Late night Movie Review. The Gold of Rome. Italy.1960. Re-enactment of German occupation of Rome in wwii and the extortion of the Italian Jewish population.
3 hobbits.
The Abandoned. 1955. Italy. wwii Italy, a young aristo is challenged to become involved and join the cause against Germany when refugees from the bombing of Milan are assigned to his villa.
3 hobbits
Both these B&W movies are beautifully shot and acted and they add to understanding modern history of Italy.
I love your rating scale.
Planning has begun for a trip to LA28 Olympics. Might as well tick that box before departing this mortal coil.
So jelly.
It’s a long way off but the spark of a plan is there so that’s something.
So, for the last week or two, my zygomatic bone (the corner of my eye socket furthest from my nose) has been hurting. When I blink or touch it, it hurts a lot. There’s no bruising though, or any real swelling. But it’s painful and sore.
I’m low key stressed it’s something serious, but it could also be a small fracture from when Mickey pounced on my head. Could be nothing. I should go to the doctor, will have to make an appointment this week.
Got a tuning fork? One lecturer told me an old timey approach to diagnose broken bones was to hold a tuning for to it and see if the broken bits vibrate causing pain.
I do not! But I expect my GP to whip one out 😂
Politics/class
I feel like Australia is increasingly becoming stratified. There are people who are still a bit more protected but the people at the bottom are left fighting each other for scraps and dragging each other down like crabs in a bucket.
Occupy Melbourne was incoherent and quickly squashed but these are the living conditions that were predicted and protested
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Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised “Socialism without doctrine”. That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can’t wait to see what comes after post-modernism.It’s going to keep getting worse too. I give us about 4 years.
It has always been like this.
For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren’t really independent bourgeoisie.
Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.
What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn’t had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That’s what capitalism is.
me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago
Just last week, John Quiggin released a book on pretty much this exact topic, called “After Neoliberalism”.
You can download the eBook for free, or order a printed copy here: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/global-thinkers-series/after-neoliberalism
If you’re interested in an in-depth look at the economic and government policies that erosion of the middle class happened, it’s worth a read.
I’m not sure about downloading or ordering but I found this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj4ha2QCX1w
Sadly it’d probably just confirm what I already have a sense of.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
~Late 1700s
Gratitude thread!
The sun :) and only a few weeks (??) left hopefully of super coldness. Every year, I forget when it starts to warm up.
I have both bocconcini and bolognese sauce to use for dinner tonight.
Sun sun sun sun sun 🌞
Super grateful that my diarrhoea episode ended very quickly and my guts don’t seem to be too damaged.
Grateful for dishwashing machines taking off a lot of the daily load 🙏
And so grateful for a flexible workplace so I don’t need to feel doom about starting tomorrow at a set time for set hours
🎶it’s a DAAAAMN COLLLLD niggght🎵
🎶 Trying to figure OUUUUT this life! 🎶
🎵Won’t you Take me by the hand Take me somewhere new I don’t know who you are But I… I’m with you 🎵
I’m waiting for the nights to get warmer so I can finish some painting outside
This morning was rough. I had a sleep in, and it was still like 5 degrees when I woke up. 12.5 in my room, but I slept with the electric blanket on low last night, so my fingers and toes were really chilly.
First thing I did was get up, turn the electric blanket onto high to defrost, then hit the heater and go back to bed for an hour until it warmed up
I had to remove the electric blanket yesterday to clean a spill and let the sponged spots dry. Suffering. I make two hot water bottles now
My hair turned out really nice today. Not sure why, I washed it with a detergent ’soap’ bar and haven’t cut it yet.
I think the issues I was having were only from hair being a bit too long and not remembering to brush it enough. I might grab a large paddle brush to make it easier
This is a really lovely win amongst the sea of other challenges you routinely face!
Yeah, life sucks but at least my hair looks good
Got an 8am shift tomorrow morning, so today is relax and play games, and some study.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be my big study days, got a project to make for my prac which will be interesting bringing in on the bus lol.
Anti-gratitude thread.
Got like five hours of sleep and woke up late for work. Was a minute late. Every Sunday it’s the same and I feel like I’m sacrificing my mental health for the sake of this three hour shift. But it’s the only consistent shift I get. Time to look for a new job I reckon. Once I finish uni, I shall exit retail.
no buses and trams in the city 😡
I have to do something today I really don’t want to, but I have no choice. Ah well, it won’t be long now.
Good luck 🫡
I have some mince which I think is freezer burnt :(
It’s a beautiful looking day outside and I am once again trapped inside at work.
Random question: have you heard the phrase “(he / she /it) went mad and we shot them” in response to a query, or even just answering the phone? It’s something quite commonly used in my family, but when i answered a work call with it “not here, she went mad so we shot her” the zoomer on the other end lost their shit
Yep. Most frequently used when people are looking for the Team Leader at work.
I’ve heard it, but not recently, and certainly not at work! It’s a pick your audience carefully sort of dark humour. Xer
Second nsfw comment. Not sure if me being terribly ASD or working in cinema too long.
Yeah it was a common one growing up.
Along with ‘you might be a pain/pane but we can’t see through ya’ and ‘I’ll give you something to cry about’.
