Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[nachomama]

seahorses and platypus are definitely creatures that seem made up, sci fi, kangaroos too

[diebartdie]

So you guys, I have to share something with y'all. I am completely thrilled about this, I haven't had a gig like this in far too long. It is official now, I am MC for a music festival here in my town! This is AMAZING!!!! OK, here's my official announcement and picture.

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Please welcome our master of ceremonies (MC) for the festivities during Springtopia II, Annie's Beard and her Talented Troupe. Cosmically inclined towards fun, their guiding principle is "the faster we go, the rounder we get.”

[AngelaHunter]

4 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

"Blazing Saddles" was shown on one of the cable channels not that long ago.  It just isn't the same when they edit the damn thing to death.

There must be a bunch of millennials editing these things. They might not know or understand what anything they're watching means, but if it's not generic and totally harmless it must be edited out just in case there's even a minute chance it could possibly offend any person, animal or invertebrate on the planet in any way, shape or form. 

I watched "Jason and the Argonauts" a while ago. The carved breasts on the crudely made ship's figurehead (which was of course fine for young audiences in 1963) were blurred out(!!) Yes, even a rough wooden carving might "trigger" someone, or drive them into a sexual frenzy, so get rid of it. Who the hell is responsible for this insanity?

[nachomama]

5 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

I watched "Jason and the Argonauts" a while ago. The carved breasts on the crudely made ship's figurehead (which was of course fine for young audiences in 1963) were blurred out(!!) Yes, even a rough wooden carving might "trigger" someone, or drive them into a sexual frenzy, so get rid of it. Who the hell is responsible for this insanity?

Mike Pence came to town and they had to cover the breasts of the caryatids on our  capitol, THEY'RE COVERED!!!! Like Greek women carrying pots on their heads FULLY CLOTHED and 65 feet in the air (not 65 foot breasts but 65 feet up that you most assuredly wouldn't be seeing up close) nairy a nipple in sight but that potato head had to have them covered!

In high school English they showed us the original Romeo and Juliet and I guess they had to edit that because there was "low hanging fruit" during their love scene. not sure if it was actual nudity or accidental "droopage" but too steamy for us.

Blazing Saddles was on tv at work the other day which is on in another room but I told myself go home and find it and record it since I've never seen the thing in it's entirety if it's on AMC or whatever channel you know they show it 3 times a day. NOPE could not find a re-airing of it on my cable. I was annoyed.

I'm watching "The Umbrella Academy" on Netflix, me likey.

[AngelaHunter]

AMC is showing "Fatal Attraction" tonight. Guess there won't much left of it after content editing to remove all sex and bad words. 🤣

Probably be something like "The Sopranos on PAX TV": 

"I hate that fitch!"

Edited April 7, 2019 by AngelaHunter

[Nashville]

FYI - Phase 1 of my latest “project”:

My guy did all the b&w in this Friday’s sitting.  Phase 2 (coloring it in) will be in about 6 weeks from now; the skin needs a little time to recover.  🙂 

[Nashville]

On 3/28/2019 at 2:57 PM, nachomama said:

Hopefully you've got that all squared away

Oh yeah.  I’d gone in to my GP’s office for my annual physical (which necessarily includes a PSA test), and it came back something like 15x my last previous PSA test value.  This alarmed my urologist juuussst a tad, so he drew some more blood and had the test rerun.  Turns out whoever entered the test result from my physical’s blood draw had apparently put a decimal point in the wrong place; test result was something like .68 instead of 6.8 - BIG difference, that.  😄

[Iguessnot]

2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Decades is showing a marathon of "Mannix" today all day and all night, and next weekend (Saturday and Sunday) they are showing a marathon of "The Greatest American Hero".

Ahh, the land yachts.

[Nashville]

9 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

The AMC version was gutted like a fish.  Not close to the original unedited content.

Unless you either (a) catch it on a premium movie channel or (b) buy the DVD, don’t expect to ever see an un-gutted version of BS ever again.

8 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

How long do you have to wait before they continue with the process?

