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What do you think of your neighbors?
by JustHatched- 4 followers
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Mine are all in laws, I get along with them fine. It's not like they are real close anyways, not like city living.
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How much ya Wrench?
by Sinister- 4 replies
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Who remembers that old SNL skit? Any other wrench turners in here? If so what have you worked on lately? Professional and shade tree welcome 🙂 I had to take this corroded Fuse Panel and rebuild it using this... Finished product, my fingers hurt for days.
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For kicks
by Lann- 2 followers
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What do you do for kicks? Small or big. Why do i ask? It seems sometimes something might feel missing, or things simply feeling way too everyday ordinary. So, what do you do about it?
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Retirement and $
by Lann- 2 followers
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Today the swedish system builts on retirement at age 65, and i imagine that once(if) i get there it will have moved a few years up. I also estimate income will drop to about 50% of ones salary while working, assuming i work up til then. So preparing finacially for retirement is a must. That will likely include stocks and/or funds. Are there anyone else who look into these type of areas, like stocks and the market, and strategies preparing for retirement?
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Ireland: what can you tell me about it?
by Spinnaker1981- 1 follower
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Ok, has most of you know, I am a Pharmacist in Portugal. A couple of days ago I was offered a position in Ireland as a Pharmacist in one of their pharmacy networks. I know the weather is not the same as in Portugal and I know the pay is very good compared to what we get payed in Portugal. I have been doing some research (technical and registration) and I have been doing some research on prices as well, but there is nothing like local knowledge. I do plan on going there beforehand, but that is also just a small glimpse of what might be to come. Anyone around here, with more knowledge of the country than me, to enlighten me on what I a…
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What is this?
by Lann- 3 followers
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I see its a spider, but does anyone know what kind?
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9/11
by Pb76- 10 replies
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Never forget It’s now 18 years, can you remember where you were when the news broke? how did you feel? How did it change your life?
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I'm 20.
by Schema_Slix- 3 followers
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Far from an adult though. I am under no obligation to grow up!
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Where in the world have you been? 1 2
by Squirrel- 3 followers
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After some shoutbox discussions of seeing where people have been to I thought I’d create a thread where we can share where we’ve been. https://map1.maploco.com/visited-countries/ This site doesn’t seem too bad in terms of ads and you can get a screenshot of the world map showing how far you’ve travelled. I definitely need to get out of Europe!
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Caption Competition
by CatManDoza- 15 replies
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Thought I'd start a bit of fun with a caption competiton. This is in no way stolen from Uncle's thread over on GTAF (ok maybe it is), but though it could be a good laugh if enough people fancy it. I'll start off with a picture from my collection, but I openly encourage anyone to PM me their pics for future use. THey can be from GTA, RDR, or anything else that tickles your tastebuds. I'll run it myself and pick a winner, this way everyone that wants to have a go can, no one needs to sit out to be a voter. Will post a new picture each Monday, and announce the winner for the previous week on either a Saturday or a Sunday, time permitting. This openin…
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I've been playing PS for a long time now and I've come across some incredibly odd and deranged names of our gaming peers over the years. I can't recall ALL of the ones that had me scratching my head or bursting out laughing - but here's a few standouts worth mentioning: - iEatAss4Cash (PS3) - UnicornMeatSauce (PS4) - FluffyTigerNuts (PS4) And no, I did not make these up. That said, what are some fucked up names you've seen? Totally for fun.
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Things done different 1 2
by Lann- 3 followers
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We had visitors from New Zealand for christmas. They were surprised that we always have our babies take their naps outside. Summertime we put a net over the stroller, wintertime tuck them down so all you see if their face. I guess it might be due to them having alot of dangerous animals or something. But the babies sleep alot better outside. Have you ever came across something your people do that others find weird?
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How to profit
by Lann- 2 followers
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If you were asked that during the next year turn $50K into $60K legally, how would you attempt it?
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You are banned! 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 38 replies
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Thought I would start up a game I have played on a few forums before called ‘You are banned!’. Don’t panic if you read this while on holiday Hatch, just a bit of fun. You simply ban the person who last posted for whatever reason comes into your head. You cannot dispute a ban, all bans are final, you are banned until you ban someone else! There is no post before this one for me to ban someone so I just have to sit here and wait until I get banned...
