Gotta agree that Zapp'd sooner run than fight. Fry getting in one good punch would make my day, though. Zapp is the character every woman dreads being stuck at the bus stop with. Can't ya just picture it? It's night, one flickering street lamp, and some poor girl is standing there next to the jerk of the century. He's why you keep your pepper spray handy.

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
I don't have cake. I have a jar of vegemite and some bits of half-stale bread. Sum total of my kitchen's contents, but help yourselves.

Speaking of vegemite, did you hear that America has banned vegemite in the whole country? How rediculous is that!? Because it has folate in it or something and the only foods in the US that are allowed folate are like breads and that!

Like, what the hell? Folate is good for you!

Functions of folate are:
-Necessary for growth
-Necessary for red blood cell formation
-Amino Acid metabolism
-Antibody formation
-Formation of nucleic acids

Why would you ban something with folate?

Well, their loss, not ours. Vegemite is awesome!   

Haha, what a pack of knobs. God I hate America.

no.
they're a bunch of pyros that start wars and explode stuff in third world countries
like the bully at school that could only pick on the little kid

except maybe the old people, and maybe the children with rich parents

Since the nation of America is comprised of numerous different races me saying that I hate America cannot be considered racist. Especially since my own race comprises the majority of America.
There is no race issue here.

Second BU99, though I would have said "ignorant imperialist warmongering cowboys".

Aww, I should stop. This thread's supposed to be about love.

No, those are just prejudices. Racism is about race. Hence the name. And I'm no racist. I find racism offensive in the extreme.
I'm anti-American, though largely due to the government and Military/Industrial Complex. There are many American individuals whom I admire.

But you can't call anti-Americanism 'racism'. That is a fallacy and paints certain global concerns with a brush of fascism that they really shouldn't be painted with. Like I said, America is made up of innumerable different races, none of whom an anti-American person would necessarily have any specific problem with. A nation is not a race, it is a faceless organizational structure.

The only time Leela ever appeared to get jealous of someone being with Fry was when he had his fake relationship with Amy in AFtR. But what if he had a fling after the events in season 4 and TDHaIP? Would she feel jealous, thus implying a feeling of ownership of him?

Ah, I see, jealousy manifesting as protectiveness. Though that jealousy was never clearly apparent except in AFtR. An later in PYHomS when we went out with Amy, Leela seemed completely indifferent, and then when he decided to call it off she appeared slightly irritated that he was bothering her with the details. Was this indifference forced?

That's... what I said. It's the only episode we see her jealous.
In Put Your Head on my Shoulder she didn't seem to care.


Unrelated picture:

I'll have to re-watch. I thought she seemed completely disinterested.

Although it was her suggestion he get it in the first place, fickle woman she is.

And covered up that jealousy by pretending it was concern for his mental well-being. Who is she trying to kid, huh? Fry? Herself? Us? Well she's fooling NOBODY! We all know the truth - she wanted the Lucy Lui Bot for HERSELF!!
The truth is - LEELA IS A LESBIAN!
...or she's hot for Fry, I dunno. I have a history of missing the point with things like this.

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
The truth is - LEELA IS A LESBIAN!

All women are lesbians to you.
If you were Fry in Put Your Head on my Shoulder, I can imagine your reaction to be quite different to Fry's when Amy said "with my body, I think you might attract only one sort of woman."

But anyway, back to the Fry/Leela world...
Do you think if that nebula didn't get sucked into the black hole, Leela might look at it sometimes to be reminded of that time when they almost...

Well, if physics were taken into consideration Leela would probably still be able to see the nebula if she looked into a telescope from Earth considering that light from the distant region of space would take centuries to reach the Earth. It's... what do they call that... Relativistic. The light is still travelling. Say that nebula was 100 light years from Earth (not a great distance really) then it would only appear to disappear from our skies a hundred years from the time it got spaghettified in the black hole (spaghettification is a REAL scientific term - look it up!  ).
Incidentally the same could be said of Fry's love letter in the sky - all he'd need to do is get a specific distance away from the point where it used to be and make Leela look into a telescope and BAM, there it'll be.

Great, now you made me be a nerd.

I thought you already were a nerd....

Great, so it's kind of like the undo feature in computer programs (that's on everything except the things you need it to be).
Just take a few steps back and -SPADOINK- a precious memory undestoyenated.

"Spadoink", "a" and "undestroyenated" are registered trademarks of Mazcorp.

I lost track of this discussion right at the point where you said Leela was a lesbian.

Stop with cattle-prods, quiet about the cattle-prods, you're obssesed with the cattle-prods!

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Well, if physics were taken into consideration Leela would probably still be able to see the nebula if she looked into a telescope from Earth considering that light from the distant region of space would take centuries to reach the Earth. It's... what do they call that... Relativistic. The light is still travelling. Say that nebula was 100 light years from Earth (not a great distance really) then it would only appear to disappear from our skies a hundred years from the time it got spaghettified in the black hole (spaghettification is a REAL scientific term - look it up!   ).
Incidentally the same could be said of Fry's love letter in the sky - all he'd need to do is get a specific distance away from the point where it used to be and make Leela look into a telescope and BAM, there it'll be.

Great, now you made me be a nerd.

Actually that wouldn't work.  It's explained in A Clone of My Own and a couple of the commentaries that since travelling beyond the speed of light is impossible scientists merely increased the speed of light in the year 2208.  So since the Planet Express can't travel beyond the speed of light they never would have been able to return to earth and view these sights.

So, the almighty Xanfor decided to show up again. Yay! I'm glad you decided to rip off wikipedia.... 

Hmmmmmmmm....

Fact of the matter is that in a number of Quantum tunnelling experiments conducted a few years ago the speed of light WAS broken. By 1.7 times, in fact. A partical stream fired through a block of concrete 'borrowed' energy from the surrounding matter in order to 'tunnel' through it, and it broke the speed of light.

Hmm. I never really took Farnsworth seriously when he said they'd increased the speed of light, unless it referred to the area directly surrounding the spacecraft. How do you increase a Universal Constant universally?
You can't. The very fabric of reality would be altered with unpredictible results. If light speed was increased then the visible spectrum's relative wave frequency would be increased also, turning normal sunlight into deadly gamma radiation. In fact, the visible spectrum would probably no longer exist under normal circumstances so you wouldn't be able to see anything, and stepping outside into the sun'light' would result in fatal radiation poisoning.
Obviously this is not the case in the Futurama Universe, so I'm led to believe the alteration of lightspeed is actually localized around the FTL vessels; a relativistic bubble that surrounds them, or even just their engine mechanism, meaning that they aren't breaking the SoL inside the bubble, but outside of it they are actually travelling many times the Sol.

Make sense? I know it seems silly to be applying hard science to a satirical cartoon, but this is what I do with my life.