aimeeandbeatles
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I have something referencing "Saturday, April 24." But I don't know the year. Is there a way to find out the year? I think it's from the late 1960s or early 1970s.
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Well yes, partially. There's 365 days in a normal year, so that's 52 weeks and one day. Thus if 24th of April is Saturday this year (don't know if it is, but lets assume), it was Friday last year and Thursday year before that. Next year it would be Sunday, if 2012 weren't a leap year, so it's Monday instead.
So look calendar, and list every 24th of April until the 60s. If it goes nicely, you'll have one or at most two candidates for year to have 24th April Saturday. If I remember correctly, 2000 was a leap year, even though it's divisible with 100, because it's also divisible by 1000.
And the flag thing: Sometimes it feels like the flag itself is some kind of idol itself. Here a flag must be burned if it touches the ground, and such things.
So look calendar, and list every 24th of April until the 60s. If it goes nicely, you'll have one or at most two candidates for year to have 24th April Saturday. If I remember correctly, 2000 was a leap year, even though it's divisible with 100, because it's also divisible by 1000.
And the flag thing: Sometimes it feels like the flag itself is some kind of idol itself. Here a flag must be burned if it touches the ground, and such things.
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Can I email an mp3 to myself to listen to on another computer? The song was paid for and downloaded legally. If so, would this run afoul of gmail or hotmail's terms of service?
I don't know about legality, but I've never run into any trouble when mailing mp3s in gmail.
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I have emailed to myself and other people things of far more dubious nature using gmail than legally downloaded mp3s and have never been iced for it.
aimeeandbeatles
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I was re-watching the Borat movie, and have two questions about it:
1. In the start of the movie Borat is in NY subway, and speaks to people, of whom many seem kind of rude. He asks one man "What is your name", and the man answers "My name is mind your own freaking business" (transformed to CFC-friendly here). How accurate portrayal this is of NY subway culture? I mean, are people generally that rude there, or does this picture come solely form the editing table?
2. In one scene Borat visits southern fancy people, and then the door bell rings, and he says it's his friend. It turns out it's a fat black lady who is dressed little like tramp (and actually turns out to be one, but she is most probably an actor). The fancy people say that they were about to quit the party anyhow, and then the woman is quite rude, when Borat asks whether he and the girl can stay for a dessert (there's a big cut before that). At the end of the scene someone says that they've already called the police.
Is it possible that the these people are so upset by the mere presence of that fat black lady, or should I suspect that there's something more that gave them reason to that kind of reaction? I mean, of course anything's possible when there's individuals involved, but would it be surprising to you Americans, if southern fancy people called police just because of what was shown in the movie.
The movie has given me many cultural learnings of US and A, but I need to learn some more. High five!
1. In the start of the movie Borat is in NY subway, and speaks to people, of whom many seem kind of rude. He asks one man "What is your name", and the man answers "My name is mind your own freaking business" (transformed to CFC-friendly here). How accurate portrayal this is of NY subway culture? I mean, are people generally that rude there, or does this picture come solely form the editing table?
2. In one scene Borat visits southern fancy people, and then the door bell rings, and he says it's his friend. It turns out it's a fat black lady who is dressed little like tramp (and actually turns out to be one, but she is most probably an actor). The fancy people say that they were about to quit the party anyhow, and then the woman is quite rude, when Borat asks whether he and the girl can stay for a dessert (there's a big cut before that). At the end of the scene someone says that they've already called the police.
Is it possible that the these people are so upset by the mere presence of that fat black lady, or should I suspect that there's something more that gave them reason to that kind of reaction? I mean, of course anything's possible when there's individuals involved, but would it be surprising to you Americans, if southern fancy people called police just because of what was shown in the movie.
The movie has given me many cultural learnings of US and A, but I need to learn some more. High five!
Brian Shanahan
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No that's pretty much how it'd go down here too.
There are an abundance of perverts and other crazies on the subways (people exposing themselves, groping people, insane people, etc.) and so it's a defensive reaction.I believe they became aware he hired a prostitute. Although, that woman was acually an actress.
Still, the reaction to the prostitute seems kind of extreme.
Yes, but if I remember correctly the system goes: years divisible by four are leap years unless they are divisible by 100. Exception to this are years that are divisible by 1000.
EDIT: I remembered it wrong, they are leap years if they are divisible by 400, not 1000.
100 is divisible by 4.
Yes, but if I remember correctly the system goes: years divisible by four are leap years unless they are divisible by 100. Exception to this are years that are divisible by 1000.
EDIT: I remembered it wrong, they are leap years if they are divisible by 400, not 1000.
Brian Shanahan
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Well the rule is not when divided by 100 but yes when divided by 400. But I honestly didn't know.
Well, it's a rule that has no effect to our generation, nor did it have the one before that, so it's not wonder if people don't know. I just happen to know it because a teacher in school attributed there being a leap day in 2000 to the fact that he would retire then, so they had to have one extra day to do him harm.
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Is it normal to feel like a stranger in a town you lived in for a long time?
Perhaps. Cohen got a lot more footage than what appeared in the movie; only the extreme bits got in. This was a fairly common complaint at the time the movie initially aired from people who thought that this was supposed to be a lolmerica film.
Yes, in that scene it's obvious from the agitation of people, that there's significant bit cut off.
Sometimes his methods are quite repugnant, at the time of Borat I could still stomach them, but in Brüno it's already very frequent that he really pushes people to receive the reaction.
Sometimes his methods are quite repugnant, at the time of Borat I could still stomach them, but in Brüno it's already very frequent that he really pushes people to receive the reaction.
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Question: In a message about somebody impersonating another guy, someone said "Surely NO ONE is packed like the real guy!" What does this mean?
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Hmm.
It's either talking about guns or size of penis.
It's either talking about guns or size of penis.
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