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antigeekess wrote: "...that's a reflection of Western dualism and don't EVEN get me started on that." Baby, you can get started on that anytime you like, and I'll follow your thread anywhere it goes. Goggles, neck brace, and anti-bad-acting spray for viewing Gran Torino. Check. I was once asked by an acquaintance with MPD to write her biography, but then she kept changing her mind. True! Josh wrote: "Dick Shawn. Forget him! Seek out Wallace Shawn..." Huh? Can't I enjoy TWO Shawns for the price of one? Is loving two Shawns so wrong? Now Josh, (spectacles lower on nose), did your mother ok stepping out with that pathetic, sloganlike statement? You're going to need a hall pass on that one, mister.— May 1, 2009 12:21 a.m.
Electric Cigarettes, Cyrus, Homeless, Chinese...Something offensive for everyone!
Hey, mike1, back atcha. Your testimony during "veg-gate" was among the highlights for me, and good points on the butt-tossing. Btw, all, speaking of "step on it," what is it with us and this image of idling at a light? I don't even drive, and I used it too :) So I will say that since I've separated myself as a smoker from the butt-tossing herd, there is another kind of tossing activity out there that is swiftly becoming as much a menace, if not more--plastic water bottles! They were all over the place at Earth Day in Balboa Park, not to mention big plastic gulpers with cute animal cartoons on them. How Earth Day-y. One can purchase a beautiful, tough nalgene water bottle at any sports store for $10 or under. Mine has a nice ring built into the top, for easy carrying. They come in neon colors. Mine's green. Throw 'em in the dishwasher and fill up on the beverage of your choice...— April 30, 2009 4:10 p.m.
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antigeekesss, on the imdb link you provide for "Identity," they are saying it is a rip-off of Kaufman's Adaptation. Whaddya think?— April 30, 2009 12:43 p.m.
Nuggets from March and April
What a lovely way to take the evening out, shizzyfin, though my cat's ears perked in slumber at the parrot. A chin nap in the window...priceless. Yawn, time to follow suit. Little gems. Keep 'em coming!— April 30, 2009 12:41 a.m.
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Your Friends and Neighbors is the one with Ben Stiller. I still recommend Happiness, but not in the same evening.— April 29, 2009 4:32 p.m.
Reader writers' favorite drinks and where they drink them
Barbarella: "Oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine; The second love was water, in a clear white cup; The third love was his, and the fourth was mine; And after that, I always get them all mixed up."— April 29, 2009 4:09 p.m.
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Ok, magics, just don't get mad at me. You are a romance film buff, and YFAN is like watching "romance" get massacred...— April 29, 2009 3:41 p.m.
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Hey ovod, nice to see you! What about Josh's mention of a film with Hulk Hogan as "Thunder Lips?"— April 29, 2009 3:38 p.m.
From Preps to Pros
cont... Back to rickeysays, who says: “This is an example of one of the universally accepted truths of our society that is crap, along with any other attempt to explain away differences in achievement as environmental. […] NOTHING IS ENVIRONMENT - EVERYTHING IS BIOLOGY.” Apparently they are not universally accepted. The mind boggles further: “Differences of outcome do not prove differences of opportunity. They do not prove bias. They prove - tah dah- that everyone is different.” […] So, why again are we concluding that “difference” equals biological difference? Sorry rickeysays, your argument is lacking basic logic. …So kids born without ADHD are better students than those born with it, but those born with it do better if medicated to lessen it's effects in the classroom. IT'S BIOLOGY.” So let me get this straight, rickeysays. You are using the premise that medication ameliorates a medical condition to prove that “all” is biology, and physical and social environment has nothing to do with anything? Sigh. I really don’t know what to say to any of that, except that I’m pretty sure my ancestors have been developing behaviorally and culturally for millennia (or at least a couple thousand years, depending on your belief system), along with opposable thumbs and an inefficient number of vertebrae. I have a theory about homophobia and the firm refusal to accept that one is seduced unawares by media and cultural influence. It would help my thinking if you answered: Do you also think homosexuality is some form of biological aberration?— April 29, 2009 3:15 p.m.
From Preps to Pros
cont... What I would also like to see taught in that liberal general prescription I mentioned (and by “liberal,” Josh, I mean “generous”), is a keener, more critical sense of one’s own thoughts and emotions, and how they are guided by socially proscriptive cultural bias. It exists, folks! Get over it! You are opening the vents and letting off repressed steam everytime you tell a joke about someone of color. No one is immune from racism, and we need to be grownups about our knee jerk reactions, and social influence acting on us unawares. You find yourself buying that particular brand of shampoo or cereal; why do you find it so hard to believe that 100 plus years of racism coded into our culture isn’t speaking through you as well? Lall wrote “…just like "knowledge" isn't the same as "aptitude." Nice way to summarize it: Knowledge isn’t the same as aptitude, which brings us to rickeysays and (de horruh! of) nature v nurture. BTW, Josh wrote: “Is it really necessary to spend so much money to continue coming up with tests, that make everyone feel warm and fuzzy because everyone scores the same on them?” I thought the whole idea was to use tests to figure out aptitude, not to create culturally biased tests that handicap some kids over others, or magic grail tests that everyone scores alike on. Josh! If we could come up with those magic grail tests, we’d have solved the biblical problem of Babel, and Ovod would immediately get all of our idioms!— April 29, 2009 3:14 p.m.