Posts by BobHopesColostomyBag

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This thread is why I spend as few days in China as possible, and i always stay in a civilized area such as Chaoyang in Beijing. If you stay in that bubble, you will see good bathrooms, nice places to stay, decent meals, clean buildings, etc.

Note that Taiwan is much much much more civilized than China (Singapore even more so), and they are ethnically Chinese.

But yeah, China is disgusting.

.psychologist.irl said:

These tests are useless and actually dangerous since people taking them seriously might think they have some illness that they don't actually have.

The only thing along these lines that's ever been shown to mean anything is the Myers-Briggs type indicator which can actually be fairly useful if not taken too dogmatically.

FluffyKitten said:

I don't get angry, but I do wonder how manuracturing some in China, shipping across that country, shipping it across the pacific, shipping across the country, and finally to the store, is cheaper than manufacturing it in America. But no one believes in tariffs anymore, so there's no way to turn it around without paying americans slave wages

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- or -

Now that is genuinely funny fuck I'm laughing hard over here

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It's no longer fear inducing for me.


Yah, mon. You raas bombaclot, when you ago make fi payment to di baldhead?
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Is there some Rastafarian word generator site I don't know about?

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It's no longer fear inducing for me.

Do you know when you will be paying the full balance, Sahib?
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Sir, if it is not too much trouble for you, would you kindly make out a post-dated check in the amount of $18,455?
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Yah, mon. You raas bombaclot, when you ago make fi payment to di baldhead?
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Any Fred & Ginger

Except the Fellini disaster by that name

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I still miss Stargazer and therapist. Stargazer more so but only slightly.

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One of the greatest classic movies ever

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%281931_film%29

This is excellent.


Also Andrei Rublev by Tarakovsky

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Metropolitan.


Barcelona was a bit of a disappointment to me though..

Do you have something about wearing leather straps under your clothes?

I remember hearing some commentary somewhere that Stillman had intended that movie to be "An Officer and a Gentlemen" as two different persons.

Leather straps???




'fraid I never saw O&AG

Fred, the Navy Attache cousin trolls the Spanish girls at a club telling them that Ted is an SM freak who wears narrow leather straps drawn tightly under his clothes so it makes him convulse weirdly when he's dancing.

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BobHopesColostomyBag said:

Metropolitan.


Barcelona was a bit of a disappointment to me though..

Do you have something about wearing leather straps under your clothes?

I remember hearing some commentary somewhere that Stillman had intended that movie to be "An Officer and a Gentlemen" as two different persons.

Leather straps???


'fraid I never saw O&AG

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BobHopesColostomyBag said:

She was OK in American Psycho..

And I really liked her with Kate Beckinsale in The Last Days of Disco.



I'm going to have to watch this again; it's even a better movie than I remembered..

One of the best movies I have ever seen. Whit Stillman is completely underrated.

Metropolitan.


Barcelona was a bit of a disappointment to me though..

Shiny New Kid said:

Is it really a surprise that she's batshit insane? A quick perusal of any of her posts would tell you that.

Her delusions are very common among the psychotic, that she has knowledge that isn't available to others, that she has discovered things other's haven't, that this knowledge has led to a unseen cabal to persecute them, that those who disagree are lacking the intelligence or are mad themselves or are part of the persecuting cabal.

It's really quite sad and what you're doing in this thread and others where she's posting is not really that different from Victorians poking the mad with sticks at Bedlam

I don't think the Victorians still did that. It was more the Georgians that did that. (Victorians = 19th cent, Georgians = 18th century)

mr the teapots said:

GET THE FUCK OVER IT. JESUS CHRIST YOU ARE 60 YEARS OLD AND WILL SOON SHED THIS MORTAL COIL

I shed a huge mortal coil in the toilet this morning...I eat 4 or 5 apples a day and have a case of navel oranges a week

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no, Claire was trying to make it sound as if she was entitled to more, to try to get more money out of Linda. Linda had already paid her some amount of money, and had also given her 10,000 pesos (prolly 700 bucks), a month of room and board, and had fed her and provided cleaning for her.

I feel bad for Linda, yet I can't help thinking she must have started seeing the red flags well before this catastrophe happened.

That would just totally suck, inviting some homeless grifter into your home to build you the front end of a relatively simple website, then find out after a couple of hours that they are batshit insane.

V8 said:

So this is how it goes.

First, we all need clothes. Those who live in the world of appearances give us positive or negative feedback about these clothes, which creates a perception of Image, as determined by others, unconnected to the functional value of the clothes. If you buy into this, you are now hooked into the eternal treadmill of keeping up appearances for the sake of others.

Next, we need transport. Once again, cars as status symbols overtakes cars as a utility = lockin to the world of appearances as determined by others.


We need somewhere to live. Bigger is better according to others, so we acquire large spaces which need lots of furniture to fill. Then by virtue of its very existence, that large furnished space needs people in it - so we acquire friends and acquaintances to make sense of the furniture.


Then we have dinner parties to justify the large dining table and all our "friends" , leading to the next phase: food and wine acquisition and snobbery.

Also in this oversized house, we need multiple garages for our multiple cars, because some is good, so more must be better - as well as endless functional and decorative status symbols to conform to the expectations of others, and to create talking points for the social life our furniture has insisted upon.

But others are not working 80 hours to pay for this. You are.

And it was the moment that you conformed to others' expectations that you lost sight of your real needs.

Materialism SETS YOU UP. Merely by virtue of emotional investment in things, your psychology has been hijacked.

If you didn't have that huge house and excess furniture, you wouldn't have had to have all those parties, put in the new pool, have excessive food and alcohol on hand, and the latest model in the garage.

But you let yourself be duped by putting other people ahead of your own real interests and true needs.

And now you're bankrupt by your emotionalization of things, and voluntary abnegation of your true self in favour of a false self.

How's all that worked out for you, anyway?

It all can be condense to simply

bensa said:

What is "Roman Jewish" food?

Waiters at Nonna Betta, which specialises in Roman Jewish cuisine, were amazed by Mr Zuckerberg's parsimony, not just because of his huge wealth but because of Americans' reputation for tipping generously, as is expected of them at home.

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You racist dumb fucks calling the "chinks". Y'all are white trash redneck scum. Please die in a fire so you can rid this world of your useless racism.
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