Yeah. All I'm seeing is George W. Bush & pals wettest dream about Genesis, mate. Men and dinosaurs! Do we really need to indulge the Creationists in their wild fantasies? Mmh?
Okay, I confess it: I'm just so disappointed there is no Sam Neill in this show.
(I really dislike Spielberg's habit of making everything turn around artificially cute kids, though. I'll only watch for the dinos)
Okay, I confess it: I'm just so disappointed there is no Sam Neill in this show.
(I really dislike Spielberg's habit of making everything turn around artificially cute kids, though. I'll only watch for the dinos)
I do agree with you.
There is an expression in French for which I can't recall an equivalent in English, which says "impeded leftie"; it refers to a person who was born left-handed but was forced to use his right hand from very early an age.
My grand-mother, who was born in 1930, had her left hand loosely tied in her back in order to prevent her from using it while learning how to write - that was a rather common practice, actually. She always had trouble writing.
Thing is, as there is a vast majority of right-handed persons, everyone writes the way suited for right-handed persons. The way you have to form your letters must impair left-handed people, even if they learn how to write early in their lives. It's probably less natural to them. Now that doesn't make you retarded, but it hampers you somehow.
There is an expression in French for which I can't recall an equivalent in English, which says "impeded leftie"; it refers to a person who was born left-handed but was forced to use his right hand from very early an age.
My grand-mother, who was born in 1930, had her left hand loosely tied in her back in order to prevent her from using it while learning how to write - that was a rather common practice, actually. She always had trouble writing.
Thing is, as there is a vast majority of right-handed persons, everyone writes the way suited for right-handed persons. The way you have to form your letters must impair left-handed people, even if they learn how to write early in their lives. It's probably less natural to them. Now that doesn't make you retarded, but it hampers you somehow.
When I was young and not driving yet, my dad let me play with the gears sometimes, on signal. He sat on the left side, so I operated them from the right seat: with my left hand. I'm right-handed. When I learnt how to drive, I first encountered difficulties with operating the gears with my right hand, and I found it somehow unnatural to work the wheel with my left...
Now, that does not make me an occasional leftie. I suppose I have good coordination eye-hand or something like it. I wonder if there is a difference with the way righties and lefties use their hands; some people I know just cannot do anything with their left hand, while others, however not ambidextrous, use both their hands indifferently for many tasks. All lefties I know happen to switch easily, apart when writing.
Now, that does not make me an occasional leftie. I suppose I have good coordination eye-hand or something like it. I wonder if there is a difference with the way righties and lefties use their hands; some people I know just cannot do anything with their left hand, while others, however not ambidextrous, use both their hands indifferently for many tasks. All lefties I know happen to switch easily, apart when writing.
Oh, I was talking about procreation. Thankfully, sexual intercourse must stay. Absolutely. On a side note, I think I could live with men having babies in my stead.
PS: there is a typo in my last comment.
PS: there is a typo in my last comment.
Actually, I'm using this imparable argument to prove mutants are geeks and not gays. Although... well, if some geeks can get laid, some gays probably can't.
I do have gay friends who can't get laid. Ok, not so many. Still.
On a side note... why does everybody oppose "gay" to "straight men"?
I do have gay friends who can't get laid. Ok, not so many. Still.
On a side note... why does everybody oppose "gay" to "straight men"?
Even more bizarrely, I feel vaguely envious. Somehow, I've always wondering what life would be like if we got rid of men.
I used to like frogs. In my plate. Not sure I do anymore.
The X-Men are sci-fi geeks. LGBT sci-fi geeks if you want, but they are geeks. Minority? Check. Incomprehension? Check. Trouble getting laid because of incongruous superpowers despite fun, loving personalities? Check.
How does the "grand-daughter" get to be impregnated?
Indeed. A lot like in LotR fandom with the famous elf Figwit - aka Brett McKenzie (one half of the Flight of the Conchords, by the way). We all know how it started: "wow! Frodo is grea... who is that?!"
Or, in Whovian words: "oh noes, the Ninth Doctor just died! I'll never watch a single episode agai.. hey! who is that?!"