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Smoke alarms
by Lann- 1 follower
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My son had a homework counting and testing the smoke alarms in the home. We counted 10 working fine and two in need of new batteries. Do you have any?
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So @pete_95973 started this off in the chatbox and I think it's an interesting thing to think about... Cats, hyenas and pigs were mentioned. Also otters and a specific dog breed - mini pinscher - were brought up. I'm surprised no-one mentioned camels or asses(pun intended) a.k.a donkeys! Camels keep spitting, looking at folks indifferently while chewing and even ignore people. Donkeys can be stubborn as f***. Also certain types of eagles - "sharing" is definitely not in their vocabulary.
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Was it something your parents told you to make you behave? Something your mates told you as a joke?
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Spring/Summer to do list?
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Just curious what is on your to do list once the warm weather gets here (it's not to far away)? Mine is Put new roof on garage Fix roof on barn Build Alpaca items store and website (if you come to USA @Danielle be sure to swing by) Begin total restoration of GMC Yukon Several trees need taken out Build new bridge at the wedding chapel Convert boat trailer into a car trailer Plus all the weekly, daily shit like mowing....
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Parrots
by JustHatched- 20 replies
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Seems me and @Paulie have a common interest but anyone is free to chime in Tell me about this Conure you have Paulie I currently have an African Grey (will post pic when I take one) but have had a Green Cheek Conure (best of all the birds I have had), Quaker Parrots, c*ckatiels, and Budgies
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What sites do you use to create Decals
by al_ka_seltzer- 6 replies
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I use vectorizer.io to convert JPEGS & svgomg if I need to lose more kb. I here some use Inkscape to trace images, but having tried it I found it a nightmare. There are some awesome Decals out there, but whats the best system for you?
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T shirt logos
by JustHatched- 4 replies
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If you wear T Shirts, and those with printing on them do you prefer large print in the front or the back of the shirt. I only ask my mother keeps buying my shirts with big Metallica logos on the front, and while I love Metallica and the shirts look cool I don't have the hear to tell her I will never wear them cuz I do not like having stuff on the front of my shirts. Feels like I am wearing a sheet of plywood on my chest.
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Going to Disney World
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Figured since @pete_95973 and @djw180 posted where they are going I would also @WasHatched and his high school band were invited to play at Disney at the end of March, I am going with him. We'll be there for 8 days. I am a chaperone for a bunch of kids, fun fun....
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I know you have similar issues with your kitty too
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Totally ripping off the title of Pete's recent thread, but anyway .. Me and my wife have just booked a Caribbean cruise, kind of a joint 50th birthday special holiday. Unfortunately we will not be there whilst the England Cricket team are touring, so I have no idea of what to do to pass the time. We'll be visiting Barbados, St Maarten, British Virgin Islands, St Kitts, Guadeloupe, St Vincent, Antigua, St Lucia and Grenada. At the end of March. Any recomendations of things to see or avoid?
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Travelling to Italy - any suggestions?
