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« Reply #50 on: July 25, 2010, 02:33 AM » |
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I can never watch bollywood movies... the high pitched singing makes me want to cover my ears  I've heard it's gotten better these days, but I can't confirm through first hand experience. Old bollywood movies are hilarious  I prefer non-mainstream indian films... the ones that actually deal with profound issues rather than some heroine in a mini skirt traipsing down the alps with her gyrating lover. |
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« Reply #51 on: July 25, 2010, 02:35 AM » |
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If you find bollywood unbearable, you should try kollywood |
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« Reply #52 on: July 25, 2010, 02:36 AM » |
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I once saw an Indian movie that seemed to be basically about a couple trying to get rid of a guy. They put him in the freezer, then he got out. They threw him off a mountain, then he walked back up. Then I turned the channel.
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« Reply #53 on: July 25, 2010, 02:37 AM » |
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I prefer non-mainstream indian films... the ones that actually deal with profound issues rather than some heroine in a mini skirt traipsing down the alps with her gyrating lover.
That's basically all Bollywood movies. |
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« Reply #54 on: July 25, 2010, 02:40 AM » |
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I once saw an Indian movie that seemed to be basically about a couple trying to get rid of a guy. They put him in the freezer, then he got out. They threw him off a mountain, then he walked back up. Then I turned the channel.
Indian baddies are VERY hard to kill  |
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« Reply #55 on: July 25, 2010, 03:34 AM » |
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sorry to say but all the 'all cultures have pluses and minuses' crap doesn't cut it for me.
i'd much prefer a culture than celebrates individuality , enterprise and freedom of speech and expression (the US) than a culture which is collective oriented, honour oriented and tells people to bite their lips on just about everything (most of asia).
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« Reply #56 on: July 25, 2010, 03:37 AM » |
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How long have you lived in the US?
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« Reply #57 on: July 25, 2010, 03:43 AM » |
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Scandanavian countries are probably a lot better than the US in terms of free speech and individuality. So I have heard. I like northern europe in general coz they have more atheists |
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« Reply #58 on: July 25, 2010, 03:45 AM » |
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The only freedom the US has more than most developed countries is the freedom to exploit.
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« Reply #59 on: July 25, 2010, 03:46 AM » |
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all the power to scandanavia then. they are better than asian and middle eastern cultures too in that case.
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« Reply #60 on: July 25, 2010, 03:48 AM » |
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Where do you live?
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« Reply #61 on: July 25, 2010, 03:49 AM » |
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@coco : can you explain why scandanavia is a 'lot better' than the US on free speech and individuality?
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« Reply #62 on: July 25, 2010, 03:49 AM » |
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There are some good things about the US  |
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« Reply #63 on: July 25, 2010, 03:50 AM » |
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@abood : i don't talk to people who have their head in the clouds with utopian ideals. they're setting the bar too high with fantasy social systems.
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« Reply #64 on: July 25, 2010, 03:50 AM » |
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Ignoring me is one button away. About time someone did that.
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« Reply #65 on: July 25, 2010, 03:54 AM » |
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@coco : can you explain why scandanavia is a 'lot better' than the US on free speech and individuality?
They do a better job at keeping religion and the state separate. No issues on gay rights and marriage either. |
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« Reply #66 on: July 25, 2010, 03:56 AM » |
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They're also social democratic. A couple of steps closer to being in the clouds, z0mg no wai.  |
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« Reply #67 on: July 25, 2010, 04:06 AM » |
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@coco : can you explain why scandanavia is a 'lot better' than the US on free speech and individuality?
According to a press freedom survey, the Scandinavian countries, including Finland and Iceland, have the press with most freedom in the world. Don't know if that automatically qualifies as 'a lot better', but it sure is an interesting indication. http://www.worldaudit.org/presstable.html |
What Muslims really believe:
There is no God but Mohammed, and Allah is his messenger.
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« Reply #68 on: July 25, 2010, 04:12 AM » |
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Iceland has a lesbian prime minister  America got Sarah Palin. I feel sorry for them  |
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« Reply #69 on: July 25, 2010, 04:14 AM » |
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Sarah Palin isn't the prime minister, silly.
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« Reply #70 on: July 25, 2010, 04:17 AM » |
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Ya but she could have been a big part of the US govt and that's bad enough.
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« Reply #71 on: July 25, 2010, 04:19 AM » |
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i read through that and scandinavia is certainly a little better on the press front than the US. my original point shows through clearly, hardly any countries in the 'free' bucket in asia.
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« Reply #72 on: July 25, 2010, 04:23 AM » |
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Japan?
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« Reply #73 on: July 25, 2010, 04:28 AM » |
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i said 'hardly' any countries. japan, south korea and israel are the only ones marked free as far as i could see though india's score is pretty close too.
out of these japan and south korea have a clear US influence.
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« Reply #74 on: July 25, 2010, 04:31 AM » |
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It's all fine and dandy when you use bourgeois standards to measure freedom of expression, but what about the freedom of expression of the proletariat?
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