SansFin
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11 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
I can't imagine the toll it takes on your body. (although I've had a straight dose of coffee every day for 40 years...)
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3 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Thank you Sans! I am now up to speed with men's sterilization and de-sterilization procedures. I shall file this information away in case I need it for pub trivia or something.
I am sorry to say that unbridled pedantry is a known side effect of my current medication. There is a warning also to not open an encyclopedia or thesaurus until effects of the medication are known. The plus side is that my hair is glossy, my nose is cold and I have mostly stopped **** men's legs.
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1 hour ago, Gershwin fan said:
I think I feel nauseous... 🤮
"If you're nauseated you're about to throw up, if you're nauseous, you're a toxic funk and you're going to make someone else puke." https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/nauseated-nauseous/
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1 hour ago, Gershwin fan said:
Lovely description.
It does concern a man's nasty bits . . .
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5 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Though I thought that procedure could be reversed. Perhaps that wasn't the case in the 50s/60s.
Successful reversal is problematic and expensive.
The basic procedure is to cut a small tube in half, tie the ends closed, and then bury them in different layers of tissue. This is repeated for the other side. It is usually finished within an hour in an outpatient environment. There are few risks of complications and follow-up is in a month.
Reversing the procedure involves finding the ends, assessing the amount on each which has collapsed or grown closed, cutting to a viable section, stretching the ends so that they may be sewn together, and stabilizing the tube within the tissue. This requires hospitalization and often takes several hours. Risk of infection is much higher. There are significant other risks. Follow-up generally begins after three months and it may take much longer for indications it was successful.
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Books which I should read soon:
Basics of Lateral Dissection. I am told that it is side-splitting.
How to Be the Smartest Person in the Room. This is the new: For Dummies publication.
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I believe that the wife not being at home as she claimed at the time of the murder is a red herring. It is to give the audience one more suspect to consider when trying to solve the mystery.
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On 8/28/2019 at 7:31 AM, EricJ said:
I've never really thought of Donald Pleasance as "overacting"--Even when playing "good" characters, that calm, creepy, under-emotional lobotomized drone adds to the unsettling atmosphere of whatever he's in.
He is so very good at it that his role in: Telefon (1977) seems nearly to be typecasting.
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21 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) - 2/10
This sounds very much as if it is a cheap rehash of Rollin's The Nude Vampire (1970). I am sorry to say that there are so few French surreal soft-core horror romance movies that one must not complain overmuch of the quality when you do find one.
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3 hours ago, Janet0312 said:
The other thing that sucks is none of my family wants my film library, I have several bios and film histories, a bunch of books and DVDs that nobody wants. And I'm at the age now where I need to endow my treasures upon some unsuspecting soul.
Have you thought of offering them to a film studies program at a college or university? The local community college was quite happy to receive a large amount of books and papers on woodworking and machining as subsidiary research material for their vocational training programs.
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3 hours ago, Janet0312 said:
One of my fave shows. I have an antique sewing table that was my great grandmothers, appraised at 100 dollars twenty years ago on the Antiques Roadshow. At one half the size. I wonder what it is worth now. Let's see 1895. Twice the size of the table on Road Show. Nothing I would care to sell anyway and none of my family wants any of my antiques. I have inherited my mom and aunt's wedding gifts from the 50's. Mixing bowls and what not that are rare now, but nobody wants them. I have a sandwich tray made of sterling silver that nobody wants. Of course, who the heck serves tea sandwiches on a tray anymore?
I suspect that you are speaking of an American version of the program. The only furniture which I remember seeing in these episodes were cabinets and desks which were 18th Century or earlier.
One episode of what I watched had an assortment of bowls, pitchers and so forth all of bright orange glass. The customer seemed quite pleased to have such a collection. The expert spoke highly of certain aspects but was quite clear also that such items have essentially no value now because the high point of collecting such things is long past and it is unlikely to ever again be desired by collectors.
Silver items have the positive factor that they will retain a certain portion of their value due to their content. The experts on the program at times stated the melt value of an item. The appraised value varied from slightly above that to several times that even for objects with little historical value. My insignificant duther has a small collection of Art Deco silverplate. The silver content is negligible but they are decorative and are likely to return their cost as he only buys items which are vastly underpriced.
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4 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
A lot of people saw Octopussy.
I would not have thought that audiences found the egg as worthy of their focus as other visual curves displayed in the movie.
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15 minutes ago, Fedya said:
I thank you for that information. I was not aware that the illustrious name of the world's greatest goldsmith was now associated with cheap cosmetics.
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5 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Interesting. I didn’t realize the show was available anywhere else but PBS.
This is the episode in which Fiona Bruce has a giraffe named for her: https://pluto.tv/on-demand/series/antiques-roadshow/season/38/episode/plas-newydd-1-38-1
"Plas Newydd is a country house set in gardens, parkland and surrounding woodland on the north bank of the Menai Strait, in Llanddaniel Fab, near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales."
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2 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I love this show! My favorite is when the do the update shows. They will show a clip of the item being appraised back then and show what the item is worth now. The sound effect they make when the item depreciates makes me laugh.
There was not such a retrospective in any of the episodes which I watched.
I found the "Impostor" section of the episodes interesting because I often did not think that any of the items was worth more than pocket money.
I should perhaps note that I watched these on PlutoTV which has several of the seasons in their On Demand section as well as having a channel which constantly plays episodes.
