Albus Dumbledore gay revelation

[beagle]

J.K Rowling winds up the fundies...

[Griffin NoName]

Now we know why Potter spent so much time alone with Albus in his study

[Swatopluk]

That should get a few extra volumes burned and she better not visit certain parts of certain countries or we will read "Witch Authoress burned on a pile of her own books". 
Are those at The Onion angry or happy about this?

[goat starer]

well he does wear a dress

[beagle]

So do Eddie Izzard, Martina Navratilova and the Seaforth Highlanders.

I'm not sure it's conclusive proof you like men.


P.S.

Welcome back Goat. 

[goat starer]

i did realise i was making a very sweeping generalisation there 

and i suppose he would claim it is a 'robe' which would include most monks, clerics, priests, imams, ...... hang on a minute.... perhaps this is more valid than i thought 

Hi Beagle - good to be back!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Goat! Welcome Back! 
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Back to Dumbledore, I guess it makes sense. So far the only criticism I read was from some gay organization because she didn't make the thing explicit in the book. I imagine we will hear from the fundies soon.

[Sibling Chatty]

I find that the less interesting part of her discussion...I was pleased to read that her series-long 'thesis' was "do not ever trust that authorities are telling you the truth". (One of the central tenets of my belief system, by the way.)

[beagle]

Indeed.

"It really is very dangerous to believe people, " said Miss Marple. "I never have for years."

(Sleeping Murder)

[goat starer]

"It really is very dangerous to believe people, " said Miss Marple. "I never have for years."

like I am going to believe her!

or you!

or dee dee! 

[anthrobabe]

well if nothing else it's pretty 'brilliant' of her

she'll be front and center for a while longer yet.

I don't think HP will ever really end- just this part of it. She's leaving the door wide open.

for what I have no idea


Hi you old Goat

[Aggie]

Good on her (and Dumbledore, I've just finished Book 6).

Took me a while to track down this full quote, but I'll rumble on it:

Rowling, who appears in Toronto on Tuesday, said her books were a plea for tolerance.

"The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry," Rowling said during the Carnegie event.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I may be going out on a limb, but the announcement kind of bothered me.  I feel like books, movies or what-have-you should stand on their own.  Now that the series is done, she goes and announces something major about a major character (including a major bit about a romantic link with another character).  My personal feeling is that now that the books are done and printed, she's missed her chance to add new stuff.

Imagine George Lucas had ended Empire Strikes Back before the scene where Luke finds out Vader is his father, and George just told everyone this in a matter-of-fact way in a press conference a few months after the fact.

It's just not how things should be done, IMO.

[goat starer]

seriously, having read some harry potter - 1 and 2 - this sounds like a rather desperate plea to try to convince the 2% of people in the world who have not brought the last 37 books to go out and buy them because they might have missed the "deeper meanings". well frankly balls! there are much better books for grown ups - whole libraries of the stuff - and children dont give a damn one way or the other (although i quite like the idea of "dumbledore" taking over from other colloquial childrens slang for a homosexual in the playground! where i was branded a "gaylord" and "puff" my children will be branded "dumbledores"). The problem is that that stupendously wealthy one trick pony has run out of ideas (it stopped at one) and is casting around for ways to keep a fading star in the media limelight. I assure you that (provided we have not finally wiped the human race off the face of the planet) the Hobbit and the very Hungry Caterpiller will still be being read when every copy of HP has gone to landfill.

but i may be missing the deeper meanings!

[Griffin NoName]

I fear this lady (sic.) is merely too attached to her characters.

[goat starer]

post post post feminism! I like it! 

[Griffin NoName]

[goat starer]

Cross thread fertilisation should be encouraged at all times. It is the more interesting version of going off topic and tends to be easire to re-rail!

[Griffin NoName]

Railroading may confuse others though. And Goats that chew through the close woven threads that make the fabric of our........ wait a minute, it was me that started cross-threading...   

[Aggie]

seriously, having read some harry potter - 1 and 2 - this sounds like a rather desperate plea to try to convince the 2% of people in the world who have not brought the last 37 books to go out and buy them because they might have missed the "deeper meanings".

I found the first two pretty meh, the rest improve (still better things for adults to read, but I liked 'em overall).  Agree on the "publicity stunt" aspect of the timing, but I also think it was wise to wait until the series was finished and soundly sold to make the announcement.  Now she can comfortably thumb her nose at the backlashers.

[anthrobabe]

somebody said Hobbitts!!!!

[Swatopluk]

At least Tokien did not insinuate that there was something immodest going on between Frodo and Sam.
He did not live to see Lord of the G-strings

[goat starer]

I always had my suspicions about merry and pippin

[beagle]

At least Tokien did not insinuate that there was something immodest going on between Frodo and Sam.

Wouldn't have occurred to him; such things are unheard of at Oxford.

