Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Fugee
What kind of Protestant wingnuts do you know? I've never once heard that said and I'd stack up my Protty wingnut creds against yours anytime.

You'd probably win. Fundamentalism in all its forms is essentially formalized nostalgia for a perfect age that was better than life today. I know more about Catholic wingnutism. They want to be prelapsarian, but think the downfall was either the Reformation or Vatican II. They want to recreate the high Renaissance church, and wind up missing the mark and getting the American church just pre-Vatican II. For Protestants, prelapsarian means before the medieval church. My impression of P wingnuts are that they believe they can recreate the First or Third Century church, and miss the mark and end up in the late 19th century. Maybe some of them are totally honest about it and say "we want to go back before the Scopes monkey trial, and that's about it" or something.

But I stand by my statement that Protestants tend to think that When Jesus Roamed the Earth was some kind of utopia, even though he probably spent much of his life in fear and filth, like everyone else. Catholics tend to romanticize everything about his life other than the 12 hours preceding his death.

It would be nice if everything in the movie was historically accurate but maybe Mel decided people would be too distracted from the message ("Ethel, where's the rest of the cross he's carrying?") if certain things didn't fit in with the pictures we've always seen -- e.g., nails through the palms and not the wrists. Or maybe he just wanted to fit with his own mental picture.

I think there is immensely more value in producing a depiction of the times as they actually occurred. We have plenty of movies depicting the Passion as people expect to see it. Why bother just bringing the crucifix on the wall to life? Gibson claims he consulted with scholars to ensure accuracy. People will come away from this movie thinking they've seen something that strove for total accuracy, like Cameron's Titanic. We've bought into another twenty years of people thinking the picture of Jesus on Grandma's wall is somehow accurate. We didn't need a retelling of "The Greatest Story Ever Told."

BTW, we wish you a Meaningful Shrove Tuesday.

[The Dryer Thread]

Originally posted by idle acts
Are there appliances involved?

You rang?

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I left out the part about the orgy because I didn't want you all to be jealous. But if it's a competition, I'd have to add:

6. Have orgy

Not a competition. I just don't watch hockey.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by idle acts
That's b/c she is Ann-Margret.

The eyebrows made me unsure.

Out of curiousity I asked my SO about his laminated list. I can only remember Ann-Margret (in her 30s) and Selma Hayek. As it is, that's a pretty full list.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
What does this mean? I hate when people say this. "I want to touch base with you regarding the Penske Account." What???!!!! If you want to play baseball just depose me for crying out loud.

Sometimes I forget these things have other meanings than the gutter one.

Circle back is the new touch base.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by The Dryer Thread
You rang?

I commend this sock for entering its Sophomore Slump with panache.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Circle back is the new touch base.

I think those are complementary phrases, not substitutes. As in, "Associate, after you do aaalllll the work, let's circle back and touch base."

[idle acts]

Originally posted by The Dryer Thread
You rang?

wrong number.

[Can you hear me now?]

Originally posted by The Dryer Thread
No more Snuggle please. Blech.

I don't even know who you are anymore.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Circle back is the new touch base.

Disagree. "Ping" is the new touch base, as in "Did you ping opposing counsel on getting the signature page?"

Maybe pinging is a Silicon Valley thing, though.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Disagree. "Ping" is the new touch base, as in "Did you ping opposing counsel on getting the signature page?"

Maybe pinging is a Silicon Valley thing, though.

ping/touch base are formal/informal- one pings a vous (not one of us) and touches base with a tu (just one of us guys)

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
It has subtitles.

At first I was ignoring all the nice people rushing to tell me that it has subtitles. With it having become sort of a groundswell at this point, I guess I have to respond.

I DIDN'T REALLY FUCKING CARE ABOUT THE SUBTITLES. I'm not going to see it because I don't in general care for snuff films, and I certainly don't want to support a snuff film that will used by certain less desirable members of our society to promote an agenda of hate in the name of power and hegemony. Especially since the bulk of the people watching the film for that purpose will fail to grasp the irony that Christ's crucifiction was nothing more than a cynical murder committed in support of maintaining power and hegemony.


There. I feel much better. I should have just stuck with "I read the book."

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
ping/touch base are formal/informal- one pings a vous (not one of us) and touches base with a tu (just one of us guys)

I think you have them reversed, though. "Touching base" is a voluntary thing, allowing for choice in the other's part, and so is more attuned to the formal, respectful vous, while pinging is intrusive and involuntary - you HAVE TO packet-respond - and so is the familiar.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
The eyebrows made me unsure.

Out of curiousity I asked my SO about his laminated list. I can only remember Ann-Margret (in her 30s) and Selma Hayek. As it is, that's a pretty full list.

Why does there continue to be a hyphen between Ann and Margaret? Isn't Ann her first name?

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by bilmore
I think you have them reversed, though. "Touching base" is a voluntary thing, allowing for choice in the other's part, and so is more attuned to the formal, respectful vous, while pinging is intrusive and involuntary - you HAVE TO packet-respond - and so is the familiar.

Man, I hope you are pretty.