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Hank Chinaski 10-28-2013 11:32 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 483769)
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it.
what would it look like if they remade "A Few Good Men, but cast Colonel Jessup with the one guy from The Big Bang Theory?"

Atticus Grinch 10-29-2013 12:52 AM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483791)
what would it look like if they remade "A Few Good Men, but cast Colonel Jessup with the one guy from The Big Bang Theory?"
That's gold, Jerry. Gold!

I was reminded today how utterly sexist the AFGM script was. Can we use the remake to recast Demi Moore's character as a man? I'm thinking Jonah Hill.

Adder 10-29-2013 01:09 AM
Re: This one has diamonds in his pockets; or It ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's so
 
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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 483784)
Word. 1980 VW Rabbit (2-door, black w red racing stripe, red vinyl interior and crank sunroof). I paid $100 per month car payment with my hard-earned Friendly's cash and my mom covered the insurance. That's how us upstate public school indie chix roll.
1985 Honda Accord, with 158,000 miles, mostly white but the trunk and driver's door were a different color than the rest of the car. This was in 1994. Free, though, as a hand me down when my parents wouldn't let my brother keep driving back and forth from Grand Forks in it and bought him a new car.

Adder 10-29-2013 01:11 AM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 483792)
That's gold, Jerry. Gold!

I was reminded today how utterly sexist the AFGM script was. Can we use the remake to recast Demi Moore's character as a man? I'm thinking Jonah Hill.
Wasn't she right in the end?

notcasesensitive 10-29-2013 12:03 PM
Re: This one has diamonds in his pockets; or It ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's so
 
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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 483784)
Word. 1980 VW Rabbit (2-door, black w red racing stripe, red vinyl interior and crank sunroof). I paid $100 per month car payment with my hard-earned Friendly's cash and my mom covered the insurance. That's how us upstate public school indie chix roll.
And as to the boarding school discussion, I'm not sure that I was aware in high school that people actually went to boarding schools.* The most prestigious private school that I knew of was Albany Academy (which maybe was a boarding school, but I just knew one kid from my town who was a day student there). My first experience with boarding schools as a concept was meeting a (douchebag) guy at college who went to Andover. So I'm pretty sure I never wished to go to boarding school. Ah, middle class suburban naiveté.**

* Unless one of the screwed up kids in St Elmos Fire was screwed up from having been sent to boarding school.
** I think the middle class suburban equivalent of this boarding school discussion is the parents who brag about what suburb they chose based on how great the public schools there are. If there's any douchebaggery in that (and I think there probably is), my suburb was chock full of it.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-29-2013 01:39 PM
Re: This one has diamonds in his pockets; or It ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's so
 
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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 483797)

* Unless one of the screwed up kids in St Elmos Fire was screwed up from having been sent to boarding school.
Causation is typically reversed - kid was sent to boarding school because he is screwed up.

Sidd Finch 10-29-2013 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 483768)
Yes. But it's covered by wooden planks, so the stupid can stand on top without killing themselves, which would happen all the time, otherwise. See below:

http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/prospec...ect_parkb2.jpg

I'm stupid enough to have been on the tracks, but was never dumb enough to go anywhere near the third rail. Sometimes trash touches the third rail and something else and it starts a fire, which is annoying for everyone because it causes delays (and it's why people shouldn't fucking litter in the subway--like that makes any difference).

TM
That looks really, really secure....

I did climb down onto the BART tracks once, because some old guy had fallen in and I was trying to help him. The third rail looks very scary from that angle.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-29-2013 03:30 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483781)
It's not true for me (even though I'd be proud of my son for being accepted at xyz school, just as I was proud of myself for my various college acceptances), nor for anyone I've ever encountered.
I was proud of my parents for my college acceptances. They hired the SAT coach and college admission consultant.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-29-2013 03:34 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483785)
This boy who will go to boarding school for these reasons, this is the bottle fed child?
Exeter does not allow breast feeding on campus. The La Leche League fought it, but they hired Boies. Exeter had Olson on retainer.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-29-2013 03:39 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 483730)
It was a Jesuit school, so I was already three quarters of the way through the Reformation anyway. When I found out that the Episcopalians drank better scotch, that was the final push I needed, being a natural snob.
Is there a faster path to agnosticism than exposure to Jesuits?

Atticus Grinch 10-29-2013 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 483794)
Wasn't she right in the end?
Yes,* and that might excuse the odious way she is treated throughout the film, if she'd been allowed even a moment of redemption and vindication in the courtroom scene. But no, we get reconciliation between Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon instead.

*Not really, since Kevin Pollak's character is the moral center of AFGM, as he is proven right that even if the Marines were following orders, they shouldn't have, which is why they're convicted of Conduct Unbecoming and are dishonorably discharged even though the jury completely buys Kaffee's theory. I think Pollak's character even says they were following orders AND are guilty of murder. The only thing Kaffee's defense really did was undercut the prosecution's case for motive and intent; it was still manslaughter to stuff a rag in someone's mouth as you beat them, even on orders.

Hank Chinaski 10-29-2013 05:03 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 483830)
Yes,* and that might excuse the odious way she is treated throughout the film, if she'd been allowed even a moment of redemption and vindication in the courtroom scene. But no, we get reconciliation between Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon instead.

*Not really, since Kevin Pollak's character is the moral center of AFGM, as he is proven right that even if the Marines were following orders, they shouldn't have, which is why they're convicted of Conduct Unbecoming and are dishonorably discharged even though the jury completely buys Kaffee's theory. I think Pollak's character even says they were following orders AND are guilty of murder. The only thing Kaffee's defense really did was undercut the prosecution's case for motive and intent; it was still manslaughter to stuff a rag in someone's mouth as you beat them, even on orders.
weren't they effectively deputized? Wasn't it you who argued cops are allowed to kill?

Not Bob 10-29-2013 05:10 PM
You got a brand new soul, and a cross of gold.
 
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 483824)
Is there a faster path to agnosticism than exposure to Jesuits?
A Franciscan in the streets and a Jesuit in the sheets, amirite?

Atticus Grinch 10-29-2013 05:28 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483833)
weren't they effectively deputized? Wasn't it you who argued cops are allowed to kill?
No more so than anyone.

Speaking of, a 13 y.o. about an hour and a half north of here was killed by a sheriff's deputy because he was carrying an AK-47 — which turned out to be a realistic looking replica that fires Airsoft pellets. Tragic. I'm not in favor of banning many guns, nor do I think we need to ban the toys instead while keeping the real ones, but please — if you let your kid play with toy guns, take a moment to role-play what they should do if an adult says "Freeze" or "Drop it." This kid was shot (it seems) because he TURNED AROUND when ordered from behind to drop the weapon. If my kids had these things I would have trained them to throw the fucking thing 20 yards away the second they saw a cop car, before any words are even spoken. And I'd wrap the damn thing in blaze orange duct tape before it could go out the door.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 10-29-2013 05:56 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483833)
weren't they effectively deputized? Wasn't it you who argued cops are allowed to kill?
So are soldiers. But not each other.


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