Board index › Off Topic Discussion › Random Discussion

I'm SICK of hearing about the zoooooombies!! !

Page 5 of 7 [ 98 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  Next

Previous topic | Next topic

CyborgUprising
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 16 Jun 2012
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,963
Location: auf der Fahrt durch Niemandsland

20 Sep 2012, 8:11 pm

If a conductor became one of the undead, would he only want trains?



Titangeek
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,696
Location: somewhere in the vicinity of betelgeuse

20 Sep 2012, 10:44 pm

Zobies are awsome.


_________________
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee


Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

21 Sep 2012, 11:01 am

Titangeek wrote:
Zobies are awsome.


Agreed. But NOT zombies ! !! !! !


_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke


Titangeek
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,696
Location: somewhere in the vicinity of betelgeuse

21 Sep 2012, 2:14 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
Zobies are awsome.


Agreed. But NOT zombies ! !! !! !



Yes, mock the typo, I didn't have my daily brain breakfast
Image


_________________
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee


Kraichgauer
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Apr 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 48,460
Location: Spokane area, Washington state.

21 Sep 2012, 2:20 pm

Titangeek wrote:
Prof_Pretorius wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
Zobies are awsome.


Agreed. But NOT zombies ! !! !! !



Yes, mock the typo, I didn't have my daily brain breakfast
Image


Um-Um Good!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

21 Sep 2012, 3:38 pm

This obsession with zombies deserves a very expensive official study to be done by highly paid government scientists.


_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke


TallyMan
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 30 Mar 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 40,061

21 Sep 2012, 4:37 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
This obsession with zombies deserves a very expensive official study to be done by highly paid government scientists.


They've probably got a whole department devoted to it here in France - or at least a few hundred people administering the bureaucracy of a couple of scientists doing the study.


_________________
I've left WP indefinitely.


Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

21 Sep 2012, 4:55 pm

TallyMan wrote:
Prof_Pretorius wrote:
This obsession with zombies deserves a very expensive official study to be done by highly paid government scientists.


They've probably got a whole department devoted to it here in France - or at least a few hundred people administering the bureaucracy of a couple of scientists doing the study.


~whew~

Glad to hear it ! ! I was afraid the opportunity would slip by the bureaucracy.


_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke


naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

21 Sep 2012, 5:22 pm

OliveOilMom wrote:
Im not worried about zombies because I live in an area that is very high in humidity. Even if zombies were real and therefore reanimated, they would still be dead and subject to decomposition. Humidity speeds that up. All we would need to do here is run to the grocery store and stok up on every thing like we do for threats of snow flurries, go inside and lock the door and stay there for about three days. They would fall apart by then.

The problem would be with the rednecks who just couldn't stay inside. It would be the same way as when a tornado is coming, everybody runs to the door to look for it. Half the good ole boys would be out in the yard trying to see if they could hit the zombies with the shotgun. The other half would be trying to hit them with empty beer cans. We might be a little much for zombies down here.


Trouble with your humidity theory is that the real original zombie myth originated in Haiti- a green humid tropical country.

Ofcourse when George Romera started the Night of the Living Dead series of movies - he had his characters just call them "the living dead". In his first movie he didnt actually use the word "zombie". That label got placed on his creatures by the fans and critics over the years. So its debatable whether Romero Zombies and Haitian Zombies are really the same thing. Kinda like the whether European dragons are really the same creature as Chinese Dragons or not.



Fnord
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 6 May 2008
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 60,807
Location: Stendec

21 Sep 2012, 5:26 pm

Haitian zombies, as the urban legend goes, were actually drugged. They allegedly used some concoction that had similar effects as rohypnol ("roofies"). Once drugged, the victims would allegedly obey any order given, and be unable and unwilling to initiate any actions for themselves.



lostgirl1986
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 28 Feb 2012
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 6,418
Location: Ontario, Canada

21 Sep 2012, 5:39 pm

I'm sick of hearing about them too. I don't know why people find them so fascinating all of a sudden. I feel the same way about vampires. Oh my gosh, zombie attack! Who freaking cares? I'm so sick of people going on about it whether they believe in zombies or not. It's getting pretty annoying.



Titangeek
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,696
Location: somewhere in the vicinity of betelgeuse

21 Sep 2012, 5:41 pm

^I feel the same way about pony’s.


_________________
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee


Fnord
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 6 May 2008
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 60,807
Location: Stendec

21 Sep 2012, 5:44 pm

^ "My Little Pony"

BLECH!



naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

21 Sep 2012, 5:51 pm

Fnord wrote:
Haitian zombies, as the urban legend goes, were actually drugged. They allegedly used some concoction that had similar effects as rohypnol ("roofies"). Once drugged, the victims would allegedly obey any order given, and be unable and unwilling to initiate any actions for themselves.


PBS had a series exploring paranormal legends.
They had a Haitian zombie episode.

It was interesting.

We the viewers actually got to see an actual alledged "zombie"- a young man who died in a car cash but "came back from the dead and was now living with his family as a zombie".

He was a rather nice looking young guy with a sad forlorn expression who was mute and obviously not "all there".

But he lived with a rural family with his "parents" and "siblings".

Sometime after the family lost their real son friends told them that he had returned from the dead and was hanging out at the edge of town as a zombie. So the dad and kids went out and found him and took him in.

The TV producers had a DNA test done on this curious young man who was roughly the age that their departed son wouldve been.

It turned out that their zombie "son" had no kinship to the family at all.
He was just a demented vagrant stranger from parts unknown.

But- he now had a roof over his head. And the family had a void in their lives filled by his presence. So the belief in zombies acted as a kind of social safety net in this case. It was kinda pogniant.



Titangeek
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,696
Location: somewhere in the vicinity of betelgeuse

21 Sep 2012, 5:52 pm

[img][800:606]http://cuddlebuggery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/MLP-FIM.jpg[/img]
Image


Which is worse?


_________________
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee


Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

21 Sep 2012, 6:10 pm

Talk about yer tough choices...


_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke