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  1. Posted

    Listening to the ep (in pieces because of work) I can not WAIT to get into this movie as I was one of 5 people who saw this in theaters, own it on DVD and have watched it multiple times (not because I like it)

     

    My mom took me to see this in theaters. I was 8. The rule in our house was that as long as it was pg 13 I could see it (usually if she was there). I think it was because she was a single mom and that way she could actually see something that wasn't a child's movie though we did see a lot of those and she liked them too. So yeah we saw this in theaters. I have no idea how she explained the strippers to me. Granted we saw Titanic in theaters too... She fell asleep in that one though.

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  2. Posted

    Yes, but the song is structured as a dialogue. We just don’t hear her side of the conversation until the end. The whole thing is him assuring her of his affection. So while your sentences might not work for you, you have to place them in context of their hypothetical conversation where he’s putting restrictions on his undying love.

     

    Meatloaf: I would do anything for love.

    Her: Would you steal?

    Meatloaf: Yes.

    Her: Murder?

    Meatloaf: Yes.

    Her: Peg.

    Meatloaf: ...yes.

    Her: Forget about this moment?

    Meatloaf: I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.

     

    If you ignore that context, it makes no sense. It’s why the song starts “And I would do anything for love.” Not only is he starting mid conversation, he’s starting in mid sentence.

     

    So, no, “and” doesn’t make sense. Or, at least, it would be redundant.

     

    For example:

     

    “I would do anything for love, *and* I won't fuck someone else better than I fuck you.”

     

    “And” doesn’t work because “not fucking someone better” is already covered in “anything.” “But” works because he’s qualifying what “anything” covers. “I know I’m saying I’d do anything for love, BUT there are actually a few things I won’t do.”

     

    I thought it was a song about a woman who was asking him to cheat WITH her? Like one of them was in a relationship already and he's like ".. I love you but I won't cheat. So you better break up with whats his face" For all I know this is a song he sang to an actual meatloaf and he's thinking about becoming vegan so *shrugs*

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  4. Posted

    I usually have my music on shuffle but it's usually from a random playlist. I use them mostly to fall asleep because I need something for my mind to focus on or I can't seem to shut it off. It doesn't mater if I use soothing music or not (though I have several of those playlists). Sorry I technically gave you guys 12 songs.

    1. Damone
    2. Paramore
    3. Maroon 5 (I find this song very soothing and have for the past 16 years. I have no idea why)
    4. Metric (there's an amazing Acoustic version of this song as well. Almost ever playlist Ii have has 5 Metric songs on it.
      is very soothing to me)
    5. Valley Lodge (fun fact: The opening theme song for Last Week Tonight is
      by Valley Lodge)
    6. Panic At The Disco
    7. Dollyrots
    8. Marina and the Diamonds (warning: lots of shirtless dudes in this music video. Sorry? )
    9. MIA
    10. The Clash

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  6. Posted

     

    I wish you weren't. I'd like to imagine your co-workers thinking you're slowly going insane.

     

    "I don't know, Beth...She just sits there listening to 'Pompeii' over and over. I'm scared..."

     

    Then when they look over at you, you should just be staring at them.

    I have done that on occasion. Not not make people think I'm crazy just because I really liked a song and couldn't for the life of me remember the lyrics

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  7. Posted

    Seeing as it was an HDTGM movie, I might as well share it. There was a "Huge, shocking confession" about Jean-Claude Van Damme from Steven H. De Souza from the set of Street Fighter, 24 years ago.

     

    Apparently, he was "coked out of his mind the entire time".

     

    I don't know about anybody else, but to me, that's not a "shocking confession" about JCVD in the mid-90s. If anything, the shocking confession about JCVD in the mid-90s would have been "Nah, he was a dream to work with, didn't touch any coke, didn't drink a drop of alcohol... and he kept his hands to himself when he was around the women who worked on the set."

     

    Guy was a scumbag in the 90s.

