The Mummy (2017)
Before watching the flick keep in mind that they're trying to reboot their classic monster mythos (with a dash of Justice League) so don't expect a re-imagining of the beloved The Mummy franchise with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
Signs you've gotten old: When he says re-imaging of the beloved The Mummy franchise and references the Brendan Fraser version. :blownose: :cry2: :blownose:
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Kinda crazy…are these actual dress codes?
I could understand that by referring to have their hair 'black' they mean non-dyed as mayority of asian people have that color. Maybe is a remnant from way back before Japan opened more to the world? (And hence there was little gene mixing)
According to people I've talked with, there've always been people with brown hair but they are in an extreme minority. But the rules are real. The dress codes encourage conformity and deemphasize fashion so as to apply those energies to their studies.
Tiger. Both in the sheets and in the zoo.
Tiz the season: Apple Pie or Pumpkin Pie?
We've been talking a lot about what feminism has done to men but not what the SJW movement has done for/to the gay community.
Here's something I'm both for and against, a man in London being expelled for holding anti-gay views based on religion. Mind you, he's a Christian.
Being that we all, to some degree or another, benefit from not hearing anti-gay speech (is it hate speech?), is expelling him the right course of action?
Thoughts?
Here's the article.
I know this exists but here in Tokyo, the students have a special marking on their ID's indicating they have naturally brown hair.
And you think they're worried about North Korea.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41780116
I still have no idea where this is headed. Seems to me if they are allowed to secede, then that opens up other possibilities in Europe.
Anyone on The Continent have a first hand perspective?
Thoughts?
The problem is.. you can't enforce the laws without having civil rights lawsuits.
Then abolish civil rights by Executive Order. The military has the power to enforce it. I guess, then the people would rise up against the military with the (advanced) weaponry they have and…
Adding regulations makes people feel like they're doing something. It creates the illusion that they're making progress.
Representative John Lewis does not consider Trump to be a legitimate president.. and boycotted Trump's inauguration.
Lewis just congratulated Hillary for her 70th birthday, and referred to her as being the true President.Here's an idea.. any congressman who doesn't recognize the elected president as being legitimate should automatically charge the president as being illegitimate - and impeached. They should be given a certain amount of time after filing their grievance to either drop it, or achieve the impeachment trial. If they don't drop their grievance after failing to get an impeachment trial, then that official should lose their seat in Congress. If there is an impeachment trial and the trial fails to remove the president from office, that official should again either drop their grievance or be removed from office.
Isn't that fair?
It would solve the problem.
In the end, aren't you glad you live in a country where you can stand up and say bullshit things? I do think there should be limitations but is this one of them?
Fight. Fight, fight, fight.
Halloween night you're confronted by two people, one a vampire the other a werewolf. One will bite you changing you forever – but you live. Which do you choose? (Feel free to pick from movie lore the type you'd prefer.)
Commando in jeans is uncomfortable – and revealing, so no I shouldn't.
You should have some sweets made from pumpkin as this is Halloween Weekend.
In yen, many times over. In dollars, not sure….
TPBM is excited about all they can do with these last couple of months in 2017!
Trump has incredibly energy, and doesn't seem to neglect anything. He might be taking some sort of meds to give him stamina. I'd like some of what he's taking!
Maybe but what about her observation that what's wrong with the world will continue to be wrong after Trump, so just spend that energy focused on the US?
Have you seen Apocalypse Now? By the end, we meet a man who'd been hiding in the jungle for twenty plus years and when finally caught shows him magazines from twenty, thirty, forty years before that. It's all the same news. Today, it's still the same news. Different names but mostly the same.
decades ago, my mother once called me a "son of a bitch".. I laughed and replied "you might be right!"
Total irrelevant aside but back when I was a kid playing in the common area of our very large apartment complex, while our moms were talking one of them offhandedly referred to me as a "son of a bitch". My mom is from Georga, southern pride and all. My mother beat the leaving sh#t out of her, the manager, and was taken away by the police in handcuffs and the woman in an ambulance. Not a scratch on my mom. She was a tough little thing, five foot tall and me, now, grown to six four.
