Pulled my bike apart todaymanaged to put it most of it back. Not able to get most of the grease stains out of my hands.
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ayesinback wrote:
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Woot and YAY: We’re officially Drunk Ducks once again!
Not… quite… yet… I still want the old name back too. :)
Awesome sound effect Ayes! ^_^
Lonne- We'll always be drunkduck to us!
Bravo- I think the fact that the overall climate change is on a warming trend is what causes all that other stuff to go haywire. So it's not a misnomer, it's just that people wrongly associate "warming" and "climate" with weather, which is only a tiny subset of climate.
A little like creationists confusing evolution with the origin of life in a way.
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I vomit now more than I used to when I get miragines. They get worse as I get older. Could be time to see about getting the sinus drilled out… If that stops the pain I get I don't mind risking my sense of taste and smell.
ozoneocean wrote:Now THAT is most certainly true. :)
Lonne- We'll always be drunkduck to us!
Warning: girly rant following.
Man, boobs suck sometimes. I was at a botanical garden with my family during the summer and just wearing a casual sundress, and of course now in the nice family photos I feel like I'm showing too much cleavage. Seems like I basically have to wear shirts right up to my neck to avoid that, which is not flattering or comfortable in real life (especially in the summer).
HippieVan wrote:Just some "disturbing" evolutionary biology I learned long ago about "boobs". The more primitive primates present themselves by showing their rear ends to each other. Apparently that part of the modern female human's body evolved itself to look just like that to attract more males…
Warning: girly rant following.
Man, boobs suck sometimes. I was at a botanical garden with my family during the summer and just wearing a casual sundress, and of course now in the nice family photos I feel like I'm showing too much cleavage. Seems like I basically have to wear shirts right up to my neck to avoid that, which is not flattering or comfortable in real life (especially in the summer).
Yes, I'm an insane old guy (even though I'm supposedly only 43 years of age this year).
Still, I'd be a pain to deal with all that weight in the front. Don't know how true this is, but I remember reading some famous tennis star who wanted a reduction, but a lot of her male fans were crying out against it. Ugh…
Insomnia and Narcelepsy are both hitting me… Insomnia when I'm not at work, Narcalepsy while at work. Or is it my body trying to force me back into a more "natural" sleep schedule? I do work graveyard after all…
And for those who do cooking, I have one question…. When making fried chicken, why do they keep sticking to the pan? And how do I keep it from flailing about while I'm trying to fry it? (don't worry… the flailing question is a joke as I'd never do that to a living chicken). :)
"Man, boobs suck" hahaha! My brain orders those words differently ^_^
I saw Anchorman 2 the other day and it was a hue disapointment! Very bad movie. Just a series of comedy skits mainly, not a well structured movie. Most of the scenes seemed to have been larely improvised and done badly. It reaminded me of the old "airplane" movies when the sequels started to get really shit because they just threw too much in there hoping some would stick.
The structure is loose, flabby, and bloated…
The only good parts were the critique of he 24 hour shit news and what that did to news as a whole (but that was almost lost in the mediocrity of the rest of the movie), and the rehash of the fight of he news stations… though I think that whole concept was stolen completely originaly from a spoof series on Youtube about Yacht Rock bands… but it was the best part of the film regardless.
HippieVan wrote:As far as cleavage? Shawls. Keep it down onthe shoulders for comfort (and don't want freckled shoulders do we?), out comes the camera and it's a modesty cover-up.
Warning: girly rant following.
Man, boobs suck sometimes. I was at a botanical garden with my family during the summer and just wearing a casual sundress, and of course now in the nice family photos I feel like I'm showing too much cleavage.
Then there's you friendly neighborhood photo editor. I've been tasked with editing my family pictures lately because my sister will always have her eyes closed. So I've been painting in eyes for her. Fun. And with all the techniques to avoid redeye it's made a come-back with these cell cameras. Its like going back to whe worst of Polaroid cameras because it has to be instant and you can use my phone… and why are all the pictures crappy? "I have Photoshop and can fix that…"
What you want me to carry around my nice camera and waste valuable space on family pictures? No I have a webcomic to do dammit! I don't care if no one reads it! I have pictures to take…
Painting eyes? Soooo hard to avoid Mont Python Terry Gillain animation eyes that way :(
I tend to cut a similar eye from another pic and mod it for purpose instead.
Rewatching the Sharpe series some things occour to me. Repetative thematic problems-
- it's pretty mysongynist. Women are always victims, even the few strong characters. There backstories are usually full of rapes and beatings and their present is usally full of that threat. Women are ususally simple domestic creatures, ingenues who need protecting, or scheming bitches. There's only one or two exceptions.
