kissing a cow or even worse your ex-wife!) and how SEX SELLS! and they HAD to show that.

Even worse was the scene with kids stomping on helpless EARTH "bugs" (call them INSECTS and ARACHNIDS please)...I realize the aliens are "bugs" but enough people hate these little guys needlessly, who provide the earth with flowers,honey,...spiders kill BAD insects that carry disease and more people are killed by ball lightning then spiders or centipedes or anything poisonous- in fact poisonous PLANTS are far more deadly!...paid for by the COCKROACH WORLD TAKEOVER organization! HUG A BUG 2DAY!

Koopa W. · Postby **Koopa W.** » May 24th, 2007, 9:08 am

Starship Troopers was an awesome movie! How the hell could anyone NOT like it? Well, none of my friends do, either.

feilong801 · Postby **feilong801** » May 24th, 2007, 10:02 am

[QUOTE=Alienblue]

Even worse was the scene with kids stomping on helpless EARTH "bugs" (call them INSECTS and ARACHNIDS please)...I realize the aliens are "bugs" but enough people hate these little guys needlessly, who provide the earth with flowers,honey,...spiders kill BAD insects that carry disease and more people are killed by ball lightning then spiders or centipedes or anything poisonous- in fact poisonous PLANTS are far more deadly!...paid for by the COCKROACH WORLD TAKEOVER organization! HUG A BUG 2DAY! [/QUOTE]

I'm thinking you took that scene a little too seriously: it was clearly tongue in cheek.

-Rob

m0zart1 · Postby **m0zart1** » May 24th, 2007, 12:03 pm

[QUOTE=Alienblue]Even worse was the scene with kids stomping on helpless EARTH "bugs" (call them INSECTS and ARACHNIDS please)...I realize the aliens are "bugs" but enough people hate these little guys needlessly, who provide the earth with flowers,honey,...spiders kill BAD insects that carry disease and more people are killed by ball lightning then spiders or centipedes or anything poisonous- in fact poisonous PLANTS are far more deadly!...paid for by the COCKROACH WORLD TAKEOVER organization! HUG A BUG 2DAY!

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You kiss as many cockroaches as you like Alienblue. As a libertarian, I confirm your right to do so.

Just stay out of my way when I start laying out the boric acid powder, courtesy of the "Kill the Cockroaches Forever" fund that I started contributing to when I moved into my first apartment.

Atarifever1 · Postby **Atarifever1** » May 24th, 2007, 3:22 pm

[QUOTE=Rodney]No one EVER thinks movies based off books are "good enough". Seems to be the popular thing to say.
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It's not just the popular thing to say; generally it's the true thing to say. Books are better than movies. Sorry, it's true. The only exception is books based on movies, which is a retarded idea anyway.

Alienblue · Postby **Alienblue** » May 25th, 2007, 4:57 am

"Just stay out of my way when I start laying boric acid"....

Boric acid? BORING! Cocka rooches are already immune to 98% of the poisons out there. Get a rat to kill them. Then a cat to kill the rat, then a dog-Oh, you saw that Porky Pig cartoon?

The dinosaurs and mammals have ruled this planet long enough, next up is the AGE OF BUGS! Mighty T.yr.Ant walks the earth, searching for a meal in a fifty foot roachasaur.

Seriously, I kill anything that spreads disease that invades MY home too. I just don't like kids/people stomping on things in the wild needless...hey, stop breathing! Do you know how many sweet little bacteria you are killing!? and you eat PLANTS!? You- you SPROUT MURDERER!

m0zart1 · Postby **m0zart1** » May 25th, 2007, 4:34 pm

[QUOTE=Alienblue]Boric acid? BORING! Cocka rooches are already immune to 98% of the poisons out there. Get a rat to kill them. Then a cat to kill the rat, then a dog-Oh, you saw that Porky Pig cartoon?[/QUOTE]

Back when I first moved to Houston, I began to realize just what roach problems in this city are like. The whole city sits on what was once a swamp, a bayou. I's a breeding ground for the critters.

Boric acid worked quite well, virtually eliminating my problem, but when I moved into another apartment a few years later, I decided to take a different approach. There are these very harmless reptiles here called geckos, and they are like roaches in the sense that they are everywhere in the city. And here at least, one of their primary food sources are insects, including roaches. The problem is that they don't like to come inside homes for some reason, because I believe the air conditioning screws with their body temperature too much. So I took the approach of catching a whole bunch of them, from every nearby place I could find, and then I let them out in my apartment all at once, and they scurried off into the walls, etc.

I only rarely ever saw them again, I mean RARELY. They were hiding in the walls, etc. I am sure some of them got outside again but not all of them. And I never had a roach problem again in that apartment. They were eating up every roach and roach nest they could find.

Now at the time that seemed like a good idea. However, in retrospect, I wonder just how much salmonella I put into my environment that wasn't there before, considering that reptiles have it all over them. Which one is dirtier? The roach or the gecko?

So now I just stick to boric acid powder again. It works like a charm, killing whole nests of the things, and it doesn't contaminate my environment with more bacteria.

Steerforth · Postby **Steerforth** » May 25th, 2007, 5:08 pm

Mozart. you are the renter from hell, lol.

feilong801 · Postby **feilong801** » May 26th, 2007, 12:40 am

I had never even SEEN a cockroach until I moved to Detroit and lived on Wayne State's campus for awhile (which is in downtown Detroit). That on campus apartment was badly infested. I was fortunate enough to live on a floor where the problem was minor: I saw maybe a half dozen of them in the year I lived there. But the exterminator guy would tell me there were other apartments a few floors above and below me (it was a 15 story apartment, I lived on floor 11) where so badly infested that you couldn't see large swaths of the ceiling!

Funny: right now in my house there are lots of ants. A common problem this time of year for most. They don't gross me out. They are a minor inconvienance. I'm sure I'll get my annual earwhig infestation. They are worse: they look nastier. But a cockroach is the most disgusting, horrific insect ever. There is just something about them that cause revulsion.

I don't mind spiders. I allow them to live usually, so they can eat the other bugs I don't like. I'll occasionally transfer a really big one to the outdoors, though, as it freaks my wife out if she sees it. (-:

-Rob