The Big Picture: Mailbag

Qitz

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Thanks for the awesome Mailbag Bob! Always great to have a Q+A session with someone.
 

BrotherRool

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Cool stuff, I'm surprised you don't seem unoptimistic about the new superman film and that was probably an awesome message about school for some people to hear
 

Aureliano

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Ooh, I've been looking for a good ridiculously pornographic mainstream literary object to read. Lost Girls seems to fit the bill. Thanks, Bob!
 

CrazyBlue

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French and British relations are doing pretty ok right now. Whilst Cameron may be stupidly cautious about the UK's place in the EU, he does at times seem to be BFFs with Sarkozy.
Also just because I didn't hate "high school", or as we called it secondary school, doesn't mean that we were the problem. We were able to carve out our niche group of "others" and got along fine with the more stereotypical groups.
 

Xanthious

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I dunno, I actually enjoyed high school and I spent my time between multiple "cliques". Hell, for a good year or so I spent my lunch period playing Magic: The Gathering and still managed to not ostracize myself with the "cool" people. I know that some people have a hard time and admittedly I was friends with some of the more hardcore geeks that certainly did. I think that high school is hard on a lot of people is because at that age people just aren't socially well rounded and a few bad apples do indeed ruin it for everyone.

Oh and speaking of the French I have some like new French rifles for sale. They have never been fired and only dropped once. . . . . I kid I kid.
 

Sigmund Av Volsung

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High school aint too bad, but year 7 was the worst; I was incredibly naive,
and remnants of my past mistakes still sometimes haunt me, but I'm on good terms with about 80% of the year group, so it's bearable.
-Can't wait 'till college
 

drisky

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Two episodes of Big Picture this week? are we on a new schedule or did movie bob upload the wrong video or what?

CrazyBlue said:
French and British relations are doing pretty ok right now. Whilst Cameron may be stupidly cautious about the UK's place in the EU, he does at times seem to be BFFs with with Sarkozy.
Also just because I didn't hate "high school" as we called it secondary school doesn't mean that we were the problem. We were able to carve out our niche groups of "others" and got along fine with the more stereotypical groups.
To me the British-French relationship is the same as the British-American relations, in that it is no worse then a sports rivalry.

I also liked high school, and I was a t the very bottom of the social hierarchy. I didn't have to worry about my status going down and I was able to just act naturally. Plus bulling was replaced by gossiping behind peoples backs, so I never had to be the victim of insults and violence like in middle school. Damn was middle school offal.
 

Scrustle

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Nice episode. And I especially liked the advice on high school. I'll back Bob up on that one. If anyone feels caught up in the social crap that you get in school for your teenage years then I can tell you from experience that as soon as you leave school it ends and instantly becomes irrelevant. And you can rest assured that if someone does behave to you in the same way moronic bullies and sociopaths did to you in school then you can be safe in the knowledge that they are automatically being childish, petty and undeserving of attention by anyone with any kind of integrity.
 

Triaed

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Wow, it was a real mixed bag. I enjoyed it.

France, let's not forget that with a big help from France the US obtained their independence. Yeah, France was acting in self interest to put a dent in the British Empire crown, but still... I don't get the bad rap they get in the US

Highschool was awesome for me, I partied like a monkey on speed and drank like a fish... then again I was not constrained by that silly rule in the States that says that you are mature enough at 18 to put a bullet in an enemy soldier's head, but you cannot drink a beer in a hot-summer day

Also "mumorpuger" :)
 

Tireseas_v1legacy

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Secondary school was not hell for me, but given that my entire year was 50-ish students, and every group had some kind of ass-kicker attached to them, no one made anyone else's life greatly miserable.
 

RJ Dalton

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Well, you surprised me. Not in the way I was hoping for, but you surprised me. Mostly because I wasn't expecting people to ask questions like that.

High school may end, but in my experience, most people these days never seem to grow out of the high school mindset.
 

Shadowstar38

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Wow.

A lot of that was insightful. Even the random ass crayon question. Which gave me the impression you researched that soley because of the weirdness of the question. You never stop amazing me.

For Batman movies, whatever new director they get for a possible reboot needs to work under the assumption that we all know who Batman is and how his backstory plays out. Then you can just start with recruiting Robin from the first film. And make sure he's actually a kid and not some 20 year old this time got damn it.
 

LostintheWick

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I kinda wish this episode was twice as long. I like listening to all the quick random bits while I eat my lunch.
 

Casual Shinji

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No shit!

I actually preffered Ang Lee's Hulk to the new one.

Sure it was still bad, but it had more artistic merit in one single scene than The Incredible Hulk had in its entire running time.
 

RaikuFA

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Good stuff, but I found high school to be better than elementary/middle school. Mainly cause I moved and no one picked on me. It was no longer "Hur dur, he looks diffrent, beat him up." teachers going "I didn't see anything so nothing happened"(yes, that is apparently something teachers still use to this day) and other teachers going "If you tell anyone about the[literal] beating you just took in basketball, things will get worse."

Although I still had bullies in High School, they were the last people I expected. My friends, they would insult me, go to events without me, made sure I died as quick as possible in any tabletop game, call me a ****** because I couldn't get anyone to go out with me, then if I ever told anyone I liked someone, one of them would start dating her then go "Friends don't date friend's ex-girlfriends." BTW, we were considered the nerds.