just to get roman worked up: "In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother. They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison -- where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv." -- from AP story on Valley of the Wolves
[quote:fe8be98dfe="Saccharissa"]And this is the country you call an ally. You are better off with Hamas.[/quote:fe8be98dfe] Meh, I blame the US. Everyone else does. As for the Hamas, they're still sticking to their manifesto. Destroying Israel, and all that. Good fun, good fun. At least they're honest, I'll give them that.
Yet my first thought when I heard of the story of Brokeback Mountain, about gay cowbuys, I thought "but do they eat pudding?"... It can't be a arthouse film unless they're eating puddding... Apparentlt they eat pie... is that the same thing?
What a crappy Wedding Crashers remake. I don't think they captured the spirit of the movie at all. Speaking of crappy remakes and Brokeback Mountain, Brokeback to the Future!.
[quote:277426e86d="Cynical_Youth"]What a crappy Wedding Crashers remake. I don't think they captured the spirit of the movie at all. ....[/quote:277426e86d] *gasp* CY! That made me laugh, to be honest. So did the film you linked to.
[quote:bcbdd3335d="Cynical_Youth"]Thanks Hsing. I think... it does make me wonder if I'm really that sober a person.[/quote:bcbdd3335d] Admit it, you're a secret comedy god.
[quote:3887484f19="Hsing"]Spiky, I am a little confused. :? [/quote:3887484f19] In Southpark - Cartman's definition of arthouse films was a bunch of gay cowboys sitting around eating pudding... Hence Brokeback Mountain being funny...
[quote:c39bb17dc8="spiky"] In Southpark - Cartman's definition of arthouse films was a bunch of gay cowboys sitting around eating pudding... [/quote:c39bb17dc8] FINALLY!!!! (I kept asking the arthouse movie freaks about the whole pudding issue, and naturally, didn't get anywhere Should have asked the South Park-ians instead!)
[quote:59c4ce483c="Hsing"][quote:59c4ce483c="Cynical_Youth"]Thanks Hsing. I think... it does make me wonder if I'm really that sober a person.[/quote:59c4ce483c] Admit it, you're a secret comedy god.[/quote:59c4ce483c] Ssssshhh... secrecy is the curse of my talent. One joke a month is already stretching the agreement.
[quote:e02fa36de0="mowgli"][quote:e02fa36de0="spiky"] In Southpark - Cartman's definition of arthouse films was a bunch of gay cowboys sitting around eating pudding... [/quote:e02fa36de0] FINALLY!!!! (I kept asking the arthouse movie freaks about the whole pudding issue, and naturally, didn't get anywhere Should have asked the South Park-ians instead!)[/quote:e02fa36de0] The word 'pudding' sounds really strange to me. I was watching TV over the weekend and some woman was on talking about 'proper ettiquette'. She said that the correct name is 'pudding' and not 'desert'. I don't know it just sounds like something Charles Dickens would have written (not that it's a bad thing). I have never been in a restaurant and asked for the 'pudding menu' - perhaps I don't frequent enough classy places! The word sometimes used here (N.Ireland) to describe someone as being stupid eg "John has pudding for brains" or perhaps more correctly " see tha' Sean wan, d'ya know he's puddin' fer brains" (trying to type how people speak is hard work) Do Americans all call it pudding - hence Cartmans Arthouse comment? Or is there another reason (the ettiquette one perhaps)
Americans only call pudding ( mostly it comes in boxes, you add milk and stir, occasionally you actually cook it or it comes in fourpacks of little plastic cups with foil lids) pudding. Desert is what we usually call something sweet at the end of the meal. I just heard there is a new trend to have a restaurant that [i:8ef6756907]only[/i:8ef6756907] serves desert. There is one in New York that specializes in a three course desert, and we Americans wonder why we are fat and getting fatter.
The french use the word "pudding" but of course they get it absolutely wrong as usual... Their version of "pudding" is a kind of stodgy tasteless messy thing mainly containing eggs (I think it's supposed to be a kind of a bread pudding to start off with). The french may be good at "cuisine", but they are downright looooosers in the desert department. They are just lousy at it ! Dictionary.com gives us this definition : [quote:43edafc70e][b:43edafc70e]pud·ding[/b:43edafc70e] Pronunciation Key (pdng) n. 1. 1. A sweet dessert, usually containing flour or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked. 2. A mixture with a soft, puddinglike consistency. 2. A sausagelike preparation made with minced meat or various other ingredients stuffed into a bag or skin and boiled.[/quote:43edafc70e]
