530 - Politics, Particulates, And Phones That Make Us See Red

[9:06 AM] 

Sounds like congratulations are in order to congress on the historic Disaster Bill they got through last night.

Sorry.  Typo.  "Budget" bill.

[9:06 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I didn't notice

I find US politics kinda uninteresting compared to the rest of the world

[9:08 AM] 

They got funding for a whole year taken care of and it'll only add 1.3 trillion extra dollars

The fiscal-responsibility balanced-budget austerity party really went above and beyond on this one.

[9:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I saw that Rand Paul was decrying budget imbalance and the hypocrisy of Republicans even though he voted for the bill and the cut

[9:12 AM] 

As i was walking away, Rand Paul was saying something that was coming off like "WTF is wrong with you idiots?  If this happened when Obama..." but I was too far away to hear more.

[9:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The GOP is no longer fiscally conservative

I mean i guess they're more fiscally conservative than the Dems but

They're not really in favor of smaller government or "states rights" either

any more

[9:18 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

So i have not followed any of that stuff

All i know is there was big tax cuts to business

Did they make their paychecks bigger again too?

[9:36 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Probably

The issue is their budget doesn't balance the budget

Even though the GOP always harp on balancing the budget when the Dems are in charge and claim they're the party of "fiscal responsibility"

[9:46 AM] 

Which is a joke since they wreck the economy every time they are in charge of the government.

At least since I started understanding the process back with Reagan

The rich sure seem to have a lot more money and the non-rich a lot less by the time the non-rich kick the Republicans out though

[9:48 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The biggest issue is not who is in the president's chair

You can put an idiot there if you control the rest

[9:48 AM] 

Not really – he has to sign or refuse any budget he's given

And he is supposed to be getting everyone working together and recommend agendas.

So you have...say...a Democrat president – "Let's take care of people, fix things, get the money back in circulation and working, and try to get along with everybody" 

Or a Republican president – "Tax cut!  War!  Defense defense defense!  Deregulate!  Screw the social support systems...they don't work despite overwhelming evidence!  Reduce government except us! Jesus waves the flag! OIL!  COAL!"

Sometimes all that's in the way is a quality -- or a trash -- president

Pretty sick, really

[9:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Republicans haven't been about small government lately either

Or 'liberty', since they don't like states deciding gay marriage or marijuana legislation

(unless those states are against both)

[9:54 AM] 

I've never seen that they ever were.

[9:55 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Maybe not

[9:55 AM] 

All their stated positions seem to be lies.

Their only true goal is suck money to their interests and collect it.

[9:55 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Eisenhower started some pretty massive federal projects

Arguably socialist ones

[9:55 AM] 

Ike... wasn't these people...

[9:55 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

No

He wasn't really "conservative"

Fiscally at least

[9:56 AM] 

Their public campaigns are just spouting all the ignorant nonsense their base wants to hear and their secret campaigns are voter manipulation. Their only goal is to trick enough fools to outvote what should be the majority opposition so they can keep going.

[9:56 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I dunno what Ike's social policies were. I assume everyone in the 50s was "conservative" by today's standards

[1950s campaign speech] "I believe that the negroid and mongoloid races - while brutish and uncivilized - have every right to live as the valiant caucasoid."

"This guy's way too progressive for me."

[9:56 AM] 

LOL

I think Ike was a general and knew how to win a "war"

Capture territory...move forces...requisition R&D...protect supply lines...mobilize troops...maximize assets...and accomplish objectives.

(Ike playing RISK) "I put all my armies in the Western US."

"But nothing is threatening there.  Why?"

(points at stars)

[10:01 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I recall the interstate system was his idea and it was modeled after the German Autobahn, which allowed the Nazis to move troops quickly across their country as needed.

Moving materiel in large trucks across the US at the time could take weeks or possibly even months depending on conditions

[10:09 AM] 

Nod

Even before WWI, Germany did the same with preparing the rail system.  WAY more efficient than anywhere else for mobilization.

[9:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"gastronomy" is a weird term

It is not a very appetizing word

[9:45 AM] 

Gourmand sounds nicer than it is.

