'Touched'
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.
Added to the cast were the Fonz’s talking canine sidekick, Mr. Cool and Cupcake, and a 25th-century space babe with magical powers. It was like shoehorning both The Simpsons’ Poochie and The Flintstones’ Great Gazoo into a single show.
Why does it not surprise me that an adaptation of the show that invented Jumping the Shark came up with this golden combo?
I just fixated on the imaginary that was Not Curvy.
IIRC, you're certainly right that the Not Curvy models are all relatively small. I just remember being all excited to see these "normal" looking models for the body types, and then getting to mine and seeing Stacy.
Slightly on topic from before:
How to raise the national alcoholism rate of:Canada: Bacon-flavoured beer Cuba: Black-bean Mojitos United States: Fast food-flavoured light beer Australia: Vegemite-flavoured beer England: Curry-flavored Pims Ireland: No need to raise it any further Sweden: Lutefisk vodka Nigeria: Yam shots Mexico: Pepper-flavoured tequila. Oh wait. They have that.
Dude. Cool. That's at least two topics from earlier today, with bonus lutefisk mention.
I have a history question: most of my...okay, all of my formal exposure to WWII (which is minimal) came when I lived in the UK.
What's the question?
ION, I totally forgot, but tonight there's this dating for single nerds thingie: [link]
Which starts in 15 minutes. I'm so not in the mood to go. There's board games and trivia, neither of which I'm in the mood for. Oh well. Maybe the next one only the hardcore undateable nerds will be left, and I'll fit in better....
Well, I bought new glasses. I will have to take pictures when they come in, because they're all crazy modern and BLUE.
What's the question?
I forgot that too, didn't I? Well, the voiceover for War made it sound like the US had been in there from the very start defending the world's liberty against a heinous attempt at oppression.
Which is me overstating. But what it didn't sound like is the US coming in all "Okay, now it's personal" and blowing the shit out of Germany et al. From the perspective I got in the UK, that was how it was--Nazism wasn't a big problem until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and then it had to go.
How is the delay in the US entering WWII presented in the US?
How is the delay in the US entering WWII presented in the US?
I'd say it is presented as "What delay?"
Okay, megan, you made me laugh when I probably shouldn't have.
I just noticed this article on Bush misspeaking in a Jamaican newspaper.
"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
Which prompted this magic:
"It's out there. All we can do is reassure people, especially South Africans, that President Mandela is alive," Achmat Dangor, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation said as Bush's comments received worldwide coverage.
But what it didn't sound like is the US coming in all "Okay, now it's personal" and blowing the shit out of Germany et al. From the perspective I got in the UK, that was how it was--Nazism wasn't a big problem until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and then it had to go.
How is the delay in the US entering WWII presented in the US?
There was a strong isolationist movement prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt bent US law pretty far to aid the UK while the US was neutral. Roosevelt was of course committed to fighting Germany (with that fight getting priority over fighting Japan) but once the war started most Americans were far more eager to get back at Japan for Pearl Harbor then they were to defeat Germany. I think maybe there was some post-war revisionism over the importance of defeating Germany. Then of course, Americans liked to take credit for defeating Germany, when in fact the Soviet Union deserves most of the credit.
Anyway, the delay in the US coming to the aid of the UK is usually expressed as, "We saved their asses." The whole delay thing isn't talked about that much.
OTOH, the major reason Japan attacked the US is because we cut off oil in steel exports to Japan in response to their occupation of China and the atrocities committed there. So we were in a sense aiding China before we actually got into the war.
Lutefisk vodka
Aqvavit.