>> ^enoch:

>> ^rottenseed:
This whole movie had a thread of sexual tension between the two. At least, that's what I thought about it

remember that age? when emotions could become like a thunderstorm?


No. I'm still waiting on puberty...my beard is a clip-on

>> ^rottenseed:

This whole movie had a thread of sexual tension between the two. At least, that's what I thought about it


totally agree but with the directors cut we get to see so much more and many things that were only implied before are given voice.
1.matilda is 12.remember that age? when emotions could become like a thunderstorm?imagine living in that fucked up..unloving family.no safety..no comfort and all you have is your 4 yr old brother whom you take care of.
2.leon is the adult and in the 1994 release we see him respecting boundaries but he seems a bit..off..in the original.THIS scene in particular clears all of that up.we see that leon shut down a part of himself at 19.THAT part of him never grew up nor matured in any substantive way.

so while matilda has found her knight in shining armor to bestow all that pre-pubescent hormones onto,we find out the leon is around the same age emotionally.
it is due to this very unique situation that we get to see leon literally morph in front of us.
kinda like the grinch but with guns,blood and screaming.
i would go as far to say that the character arc for leon is the most profound i have ever seen from any movie.

Strange, I'll have to look at the local properties -- it sounds like you guys flood the same way our areas flood here, specifically. Last major flood in Salt Lake City was in 82'-83' after monsoon rains and a heavy winter melt (this is 15-35 minute drive, but on one of two major highways going downtown.

That "flood" (City Creek flood) was something to behold as the community was driven into overdrive and created a man-made river going down Salt Lake Valley's state street (if you run google earth state street goes right into the middle of downtown, with LOTS of businesses. The flood river was pretty long from memory, like 6-10 miles. They built man-made river and then built bridges every block to get across (that is community power!). I remember standing on a bridge, amazed that humans could triumph over nature that well, sometimes.

The flood was bigger than what it says as there was flooding down all major canyon rivers and creeks (everything I-15, which goes into L.A., & east needed to be worried -- again google earth will show you the roads, rivers and creeks --, same with the Jordan River and next to the Great Salt Lake (which had been flooding over and over again for years -- they made a giant drain at one end of the lake and created an evaporation pond to dump excess into. No more floods for the lakes anymore and many flood rivers and creeks areas are cut-off and gone now (put underground).

Good luck to you guys. Hopefully, it lets up.

edit-Damn I was looking and some of the setups are the same except you get tropical (we almost never get tropical monsoons unless a hurricane hits off of California and moves in; otherwise, we get little garbage thunderstorms that cause "local" problems). No cyclones/hurricanes to ever worry about as the mountains would rip a tropical depression to shreds. Snowpack is our "cyclone".

>> ^dag:

The last massive flood in the Brisbane area was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood">1974. This is the monsoon season- but most years it just means thunderstorms.
Still raining heavily this morning. Animals are pairing up.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

The last massive flood in the Brisbane area was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood">1974. This is the monsoon season- but most years it just means thunderstorms.

Still raining heavily this morning. Animals are pairing up.

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^dag:
promote because it's still raining hard

Is that area prone to flooding every so often. I just thought it was interesting that the clay was so red, as that is what I've noticed in Red Rock (central-southern Utah here and some of the outlying "badlands")areas and gullies in canyons.
Is this more of a monsoon type event or tropical? We get monsoons (some big hail or "lots" of hail, sometimes a few inches worth and torrential rain), but not tropical ones that engorge everything with water just squalls of tiny thunderstorms (like the tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake years ago...)

>> ^dag:

promote because it's still raining hard


Is that area prone to flooding every so often. I just thought it was interesting that the clay was so red, as that is what I've noticed in Red Rock (central-southern Utah here and some of the outlying "badlands")areas and gullies in canyons.

Is this more of a monsoon type event or tropical? We get monsoons (some big hail or "lots" of hail, sometimes a few inches worth and torrential rain), but not tropical ones that engorge everything with water just squalls of tiny thunderstorms (like the tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake years ago...)

Dude, where I live, that looks like just a typical afternoon thunderstorm.

There's a lot more going on there than what you see on the video. The thing people should be concerned about is what happened less than a hundred feet from that line.

The cops were looking for Anarchists with weapons and incendiary devices. They know this, because they have footage of people in black hoods and face wraps, who dropped their weapons (pick axes, hammers etc.) and their things to set more cars on fire, and then changed clothes to blend in with the crowd. That's what we know.

We also know that this tactic is used to disperse the crowd, or make a run forward and snatch someone they want, who is within reach.

