Tegan Holmes

On 3/8/2017 at 6:14 PM, Gord Barentsen said:

the phenomenon of domestic violence against women which seems to have some sort of foothold in Australia and elsewhere.

Well you know Australia has this masculine culture which is centred around alcohol, and I think that it encourages spousal abuse because if you let "your woman" get the upper hand then you lose your status as a male...very stupid.  But it's why I'm glad that some bars in cities like Sydney have earlier closing hours.

On 3/22/2017 at 11:19 AM, Graham Barnett said:

Sean Spicer, Trump's sputtering, frothing little attack chihuahua,

You poor thing...hope it wasn't too bad.

My bf and I went to watch fireworks...a few drunkies around but we were surprised at how quiet it was

I sued to think Britney Spears was creepy enough but i have changed my mind...

That first girl...I thought she was going to go back in and scream at the judges!

Hi Gord can you fix it so that links open in new windows?

So from what I get from this it means that history can always repeat itself?

PS footnotes in forums posts.....you nerd you 

"Guide to Cooking on your Car Engine".....not such a bad idea for Oz, especially around Christmas!

I;m sorry....I just cannot watch the singer

ok all in all i like this theme but the words at the bottom of the first page are a bit ugly..the who is online info.

But it is nicer than the first one!

Hello and welcome :).

If you are worried about the world being mad it's probably because not enough people are buying Panda cheese 

There's a program on telly here called 20 to 1 that has countdowns of things like biggest internet sensations, funniest rated commercials and so forth.  This rated fairly high and it's truly funny...

On 2016-05-16 at 6:23 PM, Gord Barentsen said:

Once one considers the contributions psychoanalysis has made to semiotics, epistemology, literary criticism and philosophy, I think it's easier to see how interest in psychoanalysis - with all its flaws - persists.

What are those contributions though? I always thought Freud was pretty much an crusty old fart 

On 05/15/2016 at 5:57 PM, Marjorie Pfennig said:

I would really love it if the Langaug Oddities blog were opened up because i would love to contribute to it!

Lol @ spelling, especially for a language blog

On 05/21/2016 at 7:53 PM, Graham Barnett said:

I think the reputation thing is a good idea as long as people can't vote others down.

I agree on this- this isn't the kind of site that should be voting peoples ideas down. But yeah it's a good idea.

On 05/16/2016 at 6:23 PM, Gord Barentsen said:

in some of the best-known TV series that feature psychoanalysis in any meaningful way (The Sopranos, Dexter) you do not hear the term "unconscious" at all.  You do, however, hear "subconscious," and my hunch is that that's because people can relate better to that than they can to the idea that there is a substrate of their psyche that is absolutely beyond consciousness.

I am pretty sure that they discuss the unconscious in Dexter which was one of my favourite series of all time!! But I don't think I know what the difference between unconscious and subconscious is anyway..

On 05/16/2016 at 6:23 PM, Gord Barentsen said:

And his notion of “penis envy” is now both laughable and tragic.

I never really got the whole "penis envy" thing. Always seemed pretty sexist like a lot of Freud's ideas

well i love zombie movies, and i'd watching literally anything with John Cusack in it so i am sold 

hmph 

I have no idea how a city like that could be built in the middle of the desert either  although the heat and sun would be great!

On 4/3/2016 at 5:57 PM, Marjorie Pfennig said:

hi Tegan!

i loved Tolkein too......i read the entire RIng series when I was in my early teens and ive never been the same since.  i thought the movies were crap though (sorry, please don't ban me Gord lol)...thought they were overdone and over the top.

hi sorry i haven't been around for a while family stuff..

wow I don't think i've ever heard anyone say the Tolkien movies were crap...i've seen them all many times and sometimes i'm too tired to stay up to watch all of them they're never crap.

to each their own though 

Hi I am Tegan, i was told about you and this site from another one of the students you tutored (not sure if i should say his name lol)...

i like creative writing and reading lots, particularly Tolkien and the Harry Potter saga.

22 hours ago, Graham Barnett said:

hi Tegan, you just hold down your mouse button and swipe your text...then you should see "Quote this" and just click that to have it appear in a reply post.

hope I helped

awesome thanks!

hey...you said in your 1st post that i can select text and have a Quote This button come up?

.....how do i select text to have that button appear? thanks!