[QUOTE=bitches;47122499]Lucy is trash
~100% of the brain~
[editline]11th February 2015[/editline]
This is my guilty pleasure movie. I KNOW the concept is an intense rehashing of 'young relatable team trained to be superheroes'. BUT[/QUOTE]
There are ads on TV for the DVD release, and every time Morgan Freeman says the "100% of her brain" bit, a little part of me dies.
[editline]11th February 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=gerbe1;47123205]Lucy is a funny* movie. Normally I like all movies I watch on some level and I did like Lucy, in fact when I watched it I didn't laugh at all but in hindsight I know why my friends laughed their heads off now. it was pretty ridiculous.
I did the survey and didn't know most words. The UK has super weird slang for tonnes of things though...
Fag and faggot wasn't there, I guess because they're considered offensive. After spending a week or two with an lgbt rights activist who has had a lot of stuff thrown at him the use of the word in a positive context is possible imo. Not exclusively for insulting. Word reclaiming and all that
Fun and super cute fact the Spanish word for faggot is derived from the Spanish word for ladybug. The bar I drank at had its symbol as a lady bug :P[/QUOTE]
I'm all for reclaiming slurs, but [i][b][u]only by the groups traditionally targeted by them[/u][/i][/b].
E.g. only black people should reclaim the n-word; only transfeminine folk should reclaim 'tranny;' only queer women should reclaim 'dyke.'
Lucy's plotline of "100% of the brain" was completely made up to get a good story going. Even Luc Besson (the writer and director) knew this.
[quote][B]It’s totally not true. Do they think that I don’t know this? I work on this thing for nine years and they think that I don’t know it’s not true? Of course I know it’s not true![/B] But, you know, there are lots of facts in the film that are totally right. The CPH4, even if it’s not the real name — because I want to hide the real name — this molecule exists and is carried by the woman at six weeks of pregnancy. Yes, it’s true that every cell in our body is sending 1,000 messages per second, per cell. And in fact, the theory of the 10 percent is an old theory from the ’60s. It’s never been proven. Some people worked on it, and it sounds like it’s not the truth. [B]What is true is that we’re using only 15 percent of our neurons at one time. We never use 100 [percent]. We use 15 percent on [the] left, and then after, we use 15 percent on the right. But we never use more than 15 percent at one time.[/B][/quote]
[url]http://www.vulture.com/2014/07/luc-besson-director-lucy-chat.html[/url]
[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;47122562]Which some people seemingly can't do when they watch films, expecting them to have [I]~ultra-deep and edgy subplots~[/I][/QUOTE]
I really don't want to be that guy, but I honestly didn't really care for movies until I started watching challenging ones that made me think. To each their own.
[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;47124062]Lucy's plotline of "100% of the brain" was completely made up to get a good story going. Even Luc Besson (the writer and director) knew this.
[url]http://www.vulture.com/2014/07/luc-besson-director-lucy-chat.html[/url][/QUOTE]
duh?
not to be rude, but nobody is surprised by this
i don't see your point
it is my preference for the writers to do more than "make shit up with fake realism to get the story going"
Yeah I think it just didn't work. Like I would agree with bitches if it was consistent but Harry Potter has magic and Xmen has mutants. I don't know why the 100% brain thing doesn't go down well.
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[QUOTE=gerbe1;47123638]Pfff no. They fall into a cat of liquid irradiated magnets.[/QUOTE]
Oops I meant vat.
[QUOTE=cheetahben;47124450]I really don't want to be that guy, but I honestly didn't really care for movies until I started watching challenging ones that made me think. To each their own.[/QUOTE]
Like what for example
[QUOTE=Prismatex;47123748]There are ads on TV for the DVD release, and every time Morgan Freeman says the "100% of her brain" bit, a little part of me dies.
[editline]11th February 2015[/editline]
I'm all for reclaiming slurs, but [i][b][u]only by the groups traditionally targeted by them[/u][/i][/b].
E.g. only black people should reclaim the n-word; only transfeminine folk should reclaim 'tranny;' only queer women should reclaim 'dyke.'[/QUOTE]
Then the word hasn't been reclaimed. The point of reclaiming is to make it a good thing not an insult. To do that everyone needs to be able to use it in a positive way. I dunno. my opinion is still evolving. I used to be uncomfortable with the word fag but when I speak the little Spanish I know I am completely comfortable saying it. And I know plenty of people there who used it positively to no detriment who weren't gay.
