Another question, though not aye or nay. What anime would you recommend that I can find on youtube?
Also, what was the name of the guy who established the genre in the sixties--the guy who did Astro-boy and Kimba the White Lion and Gigantor? I saw all of those (and others like Speed Racer) when they first came out in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dME8uvdM8o
A classic TV show. Dubbed unfortunately. But if you have no problem watching copyrighted material on youtube, why do you have a problem pirating the same material?
I'm not finding any Miyazaki on youtube though.
Of course! I was also a HUGE Monty Python fan long before most Americans had ever heard of them. Even before their TV show came on over here.Originally Posted by Lykren
Um, well, public TV or NPR?
NPR but I don't like either much.
Scrabble?
E: Haven't played scrabble. Would like to, though.
I haven't read the classics yet either, partly because I don't know whether to read them in English or Finnish, as I don't think I'll ever learn Latin or Greek well enough to read the originals.
Also haven't watched anime, I tried a My Neighbor Totoro some time ago, but it was too, well, anime for me then. I recall liking Spirited Away when I saw it some years ago.
And I'd certainly not avoid mentioning that Sappho was a Lesbian.
Poker?
Thanks.
I only have a problem with downloading it, and it is based on the well established "Other Woman Principle": looking is not the same as taking. ;-)But if you have no problem watching copyrighted material on youtube, why do you have a problem pirating the same material?
Good answer!
Nay. Like chess, I've never played. I've never been all that into board games.
I should probably ask this one when Clopin is around, but: allowing college students to carry concealed handguns on campuses?
I used to play in my 20s, but I didn't like lying: I didn't like what it seemed to imply about men and people in general; and I've long since abandoned all forms of as gambling stupid sucker behavior. So nay.
Same question about arming college students.
Last edited by Pompey Bum; 04-22-2015 at 03:28 PM.
Nay. The likelihood of the weapons being used to defend the students & staff from an outside threat compared to the likelihood of random shootings is minimal. I'd certainly never teach somewhere where I might get a bullet for not giving top marks for each student.
E: Modigliani?
Yeah, plus--I don't know what kind of judgment freshman have in Finland, but over here...
Still, I'd like to hear if Clopin has a civil liberties take on it.
Aye. Love his nudes and their facial expressions.
Should tax money go to art projects?
No. I don't think money should go to art at all, really.
Argue with me! Prove me wrong! Please! Because I love art but I feel guilty because it's like, useless and it doesn't seem to add value to most people's lives.
Does having professional therapists around contribute to society's well-being?
^^Freshmen over here have much better judgement than in the US, for the age difference alone. Not nearly good enough to trust everyone with gun, though.
Art doesn't seem to add value to most people's lives? Did an architect design any buildings nearby? People with memory loss react to music they've heard ages ago, and beautiful pictures on hospital walls make the patients recover faster. The fact that most don't seek out art in their daily lives doesn't mean it's useless or doesn't add value to their lives. If it wasn't for Ansel Adams, would there be any nature left in the United States?
Of course professional therapists help, by treating those who genuinely need therapy to function at all, and by the discoveries made in researching their minds they help normal people.
Henri Rousseau?
I guess...
Aye.
Sam Cooke?
I agree with North Star on both guns on campuses and art. As to the guns issue, having an armed citizenry in public places is dangerous and terrifying enough; having an armed student body ready to shoot at every frat party fracas or emotionally charged breakup is insanity. And if anyone thinks having a classroom full of people shooting at a shooter is a justification for each insanity, they should re-examine realities of ballistics and the average shooting abilities of a college undergrad.
As to art, North Star covered a lot of the examples of its necessary place in our lives, so I won't give any more examples. We are, though, inherently artistic beings who--since our advent--have needed to express ourselves artistically in one or more of a plethora of mediums, and we are also inherent art appreciators with an appetite for art's beauty and sublime as legitimate as our appetite for food and water, if not as dire. And governments, for it and its citizens sake, should fund the Arts for the same reason it funds libraries and schools: to make our nation a happier, better-informed one.
Yes to Rousseau; I'm not a huge fan, but I'd take him over any Impressionist.
Mark Tobey?
Last edited by Pike Bishop; 04-22-2015 at 04:11 PM.
Well, he wasn't really part of my experience, but I do remember as a really little guy, my babysitters listening to Twisting the Night Away.
Gray smudges as censorship for nudity on the news?
Nah, nudity's not a public menace.
Buying stuff on Black Friday?
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