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Also very bad is Brad Pitt in Seven Years In Tibet. I'm glad he doesn't have to do an accent in Inglourious Basterds.
guess it's hard for a scottsman to pull of irish huh?
Almost anybody who isn't Scottish is just awful at attempting a Scottish accent, but the worst is Norah Gorsen in Geordie playing opposite Bill Travers.
It's almost endearing, it's so bad.
Face it, DVD (Dick Van Dyke) is adorable.
His mangling of a cockney accent is painful to hear.
Good point beeswax. For myself, I'm usually not much concerned about accents, unless they are unpleasant-sounding or difficult to understand. I'm no linguistic expert or so well-traveled to be able to the accuracy of more than a few accents. As lo...
Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You
Streep and Cherry Jones (who originated the Sister Aloysius role on stage) both used the Irish-Catholic Bronx accent with which playwright/director John Patrick Shanley grew up.
I think it's interesting that Streep's mentioned more than once in t...
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- At 9:49am on March 4, 2009,
Sevorin said… - I haven't been following the thread. What did you do?
- At 11:06pm on December 7, 2008,
Sevorin said…
- Starting early, are we? Xmas ain't for two-and-a-half weeks. So don't put too much rum in the fucking egg nog. You may not make it. If you do, have healthy and a merry one.
- At 2:16am on December 7, 2008,
wowwee123 said… - Hi, I see that you use the Watch Instant feature on Netflix. I'd like to let you know and invite you to a group that is catered to everything Instant, located over here: Watch Instant Treasure Hunters. Also, there is a constantly updated list of titles that will be expiring, which can be accessed over here: Watch Instant titles that will be expiring.
- At 12:14am on November 13, 2008,
Sevorin said…
- Everybody pretty much has the same acid attitude that they had when you left the site. If you put your toe in the water now, you'd better bring a mighty thick skin with you. No one will show you any mercy. I'm used to squabbling and fussing, and I get a particular kick outa fucking with guys who are given to self-delusion. I don't mind insults. I thrive on them. Unless you feel the same, I'd recommend you just linger in the weeds.
- At 7:29pm on November 10, 2008,
Sevorin said…
- Jee-zuss-mother-fcuking Christ!
I decided to offer one universal challenge to all the jackoffs on the Prop 8 thread, telling them their treatment of you was bullshit from top to bottom.
A coupla guys came back at me with handfuls of shit they tried to smear on my windshield, but they were just irrelevant assholes. Their jibes at me are pretty funny, though.
But one of the guys took my criticism hard. So he and I are engaged in a protracted war of ideas -- he insisting that he's the essence of cold, hard, logic, and I insisting that he's just some dumb-assed fucknuts who doesn't know his ass from his elbow.
Don't be troubled if your name somehow finds its way into the news.
- At 12:56pm on November 10, 2008,
mighty said… - I know I am probably the last person you want to hear from and with the prop 8 thread, I really didn't mean to sound like I was attacking you. In all honesty I wanted to show that there was more at risk than gay marriage and to have an honest discussion. Unfortunately, I think a majority were out to argue with you. In fact a small majority like to do that here.
If I had thought of posting this earlier it would have been better for the both of us instead of the others adding fuel to the fire. So I am sorry if I didn't approach you in an appropriate manner.
Feel free to discuss more with me if you'd like.
- At 5:04pm on November 7, 2008,
Sevorin said…
- Thanks. I don't usually think of myself as the voice of reason.
But what's more important than being the voice of reason is listening to the voice of reason and, if the reasons are on the square, being able to re-think your own position. It's awfully tough to re-think anything when you gotta do it in public, with a dozen dizzy jackoffs nipping at your ass every time you open your mouth.
Try not to be too hard on these guys. I know they really swarmed around you like a pack of sharks. But it wasn't just you they were after. They were bitter and sad and fulla bile at what happened during the election and they were just looking for a target to spit at.
Matrgarita is the one I feel bad about. The character I see from reading her posts is almost unimaginably decent. (In fact, her goodness terrifies me.) It's a Goddamn shame that the voters didn't see her, didn't realize that she is no threat to anybody, and that all she hungers for is the same right to make herself miserable that we straight people have.
- At 3:48pm on November 7, 2008,
leela42 said… - Looks like you thought hard about things and came through well. Nice to meet you too!
