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Why didn't Jasmine bang the dentist?


Don't dentists make a lot of money?

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I suppose because Jasmine had never acquired any survival skills. But that dentist couldn't have been terribly successful since he hired an unqualified receptionist and didn't even have a computer system in his office.

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Several reasons. 1) She is not attracted to him physically nor in any other sense. 2) He's obnoxious and seems Jewish. (not being antisemitic, just an explanation). 3) Dentists really don't make as much as perceived. Maybe average $75-150K/year, which is nice but no Bentleys parked at the hacienda. 4)She may be a gold-digger but she's also crazier than Saddam Hussein who made the choice to live in a dirt hole instead of a palace.

"He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator."

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Again, Woody Allen wrote the story, not I. He used a Jewish actor (best known for playing a Jewish cuckold in A Serious Man) and had him play a slimy dentist, again the character frustrated and needing sex/love. Bottom line the audience mostly knows he's Jewish and is playing again a clown (of sorts) written/directed by Jewish filmmakers. If that is antisemitic, don't blame me.

Samuel Jackson? You did not understand. He can say the N word. Jews can degrade Jews. Point is I can do neither nor want to but wonder why it is acceptable other wise.

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Enjoyed our debate. Have fun!

"He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator."

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You're not convincing anyone that you're not antisemitic, Mel.

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I have three cousins who are dentists in Minnesota, their average income for each person is $300k a year.

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1) She is not attracted to him physically nor in any other sense."

Do you think Hugh Hefner's current wife is physically attracted to him? Gold diggers care way more about money than looks. Most gold diggers do not marry handsome men who look like David Beckham or John Stamos. Most of them marry wealthy men who would never make it on an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog or on the list of People magazine's sexiest men.

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cos he's gross and uncouth?

Did you not see the difference btw how the dentist approached her and the other guy?

what a stupid question.

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Because it was not "all about money" with this character. She was a nervous wreck. She had a life that crumbled big time. The Dentist came on too creepy and too strong and TOO desperate - and no woman likes being approached like that (rich or poor), he seemed like he was almost going to rape her.

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This. He was sexually harassing her and borderline assaulting her! What a ridiculous question by the OP, who seems to think women are just whores by nature.

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He was too short and she liked higher class men.

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Because she wasn't attracted to him in the least. Duh.

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I think she wasn't interested in that sort of guy. Remember, she wasn't happy doing that job there so why would she want to bang his ass?

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or drums

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