I too prefer subtitles to dubbing, I always get the feeling I'm missing something when it's dubbed. Aside from the fact that it just looks wrong. Plus I get to learn new words in different languages if I listen closely enough, I can figure out what's what.

I haven't watched a subtitled movie in the last week or so though.

I did watch Full Metal Jacket. 10/10, that film is just class.

Palladio by Karl Jenkins

Corki, is it the live version or the album version?

Currently listening to Der Holle Rache from Mozart's The Magic Flute

"It" ain't a real word. It's short for innit >:O

You're going to confuse the Americans who don't speak Cockney.

Btw, I've been meaning to tell you that you sig is awesome.

lol yeah. I like it when Mrs Lintott goes off on a rant about women and history.

I have indeed. I love that film! ;D

Timms: Wasn't he a nancy, sir?

Hector: Foul, festering, grubby-minded little trollop! Do not use that word!

[Hector hits Timms on the head with an exercise book]

Timms: But you use it, sir!

Hector: I do, sir, I know, but I am far gone in age and decrepitude.

Dead Poets Society. Robin Williams is just brilliant in that film. I've seen it before, just felt like watching it again. Good way to make you take a look at the world another way. 9/10

Karasayl, you like trance music? :D

Listening to Test Match Special, Pakistan is being demolished by England's bowlers. 8)

A repeat of Mongrels on the BBC iPlayer

Children by Robert Miles

TMS (Test Match Special) talking about the cricket Test Match.

Tom Sawyer by Rush

I've seen that, it's fantastic. Freaked the hell out of my hubby though. :D

Watched Crash, The Terminal and Avatar. I've seen the latter two before, both still very good! First time I've seen Crash, was quite impressed actually. I didn't think I'd like it, but I did.

Yeah I've got that one on DVD, seen it several times. :)

Was actually last night but...

Watched Spirited Away. Omg, thought I was smoking something, went way over my head. I don't think I was in the right frame of mind to watch it, but it was good in it's odd way.

Also watched American History X. Much more thought provoking, violent, but really good. Reminds me why I like Edward Norton as an actor.

Was after something new, so started Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes series. Currently working my way through Geomancer, so far, so good. :)

I don't drink soda anymore either. The only fast food I eat is Subway occasionally.

Finished Super Size Me....so now just my fan....oh, and I refuse to ever eat McDonald's again...

This only made my resolve not to eat at McDonald's stronger. I had already stopped before because I felt ill every time I ate there. :P

Minor Heaven by Tarja Turunen

Chicane - Poppiholla (Thrillseekers remix)

And next door's kid screaming at the top of his lungs. :-\

Miltiades, I maintain that you are having a temper-tantrum, nothing you've shown me tells me any different.

If you continue to tell me that I'm being "intentionally disengenuous" I will begin to refer to you by that name since you're so clearly fond of that phrase. I assure you that I am not naive, intentionally or otherwise.

As to your point about telling another poster to "shove it", I used to be involved in wonderful reasonable, debates in high school and anyone who told another person to, in your words, shove it, was thrown out. Not acceptable bahviour in a debate, not called having a spine.

As to the topic at hand, personally I find that the Aiel are perfectly plausible in the context that RJ has written them. AS Hy just pointed out in the post above, cavalry warfare is not the be all and end all. The Aiel clearly are not stupid and will devise tactics to deal with any cavalry sent against them suitably.

Having read through all 7 pages of this thread, it seems to me that you, Miltiades, are having a temper tantrum because hardly anyone agrees with you over your opinion of the Aiel.

 

First of all, this is a fantasy work and has no bearing on the real world, whether some parts are based on it or not, it is not real. So I should think Jordan can damn well do as he pleases with his characters and races. Also given that he's studied a lot more warfare than you and been involved in a war, I would also think he knows a hell of a lot more than you do.

 

By repeatedly insisting on saying Aiel have inferior weapons (with no proof to support that) and insisting that they wear "pajamas" you come across as a 5 year old who's mad that this isn't going the way you want it to. Telling someone they have less intelligence than you because they have a different opinion is just plain arrogant. Grow up.

 

Perhaps you didn't read it careful enough. I was not the person who stated ''I'll tell you this for free, I am smarter than you''. Maybe you missed that, maybe you're being intentionally disingenuous, I do not know. I was never the arrogant one, I simply told someone that my respect for them had declined in the face of their employing ad hominem attacks. Maybe you missed that, maybe you're being intentionally disingenuous, I don't know, though I'm leaning toward the latter.

 

As for it being a fantasy novel, I already explained my position on this. Whatever fantasy elements the author wishes to include are entirely their business, and fine by me. But when including things from the real world you have to stick fairly close to the limits of that thing, otherwise you need to make it something else. I don't complain about any of the crazy stuff Myrdraal can do. Why? Because Myrdraal are not real, Jordan made them up, so whatever he says, goes. But the Aiel are apparently human, yet even an average Aiel is capable of feats nigh on impossible for an actual human being, and worse yet, doesnt even seem to expend a great deal of effort doing it.

 

Your saying I'm having a temper tantrum is laughable, I have remained calm in the face of repeated personal attacks and ridicule. Maybe you missed that, though you're probably just being intentionally disingenuous.

Well, no I didn't miss that actually, I think I got the spirit of your 'respect' message clear enough anyhow.

I will simply readjust my regard for your intelligence downward and move on.

Nothing to do with respect and all to do with intelligence.

I also recall that you told another poster, frenchie, that he was a moron in response to his own post (while I did not agree that he used names such as Weiramon to apply to others, he nevertheless had a valid point) You had no reason to be calling him a moron, and yes that IS arrogant. I also recall Mr Ares pointed out to you when you claimed that you had never called anyone stupid and you responded by saying you wanted to have and I quote "a reasonable debate". In the same post, you said that frenchie need to be told where to shove it. I don't call that reasonable debate, I call that having a temper tantrum.

In regard to it being a fantasy novel, by your own logic channelers are humans (things from the real world) who would have to be lumped in as being a different race, but they're not and I don't hear you complaining about that.

Having read through all 7 pages of this thread, it seems to me that you, Miltiades, are having a temper tantrum because hardly anyone agrees with you over your opinion of the Aiel.

First of all, this is a fantasy work and has no bearing on the real world, whether some parts are based on it or not, it is not real. So I should think Jordan can damn well do as he pleases with his characters and races. Also given that he's studied a lot more warfare than you and been involved in a war, I would also think he knows a hell of a lot more than you do.

By repeatedly insisting on saying Aiel have inferior weapons (with no proof to support that) and insisting that they wear "pajamas" you come across as a 5 year old who's mad that this isn't going the way you want it to. Telling someone they have less intelligence than you because they have a different opinion is just plain arrogant. Grow up.

Oceanlab - Lonely Girl (Gareth Emery remix)

Looks like Oceanlab and Gareth are my new addictions. ::)

Faces - Ashley Wallbridge & Andy Moor

Also recently bought Tarja Turunen - My Winter Storm and can't stop listening to it!