I'm a blonde and I tell blonde jokes.

When I do something stupid or I don't understand something right away that is easy to understand. Boy I get it.
My family likes "Oh I forgot your a blonde that explains it, I understand."

Jessica Simpson is a true dumb blonde.

blonde jokes are funny, i know tons. my blonde friends love them... i don't know a single blonde that gets hurt by it. why we chose to single out blondes for the joke, i have no idea. it could have been any colored hair, but they chose blonde. blondes are not stupid... the jokes are funny.
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If it's anything like "Caligula"... It would be WAY outta your league...

Blonde jokes are funny, in my opinion, but I wouldn't care if "brunette" was put in place. I don't particularly consider them jokes about blonde people in particular, they're just about people like Jessica Simpson (aka people who can be really dingy sometimes).

Ok, one of my fav blonde jokes (which was told to me by a blonde as a matter of fact): A blonde, brunette, and redhead find an old lamp, from which emerges a genie who says, "I will grant you each whatever wish you want but first you have to tell me something that is completely true about yourself." The redhead goes first and says, "I think I am the most beautiful woman on Earth." *POOF* She disappears in a clowd of smoke, her statement wasn't true. Then the brunette goes. "I think I am the smartest person on Earth." *POOF* Wasn't true. So now it's only the blonde. She says, "I think..." *POOF* Wasn't true...

Not very nice...but funny, I think.

Hmmmmmmm....I've never seen Olympias. What was it rated (I'm not allowed to watch anything R rated so if it's R there's no point in me asking for it)?

-----"""3) We have established it was the character we were talking about."""---

Then this statement:
"That's a good summarization. And true, but Angelina played it a little awkwardly, wouldn't you say so?"
is wrong, and you are the numbskull for saying it in the first place.

Haha, blonde.

i think its kinda dumb how people can stereotype blondes based on only hair color. People could start saying that brunettes are gonna die before blondes or something, its just about that ridiculous. Your iq has nothing to do with hair color, i just ignore it when people say something about me being blonde that or i laugh with em...blonde jokes are kinda lame sometimes but some are pretty good. it doesnt bother me really...

I don't know anyone who honestly thinks that all blondes are dumb. Lol I actually find it kind of amusing that whenever anyone tells a blonde joke around me they always turn to me and say "No offense". I think some blonde jokes are pretty funny. We all need to be able to laugh at ourselves.

Here is my favorite blonde joke:

A blonde call her boyfriend on the phone. She tells him she is very upset because she was trying to do this puzzle of a tiger, but she coudn't get any of the pieces to fit together.Her boyfriend told her he would come to help her with the puzzle. When he got to her house, she told him that the puzzle was all over the floor in the kitchen. He went to go take a look at it. He came back from the kitchen and sat his blonde girlfriend down. He said to her "Honey, I know you're upset, but it's going to be ok. Now lets go put the frosted flakes back in the box."

Aw, don't be mean, love.

And yeah, we dd establish that her performance was fantastic (and SO true to Olympias) but the character wasn't written well.

Fuckin' Oliver Stone.

1) Never said it wasn't cool.
2) Never said it was bad acting.
3) We have established it was the character we were talking about.
4) You numbskull.

-----"""That's a good summarization. And true, but Angelina played it a little awkwardly, wouldn't you say so?"""---

Hell no. She was kinda cool to watch in that. Not weird/bad acting at all. Whatever she was doing was fine by me.

My whole family makes blonde jokes.
I am a blonde and I even make blonde jokes.

Lol. That's funny because I only have one blonde friend in my closest circle of friends. We don't make blonde jokes, though. Just because well, they're not terrible funny.

I was the root of a whole dicussion on blondes today. *sigh* My friends are evil.

I am..such a dork.

So yeah, blonde stereotypes. Those are..um..those are bad.

True. Uhh... so... blondes?

Ooh, yes. I agree, then. Olympias was written awkwardly.

And yeah. Olympias was of noble birth to Neoptolemus, the king of the Molossians of Epirus (the greatest tribe in that land.) Under her father, he began to made the tribe more sedentary and begin administrating. In an alliance with Phillip of Macedonia, he handed his daughter to him. I believe her name was Myrtale at the time, and when Phillip sent a chariot to the Olympics and it won, she was named Olympias.

It's not so much she believed Alexander to be Zeus' child (though she might have) it's that there was much dissonance in her marriage with Zeus, a direct result of his blatant polygamy and fathering a legitimate heir to his throne. (Lots of people ridiculed him for marrying this tribal princess and biething an illegitmate heir.) The legimate heir and his mother were killed after Phillip died. So, to shame Phillip and to bring more attention to her son, she claimed she sat underneath an oak tree and Zeus, in the form of a snake (her favorite pets as a follower of Dionysis; she even slept in her bed with snakes) impregnated her.

Alexander even went to Egypt and had himself officially endowed with his divine heritage. Olympias is ALSO the reason Alexander can claim to be the next Achilles. It's her bloodline that connects them.

I don't think she had her husband killed either. I think they were looking to blame someone, and who better then the crazy old widow? It's classic (well now it is).

But the fact that she was like a man made her vulnerable to criticism; we all know that women throughout history have been the supressed sex. (I merely restated what you said, I believe.) I've never heard that she was a princess, only that she had married the king.

But then again, if she was kind of insane, how could she have been smart? I would agree with witty and cunning, but she was a little messed up, according to historical accounts. The mere claim that Alexander was the son of Zeus(?) threw her credibility over the edge. However, this might have been just another ploy to discredit her intelligence.

I believe you merely misunderstood me, my dear. Awkward, as in the character she was portraying. Not how she played it or whatever. It is the awkward (historical) description of Olympias.

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Originally posted by freedomordeath:
That's a good summarization. And true, but Angelina played it a little awkwardly, wouldn't you say so?

I think you have to take into account that not much is known about Olympias. What is readily known by most is her manipulativeness, the fact that most people think she orchestrated Phillip's murder (which I don't believe, I just think it was conveinent), that she passionately desired Alexander to be king, and that she was a Dionysis freak who had people ruthlessly murdered.

However, this does not make her any different than any man of her time. The fact that she was a woman, and so powerful and so smart..the historians of the time took every opportunity to shed a bad light upon her. She was also a princess from Epirus, which was considered barbaric by the Macedonians.

Angelina didn't have much to work with. From what I know of Olympias, I'd say she nailed her pretty well. A kind of passion you admire, craziness you're wary of, and wrath you fear with all your being.

A lot of people bring up the fact that Colin Farrell and Angelina are close in age. First, Olympias would've been 20 years older than Alexander. So it was a matter of getting a younger person to play the Alexander that existed before he went off to war and left Olympias for the last time. (The last time we see them together.)

...Wow, that was quite a tangent. Anyway! It's strange that even though Angelina is seen as a "bad girl" or "weird"..she's never actually played a villain. (Girl, Interrupted notwithstanding.)

Ehh, I'm blonde. I'm also second in my class, out of, um, 200ish. Most of whom are brunettes. I just don't take the jokes seriously. Except when my friend tells them and then comments on how stupid all blondes are. She's just a bitch. But anyways, I sometimes tell them myself. It's only a stereotype if you let it bother you.