[9:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

yes

[9:46 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The gastronomy influx of particulation saturation is out of dynamic quasi literation.

[9:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Gastronomy sounds like the medical study of the stomach/intestines

[9:46 AM] 

yes

Evil Mr. Brown...making me define what that sentence means

[9:47 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

haha

[9:47 AM] 

...got it...

"The current laboratory-cooking experiments in particalized ingredient infusion by chefs arose from the faddish pondering of non-chefs proposing it could be done."

[9:51 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

haha

[9:51 AM] 

Which...

...is not untrue.

"What flavor is it?"

"Micronized Strawberry."

"So...strawberry." 

"No."

"So you didn't just mix in strawberry?"

"No.  We took strawberry and reduced it to a paste, made a tincture of it, jetted it as a mist into a chamber of near liquid nitrogen and collected the resulting microbeads.  These were introduced to the batter.  So it's more like chocolate chips in a cookie...they melt, but stay in situ."

"Couldn't you just chop up strawberries?"

"..."

"And mix them in?"

"..."

“Wouldn't that be the s-"

"OUT! Get out of my kitchen!"

[9:59 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Essence of strawberry

[9:59 AM] 

"Yes! You GET it. Try one!"

[10:00 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Man, somebody allergic to strawberry could be killed with that in such a way that nobody would know

[10:03 AM] 

I think on review in the hospital (or the autopsy) they'd probably figure it out

[10:03 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

But if it was broken down to molecule level then introduced, they would have to look into it pretty far

[10:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

There's no "strawberry molecule”

[10:05 AM]  

Well there should be

Perhaps it's on the Periodic Table of "And Natural Flavors"

[10:06 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

Strawbarium

[10:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

and down and to the right is avacadonic...deadly poison

[10:07 AM] 

I'm a bluebarium man, more

Avacadonic is safe enough if mixed with other elements like Limeine

[10:09 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Cherryllium

[10:11 AM] 

Cherryllium...I like

[10:12 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Orangenese

[10:13 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/look_around_you.jpg

[10:13 AM] 

Knew that would be coming...hehe

[9:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Jesus Christ

This guy has a hearing aid that requires an app to adjust volume, etc.

[9:20 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

yeesh

Probably one of those tiny ones

[9:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

A Venn diagram of people that need hearing aids and people that can operate apps on smartphones would not overlap

[9:22 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Later down the road it will

[9:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

When WE need them, yeah

[9:22 AM]

Sorry. By then they'll laugh at us and our use of apps.

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

hehe

[9:26 AM] 

Hearing aids for the young and hip...

[9:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The ultimate in hipster fashion

[9:27 AM] 

(last night...dinner with Mom and my sister) "I don't get those cell phones and all the stuff people do on them.  I can't figure out the things.  How do you figure them out?"

(me) "By using them."

(sis, getting close to 60) "We're young and hip and it just happens automatically, mom."

(me) "Oh...yeah, that was it."

(sis) "Why do you even have it, Mom?"

"Well...I take it when I'm driving in case something happens."

(sis) "Well that makes sense."

(me) "Well, it would if you would learn to dial it, anyway."

[9:33 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

HAHA

Sitting in the broken down car

beep beep “shit”

beep beep beep “shit!”

“Well, I guess i'm walking.”

[10:11 AM] 

Client - Dlugopolski 

"Ok, let's try hitting update, Mr. ... Dlugoplogelobobog...ski."

[10:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Ahh… Must be Irish

[10:11 AM] 

LOL

529 - Fools And Their Ideas

[2:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

An absolutely insane time period in history - the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

Just insane stuff

[2:46 PM] 

Fought against savages with a violent religion and too much gold...and THAT was the SPANISH

[2:47 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Heh

Like even just building a bunch of ships while inland to wage a naval battle on the lake

[2:49 PM] 

All the people the Aztecs killed to keep the sun rising...

How many more than that did the Spanish kill for God?