Also, there were massive protests that happened all weekend, which were peaceful, and when the jack ass anarchists showed up, they separated from them. The outter perimeter fence was not breached once during the weekend, and no major injuries to the people or the cops.

Things to ask questions about are: Why was that group of a hundred folks or so held at Queen and Spadina in a thunderstorm for three hours, and then just let go? That's the biggie. People just out walking their dog or going to dinner, all of a sudden confined into a tight space and held there.

I'm a big metro supporter, and they did an amazing job this weekend. That incident needs to be investigated though. The one thing you can be sure of, it was an OPP decision, and those cops are bad. Bill Blair has to take the heat for it, because it's a United Security force. That's also speculation and conjecture from my stand point, but I'm paranoid enough to think Fantino had a hand in that somehow.

tl&dr

Metro Cops did a great job, one bad incident needs to get looked at, no one seriously hurt.

edit: I also forgot the incident which Steve Paikin saw, which was not cool at all, with a journalist from the Guardian being assaulted by cops. That needs to be investigated as well. As for the other incidents, re. The Real News journalist who got punched, they did tell him to move back. You may be a journalist that doesn't give you the right to disobey the orders given. And check out the police footage when it goes live, and you can see them pick out the anarchists in the crowd. They lady hit by the horse was told to get out of the area again and again. If you want to stand in front of a charging horse line, you have to accept your consequences. It wasn't a surprise, they were very clear in what they intended to do. The surprise came at QUeen & Spadina.

What we have here is a prime example of the fact that words mean different things in different regions of the US. Here in St Louis, a "thunderstorm" requires serious thunder. In Seattle, one small clap is enough to qualify...and two makes it a "big thunderstorm".

I love Seattle immensely and would give much to move there, but I have to say that I'd really miss the Midwest thunderstorms (they're about the only part of the Midwest I like).

we've had more twisters this summer than I can ever recall.... that thunderstorm last night, and the one last weekend, were by far the craziest I've seen in Canada.

Rain coming down like it has reminds me of typhoon season in SE Asia...

So when do they play baseball? Only when there's a thunderstorm..?

Makes me miss Vancouver. But when I lived in Vancouver, I missed thunderstorms — we get a lot of them in Ontario!

I happened to be visiting a friend in northvan and was driving from richmond when all of this started. Seeing the lightning was pretty cool on the drive, then when we got to north van and that's when it started to be pretty scary.

I always figured that northvan got the harsher rain/snow due to the elevation, but was it ever scary during a thunderstorm. Literally felt like the lightning was outside the front door, ridiculously loud. Many times we thought someone had dropped something large and shatterable inside the house, until we realized it was the just the thunder.

Damn nature, you scary.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:
That is the power of science!, you trust it every time you step on a plane or willingly let others perform surgery on vital parts of your body. This is what separates it from meaningless mantras like "faith" or "other ways of knowing": It is something you can reliably believe in, and it provides a true "way of knowing", not because scientists are smarter or more reliable than priests, but because they know that they aren't, so they put their own ideas to the test, and they are happy if people can prove them wrong. Because our intuition is often so very wrong, we need science to look deeper into it. And it works.


But the scary thing isn't the science, it's the implementation details.

I can tell you that water has a very low electrical conductivity, but you wouldn't want to get into a bathtub with a toaster -- and rightly so, because it turns out that the dissolved minerals in tap water raise its conductivity several orders of magnitude.

Once you encounter engineered systems of moderate complexity, you can't trust the simple scientific principles too much. And there's no more complex, engineered system than the human body.

So what I'm saying is, you're justified to be scared stepping into a commercial airliner. You're three times more likely to die on that plane trip than you are on your average car trip. If you're a safe, defensive driver, then a plane trip is ten times as dangerous.*

5 to 6 out of a million otherwise healthy people who go under general anesthesia will die. That number was 20 times higher in the '50s, but it's still scary.

* yes, per mile a commercial airliner is safer, but that's a stupid statistic. Per mile being an astronaut is extraordinarily safe, but in actuality it's outrageously dangerous. Per hour, the average commercial airliner is four times as safe as the average car, BUT, I don't drive the average car (I'm very safe, never drink and drive, always pay attention) but I DO have to fly the average airliner, with no control over who is flying, whether we should wait out the thunderstorm, or how well the maintenance was carried out.

>> ^Bradaphraser:
Um... I don't want to be a jerk, but I sorta sifted this a week ago with an inferior title (http://www.videosift.com/video/Africa-Acapella-cover).


Whoops, sorry man it didn't come up in the "similar sifts" during the submit process, quick search didn't find it...

Can a privileged member please *dupeof ?

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