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Post by Gilberto on Dec 12, 2010 11:52:32 GMT -5
Just kidding, this episode has nothing to do with Christmas. Sean and Ruud have a nice off the cuff conversation about international pop culture, guns and drugs, robot laws, reality TV, the future of space travel, superheroes, sitcoms, CG and the our newfound ability to see things in three dimensions. What a way to spend the last episode of the year... traffic.libsyn.com/darkcrazy/TVAMD_RUUD.mp3 |
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Post by lynn on Dec 12, 2010 20:21:12 GMT -5
This talk of locking doors is interesting to me. I grew up in a town so we lock doors all the time, but Ben's family are from the country where you have to drive for an hour to get to their house so they're unlikely to get burgled so they never lock anything. The amusing part is that Ben's brother is forever telling us off for locking our car because it's inconvenient for him when he wants to take it. I always lock myself in, especially when I'm in the shower. Girls in movies did that more often they'd stop getting surprised by dudes just pulling back the curtain. They never show killers going after girls with glass shower doors, they usually have to dive through them with a shower of glass to get to the girl and I think that would be more harmful to the killer than the girl. She can run away while he's lying on the ground bleeding, picking glass out of his skin.
Good show though, Ruud you're a funny one. It's always nice to hear a new accent, yours is quite subtle. Good discussion though guys, it's nice to just hear some upbeat chatter. That's why I love this show so much.
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Post by Gilberto on Dec 13, 2010 17:35:18 GMT -5
Yeah, we need to start recording regular again after the new year, I could use a little more lively conversation. If we have bring in people from all over the globe, we'll keep this show going. God bless all of you.
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Post by lynn on Dec 13, 2010 19:34:30 GMT -5
And may Blessinz of teh Ceiling Cat be apwn yu, srsly. Hope the beardy sky man makes everyone happy this christmas whether they like it or not.
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Post by drivebyluna on Dec 14, 2010 15:51:19 GMT -5
I am just now listening to the podcast and I'd like to contest Sean's assertion that Europe is more linguistically accepting than America. edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/11/brittany.language/index.htmlThe French are doing it to the Bretons; the English did it to the Gaelics, the Cornish and the Welsh; and Spain did it to the Corsicans and are still doing it to the Basque. (Did you know that the US passed the Bilingual Education Act in 1968?) |
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Post by Gilberto on Dec 14, 2010 19:20:22 GMT -5
The South Africans hate the Dutch, and I don't like anybody very much...
Anybody else heard that song?
Not that Europe is a paragon of cultural acceptance, but I still think they've got us on this one. It's common for people to be bilingual abroad, whereas there are plenty of people in America who think it's a sign of surrender to learn Spanish in any dialect other then Mexican Menu.
Case in point: Ruud can be on my show like it's nothing at all, but I will never in my life be able to listen to his and understand a word of it.
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Post by drivebyluna on Dec 14, 2010 20:08:07 GMT -5
That is also a product of isolation. Isolation begets ignorance, ignorance begets xenophobia.
If we were a smaller country that was surrounded by other countries that spoke dissimilar languages than ours, we would be much more open to multiculturalism and multilingualism. The fact that you can hop on a train in Europe and go through 3 different countries, with three different languages within a week encourages language diversity. The fact that we are surrounded by two large countries, one of which primarily speaks English discourages that. That's why I think you tend to see more acceptance in large cities in the US. It's a fact of life that there are pockets of ethnicities in some of the largest cities, and some of these people never learn English, so it encourages others to learn their language. There are a few trilingual interpreters that I know living in the bay area, one that speaks in Cantonese, the other Korean and the third Spanish (and I'm sure there are more). Take them out of the city and raise them in an isolated area and the wouldn't have been trilingual (i'm assuming.)
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Post by Gilberto on Dec 15, 2010 16:52:45 GMT -5
I guess I'll give you that. Necessity encourages acceptance. That's why I'm a big proponent of leaving home to go off to college, because it takes you out of your world and puts you in the mix with a lot of different people and ideas.
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Post by lynn on Dec 15, 2010 17:25:38 GMT -5
and gets you away from them bad parents not teaching you to lock your door. You soon learn that in college when a drunk guy stumbles into your room in the middle of the night and pees on your bed.
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Post by drivebyluna on Dec 16, 2010 0:16:45 GMT -5
Are you speaking from experience?
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Post by lynn on Dec 16, 2010 2:25:13 GMT -5
The worst bit was that I was naked at the time. True story.
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Post by Glip on Dec 16, 2010 15:31:48 GMT -5
Okay just got some time off now from the busy December craziness at work and birthdays in the family. Good to hear you made something decent out of our chat Sean, it felt like subject-per-second when we recorded this.
Oh Lynn, join the club...in my student-dorm my lock was broken and I had some drunk or other stumbling in on a monthly basis. Yes, one time, even when I had my girlfriend over and...well...you know...
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Post by lynn on Dec 16, 2010 22:52:06 GMT -5
So our conclusions are that Canadians need to go to college? Being interrupted by irritating drunk people while naked (I'll leave which party is naked deliberately ambiguous) teaches one the value of good parenting, locking doors and accepting differences in other people? For peoples of all nations?
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Post by Glip on Dec 17, 2010 13:19:13 GMT -5
So our conclusions are that Canadians need to go to college? Being interrupted by irritating drunk people while naked (I'll leave which party is naked deliberately ambiguous) teaches one the value of good parenting, locking doors and accepting differences in other people? For peoples of all nations? Actually my conclusion would be....Go to college.... end of statement. Meet other cultures, learn some important life-lessons, get to know yourself and others and most of all get drunk and see naked people by accident. There's a reason why there's a truckload of college-movies coming out each year, most of them comedies. |
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Post by drivebyluna on Dec 19, 2010 17:21:21 GMT -5
My suggestion is go to college for a good reason. Don't go to college and get a degree in philosophy (like my friend did). Philosophy, history, and other similar liberal arts majors are only really useful if you're planning your career in academia. I think the exception to the rule is English majors. There are plenty of creative writers out there but there is also a need for technical writers and copy editors.
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