[3:01 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The Aztec's brutality motivated the Spaniards to fight better

Because they knew if they surrendered or were caught they'd have their beating hearts cut out and be cannibalized

[12:45 PM] 

Mr. Brown working for Discovery: Science Channel now?

(Commercial announcer...space graphics) "Could the Sun really hurl Mercury into the Earth?"

(scientist dork) "It would be devastating.  It would end all life on Earth."

(animation of Mercury crashing into Earth)

I turn to Matt

"You realize, of course, that the odds of this are about the same as taking two blind people, putting them 100 yards apart, giving them each a gun, not telling them when or which direction to shoot, and they try to hit each other's bullets in mid air? How about let's talk about something more likely...like a direct hit from a solar flare."

(Matt) "No kidding.  And someone decided to spend money on making a show about it."

[12:51 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

heheh

[12:52 PM] 

That episode probably cost more to make and show than I'll make in my life

[12:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I wish some loaded idiot would just give me a tiny fraction of his money

[9:13 AM] 

[(Photo 1) First modern Briton shown irritated about nickname.] https://phys.org/news/2018-02-dna-modern-briton-dark-skin.html

[(Photo 2) Shown with model makers Adrie and Alfons, poorly suppressing Cheddar Man's grumbling comments in front of the press.]

[9:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

[read this on twitter this AM] Ironically 'Cheddar Man' sounds like a slur you'd call a white guy

[9:30 AM] 

Cheddar Man should start making commercials for the British Cheese Council

There are thousands of good words in Britain to evoke the idea of an ancient Briton...

...

"Cheddar"

[8:13 AM] Mr. Blue

this is old but.. https://nypost.com/2014/05/02/ben-affleck-banned-for-life-from-vegas-casino/

"Sir I'm afraid we can't allow you to win money while gambling.  What do you think this is? A charity?"

“What he was doing isn’t illegal. He’s basically an ‘advantaged player’ because he knows what he’s doing. The Hard Rock has a strict no-tolerance policy for non-suckers."

[8:22]

"He just waltzed in here, la-dee-da, and started winning at games.  It's just rude that he'd learn to play well like that.  I started as a carney, and we could sniff out a guy who practiced and knew the tricks like that! (snaps fingers)"

[8:40 AM]  Mr. Blue

"Gentlemen! You can't gamble in here - this is a casino!"

[8:43 AM]   

"If you want reliable high-paying gambling income, invest in a stock index!  Get out!"

(Spock and Kirk in casino security, looking at flashing readout of blackjack table) "Mr. Affleck knew exactly when to 'Hit'."

[8:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

See, the counting cards thing is always hard

because once your brain starts doing it you can't stop

[8:56 AM] 

Yeah, after all the required training how could you stop?

[8:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

You practice Black Jack every day of your life, you're going to know what's coming

[8:56 AM] 

exactly

unless they make you get drunk before playing or something

[8:57 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

That happens with my father in law playing rummy.

My mother said my grandpa would always know the cards too.

[8:25 AM] 

People that act like heroes for reporting phishing emails to IT are weird

"I knew it was spam. I just thought I should report it to you. Have you ever seen anything like this before?"

[8:30 AM] Mr. Blue

Heh

[8:31 AM]   

"Good Lord!  No, sir!  Why...this changes everything!  I have to call the FBI next -- I'm betting there's a medal in your future."

[8:35 AM]  Mr. Blue

LOL

[2:31 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I could tell as soon as this guy started talking he was a dick

They all talk with a special tone

Like “by the way, I'm very smart”

Then he confirmed it by saying he is an educated person...which says to me he is not.

Then the reason he was brewing a dick also confirms it because it was stupid.

But said its unfair and he is not happy

[2:35 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

sounds like a real snowflake

[2:36 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

yeah

[2:37 PM] 

(reads "brewing a dick")

"That's ... it may be brilliant." 

[2:40 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

"Sir, I'm a complete dumbfuck moron... and i'm probably still smarter than you."

(That'd be me saying that, not you Mr. Brown. lol)

[2:42 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lol

[2:42 PM] 

LOL

[2:44 PM] 

If all y'all weren't smarter than 99.5% of the people that we deal with, we probably wouldn't have been running this chat this long.

