They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.

River ,'Ariel'


Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


JZ - Aug 18, 2006 7:28:01 am PDT #3393 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

From the '70s decorating pictures, I am inexplicably in love with this sentence:

This crawdad sculpture is sure to be the conversational blackhole of your Jenga parties.

Now I need to run off and check what chance its various components stand of being bestselling titles.


bon bon - Aug 18, 2006 7:28:05 am PDT #3394 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Can you sue a school for "showing a really fucking weird movie"?

Let's start with suing someone for "emotional kidnapping."

ETA: one of those posts when you get caught up elsewhere and reply way past the original discussion.


§ ita § - Aug 18, 2006 7:41:56 am PDT #3395 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Let's start with suing someone for "emotional kidnapping."

Sure, just as soon we define the term.


Allyson - Aug 18, 2006 7:42:22 am PDT #3396 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Aw. I love Donnie Darko so, so much.

Agreed that the school should have asked permission from parents before showing an R rated film to kids under 17.


Jessica - Aug 18, 2006 7:43:45 am PDT #3397 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm picturing a ransom note looking something like

GiVE uS tHe mONeY or yOUr sEnSE Of cOMpasSiOn GetS IT.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 18, 2006 7:46:31 am PDT #3398 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

What do you guys feel about showing a non-R-rated portion of an r-rated movie? When I was an assistant teacher in an acting class, someone had a monologue from "The Jury" and the teacher showed just the portion of the show with the monologue. A couple of parents were very upset, and I do have to say it never occured to me to question her (I was 19, though and the teacher was 50) motives in showing the exerpt.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 18, 2006 7:46:47 am PDT #3399 of 10001
What is even happening?

Let's start with suing someone for "emotional kidnapping."

When I read the article, it didn't seem those were his actual grounds for the suit (and if those were listed in the article, I've already forgotten them). I suspect the reporter worded it poorly, took the father's objections (offered in conversation), then presented them as if they were legal concepts.


Ginger - Aug 18, 2006 7:48:41 am PDT #3400 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Gone with the Wind - 10.2% chance of becoming a bestseller


tommyrot - Aug 18, 2006 7:53:37 am PDT #3401 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Oh my. I don't think I would have survived....

Seabirds, Rain Kept Men Alive for 9 Months

MEXICO CITY — Lost at sea since October, the three fishermen from a hamlet outside San Blas were given up for dead long ago.

After weeks of looking for their son at fishing ports up and down the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the parents of Salvador "Chava" Ordoñez resigned themselves to the belief that he, his two companions and their 30-foot fishing boat had been swallowed up by the sea, family members said.

On Tuesday, news of a miracle came from 5,000 miles away. After more than nine months adrift, Ordoñez and his companions had been found alive north of Baker Island in the central Pacific, the lonely stretch of ocean where aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared almost 70 years ago.

...

Trade winds and ocean currents had carried the three men from the waters off their home state of Nayarit more than halfway to Australia.


Strega - Aug 18, 2006 7:54:21 am PDT #3402 of 10001

I guess I should write my hypothetical book, since my title's a winner:

The title Scarce Half Made Up has a 63.7% chance of being a bestselling title!

I did have to think about this for a while to figure out where any of these things happen in the movie:

the movie is filled with all kinds of offensive subject matter, including "gross obscenities, various types of deviant sexual activity, and misogynistic fantasy."
And then I realized, they're upset about a short scene where 3 teenage boys crack some jokes about Smurfs having orgies. That's the obscenity, the deviant sex, and the misogyny. It's a conversation about Smurfs! I'm so amused by that.

The problem is that movie ratings make no sense. I can think of PG movies that I'd consider inappropriate for a school to show, and R movies that are fine. Donnie Darko has a fair amount of cursing. That's the only reason it's an R.