     

    The most shocking confession would be that he kept his pants on at all times and NEVER wanted those buns of his in his films. I feel like he had it in his contract his ass had to be lovingly shot in every film

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  8. Posted

    June and Paul are on What’s The T with Rupaul and Michelle Visage this week. Rupaul mispronounces June’s name 3 times in the first 5 minutes.

     

    Paul and Ru must get on FAMOUSLY then! I don't know why but i like the idea of Paul having trouble pronouncing even his loved ones names

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  9. Posted

    Not to come off like a broken record but I love coming here and talking with everybody and reading what everybody has to say. Not to get into it too much but I was a regular back in the day and then had some personal stuff arise which took me away from posting here. I stopped for about a year and it took awhile but it eventually hit me was that leaving was not a good idea. It was something I enjoyed doing and a place I liked to be. I liked trying to write things to make people laugh, I liked going down weird worm holes with everyone, I liked making insane maps and short stories, I liked gif battles, and talking random iTune songs. Even when people disagreed it was always very civil and it was all coming from a place of love of these terrible movies and the comedians that make us laugh talking about them. I was very happy upon my return that I was welcomed back so warmly and got to reconnect with old forum friends and make new forum friends. So I guess if I had to some up my feelings about the forums and the people on them I guess all I have to say is...

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEgCKzves

     

    I love reading your comments you always have something interesting and funny to say!

     

    Also ...ls that Jason in the background? in the Hawaiian shirt and leather pants? The video is so grainy for me I honestly just see a smudge of a face and BEARD so I gotta assume it's him.

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  11. Posted

    Sorry for the late reply taylor anne, but I have been rather frazzled with work, but yes I was referring to the Madonna/Whore dynamic in general and how some artists were more dedicated to representing with honestly and respect in art than others. I'm only going by what Walter Isaacson said in his biography, but Leonardo Da Vinci, for example, seemed utterly fascinated by his portrait subject, almost in love with them (in a platonic way). He frequently turned down or avoided work with more wealthy clients when he wasn't interested in them as people. I know he frequently did gigs for straight cash (especially his design and engineering work) as well, but he was such an enigma in a lot of ways, he remains fascinating.

     

    That is very unfortunate about Degas being such a tool. I was talking to him with an art expert coworker of mine, and she relates that Degas was actually impotent and he would sort of get a delayed or vicarious sexual satisfaction from painting ballerinas and sex workers rather than actually engage with them physically. Any truth to that? Or did that come later in life?

     

    And yes, Picasso was a fucking monster in his personal life. Fuck that guy.

     

    You know who was pretty chill from what little I know about him? Toulouse Lautrec. He worked with a lot of the sex workers and dance hall workers.From what I know of him he did sleep with some of the prostitutes but mostly he seemed to just be interested in them which might had to do with the fact he was disabled and he felt a kinship with people of a "lower class" even though he was technically a part of the French aristocracy.I have a set of temporary tattoos of some of his Moulin Rouge girls from when some of his work was at the Flint Institute of Art (which is actually really such a fun little museum and i drag everyone who comes to visit me to it. it's got a great collection and I cannot recommend it highly enough if you ever find yourself stuck in that town. Also the Detroit Institute of Arts is fucking AMAZING ) I know he was an alcoholic but honestly who wasn't back then ?

     

    Fun fact: he was apparently a great cook and had a cookbook of his favorite recipes printed.

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  12. Posted

    Paul has never pronounced my name correctly either. I'll let it slide because he pronounced your name the way I was pronouncing it.

     

    To be fair I just looked at it and realized it fully looks like that. This is like the time on another group of friends where I made shitty Ms Paint drawings of everyone's chatname and I misread someone's name as the french spelling for bread (which I misspellt BADLY) because I could not for the life of me figure it out and so I made them a bread monster and everyone was like... Gigi what the everloveing fuck is this? And I was just SHOCKED no on was getting my creative genius. We even had a friend who was French Canadian and he was just baffled by how I got to this conclusion.

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  13. Posted

    I have to agree with Paul. You guys are all great! The HDTGM forums are an oasis of positivity on a barren, Internet landscape.