[2:58 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

We are all eccentric

[3:02 PM] 

The purview of the intelligent...or the insane.  Gotta burn off the extra IQ on something or you get The Alzheimer's

[3:03 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I sometimes think I'm getting Dementia or Alzheimer's now

But then i remember i have lots of issues that can contribute to brain fog

[3:05 PM] 

"Well the tests are back, and your brain is burning itself for something to keep it from diving right into an oblivion of depression because you are too smart.  Have you ever considered hobbies like...oh...decorating your entire property with garden gnomes, or wearing polka-dots with stripes every day?"

[3:06 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lol

[3:08 PM] 

I'd always assumed the racing random associations and strange comments and stuff in my head were like that for everyone.  

My mistake.

[3:08 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

yeah

I don't always catch what you're saying, and you don't always catch what i'm saying

lol

[3:09 PM] 

It's a kind of magic

[3:09 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

non-stop everything everywhere at one time in one place in my brain

all connected in some fashion.

I throw people off in conversations because they can't figure out how i got to the subject from what they said

Or i just start in the middle of a thought

[3:10 PM] 

I used to be "on" all the time. 

I would formulate and say stuff long before I thought about any consequences or if it made any sense at all. 

[3:13 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yeah i still do that

I say the wrong thing, not cause i'm an asshole but because i'm moving so fast

[3:13 PM] 

"I don't understand" was a common phrase in a lot of my conversations.

I can still get rolling way too hard if I'm interested in what I'm telling someone.  If you've ever seen me just stop...and say something like "OK it's your turn."

I had to self-train that.  :(

[8:17 AM] 

Nuke attack article advice: If the explosion was ground based, you can also protect yourself by getting above the blast—usually higher than the ninth floor of a building. Be sure to stay near the center of the building in a room with substantial walls.

But that's the advice – if you see the flash – how to take shelter before the blast wave comes if you even get a chance.

I think a better way to put it would probably be:

If the explosion was ground based...

And you are already far enough away...

In the center of a building...

In a room with substantial walls...

On the 9th floor or higher...

And the whole building doesn't collapse or burn with you in it...

...

You got lucky.

(Just sayin'.)

[8:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I picture a Loony Tunes-esque scenario where the bottom 7 floors are obliterated and the building falls perfectly down and the 8th floor becomes the 1st floor.

Depending on where the blast is, you might want to just jump right out in front of it to end your suffering.

"Surviving" a nuclear blast isn't always preferable

[8:25 AM] 

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a15895621/what-do-to-nuclear-attack/

It was a fairly positive article past the "If you are standing here, goodbye" parts.

[12:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

“In the opening minutes of the film, Bourne has his nightmare in Goa and goes to the bathroom. We hear the fluorescent lamp ballast (choke) buzzing at 60Hz, however if Bourne is in Goa, India like the film says then it should be buzzing at 50Hz.”

Find who posted that to the Bourne Supremacy IMDB goofs page and have them publicly executed

[1:00 PM] 

Yup

Hehe!

I picture a 45YO savant tub of lard sitting in the dark of his parents' basement listening to Foley in films and ID-ing the effects.

[1:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

And bothering to know the specific Hz of Goa as opposed to Sikkim or Punjab

[1:03 PM] 

"Well THAT was obviously not a 100 watt GE Soft White popping.  That was a '74 Kodak Instamatic Flashbar...charge #3. Just who are these people trying to fool?

[1:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

They did a joke like that on the Simpsons (of course)

At a Q&A for Itchy and Scratchy – some nerdy guy:  "In season 4 episode 35, when Itchy is playing Scratchy's rib cage like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession and yet two separate notes can be easily identified.  Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder."

[1:15 PM] 

LOL

528 - Big Dumb Stoneheads

[8:10 AM] 

"Forget it, Jake.  It's Gabetown."  http://www.3quarksdaily.com/.a/6a00d8341c562c53ef01b7c7c9fd7c970b-350wi

[8:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Gabetown?

