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Jonathan Franzen?
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Jonathan Franzen?
Haven't read him or Wallace actually, someone else answer.
I only read one of his books, The Corrections, but I liked it so I will say Aye
Contemporary poetry
There's a rumor that Franzen was the model for the character Henry in Donna Tartt's The Secret History, and that Brett Easton Ellis was the model for Francis. They were apparently all in the same undergrad writing class (and more than close) when Tartt penned The Secret History. Franzen today sure doesn't seem like Henry, though.
Yes to contemporary anything, DM, if it is what comes after post-modern. :)
Donna Tartt?
I thought contemporary is post modern? Aren't we still post modern?
Oops, and never read Donna Tartt, so deleting my question.
I can dream, can't I? Nay. PC is really, really scary. Not liberal PC, not conservative PC--but having your opinions prescribed for you is bad, m'kay?
Bruce Jenner as a woman?
Nay, and I'm sick of hearing about everyone's special snowflake sexual orientation. I do not care if you are pansexual and want me to refer to you as 'xir', it will never happen.
People who identify as non binary gender?
I wonder if Pan was pansexual.
Nay. Fish or cut bait. (I may concede a neuter gender, though).
Al dente pasta?
Aye, as long as that isn't code for "I have no idea how to cook so here's some raw pasta".
Taking time to decorate your plate/plating the food elaborately?
Nay ( to both al dente pasta and decorating with my food. I was initially responding to Pompey and saw I got beat out but my answer worked wither way)
Sushi
Aye to sushi.
And DM, since I don't think the "compliment PAM" thread is exactly your style, I want to say that you are an intelligent woman and a really good sport to but up with the louts on these game threads. Enough said.
Wasabi?
Aye, it's good.
Desserts?
Aye.
Calling vegetables "veggies"?
Uhm, nay, but at the restaurant I work at everyone always says 'veg'.
People from Quebec?
Good. Where the hell did that second g in "veggies" come from. Plus, "veggies"-- you're about to eat them, can't you give them some dignity?
And I knew and loved some Québécois nuns in Africa: all sweet, all lesbians (and hence kept far away), and very generous with their chickens. So for the Sisters, a big aye.
"Free" community college?
No. Subsidize medical school and anything else the country actually needs. No subsidies for art history majors, no subsidies for women's studies majors, no subsidies for literature majors, no subsidies for history majors, no subsidies for indulging eighteen year olds who want to go to adult daycare. The standards are also INCREDIBLY low at community college, so low to be almost unbelievable.
Also why is a humanities education so expensive? A few decades ago you could get a summer job and pay your tuition and now it costs twenty grand a year somehow? Most probably subsidies and massive student loans artificially jack up the price since everyone can and will pay whatever the universities charge (would people be as willing to take a useless degree if they spent a decade working for the eighty or so thousand dollars needed for their program and living expenses?). Why aren't cheap online degree programs the norm for humanities? If I hear one more ****ing argument centred on students getting the "college experience" I may strike someone.
Classical liberalism?
Also Quebec girls are cute but Quebec guys are uh... well you may meet some, someday.
Well, I've always had good luck with Canadians. Sweet, beautiful women (best kept secret in North America) and earnest, masculine men. I've personally known very few exceptions
I agree about free community college, by the way. Mona was just quoting Thatcher on another thread: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money." That sums up the whole project for me.
If by "Classical liberalism" you mean Mill, then aye.
Disney on Ice?
Yeh Mill, Smith, those guys.
Nay to Disney on ice, even though I love Disney.
A life sentence without parole for Ross Ulbricht?
Nay, but it comes that way when you play the game with China. They never heard of Mill, right?
Whatever massive sentence Bradley Manning got?
Thank you, it is all good fun,Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
I don't know enough about Ross Ulbricht to properly say so I will leave it for soneone else.
Bradley/Chelsea Manning? No, of course not, that's disgusting.
Julian Assange?
Aye
Anonymous (the group)
Do they do anything... ever? Nay to anonymous and I've been posting on 4chan since late 2007 haha.
4chan?
Julian Assange: Okay, I mean the show's over there. Let him do a few years minimum security for stealing stuff, then farm him out to Umass.
Never been on 4chan, so I'll pass it on.
http://boards.4chan.org/lit/
Never too late pal ;), try not to become a neo nazi, a neet or a seething sex pervert in the next five minutes.
Eugh! It's like the vestibule of hell, where the Futile go.
Using "sans" for "without"?
Hahaha, that it is.
And in writing I don't mind it, in speech it tends to come off sort of weird.
Decaffeinated coffee?
Nay, I don't drink coffee
Starbucks
Yes, on the road it's better than a Denny's. Beyond that, it's just coffee. Way too expensive, though.
Trader Joe's?
I don't think we have them up here, I've heard good things though.
Very, very cheap wine ($2 a bottle cheap)?
Aye to Trader Joes
Nay to wine
Shark Week
Aye.
Bug week?
I didn't know there was a bug week but it sounds awesome.
All those random made up holidays like Talk Like A Pirate Day
YAAAR!
Poison dart frogs?
Aye, I love those guys.
Various diffrent ribbons for various causes
I'm not really into it. To me, it's too much like pious religious works. How did it end up being about the worker? I prefer to give as much as I possibly can to the causes I personally choose (it's all about choice, right?), and then mostly keep it to myself. I somehow feel like I'm being hustled with all the hoopla. So no, not really.
Same question.
Nay, it is like some sort if braging or martyrdom or trying to guilt trip others
The continuation of associating pink with girls and blue with boys in baby/kids clothes?
Well, pink is a great color for men, and women have always worn blue. As far as baby clothes go, I think it's kind of silly to insist on the traditional colors, but parents are welcome to do so if they want. Personally I think it's a bigger problem for older kids because it can (and will) cause bullying and humiliation in school. I didn't start to wear pink until I was a self-confident and slightly obnoxious adult.
Public/televised marriage proposals?
Nay for public/televised marriage proposals.
And, the traditional colour for boys' clothes is pink/red, and blue for girls.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-_WGA06706.jpg
From http://qi.com/infocloud/gender :
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?Quote:
The ‘pink for a girl, blue for a boy’ coding is actually the opposite of the system that prevailed until quite recently. Until the 20th century toddlers of either sex were normally dressed in white, but when colours were used, boys were dressed in pink. At the turn of the 20th century, Dressmaker Magazine wrote: 'The preferred colour to dress young boys in is pink. Blue is reserved for girls as it is considered paler, and the more dainty of the two colours, and pink is thought to be stronger (akin to red).' As late as 1927, Time magazine reported that Princess Astrid of Belgium had been caught out when she gave birth to a girl, because 'The cradle…had been optimistically outfitted in pink, the colour for boys.'
Nay. He's just not convincing. I've been in his mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Also, by coincidence, I own a copy of that icon.
Christian icons as art?