I was reminded today why I’m killing myself in preparation for this actuarial exam: Ron Possible’s dad was an actuary. I’m in good company.
Ron Stoppable*
Pretty cool though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kim_Possible_characters#Mr._Stoppable
When I come to the realization that I am doing things for my resume than for myself, it means that I ought not be doing them at all.
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| — | Not as amazing as he thought he was. |
Taylor Swift’s “Better Than Revenge” is the sequel to “You Belong With Me,” written from the cheerleader’s perspective.
Prove me wrong.
what the fuck, man, how was i supposed to count all those?
no, you were supposed to right click the page and read the sourcecode, FUCKING NOOB.
Everybody’s talking about this new Wong Fu video called “Strangers, Again.” Depressing title, and it lends a lot to the viewer’s guess as to how it ends.
The rest of this post will be about major spoilers in the video and how I interpreted everything I watched in these 16 minutes.
It’s a video about the 7 stages of a relationship and the implication that the breakup is inevitable. Near the end, we see Cathy drop Phil off at his apartment, and then she drives off. The scene is backed by sad piano music and the viewer sits in a depressed state thinking, “Damn, how can Phil and Cathy just break up like that :’( “
But Cathy and Phil never broke up. Look at the scenario they’re arguing about in the beginning and the end - Cathy wants to go to a friend’s potluck, whereas Phil is against spending 4 hours at the party. As their argument reaches its boiling point, the video begins to explain the 7 stages of a relationship.
Phil narrates throughout, recounting what happened in stage 1, the meeting, stage 2, the chase, stage 3, the honeymoon, stage 4, comfort, stage 5, tolerance, and then stage 6, downhill.
One of the scenes I liked most was when Phil was in the kitchen doing dishes (around 7:30), when Cathy calls him a 5-year-old. Phil’s response: “Normally, I would let that go, but I’m having a bad day too so WHAT’D YOU JUST SAY?”
Phil then tells about their fights - “we tried various times…” “it wasn’t enough…” and so forth. “It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great…. and let me tell you, that’s never a good way to describe a relationship.”
The next scene shows her calling him, telling him that she was going to bed, as Phil sits on his bed.
That’s the end of stage 5, tolerance. The next few seconds talks about stage 6, the downhill. Phil says “The effort to try to make things work just isn’t worth it anymore… Marissa (Cathy) and I, sad to say, are nearing the end of this stage.”
“Are nearing the end of this stage.” With this quote, we see Phil come out dressed in his green dress shirt from the argument in the first scene, and Cathy walking out wearing what she was wearing in the first scene as well.
This shows that Phil and Cathy actually DIDN’T break up in the movie. Phil introduces stage 7, the dreaded BREAKUP. But, when he tells the viewer about it, pay attention to his words. He says things like “The change WILL be so drastic.” “We WILL PROBABLY want to get back together right away.”
We are shown scenes where Cathy introduces her new boyfriend to Phil, and there’s this one hilarious scene where Phil punches him in the face. The viewer is reminded of all these Cathy-with-a-boyfriend scenes that we think that this is reality.
But it isn’t. Phil always referred to stage 7 as a hypothetical future. Up until stage 7, Phil always talked about the things that happened as the real past. When he talks about stage 7, he talks about how things WILL happen. Since the last shot in stage 6 shows Phil wearing his green dress shirt and Cathy wearing her potluck party clothes, we know that they are actually near the end of stage 6.
Phil then goes through the shoebox of memorable items shared between him and Cathy, still wearing the green dress shirt. He realizes how much they’ve shared together and how much they truly love each other when he rereads their anniversary note. He then dashes out the door and up to Cathy’s car, frightening her, but apologizing for the argument and wishing to make up with her. They go off to the party together on good terms.
At 13:32 we see Phil standing outside his apartment as Cathy drives off. This really tricks the viewer into thinking that they broke up, when in reality, they didn’t. Cathy is driving off because THEY WERE NEVER ACTUALLY LIVING TOGETHER. It’s a sad scene, but that’s how the two of them always end their days spent together. Recall the scene at 8:15, where she calls him to tell him that she was going to bed. Phil is in his own bedroom in his own apartment, saying good night to her. The two of them never lived together, which is why we have a scene of her dropping him off at his place while she goes back to her own home.
So, in the end, Phil and Cathy never did break up. The video is powerful because it shows that the breakup, which Phil narrates to be an inevitable scenario, is actually avoidable. Couples can last, and not conform to the supposedly unavoidable 7-stages that every relationship is doomed to.
So don’t be sad. Yes, the video is sad and talks about a serious subject, but the underlying content shows that your relationship is not doomed.
purple eye by Lee251073 on Flickr.
Alexandria’s Genesis, a.k.a violet eyes (a genetic mutation).
When someone is born with Alexandria’s Genesis, their eyes are blue or gray at birth. After six months, the eyes begin to change from their original color to purple, and this process lasts six months. During puberty, the color deepens to dark purple, a deep purple, a royal purple, or a violet-blue color and remains that way. It does not affect the person’s eyesight.
Those who have this mutation will never grow any facial, body, pubic, or anal hair (not including hair on their head, on their ears, noses, eyebrows and eyelashes) Women also do not menstruate, but are fertile.So basically they’re perfect people.
^^
Well, damn.
reminds me of Alanna the Lioness of Trebond :3
im having a hard time believing the period/hair part…
HERE’S AN IDEA:
CLICK THE ACTUAL FLICKER LINK (“PURPLE EYE”)
READ SECOND COMMENT BY THE PERSON THAT POSTED THE PICTURE
HAVE FUN FEELING LIKE A DUMBASS
Also, if you Google “Alexandria’s Genesis,” you will find out that IT’S A COMPLETELY FICTIONAL 100% BULLSHITTED ANOMALY DEVELOPED FOR AN MTV SERIES
