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Post by scubar on Jan 10, 2022 10:27:45 GMT
Hello all,
Not dead. Busy and important.
Preferred Mammal is really very sick, has been hit hard by pregnancy, struggling to eat and drink and spends most of her time trying to sleep it off. She’s currently waiting for a call back from the dr for more anti-sickness drugs.
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 10, 2022 10:39:34 GMT
My boy is five, and hasn’t watch any of the Marvel films. Because he’s five. Saying that, his best friend at school has seen most of them. And he has the cold dead eyes of a pet torturer. Morning all! Partner had a bit of a covid scare yesterday due to her friend testing positive for it. The friend she’s sat next to on Saturday at the boy’s athletics. So she isolated herself in the bedroom yesterday, despite a negative LFT. She’s tested herself again this morning, negative once more, so has now given herself the run of the house. Boyblog: he had his first swimming lesson yesterday, and did really well! He was incredibly excited about it, both before and after. Conversely, I was really worried - a combination of going to a leisure centre (haven’t been in twenty years), the covid rules there, where to park etc. TVblog: finished Toast of Tinseltown last night. Mad, utterly mad. Rumblog: started a bottle of Mount Gay Black Barrel. My god, it’s good. 4* When my boy turned 5 he was still into Frozen, he now has a strict policy of not wanting to watch anything that isnt at least a little bit scary. With the exception of the Trolls movies, to which he will do full sing along performances to. Hilda on Netflix is watchable if your boy hasnt seen it yet.
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Post by gongfarmer on Jan 10, 2022 11:08:07 GMT
Is it too early for a beer?
Morning
PM at work so fancied a pootle round flight sim. Wondering if i'll still feel like it after the 34G download has completed. I've done all 3 bins, cooked chicken for dogs dinners, washed up AND dried/tidied, and it is still only 56% downloaded.
At this rate i'm going to have to tackle the mould spot on the ceiling.
OTTM - an old mate of mine passed away a couple of weeks ago, and i've just been told the funeral is just after my eye-op, so i won't be able to see/drink/wear mask, or drive the 100 mile round trip.
Bugger - i'm having that beer.
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Post by lazybones on Jan 10, 2022 11:12:08 GMT
Marvel films don't seem so inappropriate for a five year old.
With the exception of Venom.
I've never seen it ...
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Post by Felice Landry on Jan 10, 2022 11:17:19 GMT
Wordle 205 6/6
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and I had to ask the Pref.Mam. who got it straight away.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jan 10, 2022 11:20:27 GMT
Anyway, the teacher got a bit worried about this top quality content and the headteacher got involved and both his mum and I got called in about it and they had to do an 'official report'. We went along with it for an easy life but really was thinking all these other awful children are total snowflakes. Back in the good old Brothers Grimm days kids stories were all about giants crunching your bones and witches boiling kids in big pots to eat them, whats the big deal? Maybe he shouldn't have handed it in for the "Christmas at my home" assignment. Sounds as if he's very talented and will go far. When I was small I knew most of Grimms' Fairy Tales inside out. When I was 8 I took part in a local children and parents quiz show where the task was to recognise a number of fairy tales by their opening sentences. Needless to say I wiped the floor with the competition and walked away with a nice expensive Lego set as a price. And I was the most timid and shielded child you can imagine. Meanwhile of course the Disneyfication of folk tales has become more advanced and apparently there are now quite a few parents who actually make sure that their little darlings never encounter the originals www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fairy-tales-kids-parents-too-scary_n_1283565I'm having doubts whether my own grandchildren know these stories. One of my favourite picture books was the German children's book classic Der Struwwelpeter, according to the original description " funny stories and droll pictures with 15 beautifully coloured panels for children of 3–6 years", which features children dying of starvation, burning to death, having their thumbs cut off with giant scissors, and other funny stories. What I'm saying is I agree with your assessment. |
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Post by amipal on Jan 10, 2022 11:24:32 GMT
Preferred Mammal is really very sick, has been hit hard by pregnancy, struggling to eat and drink and spends most of her time trying to sleep it off. She’s currently waiting for a call back from the dr for more anti-sickness drugs. My partner also had bad sickness when she was pregnant. It’s really tough. |
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Post by scamander on Jan 10, 2022 11:24:56 GMT
Morning all,
Looking back at some of the films, books and tv shows I watched as a kid. Unsure how they'd be rated today.
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 10, 2022 11:33:03 GMT
My lasting memories of films I watched and may have been slightly too young are:
Robocop: the scene where Murphy gets his arms and legs shotgunned off, and the scene where the guy has been in the toxic waste and is all melting and then gets burst like a water balloon by a car driving through him.
Hellraiser: Freaked me out.
