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bravo1102 wrote:
The Drunk Duck Awards presentations for 2013 started. Guess we're trying to keep it quiet that Niccea started posting the presentation pages back on January 1.
Don't tell anybody. Shhhhh! Quiet. Enjoy your new year and wonder who'll win the Golden Globes this year….
I shall do a newspost about it for tomorrow!
bravo1102 wrote:John Hurt has the talent to make any movie he appears in damn good. He voiced Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, Hazel from Watership Down, Ollivander in Harry Potter, The ELEPHANT MAN in the Elephant Man, and my all time favorite character, Winston Smith in 1984.
Almost finished watching I Claudius for the upteenth time. I had forgotten John Rhys-Davies was in it and that John Hurt was so damn good. John Hurt had earlier done a Hammer horror film that went from bad to excellent because of his portrayal of a shell-shocked veteran. But I Claudius was the real beginning of his career and his portrayal of Caligula is superb.
Genejoke wrote:I imagine it would be easier for a man in his late thirties to meet a younger woman than a woman in her late thirties to meet a younger man. The idea stems around purely biological reasons if the expectation to have children is involved. Whereas a man could still potentially date someone much younger, a woman in the same age range might end up dating a much older person. In my own experience, I have seen gradual shifts of acceptable dating age range preferences between the early twenties and the late twenties.
Y'know dating in your thirties is so much harder than when younger.
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Last night, I visited the National Art Gallery to unwind. I am the type of person that recharges alone better than in social settings, so staring at paintings suits me. I really liked the layout of the place–large symmetrical rooms with simple designs appeal to my inner minimalist. There was a new contemporary exhibition filled with bright, colorful hues that popped right off the canvas. Normally, I am very sensitive to intense colors, but staring at high doses of them feels good and leaves me feeling energized.
I always end my tour with a visit to Marcel Duchamp's ready-made collection. I am such a fan of his early paintings and his contributions to the Dada Movement that I get filled with emotion by just standing in that room.
I imagine it would be easier for a man in his late thirties to meet a younger woman than a woman in her late thirties to meet a younger man. The idea stems around purely biological reasons if the expectation to have children is involved. Whereas a man could still potentially date someone much younger, a woman in the same age range might end up dating a much older person. In my own experience, I have seen gradual shifts of acceptable dating age range preferences between the early twenties and the late twenties.–I've not really been going younger, late twenties onwards really. and a little older than myself too. perhaps I should try younger, worked for my brother.
Genejoke wrote:
meeting people aren't broken in someway is.
Common problem. Many are looking for someone to fix them and that's not what you want when dating. Older folks have baggage from things that happened in the past and they insist on bringing it with them on a date. Just have fun and the first date just being the first date and not "OH-MY-GOD-I-HAVE-TO-START-ANOTHER-RELATIONSHIP"
And don't spend all your time comparing the first date to the ex. Oh yeah the girl looks at you and you're staring off into space thinking about nothing but the ex. When on the date the ex never existed.
Exactly. I went on a dinner date once where the guy did nothing but talk about his ex-girlfriend the whole time. It was somewhat off-putting and I could not get out of the restaurant fast enough. A few nights later, he wrote an entire blog post about his experience and it turns out I ordered the exact same thing that his ex-girlfriend always ordered. Talk about a deal breaker!
I notice a lot of teenagers these days are looking for someone to fix them. Have you heard any of the mainstream songs made for preteens? You will find broken people in every age group, but you will find completely put together individuals, too. I find that people in their thirties and forties are more focused and know what they want because they have had an extra decade or two to figure things out.
bravo1102 wrote:I've had dates like that, but isn't really the issue. I was recently invoved with someone and things seemed great for the most part, but she wasn't really ready for anything serious. She latched on too quickly then panicked as things progressed. Shame as she's a lovely person but we're not right for each other at present and hurt each other in the process. It does seem that others either want to jump into a relationship at first opportunity or are too scared to let things take develop naturally.Genejoke wrote:
meeting people aren't broken in someway is.
Common problem. Many are looking for someone to fix them and that's not what you want when dating. Older folks have baggage from things that happened in the past and they insist on bringing it with them on a date. Just have fun and the first date just being the first date and not "OH-MY-GOD-I-HAVE-TO-START-ANOTHER-RELATIONSHIP"
And don't spend all your time comparing the first date to the ex. Oh yeah the girl looks at you and you're staring off into space thinking about nothing but the ex. When on the date the ex never existed.
Speaking of dating, I am so terrible at knowing whether or not someone is trying to flirt with me on facebook…and how to response to it.
Like, what does it mean when a guy "pokes" me on fb out of the blue? How do I respond to that?
Then there's a guy who I went to school with and who I see every so often at the gym who's been messaging me every couple of days like "Hey, what's up." But if I engage him in conversation he never has anything to say.
And most recently, a guy who I only met once (but quite liked) messaged me with a Christmas greeting, and then the other day with a link to a youtube video. Which seems really sporatic and random.
