scoobdog

Just a thought: 1. Keep ruple right about the same price as a shiny US Penny by beating unpatriotic citizens. 2. Demand all payments in shiny US Pennies and collect trillions of much unloved and unappreciated coins otherwise doomed to being pressed into asphalt by big disgusting dirty US pickup trucks. 3. Smelt all those grateful US Pennies for benfit of Mother Russia! 4.??? 5. Show up at the local recycling center, save planet and country, and ..... PROFIT!!! .... I could be a Russian finance minister.

I thought you meant he had a recent meltdown. Yeah, he did. It looks a posted one word response in TOG's thread three weeks ago and before that at almost a year gap.

Perma'd? For what?

Resorting to tactics like demanding rubles in payments in breach of contracts, freezing foreign assets and doubling interest rates aren't the mark of "competence" as much as the mark of sheer desperation... not that any finance minister would be able to do anything in the face of such severe economic embargoes.

1. It won't poison you. (It's basically the same oil extract as what's in peppermint.) 2. I've never heard it used here by anyone. Might be regional, but idioms that are regional usually have a cultural component. 3. I think you should trademark Vicksass.

I mean, it is highbrow by our standards, but....

Maybe.

That's the problem you have with her?

Bro. Broooooooooo. All they need was Jay Leno to compete that group.

That look, man. Now we know why daddy left.

I'm actually more disappointed that Ricky Gervais is doing it. The guy has a decent reputation despite his biting humor... this just blows it up. It's like Sorce said, now we all get to see all those holier than thou white dudes show their assess.

And she even conveniently has alopecia just so we all know she knows what she's talking about.

Also, had no idea Louis CK was with a black chick.

You can see it in Jerry's expression. He fucking knows that ain't right even as LCK and Gervais are letting it roll off their tongues. That whole scene made my skin crawl.

Wow. He lets Louis CK call him an N-word and laughs along with it? ... God Damn.

I’m just being nice because you all just had to but the juicy thread in the back room behind the bead curtain.

How dare you, sir.

Don't worry. There's only so much you can say about. someone fucking their mom anyway.

The people who most "matter" in that sense are the overwhelmingly white men who bankroll the big budget films and who would gladly use any excuse to not pay top dollar for a "problematic" black actor. Will was already starting to age out of being top billing in a blockbuster, but this certainly isn't going to help.

You know... there's actually a thread for this topic.... Lots of great stuff in that thread.

Quite, and it might cost Will his A-List ranking.

It was punching down. Take this with a grain of salt because of who is saying it, but he has a point. In particular, making fun of someone for a medical condition, especially for a person who has a well known diagnosis, is dangerous territory if the person is the blunt of the joke as opposed to being in on it (like a comedy roast) and able to give constructive context. It doesn't help that Jada Pinkett Smith is generally unlikable, and definitely deserves the past jokes directed at her questionable marriage life choices (as Rock has done at the Academy Awards previously): that tends to give cover to those claiming she needs to lighten up and ignores all the other people that actually might be hurt hearing that joke. I like Chris Rock, and I will still appreciate his humor after this just the same. He got carried away and made a joke he shouldn't have, and he didn't deserve to be physically attacked for it. I also think JPS has every right to be hurt by it, and that Will Smith deserves some empathy for having a momentary breakdown with catastrophic potential. It's depressing thinking about it.

Oh, I know. I think that's partly why Sir Gawain and The Green Knight gets the attention it does, despite being late medieval. There's a sense of homoeroticism in the work that really seems to mesh with similar themes that often pop up in English Romantic works.

I don't think anyone can wax poetically about Jane Austen's sex life more than Jane Austen, so what would even be the point? Now, waxing poetic about the Sir Gawain's sex life with Sir Bertilak.... that's an impressive feat.

In all seriousness, I think the disturbing part about this whole misadventure is that one of the most bankable stars is being used to feed the worst tendencies of white people. Maria Shriver of all people had this to say: I'm not saying Will has a right to bitchslap Chris in front of millions of people, but tweets like this smack of the kind of hypocrisy that lead to black people being treated differently when they have an unfortunate and very human reaction to something that's painful. It comes across as patronizing. It also somehow comes across as chastising Will without showing an empathy for the other black man involved, all while channeling the dark imagery of domestic violence. Other reactions are also somewhat disturbing, including those that suggest that Jada was using Will as a proxy for her own beef with Chris (in reference to the fact that this is the second time at the Oscars she was the blunt of one of his jokes). To directly refute what Maria was trying to say, love as Will alluded to in his slapdash attempt at an apology / acceptance speech isn't about violence but it is about compassion in the wake of pain and violence. And, whether people want to hear it or not, making fun of someone for a medical condition that is unexplained in addition be disfiguring is painful.... enough to cause the emotional distress that leads to these ugly moments. I get the need to laugh at this. I just can't help but notice that everyone is dancing around the fact that a very serious personal altercation between two well known and loved black entertainers is being reduced to the same finger wagging that other black people get when their very human reactions run afoul of our sense of decency.