[QUOTE=gerbe1;47124576]Then the word hasn't been reclaimed. The point of reclaiming is to make it a good thing not an insult. To do that everyone needs to be able to use it in a positive way. I dunno. my opinion is still evolving. I used to be uncomfortable with the word fag but when I speak the little Spanish I know I am completely comfortable saying it. And I know plenty of people there who used it positively to no detriment who weren't gay.[/QUOTE]
No, that's actually exactly what reclaiming is. Only people from the groups targeted by slurs can say "OK, this word isn't hurtful anymore."
Most people who claim to be "reclaiming" a word aren't even doing that. People will argue all day that "faggot" isn't a slur anymore then turn around and call someone a dick sucking fag as an insult, directly connecting it to being gay.
And why the hell does anyone think that turning what used to be a slur into a general insult is an anyway reclaiming. I mean fucking honestly how is that not insulting.
[QUOTE=gerbe1;47124551]Yeah I think it just didn't work. Like I would agree with bitches if it was consistent but Harry Potter has magic and Xmen has mutants. I don't know why the 100% brain thing doesn't go down well.
[editline]12th February 2015[/editline]
Oops I meant vat.[/QUOTE]
I suppose my real problem with it is that I know bunches of really dumb people that think the brain shit is actually real.
Use words based on the context of whoever you're talking to.
Nobody gets to decide what words are now approved for everybody to use in daily speech without being offensive, that's completely subjective. Even if 95% of gay people are totally cool with being called fags that doesn't mean that the other 5% have to shut up and not care if somebody offends them, and even if 95% of gays are completely offended by the word fag that doesn't mean the other 5% are obligated to give a shit if somebody calls them that.
Anyway, intent is infinitely more important than what word you're using. If somebody knows what you mean, and knows you have no intent of being hateful or derogatory, then getting offended because you said the wrong word is dumb.
[QUOTE=Batmoutarde;47124568]Like what for example[/QUOTE]
The first "challenging" movie I really watched was Eraserhead, then I watched the rest of David Lynch's stuff, read about the directors he said influenced him, and then went on from there
One of my New Year's resolutions for this year was to watch two new movies per week, and I've been keeping up with it so far and plan on doing it all year. Hell, maybe even the rest of my life. Who knows. I'd been meaning to get into movies for a while and now I'm finally doing it.
[QUOTE=Prismatex;47124591]No, that's actually exactly what reclaiming is. Only people from the groups targeted by slurs can say "OK, this word isn't hurtful anymore."[/QUOTE]
but if you say the word then can only be used by one group it furthers the divide and creates more tension. Not to mention hypocritical irony and inversely making the word 'bad' again within it's own right by affixing arbitrary rules to vernacular.
If the meaning has changed, its been reclaimed. Niggers been reclaimed and people get ancy about non blacks using it which is understandable however the tension from that has been surmounting and is now a problem within itself when a white or non black uses the word. Be it seriously, comically, ironically, or anything else. By having that word 'reclaimed' its furthered a racial and even societal divide.
Gay chat needs more dogs
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[QUOTE=Viva;47125100]but if you say the word then can only be used by one group it furthers the divide and creates more tension. Not to mention hypocritical irony and inversely making the word 'bad' again within it's own right by affixing arbitrary rules to vernacular.
If the meaning has changed, its been reclaimed. Niggers been reclaimed and people get ancy about non blacks using it which is understandable however the tension from that has been surmounting and is now a problem within itself when a white or non black uses the word. Be it seriously, comically, ironically, or anything else. By having that word 'reclaimed' its furthered a racial and even societal divide.[/QUOTE]
Uhm the main thing that created and furthers racial divides is racism and white people being able to say "the n- word" ain't exactly what's going to end that, sorry
Queer is a word that anyone can say because people stopped saying it and any cultural meaning it had is lost, at least on younger generations. Thats how you remove the meaning. You stop using it.
Words evolve. They don't have a single meaning. The word gay has been in widespread use for a long time. Originally a positive thing now often (but definitely not always) used as a replacement for dumb, stupid, crap, shit etc (Ukraine got invaded? that's so gay! - Obama)
If one word can go from positive to negative then they can damned well go the other way - a bit of off logic but I can imagine there is a word out there that has experienced the opposite transition - stopping using a word completely is just as difficult as changing the context it's used in. Easy for you and I but hard for society.
