The ones we would see are the ones labeled as skate egg cases in the wiki article. Although there are certainly plenty of sharks here I don’t remember seeing any of the ones pictured there. One thing I like about going to the beach, every day it’s different. I certainly didn’t see those egg cases everyday.
If I see somebody I know at the brothel – they’re at the brothel, too. And probably not to play music.
Right. Brothels don’t seem terribly scandalous to me. Unless one is married and the spouse doesn’t know about your visit. Otherwise, no judgment from me.
Some of them are very exploitative, and yeah I’ll make judgements on anyone using one of those either knowingly or without bothering to check. I’ve been making the presumption, for purposes of this poll, that the legal brothel in question has only genuinely volunteer workers who are well treated by both management and customers, and well paid.
Me too. I agree.
How is it any different than a plumber or an electrician working there? You’re there to do a (paid) job.
Gotta admit, my latest poll is a hard choice. Rose ended up killing Jack, Jenny was a user, and Jules was just actively horrible to everyone, especially Cameron Diaz.
However… I don’t think Rose was as purposely bad as the other two, so she didn’t get my vote, and Jules was… for want of a better phrase… situationally horrible, while Jenny repeatedly decided to ignore the sole good man in her life while chasing after men who were her father’s doppelgangers.
Jenny giving birth to a child while not bothering to inform Forrest that he’s a father (despite FG being worth millions and totally in love with her), and just dumps him on Forrest when she knows that she’s dying (and doesn’t disclose THAT to Forrest until weeks later) means that, unlike Rose and Jules, her horribleness stretched generations.
And we’ll ignore the possibility that Little Forrest (LF) may be carrying HIV for the likely reason that Jenny got AIDS by shooting up while LF was a baby because that’s just too depressing to consider.
(And, yes, the movie doesn’t explicity state that Jenny had AIDS, but given the nature of the film (how Forrest is centered on major changes in American society) and her coy description of “I have some kind of virus, the doctors don’t know what it is” occurring in 1981/82 (she died in March, 1982), pretty much closes the subject for me.)
I always hated the way that Jenny was portrayed, that whole “noble Forrest patiently waiting” while she did her awful hippie things. Gah.
The movie is not the book and the book is not the movie but in the sequel book it was confirmed she died from Hep C. It wasn’t explicitly stated in the first book either.
Oh and Jenny was by far the worst. I didn’t read the book. I’ve only read about the book but apparently in it Forrest is as much or more responsible for her leaving than she is.
Have not read the book either, but from what I recall, Forrest was a completely different person than how Hanks portrayed him, so not surprised.
Terraforming: Did not vote, too many unknowns. Given the current course of human society, there are times I’d love for us to go extinct, so let the algae have a chance! Assuming a more positive future society (almost a given), such as Star Trek, I’d likely instead say “go for it” assuming that there’s sufficient need, though I doubt I’d say go for hundreds when a handful would do.
Preferred Weather - I’m an indoor sort of guy. I absolutely have weather I prefer (warm fall weather, slightly cloudy, highs around 69F with a light breeze, towards evening/dusk) but that doesn’t mean there are things I want to actually DO outside. Sure, if everything aligns, I’ll happily read outside in such weather, but even that is only going to be for an hour or two, so I’d -still- be spending most of the day inside. So I voted No, they’re not wasting it.
Now if we postulated that person was some sort of outdoors enthusiast, well, then by their own standards they’re wasting it (or doing something more important/required despite their preference), but they’re still not wasting it by MY standards.
Seconded.
Among them: are we supposed to be thinking of terraforming all those planets, or none? How about trying one to see what happens? If we do that, can we save a portion of its natural life? probably we should wait till we can figure out how to do that. Why do we want more planets, anyway? Is our own Earth about to be hit by a planetkiller? Who would be going to the terraformed one? How long would the terraforming take? Would people be living there before the process is complete, and if so what are the reasons against staying in those habitats? – I can probably think of more questions if I take the time.
I voted that yes they’re wasting it; but that presumes they had a reasonable chance to be outside, and maybe they didn’t.
For the weather poll, I think it depends on where you live. If you’re in San Diago, you’re going to spend some perfect days inside, because almost every day is perfect. If you’re in Ketchikan AK, or even Seattle, get out and enjoy it. Take the day off.
My answer to the terraforming poll is that we have no business colonizing other planets in the first place.
I read the book, but didn’t watch the movie when I heard what a soppy sentimental mess they made of it. I was surprised to see such virulent hatred for Jenny, but I guess that’s because the movie had a different agenda to fulfill.
From certain sorta-left-wing points of view the movie looks like a celebration of sorta-right-wing political ignorance, “do not fight for any cause”, “do not try to change society in any way”, “dumb followers get rewarded with fortune, rebels get AIDS”.
My parents, who lost friends to right-wing dictatorships, hated the movie because they saw it in that lens.
When I saw it in my teenage years, I didn’t really see it that way, but may be if I saw it again I would derive the same conclusions.
To that point, I was a Limbaugh listener in 1994 and he hated the movie. It’s one of those films where one can see what one wants to see, tbh.
What did he have against it?
I don’t think there was much of an agenda. Forrest moved through history and stepped in shit every step of the way (don’t know how that got to mean being fortunate by that another discussion). Jenny was the other side of the coin. As she moved through history things did not go her way until their paths met again. I don’t think it means more than that.
I watched the movie, but didn’t remember thinking it had much of an agenda. I might have just missed it, though.