     

    But I think that’s also a testament to Paul, Jason, and June. Not only are they funny, but it’s clear that all three of them are genuinely good and decent people. It’s no surprise to me that the people on this forum are the best of the best - because they were drawn toward the best. You are all some of the most kind, intelligent, funny, and supportive people I know.

     

    ...I don’t know how you put up with me ;)

     

    I've been a lurker for a few years before finally deciding to join and honestly I've loved EVERY second of it. I know I write on here WAY too often but you guys are all SO amazing and I'm so glad I joined the boards.

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  14. Posted

    Paul mispronounced my name- I'm OFFICIALLY a member of this weird little tribe! Is it weird how excited I am that Paul got it wrong?Like more excited than if he has said it correctly. I feel like I am now a member of the chosen ones.

    It's Gigi tastic as in Gigi and fantastic combined because I'm fantastic at being me? IDK it seemed smart at the time I made it 12 years ago and I'm too lazy to come up with a new name on anything. it's my ~brand~ now.

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  16. Posted

     

    Of course! We'll be hiring only the best! The ideal candidate will be an entomological expert with a stable job history in the field of in arthropod and insect forensics. They should be weird and a little nerdy, but in a quirky sort of way that's endearing. The kind of person you're not too sure about at first, but kind of grows on you after a couple of seasons over time. They'll check lividity, perform toxicology reports, and be an expert on all the major shoe treads.

     

    "Cameron and Cameron Attorneys at Law: We'll Bee on your side!"

     

    i assume they will OF COURSE eat during the autopsies or eat in the morgue as this seems to be a weird trope. I'm sure all kinds of wacky hijinks will ensue.

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  17. Posted

     

    I know people mocked him for using the clamp and tweezers to place the insect into the yogurt but if you think about it the beetle has tiny fragile parts. You're right in him wanting to place a whole intact insect into his yogurt so of course you have to use the tweezers to delicately put it in so all its limbs and antennas are intact and contained within his yogurt. This does not really explain why he immediately shakes up the container after placing it inside. The only logical conclusion is that he wants it to be in an awkward position like it struggled to get out of the yogurt before ultimately drowning. Also, finger prints people! Not only does he have the brute strength to accidentally crush the thing but what if the yogurt people decide to dust it for prints? It worries me that Shad and his lawyer put this much thought into this aspect of the crime but not really the other areas.

     

    What it comes down to is this, Cameron and I are opening our own law firm. Cameron and Cameron Attorneys at Law and we specialize in all forms of insect law.

     

    If they were to dust for prints though it would make sense for Shad's to show up on the yogurt if he was the one who opened it and "found" the roach in his yogurt. It would be weird for there to be NO prints on the yogurt cup. I feel like he over planned this. I'm not sure how they could prove he tampered with the seal of the container ( if he found a roach that would belong in the same plant as his yogurt) except by doing an autopsy on the roach in question to find out when it died and when that yogurt was made.

    How else would he know there was a roach in his yogurt unless he opened it and broke the seal? When Cameron and Cameron Attorneys at Law opens I assume you will have an in house insect autopsy guy right?

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  18. Posted

    I think Anne Geddes did the same thing for all of those terrifying baby photos.

     

    Oh god your right

    I had one of those baby photos as a mini puzzle for a flight going somewhere as a kid . I vividly remember it was some fucking dumb baby in a sunflower. I think I lost one of the pieces or it wasn't in the box when I opened it and I was PISSED I couldn't finish my stupid baby

  19. Posted

    I would read the shit out of that just FYI.

     

     

    I'll have to admit I'm not totally positive I'm sure which "that" you're referring to but I'm assuming it's the ballerina's? To which I honestly am not 100% about, but I learned specifically about Degas when our professor started asking us who our favorite artists were and then told us all a story about how they actually kinda suck lol. I picked Degas and learned he basically used women for his selfish gain and hung out primarily with the ballerinas because they were just a step above sex workers at the time so he didn't have to totally tarnish his image for his paintings and sex.

