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Post by cheesecake on May 6, 2020 14:04:45 GMT
One should not read about amusement park deaths at 1:00 in the morning.
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 7, 2020 21:59:13 GMT
Does anybody wanna bang the new White House press secretary? I'm seeing her a lot now. Maybe the hot chick face that we're gonna be burned out seeing everywhere from now on. She seems like the type that after you bang her, you get rid of her....... though.
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Post by cherry68 on May 7, 2020 22:04:55 GMT
Does anybody wanna bang the new White House press secretary? I'm seeing her a lot now. Maybe the hot chick face that we're gonna be burned out seeing everywhere from now on. She seems like the type that after you bang her, you get rid of her....... though. She looks like the type that gets rid of you before you bang her.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 7, 2020 22:13:31 GMT
Does anybody wanna bang the new White House press secretary? I'm seeing her a lot now. Maybe the hot chick face that we're gonna be burned out seeing everywhere from now on. She seems like the type that after you bang her, you get rid of her....... though. She used to pop up on Fox as a regular contributor - as Republican strategist .......she's was sexy af in that role, I think this new one may even be hotter since I'll just treat her lies as a flirty game we're playing! Since this is a random thoughts thread - how come Republican female political commentators are hotter in general than their Democratic rivals? There are exceptions but .........just generally speaking not to reduce a whole group of women that I've now separated along political lines on their respective levels of hotness because that would be totally wrong. Or something....... Discuss!
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 7, 2020 22:17:28 GMT
Does anybody wanna bang the new White House press secretary? I'm seeing her a lot now. Maybe the hot chick face that we're gonna be burned out seeing everywhere from now on. She seems like the type that after you bang her, you get rid of her....... though. She used to pop up on Fox as a regular contributor - as Republican strategist .......she's was sexy af in that role, I think this new one may even be hotter since I'll just treat her lies as a flirty game we're playing! Since this is a random thoughts thread - how come Republican female political commentators are hotter in general than their Democratic rivals? There are exceptions but .........just generally speaking not to reduce a whole group of women that I've now separated along political lines on their respective levels of hotness because that would be totally wrong. Or something....... Discuss! On that point.......you can refer to this observation I made years ago: movie-awards-redux.freeforums.net/thread/7028/charlize-theron-megyn-kelly-movie
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Post by Zeb31 on May 9, 2020 6:54:17 GMT
How do people write such long essays over any topic? I was struggling to write one paragraph adequately.... How do they write so succinctly, so eloquently? When I speak English out loud which I've written (it's not my first language) I sound like a parrot 😶 DeepArcher JangoB Lubezki Zeb31 how do you guys do it???? My apologies for being so very very late to respond; I wanted to save it for when I had the time to sit down and write you a proper (meaning, long-ass) answer. I'm gonna second what Jango and DeepArcher have already said: the key is to keep reading and writing, both in your first language and in English. I've always loved to read and to do crosswords, so I was constantly exposed to fresh vocabulary and to different registers: academic, journalistic, comedic, dramatic, poetic. You pick things up without even realizing it: new words, new structures, how to set up a punchline and then deliver it, how to report facts, how to go from a thesis to a conclusion and make your reasoning understandable to an outside reader, how to write about abstract concepts, how to express emotion through words. I wasn't very good at all those things (and I'm still not), but I had a relatively easy time writing essays at school because I would read other people's writing all the time and learn how they did it even if I didn't always notice that that's what I was doing. That's equally true of learning new languages: the more you expose yourself to them, the more you passively soak up. I had English lessons at school from a pretty early age, but it was always very basic stuff; the thick of it I learned by watching English-language movies and listening to music. I'd google the lyrics to my favorite songs and create little Word files with the original words and the translations side by side (OCD has its rare upsides, I guess). I started watching subtitled films when I was like 8; I'd listen to people speak and