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01-23-2006, 12:19 PM
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| | | What is your opinion 'bout samurais
What do you think about samurais? Express your opinion no matter what....
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01-23-2006, 12:20 PM
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| | I think they are very good with a light tomato sauce and some cheese, perhaps a melted Swiss or Gruyere. 
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01-23-2006, 12:22 PM
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| | Samurais are like ninjas. They flip out ALL the time and they kill people ALL the time, but they dont wail guitars, they prefer drums 
Hahahaha...
Not really, as Fable said, they're good with cheese.
Ops, not yet.
Now, I dont really know enough about Samurais to talk about them... But I'm interested, since I think they are neat. |
01-23-2006, 12:22 PM
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| | | Why is that fable? Do you hate samurais? |
01-23-2006, 12:25 PM
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| | | I guess Fable thinks your question is a bit too wide open. Maybe you could help us decide what you mean about liking samurais, and what you feel about samurais. Can ye? |
01-23-2006, 12:26 PM
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| | | Well I think that samurais were honoured warriors and very proud because the way they were brought up was not the best one. So, with a tough way of living, then they will be tough always. |
01-23-2006, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Alltgear Why is that fable? Do you hate samurais? | Now why should I do that? I think tandoor chicken is a very fine dish. Does that mean I hate chickens, and wish to their race eradicated from the face of this good green Earth? You asked for my opinion of samurais, no matter what that might be. It seems you really didn't mean that; you only wanted to hear opinions of samurai that agree with yours.
Next, you'll be telling us that economic conditions in 14th century Granada weren't bad, that Trinitarian religious beliefs weren't relatively late, and that Weasel isn't evil. It's a long, slippery slope downwards when you start requesting opinions only to argue them, and it can never end well.
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01-23-2006, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Luis Antonio I guess Fable thinks your question is a bit too wide open. | Shucks, Luis. You remove all my fun this way! 
I honestly don't know what he wants. Does he mean he wants us to discuss the samurai code at some point in history? After all, it has changed quite a bit. Does he man he wants us to discuss the way samurai were treated before or after the Meiji Restoration by the government? Social aspects of clan life in Japan? The way samurai are depicted in the films of Kurosawa, or perhaps the more realistic, cynical view of Mizoguchi? Tactics in wartime?
If you're confused by this, think how I feel.
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01-23-2006, 12:38 PM
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| | | Bit like knights in the West. Nice honour code, but hey, general oppressing of the non-noble populace, fighting amongst yourselves and threatening the stability of the realm is so much more fun. |
01-23-2006, 12:38 PM
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| | That's the Fablepedia. Wikipedia is for wankers and losers, Fablepedia rules all
Fable, really, I envy your knowledge.
But I'll reach ya someday! |
01-23-2006, 12:43 PM
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| | Shuckins. I'm just a boring old pagan kinda guy who finds many facts interesting. And you're an economist, aren't you? Think of all you know that I can't even touch! Why, I still have trouble figuring out a 15% tip in a restaurant.
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01-23-2006, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by fable Why, I still have trouble figuring out a 15% tip in a restaurant. | I hear that. That's just another reason to tip 20%- just multiply by 2 and move the decimal point over one spot to the left...
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01-23-2006, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain82 I hear that. That's just another reason to tip 20%- just multiply by 2 and move the decimal point over one spot to the left... | Yes! I know that one. Somehow, my 15% often turns out as 1.5% or 150%. I have applied myself diligently to this, but I still can't always get it right, and my wife has to smother a laugh when I don't. It's all very disturbing.
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01-23-2006, 12:47 PM
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| | A handy waiter has always a calculator nearby to help the client  I'm working on a consultant company for restaurants and pubs
And no, you're not and old blah blah blah, you're a Babylonian God. May your sandals roam the earth many times!
@Cuchu: Yes, yes, that's easier |
01-23-2006, 12:56 PM
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| | Thank you, Luis. You're always extremely kind.
By the way, Mizoguchi's Ugetsu has been released in an excellent version on DVD. It's set during the period of warring factions, and shows the samurai as warlike leeches (not literally, mind you!) who take what they want as they do their lords' bidding--much the same as armies, everywhere, for the longest time. Really focuses on two men and their two wives, poor potters; and how the men's dreams give them what they want, only to find it is not worth the price. Visually one of the most stunning films I've ever seen, and a work of great and moving humanity. Check out Criterion Films, if you're interested.
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