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    On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead

    Ikea Is the Disney World of China

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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    As a Sci-Fi geek of magnificent magnitude the obsession with zombies is in my opinion the fear of being brainless as opposed to soulless. Losing humanity, but yet retaining its form, which is like some sort of reanimated mind-fuck. Which oddly in film today often equals comedy, the witless monkey type, having human features, but no way to communicate. The zombies that retain some thought even if it's ferocious singular thinking...those guys are horrifying.

    For example Shaun of the Dead was hilarious based upon the sheer stupidity of zombies of yore. The lumbering, the near catatonic nature...funniest bit was when they blended right in by just acting like drooling idiots. Now, 28 Days Later...dear heaven. When you get organized, destructive, quick moving zombies...yeah, frightful. Just enough brain power to be truly vicious.

    The worst zombie case for me was Pet Sematary. It wasn't touted as a zombie movie, but that's what it was. What else is a zombie but a reanimated corpse? That was by far worse than any random flesh eater flick. That shit was personal. Forget that movie Orphan with the scary kid/little person....yeah, Gage slicing Achilles tendons...um historic.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    Even if you claim to be an atheist or, damnation, agnostic, isn't the real scare in zombie lore that someone — a person with friends and family — could return with no apparent loyalty?

    This sentence makes no sense. What does the reanimation of dead tissue have to do with religion? Oh, right. Zombie Jesus. Never mind.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    I thought Matthew McConaughey was the bongo playing stoner. Woody is just your regular every day movie star stoner.

    Andrew, all your base belonsky to me.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    So the zombies we've been hearing about for the past few years on the internet... who started it? Where does this theme come from? Video games?
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    Image of peanuthead peanuthead
    10/02/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Dude, it goes way back to the Bible. Jesus was the O.Z.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/02/09

    @peanuthead:

    But what started the funny zombie internet goofiness?
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    Image of TheInternetGod TheInternetGod
    10/02/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Where does any meme come from?

    Maplestory, of course!

    [You must be 13 to read this comment]
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/02/09

    @TheInternetGod:

    Ooooooh.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    I don't think "loyalty" is a soul - most unsentimental black-hearted folks like myself refer to that as a "memory." Yes, it would suck if the memory-less corpse of one of my loved ones came for my precious brain. View this as the lone upside of our gun-crazy nation's massive shotgun stockpiles.
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    Image of wrongneighborhood wrongneighborhood
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    I wish I was kidding, but the AP wrote this yesterday"

    "Fla. college ready for flesh-eating zombie attack"

    [www.google.com]
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    Image of blix blix
    10/02/09

    @wrongneighborhood: Heh! "Life-impaired individuals".
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    "A website called Cracked?" Seriously, dude? Cracked.com, the funny, last living vestige of the magazine that many of us considered Mad Magazine without teh funny? I'm a little amazed that you referenced it as if the readers may never have heard of it.

    Then again, I may just be old.
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    10/02/09

    @RandomLunatic: Right there with you. I'm on there like every damn day.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    Sure, lavishing all this attention on Zombies is fun...until you realize that it's giving Creepy Twins an unearned pass.
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    08/25/09

    In reply to Ikea Is the Disney World of China
    Don't buy the beds if you ever plan on having sex. In the bed. Ever.
    Breaking the slats and having your mattress fall the floor mid-coitus... not cool.
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    Image of eeeradicator eeeradicator
    08/25/09

    In reply to Ikea Is the Disney World of China
    At the newest Ikea in Japan, you must keep your shoes on when testing beds. Unlike the rest of the country. And the long hotdog is called the Ninja dog. On a related note, people bring their friggin pets with them. We saw a dog fight in the office chair section. It was surreal, like something from a B horror movie.
    On the plus side, it is one of the rare places in Saitama with multilingual staff, and not just English speakers. But the goddamn lockers never work for me. And they pronounce it E-K-AH.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/26/09

    @eeeradicator: "Showroom Armoire Dogs," written and directed by Quentin Tarantino--brilliant!

    /iː/-KEH-ah is how it'a pronounced in the Swedish mother tongue and pretty much any other language except English.
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    Image of nathanst nathanst
    08/25/09

    In reply to Ikea Is the Disney World of China
    YES CHINA, IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

    Welcome to Western style consumerism. BUY TO FILL THE VOID IN YOUR SOUL

    BUY

    BUY

    BUY

    YAY

    *6 hours later*

    "Why did I buy all of this crap? Ugh."
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/25/09

    In reply to Ikea Is the Disney World of China
    I have this urge to go count the number of IKEA products at Ingvar Kamprad's house.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/25/09


    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: This snugglebug of a capitalist overlord could melt even the hearts of WTO protesters.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/25/09


    @snugbug:

    Nealy the same taste in glasses
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    Image of CherHorrorwitz CherHorrorwitz
    08/25/09

    In reply to Ikea Is the Disney World of China
    The IKEA in Athens is Disneyland with Smoking. People are insane for it in Europe, and maybe it's my Euro-dementia from living here for 2 years, but...their European stuff is actually really nice. The cookware is awesome.
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    Image of Forgetitjake Forgetitjake
    08/25/09

    @CherHorrorwitz:
    Cookware, yes; some of the toys are cute, too. I am living a lie when I hate on Ikea. I just redid my kitchen in Ikea and now I'm in the middle of disassembling, dusting and moving about 80 bookshelf-metres of Ivar. -- Still, Scandinavian family living = dorm room, and for many of the same reasons as dorm room = dorm room.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    08/25/09

    In reply to Ikea Is the Disney World of China
    I've never been to IKEA, but I have enjoyed the downstairs of the Urban Outfitters on 72nd Street on multiple occasions, so I feel I cannot judge.
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    08/25/09

    @DahlELama: how exactly have you enjoyed the downstairs?!?!
    (p.s. can you, or anyone else, share how to do italics and other nifty things? thanks!)
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/25/09

    @tigolbitties: Glad to be of servicey!
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    08/25/09

    @tigolbitties: I would really, really like to have a sexy story to put here, but really, I just used to sit on the chairs and occasionally play hide-and-seek with friends. I don't know if the fact that we were in high school makes this better or worse.

    I'll PM you re: italics. Hopefully someone else can fill you in on everything more advanced than that.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    08/25/09

    @tigolbitties: Here you go friend: [www.tizag.com]
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    08/25/09

    @snugbug: @DahlELama: @Conchie Birdie: thank you very much!!! i'm going to be an italicizing fool!!!!
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    08/25/09

    @tigolbitties: If this means you will also use numerous commas, I will heart you forever.
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    Image of Forgetitjake Forgetitjake
    08/25/09

    In reply to Ikea Is the Disney World of China
    Speaking of extreme, bizarre and soulless: they do this in Scandinavia, you know.
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