     

    But I also think you mean women in art and the dichotomy of madonna and whore? In that case, I also can't say with 100% all knowing fact, but there is so much evidence going as far back as the 4th century. Here's a fun image of Mary and Jesus from Rome dating that very century!

     

    VirgenNino.jpg

     

    I didn't even know about Picasso and all of his bull shit until Hannah Gadsby's special on Netflix. We briefly touched on his art style, yes, but no one ever got into his life like some others. I bet if I had majored in Art History rather than minored I would have eventually found it all out.

     

     

    Yup. It's why I'm very much all aboard the "representation matters!" train because there's so much genuine history that shows the weight of how we look at people in the media we're presented.

     

    Picasso was a fucking MONSTER. I found this article last year about him and i have b never been the same since: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/09/how-picasso-bled-the-women-in-his-life-for-art/

    It's a lot but it's so intense i'm just gonna copt past the first part of the artile here because each sentence is more awful then the next I bolded the ones I found the worst:

     

    Sixteen years ago, Marina Picasso, one of Pablo Picasso’s granddaughters, became the first family member to go public about how much her family had suffered under the artist’s narcissism. “No one in my family ever managed to escape from the stranglehold of this genius,” she wrote in her memoir, Picasso: My Grandfather. “He needed blood to sign each of his paintings: my father’s blood, my brother’s, my mother’s, my grandmother’s, and mine. He needed the blood of those who loved him.”

     

    After Jacqueline Roque, Picasso’s second wife, barred much of the family from the artist’s funeral, the family fell fully to pieces: Pablito, Picasso’s grandson, drank a bottle of bleach and died; Paulo, Picasso’s son, died of deadly alcoholism born of depression. Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s young lover between his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, and his next mistress, Dora Maar, later hanged herself; even Roque eventually fatally shot herself.“Women are machines for suffering,” Picasso told Françoise Gilot, his mistress after Maar. After they embarked on their affair when he was sixty-one and she was twenty-one, he warned Gilot of his feelings once more: “For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats.” Marina saw her grandfather’s treatment of women as an even darker phenomenon, a vital part of his creative process: “He submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, and crushed them onto his canvas. After he had spent many nights extracting their essence, once they were bled dry, he would dispose of them.”

     

    It's a fascinating article because it also talks about how many of the works at this particular exhibition that the are of his daughter Maya and how tender this work is and how she is one of the few women in his orbit to sort of survive her association with him relativity unscathed as it were. But how also even she was used for his art and his drive and stuff.

     

    Honestly so many "great" male artists be they writers, painter's, or sculptors, whatever are just garbage human beings and we all let it go because "THE ART!" Not just that but for every great male artist there are women in his life who helped make him great. So many male authors literally stole full on word for word from their female relatives diaries or their conversations.Fitzgerald is the one who comes easiest to mind. When not stealing ideas or full on phrases you have people like Tolstoy making his wife write out War and Peace SEVEN TIMES BY HAND. I can't even imagine typing War and Peace on a laptop much less writing it out longhand seven times at night with only a few candles to see and a magnifying glass to read Leo's notes.

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  20. Posted

    Omg Quasar I didn't think of bringing my minor into this but I definitely could lmao. The "Madonna-Whore" complex is famously identified as being "created" by Freud and people genuinely think that it was only around his time that women began to be portrayed in only two ways but in actuality has been a thing in art for hundreds and hundreds of years. (Personally I kinda think Freud is a hack anyway but I'm not gonna get into that today.)

     

    Towards the beginning of records of human life some of the earliest findings of art we have are of women, and typically they are seen as givers of life. The mostly are fertility statues of large women with large breasts and they are seen as the ultimate signs of life, and are respected as very beautiful. It wasn't that that was the only way women were seen, but rather they were seen with respect. I've seen some try and say that these are the ultimate variations of the "Madonna" but I disagree with them as did my Women in Art professor, because like I said, it wasn't that they were respected for their virtue but for their ability to give life. I think that because the "Madonna" is Mary then people do equate motherhood with that, but back in those times that's not how they were seen at all.

