Eccentric Flower talk:200910/The Good The Bad

ProfRobert:

Re. relationships: What I've come to realize is that it's not about finding the right person; it's about being the right person. Be the right person, and the right person will find you; be the wrong person, and the person who is wrong in the way that fits into how you are wrong will find you.

Re. Vidal: I think he's mostly an ass, but I agree with a lot about his concerns about Obama, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet. I also believed that Hillary would have been a better president in terms of getting things done, but at this point I'd still take Obama because of what he means reputationally for the U.S., here and abroad.

Re. Polanski: He was a 43-year-old who got a child drunk and had sex on her when she was too afraid to say no. He pleaded guilty and then ran away to escape jail. What's the issue? Child rapists belong in prison, Oscar or no Oscar. (And I'm sorry his wife and soon-to-be baby were murdered; no one deserves that, but it's still not an excuse.)

-- 20:27, 1 October 2009 (BST)

Bunny42:

I'm a little surprised that someone in Vidal's class of erudition would say "would that it was." Hello? Subjunctive, a little, please? I should like to hear "would that it were," is all. kthxbye.

-- 02:08, 2 October 2009 (BST)

Mrissa:

I wore a coat when I went out last night. It was a burgundy corduroy coat. It was a glorious symbol of autumn and hope and new beginnings. Also it was a coat.

*is a happy lizard*

-- 13:08, 2 October 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

Mrissa: I am in favor of good coats. Just not quite yet. Fall, to me, is optimally not a time of coats; flannel overshirts which have been so well-washed as to be almost at the point of collapse, however, are not unwelcome. Coats are a joy of winter.

But I recognize that everyone worships in their own way, and that's a fine thing.

-- 14:24, 2 October 2009 (BST)

Peebles:

Fall is the time when scarves come out to play.

(P.S. I am a lizard.)

-- 16:32, 2 October 2009 (BST)

Andy:

I attempted to post a reply, but it was "flagged as spam". I don't know whether this means it's gone, or whether it just means you have to approve it before it gets posted. If the latter, please delete this comment. If the former, can you tell me how to get the comment posted?

-- 16:47, 2 October 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

There's no spam filtering in place that I know of; I have no idea what caused the error! If you try to post something and see that again, mail me the text of what you were trying to post. It's possible the comments form still has some legacy checks in that direction which I haven't disabled.

-- 16:59, 2 October 2009 (BST)

Nonelvis:

I've gotten that message when I tried encoding a URL with <a href> instead of MediaWiki's code.

-- 22:23, 2 October 2009 (BST)

Andy:

One of the things that upsets me about the Polanski case is how successful the Polanski supporters have been in using the "Big Lie" technique to obscure and distort the facts of the case. ProfRobert says above that she was "afraid to say no". According to her grand jury testimony she did say "No". And "Stop". Repeatedly. I don't think that ProfRobert is deliberately distorting the facts here. I think that he has been misled. And the fact that the Polanski supporters have been successful enough in distorting the facts of the case that an intelligent person can be misled about them makes me angry.

-- 00:13, 6 October 2009 (BST)

ProfRobert:

You're right. I didn't read the grand jury testimony; I was relying on news reports.

-- 17:28, 6 October 2009 (BST)