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Jul. 2nd, 2004 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaThe ff.net thing has been taken down. The culprit would like you to know that 1) he is a boy and 2) his self-confidence has been damaged by your flames. I maintain that the U.S. education system started taking a dive when self-esteem became more important than accomplishment ("Everyone gets a gold star just for showing up! Yay!"). You can draw your own conclusions from that.
(Let the record show that I asked people not to flame, by the way.)
Quick movie news: new Batman Begins pics, including one in which Gary Oldman has apparently borrowed David Thewlis' porno stache and fed it Miracle Gro; a higher-quality version of the new Elektra pic that came out yesterday; and new Decipher ROTK cards with some nice images (more added every day).
Don't forget to get your two-week paid account extension here. (Yay! I don't have to fool with mine until the end of July now!)
Am going back to bed now. Mostly because I can; also because I was up somewhat later than usual drinking with college friends (The Lovely Emily, Valerie, Brett the Vet). Whee!
Breaking news: Marlon Brando dead at 80 in LA hospital; cause of death as yet undisclosed.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 08:49 am (UTC)Oh, the poor widdle BOY!
Date: 2004-07-02 08:50 am (UTC)In one of my communities, we just went through a huge hoohah because someone stripped a popular story of its attribution and posted it in its entirety.
When several of us protested and made a stink about copyright, we were called names for it. The story was taken down, but reluctantly, and with, shall we say, very bad grace.
Spelling and grammar are lost arts, of course, as are creativity. How can we expect anyone to know about copyright, or, as they persist in spelling it, "copywright" or "copywrite"?
Eeep....
Date: 2004-07-02 08:53 am (UTC)Re: Oh, the poor widdle BOY!
Date: 2004-07-02 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 08:51 am (UTC)im gonna have to go home and
eat lots of pieswatch guys and dolls for the 16th time in tribue.no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 08:55 am (UTC)*mourns*
Date: 2004-07-02 10:20 am (UTC)Between Cary Grant last year and Brando now... feelslike all the men I grew up swooning for besides Han Solo are leaving me! :(
Must go home and atch "Don Juan Demarco". I simply loved Brando in that movie. I want to wake up married to a 60 year old man like that someday.
*lights a few candles and wipes afew tears*
Rest in peace, dear Marlon, great pioneer of swoon gods!
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:00 am (UTC)On a completely unrelated note:
STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
(someone had to do it)
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 09:04 am (UTC)*winks* Just a friendly thanks from someone who thinks you're hilarious, but so much more than that. I admire you. For everything, not just M15M.
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 09:10 am (UTC)They're focussing on arts and music and stuff like that, which is fine, except that the standards in core subjects like maths have disappeared. There was also meant to be a new science curriculum, which somehow doesn't seem to have materialised.
My cousin (she's about eight) thinks she is the smartest person in her class, because she can name all the countries who just joined the EU and most of their capitals. That's a pretty impressive accomplishment for a kid, but still, it shouldn't be the standard by which she is judged. (The whole best-in-the-class thing is because her parents are fucked up people.)
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 09:31 am (UTC)I'm sorry, I had more to say, but I clicked on the Batman Begins link and seem to be lost in visions of Christian Bale
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:37 am (UTC)AMEN to that! I am amazed at how "social promotion" has ruined education. Kids should NOT be given A grades just for showing up...
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 09:58 am (UTC)Wow. Brando is dead? Apparently he was something like 20 million in debt.
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:03 am (UTC)And yeah, I initially felt bad, until I realized that the kid's self-confidence was crushed because he was caught doing something wrong. And really, I read over most, if not all, of the "reviews," and most of them were like, "Dude, not cool. How about you stick to posting YOUR OWN WORK?" They weren't hate-filled expletive-riddled death threats or anything.
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:34 am (UTC)On another note... congrats again on the book deal!
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:13 am (UTC)His "I'm a boy" puzzles me slightly though. And on the use of caps, I refer him back to what my Dad says "Loud doesn't imply right". Glad the issue's relatively solved and we may all go back to our respective Cleoworship =)
And eck! on Brando. Hadn't seen anything about him in a while. Hmm. Curious as to what he died of.
Hmmm....I wonder
Date: 2004-07-02 10:26 am (UTC)By the way, I've always really liked your icon, shanisasha.
Gary Oldman could shave his entire body and still be mega-watt-hott. I'm sorry, that's just my opinion. (And I'm sure like 500,000,000,000 other crazy fangirls, too. Maybe a few fanboys as well....)
Re: Hmmm....I wonder
Date: 2004-07-02 10:30 am (UTC)One of my favorite prints ever
Re: Hmmm....I wonder
Date: 2004-07-02 10:34 am (UTC)Re: Hmmm....I wonder
Date: 2004-07-02 10:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 10:30 am (UTC)LOL! It does look that was, doesn't it? Yikes. That is definitely not a good look. I don't mind Gary Oldman with a sexy stubbly beard, but a porno stache is just wrong lol.
Glad to hear the ff.net thing has been taken down. :)
Sad news about Marlon Brando. Hasn't been on British news yet, I don't think (or, at least, not on terrestrial - then again, I don't make a point of watching often).
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Date: 2004-07-02 11:26 am (UTC)Alas, another legend has passed. Although I didn't like Stanley Kowalski (chauvanistic, boorish, brooding boob), I liked Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski. All the good ones are leaving us, and soon we'll be left with the kid that played Young Anakin in Episode One. What then?
It's been said before, but y'know I couldn't resist...
STELLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAA!
- Lori
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Date: 2004-07-02 12:06 pm (UTC)Dammit, now I have to go and watch Streetcar again...
Education systems
Date: 2004-07-02 12:47 pm (UTC)Yup, me too. I think all that crud they feed kids in elementary school about how "mean people are really insecure and shy on the inside" isn't really that relevant. I understand the concept, but... since when does being nice actually help that much? And since when does thinking you're the greatest person eva! help that much either?
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Date: 2004-07-02 12:52 pm (UTC)I love that. It's not just effecting the educational system. It's totally spread to the work place. Work's work, but I can't stand people that think they should get paid for just showing.
I'MHEREGIMMECHECKNOW!
Bah! Does no one remember something called work ethic? Most people don't know the meaning of ethics in general for that matter.
...I must build a wallpaper computer shrine to Marlon Brando now.
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Date: 2004-07-02 02:01 pm (UTC)This talk of Marlon Brando's death makes me very sad. :-(
publick edjookashun rooeened my mynd.
Date: 2004-07-02 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 03:41 pm (UTC)P.S. If you do not wish to disclose this information, I understand =)
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Date: 2004-07-02 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 07:07 pm (UTC)I look forward to reading more of your parodies! :)
AHHH!!!
Date: 2004-07-02 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 10:41 pm (UTC)hey
Date: 2004-07-02 07:21 pm (UTC)I swear they based the donkey in Shrek off that book series....except THAT DONKEY WAS BLUE o yeah
since you know a lot about english, and I like it, tell me why my grammar, punctuation, and use of ellipses is atrocious please...
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Date: 2004-07-02 07:41 pm (UTC)Oohh... what an apt way to put it.. and yes! I think he has!!
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-03 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-03 08:40 pm (UTC)Seriously, I was just under the impression that schools in the UK and Europe in general were still rigorous academically, instead of all touchy-feely. Some days I'm tempted to run for President and abolish all fluffy classes and make all the kids take Latin. Heh. That's the kind of leader I'd be.
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Date: 2004-07-05 06:07 am (UTC)Oh, wait, I went to highschool in Spain and Mexico.
btw, passing grade in Mexico is 60%