Kay, is that you? You do look different.

Eric Cartman to his mom: “because I like to be wined and dined before YOU FUCK ME OVER!”

Perfectly describes this sort of phenomenon.

I was going to disagree, then I opened my code editor… then my word processor… holy crap. I haven’t used a floppy since 1995.

“Is your disk hard or floppy?”

Oh. I guess I should be glad no woman ever complimented my teeth in 2001 or so.

Having kids, having to work…

Thank you for your service though.

My new home country has a thing called talkoot: it means people get together to do some work for someone (or the community), then this someone offers food & sauna (and that means socialising, an excuse to crack a beer etc). Historically used when building houses, it is now a neat trick to both get together and get some work done. Or free food & sauna.

Board games are good. I like the crazy verbal ones like Cards Against Humanity or Rappakalja (which is called Balderdash in English accordign to Wikipedia), but something like Catan will also do.

Yesterday we went to the cinema in a local art deco cinema, that was pretty cool actually. They had couches in the back. The newest Jodie Foster movie of all things.

There’s the local requirement though. I have zero contact to anybody from my youth, I moved, completely changed my lifestyle, they moved… My friends now are much more recent.

Mooky is a great name though.

they take walking the dog very seriously, like multiple times a day, every day.

How much is it around where you are?

There’s another German thing with dogs: it’s typical to walk your dog without a leash - something that would make people freak out where I live now. Maybe German dogs are a bit more used to obeying verbal commands.

The stuff of nightmares.

Me too. Don’t hate it.

Esp. when after an eternity of sleeplessness you look at the clock and it’s still hours til daylight.

IMDB’s aren’t better. I had noticed at least one movie that had pretty bad ratings despite being pretty good - the only movie adaptation of a Carl Hiaasen novel, which does the novel full justice imho. I guess the haters were disappointed Demi Moore fans?

And it’s usually pretty predictable what sort of stuff gets the really high ratings; anything from 8.0 upwards has to be filtered for fandom.

Read the book. Seriously, Lem’s depictions of all things alien are orders of magnitude better than any movie - even modern CGI - can be. (I watched the Tarkovsky movie after reading the book and wasn’t impressed either)

This is usually where le pirate is more reliable. Thanks for the tip.

If a movie makes you forget about the bad shit in the world for a couple hours, it’s done its job. Let’s stop asking much more than that from movies.

Never underestimate entertainment value. All art is also always part entertainment. Never forget that.

Dr. Pulaski on STTNG. “PMS Bitchface” some called her.

But that’s what I liked about her!

A wish even the genie cannot fulfil.

thrash not trash

oops. That’s different. No offense taken though; considering the comparison to punk I feel entitled to having made that mistake.

I feel there’s a joke about US politics in this somewhere.