Was Aladdin (disney movie) set in the year 10,300 AD?

[The Illusive Man]

Will someone explain to me how and why intelligence has survived on 4chan.

I agree with most of this, but it doesn't debunk the fact that expecting someone to have sex with you just because you do nice things for them is where the fault lies. Expecting a friend to not have the assumption that they're somehow entitled to a deeper relationship - that is not the problem.

This is part of the miscommunication, the intent to be more than friends has to be clearly communicated in the first place. “Relationship creep” is for creeps.

[Osama bin Bambi]

Will someone explain to me how and why intelligence has survived on 4chan.

I agree with most of this, but it doesn't debunk the fact that expecting someone to have sex with you just because you do nice things for them is where the fault lies. Expecting a friend to not have the assumption that they're somehow entitled to a deeper relationship - that is not the problem.

This is part of the miscommunication, the intent to be more than friends has to be clearly communicated in the first place. “Relationship creep” is for creeps.

Still, if one person wants the relationship to become more than a friendship and the other person says no, it's not the refuser who is at fault here if the person who asks gets butthurt about it. That's all I'm saying.

[Sour Grapes]

Why is this in the thread about an animated movie?

[Alehksunos]

Why is this in the thread about an animated movie?

Well, the source post is from 4chan, and you know how much of the populace of the site (much like Reddit) tend to be apologetic pedophiles, rape apologists, generally sexually frustrated men.

And this is funny, since one of the boards is /y/, a board focused on "yaoi" (for the stupid, it involves homosexual men), and much of that site also composes of homophobes (despite the double standard towards "yuri," which is focused on homosexual women and also has its own board there).

And sorry for once more contributing to any discussion that isn't epileptic trees (non Trope-speak: really insane fan theories) of Aladdin (one of my favorite films, also).

[Askold]

a) Not knowing a term about gay porn/romance means you are stupid?

b) The users of 4chan are not a homogenous group. They have a large variety of discussion topics and it is quite natural that the people who discuss those topics also varies. So if the site has users, some of which are homosexuals and/or homophobes and topics that interest people who fit into one of the previously mentioned groups does this mean that the other group should be banned from the site?

c) On the screencap that Illusive man posted: Is this person implying that all men will want to go from friendship to relationship with any/every woman he likes? Because I thought that men also have friendship and relationship as distinctly different things. I mean sure a friendship might evolve into a relationship but this is not mandatory. Not even if the two people get along really well.

d) Getting hurt when you reveal your feelings of love and find out that the other person does not feel the same is not wrong. What you do afterwards can be wrong. And certainly the other person has no obligation to feel the same.

I'm not sure whether Medieval Arabians used BC/AD.

They didn't. 11,990AD/CE is roughly 11,700AH in the Islamic calendar.

Also, whilst 10,1990 is nonsensical, 1,01,990 makes perfect sense in an Indian numbering system.

Biggest problem with the Aladdin theory is, why has Arab culture reverted to a theme park version of the Islamic Golden Age after the apocalypse? The advanced technology has survived but the culture has been flung back millenia; imagine if, for example, JFK and Khrushchev pushed the buttons during the Cuban Missile Crisis, causing us all to go back to living in caves and the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, wearing animal skins, but still having televisions, radio and modern amenities.*

*holy shit, that's basically The Flintstones.

e) Cargo cult? Maybe the society collapsed so completely that the most of cultures were also destroyed. Clinging to religion in a time of disaster is not unheard of so perhaps that is why they still have some islamic influence? And if they lost all of their technology (everything sophisticated was either destroyed or broke down without people/parts to repair them.) and without the infrastructure of factories (building tech), refineries(raw materials, fuel), schools(educating the workers, engineers etc.)  they were unable to return to the level they had before.

The arabic clothes can be explained by the simple fact that those clothes are pretty good for people living in a desert. And they are still able to produce them with the simple tools they have been able to make.

Besides the only pieces of high tech left are like Yago -who is presumed to be a magical creature so obviously they no longer know how he and his ancestors were made- and the flying carpet which was in a cave. It had been in that cave for a long time (possibly as long as the genie?) and I saw no signs of them being able to make more flying carpets.

So much like the tupperware from the intro the few remaining functional technical marvels are treasured and the people no longer remember the stories behind them.

[TheL]

And don't forget this lovely combination hookah and coffee maker!  Also makes julienne fries!  Will not break!  Will not--It broke...