Ahh, I love the black/white struggle clip. My favorites come from the infomercials for various hair-removal products, the ones that routinely show a woman rapidly shaving her leg until she suddenly jerks her leg around and cuts herself. What a surprise! How terribly painful! Then, some wax set or depilatory machine (commonly known as a torture device) is offered as a less painful solution. I don't really understand it, because any wax experience has been exponentially more unpleasant than any shaving cut I've ever received. Advertising is lies.
yes, you've identified a classic version of this advertising technique. I just don't understand how people get paid to make these kind of commercials; you know there was a pitch, a meeting, and several levels of scrutiny. You'd think someone would have called out: "hey, i've totally seen this concept before and its kind of a ridiculous simplification of our product." To which the response was likely: "we're selling this to people up at 3am, keep it simple stupid."
btw, you may be part of the problem, as I notice that one of your interests is "black and white." you're one of them!
Homemade sushi is pretty easy. The key is to make the rice properly (preferably Japanese rice cooked in a rice cooker with the right amount of vinegar) and get a decent cut of fish. Add 4" x 4" nori (seaweed paper) and some filler ingredients like cucumber, cream cheese, and perhaps salmon roe, and you can't go wrong. No matter what it looks like, it always tastes good.
arcane! i was just thinking of you bc i bought myself a teach-yourself language book for arabic. i've only opened it once but it was enough to intimidate me. i used to think russian was hard but now i think different.
I can take a cab, ask for change, and do a few other necessary things in (Egyptian) Arabic. Apparently most of the stuff I know is slang and is probably useless in the rest of the Arab world, but I'd be happy to share what I know.
ooh fun! i'll take you up on that when i return to the book. i'm moody when it comes to languages - i like to take on a few at once and treat them like novels that i can read a bit of and return to every now and then. speaking of languages, i just learned from my turkish neighbor "hello" is "merhaba" (MERE-ha-bah).
oh arcane, have a question re dating a muslim. if your girlfriend just ate pork and you want to kiss her, would you make her brush her teeth, not care or boycott kissing her?
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I'm glad we had this talk.
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btw, you may be part of the problem, as I notice that one of your interests is "black and white." you're one of them!
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oh arcane, have a question re dating a muslim. if your girlfriend just ate pork and you want to kiss her, would you make her brush her teeth, not care or boycott kissing her?
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