Ahhhh, but I love Ali G. I love how he takens the most self righteous people he can find, puts them in a notseat, and lets them squirm. The best was Noam Chomsky my personal anti-hero. Did you see the episode? He had Chomsky rapping. Man, I literally almost lost it down my leg. My problem is that I fly Catahay alot and they Ali G in their system so there I am in headphones, surrounded by usually uptight Chinese, etc and I just am gufawwing loud as can be to myself. I am lucky thewy have never landed the plane early to lock me up or at least question me.
Nice to see our allies respecting human rights
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I had to add, there IS a point to ,ost of his stuff, whether it is the Borat crap or Ali, it is about the hypocrisy around us. Being able to go into what seems to be an All-American bar and getting the crowd hapily singing "Throw the Jew Down the Well" is great suff. He rips off their facade, with them smiling, in about 15 minutes flat. That takes alot of skill, and audacity. The man to me is a genius although I did not care for his first movie, the one produced in the UK and about Ali G. His Borat movies are beter for sure.
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I must agree with you there. I do like when he said he didn’t understand why Americans are always making a big fuss over Al Qaida and 7/11!
Especially if your destination is Singapore. Those officials are strickly tight-assed! They could turn you back for wearing two different coloured boot laces and truely believe they'd just saved their country from a cultural collapse by doing so.
Yes and I base most of my criticism of him on precisely that one. I clicked it off 20 minutes into the film.
..... and now that we're completely off the subject i might as well assume you like the Marx Brothers too! I can't stomach their films - any of them.
Never gotten into Groucho either but what about the Stooges...You CANNOT be against those genuises!
As for Singapore, yeah, any nation wanting to take my urine upon landing is off my list of fave places. That chewing gum law is nonsense as well!
As for Singapore, yeah, any nation wanting to take my urine upon landing is off my list of fave places. That chewing gum law is nonsense as well!
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Most of their laws are nonsense! Men can't wear beards (unless they're kept super trim). Women can't wear trousers but they can wear dresses - if they're not TOO short or TOO long! Yet the "she-he's" can strut the whole night long in front of Raffles! But heh(!) they're locals!
Ah, they're OK but my favourite is W.C. Fields. There's a guy who can crack me up still. Not to forget Stan and Oliver, of course.
WC is surely a person I would have got along with. I really feel that I missed that perfect generation...a time when even football matches called for suits and ties. People really cared about their physicality, their architecture, their clothingg, Art Deco is the epitome of beauty to me
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Me too. Anyone who hates kids and dogs can't be all that bad!
I agree with Art Deco and Art Neuveau but what's "physicality"? Like bumping into a women on purpose, grabing her tits in public or something like that?
Hahahaha. "Physicality," at least with my less than perfect English mnenas the physical environment and with that uttered I do not know why I did not just say it in those terms. But think about it, people made sure their appearance and that of their surroundings was impeccable. I love going around New York and seeing how much attention was paid to detail, real craftmanship. Then one thinks, as I said, of how even when engaging in recreation people were dressed to the nines. Oh well, 70 years from now someone will be wishing they had lived in this era so it all ends the same, right?
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I know why. You're living in the land of clichés and make-it-up-as-you-go-along grammar. Who can blame you?
That's the straight truth, for sure. Believe it or not.
Well I would be the first to admit that my English sucks, try as I might.
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To say it "Sucks" would be an overstatement.
I'd be willing to bet that your english is better than most of your neighbours' who claim to have english as their mother tongue.
Oh for sure. Here I speak mostly in Spanish by neccessity but it is better than my English hahaha. In the south I cannot understand more than a word here and there but this accent I can fathom. I was born in this city but raised traditionally so I did not even begin learning English until I believe age 7 because it was govt. mandated in America.
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I would have said Puerto Rico but I know better now.
Well, many here are Purto Rican. Also Dominican, but over the last 20 years it has changed to alot of Mexican (mostly Native Americans like the Mixteca Tribe) and Garifunas which are a black ethnicity from all over Central America (descended from Salve Ships that floundered off of islands like St. Kitts, like Maroons fought the Brits to a stand still, and won shipment to the malarial coast of Central America for their troubles). Garifuna though almost always speak very fluent English (Patois like Jamaicans,etc., as well as an Africanised Creole). People just assume, even though I am fair skinned and very blue eyed that I am Spanish Speaking (and I am naturally as my dad was Sephardic/Mizrachi).
Actually, my accent in English is getting less perceptible as I age, or so I am told. For some reason though, I cannot master the word "monster." Go figure.
Actually, my accent in English is getting less perceptible as I age, or so I am told. For some reason though, I cannot master the word "monster." Go figure.
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He-he-he! I try to say it as the americans and Brits do - "mahn-ster". You see what I'm saying, mahn?
My father says that one of our family tree members (in 1800 something) came from Bluefields which is an English-speaking enclave on the east coast of Nicaragua. Maybe that explains my excellent rythmic talent.
Yes, I have even tried with a speech patholist i was firendly with in Israel. She was from S. Africa and had natural English skills, helped me quite a bit, but it is just one word that hangs me up. I have no idea why. Soemthing pshycological I am sure.
Bluefields I have never heard of but have been to the Moskito Coast and indeed, even aside from Garifuna there are many English speakers given the proximity to Belize,etc. Yeah, they DO all speak in that rythymic lilt so maybe you have "genetic memory."
That accent, the caribbean English Patois one is very soothing to my ears (I and I, etc., although for the life of me I will never understand the willingness to kill over the label "bloodclot" hahaha).
Bluefields I have never heard of but have been to the Moskito Coast and indeed, even aside from Garifuna there are many English speakers given the proximity to Belize,etc. Yeah, they DO all speak in that rythymic lilt so maybe you have "genetic memory."
That accent, the caribbean English Patois one is very soothing to my ears (I and I, etc., although for the life of me I will never understand the willingness to kill over the label "bloodclot" hahaha).
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Don't worry. You won't need that word much in this life anyway.
Here you go: http://images.google.se/imgres?imgu...132&prev=/images?q=bluefields&um=1&hl=sv&sa=N
Wow! Thanks for the link. No, never even heard of it . Funny though, it looks like my village in the Philippines. Very similar. Never heard of the Rama either, maybe an offshoot of the Moskito? Looks like my kind of place though. I do not honestly plan to ever visit that part of the world again but do get to Argentina once every 2 years so you never know.
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As far as I know Bluefields is only accessible from the sea. I don't think there are any roads leading to it. I've never been there myself. Actually I've never been to South or Central America at all.
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