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Just wrong in so many ways.

Is it "art"? Here's the scale to test it on:

Will this be in a museum or even remembered in a thousand years' time?

500 years?

A century?

A decade?

6 months?

Tomorrow?
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The "lines" on the page are not lines, but are the text on the other side of the page.

I just wonder what his patient was riding 40 days after the operation.
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I bet the dude is lying. It wouldn't be the first time an art treasure went "undiscovered" for decades because people are trying to circumvent international law.

He could be trying to establish a fake provenance for this item, which happens with many recent illegally-excavated artworks.

For example, if you see a Greek vase in a museum with "provenance unknown", 99% it was excavated illegally sometime after 1970.

The Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Getty Museum in California have quite a few of these.
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blueballs? geez.

Are people here so self-absorbed they can't figure out the instructional video is intended for a way younger audience?

The kid starts out kinda uncertain, kinda geeky. Guitar hero for DS? Not cool. The rocker starts out cool. By the end of the video, by playing the game, they've switched places. The geeky kid's now the hot rocker dude, and the rocker is Liza Minelli.

A little tongue-in-cheek, but also very subtle persuasion.
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The reactions about the magical "bond" between mother and baby are almost as wacky as the story.

I think Grandma did it for her own pleasure rather than for the kid, which is the creepy part of it. Not sexual creepy, but creepy nonetheless.
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Oh please, everybody knows the KKK is just an excuse for Southern gentlemen to throw on flowing robes and dance around with each other.
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L, I don't know if I agree entirely with your analysis.

There are a few (very minor) women in the latest three - the kid's mother (a virgin who gave birth) and some Jedi chick (who gets killed), who are little more than cardboard cutouts. But then, so were most of the actors except maybe Obi Wan and Yoda.

Padme is crippled more by the one-dimensional scowling of her moody husband than by any lack of character on her part.

Princess Leia (all puns aside), is a strong character throughout, and is just as 3-dimensional as Luke Skywalker or Han Solo.

I just don't think Lucas, in borrowing from older genres, knew how to draw characters, especially women, out of their stereotypes.
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