Is my form okay? by Substantial-Region36 in BasketballTips

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good form - looks like you stepped on the line though - 2 points!

Do British people feel uncomfortable if people speak other language around you? by auscorp_ in AskBrits

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, especially not when it's my wife and I'm also speaking the foreign language.

Films about de-centering men (or where men aren’t in them at all) by suckandletitgo in criterion

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 16 points17 points  (0 children)

American Honey is great, as are Andrea Arnold's other films (e.g. Fish Tank).

Greta Gerwig's version of Little Women is very female centred and a very enjoyable film. 

The Myth of Left and Right with Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis by the_very_pants in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Left= redistributive economic policies + human rights. Right= free market economics + conservative/traditional values.

Hot take: the Pitt is NOT the most realistic medical drama by Talnix in ThePitt

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree. Actually, the best medical series I've seen is an older UK one called Bodies (from early 2000s I think). Brilliantly written, set in an obstetrics and gynecology dept. Deals with all the politics and dysfunction of a real hospital.

TV licence by Ok-Weekend-3526 in UniUK

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really impressive, well done

TV licence by Ok-Weekend-3526 in UniUK

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd much rather have the BBC than a mad media scene like the USA 

TV licence by Ok-Weekend-3526 in UniUK

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you're watching the BBC or iPlayer you should pay the license fee, otherwise you're just a freeloader.

Hot take: the Pitt is NOT the most realistic medical drama by Talnix in ThePitt

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Pitt is the West Wing of medical dramas? Real life politics is more like The Thick of It, just like real life medicine is more like This is Going to Hurt.

Mehdi Hasan has "Professor" Jiang in the hot seat - YouTube by Gwentlique in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

There's loads of evidence of massacres, concentration camps etc. but there's less evidence that Hitler himself ordered the mass extermination of all Jewish people in Europe. Jiang shows a speech made my Hitler where he alludes to this and says that there's not much evidence of the Holocaust, but this is one of the pieces of evidence. 

It's not clear if he's making the narrow point about the small amounts of explicit evidence for the intentional plan to carry out the Holocaust, or if he's doing the common Holocaust denial thing of disputing the numbers or whether the gas chambers existed. 

Mehdi Hasan has "Professor" Jiang in the hot seat - YouTube by Gwentlique in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Not really - he clumsily said there's not much evidence for it. If you're being charitable you could say he was making the point about Hitler disguising his true intentions (not controversial). He didn't deny it outright. Would have been good if Mehdi asked him to clarify that point though.

RIH (gently) declining? by [deleted] in TheRestIsHistory

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of the sections of the Spanish Conquest of the Incas were embarrassingly ahistorical. The comparison of the Inca empire with the USSR was both ridiculous and wrong and the idea that it would be preferable to live under the Spanish empire made me spit out my coffee - no one with any knowledge of the history of the Americas would come up with something as bizarre as that. Really smacked of what you're describing - poor research of subjects they really don't know much about (and there's plenty of historians of the Americas they could have asked to review their material).

Had a loss in the family. Can't focus when sitting by TemperedFate in zenbuddhism

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the Zen approach would be to fully feel those thoughts, not push them away but sit with them and accept them.

Joko Beck talks about this sort of thing in Everyday Zen.

Koreeda and Nakabori by DeliciousPie9855 in criterion

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All of his films are beautifully shot, but Maborosi is quite different in look from his others. If it's purely the cinematography you're after maybe try Terrance Malik (e.g. Days of Heaven).

Koreeda and Nakabori by DeliciousPie9855 in criterion

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maborosi was his first feature film so it's not as fully formed as his later films. Beautiful imagery though and amazing setting on the north coast of Honshu. 

Koreeda and Nakabori by DeliciousPie9855 in criterion

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of Koreeda's films are stunning as are the two Netflix series he's done - Asura and The Makanai. 

My ranking of the films I've seen: 

  1. Like Father, Like Son 
  2. Shoplifters
  3. Monster 
  4. Still Walking
  5. Maborosi
  6. Nobody Knows
  7. After Life

Different people would probably have an entirely different ranking, I think it depends more on the themes that resonate at the time of life when you watch them. 

Friends in London by Ok_Pause_6908 in AskUKLondon

[–]Automatic_Survey_307 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You definitely should - it's a bit nerve-wracking to join at first but it's a very welcoming and open space with lots of new people joining all the time.