About four weeks minimum; about this time next month I’m going to be out of town at Epicenter, though, and he’s willing to adjust his schedule to be back in Nashville a week or so after that.

8 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Do they have to use certain colors first and then other colors later?

In split sessions usually the heaviest black and gray work (borders and shading) are done in the first session, with color work coming later.

[Nashville]

4 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I have heard that tattoos fade a little bit, is there anything that they can do to prevent that  (enhance the color and definition)?

If the colors fade significantly over time, then an artist can generally come back in and do a “touch-up” to punch up the color brightness some - assuming, of course, the tattoo was properly done in the first place.  Things like way-too-thick borders “fuzz” into surrounding tissue and get even wider over time, leaving the artist little uncompromised skin upon which to apply new ink.

So far as what the tattoo recipient can do in terms of maintaining the original color...?  Sunscreen and plenty of it, whenever the tattoo(s) will be exposed to direct sunlight. The  UV radiation in sunlight breaks down tattoo inks quicker than anything else.

[nachomama]

God apparently doesn't like how my sister sorts laundry either, fired...again. First the biscuits and gravy now laundry. Seriously, she's stupid like Steve Martin in "The Jerk" but not in a funny way or where he accidently invents something that earns him big money. She lives on a planet all her own.

[Mu Shu]

I have seen Bridesmaids at least 20 times.  That movie really needs a sequel.

whqt is primetimer?  When did it happen?

[AngelaHunter]

42 minutes ago, Mu Shu said:

whqt is primetimer?  When did it happen?

I saw it for the first time this morning.

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Previously.TV has teamed up with TV Tattle and some other familiar faces to form Primetimer. What's this mean for the forums? Beyond the new header and a move to the primetimer.com domain later this week, nothing! Same great forums, new name. Thanks in advance for your patience while we work out any kinks along the way. Onward!

[nachomama]

I'm always fearful of change...

[Nashville]

https://youtu.be/1TtGQnyPZ6g

[nachomama]

Yesterday was a terrible no good day on epic proportions. Maybe not epic. Some dumb little girl ran her car into my car, or rather zipped out of a side street and I slammed on my brakes to avoid her but there was scrape-age. She's all "I can't see around that corner" I'm all "thats why you approach with caution and don't plow into the middle of the road" There was no damage so we went on our separate ways. Then I get a nosebleed. I've had a nosebleed about once a week for about 3 weeks now. Someone suggested could be high blood pressure, I do have an appointment with my dr in about a month. anywho, this won't stop. 4 times I'm back and forth to the bathroom dabbing and plugging. They finally tell me go to a doctor see what's up. Doctor says it doesn't look like it requires packing because at that point it had stopped. He gave me a nasal spray that's supposed to constrict vessels and did put me on a light blood pressure medicine although he said blood pressure would have to be over 200-225 to cause nosebleed. it was 175 at the beginning of the appointment (yes higher than one would like but not nosebleed seats) and it was down to 150 by the time i left. So after I get my prescriptions it starts up again. Now it looks like a crime scene. non stop. I go to a "minute clinic" around the corner, maybe now is the time for "packing" she tells me go to emergency room. I stop at my house to change my shirt, Dexter would have been very excited at how much blood there was. I manage to get it to stop, pack it myself (really beautiful job) my boss tells me don't come back to work.

I was suppsed to go to a birthday party after work, I got a haircut and new boots just for it. and I couldn't go. But I did watch most of season 1 of Killing Eve so I'm caught up. But I'm still pissed and I'm still packed and it's a minor trickle but what in the ever livin fuck did I do???????????

[Nashville]

Has your doctor ever checked your iron levels? When we were both younger, my old lady started getting nosebleeds at the drop of a hat.  Her blood pressure was always fine - but her iron levels were chronically low, which the doc said could be making her borderline anemic.  He put her on an iron supplement, and the nosebleeds stopped.

[nachomama]

I will look into that. the first one I just spun around real quick to grab something for my boss and whoosh! yesterday I bent over to put envelopes in the bottom tray and whoosh!

