*lirl
“Difficult” as a qualifier for a movie…
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True, but I don’t think this guy was one of us.
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I know when I visited Seattle, nobody else seemed to have an umbrella but me.
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Well, it’s usually “unless you present evidence I’m going with fake”. That’s more or less the basis for modern legal systems and science, and despite drawbacks, has worked a lot better than the systems we tried before that. You might have a better system, but I’d like to see some evidence that it’s actually better.
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They sure are on the beach in a coastal town in August. Quite anonymous. Never saw the guy again, nor, thankfully, any evidence of him.
This has to be fake. How did she get married and not literally smell the shit before hand? If it’s not fake she needs to leave that literally toxic situation.
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Yup. Apart from anything/everything else, that’s a lot of interesting nerve endings going to waste …
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Essentially we have eye witness testimony here. We can’t establish authenticity, of course, and even authentic eye witness testimony can be unreliable, but I wasn’t aware that the default assumption of western legal systems is that it’s false.
Nor is that true for science. We really need some more (and much better) data points for this to be science. For that matter, even if the anecdotes in question are real, this might be nothing more than a handful of oddballs.
I will add that you can see this phenomenon in action when there is video or photographic evidence of something spectacular. Somebody is going to claim that “it seems fake” almost every time, often without any kind of analysis. Sure, sometimes the video will be fake–but not always.
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More like s(k)eptic masculinity? I tend to be rather skeptical of masculinity.
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See: Apollo missions.
Also; 9/11
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I actually have seen that, and thought (no surprise) that the book is better.
For what it’s worth, there was a character like this in Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (or a sequel, I forget now), though there was no explanation given for his lack of such basic hygienic knowhow.
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I’m… sorry, and I know that it’s quite common.
But… I don’t think that books and movies can be compared.
They each do different things well.
Saying that the book was better is maybe just saying that one likes books better than movies.
Maybe… I’m not saying so to be a dick.
I would say that I think that “Game of Thrones” is a better show than “Song of Ice and Fire” are books, though I like them both quite a bit.
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Yes, they’re called “liars”
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I’m totally gay for my bidet! But I’ll never give it oral.
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Not dickishness at all. But I like both (and turtles too!). And (not to derail a crappy thread) some movies have struck me as better than the book. But that movie…didn’t Franco make it while a lit student? It seemed like a student film to me. But some people like it, and I can live with that.
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It was actually deep down the middle
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One of my friends told me that her ex-boyfriend would stand up and then wipe, for whatever reason.
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Gotta inspect the ole’ handiwork first, ya know!
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“They’re not real men, they’re not tough”
“What are you talking about not tough? They fuck men!”
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