Using the word positively means using it as a compliment, not an insult. Gays calling each other fag as an insult can be just as bad as straight people doing the same.
The problem I have (after talking to a Bulgarian bartender and some playbiy bunnies in Madrid) is that faggot just seems... Insulting by default. You can't use it that I can think of in a way that doesn't require a modifier for context. Which is my current fence sitting point.
Which is why I like the Spanish word for it because it comes from the word lady bug so that's cute by default.
[QUOTE=gerbe1;47125910]
Which is why I like the Spanish word for it because it comes from the word lady bug so that's cute by default.[/QUOTE]
Speaking of ladybugs, does anyone else get ladybug invasions in the fall?
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;47125956]Speaking of ladybugs, does anyone else get ladybug invasions in the fall?[/QUOTE]
All the way up in Michigan, a handful of ladybugs invaded the 6th floor dormitory that I live in.
I didn't think bugs could even get in here, but those things are stupidly resilient.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;47126465]All the way up in Michigan, a handful of ladybugs invaded the 6th floor dormitory that I live in.
I didn't think bugs could even get in here, but those things are stupidly resilient.[/QUOTE]
I live in Michigan as well, I woke up in the morning to discover about 300+ lady bugs right near my head, they were fucking everywhere as well as large clumps of them all being close together.
Just received an email with the results of the Hollybrook Golf and Tennis condominiums Inc. Board of directors elections for 2015-2017
This is a country club in Florida. The closest I've been to Florida is West Virginia and I was there for a day.
[t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/Reag_1423828413.jpg[/t]
The move from shitty 2004 router to shitty 2012 router is done, now just need fibre to activate on the 25th and I'll no longer be sat using toaster grade internet speeds.
Yay.
[QUOTE=Batmoutarde;47127113]Just received an email with the results of the Hollybrook Golf and Tennis condominiums Inc. Board of directors elections for 2015-2017
This is a country club in Florida. The closest I've been to Florida is West Virginia and I was there for a day.[/QUOTE]
I was getting newsletters from a church in California for a while. I'm guessing someone with the same name as me didn't realize that email addresses are first-come first-serve and that he didn't actually own the gmail address with his name in it.
[QUOTE=Reagy;47127903][t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/Reag_1423828413.jpg[/t]
The move from shitty 2004 router to shitty 2012 router is done, now just need fibre to activate on the 25th and I'll no longer be sat using toaster grade internet speeds.
Yay.[/QUOTE]
Why is it smiling?
[QUOTE=kimr120;47127974]Why is it smiling?[/QUOTE]
Happy internet icon is happy.
[QUOTE=kimr120;47127974]Why is it smiling?[/QUOTE]
Because you are happy when you have Internet?
[QUOTE=Reagy;47127903][t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/Reag_1423828413.jpg[/t]
The move from shitty 2004 router to shitty 2012 router is done, now just need fibre to activate on the 25th and I'll no longer be sat using toaster grade internet speeds.
Yay.[/QUOTE]
Haha, I had exactly the same thing happen to me a couple months ago, enjoy having the router homepage not look like a childs school IT project.
[editline]12th February 2015[/editline]
I havent got fiber yet, but here's hoping.
Fiber is now available from a local ISP here, but otherwise Comcast reigns supreme. The fiber is the same cost, but isn't even worth it because it has a 250GB monthly limit. Comcast has a 300GB limit. Both scummy, but I need more data.
[editline]12th February 2015[/editline]
cmon goooogle
they moved to a spot pretty close by, but not close enough
[QUOTE=cheetahben;47124716]The first "challenging" movie I really watched was Eraserhead, then I watched the rest of David Lynch's stuff, read about the directors he said influenced him, and then went on from there
One of my New Year's resolutions for this year was to watch two new movies per week, and I've been keeping up with it so far and plan on doing it all year. Hell, maybe even the rest of my life. Who knows. I'd been meaning to get into movies for a while and now I'm finally doing it.[/QUOTE]
Same here. Except I do it maybe half as often, and it's already getting kind of overwhelming, lol.
That aside, I really, really recommend The Woman in the Dunes if you haven't seen it yet. It's... I don't wanna say similar to Lynch because it really isn't, but I think you might be interested if you liked his stuff.
It's Valentines Day on Saturday.
Who wants to be miiiine? <3
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