[Mu Shu]

Since I am in my new job six months, we have lost 1/3 of our small staff.  Another one fired yesterday.  I will get the bulk of her claims, as I have the lowest claim count.  I have the lowest count because I close the most.  If I get 6 new claims and close 8, that means my count goes down.  They say it’s not fair to give the others with high claim counts many.  They have high claim counts because they don’t close.  Simple math.  So who actually works harder?  God I can’t deal with stupid people who think it’s better to have a shit load of unfinished work rather than to pump the work out every day.

[nachomama]

That's how most jobs go though, the longer you're there, the less you care. I don't say that it's right and I don't say that it's up to every individual to tackle each day/job with the most vigor but after a while working for the man and soon there isn't enough money in the world to get you to do stuff. Very, VERY high turnover at the place I just started 6 months ago...day 1 you're like "these people suck, I'm a rock star" because seriously a monkey can do this. 6 months later you realize whatever amount of effort you put in there's just an endless shitstorm right behind it. And you are but a cog in the wheel, if you are still the best employee they have and all you need is your butt in a seat and a pulse then the minimum starts looking good. I say this as a person who keeps showing up, still tries my darndest and has the world's dumbest sister who in the same 6 month period has lost 3 jobs.

I guess my brain has decided not to bleed out through my nose, after 3 days I'm dried up. Still using my spray and being cautious and I'll take the iron etc. in order to not ever get here again.

[OoohMaggie]

Its time at last, I’ll have to stay up until 2am, but at least we get to see it when the US does, I remember feeling this excited about TWD , it’s been a while.

🗡⚔️🛡⚔️🗡

Edited April 14, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[OoohMaggie]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

I don't get HBO.  I have never watched Game of Thrones.   Is that one of those series where they kill off a lot of animals? 

Quite a few chickens, the odd wolf or two, oh and a Dragon, although the Dragon was reanimated, the show’s speciality is in killing people, lots and lots of people.                                             One of the characters was referred to as the ‘Onion Knight’ which is about as close as the show gets to ‘vegetables’ 🥕🥕

Edited April 14, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[nachomama]

I would be exceedingly happy if the Onion Knight did indeed win the Game of Thrones, I adore him.

[Nashville]

8 hours ago, nachomama said:

I would be exceedingly happy if the Onion Knight did indeed win the Game of Thrones, I adore him.

Davos, Bronn and Arya (not necessarily in that order) are my Top Three favorite characters in the TV series.

[raven]

Remember not to discuss major plot points of other TV shows here unless they are under spoiler tags.  Not everyone watches the same shows at the same time.

[OoohMaggie]

14 hours ago, Nashville said:

Davos, Bronn and Arya (not necessarily in that order) are my Top Three favorite characters in the TV series.

It’s hard picking only three, Bronn most definitely, you’ve got to love The Hound, Tormund, Brienne, Davos, Jaime, Tyrion, Thoros or Ser Jorah? It’s got to be Jorah for third by a neck.

Edited April 17, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[nachomama]

I ship Brienne and Tormund way bigger than anyone else. I would watch "Game of Brienne and Tormund Squabbling" for many seasons and they wouldn't need CGI dragons and such. Tyrion could drop in to drink and know things.

[OoohMaggie]

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

I would watch "Game of Brienne and Tormund Squabbling" for many seasons and they wouldn't need CGI dragons and such.

If we’re talking delectable duos, Bronn and Jaime with Arya and The Hound joining in would make quite the show, definitely no dragons required.

Edited April 17, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[nachomama]

I like Jaime and practically anyone but Cersei, as in I liked Jaime and Brienne gallavanting about the countryside, I like Tyrion and Jaime's brotherly bond, Jaime and Bronn for sure. Jaime aint that bad except when he's with Cersei pushing kids out of windows. well...that and incest.

[Nashville]

7 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

It’s hard picking only three, Bronn most definitely, you’ve got to love The Hound, Tormund, Brienne, Davos, Jaime, Tyrion, Thoros or Ser Jorah? It’s got to be Jorah for third by a neck.

