SF?? Weird responses...

[paranoid marvin]

I think that it's a case of bringing it into the mainstream. Atari brought video gaming into the mainstream by placing a console under the tv sets in the living room in the 1970s. The advent of the home computer in the '80s sent it into the bedroom , and became much more niche and less mainstream. It was only with the advent of the Playstation that video games once again moved into the living room and became mainstream.

The same could be said to some extent with fantasy when Game of Thrones was watched by a good percentage of people, with articles in magazines, newspapers etc. I don't think that science fiction has ever really made that step, and (on television at least) there have been very few science fiction programmes aimed at an adult audience outside of the early 70s.

 

[Swank]

I think that it's a case of bringing it into the mainstream. Atari brought video gaming into the mainstream by placing a console under the tv sets in the living room in the 1970s. The advent of the home computer in the '80s sent it into the bedroom , and became much more niche and less mainstream. It was only with the advent of the Playstation that video games once again moved into the living room and became mainstream.

The same could be said to some extent with fantasy when Game of Thrones was watched by a good percentage of people, with articles in magazines, newspapers etc. I don't think that science fiction has ever really made that step, and (on television at least) there have been very few science fiction programmes aimed at an adult audience outside of the early 70s.

Nintendo?

Quantum Leap? Stargate? TNG? X-Files? V?

 

[hitmouse]

As an athiest with good friends practising a variety of faiths , I have never come across any issues. Perhaps that is because my friends are the sort of people who like to sit down over food and beer/tea and talk about anything, especially culture.
We should be careful about generalisation. Silliness is a universal characteristic.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Nintendo?

Quantum Leap? Stargate? TNG? X-Files? V?

To be fair Nintendo consoles at the time were sold more as toys than as home entertainment systems for the whole family to enjoy. Computers and video games were sees as things that you would eventually grow out of, or that's the way it seemed to be in the UK. You could pretty much guarantee that if someone in the household had a computer or console it would be owned and played by the child rather than the parents, and invariably be located in the bedroom rather than the living room.

It was only with the advent of the Playstation that the console found its way back into the living room. Partly because those children who had grown up with them never did 'grow out' of them, and now had their own homes. It was also partly to do with Sony's highly successful advertising campaign, taking consoles to nightclubs and getting them on tv that made them 'cool' and more socially acceptable.

I agree that there were some sci-fi shows on tv, but most were aimed a kids/families and not intended to be 'serious' science fiction. And even then, the percentage airtime given to science fiction and fantasy shows in comparison with soap operas/sports/cops/news/music was negligible.

 

[mosaix]

As an athiest with good friends practising a variety of faiths , I have never come across any issues. Perhaps that is because my friends are the sort of people who like to sit down over food and beer/tea and talk about anything, especially culture.
We should be careful about generalisation. Silliness is a universal characteristic.

Ditto. The only strong reaction I ever got was when I objected to bishops having a seat in the House of Lords.

 

[Harpo]

Albert Einstein said some similar. " Only two things are infinite , The universe and human stupidity , and I'm not sure about the former".

 

[BAYLOR]

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I was getting dressed for work, , reached under the bead for my shoes , rushed to work and discovered I was wearing two different colored shoes, one brown and on black. Stuff happens.

 

[Harpo]

I was getting dressed for work, , reached under the bead for my shoes , rushed to work and discovered I was wearing two different colored shoes, one brown and on black. Stuff happens.

I do that a lot. A couple of years ago I bought two pairs of deckshoes, one black pair and one blue pair. Months went by before I realised I’d been wearing odd shoes every time, and of course by then I couldn’t swap back to correct, as they’d worn in and worn down a bit. So, two years later and I still wear them that way.
And no, I can’t just get more deckshoes, because the shop I got them is in Inverness, the opposite side of Scotland.

 

[Vince W]

I was getting dressed for work, , reached under the bead for my shoes , rushed to work and discovered I was wearing two different colored shoes, one brown and on black. Stuff happens.

How small are your feet?

 

[BAYLOR]

How small are your feet?

Size 14 wide.

 

[paranoid marvin]

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