by pete_95973- 1 follower
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I am getting married in April and just 3 days after the wedding my new wife and I will be off to Italy for our honeymoon. Neither of us have ever been. Neither of us have even been to Europe. We will be spending 4 days and 3 nights in Rome. Our hotel and room has a view of the Colosseum! Then we will take a train to Florence and spend two nights there in a beautiful Villa. Then from there we take a train to Venice where we will spend our final 3 nights. So far the only thing we have planned officially is that we booked a Vatican and Colosseum tour with one of the companies that allows you to skip the lines and have your own english speaking tour guide. With th…
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #173 (Apr 21-27) South dir. Chantal Akerman/1999/1h11m This documentary sees Chantal Akerman travel to Jasper, Texas in the aftermath of the brutal lynching of a black man, James Byrd Jr., who was dragged behind a truck for several miles, an act so brutally violent that he was decapitated during it. This is not a crime documentary that seeks to explore what happened, but rather a portrait of a town and the people who live there and how they are trying to process what happened shot in Akerman's distinctive style. Like a typical documentary there are talking heads interviews with people close to Byrd Jr., but Akerman's use of long takes and silences allows us to really absorb what they're saying. These static shots are juxtaposed with extended tracking shots where Akerman drives through the community, filming people going about their lives with this tragedy still hanging over them. This is something she did in News From Home in New York, but the context here makes it feel like a funeral procession. The most effective of these shots is the very last one, the view looking out of the back of a truck as it drives down the road where Byrd Jr. was murdered. It just keeps going and going and forces us to imagine the unimaginable torture he went through. Incredibly powerful filmmaking 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Meetings of Anna dir. Chantal Akerman/1978/2h8m Akerman's follow up to her revolutionary Jeanne Dielman, The Meetings of Anna is a deeply personal semi-autobiographical film about a female director, Anna (Aurore Clement), traveling around Europe promoting her latest film. This is a melancholic film about isolation and even when Anna is talking to other people there is a disconnection there that always makes her feel alone. Like Jeanne Dielman this is heavy with repetition and routine, with each different hotel room blending into the next, each conversation being interchangeable with any of the others. This culminates with the ending where Anna returns to a home just as anonymous as any of the other rooms she has inhabited and, lying expressionless in bed, she listens to messages on her answerphone. People are reaching out to her, but she doesn't return the call. Akerman's style really lends itself to this story, with the carefully composed shots feeling almost like a prison trapping her. The feeling also comes through in Clement's performance. Her detachment from other people growing over the course of the film, that is apart from the scene with her mother (Lea Massari) in which she is able to revert to an almost childlike state of vulnerability. 8.5/10 The Black Hole dir. Phillip Sansom, Olly Williams/2008/3m This comedic short film stars Napoleon Ryan as an office worker putting in some overtime when he prints out a black hole (though technically it acts more like a portal than a black hole, as that would immediately destroy the planet). At first he uses it for trivial things like free snacks from the vending machine, but his greed leads him to a darkly comic end. It's very simple with an obvious message, but I thought that the ending moves it up a notch, making it feel like a mini episode of The Twilight Zone. 6/10 The Platform 2 dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia/2024/1h41m This is a prequel to what I thought was a fairly decent dystopian thriller set in a prison where the cells are stacked on top of each other with an open hole in the middle. Every day a platform loaded with food is lowered down cell by cell, with nothing being left for the prisoners at the bottom. This adds nothing to the concept with totally forgettable characters who I didn't care about. There are a few scenes of quite grisly violence but again, it's nothing that the first film didn't do better. I did enjoy the small appearance from Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor), one of the main characters from the original film, memorable because he actually had some character. 4/10 Three short films from Georges Méliès: A Terrible Night 1896/1m The Vanishing Lady 1896/1m The One-Man Band 1900/2m These three shorts from Georges Méliès really highlight his earlier career as a stage magician whilst also showcasing his evolving cinematic techniques. A Terrible Night is the simplest of the three where a sleeping man is harassed by a giant spider. There's really nothing of note here other than the fact that this is the first creature-feature. The other two are much more interesting and entertaining. The Vanishing Lady gives a macabre twist to a classic trick where he makes a woman disappear beneath a sheet, but not before she is transformed into a skeleton. The final film is the most playful and experimental and it sees Méliès using what were at the time cutting edge editing tricks to duplicate himself several times over, creating the titular one-man band. These films, while charming, all feel like Méliès honing his techniques in preparation for his magical longer films starting with 1902's A Trip To The Moon. I'll give these a combined score