Separately, I'm concerned about his recent moves to "play to the base," including the push for puritanical religious freedoms that are rolling back LGBT protections:
Now, when you mash these ideas together, and I see Trump feeding on the adulation from his core supporters for these recent "victories," I feel some unease that he will, on the topic of preemptive war with North Korea, think about pleasing the base one more time:
If anybody can explain what lesbians have to do with North Korea, let me know.
What Flozen is saying is that Trump's base, which includes the religious right a.k.a. people who are gunning for the gays, wants Trump to escalate the situation with North Korea as diplomacy has only enabled Kim. Flozen, I assume, is anti-war and would like to prevent the deaths of countless North/South Koreans. (There's no chance of N. Korea attacking the US, though they could have spies who could cause some mayhem.)
Meanwhile, over here in Tokyo, there's very little fuss over the Korea situation. Generally, people seem happy with the tougher stance as no one seems convinced that Kim will actually attack anyone. The news analysis seems to agree that people are happy with Abe's policies towards North Korea (siding with Trump) while all of my students want negotiations.
Me? I've had flashbacks to the early 80's and see the whole thing as bravado, not much different from when Regan and Gorbachev were in a war of words and justification for more military spending.
To say that she speaks for any wave of feminism
i dont think there is an assumption here that she or any "speaks for feminism" in this way unless directly stated or done in the name thereof. she is abusing and betraying the spirit of feminism for her own gain. feminist ideology has led us to a point where legally and socially, this can happen and goes unpunished and unadmonished; almost certainly unintentional in spirit, but inevitable. that is, feminism is to blame for coming to a point where this is possible; regardless of any individual's affiliation, or the intent of the movement as a whole.
I don't want to appear pedantic but I want to quibble over something here. Let's speak of a generic woman so not to appear to be making light of a real-life incident. If our Womyn said that she'd been raped twenty or thirty years ago, the burden of proof would have been upon her and she would have been scrutinized. Had she been drinking? What was she wearing? Was she alone? No cuts and bruises? At the end of it, without battery, witnesses, semen samples, and more the authorities wouldn't believe her or wouldn't care. Case dismissed. These are the stories told by countless women which is what brought on the apocalypse third and fourth waves.
When you say that our fictional woman is taking advantage of the spirit of feminism for her own gain, she's taking advantage of an overcorrection in the system and that distinction is important for understanding why allegations of rape and sexual violence are handled they way they are.
The move to believe the victim is the right one.
The system is self-correcting. Historically, women have never held as much power in relation to men: There is no historical precedent. This is the birthing period and the labor pains are a bitch. 
On an aside, it's true that most people don't understand what feminism is, just as Americans didn't, and don't, understand what either communism or socialism is. Unless we are clear in our definitions about what we're talking about we hurt ourselves: We are the reason we can't have nice things because we're too lazy to make the effort to think.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-abortion-protest-bill-1.4372090
I'm pro-choice but I'm also pro-free speech. In Ontario they just placed very specific limits on where pro-life protesters can be in relation to abortion clinics. I think this is the right move. Frederick recently posted a topic asking whether anti-protesters near protesters is inhibiting free speech. Well, how about the government placing restrictions on where a protest can be held?
I think this sends the wrong message to North Korea. When the Dems try to undermine the potential for an offensive strike, they show North Korea that we're divided on the issue. This bill is only going to escalate the situation.
Thoughts?
I kinda wanna but I don't want the hassle. mmmmm, Yeah, I guess I should…
You should look at what you've accomplished this year and plan for the remaining two months of 2017 -- there's still time to achieve!
Correct. I only cheer for me.
TPBM has a Halloween adventure planned for this weekend.
Three balls, sounds more fun and a greater load.
Finally Google Calendar got a material update for its looks on desktop. Have you upgraded or not?
I live in a mac centered world, so I don't use GC, so not.
Congratulations! You get a free massage. Do you want your feet or head massaged?