William Shakespeare, Quentin Tarantino or Lena Dunham

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When will you post another poll? In next minute or two?

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Shakespeare's works have been remembered centuries after his death, and not just a few of them. BRTD insists that he's boring, but considering he was successful in a day when if you made a boring play the audience would actually throw rotten vegetables at the stage he doesn't have much of a case. As for funny, the tragedies and dramas are of course not going to be funny, but he did a number of comedies as well. I remember seeing The Taming of the Shrew in middle school and it was hilarious. I honestly doubt BRTD has even seen more than a couple of Shakespeare's works, so I don't know why he thinks he's in a position to judge.

Tarantino makes good stuff, but aside from a few key works I doubt most of it will be remembered in the long term.

I hadn't heard of Dunham before now and haven't seen anything she's done, so I can't comment on her. I doubt she'll be remembered at all.

Dibble sums it very well. I'd like to add Shakespeare lasting influence on English, something almost nobody can compete with.

Also, we're talking about a man who lived and worked five centuries ago. You can't discuss him in context with modern art. If he were alive now, it's possible his methods would be diffrent, reflecting the current time. Same with Quentin, he couldn't make Pulp Fiction in Tudor England.

It's just as dumb as comparing political positions of Barack Obama and Charlemange.

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I see what you did here :/

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Like I said, I don't know, it could've either been pruned or I deleted it awhile ago for whatever reason, in the past browsing archives I have thought "wow that was kind of dumb" and deleted a thread. Google's caches stay around for a long time (hence the warning sometimes given that if you post something here you can't just expect to delete it later and have it be gone forever.) If you're implying I deleted it and then made the new one it would've been less work just to bump the old one you know (and you all know I'm certainly not prone against bumping old threads.)

Well we know it wasn't auto-pruned.  That doesn't happen to 2-year-old threads.

So your story is that at some point, you thought "Wow, that's a dumb poll", and deleted it, only to later repost a poll that was basically the same thing?  You're beginning to sound like Bushie... that just doesn't add up, unless you're bipolar when it comes to your views of your own polls.

Actually being "bipolar" on polls might be a good description, since my views can change on them based on a lot of things, including alcohol consumed before making them. I'm sure this isn't the first time I deleted a poll in the archive and made a similar one later.

What's also quite likely is that I wasn't bothered by the poll itself but rather something incredibly offensive that I said later in it (considering the things I said about Irish at the time you're stating it wouldn't be surprising). I know I deleted a lot of stuff with such stuff in it around late 2011/early 2012, my whole finding Jesus time. Around that era wasn't it common that I accused Irish-Americans of being Gaddafi sympathizers? That might've been it actually.

And you are not hostile to Irish Americans now?!

If there is one achievement I could give you, Zachary, it's your ability to make me understand how black people feel when idiot white racists spout off Ku Klux Klan talking points.

You can own him all you want, dude, but he will never understand. More likely, he'll accuse you of loving the IRA.

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Like I said, I don't know, it could've either been pruned or I deleted it awhile ago for whatever reason, in the past browsing archives I have thought "wow that was kind of dumb" and deleted a thread. Google's caches stay around for a long time (hence the warning sometimes given that if you post something here you can't just expect to delete it later and have it be gone forever.) If you're implying I deleted it and then made the new one it would've been less work just to bump the old one you know (and you all know I'm certainly not prone against bumping old threads.)

Well we know it wasn't auto-pruned.  That doesn't happen to 2-year-old threads.

So your story is that at some point, you thought "Wow, that's a dumb poll", and deleted it, only to later repost a poll that was basically the same thing?  You're beginning to sound like Bushie... that just doesn't add up, unless you're bipolar when it comes to your views of your own polls.

Actually being "bipolar" on polls might be a good description, since my views can change on them based on a lot of things, including alcohol consumed before making them. I'm sure this isn't the first time I deleted a poll in the archive and made a similar one later.

What's also quite likely is that I wasn't bothered by the poll itself but rather something incredibly offensive that I said later in it (considering the things I said about Irish at the time you're stating it wouldn't be surprising). I know I deleted a lot of stuff with such stuff in it around late 2011/early 2012, my whole finding Jesus time. Around that era wasn't it common that I accused Irish-Americans of being Gaddafi sympathizers? That might've been it actually.

And you are not hostile to Irish Americans now?!

If there is one achievement I could give you, Zachary, it's your ability to make me understand how black people feel when idiot white racists spout off Ku Klux Klan talking points.

You can own him all you want, dude, but he will never understand. More likely, he'll accuse you of loving the IRA.

As I stated in another thread, one of my best friends in real life, who I go to shows with all the time, is Irish. Do you think I have ever accused him of loving the IRA?

Also Mecha is from a Protestant family anyway so it would make even less sense for him to love the IRA than it would for me (his family would be Unionists in Northern Ireland.)

I was more refeering to your general way of thinking. Of course, you took everything literally.

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I certainly enjoy Tarantino's work, but still there's very little to none sense of comparing a contemporary movie script with a 16th century play.

If you want to throw "better, worse" judgement regarding Shakespeare, comparing him to other 16th century playwrights would be perfectly legitimate. Utterly diffrent times, utterly diffrent everything.