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  Brazil Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2019-11-17 01:54 +0000
    Re: Brazil "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-17 12:28 +0100
      Re: Brazil Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2019-11-17 15:21 +0000

#69849 — Brazil

Hi!

Possibly related to the Ballmer Peak but I have had a whole bottle of Cava 
whilst coding and I haven't felt drunk at all. Does the body/brain 
metabolize alcohol faster if you aren't just thinking about if Brazil is a 
good film or not?

/Flibble

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snakes." - Rick C. Hodgin

“You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.” – Ricky Gervais

“I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who 
doesn’t believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.” – 
Ricky Gervais

"Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are 
confronted by God," Byrne asked on his show The Meaning of Life. "What 
will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?"
"I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about?" Fry replied.
"How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery 
that is not our fault. It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil."
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a 
world that is so full of injustice and pain. That's what I would say."

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#69859

On 17.11.2019 02:54, Mr Flibble wrote:
> Hi!
> [snip] if Brazil is a good film or not?

It's a classic, but to enjoy it one must have at least some residual 
freedom urge and residual ability to think about things.

One person in my family, with an amazing almost photographic memory, but 
old now and throughout her life a strict flock follower, i.e. she has a 
very strong herd instinct, disliked it intensely. I think her instincts 
made her blind to many aspects of the story in the movie, so much that 
it became meaningless to her. That phenomenon has also happened in this 
group, then about other things: herd instinct makes blind, so that the 
responses are not even wrong, just technically completely baffling.

Btw. this is not the elderly lady that Francis Glassborow used to 
test-read his introductory C++ text book. I've never met Francis. That's 
a different family (if his reader was family, which I suspect).


- Alf

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#69867

On 17/11/2019 11:28, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 17.11.2019 02:54, Mr Flibble wrote:
>> Hi!
>> [snip] if Brazil is a good film or not?
> 
> It's a classic, but to enjoy it one must have at least some residual 
> freedom urge and residual ability to think about things.
> 
> One person in my family, with an amazing almost photographic memory, but 
> old now and throughout her life a strict flock follower, i.e. she has a 
> very strong herd instinct, disliked it intensely. I think her instincts 
> made her blind to many aspects of the story in the movie, so much that it 
> became meaningless to her. That phenomenon has also happened in this 
> group, then about other things: herd instinct makes blind, so that the 
> responses are not even wrong, just technically completely baffling.
> 
> Btw. this is not the elderly lady that Francis Glassborow used to 
> test-read his introductory C++ text book. I've never met Francis. That's a 
> different family (if his reader was family, which I suspect).

Oh I love the film Brazil which is why it doesn't require much thought on 
my part on deciding if it is a good film or not. :D

/Flibble

-- 
"Snakes didn't evolve, instead talking snakes with legs changed into 
snakes." - Rick C. Hodgin

“You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.” – Ricky Gervais

“I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who 
doesn’t believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.” – 
Ricky Gervais

"Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are 
confronted by God," Byrne asked on his show The Meaning of Life. "What 
will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?"
"I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about?" Fry replied.
"How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery 
that is not our fault. It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil."
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a 
world that is so full of injustice and pain. That's what I would say."

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