IMHO these three, have done the best job of staying true to their character’s innate integrity (or lack thereof 😉 ) throughout the entire run of the series.

Don’t get me wrong, though; I enjoy many (most, even) of the characters, but for different reasons.  Take the Hound, for example: I appreciate his character  in much the same way Will Graham appreciated his adversary in Manhunter:

“My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to pursue trivial fantasies... As an adult, someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks.”

😄 

[OoohMaggie]

Two of the best shows ever, should of used Bert and Ernie!

Edited April 20, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[nachomama]

ok, I got a lady next to me at work with some serious mouth breathing going on. Like that I'm worried about, super shallow rapid breaths that just doesn't sound normal. I know I'm way outta shape and I huff and puff going up hill or downhill or sideways hill but sitting at a desk I think I breathe normal. (except for when I'm bleeding out through my nose and I got stuff shoved up there, which was me a week ago, I remember hearing my own breathing and wigging out about it.) I can't concentrate cuz I'm listening to her breathe.

[Nashville]

Maybe she has allergies? 😉

[nachomama]

I've been seeing him and he's a professional "gambler" isn't he? They're waiting to see if he beats Ken Jennings record

[nachomama]

If he gets the big money questions first and has a lot of money to wager when he hits those daily doubles then yes, he's working the system which is perfectly fair game play. I'm sure there were a lot of people who didn't like Ken Jennings because he "broke" the system as well, they had to institute a limit on the number of wins in a row. I'm sure he's already won more money than Ken Jennings but days in a row I'm not sure, but nope I don't weep for Jeopardy losing money. Just like if he was on a streak in the casino, they may watch him but as long as he doesn't count cards or have some other advantage, he can win as much as he wants.

[Nashville]

Well, the Preds are out of the playoffs.  Guess I can go back to shaving now.  I was getting pretty scruffy anyways.

[Nashville]

I have a memory bug, and I’m hoping y’all can help me shut it up.

I’m barely remembering a poem from a ways back about a once-powerful king who, as he got older, continued to revel in his past glory days; every night at the royal supper he’d insist all the stories told be recollections of his former mighty feats.  All I can remember of it were a couple of lines which went...

”...and a thousand times he won the battles,

and a thousand times he slew the slain.”

..or something like that.

Can anybody help me out in identifying the poem, please?  Please?

Edited April 23, 2019 by Nashville

[nachomama]

I don't know how to read...

[nachomama]

About this Item

Title

Fought all his battles o'er again and thrice he slew the slain / Mr. Bunbury, del. ; Js. Bretherton, f.

Summary

"An old military officer with a wooden leg describes his campaigns to two cronies..." (Source: George)

Contributor Names

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist

Created / Published

[England : Pubisher not named], Publish'd 1782 Jany. 1st.

Format Headings

Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1780-1790.

Engravings--1780-1790.

[Nashville]

Found it!  

The poem is “Alexander’s Feast”, by John Dryden.  This is the part which was stuck in my mind:

Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain:
 Fought all his battles o'er again;
And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.

Thank god, because that was driving me right up the fucking wall.

[nachomama]

