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John Cleese is also in this and I genuinely don’t know if he’s meant to be Grammer’s brother or father.
Remember….it can be two things!!
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There are plenty of romance novels written by women which tell us what women actually want. (It’s usually money.)
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There are plenty of romance novels written by women which tell us what women actually want. (It’s usually money.)
Well everybody wants money that’s nothing special.
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long-haired, muscular men who ride horses
Who are rich.
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long-haired, muscular men who ride horses
Who are rich.
Clarification: the men are rich, not the horses.
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Sometimes the woman falls in love with a man she thinks is poor, because that shows she has integrity and doesn’t only care about money. Usually, he turns out to be secretly rich and only pretending to be poor so he can find a woman with integrity who doesn’t only care about money. Surprisingly, after finding out he has been lying to her for the entire novel, she still forgives him. Or perhaps not so surprisingly, now she knows he’s rich. I want to see a novel where the man pretends to be rich and she still loves him when she finds he’s poor. That would be integrity.
Might I suggest the following:
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long-haired, muscular men who ride horses
Who are rich.
Clarification: the men are rich, not the horses.
Don’t diminish the horse’s personal wealth, David. He may not be long-haired, muscular man rich, but he is living comfortably.
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Now that kind of woke rewriting of classics is exactly why I don’t like Disney movies
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Then it’s true what they say, never give the audience what they think they want.
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We spoke about binge watching and all these streaming services before:
Maybe a bit too many to get everything legally but I digress…
Streaming on the PC is good if you want to give the main TV to other household members while you watch this on the PC…
Disney+ is good for the Marvel content and the Star Wars universe. The cartoons are really if you have kids.
HBO Max is good for a lot of movies and content from HBO and Cinemax as well as DC material
Netflix is you know…
Paramount+ for Star Trek stuff, old MTV shows and CBS stuff
Amazon Prime for The Boys primarily and now MGM (James Bond)As for AppleTV, HUlu, and so on…
More comments? Opinions?
Some of these services come with membership like Amazon membership and if you buy something big. At Apple you get 1 free year. Diney+, Hulu, and something else comes in a triple play package.
Anyway… it is more reason to be a couch potato to be honest 😂😂😂
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I think it’s testimony to that we’re either cyberhermits or being very, very careful.
It can be two things.
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I’ve not got it at all though I am resigned to the fact I will eventually given the nature of my work. In terms of who has had it… My father in law has it currently (he is 9 days into his 10 day isolation period and has finally got a negative lateral flow test). Worst he has felt is really flu-y. My pal at work got it in October and was knocked for six by it. He took a couple months to get shot of the bad cough it came with. My granny got it in the care home the day after she got her second jab. Thankfully she had no symptoms and just had to isolate in her room (my mum made the decision to not tell her she was positive as she has power of attorney and thought the news would just upset her).
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I think it’s testimony to that we’re either cyberhermits or being very, very careful.
It can be two things.
Being careful has definitly helped. I have, in the past, been super stressed by how others conduct themselves out and about but have tried to let that go and live by the mantra of “I’m doing the best I can for me and mine”. That said its been pretty stressful recently as getting a positive result would have royally fucked xmas for me, the wife, the kids, and both sides of our family.
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I think it is likely I will get it at some point, but by the time I do, I want my immune system to be a bunch of machine gun toting, sharp suited gangsters that saunter up to this new invader neighbourhood going “Say hello to our little fucking friends!”….. Cue a Covid massacre, after which my immune system deploys Terminator hunter-killers to take out the dregs.
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Now my sister’s fiance has covid. Pretty much fucks our plans for Xmas. Ho ho bloody ho.
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Sorry to hear that, Bruce. Hope you can salvage a happy weekend in spite of this setback.
In other news, my son just announced that he and his partner are officially engaged; they are currently down in Florida to celebrate the holidays with her mother.
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Now my sister’s fiance has covid. Pretty much fucks our plans for Xmas. Ho ho bloody ho.
Bad luck, Bruce. I was faced with the same prospect, but thankfully my sister’s boyfriend just has a bad cold, not covid (per a PCR).
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So my booster shot fucked me up for a day, got sod all sleep that night, and was achey and tired for much of the day. I was planning to dart around to our local Tesco and get most of the shopping, and then into the city centre to pick up Laura’s dinner for Christmas day and random vegan bits we can’t get locally. But instead I napped on the couch with Mythbusters on instead, we went to a bigger Tesco that’s near our GP after Laura got her booster. And now I need to go into town on Christmas Eve.
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And now I need to go into town on Christmas Eve.
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I might be hiding out in a screening of Matrix Resurrections right now
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Christmas day: went without a hitch.
Boxing day: wife tests positive for covid.
Ah well, could have been worse. We got one day of family celebrations out of xmas this year which is a whole day more than we got last year.
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So`. What’d I miss?
COVID has been completely eradicated, China had its first democratic elections, and Donald Trump has apologized. For everything.
Welcome home, Christian!
