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https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/24/mans-body-found-upside-down-in-dinosaur-statue-after-he-fell-in-getting-phone-14634965/
Sometime best to accept your phone is gone.
Enjoying the film, though. Would be a shame if Bond no longer popped up in a random prime time slot on free TV after the Amazon thing goes through
Mod edit: profanities deleted.
Please avoid f bombs and other profanities. Thank you! :-)
As for the comment itself, all I can say is that dubbed Bond films are horrendous. If Germans watched films in English since childhood, your problem would be automatically solved. ;-) One cannot properly pronounce words in a language one refuses to listen to.
Personally, I insist on watching films in their original language, whether they are in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Korean, ... As long as subtitles are available for films that aren't in English, French or Dutch, I refuse to watch them in any other way than the original dub.
I blamed society and worked it out, it did cause some excitement.
I honestly didn't know there was a profanity rule here. Sorry for that and thank you for the tactful reminder and the edit. My apologies.
I have recently gone back to watching more things dubbed when I am watching more casually. But for English stuff my brain often enough then does a weird thing, where I try to figure out, what the original dialogue was.
One of the recurring scenarios I play through in my head, while probably never needing it, is having to buy a new suit in a strange city on short notice. No idea why.
What did you end up doing?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/27/humans-could-live-150-say-scientists/
This is great news as we might live long enough to see at least ten or twelve Bond films.
Not at the present pace...at least looking at it from my age And one of these days, only on Amazon Prime.
Singer Warren Zevon, stricken with cancer, once famously said he hoped to live long enough to see the next Bond movie. He actually made it. Unfortunately, it turned out to Die Another Day.
Studies like this have been done before, taking other variables into account, such as the maximum number of heartbeats a mammalian heart is designed for. This concluded with a max age for humans of 144.
I'm glad to know you've still got a few years left in you yet, Thundy. MI6 expects you to do your duty. ;)
Why sound out of sync (Kellys Heroes blu)
Pauline Kael... Yeah, not a big fan. ;-)
But I wholeheartedly agree, @Birdleson.
The contemporary obsession with character arcs might stem from the emergence of long-form TV storytelling. In movies a character arc was to be expected, but for many decades TV shows were serials with static characterization. Over the past 20 years though, story arcs have become de rigueur for TV, and the same is true for character arcs. Online TV criticism is notoriously bad (it mostly consists of self-style "recaps"), and I wouldn't be surprised if it has led to bad online film critics too. The internet is a great Democratic medium, but when you have large numbers of anything then Sturgeon's Law is the law of the land.
Yes, character arc is a grand term for what I understand, as an interested amateur, to be the basic tenet of interesting drama, which is simply change. Showing change from one state to another makes something interesting; having it stay the same isn't. I might be wrong, I haven't taken a course.
But I guess that just because it's a very basic requirement of drama to have your character follow an arc, it's not exactly wrong of any critic to point it out if a character doesn't. As it is so basic, as you say, then a film being found not to have one is a fundamental flaw and probably worth mentioning.
Burt Ward doesn't care much (talked with him) , after all its not him being scammed
If I had been a celeb and found out he's forging my signature I'd go ballistic !
Bruce to Anna Capri : "I can get you any drugs you want" , also been rumors for years that Baker supplied drugs and guns to Lee so again , no surprise
The problem I'm having is it's starting to affect me, I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm depressed but Hell I'm really feeling down. I was so looking forward to getting some time off.
Ok Rant over
You have every right to rant, @Thunderpussy! You deserve some time off; we all do. If there's no way out of this, for now, let me just say that I applaud your stamina and truly admire your dedication. I'm also sure that you'll get that much needed time off eventually.
Take care, mate. And don't hesitate to send a PM if you really need to blow off steam!
Yes that's the worst thing: by rights you should just be able to say no, but unfortunately we know the real world isn't like that and bosses tend to keep grudges about that sort of thing, it's not fair.
Yes, in a perfect world you could just say "no" but as I recall I was rotaed for all of it so it was just expected I would do it as they were short staffed. I do find it very hard to say "no" to people. That's one of my faults: always trying to please others, whatever the cost.
But saying 'no' is the hard part, isn't it? We don't want to come off as complainers, sour our relationship with our superiors, pass our work on to somebody else... I guess that sense of duty can be strong, even if deep down inside we "don't wanna".
Look at me... I'm supposed to be enjoying my annual Summer vacation, or better still, my honeymoon! And here I am, just married but working long hours every single day just to create good study material for my students. Why not during the school year? Because then, I've got my hands full with everything else, such as stupid paperwork, keeping myself available at all times for students and parents, organizing extracurricular activities, and more. My wife keeps telling me to calm down, relax, and enjoy these weeks off. And so what if I have to re-use material I created over five years ago? Well... it's that sense of duty. I detect new opportunities and ways to improve my lessons. Digital possibilities keep expanding and so I want to jump on some of those wagons, just to supply students with the kind of visual and didactic tools we never had. I could just say, "screw this!", like some colleagues of mine, and simply not care. But I do care, and I take it so do you, @Thunderpussy and @Dragonpol.
Until, at some point, the fuse is blown and we've had enough. So yeah, time off is more important than anything else, more important than big fat paychecks even. But hey, I suck at taking my own advice. ;-)