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    Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title

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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    Wearing those earrings in the wrong environment could git somethin' bit clean off.


    Like wearing a liver bikini to the dog park.

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    Image of IceCreamIsAwesome IceCreamIsAwesome
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    Umm I love Duffy, drink diet coke, and feel that woman are constantly dumbed down or sexualized in advertising but I'm not offended by this ad and I think the F Word overreacted which wouldn't bother me so much except woman are already accused of being too sensitive and posts like theirs actually hurt us. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think they got it wrong this time. I can't believe any woman would desire an ad that says, "I am special, so are you." I'm not special and no one needs to tell me that to get me to buy their product. It's condescending plus it reminds me of the, "everybody gets a trophy" mantra of little kids sports because we want our kids to have high self esteem so they can do well in life when acknowledging failure is the only way to make real winners. Plus kids with high self esteem are the worst little shits out there.


    I think making idols out of people whether it's Duffy, Heath Ledger, etc is a bad idea. We are all human, and when you try to make someone perfect you ruin who they are. I admire Duffy, love her music, and wish I had her talent, but I don't think she's a super woman and neither should anyone else. She's a strong, successful woman but since when did being a strong and successful woman mean you must be a super hero because no mere mortal could produce such a feat?! Perhaps The F Word like's Kelly Ripa's commercials??

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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    02/23/09

    @IceCreamIsAwesome: Man, that was long!
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    Image of ceejeemcbeegee is not here ceejeemcbeegee is not here
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    The Obamas and my parents come from the same school of parentin', I see.
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    Image of brendastarlet is on it brendastarlet is on it
    02/23/09

    @ceejeemcbeegee: mine, too, except in the bedtime area. When I was six, I was allowed to stay up until 8:30 (I could watch one TV show) and when I was 10, I was watching the 11 o'clock news.
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    Image of pear.shaped.Sara pear.shaped.Sara
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    "Mr. Obama is a modern-day dad who leaves the Oval Office for dinner with his girls, rarely misses a parent-teacher conference or piano recital and prides himself on having read all seven books in the Harry Potter series aloud with Malia."


    dying. of. cuteness.

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    Image of CherWhorowitz CherWhorowitz
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    It's like when people ask how to store "left over wine." What is that?
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    Image of chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
    02/23/09

    @CherWhorowitz: "left over wine."


    Does.Not.Compute.

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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    02/23/09

    @CherWhorowitz: I don't know. I thought the rule was if you opened the bottle, you drank the bottle.


    I can't believe I've had that wrong all these years.

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    Image of clevernamehere clevernamehere
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    The grey hair articles confuse me. Both my brother and my father were mostly grey by 25. I have several friends who had to start dying their hair in high school because of grey hairs. (The common thread seems to be Irish heritage but it could just be coinsidence).


    Wear and tear or thinning make no sense to me. My dad had hair like Ted Kennedy- white as snow but thick enough to knock you over. None of the people I know who have premature greys have thicker looking hair than average.

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    Image of CloudsInMyCoffee CloudsInMyCoffee
    02/23/09

    @clevernamehere: OMG! I have the alleged Irish heritage=prematurely gray hair thing going on, too! I've had gray hairs since middle school. I'm finally starting to embrace them.


    Also, according to lore, gray hair on young people means they're geniuses. It hasn't worked out for so far, but I haven't lost hope.

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    Image of gangey gangey
    02/23/09

    @CloudsInMyCoffee: So THAT'S why I've been going grey since 17. Genius!


    Also, mine grow in in huge patches a few months after I'm exceptionally stressed about something. My dissertation was murder on my hair!

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    Image of Eeva Eeva
    02/23/09

    @CloudsInMyCoffee: I am as Irish as...something very, very Irish, and I started going grey at 17. I'm a long way away from embracing them, though.


    And it's got fuck-all to do with hydrogen peroxide in my case; it's genetic.

    Now, stop with the bullshit studies and FIND SOME WAY TO REVERSE MY LOSS OF PIGMENTATION, MOTHERFUCKERS.

