The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Just a heads-up: images hotlinked from TV Tropes tend to be on the wishy-washy side.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Generally, when you hotlink an image from TVT it looks fine to you since it's already in your cache, but everyone else sees just the word "image".

    On an unrelated note: I'm thinking about trains right now. Christmas makes me think of trains, for some reason.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    TRAM-LAW: The Big-Box Retailer From Hell
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Ooh!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    For some reason I was thinking about the whole CA Marketplace design thing again.

    You know, Century Gothic strikes me as more reminiscent of ITC Avant Garde Gothic than Twentieth Century:
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  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Picking a geometric sans?

    I feel weird for being as fond of ITC Avant Garde Gothic as I am, because it seems to attract a lot of hate. I like its construction.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I like it too, though the name "ITC Avant Garde Gothic" is a mouthful so I will just call it "Avant Garde" from here on out and you will understand what I'm referring to.

    ...Should I feel bad about using things like this? Legally speaking, it's all right, but it kinda feels like I'm ripping off the "real" foundries by not buying the fonts from them
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I don't know.
  • edited 2011-12-12 05:04:30
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Of course, if we are looking at it solely from an ethical point of view, I'm probably in the clear anyway since I'm using the free knock-off fonts only for my own "hobbyist" use.  If I were actually intending to design something and make money off it I'd spring for the real thing.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Would Avant Garde and/or a knockoff even look good in a grocery store? The only real concept I've pictures so far seems very much like a generic '90s grocery store, I think.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Might not be that legible unless used very large, I don't think.

    And don't match it with earth-tones, the aesthetic that calls for that doesn't really spring for geometric sans-serifs.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I was going to try to avoid earth tones, if only because I don't like that aesthetic very much.
  • edited 2011-12-12 05:30:59
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I associate it with stores trying to seem upscale. The only chain that can pull it off, to me, is Safeway, maybe because they tie it in with their corporate brand by slathering Frutiger on their stores' signage and such.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Me too.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    pm with me
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    OK.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Michael Jacobs Productions's logo is vaguely unsettling to me. Perhaps it's the combination of the serene music and "strict disciplinarian" Garalde typeface used for "Michael Jacobs":


  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    That always struck me as an odd choice of music for that logo.
  • edited 2011-12-12 06:01:49
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Why is that?

    ...do you ever wonder what it would be like if Touchstone Television's logo of the era used the movie logo's music, instead of its own jingle? For some reason said jingle always felt "right" to me. (Enough so that I considered reviving it if ABC Studios ever got its name changed.)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    OK SO IN THIS EPISODE OF DOCTUR WHO DOCTUR WHO GOES THROUGH TIME TO THE TIME OF THE AIR LOOM GANG'S DOMINANCE OVER 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN OR WHENEVER AND DOCTUR WHO BREAKS EVERYTHING WITH HIS SONIC SCREWDRIVER AND ROSE TYLER FALLS IN A HOLE AND SHOUTS DOCTUR WHO SAVE ME AND HE SAYS I AM DOCTUR WHO I WILL SAVE YOU WITH MY TARDIS AND SO HE TARDISES INTO THE HOLE AND SAVES ROSE TYLER AND ALL THE ORPHANS AND BLOWS UP THE AIR LOOM.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    omg that was da best episode

    we should watch it 50 times more
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    The media business. So boring as fuck right now and also goddammit I want to eat more of those fucking donuts.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    We both know we should be in bed right now and yet neither of us want to go to bed.

    We're such teenagers.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    And Lionsgate has come back to my mind.

    Stupid Hit Entertainment, are they another mindvirus? Oh god, they're all collaborating!

    Sony owns SPE outright and once owned a stake in MGM, which was the target of an attempted buyout by Lionsgate, who has been in merger talks with Summit at least twice and also distributes Hit Entertainment videos in the US.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Somehow I read "Stupid Hit Entertainment" as if it was the name of the company.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    And you know what Hit owns the rights to? Thomas the Tank Engine!

    I don't know what that has to do with anything, except TRAINS WITH FACES. Do you trust them not to run into your house and take all your possessions like the goddamn unsubtle Mafia they are?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    And now my mind has leaped to George Carlin.

    What about him, I'm not sure.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    He used to narrate it.

    And shit. Disney is in my mind again. How dull. And so is Wal-Mart.

    DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK EVERYWHERE YOU GO? WE ARE DALEKS AND WE MUST EXTERMINATE THESE CORPORATIONS IN THE NAME OF OUR EMPEROR! EXTERMINATE!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh no, he's possessed by corporatations

    *performs a Socialist Exorcism*
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Oh so you're a Socialist now huh?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Of course I am. That's why I have this:

    *holds up Official Socialist Panties™®©♠*
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ♠?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh ignore that, we just add the ♠ for the holiday season

    'Cause you know, advertising dollars are important, man!
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yes, yes they are.

    /ABC Cable Netw-

    I'M NOT DONE YET

    LET'S BUY VH1 AND SYFY, PERHAPS SYFY WILL TASTE GOOD WITH A BIT OF SYRUP ON IT.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm laughing like an idiot now
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ABC CABLE NETWORKS REIGNS LIKE MOTHERFUCKING SALT ON BREAD.

    OH HELL YEAH!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    WHO PUTS SALT ON BREAD

    YOU MUST BE SOME KINDA BREADOPHILE
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    YEAH, WELL YOLANDA HARRIS!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    YOU KEEP HER OUT OF THIS YOU MEANIE
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    BUT SOON HER EMPLOYER BECOMES THE PROPERTY OF ABC STATIONS GROUP

    AND THEY'RE BETTER THAN SINCLAIR!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    my mind has leaped to sinclair road near I-71
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    But what about the CYBERMEN?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    they don't live there
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Let's hold another MGM PARTY.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Sounds expensv.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Fuck I crave pasta.

    Plain pasta, too. And now the smell of Burger King. That made the place like some kind of special treat.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    The good news is that you're 17 and that is plenty old enough to boil yourself some pasta.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    But Mother is happening, and she'd take issue with loopy me boiling pasta.

    And now:


  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Now I'm imagining you standing in the kitchen boiling pasta while you hum jingles and look all spaced-out and then your mother walks in and tells you to put that shit away and get to bed
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