[8:14 AM] 

Gabe went off on a tear about "douchebag" as an insult

"It's stupid!  No such thing.  Comes from German!  Supposed to be 'dummkopf' and people are too stupid to say it right!"

(Trey and I looking at each other...completely baffled)

There was an effort to explain politely that he's a complete moron...but he maintained his position that “douche” isn't even a German word and “there's no such thing as”...etc etc...etc..etc etc etc...

So...we dropped it.

[8:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Must be infuriating/frustrating to be inside that head of his

[8:18 AM] 

Well there's plenty of room

[1:43 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

if my mom sees something itneresting at Aldi's she'll pick it up for me. she found some, like, stove-top meatpie thing in a tin from the UK

On the back it says "ENJOY OUR MEATY PUDS!"

[1:43 PM] 

Heh

Which Aldi?  I'm usually drawn by oddities

Was there Tues

[1:45 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

i think she goes to the one up the hill

[1:45 PM] 

(Accepts quest)

Didja eat it?

[1:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Not yet

This is it https://www.google.com/search?q=fray+bentos+pies&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS754US754&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihwdCcsIXZAhWlwVkKHW8-AjsQ_AUICygC&biw=1288&bih=603#imgrc=its0nY2v8ezDBM:

[2:07 PM] 

Mmmm...can of pie

[1:33 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

This guy's pitching his book to me:

"I found mathematical proof that Adam and Eve married into the human race"

???

http://garytmayer.blogspot.com/ is his website he says

[1:37 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Looks like he has all the answers on the Bible stuff

lol

Trying to explain science and the Bible

[1:39 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah... Nobody's tried that before... I'm sure he's breaking new ground somehow

[1:39 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lol

God created mankind at two different times in two different ways

[1:39 PM] 

And they all sucked, so He had Lilith start killing our kids but it was too late

[1:39 PM]  Mr. Brown.:

Almost anybody that reads the Bible looks at the 6 days and says yeah those are “God Days”

[1:41 PM] 

Such intense effort to prove stolen Sumerian mythology

[1:42 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I don't even care that much

Like fine... The Bible creation story is real. You win.

[1:43 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

There are a lot of priests now that don't teach it so literally

Because they learned science

[1:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Because nobody believes the literal interpretation anymore.

Religion is like a business and you need customers. You can't sell something that people won't buy

[1:46 PM] 

Technically I was raised on the stuff...but...time goes on I've watched the whole institution collapsing.

It has before in some ways.

Problem for religion is, after each wave and recovery "the sheep" are smarter.

Less reliant on shepherds

They can do things like read for themselves

It's hard to make many believe the hyperbole

Many have become well aware of the principle that something can be impossible, but it can't be improbable.

They are wise enough to take personal offense at the behavior and rules of "heroes" who were far less educated than they are

[1:50 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Oh man, he put it on graphs

There is lots of real stuff in the Bible

They have started connecting real history to it

Like Goliath

Just a big guy about 6'2”

A giant then.

[1:53 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

So kinda tall

If David and Goliath was really just a kid vs. a tall guy, what's even the point of putting it in there?

[1:54 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

He was the best warrior, so David defeated their best and stopped a war

[1:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Neat story. Not really 2,800 years old neat.

[1:55 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

It was best against best to decide a battle instead of everybody dying

Nobody would fight him, but David said he would

[1:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's like Rocky 4 basically

[1:56 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Steps up, clocks him with a rock

So smart small guy against large great fighter

[1:57 PM] 

David vs Goliath was a super easy win, it turns out

[1:57 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yep

lol

[1:58 PM] 

No. Like I mean it's not even close to a miracle. Goliath had no chance.

Recent testing rates the impact of a quality sling bullet at about the stopping power of a .44 Magnum. Excellent – maybe better – effective range for the sling too.

"Tell us the lesson of Goliath versus David, dad!"

"You mean 'Never bring a sword to a sling fight’?"

[2:00 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Ancient Saturday Night Special

He was staring down the barrel of a lamb sack sling

I takes a bit to get good with one of those

I have tried it before

[2:00 PM]

Nod. I used to make them.

