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Arwon Bazu                  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Technophobe would probably be a more accurate term. Or maybe neophobe... fear of new things. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Does someone else wanna explain what "Sunni" actually means, or should I? | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Music's pretty mediocre, a couple of decent songs I guess. I saw them at Big Day Out and they were awful. Plodding, tepid, mewling, weak, boring. Especially after Iggy Pop destroyed all immediately before them. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Well they couldn't even get any energy happening with 7 nation army. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I'm gonna go ahead and point out that I've watched the non-Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version of Manos: The Hands Of Fate and that I therefore win this thread. | |||
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by Ran-chanOriginally posted by [GGS Cruel Justice You two are kidding, right? The movies where Jim Carrey actually ACTS (Truman Show, Man on the Moon, Eternal Sunshine) are far far FAR better than when he's just being the same rubber-faced fartsmith he is in all the other movies. You can only watch him pull stupid faces and act wacky so many times before it gets old. Since the fuck when does "depressing" mean "bad"? Was Schindler's List bad? [Insert what Ziff said about movies not having to be amusing here, but add some richly deserved swearing and condescension.] And by "depressing" you mean "it actually makes you think and hurts my widdle head" right? The movie was clever and it was prescient to boot... it probably wasn't specifically targetted at reality television but at the media in general, but given the way reality television has experienced cancer-like growth since it came out, it's aged quite well as a commentary on that. Actually, come to think of it, how the hell was it "depressing" at all? Wow. Just... no. He escapes, the moment when he leaves is a bloody beautiful and even inspiring scene, the movie full of faith in the human ability to reason and find truth. All that crap. He escapes his cage and goes out to face the big scary world the rest of us have to deal with, and probably ened up finding his girl. It'd have been a depressing commentary on human self-deception if he decided to stay and live a coddled lie, but as it was, it's downright positive really. It is not a depressing film. If you went in there expecting something like the Mask or Dumb and Dumber, well that's your own bloody fault, not his. (edited by Arwon on 01-30-06 03:45 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| This is too broad a topic.
It's like saying "what's your opinion on corporations?" or "what's your opinion on political parties?" Some are good, some are bad, some are shiftless and corrupt, some do a great job, etc etc. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| That's pretty absurd. | |||
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Uh, yeah, it is. You can't just throw a statement like that out there with no backing up. Explain yourself. All corporations is a pretty heavy onus, man. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| It's called debating GGS. Some of us like to actually engage people's opinions and argue about this sorta stuff. If you don't wanna be argued with, don't post.
I still don't get how you could consider it a sad or depressing movie, and I don't get how you equate "sad and depressing" to "really crappy". Justify your views! Have at you! (edited by Arwon on 01-31-06 07:42 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Bicenttennial Man needed to be about half as long, and turn into I Robot at the end, with Robin Williams leading a badass army of Cyborgs.
The message of Bicentennial man: Humanity's greatest engineering achievement, killed by the love of a woman. (edited by Arwon on 02-01-06 02:53 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Yeah but Israeli governments have been destroying Palestinian society as well, with walls and settlements and military occupation and curfews and soldiers and checkpoints and restriction of movement and so forth. Not to mention a great deal of injustice and harshness through slective application of the Israeli legal system to Palestinians in the territories (like, people get charged, but if they need protection... it's much harder).
It's folly to underestimate the extent of the Palestinian grievances and trivialise their situation, and see only the insecurity of Israel. Folly. If this is gonna just be a "blame one side or the other" thread it won't be worth reading or taking part in. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by Jin Dogan Uh, that pretty much is an anti-abortion position. Just saying is all. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| There's actually a counterargument to that, a whole slew of bands I can think of, who took years and several albums to really hit their stride, and really refine the raw elements of their sound into something great.
Animal Collective and Deerhoof, or the Blood Brothers, for example, had all the elements of a great and fairly unique band, but were just too weird and raw until they finally got it together. Les Savy Fav are another, in the early days they were just too low fi and dissonant and abrasive, and now they're absolutely wonderful. So yes, the "gradually refined into something great over time" path of a band is just as common as the "good early, then stale as they get older" path. Oh then there's people like Beck and David Byrne who just keep jumping from one place to another and never really get stale or old. Shrug. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| XTC! | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by Metal Knuckles What about the GERUND!? |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by ||bass FEMA's not a charity organistion. It's job is Emergency Management. That's what their charter says. They fucking sucked at it, to the extend that they basically killed people by taking so long to get resources (primarily, given the absense of the LA National Guard, the Army and out of state Guard units) in there to restore order, establish rationing and shelter and evacuation etc. Once it was clear that there was a potentially deadly lack of authority and coordination on the ground after the hurricane hit and the flood waters rose, it was FEMA's job to get someone in there as a stop-gap measure while it organised the broader relief effort. But yeah, that's more to do with the incompetent political appointees and the failure of anyone in any position power to actually comprehend how bad Katrina was going to be (despite the models) until it was too late, despite all the warnings. As for the rest of the argument, uh, asserting baseless libertarian articles of faith as "facts of life" is an incredibly inneffective argument technique. Especially when you're speaking from the worst wealthy country in which to be poor in, and arguing for even less help for them. (edited by Arwon on 02-05-06 01:20 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| NONE OF YOU HAVE ANY DAMN STATISTICS. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| It's an overreaction, but I accuse the newspaper cartoonists of trolling for a reaction. The story started when a children's book aimed at nonbelievers was published, featuring inoffensive drawings of Mohammed. There were protests, which seemed a bit silly from our point of view, but it could have ended there, the books were not controversial. Then the paper in question basically decided to test the limits of self-censorship by asking for offensive caricatures of Muhammed. The result was, basically, inciteful hatespeech.
It's lampooning their prophet, not the followers, or other aspects of the faith, and this can be an important difference between this controversy and the usual treatement of, say, Jesus, in western political satire. The view of Muhammed portrayed in the cartoons is, basically, one of deep ignorance and/or hate. (The offending caricatures of Muhammed. I mean christ, Muhammed as a man with a bomb for a turban?). If a major Middle Eastern newspaper published cartoons featuring grotesque caricatures of Jesus, perhaps of Jesus bombing people or something, I suspect there'd be a reaction from the Christian counterparts of these wingnuts in the West. Ann Coulter would be denouncing them and calling for boycotts and whathaveyou. Very religious folks tend to be really sensitive about direct and hateful attacks on their holy figures. Simple fact of life. That said, the treatement in the west has been simplistic and annoying. There's been little discussion of the purposely trolling nature of the cartoons, and certainly no indication that these reactions are not representative of all, or even a majority, of the muslim world. Interestingly, the US State Dept supported the Muslim view:
And, in a completely unrelated cartoon-related furore, apparently the US Joint Chiefs of Staff are angry at the publication of this cartoon. (edited by Arwon on 02-05-06 01:44 AM) |
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