RANDOM RAVES : Kick it up a notch! (term is over!)

[hobbsyoyo]

Nyquil wasn't cutting it for me, which is why I went looking for the good stuff.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Storms! With actual, meaningful rainfall!

It's about time, because we already have a rain deficit of over 2 inches.

 

[SouthernKing]

I had deep fried macaroni and cheese for lunch yesterday. Mmmm.

 

[Zelig]

I'm grilling fresh salmon on a cedar plank in the dark.

 

[Antilogic]

I had some pretty good dry-rub pork chops. Not as good as the steak last week, but still good.

 

[Radio Noer]

Frozen chocolate-covered cheesecake on a stick is really quite good.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Now I'm starving!

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[shadowplay]

Depeche Mode tonight!!!!!

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Now I'm jealous and starving.

Sent via mobile.

 

[Borachio]

Wasn't Margaret Mead the anthropologist who some Pacific islanders completely hoodwinked?

 

[Dumanios]

Wasn't Margaret Mead the anthropologist who some Pacific islanders completely hoodwinked?

Who??

 

[Borachio]

I'm referring to Mr Thistle's signature.

What's the matter? Have you never heard of Margaret Mead? She was married to someone famous too. Now, who was it? Let me think.

Hmm. Looks like she had a thing with Sapir (who's very famous) then married Bateson (who I've never heard of) later on.

Anyway:

Spoiler the reason it's probably not all that interesting and I don't understand it anyway :

In 1983, five years after Mead had died, Derek Freeman published Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, in which he challenged all of Mead's major findings. In 1988, he participated in the filming of Margaret Mead in Samoa, directed by Frank Heimans, which claims to document one of Mead's original informants, now an elderly woman, swearing that the information she and her friend provided Mead when they were teenagers was false.[citation needed]
"She must have taken it seriously," one of the girls would say of Mead on videotape years later, "but I was only joking. As you know, Samoan girls are terrific liars when it comes to joking. But Margaret accepted our trumped up stories as though they were true." If challenged by Mead, the girls would not have hesitated to tell the truth, but Mead never questioned their stories. The girls, now mature women, swore on the Bible to the truth of what they told Freeman and his colleagues.

Another account of Mead which Freeman attacked particularly was her claim that Samoan girls could and do lie about their status of virginity by the use of chicken blood.[5] Freeman pointed out that virginity of the bride is so crucial to the status of Samoan man that they have specific ritual in which the bride's hymen is manually ruptured in public, by the groom himself or by the chief, making use of chicken blood impossible. On this ground, Freeman argued that Mead must have based her account on (false) hearsay from non-Samoan sources.[6]

The argument hinged on the place of the taupou system in Samoan society. According to Mead, the taupou system is one of institutionalized virginity for young women of high rank, and it is exclusive to women of high rank. According to Freeman, all Samoan women emulated the taupou system, and Mead's informants denied having engaged in casual sex as young women and claimed that they had lied to Mead.[7]


After an initial flurry of discussion, most anthropologists decided to claim that Freeman systematically misrepresented Mead's views on the relationship between nature and nurture, as well as the data on Samoan culture. According to Freeman's colleague Robin Fox, Freeman "seemed to have a special place in hell reserved for Margaret Mead, for reasons not at all clear at that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa#Margaret_Mead_and_Samoa

 

[ReindeerThistle]

I happen to think the Mead quote is true, is all.

Sent via mobile.

 

[Borachio]

That's fair, I'll grant you. I certainly can't argue with the statement.

It's just the name caught my eye.

 

[JohannaK]

Today at this disc market thing they didn't have any Fleetwood Mac on CD (actually, most atands had stuff from the 68 lineup, but the only mainstream lineup album I found was The Dance), but I got Daft Punk's Discovery and Stevie Nicks' The Wild Heart for 10 euros, and got 6 good DVDs for 22 euros: Blade Runner, Beetlejuice, Zatoichi, Looper, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Dirty Harry.

 

[Takhisis]

You could've watched them all on YouTube. What's happened to your wallet-shaped heart?

Rave: Meat loaf with plums in it, ketchup, avec baked potatoes et onions.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Rave: chicken parmesan and steamed broccoli for lunch.

Coming up barbecue beef for dinner.

Princeton hospitals have really goid food!

Sent via mobile.

 

[SouthernKing]

Rave: chicken parmesan and steamed broccoli for lunch.

Coming up barbecue beef for dinner.

Princeton hospitals have really goid food!

Sent via mobile.

A hospital with good food? Surely you can't be serious.

 

[JohannaK]

I am trying to avoid watching stuff thru media of dubious legality. I also like to have good stuff in physical format. I'm very happy with the CDs I bought. Soon we will see if the DVD all work properly.

 

[Takhisis]

Rave: Snuff is good every time you read it.

Rave: chicken parmesan and steamed broccoli for lunch.

Coming up barbecue beef for dinner.

Princeton hospitals have really goid food!

Sent via mobile.

A hospital with good food? Surely you can't be serious.

It does happen, through private means… and stop calling him Shirley!

I am trying to avoid watching stuff thru media of dubious legality. I also like to have good stuff in physical format. I'm very happy with the CDs I bought. Soon we will see if the DVD all work properly.

Dubious? What the heck? Come to uncle Takh and study some law first.