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Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
#11
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
(January 11, 2023 at 11:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 11, 2023 at 9:24 am)Belacqua Wrote: I haven't seen it since it first came out, but...

As I recall, part of the dynamic of that movie was that Clarice was supposed to be a rural American, not at all sophisticated. She's resourceful and clever, not stupid, but culturally not sophisticated. While Hannibal has high-class cultural tastes. 

In fact the only character in popular culture who would read Dante or T.S. Eliot is a serial killer cannibal.

Wrong on all counts, but I'll focus on the last one:

-Josiah Bartlet

-Charles Xavier

-Sheldon Cooper

-Gregory House

-Sherlock Holmes

-Lilith Sternin-Crane

-Bruce Wayne

All of whom have quoted Dante, Eliot, or both.

Your characterization of Starling is also way, WAY off base.

Boru

You try too hard to prove yourself.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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#12
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
(January 11, 2023 at 12:27 pm)Ahriman Wrote:
(January 11, 2023 at 11:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wrong on all counts, but I'll focus on the last one:

-Josiah Bartlet

-Charles Xavier

-Sheldon Cooper

-Gregory House

-Sherlock Holmes

-Lilith Sternin-Crane

-Bruce Wayne

All of whom have quoted Dante, Eliot, or both.

Your characterization of Starling is also way, WAY off base.

Boru

You try too hard to prove yourself.

I proved myself 35 years ago. Fuck off.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#13
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
(January 11, 2023 at 8:51 am)BillieBobbie Wrote: Then explain why Clarice Starling sounded so nice with her West Virginian dialect. She didnt seem backwards at all in the "Silence of the Lambs" movie from 1990

She was a rare exception.   Hey wait a minute.  I'm from the south.  I'm offended I tell ya.  That makes my blood boil.  The steam is blowing off my coon skin hat and making rivulets in the dirt encrusting my face since I'm backwards and don't know about that hygiene stuff.  And what's a movie?  Never heard of that there thing.   And West Virginia?  That's way up there in the north with all them dang Yankees.
"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture,  an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads."

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
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#14
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
(January 11, 2023 at 9:27 am)GUBU Wrote:
(January 11, 2023 at 8:51 am)BillieBobbie Wrote: Then explain why Clarice Starling sounded so nice with her West Virginian dialect. She didnt seem backwards at all in the "Silence of the Lambs" movie from 1990

I will when your lot finally get around to accepting responsibility for the Civil War and that southern white society is incredibly racist.

I got in trouble in my hometown in Virginia because I asked for all white meat at the KFC.  Sorry, I'm a breast man.
"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture,  an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads."

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
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#15
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
(January 11, 2023 at 12:27 pm)Ahriman Wrote:
(January 11, 2023 at 11:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wrong on all counts, but I'll focus on the last one:

-Josiah Bartlet

-Charles Xavier

-Sheldon Cooper

-Gregory House

-Sherlock Holmes

-Lilith Sternin-Crane

-Bruce Wayne

All of whom have quoted Dante, Eliot, or both.

Your characterization of Starling is also way, WAY off base.

Boru

You try too hard to prove yourself.


I have to wonder what we've become, when providing a well-supported and compelling argument is denigrated as "trying too hard".

It appears that ad hominem is alive and well.
Disappointing theists since 1968!
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#16
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
since the term global south is used to denote the underdeveloped part of the globe,  the term american south must mean the underdeveloped part of America.    thus southern americans are more backwards by definition.

hehe

Also, according to the novel, Clarice Starling may have been born in west Virginia,  she was raised in Montana.   so that explains why she didn’t grow up dumb and seem backwards.
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#17
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
(March 4, 2023 at 5:01 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Also, according to the novel, Clarice Starling may have been born in west Virginia,  she was raised in Montana.   so that explains why she didn’t grow up dumb and seem backwards.
LOL, them cowpokes ain't rocket surgeons.
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#18
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
Don’t need to be too smart to pretend to do surgery on rockets
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#19
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
My last girlfriend was from Nashville, TN. She had a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. She was anything but backward. She was also an atheist.  Great
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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#20
RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
(March 5, 2023 at 12:21 pm)Gwaithmir Wrote: My last girlfriend was from Nashville, TN. She had a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. She was anything but backward. She was also an atheist.  Great

Must have been on the distal happy end of the generally lamentable bell curve.    Angel
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