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RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
edited August 2023 in Debate and/or Discourse
I could make an OP about Gaius Gracchus or Gaius Marius being re-elected out of turn but instead It's Been A Hard Day's Night so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62zo4V6RVGY&pp=ygUVYmV0d2VlbiBsaW5lcyBiZWF0bGVz

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    I'm at work so I approve this [chat] 👍

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  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I'm at work so I approve this [chat] 👍

    Hi at work so I approve this [chat] 👍, I’m dad.

    PSN: Honkalot
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Hmm

    I was really excited for Oppenheimer but came out of it not really wowed all that much. Very middle of the pack for Nolan’s filmography. The things it does well it does really well, but the there’s too much length for the content, the final act is slow and fairly detached from the main story before it, and Nolan makes the really weird choice of filling in the dozens of major supporting roles with a roster of C-listers and hasbeens (forgotten so-so actors like David Krumholz, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, and Dane DeHaan get scads of screentime). Nolan still has not improved his grasp of human interconnection, and the women in this film are again thinly written like all his other films.


    *sigh*

    It’s a gorgeous film and he’s got such a talent for the semiotic and visual aspects of filmcraft, it’s such a shame to see someone so close to greatness fail the same way again and again.

  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Is it at least told upside down and in inverse alphabetical order?

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited August 2023
    i-was-REA-lly-ex-CIT-ed-for-OPP-en-HEI-mer-but-came-OUT-of-it-NOT-rea-lly-WOWED-all-that-MUCH.

    Very anapestic septameter there, Haims

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    the last wedding i was at, i was one of like 6 people out of 150 who weren't in some way related to the bride or groom

    irish weddings and second cousins, a powerful combination

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    the last wedding i was at, i was one of like 6 people out of 150 who weren't in some way related to the bride or groom

    irish weddings and second cousins, a powerful combination

    I have nineteen aunts and uncles and maybe twoscore cousins, and that's just first cousins

  • NoneoftheaboveNoneoftheabove Just a conforming non-conformist. Twilight ZoneRegistered User regular
    It wasn't a bad movie. The trailer did get me in the theater. Few can. And I liked the closer view of the story and Robert as a flawed human being asked to shoulder history.

    And I like the OP's youtuber recommend. Brows held high is also a neat dude. His long form essay on Emberto Ecco's Name of The Rose is good too.

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Hah, I got a minor error in my motorbike test for building up too much speed into the emergency stop manoeuvre

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Hah, I got a minor error in my motorbike test for building up too much speed into the emergency stop manoeuvre

    Isn't the point of an emergency stop to be ready to do it at any speed?

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Hah, I got a minor error in my motorbike test for building up too much speed into the emergency stop manoeuvre

    Isn't the point of an emergency stop to be ready to do it at any speed?

    You're required to pass through a speed trap at a minimum of 50km/h before they signal you to stop and I hit it at 65

    The most common way to fail the manoeuvre is not going fast enough, which I did several times in mock tests, so I uh, overcompensated

  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

    I mean I’m not planning a wedding anyway but her side of the family is close and you can’t really have like 100+ on one side and like 8 on the other

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

    I mean I’m not planning a wedding anyway but her side of the family is close and you can’t really have like 100+ on one side and like 8 on the other

    You can if you want

    My friend that just got married had his parents, one sibling, and a few friends and his fiancée had about 80 relatives

  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    edited August 2023
    Tav wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

    I mean I’m not planning a wedding anyway but her side of the family is close and you can’t really have like 100+ on one side and like 8 on the other
    We went to a wedding.

    And they throw a party afterwards where they got gifts and show the wedding video.

    zepherin on
  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

    I mean I’m not planning a wedding anyway but her side of the family is close and you can’t really have like 100+ on one side and like 8 on the other

    You and your 8 just need to cow the others with feats of drinking and force of personality ez

    Psn:wazukki
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  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Oh my god. That couple that also got screwed by the cancellation is being told there aren't any seats available until August 8th at the earliest

    they will have spent two weeks waiting for a fucking plane at that point, what the hell

    edit: I guess a week and a half but still, that's crazy

    At some point a boat surely

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Some sort of Dunkirk situation

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

    I mean I’m not planning a wedding anyway but her side of the family is close and you can’t really have like 100+ on one side and like 8 on the other

    At my wedding I had three blood relatives and my sister's husband, versus over a dozen of her family

    My side of the church was bulked out with mutual friends and some family friends we used to holiday with

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2023
    Orca wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Some sort of Dunkirk situation

    We’ve been half-joking about the fall of Saigon

    Except we missed the last plane out

    Ok at this point there needs to be some fairly extreme legal options here benefitting you and these folks?

    bloodyroarxx on
  • ahavaahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    So frustrating.