     

    It was when religion, namely Christianity, became the subject of so many pieces of art that you really and truly see this come into play. Suddenly every piece of art is about how women were corrupted by Satan and then corrupt men themselves, or it's about the Virgin Mary and how she is the ultimate idol for women to look up to. And after these times the snowball effect happens and everyone's view of women becomes affected by how they are presented in these master paintings. It even gets to the point where depictions of women in art are so shamed that the only women who would model for paintings were sex workers (or ballet dancers but during the age of Degas they were considered only one step above sex workers so they were heavily disrespected themselves).

     

    As we move off of paintings being our sole representation for women, we see how this idea of "Madonna and the whore" has stuck around, because for hundreds of years it has been hammered into our way of thinking. So we have Demi Moore playing a woman that wants to be looked at as the Madonna and wrestles with the idea of being considered a whore, but there is a refusal that she can be both or that there doesn't have to be this 0-60 mindset.

     

    Stop making me fall in love with you

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  21. Posted

    Okay I want to clarify I didn't bring up the McD's woman to trivialize her experience (it may have come across as so) but rather to say that I can see why Shad would think that this idea that finding a bug in his food could get him something. Obviously millions is out of the question, but there are more than just the real story about the woman spilling hot coffee on her where people win suits like this. Someone found a rat in the mix of their KFC chicken and won, someone found a full finger in their Wendy's chili and won, and it would appear that finding a full roach in his yogurt could have possible given Shad something as well.

     

    So my point stands that in his defense people have won their suits in similar cases.

     

    Oh no I figured you weren't trivializing it I was just shocked by how bad it was. Like I have heard the term 3rd degree burns but I had no idea what it actually meant. I know I read a few years ago a woman found a whole mouse in a jar of peanut butter. I don't know if she sued or not. I can understand why Shad would think he could win big with something like this but the way he goes about it is very stupid. I wonder why he wanted to go with a cockroach of all things. Like did he try it out with other insects or critters and find the cockroach worked best or was it always his plan to use a cockroach?

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  22. Posted

    I was at this show, and I just wanted to pop in to say that during June's moment, Paul and Jason basically put their mics down the whole time. No one was waiting to jump in (they are better than this, of course, but some comedians would...). Anyway I just wanted to say that it really struck me as a powerful visual. Made me love HDTGM even more.

    i was also at the show and I want to add the the audience was 100% with June and it was a great moment to be a part of

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  23. Posted

     

    To be fair, she wasn't suing because she spilled her coffee. She was suing because the coffee was served too hot (190 degrees). When she spilled her coffee, it caused third degree burns which required hospitalization and skin grafts. She also only sought money for her medical expenses and time lost from work (approx $18,000). McDonalds only offered her $800. That's why she sued. She didn't make millions off of the deal, either.

     

    Cam and I aren't saying the lawsuit isn't frivolous. We're just saying he's probably going to lose.

     

    There's actually a really interesting documentary about this case called Hot Coffee. They showed pictures of her burns and it's horrific. They went down to the bone. She wasn't even in a moving car when she spilled this coffee and this particular McDonald's had been told before they made their coffee too hot on another occasion. You wouldn't think a movie about tort reform (basically trying to cap how much someone can get for bringing civil wrong law suits and make it harder to bring them etc) would be interesting to watch but I had fun and was VERY angry for everyone involved.

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  25. Posted

    He's been doing his non fiction books for ages I remember seeing them every time I was in the comedy section in the bookstore when I was a kid.

     

    Both of these movies were trying so desperately to be the next Get Shorty but neither are anywhere clever enough to be seen as real comparisons.

     

    But to be fair, Be Cool also attempted to be as good as Get Shorty and it failed equally.

     

    I'm a member of my local

    library's Friend's associations (the people who volunteer but we are fancy and have to pay dues to get a really ugly tshirt) we ALWAYS have at least 3 of his books in the comedy section no matter what sale it is and god knows how many others in fiction. He's apparently quiet prolific.

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