Saturday, June 22, 2019

536 - Putin Periodically For President, Naughty Aliens, Red Rubes

[2:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
LORRAINE ST. OURS  
There's a Saint Ours?
[2:10 PM] 
St. Ours sounds like a bandit joke that caught on. 
"S'cuse us, but everybody get down from the carriage and tithe to we poor brothers of the Church of St. Ours."
[2:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
I wonder if she knows their namesake's feast day is tomorrow



[11:07 AM] 
"Putin Seeks Re-Election"  
"You will have to assess that new reality and become convinced that what I was said today isn't a bluff," he said. "It's not a bluff, you trust me."
[11:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
What's the deal with their elections?
Do they have to go back to Medvedev again?
They have technical consecutive term limits
[11:10 AM] 
(Putin at podium with Stupiduel deck)  "We also have...(flips)...3...million...radioactive...mutant...ducks.  You trust me on that.  So vote for me as if it counted!"
Yes...Russian term limits are definitely written down, Mr. Blue.
The Constitution of Russia limits the election of one person to the Presidency to two consecutive terms. Since the constitution contains no ruling on a total number of terms that a President may serve, a former president may seek re-election after sitting out one complete term
So if he wins this one he'll get 6 more years on paper
Considering the man in question, Putin's victory in the upcoming election was likely decided – by him – in July of 2012
[11:25 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
His biggest opposition, that Navalny guy, seems very much the same as Putin
in personality and policy
Maybe less corrupt?
[11:47 AM] 
"Vote for Navalny – He's Less Corrupt"



[8:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I watched Alien 3 again
[8:11 AM] 
That's funny...I almost clicked that last night
[8:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
It has some problems compared to the first 2...
For starters they killed off everyone cool from 2. Then they kill off the interesting new characters far too early.
I understand if Beihn and the girl weren't available. Make something up.
Say they were separated in their pod and couldn't be located
But it's a decent movie
It's kind of like The Name of the Rose in space with all the celibate monk-like dudes
And the prison itself has some influence of like an old abbey in some areas - big old pipes look like flying buttresses, giant fans look like Catherine windows
[8:16 AM] 
There's a couple cuts of 3.  Only seen the unloved theatrical
[8:16 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
yeah that's all i could find
[8:17 AM] 
Been so long I only remember bits
Lotta orange
[8:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
for some reason Ripley having sex with the doctor guy seemed out of place
Both in the story arc and for the character herself
[8:22 AM] 
"So...doctor...technically I haven't gotten any action for...(counts) maybe 95 years.  And then I got dumped on a planet of celibates.  Ya think you could help a girl out?"
[8:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
And there was the manner in which she did it
I mean she liked the guy, but she had sex with him to deflect from his questions about the "contagion" she was worried about
It seemed to cheapen the character
Ripley will use sex to get what she wants? Boo
You could easily cut the scene and lose nothing
[8:34 AM] 
Maybe they did
(shrug)
I've read about the other version but never run across a copy
[8:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I guess the production was a mess
Script pages came in the morning they were supposed to film the scene
Not Fincher's fault, the production company's



[2:09 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
weird... Alien 4 director also did Amelie?
wtf
[2:10 PM] 
Never saw Amelie
[2:10 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
quirky movie... enjoyable
I swore i saw Audrey Tautou walking down a narrow street in Paris when i was there... Same neighborhood the film was filmed in
[2:10 PM] 
"For my next one I want to do something more frightening on a visceral level.”
[2:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
and also apparently the neighborhood she lives in
[2:11 PM] 
Pretty good odds then
[2:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
But i'm only like 50% sure it was her... lotta cute brunettes in Paris
[2:11 PM] 
You don't say ;)
I know the WWI hit lyrics were "How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Par'ee"...but I'm betting it was a polite shift from "French girls" to the city.
I still wonder if Americans say "Whee" because soldiers brought "Oui!" back from the Moulin Rouge
[2:15 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Could be
My dad was stationed in Germany during Vietnam, and apparently he learned German. But only, like, dirty cat calling
One was something like “guten tag fraulein mitten den hose der sehen underwasche”
and it actually worked once in a while
[2:26 PM] 
Not quite translating that one...
I know the words I believe, just not making them into anything reasonable
Based on this...and adjusting... "Lift your skirt and show me your underwear"
I was a bit off
In the middle of the pants, see the underwear
lol
[2:28 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
It was something about lifting your dress or dropping your pants and show me the underwear, but in a rhyming pattern as well
[2:34 PM] 
Perhaps some found it bad enough they thought it was cute
heh



[1:32 PM] 
Food Drive suggestions list
Bunch of items
But for some reason only two of them had to have examples written next to them:
Juice, and Condiments
Do they commonly have misunderstandings about what juice and condiments are?
"Sir!  What is this?"
"Purple Drank."
"We wanted juice."
"And you got it."
[1:57 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
[1:58 PM] 
I don't even want to know what street "condiments" are.
...actually yes I do...



[11:50 AM] 
Tale 1 - Dual flush toilet.
About a week ago it started filling funny after a flush
Bit of water...stop...bit of water...stop...bit of water... repeat til tank full.
I could see the intake control was leaking some water out the top but couldn't see what to do about it. 
So fearing to crack it open without more info, I spent...off and on...several sessions trying to research something by description since I didn't even know the part names.
Eventually I started getting close, but all the advice was not exactly what i needed or for the wrong part, or was net dips not reading the questions...
And then, last night, I'd scrolled down past about 25 entries and one said:
"is the water pressure too high? It can do that."
Half twist and it's been fine since.
[12:11 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
try googling "toilet anatomy"
[12:12 PM] 
Heh
Story 2
Working on the blog I came upon some comment about Confederate preservation and Southern Pride
As typical for an opinion thing like that I cleaned it all up and clarified...expanded a bit. 
And I couldn't remember the best way to say "voting against one's own best interests"
It just wasn't sounding right
So I went and looked.
"Ah...OK.  ... what's this?"
I had happened to catch a glance through the first few lines of someone's comment on the topic, Re: Red State Conservatives voting against their own interests.
"Sigh...ok, let me explain this: No we're not."
"Ok..." I said, "I'm ready to be convinced. (click)"
[12:59 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Someone commented on the blog?
[12:59 PM] 
No, we still have zero
Just in the Google search because I had a brain fart over "voting against one's own best interests"
You type something...look at it...doesn't feel right.
Anyway
"No we're not"
[12:59 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
oh okay i get it... continue
[1:10 PM] 
Went on to eloquently explain about how people vote for their principles, and their beliefs, and what they feel should be done, and for those who back them.  "So we are not voting against our own self interests, because they are our interests."
(finish reading) "Uh...point against - that's not what it means." 
Passionate, eloquent...naive and stupid. 
About what I'd expected
I wanted to find a way to respond "And the candidates who spoon feed you this crap you want to here never actually follow through much but always manage to steal a bunch of money, don't they?"
Anyway...found it amusing
My kid's interests are free money, sleeping in, eating out and no school.  By the time he's 18 I hope he finds a good candidate.
[1:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
lol
The Eat The Rich party
[2:13 PM] 
Sounds great!

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