Spirit-Girl
 

I won't ask why you were watching Bambi.

I distinctly remember watching that movie at the age of six and I brought the subject up with my mum recently. She said, there was no way that I would have taken you to that sadistic movie. Well, somebody did.

Why would the fine folks of Disney create such a vile little flick? Is it anti-gun or something?

Spirit-Girl
 

"Mother? Mother?"

"Your mother won't be with you anymore, son."

Spirit-Girl
 

Shut the fuck up! I have blocked off the sad parts of Bambi from my active brain. You are bringing them up to the surface. QUIT IT.

Spirit-Girl
 

Isn't the motherless child some kind of archtype or something? Like Nemo? and Pinocchio? and Jesus?

The good folks at Disney were just probably thinking along those lines.

Spirit-Girl
 

"He can call me Flower if he wants to."

Spirit-Girl
 

I've never seen Bambi. My mom was so traumatized when she saw it for the first time she had to be escorted from the theater within the first five minutes. I think she was five. Anyhow, she refused to have it air in the house even if she wasn't watching, and for whatever reason, I never saw it at a friend's house, and I can't bring myself to check it out now. I saw the "meet Thumper and Flower" scene on the Wonderful World of Disney when I was a kid, so I think I've hit the most important part.

Spirit-Girl
 

Thanks!! That was a happy part.

Spirit-Girl
 

To say it's anti-gun would be a post hoc justification for it. Sadistic is a good word.

I didn't watch the whole thing -- it was on ABC on Sunday night, I think, and I was channel-surfing while waiting for a craving to be lovingly delivered. I had never seen the movie before, and wouidn't you know it, I happened upon it precisely at the beginning of the dreadful scene. When the ominous music started I should have changed the channel, but I was transfixed -- and I didn't expect it to be so harrowing and eerie and scary and sad. I wasn't just a little verklempt after watching it -- I was bawling. My craving delivery man came into the room and thought that I had just gotten bad news about a loved one. Very much to his credit he comforted me rather than laughed in my face when I cried out "Bambi! It's so sad!"

We then went down the list of fucked up Disney movies with very sad events in them. Jesus, I thought Old Yeller was bad, but at least that was an act of humanity.

And Gwink, yes, the motherless child is a Disney archetype. God knows why -- a cheap ploy to render the main character sympathetic, I guess-- but usually the motherlessness is established, in a non-violent manner, before the movie begins.

Spirit-Girl
 

Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raw Foods
 

Anyone here know much about this lifestyle? I won't call it a diet, because it seems to be more than that to me. I know someone who does it (she's been doing it for over 2 years) and she has dropped considerable weight and gotten a lot more energy since she started. I understand that I cannot do it because it involves (1) no alcohol and (2) no tea (I'm not sure which I would miss more), but the premise behind it all is somewhat intriguing to me*. This website - http://www.living-foods.com/ - has a lot of information about it. Note to Flinty, stick with the bananas:

I'm assuming everyone here thinks the raw foods philosophy is nuts (Nuts!) but I'm curious if there are any differing views.




*I may or may not be turning into some sort of California healthy living freak. Probably not though. I lack the whole willpower thing.

Raw Foods
 

I couldn't give up venison.

Raw Foods
 

I did it for a month or so. I even own a dehydrator and made raw cookies and other snacks. If I ate out, it was at a raw food restaurant. It's very good if you want to clean out your system. I lost weight fast. I couldn't sustain it for more than a month though (and I didn't want to - I just did it on a temporary basis to detox).

Hardcore raw food devotees are generally crazy - although some raw prepared food is really really good - very flavorful, so I like it once in a while. I will go to Bonobos or one of the other raw food restaurants here.

Raw Foods
 

I of course do not think its nuts (no pun!). The idea is that cooking food kills the nutrients. I am the proud non-owner of a microwave for reasons along this line.

That said, no alochol, no caffeine, no dice. That takes a level of vanity and self preservation I cannot fathom. I once tried to eat a seaweed salad. Nasty.

Spirit-Girl
 

Do I need to include spoiler space for what happens in the first 5 minutes of Finding Nemo? I assume not. Especially now that Anne Elk has informed me that there is some wedding thing at the end of Napoleon Dynamite.

Spirit-Girl
 

Beeg beeg man, make the pregnant women cry.


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Actually, I don't think I've ever seen Bambi. I will note, though, that there's no Bambi exhibit or ride in Disneyland. Perhaps Anaheim's local codes don't permit shooting ranges inside the city limits.