@steelerfan: I was looking for some more steelers fan pictures as a joke (to find some more large guys), but there's actually a fair few half naked female fans.
Shows how sports communities are divided - fat men and gorgeous women, apparently.
@Catija: My facebook is locked down and I'm not hugely concerned about the rest.
@AndrewMartin Me neither. I have it laying around here, but never found the mood to engage it yet, though. But it's not as if I really had to see it anyway.
But I have no doubts quite a few "story snobs" hate that thing. Doesn't change the fact that it's one of the most amiable films ever.
@steelerfan Oh, I've admittedly not that big of an emotional connection to Armageddon. But it's definitely a fun movie for sure (even if Aerosmith can do way better than that).
@NapoleonWilson Like how? I admit that there were a few things that I didn't understand, actually I think a few things because I was young and naive when I first saw it.
@NapoleonWilson I was talking about Gump for you and Armageddon for me :)
@steelerfan I don't know, ask them. But I think I heard some sentiments against it before, while thinking that noone can possibly not like that film. (Though, I'd agree the cross-state running thing was a bit too weird.)
@steelerfan Ha, also one of the scenes I didn't get at first viewing. But well, we all grow up some day and rewatch films. I probably was like 10 when I first saw it, so yeah...
We were talking with friend about these crazy asian horror movies and death scenes in them and i though i have seen many years ago a movie, where is this scene where woman/man (cant remember) pushes plank through bed right in the mouth of girl hiding under bed. If i remember correctly, scene cont...
I know that movie is fictional but I just can't get rid of the impression that Eddie could do many things natural way. His remembering all those thing when meeting the wife of the land lord is one good example. Can we achieve a lot when we just have the mindset?
I know that movie is fictional but I just can't get rid of the impression that Eddie could do many things natural way. His remembering all those thing when meeting the wife of the land lord is one good example. Can we achieve a lot when we just have the mindset?*
@steelerfan: A bad question was posted. It is above (the Limitless question). It was deleted by the OP. I posted the question here, so Napoleon can read it.
?@steelerfan: But I forgot that as he, like me, is above 10,000 rep, we're allowed to view deleted posts.
@steelerfan: So all he has to do is click on the link and he can view it.
@steelerfan: Whereas I assume the post doesn't work for you.
@NapoleonWilson: I suppose for the same reason Champagne made outside of *Champagne* isn't Champagne :) Take a sonnet. A sonnet is a 14 line poem. If you write a 15 line poem, it's something else.
Granted, but in this case nothing that isn't Japanese can ever be a haiku. Still, to be called a haiku in another language, that 17 syllable rule is still utter crap. If in doubt, ask SE.
@AndrewMartin And that convention simply doesn't hold as strictly as people made you believe once. That's all.
But a sonnet with 15 lines is definitely not a sonnet.
@AndrewMartin But by that attitude, you can't call any non-Japanese poem a haiku ever. That's a legitimate attitude, of course. But calling English 5-7-5 poems haiku while others that don't follow that rule not would be wrong. Since the whole 5-7-5 thing is not based on syllables and thus not transferable from Japanese in any way.
@steelerfan: Yes you damn well are. I think you are the best. And that is the truth.
@steelerfan: A haiku for you!
@NapoleonWilson: That's the usual reason that they're covered really briefly in our syllabuses over here before we move on to iambic pentameters and the like.
Or as a Northern Irish citizen, Michael Longley's infamous Ceasefire poem after the Troubles ended.
It was adapted from Homer's Iliad:
Put in mind of his own father and moved to tears Achilles took him by the hand and pushed the old king Gently away, but Priam curled up at his feet and Wept with him until their sadness filled the building.
Taking Hector’s corpse into his own hands Achilles Made sure it was washed and, for the old king’s sake, Laid out in uniform, ready for Priam to carry Wrapped like a present home to Troy at daybreak.
When they had eaten together, it pleased them both To stare at each other’s beauty as lovers might, Achilles built like a god, Priam good-looking still And full of conversation, who earlier had sighed:
‘I get down on my knees and do what must be done And kiss Achilles’ hand, the killer of my son.'
Pretty moving if you are familiar with Northern Ireland's history.
@NapoleonWilson: Quite true. I've never played around with haikus very much.
@NapoleonWilson: Neither, really. It was just a recognition that for peace to last, we would have to kiss Achilles' hand, the killer of my son - both sides would have to work with one another, despite the atrocities committed by both sides.
Which, largely, they've tried to do (not always successfully, but we've never descended back to The Troubles)
@NapoleonWilson: I always take your elaborations seriously. I've never seen you make a rushed or overly simplistic comment anywhere on this site. Your views are always very well thought out - usually much more than my own rushed opinions.
In Enemy, when teacher Jake goes to agency the security guy says he (thinking he is the actor Jake) hasn't set foot in agency in 6 months.
Then, wife of the Actor Jake meets teacher Jake. When teacher Jake asks she says she is 6 months pregnant.
Is there some sort of hint here meaning the actor...
@MovieReel Yet another person who doesn't understand how pregnancy works. If it were 5 months he was missing, that'd be one thing but 6 months... he wouldn't have known.
When you click the add a comment button when you don't have enough rep, you get a pop-up saying that you need more rep in able to comment. Except, it is too far away and users might be confused for a while before realizing the pop-up is on the other side of the page:
Clearly, that is very inc...
@steelerfan No. They count the pregnancy beginning at when you start your last period before the pregnancy... so you're literally not pregnant at all for the first two weeks...
@Catija But doesn't this make all the time measurements, especially the scheduled birthday, quite inaccurate? But well, I admittedly don't really know how it works, too.
@NapoleonWilson It's complex... the average woman doesn't know when she ovulates (because human biology works to actually hide it, to a degree), so she can't really know what day she conceived... but, on average, a woman ovulates half way through her cycle. Once they start doing ultrasounds, they can check the length of the fetus and estimate the age. If women have irregular cycles, though, they could be off by an entire month.
If that's the case, it will become clear when they do the ultrasound because the difference in size between a 10 week pregnancy and a 14 week pregnancy is really big... about three times larger.
@steelerfan Yes... but sperm can live inside for 4-5 days, which is why they tell people trying to get pregnant to have sex 4-5 days in a row before expected ovulation.
It's our lack of sex ed in schools, I think... even in high school they divide the class into boys and girls and only teach them about their own anatomy... so guys are usually a bit clueless about ladies... not that ladies are really taught much. Most of what I know, is from reading up on the web.
@NapoleonWilson Shit, I don't like that. :P I have friends who are always "you should talk about it, it's natural" and I'm like... "I don't care... it's gross.
@Catija Well, I don't really know that much about it either, though. But if I remeber correctly we did this stuff extensively in biology lessons. Though, that was later, the sex education from primary school was a little less detailed and only explained the more obvious stuff.
It's a very good one. Probably one of my favorites. A lot of Meaning of Life can get a bit silly, but that one is fun.
Anyway, have to head out and rescue my husband from work... getting a second car is on our list but, for now (or until they allow self-driving cars), I have to go and pick him up.
Plot: A Virgin tries to create a artificial girlfriend and she tries to convince him she is real and doesn't need a real girlfriend. Its B movie she is in is mobile phone quite a old movie.
@NapoleonWilson Yeah, they thought it was just one session. I did a 2 hour session this morning and I guess they figured that it was over. I don't know how they got that impression, since it was made clear, but, oh well.
Well, it was supposed to be tomorrow, but I have to go get my taxes done. Probably next week sometime. I'm not going really short, probably just below my shoulders :)