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| marantzo |
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What sounds better, "She's got a great ass." or "She's got a great butt."
Ass sounds a lot better to me. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:41 pm |
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You have to adapt your adjectives
great ass > great butt
nice ass < nice butt
sweet ass > sweet butt
cute ass < cute butt
Buns, that's another euphemism, which slipped out of date in the 90's. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:36 pm |
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The very first word I learned for it was fanny.
I'm moving this to Fanny. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:07 pm |
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"Fanny" across the Atlantic means "vagina" not "buttocks." Thus "Fanny Hill" is "mount pleasant" is "mons veneris" ("mount or hill of Venus).
"Buns" lost it's appeal when teenage girls began using it incessantly as a way to describe the ass of the man they liked. It became too innocuous. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:22 pm |
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| Now I really am moving this to the Lobby. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:54 am |
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| Man was Prometheus a bore. Plodding, shallow and, with the exception of Michael Fassbender, lacking in characters you give a shit about...and Fassbender is a fucking robot. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:01 am |
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| Marigold Hotel is very sweet and somewhat charming but not great. I loved some of the actors--particularly Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, and Dev Patel. Dench, a great actress, has never been this likeable on film before. Patel, who might have been considered a flash in the pan at the time of Slumdog Millionaire, proves to be a charismatic and inventive actor. And Nighy is just indescribably pleasurable to watch. The movie is worth seeing but no great shakes. I'm glad it seems to be a hit, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's some Oscar talk at the end of the year. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:54 am |
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Marc, funny, the robot role in the original Alien (Ian Holm) also stood out. Making a character an android is a good way to talk about what goes into being human, maybe.
I hope I disagree with you on Prometheus, but I'm used to feeling my heart sink with disappointment at sci-fi movies.
"I'm moving this to Fanny." Yambu, this is thread I've been missing for so many years, and didn't realize it until now. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:56 am |
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| A raft of tempting indie films are opening today. Safety Not Guaranteed, Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, and Dark Horse are all on my must-see list. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:10 pm |
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| Has anyone heard of "Get the Gringo"? My Amazon pre-order alert e-mail today features it with five stars, and high praise from a bunch of people (nine reviewers) who evidently saw it in theaters recently. It stars Mel Gibson as an American thief who escapes to Mexico and is caught and sent to a Mexican prison (which is more like a camp, except that inmates can't leave). The comments gave me a strong urge to see it--yet as far as I know, it hasn't been shown in NYC. Looks like I'll be buying the DVD when it comes out next month. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:58 pm |
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carrobin wrote: Has anyone heard of "Get the Gringo"? My Amazon pre-order alert e-mail today features it with five stars, and high praise from a bunch of people (nine reviewers) who evidently saw it in theaters recently. It stars Mel Gibson as an American thief who escapes to Mexico and is caught and sent to a Mexican prison (which is more like a camp, except that inmates can't leave). The comments gave me a strong urge to see it--yet as far as I know, it hasn't been shown in NYC. Looks like I'll be buying the DVD when it comes out next month.
Yes, we've been discussing it on http://reelviews.net/reelviewsforum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5705
The release plans are unusual to say the least. There was one night of theatrical showings, a Video on Demand release on Direct TV, then DVD next month. It sounds like something that would be a hit if given a normal release. It is being shown theatrically in other countries. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:08 pm |
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| Thanks for the information. I checked the link and am now even more interested in getting the DVD. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:46 pm |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:32 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: A raft of tempting indie films are opening today. Safety Not Guaranteed, Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, and Dark Horse are all on my must-see list.
And none of them are opening in this cultural cesspool. PL&M has Catherine Keener and Jane Fonda, so I'm there. When it's here. Safety Not Guaranteed looks like a quirky indie thing with some sort of time travel thing tossed in, and the surly girl on Parks and Rec - if you want to take one for the team, Billy, I won't stop you. Hey, it might be great, like a Miranda July film without any pesky talking cats. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:07 pm |
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bartist wrote: billyweeds wrote: A raft of tempting indie films are opening today. Safety Not Guaranteed, Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, and Dark Horse are all on my must-see list.
And none of them are opening in this cultural cesspool. PL&M has Catherine Keener and Jane Fonda, so I'm there. When it's here. Safety Not Guaranteed looks like a quirky indie thing with some sort of time travel thing tossed in, and the surly girl on Parks and Rec - if you want to take one for the team, Billy, I won't stop you. Hey, it might be great, like a Miranda July film without any pesky talking cats.
And the male lead is Mark Duplass, who is becoming one of my faves. |
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