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Weird stuff.
LOL!
Reminds me of a tv series from the 70s or 80s, tales of the unexplained, or something like that.
Coincidence?
“In Search of Francis the Talking Mule” narrated by Leonard Nimoy
On this week’s theme:
https://longreads.com/2020/04/08/how-to-tell-your-husband-youre-a-witch/
I didn’t read it, too long, but given that it appeared on Longreads it probably has fisking potential.
Ok, in Australia people have “husbands “ and “wives.” Thanks, TimT, and my best to Wife. What about the rest of the English-speaking world? Wife, husband, spouse?
I used to know the phone was going to ring about 10 minutes beforehand, though I didn’t know who it would be. I’d get That Feeling, and it would get stronger and stronger, like an unscratched itch, until BRRRIIING!” The ability went away after I went through menopause.
One reads all those stories about Ouija boards. My mom got one of us, I forget which, a Ouija board one Xmas. We all 4 tried it, first all together and then in various threesomes and twosomes. No matter, that thing laid there like the frog 🐸 in the Chuck Jones cartoon. Anyone have any good Ouija stories? I sure don’t!
About two, three, years later, the coworker announced to the company that he was finishing his first year of the process of changing from female to male.
Wow, I didn’t realize that we have had the technology to change XX chromosomes to XY for a while.
Sometimes I even call my wife ‘Wife’ when I’m speaking to her
After my parents retired (to The Villages…it’s a law in Florida), my dad used to introduce my mom as his “first wife”.
Also, wth is wrong with Goldfinger? Too pedestrian for youse elitists?
It’s a pity that at the time I had not heard of the Mott and Bailey fallacy.
I’m no believer in psychic whatever, but many, many a time have I been stuck on an engineering or other problem and just by discussing it with my wife or a coworker who has had very little time to have even a chance at understanding wth I’m talking about, did the heavens par, the light shine through and I was able to move on. Sometimes just saying things out loud can help. Neither am I sufficiently religious but I do think if I could truly, honestly convince myself that there’s a God paying attention to my mortal ramblings, I would be a good bit better off.
After my parents retired (to The Villages…
Did they get numbers ?
. . . many a time have I been stuck on an engineering or other problem and just by discussing it with my wife or a coworker who has had very little time to have even a chance at understanding wth I’m talking about, did the heavens par, the light shine through and I was able to move on.
Rubber duck debugging.
After my parents retired (to The Villages…
Did they get numbers ?
Wales does have its attractions . . . Be seeing you!
The Word Of The Day is Borborygmus….
In Avram Davidson’s fantasy novel Peregrine: Secundus, there is a character, a Roman senator “who had three times been in command of legions, once against the Burgundians, and twice against the Borborygmians.”
There are moments lately when it seems that such a man may be needed.
which is totally useless in assessing who to hire or what stock to buy or sell
“Which surgical procedure should we use, doctor?” “Hang on, I’ll get the tarot cards…”
Again, it can be interesting to register what, and how much, the generally non-verbal parts of your mind are up to in the background, as it were. Though opportunities to do this tend to be brief, in that the attempt to observe can often inhibit whatever’s going on.
How do you introduce Mr. Half?
We’re not really social butterflies, so it doesn’t generally crop up. I suppose it would be more of an issue for someone else introducing us, which, again, doesn’t often happen. Other half sounds fine.
Many moons ago I agreed to pay a girl who pretended to be a “professional astrologer” $50, I think, to do my horoscope. I didn’t believe in such nonsense, but I felt sorry for her, as she didn’t have a pot to piss in. Plus she was cute.
I hadn’t thought it through. In particular, it meant contacting my no-nonsense mother to find out what time of day I was born, and of course she wanted to know why.
The “reading” took about two hours. I have NEVER EVER been so bored in my life. I wanted to die. Big mistake. Never again.
Sounds like you would in no case be pretentious enough to call him your “spouse.”