I'm bad enough with in-person interactions. Facebook flirting is just way beyond my level of social skill, I think. XD
The random messages on Facebook are akin to a guy trying to start conversation but struggling to find the right thing to say, probably hoping something will spark an interesting conversation. As for guy who chats but has nothing to say… Similar thing maybe? Do you give him anything to work with? Do you want to?
ozoneocean wrote:Plenty of sites with all kinds of collected witticisms and quotes for all occasions. Almost like having Bob Hope's gaggle of gag writers at your beck and call.
respond with humour :)
Said I, quick with the repartee. (quoting the character of Major Hogan in the Sharpe series as played by Brian Cox)
Truly obscure references are not recommended unless they make you look really, really smart or oh-so-cultured. Nothing goes over like a lead zeppelin than to attempt to make light conversation by sharing a witty anecdote about Soviet film maker Sergei Eisenstein. (Huh? who? what?) The assumed knuckle dragging rube in the military uniform had to explain the reference by the pretentious library science major to the rest of the table at a friend's wedding.
bravo1102 wrote:
Truly obscure references are not recommended unless they make you look really, really smart or oh-so-cultured. Nothing goes over like a lead zeppelin than to attempt to make light conversation by sharing a witty anecdote about Soviet film maker Sergei Eisenstein. (Huh? who? what?) The assumed knuckle dragging rube in the military uniform had to explain the reference by the pretentious library science major to the rest of the table at a friend's wedding.
If I'm not supposed to use witty anecdotes about Sergei Eisenstein, I have being flirting ALL wrong.
@Bravo
How the devil did you know I was rewatching the Sharp series Hogan??? o_O
I though Battleship Potemkin was horribly transparent propoganda when I saw it, and really hard to watch because of that. Some good early use of techniques though.
Then I later read about the real incident and the film didn't seem as arch anymore… They really treated those people pretty badly. Also, it was pretty cool they had the actual ship in the movie!
ozoneocean wrote:I can read minds.
@Bravo
How the devil did you know I was rewatching the Sharp series Hogan??? o_O
I though Battleship Potemkin was horribly transparent propoganda when I saw it, and really hard to watch because of that. Some good early use of techniques though.October is far worse as far as propaganda. But it is facinating as far as a historical document while studying the Russian Revolution.
Also, it was pretty cool they had the actual ship in the movie!It was actually the derelict Dvenadsat Apostolov. (The Twelve Apostles) The Potemkin had been scrapped in 1923. Conversely the cruiser Aurora that appeared in October still exists in St Petersburg.
I was the only one at the table that had seen all of Eisenstein's movies and didn't want to embarrass Ms. Pretentious by flaunting it though my freind and I briefly discussed Alexandr Nevsky.
I thought I read on a battleship site that they used by he actual ship? Maybe it was only the conning tower or something like that…
I've never seen that particular movie Bravo but looking it up I saw the Teutonic knight helmets looked like Thulsa Doom's helmet in Conan the Barbarian… Only to read that part of Conan was actually based on that film, Hahaha, there are no coincidences…
Speaking of which I've been reading The Hussar, a book about a trooper's experiences as part of Hompesch's hussars. Their uniforms are almost an exact match for the 95 rifles… But looking up the wiki entry on the 95th they make out as if that uniform was the genious practical idea of some smart fellow developed just for them… I call bullshit! I'd bet anything it was based wholly on Hompesch's hussars because the officer like the look of it, and then they discovered how practical it was afterwards. That's usually how those things went.
You are indeed correct. The uniform adopted for use by Hompesch's Chasseurs and mounted rifles was the one eventually used by the first rifle troops which were the 5th Battalion 60th Foot. The cadre of that unit was made up of troops formerly of Hompesch's Chasseurs and Mounted Rifles and continued to wear their uniforms. That uniform became the model for the Experimental Rifle Corps which then became the 95th. They just changed the facings to black.
Hompesch raised several units, Hussars, Chasseurs, Mounted rifles. The Hussars were sent to Haiti and wasted away and were dispanded within a few years. The Mounted Rifles served in Egypt until 1802 and the Chasseurs became the cadre of the 5th 60th foot in 1797. It can be confusing as the Mounted Rifles and Chasseurs were both called Chasseurs so often one will appear as the other in articles.
The uniform of Hompesch's Hussars was typical hussar wear and featured red breeches, something that was not found in rifle uniforms. It was green and red, colors used by hussar regiments in most armies. The 95th officer uniform was simply a green hussar uniform. In fact the officer's shako of it's predecssor the Experimental Rifle Corps had a detachable peak like a militon (though lacking its flamme : the trailing tassled swatch of cloth often wrapped around the militon for a splash of color) It was typical in period armies for officers of light corps to adopt whatever hussar features into their uniform that they could get away with. For an example Rifle regiment officers' pelisses weren't offical or stipulated in the regulations. They were a flamboyant addition because every officer wanted to look as mcuh like a hussar as they could.
(see Osprey MAA 119 Wellington's Infantry 2 and MAA 328 Emigre Troops in British Service, For additional notes regarding hussar uniforms see MAA Napoleon's Hussars, Prussian Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars 1 and Historie and Collections 5 French Hussars #1 From the Ancien regime to the Empire)
Excelentenly explained and referenced Bravo! Thanks for that. It's just the info I wanted but fining that online is a real pain.
