@they call me ginger: I was about to comment the same thing but was hesitant since I figured the most of the comments would be the oppositte.
Those cards could have had farm animals on it and she would have done just as well. Unless she understands what the numbers mean or what each of those elements does this just means she can memorize flash cards. Any child on the 2 year old development track can do that. No different than teaching them numbers, colors, shapes, or the alphabet.
This video was more about the parents showing off how clever they are than actually teaching their kid valuable developmental tools.
Those cards could have had farm animals on it and she would have done just as well. Unless she understands what the numbers mean or what each of those elements does this just means she can memorize flash cards. Any child on the 2 year old development track can do that. No different than teaching them numbers, colors, shapes, or the alphabet.
This video was more about the parents showing off how clever they are than actually teaching their kid valuable developmental tools.
@GalaxyGlued: I think it's different in those situations because we are in an historical world where people couldn't just be with whom they wanted to be with.
It makes the situation even less romantic in our world because WE CAN for the most part be with whomever we want. We have socially acceptable divorce, we can marry outside of class. The affairs just become more tawdry and less romantic in this society.
It makes the situation even less romantic in our world because WE CAN for the most part be with whomever we want. We have socially acceptable divorce, we can marry outside of class. The affairs just become more tawdry and less romantic in this society.
I watched a movie made in the early pre-code 30's where the woman is desperate for money and sees the mistresses come into the department store she works buying clothes and whatnot like it's going out of style and debating weather she should go that route when an older woman stops her and says in 30's speak essentially,
"Look, sweetie, they live great so you think- but none of them have their own money. They're not paid. They have store accounts and occasional gifts but it's all facade. They don't have anything of their own. As soon as he's tired of you you don't get to keep that apartment."
It's funny how old the allure of the mistress is.
"Look, sweetie, they live great so you think- but none of them have their own money. They're not paid. They have store accounts and occasional gifts but it's all facade. They don't have anything of their own. As soon as he's tired of you you don't get to keep that apartment."
It's funny how old the allure of the mistress is.
@elephantom: I've suffered through an episode or two. It's basically a bunch of lame 80's homophobia-ish gay jokes at the expense of John Cryer and Charlie Sheen playing a less hardcore version of himself.
It's high-larious. Not.
It's high-larious. Not.
THERE! SO THERE!
FINALLY! Can this mean calico can come back too?
FINALLY! Can this mean calico can come back too?
@QoB: Thank you. I am so sick to death with people who blame the times changing. Shit don't change it's just the how it goes down that does.
@Slikiez: Maybe it's a way of never having to have to buy a vanity mug or whatever at Disneyland or wherever.
Personally, that's why I plan on naming any children I have after Beatles and Beatles songs. It's hippy dippy and fun but what's so awful about "John" "Goerge" "Paul" and "Richard" for boys and "Eleanor" "Penny" "Michelle" etc for girls? Fun without saddling them with awful names they'll be made fun of for.
Personally, that's why I plan on naming any children I have after Beatles and Beatles songs. It's hippy dippy and fun but what's so awful about "John" "Goerge" "Paul" and "Richard" for boys and "Eleanor" "Penny" "Michelle" etc for girls? Fun without saddling them with awful names they'll be made fun of for.
I'm sorry, but has American Idol ever really been about talent? There have been so many stories of singers with solid professional voices who have been well trained, have had success in minor Broadway parts and whatnot and tried out for it not to even make it past the open cattle calls.
Wasn't it always a personality contest mixed with moderate pop appeal? I've always assumed American Idol to be more of a "who could sell more albums" contest than a singing talent show.
Wasn't it always a personality contest mixed with moderate pop appeal? I've always assumed American Idol to be more of a "who could sell more albums" contest than a singing talent show.
@LightUpTheStage: Honestly? Any excuse to drink a drink with grenadine and maraschino cherries is okay in my book.
Though I'm totally with spicing it up with some vodka or rum or some sort when the occasion calls for it. A good Shirley Temple Black as my friend who's a bartender calls them.
Though I'm totally with spicing it up with some vodka or rum or some sort when the occasion calls for it. A good Shirley Temple Black as my friend who's a bartender calls them.
