[8:04
AM]
Morning
"Spy
Who Glubbed Me" last night. Not finished. 3rd sub
capture and it was too late to keep going.
Note
- Title came from Mad Magazine. I've never been able to refer
to the movie without it popping up.
That
and "The Poop-Side Down Adventure"
[8:05
AM] Mr. Blue:
You've
seen it before?
[8:05
AM]
Many
times
Great
title music
Barbara
Bach is a strange beastie...
I
kinda have to put her in my Cute or Corpse club
One
minute you can look at her and think “Mmmmm. So nice."
And
then others you wonder if there's anything attractive about her at
all.
Its
a Mana thing, I suppose
[8:13
AM] Mr. Blue:
Luckily
her character was good
[8:13
AM]
Yes...very
good
Though
this film was notable for them occasionally both being terrible
agents.
(me)
"These are the best the UK and USSR have?"
I
don't know if I noticed before...probably.
Some
things just stuck out as "why the heck didn't he/she...?"
Like
they meet the guy with the microfilm.
He
shows it off.
He
immediately gets a mystery phone call that honestly no one important
or in this situation would take without asking about...
And
neither one of them follow the guy?
I
mean...it's 2 nuclear subs with 32 thermonuclear missiles.
Enough to wreck the earth for the foreseeable future.
Follow
the guy
But
it's a dandy Bond film all told.
[10:51
AM] Mr. Blue:
Oh
yeah
[10:51
AM]
Good
chemistry, nice action
[10:51
AM] Mr. Blue:
Top
3 for me
[10:52
AM]
The
ski chase wasn't one of the strongest but the end was a faboo lead-in
to the opening credits
Jaws
was at his best
The
gadgets were a mix of silly and plausible and who wouldn't want that
submarine Lotus?
[10:54
AM] Mr. Blue:
It's
the most Bond Bond
[10:54
AM]
I
didn't get to it yet, but as I recall the final battle scene was
quite well done, gritty, and suspenseful. Enemies coordinating to
save the world and all that
Most
Bond Bond meaning "height of the classic form"?
Incorporated everything to that point and did it well?
It
really did draw from the entire Bond genre, yes
[10:58
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
For
someone that's never seen a Bond film but has the idea of Bond in
their head, that's the one they'd probably most relate to
[10:59
AM]
Except
there was no gambling scene and no naive beauty who helps for a love
scene and ends up dead
Not
needed, really, but extremely common elements
[11:02
AM] Mr. Blue:
Kind
of like the Ford Fairmont is the most "car" car
[11:02
AM]
The
car all kids draw
[11:02
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yes
[11:04
AM]
The
“lusty femme fatale” wasn't used either, really. If Bach
wasn't in the picture, Bond certainly would have had a go at Munroe's
helicopter pilot
But
again...they wrote for partner chemistry
I
think they tried in Moonraker...eh.
And
they succeeded in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Others
pair ups weren't so "partner"-y
(Diamonds
Are Forever...Tiffany Case. Man With Golden Gun...Agent Goodnight)
I've
watched these things too many times...
[11:10
AM] Mr. Blue:
Funny
line i forgot to relay in Moonraker. He's in the shuttle with the
girl under blankets (but floating) and MI6 punches up a live feed so
Bond can talk to the prime minister
"Good
lord! What is Bond doing?"
Q:
"It appears he's attempting re-entry."
[11:10
AM]
lol
I
liked the bit with Margaret Thatcher at the end of "For Your
Eyes Only"
Talking
to the parrot and thinking it's just bad radio reception
[11:12
AM] Mr. Blue:
ahh
yes
[11:13
AM]
lol
I
could swear Benny Hill did the swat away from food gag too.
I
wonder if it happened for real or something
[11:22
AM] Mr. Blue:
I'm
not finding anything about it, but i did stumble on this
Before
she entered the tough world of politics, Thatcher was a research
chemist. In her 20s she worked for J. Lyons and Co. as a food
scientist, where she developed additives for ice cream. Her team
“discovered a method of doubling the amount of air” in ice cream,
which eventually found its way into soft serve products.
What
a shiester.
[11:44
AM]
heh
Thatcher
doubled the amount of air in British Politics
[11:54
AM] Mr. Blue:
heheh
[8:09
AM] Mr. Brown.:
So
they are thinking the economy is going to crash.
That
the rise will not last
[8:30
AM]
Never
really was a rise.
