Fair point. Message is certainly more powerful coming from people who lived it.Quoting Sven (view post)
Fair point. Message is certainly more powerful coming from people who lived it.
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I don't contest the claim that he's gay, for that matter.
To those lost on context: Spacey just did this big interview where the gay journalist asked him why he's never officially come out when it's no longer a secret that he's gay, and Spacey's answer was basically, I don't live a lie in my private life, but I won't confirm or talk about that to you guys in the media, although sure, I'll do one of those PSAs if they want me to.
I find it to be an error in judgment to call that officially coming out. Partly because that would be reversing what he said entirely, and partly because it's unfair to those who experienced hardship actually coming out who feel offended by Spacey's secrecy, which can be interpreted as celebrishame.
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Also, sometimes when meg posts the same thing on Match Cut and on Facebook, I have to decide on where to best respond.
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Um...this kind of blew up, didn't it?
"It Gets Better" is wildly different in Canada than it is in the USA, I guess.
In Canada it is all gay celebrities sharing their coming-out stories, stories of trouble they had as kids/teens being gay and not knowing how to tell anyone, etc.
Hell, Rick Mercer used the PSA to officially come out.
So yeah, my apologies if I jumped to conclusions with his volunteering for the ad, but I hope you can see why I did so.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Well, my first post was pretty much a "who cares? everyone knew already" thing.
I didn't expect this much backlash.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
My apologies, Meg. I deleted my original post because I saw that you had clarified things nicely.
But I was slow on the draw. Damn you, Meg!
On a somewhat related note, I don't think anything peeves me more than straight people saying "I don't have any problem with homosexuality, but they don't have to flaunt it in my face." This has been bothering me immensely lately.
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It goes exponentially as a matter of fact.
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
How did you get data for non-integer numbers of posts?It goes exponentially as a matter of fact.
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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The scale is in Astronomer's units; i.e. gnuplot plot exp(x) with points.
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
Those "hockey stick" graphs usually turn out to be showing a "bubble," so we can assume that after a certain number of Irish posts, grumpiness will drop dramatically.
Or diverge to infinity...
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
I might be offline for most of the weekend due to further computer problems. Its bad enough that the Mac's dead, but now the home PC is acting like a dinosaur dying from the Ice Age. Yikes.
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And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?
Agreed.
Something in a similar vein is when I hear people say "I like black people, I just wish they would stop acting like rappers with all the poor grammar and baggy clothes".
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Yeah. I was a pretty huge WWF junkie way back in the day.
Men wearing necklaces: is it possible for it not to look ridiculous?
...and the milk's in me.
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I'm anti-accessory.
Tell me your secret. I think part of it may be eschewing chains.
...and the milk's in me.
Well, me too, actually. I never wear rings, watches, or necklaces. I never had my ears pierced.
But I don't find them annoying in general. And I know men can look good with watches, rings, etc. Even bracelets. But necklaces strike me as problematic.
...and the milk's in me.
I just don't care enough to go that all out. I have friends who are my opposite, they will accessorize like crazy. They can pull it off, necklaces included, but in the end it just seems like too much trouble for me. Of course, I'm as casual as it comes outside of work. Summer? Shorts, t-shirt and flip flops. Winter? Jeans, hoodie, and tennis shoes.
Jess thinks I don't wear my silver necklace enough.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Perhaps this is rude, forgive me, but... aren't you kinda a hairy guy? Wouldn't it... pull? Unpleasantly? One of the things I hate about chain necklaces is that they pull at the hair on my nape.
...and the milk's in me.
Hahahahaha. No offense taken.
Sure, it pulls, but it doesn't bug me. Comes with the territory in being part sasquatch.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I don't wear any jewelry, but it's not by choice. I just don't have any.
I once had a really nice silver ring given to me by my grandparents. I wore it 24/7 for years, then suddenly I started getting a rash underneath the ring.
I cleaned the ring thoroughly, and even tried not wearing it for weeks at a time, but whenever I put it back on I would get that rash back within 24 hours.
It was really weird.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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