- Sharpe gets more "northen" as he goes… talking like some sort of primitive farmer at some stages…
- The continunity is uneven, with Major Ducco and Henry Simerson coming back from the dead.
- All English British officers apart from Wellington and his spys are 100% useless, evil, stupid, incompetant, foppish idiots unless they're junior to Sharpe and he can knock that out of them, and when he does they always die heroically shortly afterwards.
-Any superior English British officers that Sharpe likes are always bastards who betray him.
-All women automatically want to have sex with him on the spot.
- The class warefare stuff is played up on and on and on again. I know that WAS an issue back then and it is still even now but this is fiction and Sharpe's character doesn't change in response to that preasure, it's just the same thing repeated over and over.
- Add to the class and uselss officer problems: ALL uperclass English people are evil and all lowerclass are good honest salt of the earth who say what they mean and have hearts of solid gold… unless they happen to be evil sergents. Sergents are always evil.
- Scotish people are always absoloutely great at everything.
Henry Simmerson doesn't come back from the dead. He was never killed. Most of the changes were done for TV production. They really made everything black and white while dramatizing the books. They also cut several American characters and most of the good officers that are in the books. The only good officer they kept was Frederickson and that's because the actor agreed to come back. They also cut the allies of the French in the Penninsula. Those lancers in the first episodes were actually Poles.
And the misogyny is endemic in many historical dramas. Can hardly get away from it.
But many of the generalizations are… (gulp) borne out by the historical record. They were common occurances but did not happen every time as in the series. Read Wellington's dispatches or the Horse Guards reports or the musings of his staff officers as well as Rifleman a book about the 95th Rifles and any number of histories of the Penninsula wars. Yeech, it's all verifiable and in the historical record, even every Scotsman being kick-ass cool… well maybe not that far, every other Scotsman being kick-ass cool…
To read Wellington's dispatches one would think every officer was an idiotic class driven fool and all officers from the ranks too to drink because they couldn't get anywhere but that's only his Lordship's penchant for hyperbole says I ever quick with the repartee…
As for Sean Bean's Yorkshire accent it caused the entire origin of Sharpe to be adjusted in the books. He was originally a Londoner, but it changed to a Northern orphan who ends up in London. It was just too popular. Even his hair color was changed in the later books to match Sean Bean.
It's not quite logical that every single English British officer who is superior to Sharpe is garbage, not historically correct either, or Britain would be France today and Wellington would be dead in India.
I believe you that the class and what not was an issue, I've read that myself, but they were certainly not all universally completey useless. The TV writers were recycling a trope there and using it for Sharpe's class warfare angle.
That was very interesting info on Bean's influence on the written version. He really does change to be a lot more northern and old fashioned as he goes.
Simerson is badly cut up and gutted by the Irish priest in Sharpe's Sword, where he also admits to betraying them to the French fort. Later in Sharpe's Regiment (I think it's called), he's healthy as if nothing happened in Britain and welcome at Horse Guards… Major Ducco is killed by French deserters in the episode where he captures Sharpe after a clever plot…
But he's back alive again in the episode where Sharpe captures a castle with Frederickson in Bordeaux.
But Sir Henry wasn't killed. He was toyed with and humiliated but not killed. And since he has those powerful friends willing to cover up for him, they did. One of his friends was probably that thorn in Wellington's side; Banastre Tarleton. Now that was one facinating career. There should be about a year between Sword and Regiment where Sir Henry got to recover. But the TV series really compressed the time.
Ducco is slippery enough that one could believe he'd find a way just short of dying and connive his way out. Of all the parade of actresses (After Assumptia Serna) in the Sharpe series only Alice Krige gives as good as she gets. But that juicy part was cut short from the way it was in the books.
What is really sad about the series is the short shrift given to Thersea (Assumptia Serna). Her entire marraige with Sharpe vanishes in the ellipses of the time compression in the TV series. In the books there's Talevera in 1809 and lots of other stuff. The series has Talevera in Sharpe's Eagle and then compresses every other episode into 1813. Almost makes me want to just watch the first four movies then to skip Honour and Sword and then to Waterloo. Bernard Cornwell expressed a similar preference when iterviewed on the History Channel about the series on Movies in Time.
The idiocy of the British officer corps in the Napoleonic era was often the result of hyperbole in Wellington's reports. But then you figure most everyone in Britain in the early 19th Century was an idiot compared to Wellington or at least it really looked that way once he stepped into the room. Is it that he's so much smarter or is it that everyone else was so much dumber? But then idiotic upper class British officers ia a huge cliche across everything British from Python to Black Adder so maybe we can see the jibes the Sharpe series takes at them as more of the same.