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    02/23/09

    @Eeva: @gangey: @CloudsInMyCoffee: I feel like they were studying normal grey haired people, not the ones who start greying in high school. I saw my first grey (really stark white) hair at 22 and it hasn't spread much. That makes me LUCKY in my family. Grandma rocked white hair at her wedding but no baldies anywhere.
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    02/24/09

    @clevernamehere: That's an interesting coincidence. One of my friends is Irish and has been greyer longer than any of the rest of us.


    As for the wear and tear argument, my greys are mostly on my shortest hairs - ie those round my face and my bangs. The long hairs which have seen years of washing aren't grey.

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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    Jamal may have had a happy ending in Slumdog Millionaire, but how many of the other slumdogs in the film did? I won't spoil more of the film, but it's pretty clear in the context of the film that Jamal was the exception.
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    02/23/09

    @Kilotwat: I should point out that even Jamal got brutally tortured by the Indian police, and went through plenty of shit (literal and otherwise) in his life.
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    02/23/09

    @Kilotwat: Bachchan!
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    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    "Left over Vicodin"


    I don't understand.

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    Image of lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
    02/23/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: This is post Oxy-contin discovery, obvs.
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    Image of keldo keldo
    02/23/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: Ha! Truly - there IS no such thing. Not at my house anyway.
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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    02/23/09

    @keldo: Nor in mine. No way in hell I'm letting that shit go to waste!
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    Image of YourScreenplaySucks YourScreenplaySucks
    02/23/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: Precisely. Didn't these people have parents who lectured them about finishing what's in front of them? What about the poor children in Africa who don't have any Vicodin?
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    Image of MizJenkins MizJenkins
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    Wow...were there no left over pictures of kittens because that's a terrible way to end they day. That story about the Chinese students just gutted me.
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    Image of katie.scarlett.o'hara katie.scarlett.o'hara
    02/23/09

    @MizJenkins: I read it earlier and it's so terrible. What an asshole that guy was. I don't understand how he still had a license if he had already been convicted of vehicular manslaughter years ago and had been ticketed for speeding in the intervening years. It's disgusting.
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    Image of Kenyakarma Kenyakarma
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    Sasha and Malia scoop dog poop. Did they get the puppy? Did I miss something. Is this going to be covered tomorrow in the State of the Union?
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    Image of disco2000 disco2000
    02/23/09

    @SweetSerengeti: I was thinking the same thing until I clicked through the link. Apparently the poop scooping will start when the get the puppy, which hasn't happened yet.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    Vicodin earrings remind me of the Helping Hands razor blade necklace.
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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    I'm kind of sick of the Slumdog backlash. It is a fairy tale, plain and simple. Ever After doesn't necessarily provide and accurate depiction of feudal fucking farming life either. I mean it's good that people are talking about life in the slums and the problems of poverty because of the film, but there's no point in criticizing it for inaccuracies.
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    Image of Beat Girl Beat Girl
    02/23/09

    @kelsium: Precisely. No one ever points out how unrealistic shitty British gangster films are, do they?
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    Image of taranwanderer taranwanderer
    02/23/09

    @kelsium: I totally agree. It really bothers me when people sometimes forget the meaning of fiction and fairy tales in entertainment. If you want realism, watch Born into Brothels. The conversation should now be steered toward how to eradicate systemic poverty in India and other countries around the world.
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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    02/23/09

    @kelsium: But it was accurate. What happened to Jamal was extraordinary, and that was the point of the film. The other people from the slums, even Jamal's beloved Latika, suffered far crueler fates. The film hardly glosses over any of that. I don't see how anybody can forget that one particularly gruesome scene from the movie...
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    Image of Mkp-hearts-NYC Mkp-hearts-NYC
    02/23/09

    @kelsium: I'm also irritated because of the Indian popular cinema's attitude towards escapism in general (Um, "pro" - many a protagonist lives in a mansion, there are no servants in sight and they often own helicopters). I watch a lot of Bollywood and I can't think of a single film that even approaches fairy tale levels of realism about the lives of most Indians.
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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    02/23/09

