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Olympic athletes are the result of a Nazi experiment that got loose. They lull us into complacency, then they suck our souls out through our nostrils. It's just gross. But it has nothing to do with Brazil--unless you know something you're not telling us!Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Big nay to hamburger and chips. (Hamburg is where the experiment took place).
Bell bottoms
im not sure what the source of my problem is danik but ive got a handful of sites that just give me a boatload of problems. pages hang, or wont load at all, etc. it seems to be a little better lately.
and im sorry---clopin and pompey, you simply cannot stop in here after who knows how many months away without so much as a "how do you do bounty!" humph! smiles...
okay, back to bell bottoms:
(Hey Bounty--I wondered when you were going to say hello. :) )
Ah yes: bell bottoms
waves at bounty; belated howdy to PB
Bell Bottoms: Nay - didn't like them then, don't care for them now
Moon gazing ?
Why not?
Piano music?
Why not?
Piano music?
Aye (quite often) I'm listening to Elise Lebec's Possible Dreams (album of the same name) as I was writing this last sentence. I composed/reproduced? a small piece of piano music myself from a poem I wrote nearly 9-years ago... the music came to me in a lucid dream,though I heard it as a choral. I've been told I need to flesh out the poem and music a bit, it's very minimalistic.
Electric guitar ?
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That´s nice. I never composed anything. Scratched the guitar a bit.
Nay. I love the normal guitar.
Flute music?
re: bell bottoms - I always felt ridiculous in them... I would have never bought them for myself {thanks Mom}... I've never ridden the fashion wave.
Aye... Classical mostly; the flute playing by Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull was quite fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd6u3hQ9bkQ and Native American flute can be quite melodic.
Chamber music ?
Aye
Opera?
Aye
Ballet?
Sure!
Folkloric dances?
Aye... in moderation
Modern Dance ?
Aye...in moderation.
Street Theater?
Street Theater?... I don't think I've ever seen street theater, but the concept seems fine so...
Aye
Flash Mobs ?
Aye, if it's e.g. an orchestra playing Beethoven (or Ligeti or whatever) or a theatre group doing Shakespeare or something.
Cimbalom?
well north star I had to look that up, and i'll go for aye both in general principle that all musical instruments are good, and in particular because this one seems pretty nifty.
and to my litnet colleagues above---in undergrad i took ballet and i was in both the folk dance and modern dance clubs! smiles...
police actually walking beats as opposed to only in squad cars?
Police walking beats vs squad cars - I suppose this is about the sort of urban areas where it can make sense. If there are resources for it, I'm sure it can only do good to have a police officer in the street, making them more a part of the community than if they just drive past in cars.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder?
Happy are the countries were the police is seen as a protection for the comunity!
A big Aye for Fassbinder!
Nurejev?
even more than reviving worthwhile but unfortunately ~6 month dormant threads, I like ballet, so yes.
miley cyrus on the voice?
or if that one doesn't work, this one:
reading (for pleasure) more than one book at a time?
Nay. Unless i don't like it.
Black friday?
Nay. It doesn´t work very well in my country.
Beach?
what, the cologne that calvin klein ripped off from Kramer on Seinfeld?? smiles...
either way, aye to the beach
movies with sad endings?
Aye. Unless, it adds a bit of realism to cinema, since most times movies have extremely happy endings, which is not what happens in the real world.
Advertise on youtube?
Lol! I mean the real beach: sand, sea, sun, and so on!I never knew there was a famous perfume called Beach.
A big Nay specially for political and religious advertisements.
sweet pancakes for breakfast?
Nay. I don't like pancakes!
Political correctness in humour?
Aye!
Creative parodies?
Aye.
Reality shows?
Aye ("Gold Rush")
Infomercials ?
nay on infomercials for me, but aye for whoever's making 'em so that people who like them can watch 'em.
reality shows---for me in a limited sense yes, I absolutely love the voice and survivor.
danik---you can probably find that episode, or at least scenes from it, online.
movies with endings that kinda leave you hanging?
Sorry, bounty, a big Nay for the reality shows, at least the ones I know.
I had a look, yes, and found that guy smelling his arm.
Aye, if the ending fits the story.
Fantastic Literature?
Aye, because every type of Literature fit's someone interests.
Pay per view?
I prefer open TV (free contents without extra pay)
Soap operas?
the beach! laughs...
danik when you say "fantastic" literature, do you mean "fantasy?" as in elves, magic, other worldly creatures, etc? I love that stuff.
I wonder if soap operas are the visual version of what romance novels are to women? which is to say, the literary equivalent to playboy magazine to men.
i'll go with lendo's answer, in part, to your literature question---aye in that someone watches them, but i'll take a step back from that and wonder about their redeeming value, and another further step back for myself, and say nay.
although, I dated a girl a long time ago who was a big soap opera fan, and we watched episodes together and had conversations about it. it was enjoyable in that regard and id do something like that again if the opportunity arose.
I say nay to ppv too. theres nothing so important to watch that I cant either wait to read about it, or that it comes out in some more accessible mode. its hard to believe people will pay lots of money to watch boxing, or mma.
although, ppv does include movies too, which is not too different in some regards than paying money to go to the theaters. hmmm.
watching re-runs of old favorite tv shows you've already seen many times?
With Fantastic Literature I mean Edgar Allan Poe, Kafka and Gabriel Garcia Marques for example.
Elves are more related to fairy tales to me.
Here in Brazil the soap operas have more or less the same status as the American tv series (we have series too, but national series are still something new here). Sometimes Soap Operas are complex works of fiction like the recent "Velho Chico" which evolved around the political powerand enviromental changes about the São Francisco river. This river has great regional importance, because it is the one big river in an otherwise very dry region.
Aye.
The Voice Kids?
Why do you consider García Marquez fantastic Literature?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Aye. There's some awesome kids on those talent shows, and there's always a way for them to get their future career started, if they want to make a career in music.
Pizza-Burguer?
Aye.
Nandos?
have never been, don't know that ive ever even seen one actually.
on dining out principle, which is something a lot of people like, I could say aye, but being a vegetarian and wishing every one else in the world was one too, I could say nay.
the upcoming NFL superbowl?
Nay... they play it on Sunday... I'll catch the highlites on Monday
Raking leaves ?