Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.

'Safe'


All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.

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Noumenon - Apr 13, 2003 6:09:29 pm PDT #3375 of 9843
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

That was nice and clear about atomization and quite worth the length.


Daisy Jane - Apr 13, 2003 6:15:22 pm PDT #3376 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Now I really feel dim, but can you define atomization for me? I totally get your second post about control and productivity. Studied it a lot in a management class. But I don't think I've come across that word, or if I had I've forgotten.


Penny B. - Apr 13, 2003 6:42:22 pm PDT #3377 of 9843
Nobody

Wow. The consumerism and waste conversation is pretty much the same one my husband and I had today.

Not that I have anything to contribute. . . but I can talk about cartoons! I miss Blake and Mortimer from Teletoon. I'm not sure how a French comic book ended up being a Canadian (?) cartoon, but it was cool.


Typo Boy - Apr 13, 2003 8:24:37 pm PDT #3378 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

atomization - splitting into seperate unconnected parts. So everyone is a little black box. Everyone concentrates on their tasks and strictly defined interfaces with others; thinking about the business or system as a whole strongly discouraged.

t On Edit So actually I think you got everything. You just were not familiar with the word in that context. Which meant it was an unneccesary piece of jargon on my part.


Typo Boy - Apr 13, 2003 8:30:04 pm PDT #3379 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Oh and Fayjay - you mentioned before how slammed you were right now. I simply forgot. I should not even have asked. But thanks for your patience in any case.


meara - Apr 13, 2003 10:24:47 pm PDT #3380 of 9843

wow, this thread all with the long thoughtful posts...

in a nonthoughtful post...

We Spanish kids got crap like "Destinos," despite there being Almodovar right there at the local video stores.

the kids in my hs french classes also read "huis clos"! And we in the spanish classes had to read borges and garcia marquez and garcia lorca (and god knows I couldn't make it through a page of any of those now, which makes me sad)...but when we were good, on fridays the spanish teacher would let us watch "Destinos". It was our treat. How sad is that? But really, "Destinos" was SOOOOO much better than what I had to watch in my college french class--at least in Destinos, there was a plot, and people went places and did things (though I never did find out what happened...last I recall, they'd gone to Mexico, and then some caribbean nation...and there was mystery...). Er, but anyway, "french in action"? There was no action. Grrrr.


Katie M - Apr 13, 2003 10:27:45 pm PDT #3381 of 9843
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Hee - we get Destinos every Sunday here. I TiVo it. Do you want to know how it ends, meara?


Madrigal Costello - Apr 13, 2003 10:27:48 pm PDT #3382 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.

Thing was, we watched it out of order, and often only bits at a time, because the teacher would turn it off whenever we talked back to the TV. So we never knew if there was a plot. But then, he was British, so he saw it as more important to mock the fact that our Spanish pronounciations sounded funny to him since he spoke it in his Liverpudlian accent.


meara - Apr 13, 2003 10:38:43 pm PDT #3383 of 9843

I TiVo it. Do you want to know how it ends, meara?

Yes yes! Though really, I need a website that has a brief explanation of the plot, because although I remember startling amounts of it, I last watched it ten years ago (ACK!).

Ooh. Suddenly occurs to me that maybe *I* get Destinos somewhere on my channel lineup! Off to TiVo I go!!!


Caroma - Apr 13, 2003 10:40:16 pm PDT #3384 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.

I figure I do my part by not owning a car. Saves society untold burdens. Everyone who calls themselves an environmentalist and still owns one, choosing to live in a place where they "have to" have one, sort of looks suspicious to me.