of 6/10 Inside Out dir. Pete Docter/2015/1h35m Going through all of the Pixar films in order I've finally come to the point where I've not seen hardly any of them going forward, having gotten burnt out by all of the sequels. I knew nothing about Inside Out going in and I can't believe it's taken me ten years to watch this, it's fantastic. It tells the story of 11 year old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) who has just moved to a new city with her parents, leaving behind all of her friends and everything she loves, stirring up her emotions. These emotions are personified and live inside her head, with Joy (Amy Poehler) doing everything she can to keep Riley happy. But lately it seems like Sadness (Phyllis Smith) keeps making things worse. When the two are accidentally expelled from HQ they have to work together to make it back and save Riley's mental health. This is a brilliantly simple concept well executed with a strong message that's not just for the younger viewers. The fact that it can be unhealthy to want to be happy all of the time and that you need a healthy mix of emotions, even negative ones, for good mental health. This is also a really funny film, with the juxtaposition between Joy and Sadness's personalities making them a great double act. There's also good support from Lewis Black, Bill Hader, and Mindy Kaling as Anger, Fear and Disgust. The instantly recognisable voice of Richard Kind also appears, playing Riley's forgotten imaginary friend Bing b*ng who ended up as my favourite character. I wasn't really looking forward to this run of Pixar films, but if they're even half as good as this I'll be satisfied. 9/10- 1
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Bladerunner (1982) dir Ridley Scott For me, this is one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. It's a film that has be re-released at least twice. I have seen the original theatrical release, the 1992 Director's Cut, and the 2007 Final Cut. The 1992 version, I think, set the trend for other director's to release Director's cuts of their films. It's certainly the first one I ever saw. However, despite the name, Ridley Scott did not have complete control over that version. He did over the 2007 one, and it's that one that I am reviewing. I could not remember the differences to the 1992 one without looking them up, but both of the later ones get rid of a voice over (a bit like a 1940s detective film) and different ending that got added to the original after feedback from test audiences (I think). It's based on the Philip K. d*ck novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. The basics of the plot is the same as the book, but the specific story is very different in places. I would recommend the book to anyone who is a fan of serious sci-fi, but it's the sort of book you need to really concentrate on. It was written in 1968 and set in 2019 when that seemed a long way in the future. The world the story is set in is way more advanced than we are now. Harrison Ford plays Deckard, a retired LA cop, a Bladerunner, who specialises in tracking down and terminating rogue androids, called replicants. These are indistinguishable from real humans to all but the experts. Even people like Dekard can only tell for sure by lengthy interrogation of suspected replicants that is designed to show up lack of emotions that real humans have. Replicants are banned from Earth, only supposed to be used on off-world space colonies. Any that do get found on Earth can be killed on the spot. Deckard is brought back by his boss Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh) and his assistant Gaff (Edward James Olmos) because a group of replicants hijacked a ship that was later found abandoned on Earth. They are believed to be in LA seeking their creator, Mr. Tyrell (Joe Turkel). The replicants, at least those that have not already been eliminated, are lead by Batty (Rutger Hauer) and others are played by Daryl Hannah, Brion Jones and Joanna Cassidy. William Sanderson plays Sebastian, a lonely man with a premature ageing disease who makes his on androids (not realistic or dangerous enough to be classed as replicants) and Sean Young plays Tyrell's PA Rachel. The cast are, overall, good, but Rutger Hauer gives the best performance I ever saw of him as Batty varies from charming, to psychopathic, to child-like fearful naïvety. There is a big plot element to do with Deckard and Rachel that I won't spoil, and various things thrown in that have kept some fans speculating as to the true nature of the various characters. If you know the film you will probably know what I am referring to here. I will say that I don't see in the film all the things that some claim to clearly see, but I see enough to agree with the consensus. Also some of the theories about that do not apply to all versions of the film. The sets and cinematography are stunning. It still looks to me well ahead of its time, as does Ridely Scott's Alien, so to me it shows what great film makers could achieve well before they had access to sort of CGI and AI tech available today. It also has a pretty good modern score from Vangelis. The best scene is the penultimate one, just with Batty and Deckard and includes the famous “tears in the rain” monologue that, apart from a few hundred years of technological development, would not have been out of place in a Shakespeare play. 10 / 10 The theatrical version I would only give an 8 to because, although I have only ever seen it once, I do remember the voice-over annoying me and the altered ending, a little bit added on, pointlessly changes the story.- 2
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1,034Two Brothers Playlist (GTA & RDR)
I'm happy to host this weekend. Planning the playlist right now.- 1
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