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So`. What’d I miss?
Cat pictures!
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So`. What’d I miss?
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We were talking about Adele and the mixed reactions she got from her weight loss…
Now the actress Rebel Wilson has lost 70 pounds
And reports say that some on her management team didn’t want her to lose all that because her roles in rom com movies were as the fat friend providing some comic relief to the main actress/love interest:
https://pagesix.com/2021/12/07/rebel-wilsons-team-didnt-want-her-to-lose-weight/
Now apparently all that has to change… Maybe she will be the main love interest now!
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She will definitely be the love interest now since those are the only roles available to women, the fat friend and the love interest.
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@LORCAN_NAGLE, have you seen this?
Lindsay Ellis Announces She’s Quitting Content Creation, Cites Exhaustion From Cancelation
I did, yeah. It’s a shame but it seems to be best for her health, and she seems to be pivoting to writing novels anyway.
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I understand that the population is more stressed out over the pandemic, the economy, jobs, social issues, politics, but we always had most of this already. Are people all in all getting nastier?
Most people are selfish assholes; it’s as simple as that. But it used to be that people would do the right thing, either because of proper social behavior or because they didn’t want to be perceived as assholes. Here in the USA, our natural selfishness was exacerbated by the former White House administrations words and deeds that indicated to people that it’s okay, even encouraged, to be self-centered racist/sexist/intolerant assholes, almost to the point of being proud of our assholery (and if that’s not a word, it should be).
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago, Americans actually were behaving like decent people, caring about others and doing random acts of kindness. And this altruistic behavior lasted for a year or more. When COVID became a national crisis, we banged on pots and pans and cheered front-line workers for a while, but in a short while most Americans thought only of themselves rather than being concerned for the most vulnerable members of society. Wearing a mask became a political hot-potato; not being able to go to the gym became a reason for rioting; and getting a vaccine was somehow a violation of people’s Constitutional rights.
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New Years resolutions?
No peas
No grapefruit
Better etiquette
Patience
Pick battles better. More the walking away option
Less click bait and those “thirst traps”
Ignoring moreetc…
What’s the problem with peas and grapefruit.
My New Years resolution is to become ungovernable
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After Planet of the Apes, Charleton Heston had a kind of all new career in those “apocalyptic” thought piece action movies. Still, movies like Omega Man, Logan’s Run, Rollerball, The Andromeda Strain, etc. have that kind of “Twilight Zone/ Outer Limits” wild imagination that you only see rarely in low budget movies or occasionally in something like BLACK MIRROR.
Randomly, how many people actually use the amount of toothpaste every time you brush your teeth that they do in ads and commercials? Like…
Dentists will tell you that you only need a “pea-sized amount for adults and rice grain sized amount for kids.”
If we actually use the amount shown in the ads, certainly the toothpaste companies benefit as you need to buy more often, but you could also be doing harm to your teeth – not serious harm, but ironically, the resulting fluorosis will make your teeth rougher and harder to clean.
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After Planet of the Apes, Charleton Heston had a kind of all new career in those “apocalyptic” thought piece action movies. Still, movies like Omega Man, Logan’s Run, Rollerball, The Andromeda Strain, etc. have that kind of “Twilight Zone/ Outer Limits” wild imagination that you only see rarely in low budget movies or occasionally in something like BLACK MIRROR.
Rollerball with James Caan is one of my alltime favorite movies.
It’s always interesting to look at sci-fi movies as a reflection on the times in which they were made. It seems like a lot of sci-fi of the 1970s was about the individual trying to survive and overcome a societal “system”. Considering that Watergate was showing that the US Government was corrupt and broken, it makes sense.
This is still one of the best parodies of 1970s sci-fi:
Nowadays, a lot of sci-fi has a “science/technology bad” vibe to it. It makes sense considering how rapidly techonology and science has accelerated and incorporated into everyday life. I do wonder, though, if the portrayalof science and technology in entertainment has caused some of the anti-science mentality that is purvading the world to today.
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I do wonder, though, if the portrayalof science and technology in entertainment has caused some of the anti-science mentality that is purvading the world to today.
You mean like people believing that a “life-saving vaccine” is actually full of nanotech and tracking technology that will turn us into zombies? That will never happen; we’re just too smart for that kind of mass phobia.
Wait…what?
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There are good reasons to be suspicious of medical science though. Just look at unethical treatment throughout the history of psychiatry, things like unethical medical testing, iatrogenic disease etc.
I don’t think those are “good reasons to be suspicious of medical science”; the relatively rare examples of a Josef Mengele performing obscene experiments on living subjects should not justify an overall suspicion of ALL medical science, any more than the actions of a Gary Glitter should justify a presumption that all pop singers are child molesters.
By all means, do your own research from legitimate sources of information, and ask for a second (or third) opinion, especially when you’re unsure about a prognosis and/or treatment being recommended by a professional medical practitioner. That’s just good common sense; but being suspicious of medical science as a rule is not common sense. And being suspicious of a vaccine long after it has been proven successful, because of the lies and mistruths you read on Facebook, is not common sense.
