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Post by Gene on Feb 1, 2016 20:03:39 GMT -5
Ladies might love Cool James, but that doesn't mean I want to have to hear about it.
There. I said it.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 1, 2016 20:23:10 GMT -5
"There I said it" is an obnoxious phrase.
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Post by realjla on Feb 1, 2016 21:22:07 GMT -5
Pluto will always be a planet to me. There, I said it. Is Pluto a planet or a dog? And if Pluto's a planet, what's Goofy? And if Goofy's a dog, then how can Pluto be a dog? And..and... F U, Walt Disney. There, I said it. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 1, 2016 23:20:45 GMT -5
Since we'll be talking about Cerebus soon... heres my take on Dave Sim's supposedly unassailable list of 15 impossible things to believe before breakfast. Fifteen Impossible Things To Believe Before Breakfast That Make You A Good Feminist:
What happened to Sim, anyway? How did he become so obsessed with all this? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 0:05:51 GMT -5
On the rare occasion I use public transport, I hate it when a man in bermudas or other shorts sits next to me and his hairy legs are touching my cleanly shaved legs. Worse yet if he tries to strike up a conversation. Worse again if he has a stupid accent and he wants to add me on facebook. Try manscaping instead you neanderthal pig. There, I said it mofos. I'm glad my appearance and demeanor pretty much says STAY AWAY when I have to sit in a lobby or coffee shop. But it doesn't work in bars at all. So I bring my work satchel with me everywhere and if I wind up in a bar I just spread out paperwork and look like I'm focusing on it really hard to give off a LEAVE ME ALONE vibe. Which still only works about 80% of the time. |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 2, 2016 0:19:36 GMT -5
Much of what has been said in this thread is utterly moronic. There I said it. What has been said, specifically, that is moronic? Criticism noted. I edited. |
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Post by realjla on Feb 2, 2016 0:54:33 GMT -5
Edit more.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 2, 2016 7:01:44 GMT -5
Since we'll be talking about Cerebus soon... heres my take on Dave Sim's supposedly unassailable list of 15 impossible things to believe before breakfast. Fifteen Impossible Things To Believe Before Breakfast That Make You A Good Feminist:
What happened to Sim, anyway? How did he become so obsessed with all this? It's hard to tell without knowing him personally, but judging from the comments he made in the letters section and in his editorial pieces over the years I am led to believe that he started with some relationship problems and that things went downhill from there. Sim clearly loves a good argument and will never settle for a bland "everyone is entitled to their opinion" conclusion, and when challenged about things he said about women (which, in hindsight, he probably would have admitted were really about certain individuals and not the gender in its entirety) he just went on and on and dug himself in deeper. I am sure that people telling him "Dave, you're wrong on this point and that point" only pushed him into defending his position with even more gusto. What I find remarkable is that the way his views on gender impact the Cerebus storyline does not make him sound like an anti-feminist at all. Characters like Astoria, Cirin, Jaka and even the countess, to some extent, are more mature and well-balanced that most of the male characters with the exception of Suentus Po, and like the guys they are rich and complex individuals. His rendition of how people behave is usually very true to life and does not seem to reflect a pro-this or anti-that agenda. The editorial pages, though... that's another thing. How they made me fume over the years, whether the subject was women, atheism, Hemmingway or pretty much anything outside of comic book publishing!!! |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 2, 2016 9:05:31 GMT -5
Pluto will always be a planet to me. There, I said it. As far back as I can remember (which is, sadly, quite a way), Pluto has been a planet. I don't see how a bunch of guys, no matter how smart, get to decide it isn't anymore. Who formed and empowered this Planetary Membership Committee? What's their authority? Pluto was a planet for 75 years and shouldn't be disqualified based on a rules change. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 2, 2016 10:18:43 GMT -5
Pluto will always be a planet to me. There, I said it. As far back as I can remember (which is, sadly, quite a way), Pluto has been a planet. I don't see how a bunch of guys, no matter how smart, get to decide it isn't anymore. Who formed and empowered this Planetary Membership Committee? What's their authority? Pluto was a planet for 75 years and shouldn't be disqualified based on a rules change. I will always consider Planet a planet too, but the arguments against it make sense unless we are ready to call Ceres a planet too (and Makemake, and Quaoar, and Eris, and Sedna, and all the other trans-neptunian worlds). The rule that a planet must have cleared its orbit from space debris is pretty straightforward, no matter how much I root for my pal Pluto... Still, it's unfair!!!  |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 2, 2016 10:57:48 GMT -5
As far back as I can remember (which is, sadly, quite a way), Pluto has been a planet. I don't see how a bunch of guys, no matter how smart, get to decide it isn't anymore. Who formed and empowered this Planetary Membership Committee? What's their authority? Pluto was a planet for 75 years and shouldn't be disqualified based on a rules change. I will always consider Planet a planet too, but the arguments against it make sense unless we are ready to call Ceres a planet too (and Makemake, and Quaoar, and Eris, and Sedna, and all the other trans-neptunian worlds). The rule that a planet must have cleared its orbit from space debris is pretty straightforward, no matter how much I root for my pal Pluto... Still, it's unfair!!! There are "grandfather" exceptions to rules all the time. They can apply the new rules to other trans-Neptunian objects and grandfather Pluto in as a planetary exception. My solar system has 9 planets, dammit. |
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Post by Randle-El on Feb 2, 2016 11:02:26 GMT -5
Grown men wearing big baggy shorts look stupid and my opinion of someone drops instantly if I see them so attired. There, I said it! Cei-U! At least kilts look dignified! You must hate basketball. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 2, 2016 11:19:22 GMT -5
There are "grandfather" exceptions to rules all the time. They can apply the new rules to other trans-Neptunian objects and grandfather Pluto in as a planetary exception. My solar system has 9 planets, dammit. I'd be happy with our nine "historical" planets, personally, and adding qualifiers to satisfy astronomers. Instead of just "planets" and "dwarf planets", I'd go for "massive planets", "dwarf planets", "Kuiper belt planets", "massive asteroids" and so on, thus removing the stigma of being just a "dwarf" planet. It's a bit like biological classification, really, where we designate paraphyletic groups like "fish" or "reptiles" for conveniences sake, even if it isn't very logical. (A paraphyletic group includes a common ancestor and all its descendants, except a few for some reason or other. Hence with the reptiles, we include all the animals that lay eggs on the ground, living or dead, but somehow exclude birds even though their ancestors were theropod dinosaurs not so long ago. (We also exclude mammals despite our reptilian ancestors, because we're snobs). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 12:55:01 GMT -5
Pluto is a planet, and I quote from Stan Lee ... 'Nuff Said!
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Post by The Captain on Feb 2, 2016 13:26:50 GMT -5
Maybe someone should write a companion book to this one about all the wrong things taught in science classes in American schools... because curriculum for schools never includes wrong information and new evidence never changes our understanding of the universe or our history. Dammit, I don't care what Galileo said (even though Bruno-for the wrong reasons-and Copernicus-for the right reasons said it first-as well as a host of ancients), the sun revolves around the earth I say. There I said it! -M Do you envision a day where physical textbooks in public K-12 schools are phased out? With the incredible cost to them, as well as the information, particularly in the sciences and technology fields, changing more rapidly than ever before, it wouldn't surprise me if schools went to a model of licensing material from an external source that would be updated on a yearly basis so that the students are being kept up to date. This would go a long way to creating a level playing field between "rich" districts, which can afford to replace books on a regular basis, and "poor" districts that may struggle to buy new books but which could rent the information from a third-party on a year-by-year basis. And if it isn't already being piloted or done somewhere, does anyone want to start a new business venture with me? |
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