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Antiques Roadshow Seasons 38 and 39 (2015-2017)
This gentle program displays common people with uncommon goods. It is interesting to learn some of the nuances of what makes an item valuable as a collectible and what makes it boot sale junk. I must wonder if there is a depression in Great Britain as customers often act as if a thousand Pounds is a life-changing amount of money. I found it mildly surprising that so many of the people attending have heard of Fabergé.
I must wonder if it is on purpose that the majority of items shown are pottery, vases and tea sets or if that truly reflects what the English have in abundance and believe is valuable.
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Sir Christopher Lee
Michael Caine
Patrick Macnee
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16 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Early Spring (1956) - 7/10
Japanese drama from director Yasujiro Ozu. After an earthquake, a small green bear-like creature is discovered by a family. The youngest boy sneaks it home, where it soon grows into a bloodthirsty monster. The only thing that can stop it is Starman (Ken Utsui). Featuring Chikage Awashima, Ryo Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi, Keiko Kishi, So Yamamura, Chichu Ryu, Yo Mama, Takako Fujino, Masami Taura, and Steven Seagal as "Sensei Steve". This was unlike any other Ozu film that I'd seen, from the high amount of gore, to the copious nudity and extreme vulgar dialogue. The special effects were not good, but the fight choreography was outstanding, especially with the children. Most of the film is in B&W, but scenes seen through the monster's eyes are in color. Many sequels followed.
Source: The Cthulhu Channel
I will have what he is smoking.
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9 hours ago, Janet0312 said:
I can barely watch James Mason doing love/lust scenes. He just seems so stilted, although I do like him in other roles.
You do not like him in love scenes because he is stiff?
no . . . even I will not go there . . .
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4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I even went and looked up the SCREEN DIRECTOR'S PLAYHOUSE radio version on youtube and came across this:
which I have to say, and no offense to anyone, contains a baffling but firm assertion by the late ROBERT OSBORNE that (to paraphrase) he doesn't see any sort of Lesbian connotation with the CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER character AT ALL and thinks anyone who does is "REALLY REACHING."
I miss and respect MR OSBORNE, but this got such a "HON-EY!" from me...I mean, gurl c'mon, the character could not be any more of a lesbian if she delivered her intense monologues about her unending love for the dead perfect woman while taking apart and cleaning a transmission on her kitchen table as TWO CATS aggressively groom one another in the background.
there. i said it.
i know i sometimes offend some of you by seeing GAYNESS IN CLASSIC FILMS WHERE IT'S DEBATABLE, but when it comes to THE UNINVITED and the character of the overly attached holistic healer/ MRS DANVERS retread played by the aforementioned MRS SKINNER, there IS NO AMBIGUITY ABOUT IT, IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE OPEN and you don't need to be CAMILLE LEPAGLIA to discern it either.
I believe that people with different experiences will have significantly different views of what is stereotypical behaviour in regards to sexual orientation. A person who is long immersed in a Bohemian lifestyle might become blind to all indications and connotations which are not directly related to that segment of the population whom they wish to trip and fall on top of. This is a form of 'inattentional blindness' in that they focus only on those they desire at first glance and all others become invisible. Such selective attention is perhaps best demonstrated in: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html but it applies in many forms on many levels for many traits.
I am personally so innocent and naive that I believe this is what your reference to cats in the background must indicate:
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3 hours ago, Dargo said:
Ahem, excuse me here Tom, but a guy as tough and as macho as Robert Ryan wouldn't have been caught DEAD "skipping" rope.
Nope, now "JUMPING" rope is a whole OTHER thing, ya know!
LOL
Actually though and all kidding aside here, I've just now did a little internet investigation into this nomenclature, and found that the term "skipping rope" is more an British English thing, and whereas the term "jumping rope" is an American English idiom.
And so, seein' as how you Canadians mimic the Brits a lot with the Language (YOU know, like that whole superfluous 'u' thing
) I guess I can see why you offered up the phrase "skipping rope" here.
It is my understanding that the difference is methodology. "Skipping rope" is when the person lands on one foot and alternates between feet with each jump. This may include also a shuffling of the foot on the ground in imitation of a child skipping. "Jumping rope" is when the person lands on both feet at the same time. The latter is more popular among boxers and others who exert more energy and concentrate their force while the former is more popular among casuals such as Englanders.
This is an example of "jumping" as all feet land simultaneously to exert maximum force:
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Serenity (2005) has many wonderful lines:
Mr. Universe: You guys always bring me the very best violence.
Mal: Doctor, I'm takin' your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you, I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.
Dr. Tam to his sister: If there's any fighting, drop to the floor or run away. It's okay to leave them to die.
Mal: It's of interest to me how much you seem to know about that world.
Shepherd Book: I wasn't born a shepherd, Mal.
Mal: You have to tell me about that sometime.
Shepherd Book: No, I don't.
Zoë: In the time of war, we would never have left a man behind.
Mal: Maybe that's why we lost.
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Halloween Schedule Disappointment
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I have no complaints of the programming.
I do wish they could find time for movies which are not so very often repeated. I do not recall: The House in Marsh Road (1960), The Spell of Amy Nugent (1941) or No Place Like Homicide! (1961) being shown in recent memory.
I feel that it might be worthwhile also to show some of the more unusual cross-genre movies such as the Film-Noir / Horror movies: Pillow of Death (1945), Calling Dr. Death (1943) or Fright (1956).
I must wonder how many might be interested in movies which are less androcentric such as: Vampyros Lesbos (1971), Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers (2004) or Daughters of Darkness (1971).