I fought a snake 3 times yesterday! I'm housesitting and the dogs were going nuts so I go outside and they've cornered a snake. I dial up my friend since I've heard about the snakes before, rat snakes so not poisonous and she doesn't especially want them killed cuz out in the country they do keep mice population down...anywho just makes the dogs crazy. So she tells me lure the dogs inside and let snakey get away. So I do. Several hours later I let them back out, mr. snakey is gone, I see where he had caught a frog and had abandoned it. So next time I hear barking I do outside and I can't find one of the dogs. I call and call and I see mr. snakey under the porch. I stomp all around hollering for this dog and I think, oh lord, she's gonna be pissed I lost a dog. Then I hear the collar jangle. He's under the porch. then I think oh fuck it WASN'T harmless and the dog is all poisoned and dying and I'm gonna have to haul up my hero britches. So I go get a pool skimmmer and shove mr. snakey way to the back and yell for the dog to get in the house. So we huddle back in the house again to let mr. snakey beat a retreat. Several hours later AGAIN...they're barking again and now my other house sitter is home so she gets the pool skimmer and I get a broom and we tag team snakey and get him in the net and go throw him away from the dogs. We weren't quite sure if they'd killed him, he was moving but not a lot. But we checked a while later and he'd moved on from where we dumped him. The video is hilarious because she's at the other end of a 15 foot pole but keeps jumping in case he snaps at her (he's about 3 feet long) then she nearly clocked herself on the clothesline walking back from dumping the snake and she's all jumpy WHAT WAS THAT? yes the snake is 6 feet in the air now coming at you from above. I was laughing my ass off. I did the brave part, actually poking a half dead snake with a broom...only 4 feet bahahaha

then we watch GoT and I laughed at those chickens...pffft white walkers...I fought a snake!

Edited April 29, 2019 by nachomama

[nachomama]

Why do I keep screwing up my left big toe? Like 10 years ago I biffed it big time in a gravel parking lot and took off allllll the skin under my toe. It was horrendous...blood was filling up my shoe. I was driving a rental car and I wouldn't look down because I was freaking out that I'd be bleeding all over the car. About 2 years later, biffed it again crossing a street and jacked my toenail so hard, it was like immediately purple, took a year to fall off and then fell off again about a year later, like I hit it so hard I made it fall off twice?? I killed the father and the son toenail? It's still a funny shape, like it grew in more roundy where my other toe is kinda flatty. Couple weeks ago I stabbed myself, in the toe, with a stick. Just a stick. I guess it was kinda pointy and stuck like an arrow but I didn't think it was a big deal. For the life of me I cannot get the thing to heal. I keep ripping it open. You can't make a band aid stay on a toe! So I put cream on it or douse it with peroxide to make sure I don't die of an infection. I would seriously be the idiot that dies from a stubbed toe. I told Brenda (the other snake wrangler) that yes the snake is not poisonous but he can still bite and he'd bite me and I'd trip and bash in my skull on the porch. I can die from a non lethal snake, that's just who I am.

Because it's always my left toe, foot, or ankle, I've come to the conclusion that I'm crooked, one leg is longer or something and if it was a tiny bit longer I could only go around in circles but in the meantime it just makes me clumsy.

[nachomama]

I've seen the Avengers movie, no spoilers but I'll take dad-bod Thor. Nooooo problem with that.

[nachomama]

I have a date with John Cusack tonight. Pretty sure Diane Court dumped Lloyd Dobbler a long time ago and it shoulda been Corey all along. anyway...JOE LIES! JOE LIES! When he cries.

everybody chorus: It'll never be me, it'll never be me!

[AngelaHunter]

On 5/8/2019 at 8:40 AM, nachomama said:

I've seen the Avengers movie, no spoilers but I'll take dad-bod Thor. Nooooo problem with that.

I've never seen the movie, but please expound on that.

40 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I have a date with John Cusack tonight.

And that.

I don't get out much,  you see. 😁

[nachomama]

Thor gained some weight  in the movie. I'll take it.

I also don't get out much but John Cusack is going around the country showing movies and then you get a q&a. I'm not very brave so highly doubt I'd do it but if I did get up to speak I might tell him my "John Cusack story" from college. I been telling it for years. When I was in college he was in town filming "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and we all wanted to stalk him. One day I'm walking out of my apartment with my laundry basket, so you know I was looking extra special, and a car drives by. Mentally I think "he looks familiar, I wonder if he's in one of my classes?" and I keep going then SHAZAM I nearly drop my laundry basket, HOLY FUCKBALLS THAT'S JOHN CUSACK!