[anthrobabe]

At least Tokien did not insinuate that there was something immodest going on between Frodo and Sam.
He did not live to see Lord of the G-strings

I have a sneaking suspicion that a DVD entitled this actually exists.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

It does.

seriously, having read some harry potter - 1 and 2 - this sounds like a rather desperate plea to try to convince the 2% of people in the world who have not brought the last 37 books to go out and buy them because they might have missed the "deeper meanings". well frankly balls! there are much better books for grown ups - whole libraries of the stuff - and children dont give a damn one way or the other (although i quite like the idea of "dumbledore" taking over from other colloquial childrens slang for a homosexual in the playground! where i was branded a "gaylord" and "puff" my children will be branded "dumbledores"). The problem is that that stupendously wealthy one trick pony has run out of ideas (it stopped at one) and is casting around for ways to keep a fading star in the media limelight. I assure you that (provided we have not finally wiped the human race off the face of the planet) the Hobbit and the very Hungry Caterpiller will still be being read when every copy of HP has gone to landfill.

but i may be missing the deeper meanings!

I doubt that will happen. It just doesn't have that ring that calling someone 'gaylord' does. And additionally, it implies that one reads, which is considered an offense by some people.

I actually felt that this all came a little late, as Lambi said. The series is over, and it detracted from her and the books that she waited so very long.

[Swatopluk]

At least Tokien did not insinuate that there was something immodest going on between Frodo and Sam.
He did not live to see Lord of the G-strings

I have a sneaking suspicion that a DVD entitled this actually exists.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00007L4M0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I do not own it (the available Region 2 DVD is heavily abridged and without the extras of the Region 1) and have not (yet) seen it, only read an in-depth review.

[goat starer]

yeah yeah... i don't own it guvnor! I just 'happen' to have pictures of it to hand 

[beagle]

Which one's Bilbo?

Let me guess Swato, you were hunting for a documentary on Bach and just had an unfortunate choice of search terms?

[goat starer]

 

[Swatopluk]

I read a review of Womb Raider on badmovies.de* (which I had bought very cheaply**) and there it was compared and linked to LotGS. As said above, I did not buy that because the availble version is mutilated.
Iirc correctly the heroine is called Dildo (and the wizard is Smirnoff, like the vodka)
I never denied to suffer from Trashophilia Cinematica .

*now wikified. I did not check, whether they kept the pictures
**not very good. Waste your money on better trash, there is enough of that.

http://badmovies.de/index.php/Lord_of_the_G-Strings_-_The_Femaleship_of_the_String

[anthrobabe]

Trashophilia Cinematica--- I like that term- catchy

:whip

[goat starer]

I am seeing another side to Swato!

next time you buy such films give me a call and i will bring the popcorn.

[Swatopluk]

Hier wird nicht gepoppt!
Not a prawn collector really. The few films in my possession that roughly fit the bill are mostly "serious" ones (see Ken Park for example).
I aim for a complete collection of Hammer films (there is a large series of the still unavailable ones announced for release )

[Pachyderm]

Read a list of top prawn titles,

few I remember are

Shaving Ryan's Privates
The Loin King
Schindler's Fist

and my personal favourite

Battlestar Prophylactica

[anthrobabe]

 

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

You want more?

Here ya go for a nice list of "interesting" movie titles:

http://personal.pitnet.net/micah/porno.html

(I laughed so much while reading that...)

Some of them are really funny...

[Swatopluk]

Vegetarierinnen zur Fleischeslust gezwungen
i.e. (female) vegetarians forced into carnal lust
Fleischeslust means both joy of meat and carnal desire

An all time (title) favorite : Zombie Ninja Gangbangers
Plot according to imdb comments: Woman is regularly raped by zombies in ninja outfits that also vomit on her. Going to the police about that results in her raped by the officers too (though at least without vomiting I presume)

Wo der Wildbach durch das Höschen rauscht (Where the wild creek runs through the panties)
Graf P o r n o bläst zum Zapfenstreich (lit.: Count P o r n beats the tattoo but that loses the "blowing" aspect and that "Zapfen" can be seen as slang for a part of the male anatomy).

There are scientific studies on the topic, so it does not necessarily imply that one has actually seen those films, if one knows anything about them (but also does not exclude it )
http://www.amazon.de/Schulm%C3%A4dchen-Report-deutsche-Sexfilm-70er-Jahre/dp/3929470128/ref=sr_1_4/303-4615446-9622664?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193570995&sr=1-4

[beagle]

Were Judie Dench and Michael Douglas in the Zombie one?   Seems familiar...

[Swatopluk]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146369/
Doesn't look like it. And the title seems to be "more promising" than the product itself.
I actually found it by competing with a colleague to find the most stupid "real" movie title as opposed to invented ones we could come up with ourselves (we have no chance against the "professionals" though).