Wouldve been about 8 or 9 years old for those.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 10, 2022 11:37:59 GMT
Robocop: the scene where the guy has been in the toxic waste and is all melting and then gets burst like a water balloon by a car driving through him. . Me and my pal used to pause the VHS and try to watch that bit frame by frame to really appreciate it. In his defence I think that pal is now a film editor. I am just a fan of extreme violence. |
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Post by lazybones on Jan 10, 2022 11:40:14 GMT
I watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at the cinema when I was ... seven?
I didn't watch anything particularly gruesome until I was maybe nine or ten. I had a friend whose parents had an agreement with the local video store owner, meaning he could take out 18 rated videos whenever he wanted.
I think he was a bit of a messed up kid to be honest. His dad was a butcher.
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Post by lazybones on Jan 10, 2022 11:46:53 GMT
I was freaked out when I watched The Fog. Again I must have been about nine or ten. We lived by the sea so, for a while, before I went to bed I'd go round the house checking the windows were closed. The prospect of a midnight knocking on the door was terrifying.
To be honest ... For a while the scariest thing for me was an episode of 'Home to Roost' in which one of the characters conjured up a story of 'The Phantom Cockerel'. I think this was a wheeze to get an unwelcome visitor to leave, with the line 'He who hears the cockerel crow, up to Heaven he shall go'. I'd lie in bed, terrified that, I might, I just might, hear a cockerel crowing and die immediately.
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Post by MrTiddles on Jan 10, 2022 11:55:30 GMT
No coloured squares from me today, damn laptop crashed when I was about to start the 5th row. Hang on a mo. *googles* I would have got it in 5.
[EDIT] I had the 3 middle letters on row 4. (taps nose)
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 10, 2022 12:07:12 GMT
Jaws really shit me up when I was about 10. The bit with the body in the net, with the crabs.
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Post by amipal on Jan 10, 2022 12:12:25 GMT
My lasting memories of films I watched and may have been slightly too young are: Robocop: the scene where Murphy gets his arms and legs shotgunned off, and the scene where the guy has been in the toxic waste and is all melting and then gets burst like a water balloon by a car driving through him. This. My dad was a cabbie, so would get recommendations for films to watch from his cabbie mates. How he ever thought it would be suitable for his seven year old twin boys I’ll never know. |
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Post by lazybones on Jan 10, 2022 12:13:28 GMT
Ah yeah. I definitely saw Jaws at quite a young age. Five? Six?
To be honest - I cried when the shark got killed. I think it was that it was mindlessly chomping towards its own death. Also - when it killed people it was not pre-meditated - it was just a shark, doing what sharks do - But when Sheriff Brody killed the shark it was definitely pre-meditated.
I don't know. I found it upsetting anyway.
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Post by scubar on Jan 10, 2022 12:18:34 GMT
And I thought Boris Johnson liking the mayor was the worst Jaws take
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Post by lazybones on Jan 10, 2022 12:19:47 GMT
And I thought Boris Johnson liking the mayor was the worst Jaws take I'll string you up by your Buster Browns. |
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Post by lazybones on Jan 10, 2022 12:25:07 GMT
Jaws does invite you to identify with the shark, to a certain degree. You get the first person 'shark cam' when you see the swimmers' legs from the shark's point of view. You never get a first person 'Brody cam'.
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Post by Faceless on Jan 10, 2022 12:33:46 GMT
You know the thing about a sandiebahookie junior, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at you, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites you
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Post by scamander on Jan 10, 2022 12:34:14 GMT
My dad made me watch the Shining 'for a laugh' when I was 9.
I'm more thinking about films like Gremlins, sold as a kids film but a bit dark in places (dead santa story, murder of old lady).
Then there was the A-Team, where someone with PTSD is the gag man. Oof.
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 10, 2022 12:39:15 GMT
Ah yeah. I definitely saw Jaws at quite a young age. Five? Six? To be honest - I cried when the shark got killed. I think it was that it was mindlessly chomping towards its own death. Also - when it killed people it was not pre-meditated - it was just a shark, doing what sharks do - But when Sheriff Brody killed the shark it was definitely pre-meditated. I don't know. I found it upsetting anyway. Pfft. Spoilers! |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 10, 2022 12:40:51 GMT
I heard a radio programme about Jaws recently. I hadn't realised that the 3 main actors actually did hate each other in real life as well.
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Post by scamander on Jan 10, 2022 12:43:26 GMT
I heard a radio programme about Jaws recently. I hadn't realised that the 3 main actors actually did hate each other in real life as well. can sharks hate? |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 10, 2022 12:46:23 GMT
I heard a radio programme about Jaws recently. I hadn't realised that the 3 main actors actually did hate each other in real life as well. can sharks hate? I'm no expert, but I have seen Jaws 4: The Revenge, on which basis the answer is yes. |
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