wsgy
You do English wrong
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wsgy
You do English wrong
3d ago
Perdido Street Station and I'm about to drop it 120 pages in unless someone convinces me not to
wsgy
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5d ago
Not sure if it applies because I played several instruments before discovering it, but https://www.musictheory.net/lessons pretty much taught me music theory 20 years ago
I'm a big fan of Blade Runner (1982). I don't want to bother listing all its positives, but one of the things I like about it is, as far as I understand it, the movie ends ambiguously. Is Deckard a replicant or not? I was pissed when Blade Runner 2049 came out and removed all doubt: turns out he's a guy after all. Still a good movie though.
This ambiguity at the end was also something I liked about John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). I have a family member who works in Hollywood and somehow we got onto the subject of The Thing. She said she didn't like it because of the same ambiguity, but then as a matter of course in doing her job she got to spend time with John Carpenter and asked him to clarify the ending. Apparently he gets this question a lot.
Turns out he has no idea what the confusion is about.
I said it seemed to be a bit too subtle for a movie where a head grows spider legs and scuttles away. She said no, it's why Carpenter is a genius.
wsgy
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13d ago
I sometimes fantasize about an ongoing usage post every week here to get everyone's grammar and such better. I did this on reddit for a week though and BOY WERE THEY MAD
wsgy
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13d ago
enough to shoe us away or something
"shoo" is the correct term
::gets into the usage-Nazi-mobile and drives away::
wsgy
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16d ago
If it's cold out, a Manhattan
If it's hot, Tom Collins or Moscow Mule
If it's neither, Negroni
wsgy
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24d ago
I am a little lost as to why this is a problem. If it is her age... why is that a problem? She's an adult!
I suspect the real reason is you guys don't like her. Don't make me tap the sign (The Five Geek Social Fallacies). Just tell her it's not a good fit and cut her out, she'll survive
Both of those are major memes on /r/bookscirclejerk for, I'm assuming, a pretty good reason
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