I think (my own personal opinion) is that Big Trouble in Little China did something so crazy and wacky that no one actually recognised it at the time.
If you look at the film from a certain perspective, Jack Burton was the sidekick, and Wang was the main character. And they just filmed it from the perspective of the sidekick who thinks he’s the main character, which is a conceit I’ve always adored.
There are no stupid questions.
But there are in fact, some very stupid ones.
I don’t think that’s gonna buff out.
Josie and the Pussycats.
Rated 5.7 by people who had no clue what it was saying at the time. I feel like if it was released in today’s pop culture environment it would fare far far better.
It’s far more satirical, clever and funny than an Archie adjacent bubblegum pop movie has any right to be.
That’s what I mean. We should give the individual a fast-tracked opportunity to prove that they can meet those standards instead of blanket rejection because they came from a school that did not.
For example, if I…at 48 years old…decided to return to University for a marketing degree, I have the opportunity to audit a number of my classes based on my own life experience. I can preemptively take the applicable tests to prove that I don’t need to take the class again. It’s a fast track based on the fact that I’ve spent the last 25 years of my life working at least tangentially in marketing, so that has to count for something.
There’s no reason that they can’t do a similar thing with skilled specialists who happen to come from so-called “sub-standard” schools. Test them and audit them on an individual basis rather than just telling them “too bad”.
I don’t disagree that we shouldn’t compromise our standards, but a school based accreditation process doesn’t allow for any sort of individual appeals process. (ie. Doctor “a”, who is really talented, gets universally shafted because he comes from a school that was deemed “unfit”, even though he himself could blow any of our accreditation tests out of the water)
Let the specialists come here and fast track an accreditation instead of saying “sorry…you school sucked, welcome to Tim Hortons.”
Because when he says “Wealthy again”, he doesn’t mean you.
Tariffs essentially mean you’re paying more for everything that you buy, which then goes into the corporations coffers, and the billionaires/robber barons get richer. THAT is what Trump means by the country being “wealthy again”. He means the billionaires. He doesn’t care if it’s his own middle class paying for it.
MFW I get arrested mid-way through applying my Dr. Zaius cosplay makeup…
Writing: Specifically fiction writing in terms of structure, POV, plotting, etc…
History: Especially early societies and how much everything really stays the same, despite the advance of technology. No matter where or when you go, humans are gonna human.
Replace “Canada” with Sudetenland, and it’s almost literally the same quote used by Hitler…
Been to Winnipeg. That Windchill is pretty much correct if you’re hanging around Portage and Main.
Russia doesn’t want anything from the the U.S. except what it’s already doing. Fucking shit up on the international stage and thereby destabilizing NATO.
Any decrease is Western Hegemony is good for Russia. It doesn’t matter whether they achieve it by tossing some people out of windows, or by helping an orange toddler ascend to the highest office in the U.S.
Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses
Stop spying on me please.
I’ll preface this by admitting that I’m far far far from an expert, but if I recall correctly, the issue is that the oil that is left in Alberta (Tar Sands) is largely dirty, bitumen layers that require so much refining that it’s not cost effective to the point where no other province really wants to bother building the rather expensive refineries necessary to do it.
It’s more cost effective to ship it to places that already have such refineries and then buy it back.
Though my understanding on it is very very limited, so please if someone can explain it differently to me, please do. I’m always open to learning.
Even the dumbest drunk driving murderer in the province is right once in a while…
Pinning it solely on the Liberals is pretty typical Scooter Moe bullshit, but he’s right in that we should have been divesting our trade from the U.S a long time ago.
The only freedom’s you’ll have left is the ability to vote on what America names its version of the Lada
You think a U.S. military base isn’t getting kicked the fuck out of a foreign country the moment they are declared an enemy? Or do you have such a little opinion of everyone else that you think a couple of military bases will immediately take over every European county at once?
If America invades Canada it’s global reach becomes null and void essentially the next day. Every Nato country expels American military personnel, by force if necessary, and America’s role in the world is done, regardless if they win against Canada or not.
If you think your Apple phone isn’t listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I’d like to sell you in Montana.
I unapologetically woke up this morning hoping to read that someone took a successful shot at him during the Superbowl.
Put me on whatever list you wish.
Because -isms exist in a binary world (sexism, racism, etc…)
Any increase in visibility for whatever minority they happen to hate, is a decrease in visibility for them (in their feeble transactional little minds) and it drives them bonkers.