Posts by Danielle
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I can always gauge from his reviews whether a film is worth scoping or not.
Unless it's a PT Anderson movie. During his review of There Will Be Blood I was thinking 'but all the clips you're playing are making me irrationally angry! I can just *tell* how hateable this film is right away! Why are *you* not irrationally angry, Simon?'
This Way Up rules, though.
(I can't say I hate Noelle at all, but she drives my mother and husband batty. I'm not sure why...)
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The issues here seem to be as inflexible.
You know, for people who claim to be wanting more complexity in this discussion, you and rob sure don't seem to be noticing anyone else's lengthy, nuanced arguments about violence, control or the lack thereof, and empathy.
I would also like to say that I find this 'oh, you're just so naive and black and white because you haven't experienced "losing it" the way so many of us have'' argument *so. freaking. patronising*. The police were called to my house for domestic disturbances more than once when I was a child (um, Kyle, I hope your Dad wasn't there. Heh). I am not speaking from a place of inexperienced naivete, and you should *never* assume that anyone else here is either. (I hugely resent mentioning this just to 'prove' my bona fides, too. Feh.)
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I so wouldn't go there as is apparent from comments in this thread we are not capable of discussing an issue like this without resorting to personal slights about the writers.
Oh jeeeezus. I feel as if I'm turning into Craig here, but what a passive-aggressive load of twaddle. If saying I note a 'weird apologist vibe' in the thread is a 'personal slight' to you then I'd hate to see your reaction if I actually *do* insult you. Subtlety: not my thing either.
The last few pages of this thread have certainly been eye-opening for me, though.
(When are Jackie and Deborah and I getting married? I can recommend Las Vegas...)
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that's too bad , i admire a person who is able to think and argue outside their own personal viewpoint
I suppose you'll have to get used to disappointment. I call that trolling, so I don't do it.
I wonder if the ideas that you put forward are deliberately misrepresented in order to avoid the ideas expressed.
Sigh. Not on my part, no.
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you're purposely provoking in order to create discussion
Not my style, homes.
(Also: your 'obvious' meanings aren't that obvious to me.)
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It would be naive to dispute that all people are ultimately capable of hitting out to a lesser or greater degree.
Which I also said. In the same post you're quoting. Paragraph above. The thing about the teaspoon. Remember?
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we've got a high rate of domestic violence as a country, and there will be people on this board reading or speaking that are involved on both sides of it.
No shit.
But cracking someone's vertebrae and putting them in a wheelchair? Not the same as throwing a teaspoon at someone across the kitchen. Neither are good: one is significantly worse than the other. I bet most of us could freak out and throw a teaspoon, but I don't think most of us could/would put our partner in a wheelchair when we 'lashed out'.
Your implication that we're all capable of doing what Veitch did is not only disturbing: it's minimising the nature of the crime. Which is yet another way domestic violence has been historically denied or trivialised.
Again: MEH.
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brutal unprovoked beating
Erm. Why is 'provocation' suddenly part of this equation for some of you?
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Just call me 'Uppity D', Robbery.
side track an interesting point re the correct appropriate emotive hyperbole
On the contrary: I think the range of bizarre euphemisms you're using to describe a serious assault (a phrase which is *not* 'emotive hyperbole', thanks very much) actually *are* my key point.
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No other player will come with software that works as easily and seamlessly as iTunes does.
A pox on iTunes. A pox I say! ;)
Jackie, you should probably just get an iPod Nano, like Russell says. They're cute. Ignore we ornery doubting Thomases. (And my newish iPod Classic is pretty cool, I must admit. So. Much. Space! And Winamp Pro runs it just fine...)