Unless, of course, you are a character in a cheesy 1970s science-fiction thriller.
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Josef Mengele performing obscene experiments
Mengele is an extreme example of course but Pfizer got caught in the 90s illegally testing drugs on kids in Nigeria. These companies have a long list of crimes for which they were charged billions in lawsuits. And you have an opioid epidemic in the US which is to a large extent caused by medical intervention. Many of the people who became addicted to opioids were prescribed these medications initially, and Purdue actively campaigned to prescribe them as often as possible while understating the risk of addiction. This caused about a million deaths in the US alone.
Iatrogenic disease (caused by medical intervention) according to some estimates kills about 200,000 people in the US every year.
And there is the shameful history of psychiatry. But admittedly that is a lot better today.
edit: My point is not that doctors are bad people or something, I think almost all are wonderful people who try their best. But there are huge problems with the medical sector and people can understandably be distrustful. Also I agree that on the whole, medical science has made our lives better.
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My social media advertising for the last 2 weeks is solely a variety of ‘plus size’ clothing retailers. As anyone who has met me here will attest, I am a pretty small guy, I’ve never worn any item of clothing larger than a medium so they aren’t much use to me unless maybe I want a tent to go camping. Usually you can trail back to some search or other as to why ads get targeted at you but this one is rather a mystery.
All I can guess is I follow a lot of rugby stuff online, maybe that’s the key they are latching on to as a lot of rugby players are of the very large variety. I’m just a fan though.
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Is it tracking your eating habits? Like, do you order a lot of food from apps and stuff? Im guessing you’d order for the whole family in such a case and an app won’t be able to figure that out so maybe it just thinks you’re some insane glutton?
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All I can guess is I follow a lot of rugby stuff online, maybe that’s the key they are latching on to as a lot of rugby players are of the very large variety. I’m just a fan though.
It’s crazy how these tracking algorithms work out what you “need”. I deliberately keep my work and social media lives separate, but just recently youtube has been feeding me a ads for SQL training, data warehouse products, etc., all of which make sense for my job but they shouldn’t know what my job is!
Then I remembered I had been watching some videos made by my new company as prep for my interview last year. Apparently that’s all it takes, and now I am forever “big data products customer”
Mind you, they also think I want to run a criminal empire in a major metropolis. Proving they can be 100% correct some of the time
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Found this in a drug store the other day
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Archeologists have uncovered the first primitive computer, believed to date back to the Garden of Eden. It was an Apple with very limited memory, you had one byte and then everything crashed.
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yeah yeah yeah, it’s all the “male”s fault…
Where that pressure to be super buff, use steroids etc. is concerned, yeah, I’d say that it is. Much of the current culture of this is a result of this whole alpha-beta-sigma-male cult that females had very little input in.
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Seriously though, it is why actresses are pretty much done at the age of 40 or so. Only Meryl Streep and a few others are allowed to age gracefully. The rest are put out to pasture as it were. Same for women in music.
This is a complete fabrication. 7 of the last 10 Best Actress Oscar winners were over the age of 40 (Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Frances McDormand, Olivia Colman, Renee Zelweger, and Frances McDormand again). 7 of the last 10 Best Supporting Actress Oscars were also over the age of 40 (Octavia Spencer, Patricia Arquette, Viola Davis, Allison Janney, Regina King, Laura Dern, Youn Yuh-Jung). And that doesn’t include other well-respected and prolific actresses such as Judi Dench, Sandra Bullock, Jessica Chastain, Amy Adams, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Reese Witherspoon, Charlize Theron and others who are all over 40 years of age and not “out to pasture”.
And that doesn’t even take into account actresses who continue to be successful on television and theater, but no need to beat a dead horse.
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Ming-Na Wen is 58 and kicking ass on The Book of Boba Fett. She also did so for 7 seasons on Agents of SHIELD and she was 50 when she started.
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I dont know if Frank Miller is the best person to be drawing inspiration from…
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I dont know if Frank Miller is the best person to be drawing inspiration from…
I get the gag but I always think it’s kind of a weird accusation to level at Miller, who created characters like Elektra and Martha Washington and Carrie Kelley over the course of his career.
I guess it feels right if you only know Miller from Sin City, maybe.
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Life is good today.
I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand
Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand
Life is good today, life is good today
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95 years ago today, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis debuted in German theaters.
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Which of these two would you choose to narrate your life: Morgan Freeman or Sir David Attenborough?
Attenborough, easy.
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I say it is good to every now and then, turn it all off, meditate, and think to yourself.
I do little 10 minute meditations throughout the day. Also I go on walks or bike rides to stop myself using the internet for too long. And read books. Physical paper books. ( I don’t have a tablet or smartphone)
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I do little 10 minute meditations throughout the day. Also I go on walks or bike rides to stop myself using the internet for too long. And read books. Physical paper books. ( I don’t have a tablet or smartphone)
Be like Arjan. 😊
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