Disappointed you missed the fact that the Cullens are infinitely rich and Jacob is poor.
I loved it every time I thought Chloe might actually be dead, and hated it every time I realized she wasn't. Yet.
I think they're probably right to do this. In the past 6 months, its gone from 5 or 6 street performers at a time to something like 30 on a busy day. Do we really need 30 panhandlers right on the Walk of Fame (which is basically what they are)?
@gunnstreetgrrl: No, literally, that's one of the common American defenses for libel. "I was under the impression it was true." - if that could be considered a reasonable belief, then it's fair game to say.
Sell me the exact same bra in my size, every six months. In fact, it would make me happier than having to deal with different bra "trends". How is this not a financially successful business plan? You only have to develop the bra and market it ONCE.
@PrettyB is like Whoa: she only has to prove that she made it in good faith and could reasonably believe it was true.
@14Kgold: Vigilante justice tends to be a reaction to a corrupt system that doesn't punish appropriately.
@roodles: Yeah, but while the Twilight books had a 20 thousand person community on MySpace before the film got made, at that point it had closed down b/c the mods couldn't handle it anymore. There were maybe 5 fan sites. There was some chatter, but it was like, maybe a thousand comments - which is worth making a movie over, but you can't expect a big hit out of it. So its pretty believable that she didn't know what it would be like. I mean, even high profile stuff with a fan base can flop.
@Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin): I was just coming here to post this. I'm there like once a week, and while the homeless/tranny hooker/crazy problem has always been bad in the area, the recession has made it worse. What's weird is that I feel like it would be insensitive to demand that the police clean up the area, but at the same time, I just want to feel safe, and not get harassed or stabbed.
@shorty63136: Do yourself a favor, and if you're drinking beer, only bother with craft beer. Specifically, all the women I know LOVE Prohibition Ale (the guys... well, they're willing to drink whatever's handy). It's got a sort of caramel taste to it. Tried it on a trip to San Fran and fell in love.
Bad vodka is okay, bad wine is just sorta shitty, but bad beer is not even worth getting drunk on.
As far as McGee goes, I think it's completely legitimate to hate on someone who is profiting from having participated in hurting someone else.
And furthermore, yes, it's tremendously depressing that a woman like McGee is getting attention and many smart and talented women do not. That's a result of the patriarchy's Madonna/whore complex, in which good women keep their heads down and stay out of the spotlight, and dirty whores get lots of objectified attention.
@Craig Michael Ranapia: Because then she won't be so boring all the time.
@victoriasauce: when kids are driving a fellow student to attempt suicide, they generally know what they're doing - hell, EVERYONE except the adults generally knows.
I just wanted to point this out to you so that you know that being an asshole isn't the cause. Seriously. It takes major-league fuckery to get someone to attempt suicide via bullying. My school did it every six months. And we ALL knew what was going on and what the point of it was, and that it wouldn't stop until you were in a psych ward and not really even then.
@bonniegrrl: I was going to say the exact same thing: I am willing to accept wrestling if it all becomes sci-fi related
@prairielily: I think that means they're just calling you a genius... no need for the nerd label, when they'll go for genius instead! :)
You're not a nerd unless the smart people you know call you one. Dumb people think everyone's a nerd.
@Byers: LOTR got trashed by the lit establishment as well for a long time - for a while, Tolkien's only real defender was C. S. Lewis... who helped him with some of the writing...
@FrankN.Stein:
Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings.
Sure, the books are better written (Slightly. Actually, they're not that far apart, as the bible-like recitation of ancestry is at LEAST as boring as the repetitive emotions in Twilight), but the fandom is equally as stupid, if not more so. At least the Twilighters can laugh at themselves.
And if you don't believe me, try sitting through "Ringers" - a documentary on the LOTR fandom...
No one's made the connection yet, so I'll point it out: these asswipe writers think that its pieces like THESE that will be their portfolio for men's magazines.
Not to argue that Playboy's failure is due to bad writing or anything, but if their future editors had a little more imagination, maybe they wouldn't be doing so bad.
@Kivrin: As someone who was bullied to one step away from suicide (a former friend intervened the day before I'd planned for it to happen), I think you are misunderstanding the situation.
Teens CAN be bullied into suicide attempts. In my school, they did two girls a year. My class got lucky - all of the girls failed and were merely committed. My former friend and I were the only two to avoid this fate, and it was a pure stroke of luck.
Most of the kids knew what was going on. The girls that got bullied were normal until they were bullied everyday for months. It didn't stop until they cracked up. And when they finally did, they got laughed at some more, but thankfully they didn't usually have to hear it.
The parents didn't take it seriously - or even understand it, really. My parents advised me to stop being so different or weird. Other parents ignored what their kids were up to or defended them. If it had been a crime, they'd have told their kids not to do it. Problem solved.
But it's not and they didn't.
The truth is that if someone kills themselves to escape what you're doing to them everyday, it's because it's their only way out. And that IS your fault, and you should be held criminally responsible for that kind of abuse.