[2:03 PM] 

So...Zardoz

[2:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes

[2:04 PM] 

Apart from me having the perfect head for a Halloween costume practically no one will get – I've even practiced the grimace when I noticed – What was all that Holy Mountain vs Zardoz stuff?

Prodding.

[2:05 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Cuz i watched both

The worst part of Zardoz is the weird beginning where Zardoz explains everything.

It seems too much like Criswell at the beginning of Plan 9 From Outer Space

[2:06 PM] 

Arthur's floating head?

[2:06 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

That seemed like a moment where the studio was like "this thing's way too confusing... add some exposition at the beginning"

[2:06 PM] 

It is confusing.  Like on multiple levels, I mean.

You can watch it once and "get it"

But if you watch it a few times, it develops

I don't know if that was something intentional or just luck

Arthur's floating head, for instance

It's also Zardoz's floating head

Here is the mind – making it's confession and doubting it's own reality.

Here is the brutal god it rules the world with

Together, they are the inscrutable "God works in mysterious ways"

The real head doesn't believe.

The stone head is hard and real...and a complete fake.

What a mess

The live head is the active hand of the conspiracy to destroy Homo Eternal.

How? 

By preaching human annihilation as the ideal of Brutals...at the same time as running a eugenics program to create supermen. 

Improve humanity so they'll all die

Friend said it...

(woman) "What the Hell has Arthur been up to out there all these years?" 

(Friend) "Stop complaining, he's the only one who wanted to do it.  LOOK at this!  The man's an ARTIST!"

And

He got caught as a conspirator and aged to nigh senility

[2:18 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I understood the floating head

It just seemed cheap and out of place

[2:19 PM] 

(touches nose...points to Mr. Blue and giant floating head)

That entire meditation scene made NO sense until later when you found out Friend was one of the people trying to destroy the Tabernacle

They're at dinner and someone says 'Let's share our thoughts' and Friend is like 'F!  I'm screwed!'

...meanwhile every one of us “brutals” in the audience is looking at the screen saying "What the Hell is going on???"

Lol

I never looked up how badly it bombed, but i can't imagine it doing well

There is one part I wonder about and that wasn't really covered - What happened to the other Vortexes?

I assume they all failed together

But where were they and why?

[2:29 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I didn't know there were others

It had mixed reviews and made almost no money – now has a cult following

I'm not sure why they were mad about the possibility that Zed killed Arthur.

He didn't know any better and Arthur would regenerate anyway

It also made no sense why the Brutals were using 200 year old weaponry

Almost 300

But it's a good movie

More coherent than The Holy Mountain

Charlotte Rampling was such a babe at that time

[2:42 PM] 

Oh, yes.  Rampling was a 12

[2:43 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Boorman was originally trying to make LOTR but the studio said they didn't have the budget

So that led him to do another fantasy-world in Zardoz

The voice-operated search engine rings were cool, especially with the technology we have nowadays

[2:46 PM] 

Yes

Loved those.  have used them in gaming

[2:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

In fact...Imagine that for an idea

Like an Alexa or Echo Dot but it's a ring

[2:46 PM] 

Gotta add the "not permitted" responses

[2:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Market it as Zardoz or Vortex

It can talk and also project onto any flat surface

[3:23 PM]

Or Tabernacle

Back to other Vortexes. 

Zed ended up in Vortex 4

His first encounter with the ring was the "Haz" and "Nedz" supplies lists for other Vortexes.

So (not exact quotes) "Vortex 6 haz appelz, nedz weet.  Vortex 2 haz weet, nedz wool."

And it was displaying the text list wherever he pointed out the ring

Sounds silly but I'm an anthy and was interested in the spelling oddities

Did they just simplify English as part of the society, or was this far enough in earth's future that it was like that when they retreated?

[3:39 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Oh yeah, I remember that now

I think it'd just be the evolution of English in 200 years to when society collapsed

[3:41 PM] 

That's reasonable.

We've already been through several waves of natural and intentional adjustment, after all.