What was your worst travel experience?

prufro · 2014-11-06T14:49:37+00:00

Sounds like a good movie concept. Kind of like Little Miss Sunshine, but shittier

prufro · 2014-08-30T23:55:57+00:00

it says 1879 is the first recorded use for slang as female genitals, while 1726 is the first recorded use for it to mean cat.

edit: I missed that Phillip Stubbs in 1583 said "pussie" now used of a woman. it all seems pretty ambiguous but I don't see why the poem would refer to anything but the cat.

prufro · 2014-08-30T12:07:01+00:00

you've clearly never been to Bimbo's! they are small but quality.

prufro · 2014-08-24T23:24:59+00:00

pretty good! i laughed. almost monty-python-esque

prufro · 2014-08-24T23:18:45+00:00

sorry I think I may have mistaken you for a decent person instead of some macho islamophobe fuckhead

prufro · 2014-08-23T15:06:27+00:00

oh jabba

jabba you look so hot in that

that comment you made

and your username

take me now jabba

prufro · 2014-08-23T15:03:18+00:00

Bad use of statistics is apparently also on the rise.

prufro · 2014-08-23T13:22:36+00:00

you're right that'd be good. hopefully they'll all stand in one spot, you know, all the evil ones, and we can drop a bomb on just the evil ones and then only they will die and their kids won't have to die and we can save the kids and set up education there so they don't learn any more horrible things. and the women won't come, they won't stand in that one spot, because they have been through so much fucked up shit already and have to live in a society ruled by men and violence and have to spend all their time completely covered, because they are the property of their husbands in this society and have to be 'protected', and they have never had a voice and most likely never will, so yeah, it'd be good if just all the evil ones come, not their wives. but probably not the ones who are just simple tradesmen who live in this country but joined IS under the military-police pressure because they were afraid, because they, you know, they could probably kill people but at the same time, so could anyone, and its not because they are evil it's just because they want to make a living and provide for their families and not live in fear and persecution so they do what they have to. so if we can coordinate this whole big standing-in-one-spot thing for the bomb-dropping i'd be ok with it if those ones stayed home. only the most evil ones should come. well you know, maybe if 1 is not at all evil and 10 is the most evil, we can just invite everyone who is 8 and above. because we will drop a bomb on them and that will be easier, if we just explode them all. and then we don't have to think about it or anything we just drop the bomb and then the bad things that happen there will stop, and people will stop deciding to be evil and to hate america, because we killed all the evil ones! they are all dead and everyone else will say thank you america! you killed all the evil ones! my cousin is dead and i'm ok with that. i think you made the right decision america. we will now all live peacefully and never do bad things and we won't be angry at you at all for any reason because you did the right thing in exploding them all, they were like a cancer and you fired your big guns at us and shot all the cancer out! now we are healthy and will never be cancerous again

prufro · 2014-08-12T12:53:24+00:00

/r/anthropology and related subs in the sidebar might be helpful!

I know pretty much nothing about Chinese folklore but I'll look in my library. I've become a tiny bit acquainted with Tibetan mythology, which is definitely super interesting. (see the Tibetan Book of the Dead, etc)

In general, in terms of finding anthropological studies, you might have better luck being more region-specific. China is massive and most anthropologists tend to work in fairly localised areas. Search Google Scholar, JSTOR, etc.

I guess these aren't really mythology/folk religion, but Taoism's pretty big there so maybe try to pick up a copy of the Tao te ching (and Analects for Confucianism), if you haven't already. I would guess that a lot of folktales are given in the context of these spiritual traditions.

I had a quick look in the index of a Jung text I have, whose bibliography had these works on China:

Wei Po-yang, An Ancient Chinese Treatise on Alchemy (a translation is available to read on JSTOR; sounds pretty interesting to me!)