OR I considered getting up and asking if he'd kept in touch with the chick who played his sister in "Say Anything" (duh, his sister) you know just to be a shit. Failing that I might ask if he kept in touch with "Cliff" that be the kid in the trunk with him after the party in "Sixteen Candles" I figure he gets the same shit over and over so maybe he'd laugh. If you got good questions I can maybe send up my braver friend Brenda. (she of the snake wrangling)

[AngelaHunter]

3 hours ago, nachomama said:

Thor gained some weight  in the movie. I'll take it.

Are we given to understand that you don't care for the starved, washboard-abs, steroided look that men are supposed to attain now? Good. I thought I was the only one.  I look back at the movie idols of yesteryear. Not one of them posed in their underpants (ugh!) to show off the 0% fat, ripped bodies of today. Give me a man with some meat on his bones. Don't women of today want something to grab unto? Guess not. 

I like John Cusack and enjoyed most of his movies, even "Martian Child" which was not overly successful. I thought it was charming. My favorite movies of his are "1408" which I thought was quite a good horror movie, and for me, the top was "The Jack Bull". If you haven't seen it you might want to check it out. That was a TV movie and got low ratings on IMDB, but I've learned to ignore the opinions there. 

ETA: "Sixteen Candles": I loved that movie!

Edited May 15, 2019 by AngelaHunter

[nachomama]

They talked about both of those. The Jack Bull is one of his own favorites. It was an odd night. Movie was good, kinda hilarious watching with so many people and noticing so much stuff differently. As in I now identify with John Mahoney. They had a moderator woman who asked questions and then opened it up. Dear Lord they needed to screen these questions. Bunch of whackadoodles but we did get a couple good things out of it. He talked about working with Stephen Frears on "The Grifters" and how intimidated he was by Annette Benning and Anjelica Houston. He talked about Pushing Tin and Con Air. He tried to be delicate about his political activism, he said for him its not about "parties" but about human potential and whose doing rigtht for the whole. Most people were very rambly. One lady was a mortician and had to make a wax head and she made it based on Martin Blank (Gross Point Blank) and she prefaced it saying "I promise this is not weird" and he actually got a kick out of it. He clearly wanted her to have this head and unfortunately it was lost in the move south as in the heat and humidity melted it. but he asked several times during his story "where is the head" he wanted to see it. haha

Then the very last guy who wasn't going to get to ask his question because they had said "3 more" and he was just after that. He just lunged at the mic and started shouting "YOU ARE MY WIFE'S FAVORITE ACTOR AND IF I WAS ALLOWED TO ASK A QUESTION...BUT SINCE I'M NOT ALLOWED BECAUSE THEY JUST CUT IT OFF BUT IF I WAS ALLOWED TO ASK I'D ASK HOW COME YOU GET TO BE 52 YEARS OLD AND HAVE NO WIFE AND NO CHILDREN BUT I DON'T HAVE TO ASK BECAUSE YOU ARE A ROCK STAR WHOOOOOOOOO" like his Rick Flair moment. It was very alarming.

[nachomama]

One girl said he was the "body" in Stand By Me. HE WAS NOT RAY BROWARD! Omg he was Wil Wheaton's dead brother in a flashback.

He talked about baseball, he's huge into baseball.

I had remembered a lot of the cameos from Say Anything (they weren't cameos at the time just people who weren't famous yet) Eric Stolz is the party guy (Rooster?) and I remembered that but I noticed for the first time in the credits that he was a production assistant on the movie. I knew Jason Gould was the goofy drunk kid who can't remember where he lives. I knew Bebe Neuwirth was the guidance counselor. I had forgotten that Chyna Phillips was the evil Mimi who Joe can't break up with.

He talked about working with his sister. He says he calls her cuz he knows he can get her to work cheap (big laugh) and she always acts like she's not gonna show up and she's too busy but she shows up and sometimes says the lines they write and sometime not but whatever comes out is always pure gold. In High Fidelity he says "Come on down, it's in Chicago just walking into the bar, 2 minutes" she walks him calls him a fucking asshole and he says she shoulda been nominated for an oscar.

[Nashville]

John Cusack has been one of my favorites for years - his sisters as well, especially Joan.