Jo Miran

The greatest spectator sport is curling 🥌. I’m not even joking.

I think you are missing the context of the film I used as an example. All the friction and the “comedy” in the film comes from the racism. From the start, it is the point. The taxi driver picks them up from the airport and asks the main character if he is from India. When he replies yes and asks if the driver if he’s ever been there, his reply is no but he stopped in Turkey once. The when they arrive the soon to be mother-in-law assumes that the Indian boyfriend is the Taxi driver and the driver is the boyfriend. We are five minutes into the film at this point and it goes downhill from there.

That is just one easy to digest example using media. Our real life daily interactions with the staff from our European clients is a never ending source for more.

You misunderstand. I don’t mean that it was a remake, just that it was the same concept. I think the term is “trope”.

The fact that the Norwegian film is based on a true story just makes it all so much worse.

European racism is out of control to the point of cringe. The new world cannot hold a candle to you.

Here is a quick example. Netflix released a Norwegian movie called “Christmas as Usual” (translated). It essentially takes the concept of the American 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”, moves it to Norway and gives it a holiday twist. According to Netflix, this 2023 film was in the Top 10 in thirty countries. How? How is a movie concept from America’s peak civil rights battles era working for you in 2023?

My wife is European and my largest clients are European with European staff and the abundance of casual racism is hard for myself and my staff to handle. Don’t get me started on my family in-law.

EDIT: Europeans were definitely not ready to hear this one. LOL

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For me: The JJ Abrams Star Trek movies, by far the best ST stuff ever made, I couldn’t take seriously the original universe with the dated effects and stiff acting, same goes for NG… These movies did ST actually great looking and much more believable, not just the effects.

Just kidding… but not really.

I run Windows. Yeah, mm hmm,. Big Windows user over here and I have no idea what to do with this Linux thing or how to install it. When can you come over and install it for me? I’ll get the wine. I hear wine and Linux leads to a lot of fun game play. Malbec ok?

Just because it is legal doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be punishable.

I live in a place that is full of billionaires and multimillionaires. It isn’t rare to find someone happily running a coffee shop or bakery or micro-brewery, artisan art gallery, etc because it was always their dream. A dream they could only pursue after they felt rich enough to know that they could do so without risking their well being. In its own way, it is very very sad. You have to buy the privilege to follow your dreams.

America Greed, fuck yeah.

Don’t fool yourself. The USA lost the exclusivity deal on unchecked corpo greed a long time ago. This is a global issue now.

Thank you!

Ricky was always a creep…even before his mom blew up.

Why? I am out of the loop.

Columbine kicked off an epidemic of school shootings because of the attention it got. Some people need a focus for their misery and I am not ashamed to say that I would rather see heartless corporate executives fear for their safety instead of school children gunned down as they hide in a closet. Just putting that out there.