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[Fearandloathing]

I also prefer to shower at least daily, even while camping. Some people thought that was weird, so I stopped caring as much about what they thought was weird.

This is a lot more than I needed to know.

I went on a diving trip off the Haida Guia, a group of Islands off Alaska. We were ten days at sea.

You don't need to know any more than most of us stayed and slept in our diving suits

 

[Loulit01]

I also prefer to shower at least daily, even while camping. Some people thought that was weird, so I stopped caring as much about what they thought was weird.

There was an article in Le Figaro over a dozen years back about the French perspective on showering daily. It wasn't pretty.

Found an article about that article -- it's from 1998. My memory is very strange.

Hygiene Poll Bares Source Of the French Je Sais Quoi (Published 1998)

Results of national surveys published in French daily, Le Figaro, finds 96 percent of French live in homes equipped with showers or baths in late 20th century, even more than those with bidets, but that only 47 percent bathe every day; found only 60 percent of Frenchman changed underwear...

www.nytimes.com

 

[Helix]

There was an article in Le Figaro over a dozen years back about the French perspective on showering daily. It wasn't pretty.

Found an article about that article -- it's from 1998. My memory is very strange.

Hygiene Poll Bares Source Of the French Je Sais Quoi (Published 1998)

Results of national surveys published in French daily, Le Figaro, finds 96 percent of French live in homes equipped with showers or baths in late 20th century, even more than those with bidets, but that only 47 percent bathe every day; found only 60 percent of Frenchman changed underwear...

www.nytimes.com

My guess is that if one could time travel to the past as a tourist of history, the smell would be among the first things that one would notice.

 

[gman]

There was an article in Le Figaro over a dozen years back about the French perspective on showering daily. It wasn't pretty.

Found an article about that article -- it's from 1998. My memory is very strange.

Hygiene Poll Bares Source Of the French Je Sais Quoi (Published 1998)

Results of national surveys published in French daily, Le Figaro, finds 96 percent of French live in homes equipped with showers or baths in late 20th century, even more than those with bidets, but that only 47 percent bathe every day; found only 60 percent of Frenchman changed underwear...

www.nytimes.com

Hence the term French shower by using cologne. I dated a woman once who liked to travel to France and she told me then that Frenchmen weren’t big on bathing. That was almost 40 years ago.

 

[Lursa]

This is a lot more than I needed to know.

I went on a diving trip off the Haida Guia, a group of Islands off Alaska. We were ten days at sea.

You don't need to know any more than most of us stayed and slept in our diving suits

Dry suits? Well...yeah.

 

[gman]

Finally watched On The Waterfront in its entirety. It is amazingly powerful with some of the most intense acting ever. It may be an old b&w but it is definitely a classic.

 

[markdc]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

“In this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig.”

5/5

 

[gman]

JAWS. Great summer flick .

 

[markdc]

JAWS. Great summer flick .

Best shark movie we will ever see.

Mark

 

[CimpleMan]

Just finished Final Destination Bloodlines.

Overall, good entry into the series. Would say great first 15 minutes. Very good first hour or so. Satisfactory last half hour including the ending. Beware of stray pennies is my takeaway from the film.

Success of the reboot probably insures a 7th.

 

[Lursa]

"A Complete Unknown". Bob Dylan biography.

Boring.

 

[markdc]

Wild Things (1998)

Wild Things may be, as one film critic dubbed it, “lurid trash,” but I ****in’ LOVE this movie. It is one of the best among the wave of erotic thrillers that were released in the Eighties and Nineties in the wake of Fatal Attraction’s success. (As a matter of fact, I think Wild Things is a lot better than Fatal Attraction as well as another criminally overrated erotic thriller, Basic Instinct.)
The plot of Wild Things revolves around a high school guidance counselor in South Florida named Sam Lombardo, who’s accused by two female students of rape. During the ensuing trial, it’s revealed that the girls are lying and conspired to get revenge on Lombardo, who ends up winning a multimillion-dollar settlement from one of the girls’ wealthy mothers. However, police detective Ray Duquette smells a rat and gradually uncovers a dark criminal scheme.
The thing I love most about Wild Things is that it plays out like a parody of erotic thrillers by delivering twist after twist. In an article for CinemaBlend, Jerrica Tisdale identified no less than eight (though some say nine) plot twists that occur throughout the movie. But she left out an additional twist that occurs in the very last scene of Wild Things, and on top of that, I would argue that there’s ANOTHER potential twist that occurs right after THAT twist. (I’ve always suspected that the cup of alcohol that the lawyer takes at the end is laced with poison, though the movie cuts away right before he drinks it.)
Bottom line: If you’re in the mood for sophisticated cinematic art, ya might want to stay away from Wild Things. But if you’re in the mood for trashy, shocking fun, then go with this movie. This thing is truly wild.
3.5/5

 

[markdc]

Apocalypse Now (1979)

There are great movies. There are really great movies. There are really, REALLY great movies. And then there are movies that are just so ****ing AWESOME that it’s hard believe they were made by mere mortals. Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is such a movie. This isn’t just the work of a genius; it’s the work of a mad genius.
Apocalypse Now is, without doubt, the greatest war movie we are EVER going to see. I’m not saying this because Apocalypse Now is the most accurate war movie. In fact, Coppola’s infamous claim to the contrary, this film is as close to the actual Vietnam War as Inglourious Basterds is to the Second World War. Apocalypse Now is the war flick to rule them all because it explores the inhumanity of Man like few other films. The movie is a fascinating study of imperialism, insurgency, and counterinsurgency. For example, the main battle, the famous helicopter attack on the Vietnam village, displays the technological superiority of the American military and the “shock and awe” effect it has on the enemy force, which is essentially a ragtag army of peasants. Watching this scene, one might wonder how a rich, advanced superpower like the U.S. could ultimately be defeated by those poor peasants, and yet one of the answers is given in an offhand remark by Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, the American commander, in the middle of the battle: “These people never give up.”
Apocalypse Now has many great lines, the most popular being Kilgore’s “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” My personal favorite is one spoken by the movie’s protagonist, Capt. Benjamin Willard: "Charging a man with murder in this place [Vietnam] was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500."
There is so much to love about Apocalypse Now, but I’ll make this brief and say the thing I love most of all is how it shows that “civilization” is nothing more than a thin veneer to conceal the fact that humans, regardless of where they come from, are primitive savages at heart.
Until last night, I was certain that the original theatrical version of Apocalypse Now was the best one. (I had also seen the Redux.) But now, after having seen the Final Cut, I am convinced that that version is the finest. But regardless of which version you see, you will bear witness to a milestone of American cinema and one of the last great hurrahs of the New Hollywood Era.
Apocalypse Now?
No.
Apocalypse WOW!
5/5