- At 3:07am on November 7, 2008,
leela42 said…
- Just wanted to let you know that I understood where you were coming from in the Prop 8 thread. I disagree with some of your points, but didn't see the need for the public savagery you received. That sometimes happens here, though. I've shared the experience and seldom post any more -- it's just not worth the hassle. Just thought you could use a kind word.
- At 1:59am on November 7, 2008,
Sevorin said…
- Look, Dave.
Among all the shits you'll find on this website, no one -- and I mean no one -- loves to argue and fuss more than the guy whose comment you're now reading. I'll scratch and claw and roar at the whole world if I've got an argument worth arguing. And if the motherfuckers wanna throw nasty personal insults at me, I throw plenty of insults right back. I'll only give someone the last word when I'm sure I've laid out all I need to say. If you don't believe me, look at the rest of my discussions. I ain't bashful about talking at length. I unspool my points of view like an endless roll of toilet paper.
(By the way, once Shipley disappeared into the weeds -- he was a guy that I argued with incessantly -- he took his posts with him, so many of my responses to him now look like I'm talking to myself.)
It's awfully hard to debate this particular issue without running into a wall of insult. After all, it digs way down deep into your pants, grabs hold of your dick, and demands that you declare yourself about some very private feelings. You can see from what I've written that I don't think the garden variety heterosexual is any more "normal" than the homosexual. So I just use simple reason to work this thing out:
To me, we're all equal in the eyes of God, if there's a God at all. If that's true, then there's no reason to keep homosexuals from solemnizing their -- you'll pardon the expression -- marriages just like the rest of us.
Suppose there is no God. If that's true, then the lot of us still stand in the same relation to the universe. In other words, we are still equal. So again: what possible reason can there be for preventing same-sex marriage?
Now suppose that there's a God, but that he/she/it does have some rule against homosexual behavior. This is the argument -- and it is the only argument -- that the proponents of Proposition 8 can, or do, make. They try to drag up history, the necessity for stable family life, the sanctity of -- (once again here's that word that makes my flesh crawl) -- marriage to justify their point of view. But, when the smoke clears, the whole of their case is simply, God made it that way.
You know from my post that I really do believe that God does make us "that way" -- homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, omnisexual, whatever. It's got nothing to do with what we're taught as kids or what we choose. I mean, don't you know at least one guy who grew up, attending Sunday school or doing altar-boy duty at mass, constantly warned against the evils of illicit sex, being educated his whole fucking life to believe in the righteousness of matrimony and family and all the rest of it -- yet when he became a man that very same guy lied to his old lady, rushed down to the local cathouse or massage parlor, just to spend a few hundred bucks getting jacked off while some chick splashed toilet water in his face?
Like Lenny Bruce said, men will fuck anything -- raw liver, birds, mice, wood. You know the old joke about the guy on the airplane who goes into the bathroom compartment and notices a hole in the fusillage with a little sign over it that reads, "Your Wife away from Home." He ponders only for a second, drops a quarter into the coin slot and inserts his dick in the hole. There's a slight whirring noise, then he screams in agony. When he pulls himself out, on the tip of his penis is a neatly sewn button.
The point of that story is that there are guys who'll stick their dicks into that hole even if they already know what's gonna happen. All this, I believe, is because God made us that way.
So again, I can't find any reason to keep gays from suffering the torment of marriage, just like the rest of us. We are all as God made us. And if God made us without the power to choose, everyone is equal in his eyes. So we're back to the first syllogism: If we're all equal, there's no reason to keep one group of people from undergoing the pain of marriage, while permitting everyone else to have it.
There's a lotta stupid shit that I believe. I can't help it. I'm not perfect. But I'm not so stupid that I believe that God gave these religious cats truer, better, more honorable or righteous sex than He gave anyone else.
So I can choose to stand with the smug, pompous, self-righteous, hypocritical assholes who spout on about family and children and the glory of wedded life -- all of which triggers my gag reflex -- and who believe that their orgasms are true and just and godly and wonderful, whereas the love that Margarita seeks is low and indecent and against God's will. Or I can choose to stand with Margarita.
For me it's an easy choice to make.
Think about it, Dave. On whose side would you really prefer to stand?
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