Male and Female Imponderables - Mad World
POSTED BY: magdalena
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 16:46
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Oog, 'mornin imponderables. Forgive me, I have no energy to read a lot of what's here. I stayed up til 1 o'clock making another image for bigdamnthankyou. Didn't think it would take as long as it did, but then I got all ambitious and it just got more and more complex. Now I'm looking at it here at work on our crappy monitors and I can't see everything because the color is all wrong (can't fix brightness, it's already turned up all the way) so I can't see everything I know I put in there... *sigh*
I join in on the warm fuzzy feelings, but in a quiet and rather sleepy way 
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Magda dear, you sorta misunderst.... well, no, i wasnt clear.
I am a white guy with an american accent, and american passport, and have spent maybe 4 months total in the UK, most of that is northern ireland bangor area, if you're wondering. However, i also have a british passport, which means i'm a citizen and all.
My point with the essay is that, so many kids from asian or south american ethnicities get bonuses (not to say they dont, on average, need them) for being a certain ethnicity (most states outside Cali still do affirmitive action, and in general they like racial diversity in college. not to mention scholarships)... where as even though both my parents are brits (dont get too excited, its mostly just by passport, tho my mother is a Northern Irelander) I get no recognition or even a seperate bubble on the standardized test sheets. I'm just 'white'. No background or anything.
So the title means "an immigrant in america", and the goal of the first two paragraphs is to make a joke about how i'm from an immigrant family, but i'm not what people expect when they hear that.
edit: clarification, the title is in spanish cause i'm pretending to be a spanish/mexican immigrnt for the first two paragraphs, even though i never say so of course. in Cali, anyone who starts an essay with "an immigrant in america" in spanish, is most likely a mexican, off to college. so its a horribly politically incorrect joke, me the white middle class guy pretending to be the stereotypical mexican immigrant, but eh, its a 'risk' essay in a way. That if it's good, it'll be put in a book of college app essays saying how its good because its edgy.
And yes, i'm waaaaaay to proud of finally doing something college-y.
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.
"We take all the money we got saved right now, we could maybe buy a moderately sized gerbil." -Mal
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*wanders in*
Well, after the lastie thread I really can't complain on any other thread being too long I suppose. 
Ah, the ponderables listed...hmm.
There are many films I enjoy that I know the vast majority of folks look at me funny about, but franly I don't feel too guilty about like 'em.
There is one, however, that I watch, over and over each and every time it's on TV and I still don't know why: The Beastmaster. There's just some...imponderable something in that gorram flick that pulls me in time and again.
The other question...what is my sin? I think I'll go with the Captain: I'm a fan of all seven. Okay, sloth....I think. Or maybe...huh. Is 'it depends' an adequate answer? 
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RMMC
"Those grenades?"
"Captain don't want 'em."
"Jayne, we're robbing the place, we're not occupying it."
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RMMC - it depends is a 'good answer'... so to say - I think I could have rewritten my 'sin' reply in any number of different ways!
Is Beatmaster the one that was made into a TV series where there are all these women who are really animals in disguise...?
Whitefall - LOL! I'm so ditzy at this hour on a Sunday (or at that hour at which I was writing!!) I knew you were really American and not Spanish - but I mistook the wohle 'Anglo' angle as meaning you had immigrated early on... sorry. 
Forgive me... and kudos to you for your wit, imagination and organisation in getting this done already!
Traveller and VX - we must have overlapped posts before - I was talking with a friend who hasn't even seen Firefly (though I took her to see the 'Serentiy Now' screening in Melbourne a couple of months ago!) and she wants to join this forum coz of all the wonderful friends I'm telling her about - LOL!! I told her she had to write me a 2,000 word essay about who is her biggest damn hero & why, before I'd let her!! It really beats all others I've tried and has made a big impact on my life and my view of the world - coz now I have friends all over it (the world) ... hmmmmm that rambling thread is looking more like a good idea...
Hello MsG - can't wait to hear about the Shindig!!
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Ok all, i'm off to bed. Good night from this side of the 'versary, as I know it's long over for some of you.
Twas this day last year that we US types (hey, we can have a UK'versary next week!) came together, took in many gasps of suspensefulness, a couple cries of "you're a bad man, joss whedon", and a good amount of crying, but I think in the last year we've really grown as both a fanbase and as folk. The movie been doing good works.
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.
"We take all the money we got saved right now, we could maybe buy a moderately sized gerbil." -Mal
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Good night Whitefall! Sleep well... I'll have to find out when the Australian 'versary is? I only discovered the 'verse this year and watched the series in order followed by the movie - aren't I lucky?
Sweet dreams! - Magda x x x
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Hello RMMC:
6ixStringJack was joking about Bob Hope. Although he is young and does not know much about him.
That is the closest I ever got to becoming a Troll.
He even asked me suggest some Bob Hope movies.
Maybe I should go to a different fansite. I'm doing better getting people to see Bob Hope than Firefly.
This site gets stranger, if that is possible, every day.
Thanks for the memories
Traveler
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Originally posted by magdalena:
RMMC - it depends is a 'good answer'... so to say - I think I could have rewritten my 'sin' reply in any number of different ways!
Good, I didn't want to sound like I was copping out, but it does vary from day-to-day and often minute-to-minute. Heck, gluttony usually comes in big when speaking of chocolate, but when I'm sick or too hot, I've absolutely no interest in it so it's not a constant, either.
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Originally posted by magdalena:
Is Beatmaster the one that was made into a TV series where there are all these women who are really animals in disguise...?
Um, women in disguises? *blink* I didn't see that. The movie is from 1982 and starred Marc Singer (of "V" fame) as a guy who got outcast from his village since he could talk to and understand all animals. I think I caught the recent series a few times and Marc was actually cast in it in another role. *giggle*
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RMMC
"Those grenades?"
"Captain don't want 'em"
"Jayne, we're robbing the place, we're not occupying it."
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Originally posted by traveler:
Hello RMMC:
6ixStringJack was joking about Bob Hope. Although he is young and does not know much about him.
That is the closest I ever got to becoming a Troll.
I was about to expire from shock. Aaaah!
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Originally posted by traveler:
He even asked me suggest some Bob Hope movies.
I saw and butted in with several suggestions.
I just couldn't help myself. Mr Hope was definitely a BDH in his own right.
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Originally posted by traveler:
Maybe I should go to a different fansite. I'm doing better getting people to see Bob Hope than Firefly.
This site gets stranger, if that is possible, every day.
Give it some time. *pat*pat* I feel that way somedays, too.
Does it get stranger?
I hadn't noticed. ********
RMMC
"Those grenades?"
"Captain don't want 'em"
"Jayne, we're robbing the place, we're not occupying it."
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Noooooooooo!!! Don't go anywhere Traveller - you are our Browncoat and we want you here!!! 
... I'll even watch a few more Bob Hope movies if you promise to stay! Actually I do remember quite a few I've seen - he was a brilliant comedian and a wonderful humanitarian - I used to hope I might meet him one day - but that dream is gone now... also James Stewart ...Kate Hepburn ...Raul Julia ...James Earl Jones *sigh*
He he he he ... sorry RMMC... apart from I meant to say 'Beastmaster' rather than 'Beatmaster' (which I think is a food processor?... or a music machine?) I just caught a show on TV one day where this Herculean type guy was on an island with all these scantily clad women who could shape-shift into various wild animals - and he was the only male who could control them or something along those lines... I will have to look for the original movie I think... 1982 - eh?
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