Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Kracklite,
Oh, I'm going to join the crowd and go +3
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I just applied it consistently.
No, what you did was a rather crude version of the same old “OMFG, let the gays marry and it’s incestuous polygamy (with farm animals) by lunchtime” same old. I’m sorry to tell you this, but the House could go into extreme urgency tomorrow, and a simple majority of 62 MPs could vote to repeal Part 3 & Schedule 2 of the Marriage Act.. (I think you'd have to have to deal with marital zoophilia separately, and repeal Sections 143, 144 & !42A of the Crimes Act first.) Let the (literal) mother-fucking marital fiesta, begin!
The only problem with that deliciously perverse slippery slope hypothetical is that it doesn’t add anything useful to a reality-based policy debate -- there is no political or public appetite to take a ride on that slippery slope. Again, can you point me towards a first-hand link of any marriage equality advocate who is itching to go shopping for their harem at the nearest pet store?
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to ,
I want the same choice all of you have to marry someone of the opposite sex, it is not fair that some people have that right but I don’t – oh wait, it is equal.
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Field Theory: An important message for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Not really, he’s just going through the rolodex of hate.
Nah, it’s worse that that – it’s cheap shots at easy targets, and as long as APN and Mediaworks are happy to keep being textbook enablers…Hey, it's not like those crips and retards are anyone important. Like the All Blacks.
Interestingly enough, even enablers have limits. I can’t prove it, but I suspect that typically weasel-worded apology for trolling Anand Satyanand. was dictated by Mediaworks after they realised the backlash against Paul Henry wasn't going away and could easily flash over to them..
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to ,
Marriage equality? What’s that? The right of any adult to marry any adult they please? Brothers, sisters, mothers, children, parents, same sex, opposite sex, group sex.
*sigh* I think someone's slippery slope is greased with bullshit. I'm going to do you the courtesy of assuming you're merely hideously ill-informed rather than trolling, but please provide a sourced direct link to one marriage equality advocate anywhere advocating any such thing.
Just one.
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Muse: Reel Life: Pliéing Turkey, in reply to Leopold,
For a film centred around the barely contained chaos of a (so we’re told) make or break new production fora company past its prime, there’s remarkably little of it – but to be fair, I don’t think Aronofsky was that interested. As I said, far be from me to speak ill of Natalie’s baby-daddy but Benjamin Millepied’s competent but uninspired choreography was a lot less interesting than the way Matthew Libatique shot it. For once, hand-held wobble-cam had a purpose beyond giving me a migraine.
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Also, to be vulgarly commercial for a moment: Even if the reviews were uniformly dire, Oscar bounce or no, a US$170m + worldwide gross off a $13m budget isn’t a bad ROI for Fox Searchlight.
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Muse: Reel Life: Pliéing Turkey, in reply to Lilith __,
Well Craig, once again our mileage differs!
Very good. Keeps me honest and staves off the kind of boredom that leads to arson and random cattle mutilation.
And while I'm being honest (with the usual caveats),, review aggregators strongly suggest you're not the only one. I've also come across quite a few people - particularly women -- who get the film on a level that I don't. They're not automatically wrong or stupid, just because I don't get it.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to JackElder,
I have attended the Wgtn Feminazi Boner-Killer drinks as a token representative of the patriarchy. They're a good bunch of people.
That they are. I had a delightful assignation with Ms. Boganette and several other emasculating harpies in a hotel bar a few weeks back, and it was not in the least diminished by the presence of Mr. Boganette. Shall we just say he's 1) not stupid, and, 2) not at all difficult to objectify for any length of time.
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Muse: Reel Life: Pliéing Turkey, in reply to ange wither,
No, thank you Ange.
I won’t have that dreadful alienating feeling of being the only viewer with that experience.
At the screening I attended, someone starting giggling hysterically about the point Mila Kunis tried to stick her head up Natalie Portman's twat (you have to be there) and couldn't stop. If that happens to you, just breathe through it m'kay?
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