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How many knives do you own? (a multiblade is one knife)

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oh baby, those skinny girls, they're so quick to murder	1 vote - 7 %
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Bend it like Beckham by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #1 Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:10:03 PM EST

Asian family cliches is an understatement. I've never seen anything so lazy in my life, and I'd be surprised if some Asians don't find it really insulting.

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It's political correctness gone mad!

There's a possibly interesting set of twists by Metatone

(4.00 / 1) #3 Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:22:31 PM EST

to this issue.

a) Yes, some find it a bit much.
But, despite that it's not all bad. It always nice to see your cliched life on screen rather than always seeing someone elses...

b) Asians from the subcontinent tend to love it, but then they have a low opinion of the UK and not necessarily a high opinion of UK asians...

There's a film I still haven't seen, unfortunately I can't remember the title. It's about an Asian man, his English wife and their kids, living out comic family moments in glorious technicolour Bradford.

It's quite a few years old now.

There's a bunch of differences with my family (Muslim in the film, my dad is Hindu, location, circumstance, etc.) and certainly it's all a bit cliched for anyone who watched the Fast Show Asians develop into Goodness Gracious Me.

But, it had my mother in stiches, because amongst the cliches were little moments that spoke to the life of our family... which is not really going to happen in the same way in a typical (nice white) family comedy set in Conneticut or even Coventry...

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Damn you! by gazbo

(2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:31:22 PM EST

I'm pretty sure I know the film you're talking about, and I have seen it, but now I can't remember the title either. All I remember is that they work at a fish and chip shop, and there might possibly be a storyline about marriage (isn't there always?).

Can't even remember if it was any good.

"Engarde!" cried the larvae, huskily. - Scrymarch

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East Is East. by Evil Cloaked User (4.00 / 2) #6 Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:34:54 PM EST

You're welcome.

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Still, I think most of the problem is just a mental hurdle to overcome, - Cloaked User
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: A thousand and thousand thank-yous! by gazbo (4.00 / 1) #7 Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:46:08 PM EST

As an outsourced developer said to my friend after he helped fix his code.
"Engarde!" cried the larvae, huskily. - Scrymarch

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I have to be honest by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:32:45 PM EST

I didn't watch past the first half hour or so, I couldn't stand it :-) I'm sure it had its moments.

I'd be really interested to hear what the Bradford film is - my parents live there.

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*shrug* by MillMan

(2.00 / 0) #16 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 03:25:14 AM EST

when I saw it in the theater, all the Indians were ROFLing really hard through the whole movie. Personally I thought the movie was amusing in a happy-bubble-gum sense. Having been around a few Indians in the US some of the cliches seem to apply, although they of course grossly oversimplify them in the movie.

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman
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Books by whazat (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:17:50 PM EST

I got Hippocratic Oaths an interesting book about what society is doing to the profession of doctor, written by a philosophical doctor.

Road to Reality an interesting heavy going book, I am trying most of the problems, but it is slow work.

IOU, the debt threat and why we must diffuse it which I haven't started yet.

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The revolution will not be realised

: Would never find time to read Road to Reality by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #13 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 12:42:55 AM EST

And do the problems. It'd look worse doing that at work than browsing the web does.

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Sounds pretty good to me by Phage (2.00 / 0) #8 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 12:04:34 AM EST

We should try and get out for a beer sometime next week and catch up.

Did you see this board game ?

It's like magic realism, but not shit. - Scrymarch.

Define knife by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #9 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 12:09:02 AM EST

Do the following fall into the category of knife?

a) Stanley knife
b) Steak knife
c) General cutlery knife
d) One of those funny fish knives that ain't sharp at all?
e) Bread knife
f) Carving knife
g) Peeling knife

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If all the above, most people are in the silly comment level of knives.

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL

: unfortunately yes by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #14 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 12:44:15 AM EST

I didn't think of (c) which I should have excluded.

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Kiera Knightley by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #10 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 12:11:28 AM EST

No pies needed. I'd do her.

_{Please avoid follow up posts along the lines of "anonimouse would do anything with a skirt/female genitalia description". I've already thought of them}

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL

... although I might prefer by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #11 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 12:14:51 AM EST

Parminder Nagra

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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: I got a little confused one day by Evil Cloaked User (2.00 / 0) #12 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 12:42:01 AM EST

When I saw her in an ER episode. She was planning to become a doctor. I briefly wondered if she was playing the same character.

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Still, I think most of the problem is just a mental hurdle to overcome, - Cloaked User
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100% agree by spiralx (2.00 / 0) #17 Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 10:39:02 PM EST

No pies needed at all. I suspect people that say that sort of thing have never had sex with a woman with that sort of body - there's plenty of curves in all the right places :)

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: She's eaten pies since BiLB by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #18 Thu Jan 13, 2005 at 11:26:08 PM EST

Better now than she was. She made Callista Flockhart look like Jo Brand.

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naw, thats not too many by LilFlightTest (2.00 / 0) #15 Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 02:36:02 AM EST

there are a million times when i'm cooking that i go "fuck, i need a clean cutting board" and have to wash the one i'm using. and you can never, ever have too many knives.

however, thank you for your commiseration. *smooch*
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