gradually pick up on words, verbal conjugations, sentence structures, phrasal verbs, prepositions, all that jazz. I guessed how to say stuff based on what I'd heard before, which I reckon is exactly how we learn to speak any language at all. I realized that different things might be more easily explained in different languages, so slowly I started incorporating English into my internal monologue until it because a bilingual melange. The same thing happened when I started taking French lessons; I'd do the exercises, do my reading, look up songs and watch movies, until I caught it beginning to spontaneously seep into my thoughts. So if you want to develop your writing, read a lot. In your language, in English, in any language that you want to learn. If you'd like to write fiction, read a ton of fiction; if you'd like to write screenplays, read a ton of scripts both new and old; if you'd like to improve the way you write about films, read film essays/analyses from seasoned authors that you admire. Read good work and bad work, so that you can compare them and also take note of what not to do. Seek out subjects that interest you so that reading doesn't feel like a chore. From that we get to the next part: if you want to develop your writing, write a lot. There's no way around it, you just have to practice. Once you've learned the basics, add your own spin to it by taking the framework that you've acquired and using it to express yourself. It won't be perfect at first; it'll be clumsy and you'll find it unnatural, but then you just keep at it. Write for yourself until you're confident enough to share it with others, and eventually you won't feel yourself sounding like a parrot anymore. You might even find that you've developed your own style with your own noticeable patterns instead of merely replicating the blueprint laid out by the authors that you read. Like DeepArcher said, it won't happen overnight, but that's fine. Make peace with that and don't be so harsh on yourself. I'm getting into German now and I very often cringe at my own mistakes, but what can I do if I wasn't born knowing everything? Finally, since you asked about length: find subjects that make you passionate and which you have a lot to say about, and the words will come easier. If I'm writing you an answer this long, it's because I care about all these topics: language, writing, a deeply narcissistic examination of my own skills and shortcomings, the possibility that you might get something useful out of my rambling. What subjects do you feel you have the most thoughts on (be they positive, negative or mixed)? What do you feel you could spend hours talking about? Find out what that is, and you'll notice that churning out long essays will be a much easier task. And by the way, for what it's worth, I'd never realized that English isn't your first language. Wouldn't have crossed my mind if you hadn't said it. That must be a good sign.
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 9, 2020 8:23:26 GMT
I think I get the majority of my word choices and diction from books/novels (those are REALLY useful to broaden my poetic sense of my use of language), longtime internet use, and the collective encyclopedia of the idioms.
I can write, I just don't feel the need to do it as much as some of ya'll.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on May 9, 2020 15:09:26 GMT
One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick. And I was like, "that log had a child!"
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Post by Archie on May 11, 2020 5:10:33 GMT
I took a nap earlier and I had a dream I was in an Almodóvar movie where everyone had super powers and my power was that I could read the reviews for the film and see how the story would go ahead of time. It was weird.
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Post by TerryMontana on May 11, 2020 7:27:02 GMT
A few years ago I had a dream I'll never forget: I was in a movie starring Johnny Depp and Arnold Schwarzenegger and we were fighting the Chinese army because they were making war to Europe!!! After a while, this war became the real thing! It was not a movie anymore...
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on May 12, 2020 8:21:04 GMT
Despite having watched it my entire life, I only just noticed that "If I Were King of the Forest" is the last song in The Wizard of Oz, with nearly 1/3 of the runtime left. That's pretty unusual for a musical, isn't it? I guess unless you count the Winkie guards chanting as a song.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on May 12, 2020 10:57:12 GMT
unless you count the Winkie guards chanting as a song. Considering how hard it slaps, I'm counting it.
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Post by stephen on May 12, 2020 13:13:15 GMT
One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick. And I was like, "that log had a child!" This is a great children's book idea.