Or, in Whovian words: "oh noes, the Ninth Doctor just died! I'll never watch a single episode agai.. hey! who is that?!"
In True Blood, they would have sex.
Because we assumed everybody knew. Welcome to our world.
I'd rather say the opposite. We know that in times of crisis people go back to theatres and pay huge amounts of money to see big things, most of the time shitty ones.
... currently doing a great job in Treme's New Orleans....
I am terrified by Amanda Tapping's accent in Sanctuary. Yes, I know, she is Essex-born. Still. I hate it. I swear it's not accurate.
Oh! I know. Pretty much every actor trying to impersonate a Frenchman does fail horribly. Ack, that guy in NCIS... Plus, everybody kept calling him "la gruh-noo-ee" at best.
Oh! I know. Pretty much every actor trying to impersonate a Frenchman does fail horribly. Ack, that guy in NCIS... Plus, everybody kept calling him "la gruh-noo-ee" at best.
Everybody else is British. His accent would stick out like, like... well, like Nekkid!Hodor's manly parts.
Plus, I don't dislike the strange way he speaks. Sort of an artistically woven accent suiting a man who chooses his words carefully...
Plus, I don't dislike the strange way he speaks. Sort of an artistically woven accent suiting a man who chooses his words carefully...
This show, however fantasy-esque, is profoundly realistic. There is no such thing as "good" or "evil" but people with an inflated sense of honour, others with low morals, madmen, spoiled brats, seasoned warriors with cynism born out of experience... Well, all human passions. See the Bible for exactly the same stories.
You're not supposed to root for "bad people". You're supposed to have at least one half of a brain able to draw conclusions from what you see, and judge by yourself. Now that is a clever show. Sorry, but I don't see that often.
You're not supposed to root for "bad people". You're supposed to have at least one half of a brain able to draw conclusions from what you see, and judge by yourself. Now that is a clever show. Sorry, but I don't see that often.
Er... Sorry?
Tintin, anyone? Spirou? Basically all of Franquin's work? Lucky Luke? Lucky Luke, for Gotlib's sake! Le Chat? Les Tuniques bleues? Thorgal? Largo Winch? Frankly all of Dufaux and VanHamme's work? XIII? Achille Talon? Black & Mortimer? Ric Hochet? Yoko Tsuno? Léonard? Durango?
Imbécile!
Tintin, anyone? Spirou? Basically all of Franquin's work? Lucky Luke? Lucky Luke, for Gotlib's sake! Le Chat? Les Tuniques bleues? Thorgal? Largo Winch? Frankly all of Dufaux and VanHamme's work? XIII? Achille Talon? Black & Mortimer? Ric Hochet? Yoko Tsuno? Léonard? Durango?
Imbécile!
Oh, you can't completely dismiss his words because of his ridiculous generalisation and blatant disregard for historical nuance.
Truth be told, however cartoonish, the Smurves were quite racist as they were and exceptionnally misogynistic - even if, by that time, the Franco-Belgian comics were an almost boys-only business. After all, there used to be some pieces of art which weren't so manichean.
Smurves used to drive me crazy as a kid, because I felt exactly like I did watching that unsufferable git of a mouse torture endlessly the poor cat Tom. I went for the loser - I vote Gargamel, me. Poor sod.
On a side note, I feel compelled to ask: why would the Smurves be cool just because they belong to some branch of pop culture? As opposed to what bad sort of non-manichean, elitist work?
Truth be told, however cartoonish, the Smurves were quite racist as they were and exceptionnally misogynistic - even if, by that time, the Franco-Belgian comics were an almost boys-only business. After all, there used to be some pieces of art which weren't so manichean.
Smurves used to drive me crazy as a kid, because I felt exactly like I did watching that unsufferable git of a mouse torture endlessly the poor cat Tom. I went for the loser - I vote Gargamel, me. Poor sod.
On a side note, I feel compelled to ask: why would the Smurves be cool just because they belong to some branch of pop culture? As opposed to what bad sort of non-manichean, elitist work?
Which Smurf would he be? (Alas! he almost was a President Smurf.)