I will die a happy Batman nerd if they do Catwoman right and not just as an excuse to put a hot body in the suit. (Don't get me wrong, it was okay in the 60's Adam West show because, well, it was the campy 60's Adam West show.)
I'm tenuous though because Nolan, whilst exceptionally talented, has yet to write and direct a single woman well.
But oooohhhh how good it could be. Tough anti-hero femme fatale with an amazing love/hate dance with Batman... It's SUCH an awesome meaty role and it makes me so happy they killed off that Rachel character (when not one but TWO actresses can't even pull the role off you have to start realizing it wasn't Katie Holmes it was the character and direction) so that we can finally have this epicness.
*sigh* I pray to the gods of comic books that it will be everything I want it to be and more.
I'm tenuous though because Nolan, whilst exceptionally talented, has yet to write and direct a single woman well.
But oooohhhh how good it could be. Tough anti-hero femme fatale with an amazing love/hate dance with Batman... It's SUCH an awesome meaty role and it makes me so happy they killed off that Rachel character (when not one but TWO actresses can't even pull the role off you have to start realizing it wasn't Katie Holmes it was the character and direction) so that we can finally have this epicness.
*sigh* I pray to the gods of comic books that it will be everything I want it to be and more.
And this, THIS, ladies and gentlemen is why there is absolutely no need for a 24 hour news cycle.
@Sean Bon: Damn straight!
@trampkin: I had someone tell me once it's the result of too much cosmetic dental surgery. That that open mouth thing is the natural way your lips relax if you've had that much dental work done. I don't know if that's totally true but that's what I heard.
@Morwynn: I remember complaining to my school that my High School AP American History class (which they refused to give me the credit for the AP test) was actually harder and more indepth than my college American History course.
The textbook we used was not only the same one we used in HS it was the one my HS teacher said he hated using because he thought it was too juvenile for us.
He asked us multiple choice questions like:
What was the cause of WW1?
I remember in a fit of anger over that question writing "see back" and giving him a 300 word essay on the very broad and basic causes for WW1 because I refused to give a multiple choice answer to a question of that magnitude.
The textbook we used was not only the same one we used in HS it was the one my HS teacher said he hated using because he thought it was too juvenile for us.
He asked us multiple choice questions like:
What was the cause of WW1?
I remember in a fit of anger over that question writing "see back" and giving him a 300 word essay on the very broad and basic causes for WW1 because I refused to give a multiple choice answer to a question of that magnitude.
@Hooplehead: My friend's school she works at offers breakfast and she told me it wasn't uncommon for the parents to make it look like they're just spending time with their kids before school/work but really they're sharing the breakfast with them otherwise they themselves wouldn't eat either.
@Chiwhatwhat: I remember her having a guest role on Quantum Leap as herself. She was playing herself as a guest on a Geraldo-esque show giving out stern relationship advice that seemed shocking at the time. That was how I first found out who she was as a child. I remember asking my mom if she was supposed to be someone and my mom just going, "oh she's an advice radio host..."
I feel like that was her schtick until the 90's when she started going uber conservative probably because stern relationship advice was no longer shocking and getting her attention and money. That's when I remember her first becoming very everywhere.
I feel like that was her schtick until the 90's when she started going uber conservative probably because stern relationship advice was no longer shocking and getting her attention and money. That's when I remember her first becoming very everywhere.
@Cailin rua: YES DAMMIT! My god a prominent actress in Hollywood in the 70's had an OPEN RELATIONSHIP!
I, for one, am THOROUGHLY shocked.
//end sarcasm
I, for one, am THOROUGHLY shocked.
//end sarcasm
It hurts my brain to think that in 2011 it's still someone's job to prudely determine if a magazine is appropriate or not for the kiddies to see or that anyone honestly still cares.
@moonkitten: Oh how I wish. Actually teenagers are easier to deal with. Yell once and they usually skedaddle. Adults act far more entitled in those situations.
@MollyGrue: LOL, I never thought about that but it's true. Especially weird considering their core readership is on the younger side and/or still in school.
