Post by Neffie on Jul 29, 2010 17:40:23 GMT -5
I was talking with a player tonight about the "looks" wheelers get when they're out and about.
I think curiosity is normal when comfronted with a wheeler, sometimes people look away as though you don't exist and other times they'll outright stare.
What we were talking about is when you get introduced to someone and they have no choice but to look at you like at a party for instance.
As a Dev I don't know yet how I would deal with most situations (with humour puncutated by gratuitous kissing more than likely).
The look I HATE above all others is the "Michael Landon". So called because it's the look he established during 'Little House' and adopted throughout 'Highway to Heaven'.
I don't know quite how to describe it but it's part pity mixed with constipation with a hint of a smirk in there.
In Little House when Mary went blind you could guarantee Charles would be the Daddy, after all he had no choice: Walnut Creek had more blind people per capita than the whole of South East Asia!
Not content with blinding the poor bint (and her husband) the Producers set fire to the school killing half the kids along with Charles' granchild.
He wasn't happy about this and insisted that his second born daughter Laura get knocked up. She obeyed his orders and her uterus was also obliging as she got knocked up by the thoroughly manly Almonzo (that was his name in real life too - parents were so cruel in the 1850's). Almonzo was so manly (depite the fact he had a name you would only give a muppet or a fraggle) was sooooo manly she called him manly for an entire season as she sent him love notes and stalked him.
Almonzo rapidly concluded that restraining orders hadn't yet been invented and thought 'fuck it' when Laura turned up to the church dance wearing her hair up.
Wearing your hair up in Walnut Creek is tantamount to going to Nelly's naked with a sign around your neck saying "fuck me".
Laura get's married and dutifully gets knocked up just as Almonzo decides to have a stroke (the first he's had since his wedding night and the last time she wore her hair down!).
The producers are blatently a bunch of closet devs as Almonzo goes for an emmy and spits out his pureed carrot, Laura meanwhile ploughs the fields in her full skirt whilst 8 months pregnant. There's a credit crunch on.
All the time Michael Landon (having gotten through 6 seasons of this shit and leaving 3 marriages in his wake) turns up and looks at Almonzo (with the stroke) or Adam (the more fortunate son in law who is blind) and he just seems to want to cry.
The only thing is Michael Landon can't cry cos he's been in a bar til 3am drinking whiskey chasers and his tear ducts dried up somewhere in 1979 so he just gives this pitying look and almost cries but then DOESN'T!
Somewhere in the madness that was the Little House set he met another madman who realised the only way to get God fearing women in Ohio to masturbate was for two drunks to create a show about an angel.
The Michael Landon/Victor French collaboration should go down in history along with Hitler and Goebels. Their one aim in life was to exploit every illness, disability and general human emotion for pure entertainment.
I remember seeing an episode of Highway to Heaven where a High school Quarterback was in a car accident and lost both legs.
It's obvious why this stuck in my mind but there they go looking to fix the poor fucker up.
The producers wheeled Landon out of his trailer and the male model sat dutifully in bed wailing about his legs (that were blatantly hidden under the mattress). And he does THAT LOOK; half constipated and half pity and he tells the kid he can still have a great life.
How???
Pommel horse!!!
I fuck you not. The scriptwriters decided that YES, working a pommel horse does require upper arm strength but did they consider the dismount???
I guess the paralypics weren't a big draw then but telling a double amputee the way to regain his self worth is through gymnastics is just fucking cruel.
To add insult to injury after the head cheerleader dumped him (hey, it's the law!) then they bring in the class geek who's silently always adored the football star.
Ok so now he's got no legs he's gonna want to fuck a girl that couldn't get laid in Sing Sing during feeding time???
All the time Michael Landon is just doing that thing...
I mean Little Joe never did it (Hoss would have kicked his ass) but something happened to Michael Landon and he just decided that he would draw attention toall disabilities just so that he could look at them and feel pity whilst wanting a shit at the same time.
Thoughts?
I think curiosity is normal when comfronted with a wheeler, sometimes people look away as though you don't exist and other times they'll outright stare.
What we were talking about is when you get introduced to someone and they have no choice but to look at you like at a party for instance.
As a Dev I don't know yet how I would deal with most situations (with humour puncutated by gratuitous kissing more than likely).
The look I HATE above all others is the "Michael Landon". So called because it's the look he established during 'Little House' and adopted throughout 'Highway to Heaven'.
I don't know quite how to describe it but it's part pity mixed with constipation with a hint of a smirk in there.
In Little House when Mary went blind you could guarantee Charles would be the Daddy, after all he had no choice: Walnut Creek had more blind people per capita than the whole of South East Asia!
Not content with blinding the poor bint (and her husband) the Producers set fire to the school killing half the kids along with Charles' granchild.
He wasn't happy about this and insisted that his second born daughter Laura get knocked up. She obeyed his orders and her uterus was also obliging as she got knocked up by the thoroughly manly Almonzo (that was his name in real life too - parents were so cruel in the 1850's). Almonzo was so manly (depite the fact he had a name you would only give a muppet or a fraggle) was sooooo manly she called him manly for an entire season as she sent him love notes and stalked him.
Almonzo rapidly concluded that restraining orders hadn't yet been invented and thought 'fuck it' when Laura turned up to the church dance wearing her hair up.
Wearing your hair up in Walnut Creek is tantamount to going to Nelly's naked with a sign around your neck saying "fuck me".
Laura get's married and dutifully gets knocked up just as Almonzo decides to have a stroke (the first he's had since his wedding night and the last time she wore her hair down!).
The producers are blatently a bunch of closet devs as Almonzo goes for an emmy and spits out his pureed carrot, Laura meanwhile ploughs the fields in her full skirt whilst 8 months pregnant. There's a credit crunch on.
All the time Michael Landon (having gotten through 6 seasons of this shit and leaving 3 marriages in his wake) turns up and looks at Almonzo (with the stroke) or Adam (the more fortunate son in law who is blind) and he just seems to want to cry.
The only thing is Michael Landon can't cry cos he's been in a bar til 3am drinking whiskey chasers and his tear ducts dried up somewhere in 1979 so he just gives this pitying look and almost cries but then DOESN'T!
Somewhere in the madness that was the Little House set he met another madman who realised the only way to get God fearing women in Ohio to masturbate was for two drunks to create a show about an angel.
The Michael Landon/Victor French collaboration should go down in history along with Hitler and Goebels. Their one aim in life was to exploit every illness, disability and general human emotion for pure entertainment.
I remember seeing an episode of Highway to Heaven where a High school Quarterback was in a car accident and lost both legs.
It's obvious why this stuck in my mind but there they go looking to fix the poor fucker up.
The producers wheeled Landon out of his trailer and the male model sat dutifully in bed wailing about his legs (that were blatantly hidden under the mattress). And he does THAT LOOK; half constipated and half pity and he tells the kid he can still have a great life.
How???
Pommel horse!!!
I fuck you not. The scriptwriters decided that YES, working a pommel horse does require upper arm strength but did they consider the dismount???
I guess the paralypics weren't a big draw then but telling a double amputee the way to regain his self worth is through gymnastics is just fucking cruel.
To add insult to injury after the head cheerleader dumped him (hey, it's the law!) then they bring in the class geek who's silently always adored the football star.
Ok so now he's got no legs he's gonna want to fuck a girl that couldn't get laid in Sing Sing during feeding time???
All the time Michael Landon is just doing that thing...
I mean Little Joe never did it (Hoss would have kicked his ass) but something happened to Michael Landon and he just decided that he would draw attention toall disabilities just so that he could look at them and feel pity whilst wanting a shit at the same time.
Thoughts?