I get funny looks, more than usual, when I say something like “Come on, Little Guy!” He actually WAS a little guy when I started calling him that 40 years ago. I can’t help it he ended up 6’4”.
Sounds like you would in no case be pretentious enough to call him your “spouse.”
Heh. Not even at gunpoint.
As women, we’re often taught at an early age to ignore our intuition and to trust the wisdom of others.
“Others” being?
JML
Ref the “cute” reader.
The “reading” took about two hours. I have NEVER EVER been so bored in my life. I wanted to die. Big mistake. Never again.
What if it was cute AND topless? Would that adjust the equation?
Only asking.
Also, wth is wrong with Goldfinger?
Ah. How did I forget that?
What if it was cute AND topless? Would that adjust the equation?
Not even cute and naked. No way.
How about this for a summary of so many leftist neuroses:
“I insist you buy-in to my particular hysteria and also pay for it. Or else.“
Other half sounds fine.
That’s what we use. In more formal contexts it’s ‘partner’ which I normally avoid like the Chinkenpox, and in certain circumstances it can be ‘my current partner’.
The “reading” took about two hours. I have NEVER EVER been so bored in my life.
From what I have observed, the particularly formal practice of astrology is quite comparable to that of fantasy sports leagues.
Other half sounds fine.
Have you tried “lesser vessel” ? It is very Biblical, after all.
…the Chinkenpox…
Golf clap and finger snaps…
engineering problem…
Wtp, the phenomenon you mention is so real, that I used to have to grit my teeth and force myself to have those conversations, secure in the knowledge that my mistake was about to be made visible to all. With neon lights and dancing girls. Never failed.
Bond flicks, like most movies, have limited rewatch value. What I find myself doing is rewatching specific scenes, looking for their techniques, or simply for pure pleasure.
E.g. the dam jumping scene that opens Goldeneye.
The opening credits scene of Top Gun.
The earth to moon travel sequence from 2001.
The “two kids growing up at school” scene from Wolf Children.
The launch sequence from Apollo 13.
The bus stop in the rain scene from Totoro.
Nonsense! In fact, all this talk has me thinking about breaking out the boxed set and whiling away some quality hours over the holiday weekend…
Yes. Per someone’s suggestion here and discussion with the wife regarding the Gallipoli campaign, We/I re/watched the Peter Weir/Mel Gibson Gallipoli. Didn’t hold up well to my memory of first seeing it nearly 40 years ago. Though I now view movies with a bit more skepticism (funny how five guys keep bumping into each other, etc.). While I also have a greater understanding of how real warfare goes down (hadn’t had those long conversations with my old man about such as yet at the time), I’m not familiar with much WWI infantry tactics or anything much about bayonet charges. I believe my dad had seen such from the Japanese in desperation but AIUI his units pretty much just mowed them down and I don’t think ever got quite that close. Can anyone help me out on why the Aussies emptied their rifles? I see info that says it’s a misconception regarding what such a thing meant with a bolt action rifle but other info that oddly states it was some stupid form of incentive. I’m guessing the former and also guessing that if even the latter, most men would still have a round chambered because, well, f*ck those guys.
Bond flicks, like most movies, have limited rewatch value.
Which is what amazes me about the movies that I can watch and rewatch. Raiders of the Lost Ark holds up. So does Casablanca.
My advocacy above for Spy, while tongue-in-cheek, was also serious. The wife and I have seen it three times, and we’ll watch it again. Comedy is especially hard to succeed at, as seen by Paul Feig’s other movies such as “Ghostbusters” (meh), “A Simple Favor” (shurg), and “Last Christmas” (cringe).
In the last few years of regular Fri-Sat DVD watching, we’ve shifted to following directors: Wes Anderson, Edgar Wright, and Guy Ritchie. I’d add Terry Gilliam, except as a Python fan I’ve been watching his work all along. Oh, and del Toro. All directors with a strong hand and interesting visual grasp of their work.
(Further thoughts bubble up)
I suppose what makes a film rewatchable is a combination of interesting acting, terse scripting, and interesting visuals. A constant supply of chewables for the brain. Movies which are deficient of them (indeed, all of them) get one watch and the DVD sent to the library.