That last one needs to die.
Thebother two may be black humour, but something to cry about is flat out abuse
Yes. My dad said it all the time.
Yes I’ve heard it many times, but now that I think of it, not recently. Did zoomer loose their shit because they thought it funny, or thought it offensive?
Just couldn’t handle it. They weren’t offended per se, but there was a lot of “oh my god what???”
I have never heard of it.
I’ve never heard it, but it’s the sort of thing I could imagine an old person saying/having been popular many decades ago. Probably not suitable in a work enrolment, but I see the humour in it either way
(I wrote this before your edit, forgot to hit post. Pretty firmly gen z here)
Spot on. Would def be a survival from days when nearly everyone had a rural background or on a farm. Probably originally referred to dogs … even though rabies has been eradicated from Australia for a very long time.
Uh, no. It’s just black humour. "Hey dad - " dad: “he’s not here, he went mad and we shot him”
I don’t think we’ve ever had rabies, have we? There’s only ever been 2 deaths as far as I can tell, one in '87 and the other in 1990, and both were contacted overseas. We do have the Australian bat lysavirus which is similar to rabies, but there’s only been 3 deaths from that, with the earliest being in 1996. Also, I think that’s only been found in 2 horses, and nothing else
Interesting point. Rabies is a virus, and needs a living host. Given the long incubation period I would be very surprised if the virus had not come into Aus with the early european settlers, but died out when not transmitted. The early settlers mostly came from environments where rabies was present and much feared. So much so that even a suspicion of infection was sufficient for an animal to be shot - as per comments above. You might like to read up on the history of Louis Pasteur, yes the pasteurisation bloke. He invented the first rabies vaccine for humans and this is what he was known for at the time. Its quite a story.
Lyssavirus has an endemic host species here - bats - so there’s an ongoing source of infection present even though the transmission route is complex. Basically, the bat has to piss on grass, then a horse has to eat that grass to catch the virus. Then horse dies and so does any human that’s been in contact with the horse. Vic Rail was the guy who died first from lyssavirus - he was a racehorse trainer and one of the better ones. I knew him way back when, and he is still sorely missed. No vaccine for lyssavirus available or likely as it’s easier and cheaper to just euthanase any affected horses before any people die.
It’s been a tough day in the office for Mr Snowy, who’s now falling asleep at the desk.
Mr Snowy is a very handsome boy
So Mr P tested positive for covid today, but via some miracle or misadventure all the rest of us have tested negative. Thank goodness, as Miniest was at a party earlier and if she’d tested positive I’d have had to contact the parents 😬Now he is quarantined in his room moaning and demanding things lol.
Oh that’s no fun — poor thing 😔😷
I remember a couple of months back when my partner had covid, it was a logistical nightmare.
She got the bedroom, I got the living room and slept on the couch.
We both wore masks if we had to be in the same room for any reason.
And then one day I gave her a bowl of soup and she managed to spill it all over the bed. (Thank heaven for mattress protectors!)
Making the bed while wearing gloves and a mask is not an experience I’m keen to repeat anytime soon!
The good news is she started getting better after a week or so. And had completely recovered after a month.
She first noticed her sense of smell was returning while walking past some smokers in front of Woolies.
“Do you smell that? Wait — I can smell that! I can smell the smokers!” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a nonsmoker so overjoyed at the smell of cigarette smoke! 😆
Anyway wishing Mr Peeler a speedy recovery. Yeah, it’ll be tough, but hopefully he’ll be feeling better in a week or two. Take care 💜🫂
Thankyou for your kind thoughts 🙂 It’s awkward here as he’s walking through the lounge to use the bathroom frequently enough for me to be concerned about mine and the children’s health. So I hunted up my family’s old chamber pot (mum called it “the gazunder” because it gazunder the bed) and gave it to him to use. But, like all diehard smokers, he still goes out to smoke 😠
Hubs lost his sense of smell and taste both times with covid - the one time I caught it i didn’t. He’s still scuntch about it.
My partner seriously freaked out when she lost her sense of taste and smell. But thankfully it returned (allbeit slowly) over the following weeks.
I had covid recently and my OH and kid didn’t get it, despite all being together in the house. Fingers crossed you’ll avoid it (and I hope Mr p has a speedy recovery)
Thankyou Springy, here’s hoping all our previous practise with masks and sanitiser pays off!
35/50 - quite proud of myself
Yes!!! I did it!!!
0/50!!!
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🌳🥄
An abysmal 5/50.
25/50
Normally I’m hot garbage at these… But today I’m 7% up in average.
What sorcery is this? 😂
15/50 🥰
35/50 as well! That was a fucking hard one though, I should have given a crazier answer for Florida lol
30/50
Just had some Portuguese chicken. Definitely challenged my spice tolerance levels. Mouth and lips still tingling 10 min later.
On an unrelated note, I find it astounding that new builds, even ones that look relatively expensive still have single glaze windows.
My first headache in years. Ouch. I think it’s dust from the new old cupboard and spring glare
Hope it goes quickly! 🖤
Thanks, I had some aspirin and rested , it seems to be better now