All the peices of the puzzel fall into place and it makes perfect sense. :)
Readin about the poor Hompsech's Hussars is interesting… Hompsech sold the poor bastards to the Britsh to work as marines basically, they went off to the West Indies to fight the French there and keep plantations in order, defending against rebel slaves. It never realy occurs to you how global the Nepolionic wars actually were!
THEY were the real first world war. With conflict related to it in the Americas, in the west indies, in North Africa… with troops on stanby defendin ports even in Australia! Probably in South east asia too… I dunno.
I once heard an American historian refer to the nepolionic wars as the "European civil war", (must have been the history chanel), and the shere idiocy of that statement has stayed with me ever since.
Maybe the French Revolutionary Wars could be termed a European civil war but not the conflict after 1800 or so once Napoleon was head of state.
As far as the true FIRST World War? Try the Seven Years War (The American French and Indian War) It started in America then extended to Europe and fighting took place in Africa and Asia especailly India. You saw a major conflict in America at the same time as Frederick the Great fighting Russia and Austria and the British in Flanders and a siege of Gibraltar. Even the American War of Independence can lay claim to world wide fighting once France, Spain and Holland joined the war.
It's ridiculous how American History often removes Europe from the equation after 1783 and especially after 1812. It somehow thinks that American history was unique and the Monroe Doctrine and Washington's no entangling alliances somehow made the Atlantic Ocean an inpenetable wall of seperation between the continents. The Napoleonic Wars had an American element and the War of 1812 should be considered a part of them as the American Quasi War with France was part of the French Revolutionary Wars.
You'd be surprised- some people DO have their eyes on that list! It's great to see some movement on there now! ^_^
I can't beleive we finally have Drunk Duck back! Waaaa! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Bravo- I was thinking more of war that was related in the comonality of the foe; the French and their allies in this instance. Was that the case with those earler conflicts?
The nepolionic wars were pretty unified in purpose… Though if I think about it, the earlier wars with the Spanish, French, English etc were pretty wide spread around the world.
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I was SO sick yesterday. Vomiting up spaghetti is once of the worst things… Strings of spaghetti hanging out your nose… OMG so effing gross!!!!!!!! It hides between your lips and gums… everywhere. UGH!!
The extreme hot weather evaporates all the liquid from the mucas in my face and that damn stuff clogs the poorly developed sinus passages in my cheek like gluey corking filler, then swells and gives me terrible sinus pain and then the lord of all migraines with unrelenting head pain, vomiting and nausea.
The only saving grace was that it was relatively short lived, unlike my usual migraines.
Currently making sure to prevent a reoccurance, taking sinus med and snorting saline water. Take that you sinus bastards!!!!!!!
It was 44C yesterday… that's 111.2 F. Not nice. That's solid dry, oven heat, which can feel a bit easier on the body initially than the solid humidity type heat, but it's worse in other ways in that it physically dries out your body very fast, which is quite dangerous.
So while North America is dealing with the polar vortex thing, the land down under gets to deal with a heatwave?
The sidewalks here are covered with two inches of thick solid ice sheets. I think it is called black ice.
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On the plus side, McDonalds Happy Meals are now offering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figurines. I was so excited about it, I ended up getting Raphael. Now that I think about it, the turtles personalities do not match at all with the original Renaissance painters.
In the original song: Leonardo leads; Donatello does machines; Raphael is cool, but rude; Michelangelo is a party dude.
In reference to the Renaissance: Donatello leads (he was born one century before the other three painters); Leonardo da Vinci did machines; Michelangelo was cool, but rude; Raphael was a party dude.
ozoneocean wrote:The earlier wars were all united in purpose. One alliance against the other with the main players being France, Spain and Britain. In fact the unifying element of the the French Revoultionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars was Britain against France. Everyone else came and went and even switched sides but it always remained Britain versus France just like the Seven Years War and American Revolution (which the French considered a re-fight of the Seven Years War to restore their own dignity after their horrible defeat. And ironically(?) the Seven Years War and Napoleonic Wars share a unity in British leadership; father and son Pitt as Prime Mnister and George III as monarch albeit with the Regency offically after 1811)
@Bravo- I was thinking more of war that was related in the comonality of the foe; the French and their allies in this instance. Was that the case with those earler conflicts?
The nepolionic wars were pretty unified in purpose… Though if I think about it, the earlier wars with the Spanish, French, English etc were pretty wide spread around the world.
I was SO sick yesterday. Vomiting up spaghetti is once of the worst things… Strings of spaghetti hanging out your nose… OMG so effing gross!!!!!!!!The last time I threw up (twenty-five years ago now?) It was spaghetti. Never forget that. So much I vowed never again. I really feel for you.
Climate Change equals = severe intense weather events in both hemispheres. Not just warming up. Global warming is a misnomer because it ain't just warming, that's a global trend but not the whole story. Yeech. There can even be intense fluctuations in the polar ice sheets like thick pack ice in summer on one pole and little pack ice in winter at the other. We're missing the whole picture saying global warming. It's worse than that.
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