These three factors can also be flipped. Movies with terrible mise en scene, acting, and dialog bring their own pleasures as well. “Plan Nine” being the Ur example of this, but thanks to MST3K I’ve been exposed to “Pod People,” “Ator: Hunter from the Future” (which, much to my chagrin, I realized that I watched this in the theater as a youngin’), and “Operation Kid Brother,” starring Sean Connery’s kid brother, Neil, and featuring Moneypenny, “M”, “Dr. No” and other 007 actors, so now we’re back on-thread.
Can anyone help me out on why the Aussies emptied their rifles?
So the assault force wouldn’t stop in the middle of no-man’s land to take a shot at someone. Colonel Upton’s assault against Doles’s Salient at Spotsylvania Court House did something similar, where the lead rows of the assault force had loaded but uncapped muskets. (The musket was loaded but did not have the percussion cap in place; you can’t actually fire the weapon until you put a cap on the nipple. You can do that when you’re in the trench you’re assaulting to help repel a counter attack, but there’s no way you can do it on the run.)
Right, tomorrow’s ephemera has been compiled. It should materialise just after midnight.
Yup, Feet, movies with serious rewatch value.
Certainly agree about Casablanca, and I’d add Bogart’s The Big Sleep. (The Mitchum version I’ve only seen once, so no opinion.)
A few others at random:
My Neighbor Totoro
The Fifth Element
Paprika
Saving Private Ryan
Wolf Children
Spirited Away
Seven Samurai
Saving Face
Bound (Joe Pantoliano OMG)
Fred, second “The Fifth Element.” It reminds me that we added Luc Besson to the “watch every movie by” director list.
“Saving Private Ryan” I saw in the theatre, but I don’t know if I can watch it again. The German stabbing the private scene is etched in my memory.
Movies with terrible mise en scene, acting, and dialog bring their own pleasures as well.
You sound like a man for Glenn Danzig’s Verotika. As a dear friend said, “The only thing it’s missing is a star wipe at the end of every scene.”
Seven Samurai
I’ll see you and raise you Thirteen Assassins.
Hana was worth a re-watch or two. (I only watched the subtitled version, not the dub.)
Squires – you can’t raise ANYTHING against The Seven Samurai – that’s a royal flush in spades (to mix card-game metaphors)
And if we’re listing infinitely watchable films, here’s a few, all from the mid-40s or before (and mostly B&W):
A Matter of Life And Death (1946, Pressburger & Powell)
I Know Where I’m Going (1945, ditto)
The Prisoner Of Zenda (1937, Ronald Colman version)
The Sea Hawk (1940 – no, of course Flynn can’t act)
The Four Feathers (1939, Alexander Korda)
42nd Street (1933, or anything with Busby Berkeley choreography – Wini Shaw singing “The Lullaby Of Broadway”, anyone? Anyone?)
So the assault force wouldn’t stop in the middle of no-man’s land to take a shot at someone.
That, and and given they were mostly using No 1 Mk III or Mk III* Short Magazine Lee Enfields, so as not inadvertently to shoot someone on the same team in the back. The SMLE goes to full cock on loading a round into the chamber, but the safety is a thumb operated lever on the left of the receiver, and fairly easy to nudge into the fire position even if assembled correctly. Floppy safeties from their not being reassembled properly after cleaning are a known issue (he said having learned the hard way) and would have made this worse.
So wait a minute here. Are you trying to tell me that this whole operation, from conceptualization, to weapons design and manufacture, to leadership, to unit preparation, to execution was a total and complete military f*k up and the French had NOTHING to do with it? What the hell kind of a guy do you take me for?
2 comments:
1 That $50 could have been spent on something less boring, and time consuming.
2 No one has ever changed female to male, or vice versa. The appearance of it is accomplished through smoke and mirrors. Lots of smoke.
…and the French had NOTHING to do with it?
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