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I find it interesting there’s this misconception that Scooby-Doo was stolen from anime, because it’s lead character designer was Japanese (Iwao Takamoto)… deeper fact checking reveals he was born in America and trained by Disney. Regardless, I suppose it’s fun to wonder IF the series was Japanese instead of American, what it would have been like… probably some crazy love diamond between the girls and the guys.
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Also… if anyone ever wondered what she’d look like if Gargamel made her human.
No, it cannot go in circles for ages, because you are talking out of your soft chocolate dispenser on this, and you know it.
There is nothing wrong with the occasional "shooting the breeze or “dispensing soft chocolate”, but you shouldn’t be doing it in a serious fashion on subjects you really have no understanding. Otherwise, you are just coming off as very ignorant person, and that loses you credibility with people that know anything about the subject.
See, you aren’t “leaving it be”. If you were “leaving it be”, you wouldn’t have taken it further. Instead, you just go on, so I have to presume yo are trying to rescue some semblance of “face” and trying to get the last word on this subject. If you had wanted to leave me something to think about, while dropping the subject, you’d have PM’ed me. Instead, you posted it here.
In many places in the world, yes it does. Particularly in Saudia Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, many parts of France, and even a few areas of the UK. But not in the US. That was what I was taking issue with. In America, people would think you are trying to punk them, being strange, going tribal, being a hippy, are a religious type of some sort, or maybe, just maybe, dressing as a gal or dressing in “drag”. It depends on the pattern and cut and material of what you are wearing, as well as what else you are wearing, and how you act. One of my step-father’s used to wear long hippy dresses (he called them “robes” but you’d never see them in a movie or theatre production or even in most art depicting such), and that man conducted business in some of the most ass-backwards parts of the US. He never had any trouble because he was wearing dresses, and he was a just a pipsqueak of a man (all of 5 foot in his boots or his lifts), and he was often fairly insulting when he talked (which probably explains why we didn’t do a good job at sales, but that’s a different thing). Now, he did start a lot of trouble and end up in a lot of fights, but again, he started that trouble— and he got into more trouble when he was dressed in blue jeans.
That’s the thing. Americans are highly tolerant. Once you get outside the teens years and teen environment, well— people tend to talk nasty about you when you aren’t around and talk real “big” about what they would do “to that yankee queer dressed all funny/wrong”, but not actually when you are around. Americans just dress weird, and have done so all along— but particularly since the 1960s. We’ve got people that go around, all the time, in all sorts of weird get-ups these days in all sorts and sizes of communities. Hell, I’ve seen two different high school football teams dresssing in drag and going through their rivals neighborhood, selling school stuff (candles, cookies, that sort of thing) because they lost the game against their rivals. You just never know why that guy or girl is dressed that way. As long as he isn’t messing with you, you don’t mess back.
Actually, if you find a guy kicking a drag queen’s ass and ask him why, you are liable to get the answer “I thought this whore was a girl!”. Of course, you’d just as often find the queen winning the fight and he’d say “I caught this bastard cheating on me with Ron!” or “This buttwipe tried to run off and not pay me!”.
Do you know American culture? Have you paid attention to it? Americans are MUCH more tolerant in public than in private. The reason is that here in America, we have a national “Live and let live” philosphy— and for those that don’t believe in such, they want to at least appear that they are nice and enlighted people. But what goes on in private, under your roof? That’s diffeent. That you can bitch about and tell your Uncle Ted that as long as you own the house, he will not be dressing like THAT and allowed in it (if you have any problem with that sort of thing or behavior).
Now, if you’d like to continue shooting the breez or otherwise discussing this, I’d be happy to. If you want to play “What if…” or “How about that?”, that’s fine with me. If you really want to drop the subject, then just drop it. It’s all fun and games to me. I’m part troll. I’m generally nice here, and keep my troll heritage surpressed, but people talking out their backside wakes up my troll heritage, and I can only keep it in check for so long.
I’ve given up on trying to convince you otherwise. I know what I’ve experienced in my life, including personally knowing a guy (who wasn’t gay or transsexual) my freshman year of high school who was beat up for wearing a dress in public. You believe otherwise on this issue. It ends here because this topic of discussion is getting dangerously close to violating board rules. That, and I have much better uses for my time than to try and change the opinion of someone whose mind appears to be firmly set on believing the opposing point of view.
So I’m watching that Star Trek: The Next Generation show on late night replays, and I catch Yesterday’s Enterprise running. Although I’m not a big fan of the series (more of a Star Wars and Macross person), it was a damn good episode. So anyways… I’m watching how they resolve the issue at the end, and I’m suddenly dumbstruck at how stupid the Enterprise crew is.
Why didn’t they just enter the space rift with the Enterprise C earlier in the episode? I mean they knew it was a time warp back into the past, and the “alternate present” had the Federation losing a war with the Klingons. Okay… so go back in time with the Enterprise D. They’d be bringing superior technology into the past for the Federation. Really doesn’t matter if the fake or real future occurred in the aftermath: the Federation would have access to the most powerful ship in the sector.
Thus win-win for everyone. Except Worf maybe. But Tasha was hotter than Worf… so it’s an acceptable trade off. 8)
I dunno if I’d call them stupid per se. Hung up on their rules of what’s allowed even if it means they lose a war, yeah I’d say that. Then again, Kirk would have gone back, saved the day, and then come back to the future that was fixed.