Basically
Trump stole a lot of money from the United States to give us masses a
tiny speck each and everyone already rich and big companies the
bulk of it. And then the rich pocketed theirs and the companies
didn't do anything they said they would, and used the
money to buy back their own stock. So they "increased in
value", continued with business as usual, and the USA is now even poorer.
Which immediately led to the Republicans worrying about having no money (as planned) and how we really need to look at restructuring (looting) "Entitlement" programs (which aren't entitlements) to pay for everything (steal it too).
It
was predictable enough – The White-Collar-Crime Party managed to
get in a crook who is a whole new undiscovered level of corrupt
beyond their previous five.
I
read a Republican apologist Repub-splaining how the government can't
really steal money from Social Security et al and nobody needs to
worry because it's all done in the form of valuable government bonds
that they're required to pay back with interest. So nobody needs
to worry because it's all Democrat propaganda.
"Hey...they
are required to pay those back with interest!"
I'm
required to pay off my car too.
So...what
if I decide not to?
"Yup
I'm broke. Sorry. Bankruptcy."
[8:48
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
don't understand how money or economies work
too
many people smarter and greedier than me
[8:59
AM]
They
are perfectly happy with you not knowing
[8:59
AM] Mr. Blue:
That
makes two of us
[9:02
AM]
Obviously,
things are complicated...but it comes down to:
1.
There's only X number of beans. So many are eaten...so many are
grown. (real value)
2.
I claim my whatever is going to be worth so many beans...maybe
it is...maybe it isn't. (So many beans per year of the real value, i
mean)
3.
You can bet your beans I'm right. (speculation and stock
market)
If
you bet right, you get “free beans” for no work
If
you bet wrong, you lose beans to those betting against, or unforseen
costs.
And
that's basically where the world is screwed up: "Free"
not-real beans.
It's
all fake
Just
a system to put relative values on real beans whether
or not those real beans actually exist or are produced.
I
have a book on the topic that said when these economies were being
developed it was called "ghost money"
[9:18
AM] Mr. Blue:
ahh
No
chance for me to figure it out, let alone then take advantage of it
I'm
better off being ignorant and just keeping my money in a bank or
mattress
[9:19
AM]
Well
you are in it with your retirement and 401k
They're
out there speculating on beans for you
Making
a "I am worth this many beans" claim in your name
[9:23
AM] Mr. Blue:
And I'm sure they're making good investments and not just helping
themselves out
with
my money
[9:23
AM]
Hard
to tell on one side, but yes that comes out.
Cheating,
lying about value, big players mysteriously somehow unloading
everything before an issue.
[9:25
AM] Mr. Blue:
Then
there's like, short-selling? or whatever? betting on 0? somehow
making money by things crashing
[9:25
AM]
"Renegotiating
investments"... Trump has people apparently very good at that
BS.
Special
deals and "public investment"...ie using tax money without
the taxpayers agreeing to it.
Trump
basically destroying Atlantic City was all that kind of crap.
Yet he's not in jail.
Atlantic
City was a huge deal when i was younger. No one talks about the
place now.
[9:28
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
it was still booming when i was a kid, now it's like a metaphor for
failure
I
wasn't sure what the cause was. I assumed since all surrounding
states legalized gambling and cheap flying became available to
Regular Joes, people in the Philly/NYC metro area just started going
upstate or flying to Vegas.
[9:38
AM]
Can't
find the article that laid out all the Trump destruction there...too
long ago.
[9:38
AM] Mr. Blue:
Gambling
seems kinda sad to me
Although
I played a slot machine at the LV airport and won a small amount of
money But I quit while i was ahead
[9:39
AM]
Visceral
thrills
[9:39
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
think they have sensors that can tell if you're a new gambler and
make you win early
and
then you get hooked and lose forever
Same
thing happened at bingo once... Won $160 my first time, never won
again
[9:40
AM]
Probably
understands someone betting like an experimenter
(calculating)
"This one made 3 quarter bets with a $5 spin option and waited a
full minute between each, trying to figure out the fireworks show
readout. Pay out."
Makes
sense...also totally illegal
Unless
if it is excusable as "advertising".
[9:42
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
If
they can tell people who win – card counters or whatever – that
they can't play anymore, they can probably do that
"Gentlemen
you can't win in here! This is a casino!"
[9:46
AM]
Hehe
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