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[V-Adore]

...doesn't Mongoloid mean "asian"? Is there another meaning of which I am not aware?

It's an archaic and currently out-of-favor term to refer to people with Down syndrome, because (if I recall correctly) the facial features typical of the syndrome reminded a researcher of Asian features. Using it as an insult is about two steps below using "retarded."

[yu-huang]

I can't say I particularly care, no (and oh, nice bit of my reply you decided to complain about ; )

[theinevitable]

I wasn't suggesting you care. I was asking what it meant. Because I wasn't aware that it had any other meaning.

However... You, sir, are rude.

[miles]

...doesn't Mongoloid mean "asian"? Is there another meaning of which I am not aware?

It's an archaic and currently out-of-favor term to refer to people with Down syndrome, because (if I recall correctly) the facial features typical of the syndrome reminded a researcher of Asian features. Using it as an insult is about two steps below using "retarded."

I'd say more than two because you hear "retarded" in mildy polite company, but only a true asshole would use "mongoloid."  Remember this gem from Gore?  "The extreme right wing, the extra chromosome right wing."  Seriously.

Oh, and that reminds me.  I mentioned the creepy gay guy hitting on my friend in the other thread.  At one point the dude made a comment about our friend who is Asian-American, and I said "oh, you only wish you could be Will."  He said "no, I don't want to look Oriental."  I said, incredulously, "did you just say Oriental?"  He didn't get it.  Then one of  other my friends said "it just means from the East."  He is a classics major, but still.  Am I missing something?  Negro just means black in Spanish, but you don't say it.

[AugustWest]

I understand that Oriental isn't used anymore, but I'm not sure I understand why.  I never knew it had negative connotations in the way that some of the derisive terms for people of African heritage do.

[LCB]

b)Natalie Portman made me want to fuck*ng die. There has never been another character in a movie who I have hated more, even characters who were meant to be annoying. Ernest P. Worrell never made me as annoyed as her. Martin Short has never annoyed me enough as she did in that film. This is an accomplishment.

If there's one type of character I've come to hate in movies, especially so-called "indie" movies, it's the Free Spirited Lass Who Does Things That Are Just SO Zany And Random And Oddball. Garden State is like having some constantly nudging you in the ribs while watching it and asking you "Huh? Isn't that weird? Isn't that zany? Isn't that just so quirky? Huh Huh huh?"

[Bozack]

Oh god yes. Sadly, I know enough of those people in real life.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
If you are trying to be zany or crazy or free-spirited, cut it out. It only serves to emphasize that you are lame-ass.

EDIT-  Oh, no, Mr. Shore is fuck*ng Brando in comparison to Portman in that film. Of course, I've only seen Biodome, and I was pretty cool with it, given that it gave me the following phrase.
"Roam in the dome and have a beer with a deer."

[robot_roll_call]

If there's one type of character I've come to hate in movies, especially so-called "indie" movies, it's the Free Spirited Lass Who Does Things That Are Just SO Zany And Random And Oddball. Garden State is like having some constantly nudging you in the ribs while watching it and asking you "Huh? Isn't that weird? Isn't that zany? Isn't that just so quirky? Huh Huh huh?"

Just a heads up for those of you who haven't seen Shopgirl: The male lead who isn't Steve Martin (I forget his name) is the exact same as Natalie Portman in Garden State, only a dude. He really brought that movie down a few pegs for me. HE'S A WILD AND CRAZY GUY (once again, not Steve Martin. The other guy)

Edit: Jason Schwartzman

Edit Edit: Holy crap, he's Talia Shire's son. That explains everything.

[jough]

He was brilliant in Rushmore, but I haven't really enjoyed anything else he's done (although I did like I Heart Huckabees somewhat, despite him).

His band sucks, too.

[yu-huang]

theinevitable: I'm truly sorry. I apologise for my rudeness.

I knew by now I would come out wrong. It's just that I felt I was being picked on since my first post, when I had the audacity to, in a thread about movies people hate, mention some movies I hated. I could only become increasingly hot-tempered after deciding that Jough was definitely out to get me. How could I feel differently? He pounds me for saying I hate some movies he likes, and when we get to a movie that we both agree sucks (Con Air) his voice sounds to me distant, echoing from above, like, like if he was mounting this humongous h.o.r.s.e., you know, this really high h.o.r.s.e.?

jough said:

Con Air is a stupid movie by design. To say you hate it is like saying that you like to breathe air. No shit.

This was his tone, *on the frikkin' movie he agreed that sucked*. I was like, "whoa, dude".

Again, sorry for having failed to control ol' blabbermouth. I tried to avoid it, God is my witness.

* I had to spell "h.o.r.s.e" with the dots, because the board turns it into "hoss" if I don't do it, for some reason

[misterqueue]

Did anyone else hate Closer as much as I did?

Not because it offended me or any such thing, just because it was a completely vapid movie meant to sound like it was trying to be "honest" about a relationship via a bunch of liars.  Whooopiedooo...

Also now I can't hear anyone say thank you without thinking about Natalie Portman's ass...  come to think of it.. that part's not so bad really.

[theinevitable]

OK, so.
Closer was like a hell movie. I am in hell when I watch that movie.

and Garden State tricked me into dating a girl who is like that. this is a bad idea. These are the kind of girls who will do horrible horrible things to you, and then expect you to forgive them because they are so wild and zany! And then do them again and again.

Also: yu-huang-- it was just about the mongoloid thing. I don't know.

In a bad teen movie/real life (because real life is, sadly, often like a bad teen movie), Jough is the guy who is kind of mean and sarcastic, but for some reason everyone still likes him. Maybe it's because they all secretly wish they could be that cool and jaded.

Or maybe only I have a friend like that?

[Mantonio]

jough said:

Con Air is a stupid movie by design. To say you hate it is like saying that you like to breathe air. No shit.

This was his tone, *on the frikkin' movie he agreed that sucked*. I was like, "whoa, dude".

Again, sorry for having failed to control ol' blabbermouth. I tried to avoid it, God is my witness.

* I had to spell "h.o.r.s.e" with the dots, because the board turns it into "hoss" if I don't do it, for some reason

I know it's been mentioned before, but the fact that Jough is a prick is not a bug - it's a feature. Once you spend enough time here you'll realize this is a wonderful thing. This place would be such a dull place if Jough was nice and had a pet bunny.

[yu-huang]

I don't doubt you, really. Dude, don't you know, super-heroes, like, *always* fight when they first meet (I can't believe I actually typed that... ; )

[pmcd9]

This place would be such a dull place if Jough was nice and had a pet bunny.

I thought Jough had a pet bunny...

...wait for it...

for dinner.

~Paul