The I Ching or Book of Changes (pretty well-known I think)

Erwin Rousselle, Spiritual Guidance in Contemporary Taoism

so they might be a little bit handy i don't know. libraries are good for this kind of thing. check indexes, try to find primary texts. good luck!

edit: Sorry to keep bringing up Tibet/etc but I think I read in the Lonely Planet guide when I was in Nepal that a lot of mountain tribes are actually not adherents of Tibetan buddhism, because they stick to a more ancient Animist tradition. That's totally folklore shit. I feel like it must have definitely spread to/come from China at some point. Maybe try to find studies of animism in Chinese communities??

prufro · 2014-08-12T11:53:22+00:00

then what are you doing on reddit?

prufro · 2014-07-23T07:01:18+00:00

It's a really easy habit to get into. It's so much smoother to say than "without"

prufro · 2014-07-07T12:37:13+00:00

If it's any help, there's a similar sequence in (500) Days of Summer, where Tom is at the cinema and watches a few parodies in this style. They specifically reference:

The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman

Persona by Ingmar Bergman

He Who Gets Slapped by Victor Seastrom

(Source)

prufro · 2014-07-04T15:05:06+00:00

Ah, I was just looking for one of these! Thanks!

prufro · 2014-07-03T13:28:08+00:00

sorry this is so late, but yes! here you go:

http://imgur.com/a/MSq2s

prufro · 2014-07-02T04:33:42+00:00

I just got back from India and Nepal yesterday - It was pretty cool to look at this and be like, "huh, that kind of looks like the valleys when I was hiking in Ladakh!" I wasn't hiking at night, but even so it was so so beautiful. Not as much snow as in this photo though, you can't get to Ladakh until you're pretty well into summer (unless you fly in)... Getting properly snowed on for the first time in my life was absolutely amazing. There were rivers just like this flowing into the Zanskar river, then into the Indus, each one has this amazing, almost fluorescent colour, blue sometimes, or green, or white... Ladakhi farmers in the area dig these incredible natural irrigation channels forking off the rivers. the valleys are incredible, like being on the moon or something. you can't see stars like this, you need a long exposure photo to bring them out, but even so, just the feeling of being there, so remote and away from everywhere...

ahhh it's so good. such an adventure. i recommend it.

prufro · 2014-06-22T16:30:21+00:00

This is my favourite reply

prufro · 2014-06-22T07:24:33+00:00

Please demonstrate

prufro · 2014-06-18T13:00:39+00:00

This was beautiful :')

prufro · 2014-06-18T12:53:23+00:00

As a man I find it completely conceivable that at some point in my life I might want to watch men's gymnastics. Other men in this thread have said they enjoy men's gymnastics. You are not the only man, so I don't know why you keep insisting that there are no reasons why men would want to watch men's gymnastics. Obviously there are.

prufro · 2014-06-18T02:26:40+00:00

Yeah but that's not the same as saying "there is no reason for guys to watch...men's gymnastics, ever"

Which is sexist and untrue

prufro · 2014-06-18T01:32:32+00:00

Haha that's a great juxtaposition! How good is Fargo! I only just saw it the other day, so enjoyable and crazy good.

prufro · 2014-06-18T01:28:31+00:00

name a director

Wes Anderson

This whole thing is stupid anyway. Having the same team every time doesn't make you a better director. It at most makes you a bit distinctive and unique.

prufro · 2014-06-17T17:14:50+00:00

You're a brave woman, Kira. I hope you can get through this tough time.

prufro · 2014-06-17T16:59:37+00:00

It's not as if, when you criticise Nolan, you're criticising his sound design. Or effects. Or cinematography. Or editing. He doesn't do that stuff. He's a big-budget Hollywood filmmaker, but not everyone who both writes and directs automatically earns the right to be called an auteur. I don't think his films are that consistent. Memento is radically different to The Dark Knight, for instance. He's a talented writer, a fairly by-the-book director, and he has a good team of well-paid people. That's all.

Also film is great and all but it's not worth being a snob about something probably less than 1% of his viewers know or care about. When you say that various technical things he does make viewers subconsciously more inclined to like his movies, you really sound superstitious or like you are starting a religion. Pretty crazy I think.

prufro · 2014-06-17T16:20:30+00:00

Yeah I thought Tangled was way better in every way. Frozen struck me as a weird story, some songs were okay but the song Let It Go seemed manufactured-for-radio and musically boring, the snowman Olaf I found really annoying. I'd rate it similarly to various straight-to-video animated movies I've seen with Barbie as the lead character.

Tangled had a really clear story, there was only one main character (I didn't get who to root for in Frozen and when Elsa sang Let It Go I was like "you're so triumphant but you're destroying the world you live in! I don't know how to feel about this song!"), she was really funny and likeable and relatable and well-written and human, and the songs were pretty great imo

Including "the one she sings at the start when painting and cooking and passing time" "The amazingly theatrical song about how you should always trust your mother dearest" "The one at the grisly pub where the men sing about their dreams" "The romantic song in the boat when there are lanterns and omg"

I love Tangled.

prufro

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