As someone who has always loved martial arts but hates the phenomenon of people actually beating the hell out of each other for sport, this could easily become my new favorite thing.
"And there was no sign of the lost colony except for a mysterious word carved in wood: 'Croatoan'." "Uh huh..." "What could it mean? Was it an explanation? A warning? An incantation? Nobody knows!" "It was the name of the nearest Indian tribe." "NOBODY KNOWS!"
Come on, it's not the movie's fault if people don't grasp the satire. People have been taking obvious satire seriously for ages, from A Modest Proposal to The Colbert Report.
All my life, I've been hearing people say, "You shouldn't care what other people think of you." I've never understood why that is. You know who's really good at not caring about what other people think? Psychopaths. It seems to me that if you genuinely cultivate a habit of disregarding other people's opinions about your thoughts and actions, then you're just giving yourself a pathway to internally justify all of your behavior, even when you're being an asshole. That said, the recommendations at this link don't generally seem to be about how to stop caring what other people think. They seem to be more focused on countering a habit of crippling worry about uncertain reactions. But those are two totally different things. Controlling your anxiety should help you to interact more freely with people. On the other hand, if you take no interest in the outcome of those reactions, I can't understand why you would even want to pursue them at all.
Holy hell, this article is ridiculous. Leave it to Fox News to take a topic as dry and non-political as astronomy and frame in it a way that encourages the reader to believe there's an elitist conspiracy to undermine all the truths you hold dear. Guillen specifically states that the IAU worked backwards, creating a definition for planet that accommodated their predetermined conclusion that Pluto should be excluded. He offers no explanation for why anyone would want to do this, or why in God's name it should matter to the average Fox reader who is (I'm assuming) not an astronomer. The information in the article seems straightforward, but the rhetoric is utterly insane. As is the idea that anyone would still be trying to gin up controversy about Pluto's "demotion" 14 years after it happened. Maybe the IAU's definition for "planet" is flawed. I don't know. I, too, am not an astronomer. But there's absolutely no reason for the general public to weigh in on this or, really, to care about the outcome. I'm pretty sure we can trust the scientific community to arrive at a consensus, if they haven't done so already.
I used to walk into a bookstore or library and think, "Look at all the books I might one day read!" Now I think, "Look at all the books I'm never going to read in the brief time before death robs me of whatever minuscule knowledge I have already obtained!"
It does seem awfully rare that seafood and cheese appear together. I can think of one exception, though: cat food. And isn't it just unfair that our feline companions should be allowed to indulge that taboo, while we cannot?
This is delightful. However, I think the guy in the safety vest at 2:12 may be obsessive-compulsive. He plays, but there isn't an ounce of joy in his demeanor. It's more like he's thinking, "There is a hopscotch board, so I must jump. It is required."
I hate when people can't differentiate between a plot that "doesn't make sense" and a plot that simply doesn't spell everything out in detail for the viewer. This is the latter. There are surely dozens of viable explanations for how the situation developed into what we see at the beginning of the movie. But it doesn't really matter how we got there, even if your favored explanation is simply that Luke was an incompetent strategist. As long as the events that are actually depicted make some kind of sense, it's not a plot hole or a flaw in storytelling; it's just something that challenges you to either use your imagination or suspend your disbelief.
"Uh huh..."
"What could it mean? Was it an explanation? A warning? An incantation? Nobody knows!"
"It was the name of the nearest Indian tribe."
"NOBODY KNOWS!"
You know who's really good at not caring about what other people think? Psychopaths. It seems to me that if you genuinely cultivate a habit of disregarding other people's opinions about your thoughts and actions, then you're just giving yourself a pathway to internally justify all of your behavior, even when you're being an asshole.
That said, the recommendations at this link don't generally seem to be about how to stop caring what other people think. They seem to be more focused on countering a habit of crippling worry about uncertain reactions. But those are two totally different things.
Controlling your anxiety should help you to interact more freely with people. On the other hand, if you take no interest in the outcome of those reactions, I can't understand why you would even want to pursue them at all.
Guillen specifically states that the IAU worked backwards, creating a definition for planet that accommodated their predetermined conclusion that Pluto should be excluded. He offers no explanation for why anyone would want to do this, or why in God's name it should matter to the average Fox reader who is (I'm assuming) not an astronomer.
The information in the article seems straightforward, but the rhetoric is utterly insane. As is the idea that anyone would still be trying to gin up controversy about Pluto's "demotion" 14 years after it happened.
Maybe the IAU's definition for "planet" is flawed. I don't know. I, too, am not an astronomer. But there's absolutely no reason for the general public to weigh in on this or, really, to care about the outcome. I'm pretty sure we can trust the scientific community to arrive at a consensus, if they haven't done so already.