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WCDT Strips 3306 - 3310 (12th to 16th September 2016)
JimC:
--- Quote from: cucumber error on 16 Sep 2016, 00:25 ---...give an ordinary name instead of my (unusual) real one to avoid confusion
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One takeaway shop I worked in did none of these things, instead we put a description in the order book and worked from that. It was a distinct art! We didn't normally let on to customers that was how we worked. It was more normal round where we were in those days to hand out tickets with numbers on, and every now and then someone might ask if we were going to give them a number. Very often we'd oblige , and write down the number in the book along with the usual description. So the customer would be sitting there seeing all the other orders handed out without any apparent identification, and then when we got to them we'd call out the number without having done it for anyone else...
Is it cold in here?:
For an incisive critique of research on intrinsic sex differences in behavior, by someone with a ZoeB-grade mind, see
https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Storm-Flaws-Science-Differences/dp/0674063511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474049641&sr=8-1&keywords=brain+storm+the+flaws+in+the+science+of+sex+differences
Morituri:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 15 Sep 2016, 22:55 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 15 Sep 2016, 20:43 ---I think brains are as gendered as bodies (which is to say, yes there's a few differences and some of them are important, but mostly we can do the same day-to-day things).
As a general strategy, however, it's fairly useless to try to understand women.
Instead, for most purposes it's far better to concentrate on a simpler problem with a smaller scope; understanding the woman (or man) whom you are interacting with. Generalities are interesting, but specifics are vital.
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I wish I'd said that. +1 Insightful, and may I please steal your first line for future use (with attribution)?
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Go ahead. As I've said before, that's just my opinion but you can use it too if you like.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 Sep 2016, 23:29 ---Once again, we are reminded that Emily exists in a unique world not entirely like that experienced by anyone else. I'm not even going to bother to ask how a grizzly murder could be part of a 'meet-cute' because I suspect that my brain wouldn't be able to follow Emily's chain of reasoning.
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I don't think I've ever seen a rom-com with poachers as the protagonists, but I that seems perfectly reasonable to me given the premise. "Hey! You shot the bear I'd been tracking for three days, you asshole! That was mine!" And then hijinks ensue, culminating in the pair of them running from the park rangers and police, having to check into hotels as husband and wife to escape notice, etc.
Or you could cast it differently, where one of the protagonists is a park ranger who has the assignment to kill a grizzly that's attacked several people, and the other is an idealistic picketer under a "Don't Murder The Bear!!" sign.
But I don't think either of those would have anything to do with the movie Emily was looking at.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 16 Sep 2016, 03:36 ---Romantic comedies with body counts: There's Heathers, and, um... :?
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Shaun of the Dead? And I disagree with Benergy, Scott Pilgrim absolutely had a body count.
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