    So hubby and I have vent watching clips from The Goes Wrong Show.

    But we can't get full episodes.

    BBC streaming service won't work down here, we can't purchase it from Amazon Prime since we're not in the UK. We are most likely going to just either subscribe to Prime (which I was going to do again anyways for Wheel of Time) and stream the show, or order the DVDs from the UK.

    Only ordering the DVDs means we need to pay shipping. Plus find a DVD player.

    Stupid global borders.

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited August 2023
    Supposedly you should be able to file a claim for hotel costs if theyre unable to place you on a flight via https://www.icelandair.com/support/contact-us/flight-disruptions/?
    Hotel accommodation in cases where an overnight stay or a stay additional to that intended by the passenger becomes necessary.
    Refund is based on average price of 3-star hotel. Invoice must be in passenger's name and related to additional stay at disrupted departing station. We do not cover any prepaid services.

    We are only liable for flights that are on an Icelandair ticket. If you have a connecting flight which is not on the same ticket as your Icelandair flight, you should contact the airline in question directly in order to make changes to your travel arrangements. The same applies to connections with trains, ferries, buses and taxis.

    Not that it helps everything but should recover some of that cost

    Tumin on
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  • ahavaahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    I think I missed it but


    Why are you stranded? What happened to all the planes

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Zavian wrote: »
    I could make an OP about Gaius Gracchus or Gaius Marius being re-elected out of turn but instead It's Been A Hard Day's Night so

    what about tiberius gracchus? oh yeah, he wanted to give land to the poor so they wouldn't be homeless. wonder how that worked out between him and the Senate

    https://youtu.be/g8SaB7O2JRM

    I picked Gaius because despite Tiberus' attempts, Gaius was the one successfully elected to a consecutive tribunate, so it fits with my theme.

  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    It just strikes me as obviously insane that in 2023 people can be stranded somewhere with an operational airport for multiple days or even weeks at a time with no alternative way out.

    Like if flights were grounded due to an eruption or something like 9/11, that I can sorta get, but just...trapped, for an indeterminate amount of time because there are no seats? And the airline isn't doing anything about it?

    Is this a case where you can rent a car or boat and just travel or are there no overland / safe alternative routes?

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  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Islands

    Not even once

  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    *looks to where I’m moving to*

    Oh no

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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

    I mean I’m not planning a wedding anyway but her side of the family is close and you can’t really have like 100+ on one side and like 8 on the other

    Sure you can, I had my wedding out in Buffalo specifically because I knew most of my extended family wouldn’t make it to that and half of them can’t stand my mom so I got to send them polite invitations I knew would come back rejected. Most of the guests were my wife’s friends and family,

  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    I think I missed it but


    Why are you stranded? What happened to all the planes

    It's a tiny airport and IcelandAir has been cancelling flights rather than delaying them and waiting for the fog to clear

    Yesterday's flight they finally delayed instead of cancelling so it went out 5 hours late, which IMO is *fine* because at least people can get off the damn island

    edit: Air Greenland has just been delaying and then sending the planes in, so it's been infuriating watching the weather clear and then all these red airplanes come in

    and not a white IcelandAir flight to be found

    *looks at username*

    Uh....just swim home duh????

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  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Sleep wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    zepherin wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't know how many cousins i have, i've not seen a single one of them in like 15 years? The idea of paying for them to be at something has me allergic
    You can just not invite any extended family. Like if you don’t invite any cousins aunts/uncles, it saves a lot of money and headache.

    I mean I’m not planning a wedding anyway but her side of the family is close and you can’t really have like 100+ on one side and like 8 on the other

    Sure you can, I had my wedding out in Buffalo specifically because I knew most of my extended family wouldn’t make it to that and half of them can’t stand my mom so I got to send them polite invitations I knew would come back rejected. Most of the guests were my wife’s friends and family,

    We’re lucky in that we had our wedding during COVID so we had a vaccine requirement so we got to be “nice” and invite all her extended family but knew they wouldn’t come.

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