Well the TV version didn't do a very good version of showing him not killed…
Theresa was a truly great character in the show because that actor was fantastic! I agree with you, skipping past everything all the way to 2013 feels a bit flat… and Sharpe seeming to rocket straight to major rank so fast because of it really takes away from that really difficult achievement. He struggles to get confirmed as Captain and just making captain is a huge deal in the show, but blink and he's a major.
I like the self critique by Evelyn Waugh in his semi-autobographical account of expereinces of WW2 in his Sword of Honour Triology. His proxy, Guy Crouchback, is the quintessential useless upperclass Britsih officer who's given command anyway, due to his connections.
ozoneocean wrote:Nah, you just did a really bad job of watching. I looked all over the fan and wiki about Sharpe and there's no mention of it only that he was humiliated.
Well the TV version didn't do a very good version of showing him not killed…
Did you notice that the rifles commander killed in Rifles comes back as the Prince Regent in Regiment? How about the parade of actors who went onto do other bigger stuff later on including Elizabeth Hurley, James Purefoy, Paul Bettany, Alexis Denisof among others. Rewatching Sharpe's Waterloo there was Paul Bettany doing "silly billy" (bare arse and all) and do pretty well on a character that Bondarchuk's Waterloo nearly totally ignores (he appears in the background at the Duchess of Richmond's ball and that's it) James Purefoy really nailed Spears in Sword. And then there's the sexy Alexis Denisof as Rossendale. I remind female friends of this and they rush off the see the series. Especially Sharpe's Waterloo where Sharpe makes him wet his pants at the Duchess of Richmond's ball. By the way the portrayal of the Ball is far more accurate in Sharpe's Waterloo than in the Bondarchuk movie though it is doubted by some if Wellington ever admitted to being humbugged. One theory was that he actually said he was buggered and it was changed to humbugged to clean it up.
Let me just tease that I have one full script and several ideas for a Sharpe tribute comic. I have figures for most of the primary players like Thersea, Sharpe, Harper, the Chosen men and a selection of South Essex and Froggies (including hussars) so who knows The Duck may see Bravo doing Sharpe's Dragon…
A coworker gives me this movie to watch called "She's Out of my League". It's about this somewhat average TSA agent guy who's got this bad track record at dating. He had a girlfriend who broke up with him a while ago and some good friends who don't think much of him either.
So while at work he meets this georgous woman. His friends/coworkers try to flirt with her (including his boss) and he's the only person who is polite with her. After returning her phone to her (and helpng with an incident at a party), the woman is clearly attracted to him.
Cue his friends who think he's luckier than he deserves trying to break the two up, an exgirlfriend who feels so upstaged by the woman that she vows to take back the man she dumped, the georgeous woman's exboyfriend who declares the same for the woman, and the man's family who also don't approve of this budding relationship between an average guy and a very successful woman. The one thing that's really a threat is this guy's insecurities because he can't believe his luck.
And the actress playing the female lead? Alice Eve. The male lead character's name? Kirk. Guess which Star Trek movie Alice Eve stars in and the name of that movie's male lead? :)
As for the movie… that's one very unlikely situation. :)
@Bravo- Great idea for a comic! The Brits have some great Hussar gear, appart from their crappy skinny busbies… no one beats the French elites with their proud colpacks! The Brits do go a bit mad on the amount of lace on occasion though… They must have been an extremely wealthy army to afford all that! Way more decorated hussar uniforms than any other country. Even I find it a touch overboard. D:
I haveven't seen Sharpe's challange yet but I saw the making of vid, and Sharpe's dolman has lost its appeal there. It's a later version with about 200 buttons. Doesn't look anywhere near as good as the old one, which bean actually owns and has at home himself, along with his sword from the series. :)
I've seen Simison's gutting twice now and it's pretty bad. A couple of cuts and he's crying and whimpering, and then a final gut stab where the sword is really rammed in and Henry crawls away on his belly bleeding. It wasn't just a humiliation,
With the actors, Elizibeth Hurly showed her tits, the only woman who did I think, and of course there's a Pre-bond Danial Craig as another sadistic rapist vilian… with a very young, pretty-boy face.
I didn't realise that about the Prince Regent, he looked too young! :)
…and a lot fatter…
Michael Cochrane as Simerson plays that character so masterfully unlikeably! And in reality he seems to be a really lovely guy. He's a real stalwart of the British acting establisment. He's been in everything and a gazllion radio plays, even the Archers… probably still is in there I think.