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Post by stephen on May 12, 2020 13:15:51 GMT
unless you count the Winkie guards chanting as a song. Considering how hard it slaps, I'm counting it. Fun fact: my uncle told me when I was a kid that the Winkie guards were actually a local chapter of the KKK that they cast on short notice because they had wanted an army unit to do the marching, but with World War II on the horizon, all available units had been mobilized (two years before the US got involved in the war, but whatever), which always somewhat tainted that song and sequence for years. But then, my uncle is and always was full of shit.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on May 12, 2020 13:29:27 GMT
Considering how hard it slaps, I'm counting it. Fun fact: my uncle told me when I was a kid that the Winkie guards were actually a local chapter of the KKK that they cast on short notice because they had wanted an army unit to do the marching, but with World War II on the horizon, all available units had been mobilized (two years before the US got involved in the war, but whatever), which always somewhat tainted that song and sequence for years. But then, my uncle is and always was full of shit. This made me think of the Klan scene in O Brother, Where Art Thou? being a tip of the hat to The Wizard of Oz.
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Post by stephen on May 12, 2020 13:31:49 GMT
Fun fact: my uncle told me when I was a kid that the Winkie guards were actually a local chapter of the KKK that they cast on short notice because they had wanted an army unit to do the marching, but with World War II on the horizon, all available units had been mobilized (two years before the US got involved in the war, but whatever), which always somewhat tainted that song and sequence for years. But then, my uncle is and always was full of shit. This made me think of the Klan scene in O Brother, Where Art Thou? being a tip of the hat to The Wizard of Oz. You know, there may be something to that. My uncle told me that around 1999-2001, right when that movie came out, and I always thought that scene in retrospect was the Coens' nod to the Winkies. It's all connected, man!
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Post by Drish on May 14, 2020 19:39:31 GMT
Aaron Paul is sooo sexy!
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Post by JangoB on May 15, 2020 13:36:17 GMT
Over the past few weeks one TV channel here has been playing Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" movies again and again, and I've never really put much thought to how much I goddamn love the first two of them. Part of it is of course due to nostalgia but they also have such a unique warm-blanket quality to them, such appealing earnestness and of course some restrained but still apparent Raimi idiosyncrasies. They seem to be part of my DNA by now, especially the first one. I remember being SO pissed off when I wasn't able to see it in the cinemas due to being ill and then rushing for the VHS when it came out. Some movies you used to love as a kid/teen simply don't hold up. Some flourish with time. Raimi's first two Spideys belong to the latter category for me for sure.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 14:18:54 GMT
One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick. And I was like, "that log had a child!" Plot for the next Pixar film writes itself
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 5:52:58 GMT
99 days since Parasite won peeps
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Post by cheesecake on May 19, 2020 13:22:19 GMT
99 days since Parasite won peeps
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Post by Archie on May 19, 2020 17:43:57 GMT
"They will never meet again."
I've been thinking about Y Tu Mamá También a lot lately.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on May 20, 2020 21:23:35 GMT
Remember that crappy Hailee Steinfeld Romeo & Juliet? Well, James Horner’s rejected original score - before he was replaced by Korzeniowski - was leaked online. So, me being a die hard Horner fan, had to take a listen.
Its pretty much what you expect. A romanticized Greatest Hits compilation of a lot of his past work (full of references to The New World, The Missing, A Beautiful Mind, The Mask of Zorro, etc.), so if you hate Horner in self-rip-off mode, you’ll hate this. And I can see why it was replaced, because critics would’ve torn it to shreds.
But at the same time, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t make me happy to listen to, and make me feel warm and fuzzy in a nostalgic way. I got semi-emotional over hearing the “four notes of doom” one more time.
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Post by Martin Stett on May 21, 2020 2:09:29 GMT
Why isn't it fashionable for men to wear purses? They're so practical! I hate that my purse doesn't go with anything and I get laughed at for carrying.
Also cloaks. Why did cloaks stop being a thing. They're great for protecting you from the cold, and then if you get too warm you just push it off. Jackets are such a pain to take on and off. Cloaks are awesome.
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Post by Archie on May 23, 2020 1:10:59 GMT
I have no patience for insane parents who give experts (pediatricians, child psychologists, etc.) shit for not being parents. Child health/development experts have dedicated their careers to improving children's lives and spent years training and learning for that purpose alone, so just maybe they deserve the benefit of the doubt, eh? It's infuriating.
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