    @Kilotwat: That's true, but most of the criticism I've seen is about the story arch itself, which is just ridiculous because of course it is a fairy tale--albeit a very dark one.
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    Image of Mkp-hearts-NYC Mkp-hearts-NYC
    02/23/09

    @taranwanderer: Exactly! Born into Brothels or Water - both of which are vehemently protested in India for essentially communicating "insider" information.
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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    02/23/09

    @Mkp-braaaains-NYC: You know what it is, though? It's that thing where if you are the only woman/minority/film about a foreign country you are expected to be the voice of EVERYONE, and god forbid you are not. It is so absurd.
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    Image of Mkp-hearts-NYC Mkp-hearts-NYC
    02/23/09

    @kelsium: What's weird too is that most Indian movies are fairy tales. They're just fairy tales about the extremely rich who've always been that way and will always be that way. And therefore represent nobody. Ugh.
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    Image of Mkp-hearts-NYC Mkp-hearts-NYC
    02/23/09

    @Mkp-braaaains-NYC: ("most" is an exaggeration, but broadly speaking many Bollywood films are fantasy. I mean, they're musicals that feature multiple intracontinental landmarks per musical number)
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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    02/23/09

    @kelsium: The rags to riches via Who Wants to be a Millionaire part is unlikely, but not implausible. People do win game shows and lotteries.


    A more salient critique would be that winning Millionaire is not a useful solution to most of the slum-dwellers in Mumbai. But even that would miss the mark, as the movie takes quite a bit of pains to show how much luck, effort and endurance went into a victory that was portrayed as unique and extraordinary.


    On the other hand, the movie humanizes actual slumdogs. A big moral of the movie is that they shouldn't be underestimated or disrespected (as the Indian Regis did to Jamal). The movie shows the gruesome exploitation and antipathy towards the slums. All of those provide actual solutions.

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    02/23/09

    @Kilotwat: The film also looks at the organizations/NGOs that work with orphans with not-all-that-much oversight. Beggars in India are real, beggar-kings who manipulate, exploit and injure children are real, Slumdog shone a light on those areas even if it couldn't fix them all.
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    02/23/09

    @Kilotwat: Exactly. In the end it was a love story, but there was so much tragedy and death in the whole movie it didn't feel at all like a fairy-tale to me. Watching the older brother grow up from poverty into a life of crime and then meeting that horrible end was heartbreaking.
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    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    I'm off to score a couple pair of earrings.
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    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    are sasha and malia just randomly rollerskating?
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    02/23/09

    @bloodflower: It's a punishment.
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    02/23/09

    @bloodflower: As long as they're not wearing those goddamned heelie shoes.
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    02/23/09

    @alouette: Those things make me feel so old. I just want to yell at all the kids zoomin around on their new fangled shoes.
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    02/23/09

    @Dreaming of Chocolate-Covered Bacon: I admire your restraint. I feel like shoving them and laughing while the eat it on the concrete.


    Okaaay, it's been a rough day. Excuse the excessive aggression.

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    Image of cwisto moweina has got yer goat cwisto moweina has got yer goat
    02/23/09

    @alouette: Is it bad that I want to trip every kid I see wearing those?
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    Image of girlnamedblue girlnamedblue
    02/23/09

    @cwisto moweina has got yer goat: Is it worse that I've had to change direction while walking to resist the temptation?
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    02/23/09

    In reply to Even First Kids Have To Make Their Beds • Writers Question Slumdog's Authenticity, Title
    vicodin earrings, the perfect accessories for my xanax tennis bracelet.
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    02/23/09

    @FraggleIraq: or my percocet cocktail ring!
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    Image of VirginiaDentata VirginiaDentata
    02/23/09

    @GirlSailor: I first read that as "percocet cock ring" and was really impressed you managed to make blowjobs EVEN BETTER.
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