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@Lonne -It's not unlikley. Beautiful women are atracted to average and even hidious uys all the time, same with the other way around.
Haha, that reminds me of the lyrics to the Joe Jackson song, Is She Really Going Out With Him?
"Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street"
and:
"Here comes Jeanie with her new boyfriend
They say that looks don't count for much
If so, there goes your proof"
I saw that filmon the flight over the the US in 2010… it was dopey but I liked it, probably helped that it was a lot about airports and things so I idendtified with it at the time! Then a year or so later I saw it cheap at the DVD shop, so I just HAD to buy it! I still really HATE that scene where she dry humps him and he ejaculates in his pants, and the dog tries to lick it and then that whole crap happens with her parents suddenly coming over… ugggh!!!!
I watched She's Out Of My League because Jay Baruchel had promise, but they made him look less than a "five" next to webbed toe girl that it took years after that movie and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (gag) for me to place him on the good ladder. He finally redeemed himself in This Is the End last summer.
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Well, the Golden Globes Award Show just ended, which means I have a grip of movies to catch up on that I missed last year. I finally got around to watching American Hustle and it made me really regret that I missed the 1970s. There were plenty of BeeGees songs in the soundtrack and the set designs and make up/hair stylists were a class act. In fact, I seriously started thinking about which wallpaper style I would use for a 1970s style room in my next apartment. I never thought in a million years that I would consider wallpaper because that was what we had in my childhood home, but I love the colors! They have this Art Nouveau Revival quality to the style.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
I watched She's Out Of My League because Jay Baruchel had promise, but they made him look less than a "five" next to webbed toe girl that it took years after that movie and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (gag) for me to place him on the good ladder. He finally redeemed himself in This Is the End last summer.
I've had a bit of a thing for Jay Baruchel since he was in The Trotsky. I think it's mostly because I have such a crush on the real Trotsky, though. (I know that's a little bit weird. Do other history students get historical crushes? I don't know.)
ozoneocean wrote:
Beautiful women are atracted to average and even hidious uys all the time, same with the other way around.
It's pretty darn rare to see it the other way around in tv/movies, though, which is a bit irritating.
Great. Now I can see why my Loser/Unlucky Sim Eric Rezol (from The Sims 3) ended up in several relationships when I accidentally left the game running one night while at work. -_-
Another subject…
Don't you hate it when this happens? Long ago one Transformers character impressed me more than any other. No, it's not that robot truck, and it's not the leader of the evil faction that fights that robot truck. It's actually…
A giant planet eating robot. That guy's voice scared me when I first heard it. He sounded like what he should sound like…. a powerful yet bored godlike being who spoke with little emotion. And when he does speak with emotion, you can feel that emotion despite his speaking in a deadpan manner. Of course it helps that Unicron was voiced by Orson Welles. I think it was him anyway…
Unicron then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzNsOGt3bHk
Unicron recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCKsuI_QPjw
Since then the quality of his voice has gone down from there. Sometimes Unicron is just a feral beast. Othertimes he's a da**ed fop acting all superior to everyone else and being totally overt about it. Didn't sound like the evil, terrible diety of destruction I remembered from teh 80's movie. Makes me wonder where the quality voice acting went… and it's the same with all these anime aimed at kids…
I find that these days I like most people that I meet, but there's a guy in one of my classes who has just completely gotten off on the wrong foot with me. He seems like a middle school bully who never quite outgrew his obnoxiousness.
Today I was talking and laughing with a friend of his before class started and this guy came up and basically inserted himself into the conversation, making no effort to include me. It looked a bit like jealousy, actually. The most irritating part is that we were talking about a group project at the time so it was kind of an important conversation. -_-
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I made what I think is a pretty good DD Awards wrap-up newspost for tomorrow, so I hope you all like it! :)
I didn't have time to make a nice picture for it, unfortunately.
After watching the Out of my League movie a few times I'm left wondering…
So the guy's girlfriend dumped him and he keeps hoping they'll hook up again, and she doesn't want to. Now all of a sudden a woman more gorgeous than her show interest in her exboyfriend, and now all of a sudden she feels the need to take him back.
Is it because she suddenly cares for him, or is it a competition thing? And making him fly away from her rival is a bit extreme if that's how she's supposed to win.
I hope not all women react that way… Then again I'm not exactly a social butterfly so such things can be a mystery to me.
*sigh* Losing my father is a very scary prospect. He's supposedly got less than six months. And he's asking me to marry (I think he's joking as he's aware that I have no prospects). All I can do now is to help keep his spirits up and ensure he's comfortable. Cancer is a very nasty thing and I wouldn't want to wish that on anyone. :(
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