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@bovidae said in TV Serieseseses:

Whoa. Ep 5 of Mare of Easttown.

spoiler

Fucking mahvellous episode.

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me, I am partial to a negroni or three.

Prohibition gin is good, enjoy 4 pillars spices negroni gin as well and if a i have to have one with tonic then like @shark preferbably fever tree

@snowy said in Electric Vehicles:

@nta said in Electric Vehicles:

@snowy additionally, nobody talks fuel efficiency of ICEV towing. The range of a petrol or diesel vehicle is drastically affected by load in the same way as EV.

For sure. If I tow my digger around on the trailer fuel consumption goes up considerably behind the diesel hilux. If I tow the same trailer over a longer distance with the V8 car it isn't so noticeable.

Range anxiety isn't a thing when people can just pull over and fill up though.
E.G. If I was to tow my boat down to the bach with an EV I think that I would need 3 half hour stops to recharge and add 30% to the time traveling. So it is an issue depending on what you are doing.

A digger, a V8, a boat and a batch. Can I be your friend?

Woke up listening to this in my head

Dunno how tunes randomly appear in you subconscious. Yesterday it was

which I fucking hate

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@mn5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

@mn5 said in Grumpy Old Man:

@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:

@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:

@victor-meldrew as if Snowys avatar is a whole crypto currency now!? Dogecoin

Was that a typo for dogging?

Ask @Bones, depends if his phone works in the shower though

No mate, different thing. @R-L is complaining about her dogging being ruined by Irish and LOTR clogging up the parking.

Oh right. Must be pikies.

LOTR ? That’s what nerds who don’t understand Star Wars are into right ?

Triumph the insult comic dog says:

@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@victor-meldrew
Kathleen was seriously hot back in the day. Sizzling in Body Heat 😛

Nowadays the only thing sizzling is the copious amounts of food she puts on the grill. Fucken enormous.....Urzila Carlson could be her stunt double.

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The wall has been unkind for some 80s hotties. Her, Kelly McGillis, Greta Scaachi

She looked decent in a movie starring Eric Roberts on Netflix I must say.

But yeah they all need to get in touch with Liz and Salma for tips on how to remain hot cos whatever they’re doing ain’t working.

Can't beat good genetics

@Snowy

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=520352912333521

@nostrildamus said in Investing - Property/Shares:

@mariner4life said in Investing - Property/Shares:

Can someone explain to me how suddenly Tesla is worth more than every other car company combined?

The aspirational market. And their cars accelerate very fast to the cafe.

As long as it’s in a straight line and not too far away.

@canefan said in The new wine thread:

@snowy said in The new wine thread:

@jc said in The new wine thread:

@smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.

Dry riesling is so underrated and underpriced for what you get. I've always loved Felton Rd dry riesling with it's bouquet of dried apricots, and Kusuda riesling from Martinborough was and maybe still is a cult classic

I totally agree, I wonder if a cheap/bad riesling and chardonnay experience in particular, put people off completely. IMO some grape varieties make more put off bad wines than others but I'm no sommelier so that could be a bullshit opinion..

But there are some very bad and cheap rieslings out there...

@machpants said in Gaming/VR:

Fuck me I didn;t realise how shit the ISP offerings are on the other side of the ditch. Third world shit!

https://www.pcgamer.com/telstra-throws-down-in-the-ultrafast-nbn-price-wars-offers-250mbps-for-the-price-of-50mbps/

Compare 950 ish (max 1000) for 85 NZ, no contract

oh you mean the NBN?
https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/aussie-nbn-technicians-expose-photos-showing-connection-shambles/bb4f0a5f-6b9a-49c1-bfb3-3ed9f3603420

I ran into some people on that who were looking forward to retirement rather than stay in the job..

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMepvC8mF/

Jesus give me the pumas anyday

@catogrande said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

@mn5

Obviously a stupid and dickish move by the twat, but now comes the overload of virtue signallers piling on and effectively killing a business. What about all the poor folk that will be out of work? The bloke has resigned, that ought to be enough.

I think an apology and an explanation of the context was enough personally but that’s just me.

Mind you that’s no where near enough in this day and age of perfectly behaved virtue signallers who’ve never made mistakes in the heat of a moment.

@godder said in RIP 2021:

@siam said in RIP 2021:

John Clarke is/was the best you motherf....s!!

He was no Billy T...

Holy Shit no, he was a real one trick pony compared to BTJ

Stumbled onto Blackout, which is a fictional podcast where the whole US loses electricity (has been a tv series along these lines)

Is pretty good, Rami Malek voices one of the characters.

@no-quarter Wife had a scare about a year ago. Similar thing, but she is fine, no operation. It frightens the shit out of you though.

Hope that it is all O.K.

I've had enough of cancer and @tim is working on fixing the fucker so it will all be fine I'm sure.

@catogrande it was on the back of days of rain so his boredom was understandable. My fault he had access.

We try to make sure that he's exercised enough that he sleeps as a result. Given how well he interacts with other dogs, the dog park is a godsend. Now I don't have to devote 90-120 mins hiking up and down hills with him.

Recall isn't a problem off leash. It's harder to get significant seperation practising "stay" even on the local footy fields. So it turns into a mutual sprint session as he tries to catch me. 😂

@bones Oh, that's quality. Well played.

@r-l said in Twitter:

This is weird, not sure i like it. I don't like Ben. But i do like J-Lo, great brows.

Are his O.K.? I'm never quite sure anymore.

@taniwharugby Ironic, then, that I see this:

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300301196/climate-explained-when-antarctica-melts-will-gravity-changes-lift-up-land-and-lower-sea-levels

@kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@nta said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

@crucial hadn't realised that was a complete clip - though ti twas live 🤦♂ :

he got ya there ... my Elon tweet about sticking the landing should have been a bit of a hint, though...

They turned up after as Duluth merged the threads.

The 6 minutes of nothing happening sure made it appear live

One of the many weird/frustrating things about MH370 is how a 2014 plane crash can be about as mysterious as the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

I still have a small hope that they'll find it one day, but I guess the CVR may well have since perished, even if it survived the original impact.

@booboo said in Documentaries:

James Burke is Da Man!

his 'connections' series was exceptional. Just showed how ideas and inventions just wandered all over the place and cause enormous changes

@majorrage that strongly and sadly reminded me of this story that first made me really sit up and think about the impact of concussions after sport. It's ten years old now, but I see Dave Duerson is mentioned in the BBC story. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/jul/19/nfl-star-brain-injuries-destroyed

@smudge said in Thrashed CD's:

In the summer of 1994/95, my parents decided to do a road trip from Dunedin up to Auckland for Xmas. With one sister already having left home, and the other on exchange in Finland, 15yo me had the back seat of our 1986 Toyota Corona to myself. After taking SH1 all the way north, we took our time coming home via the BOP, around East Cape and down through Hawke's Bay.

Anyway, I tore through packets of AA batteries listening to cassettes on my Walkman, and the one that I could listen to over and over was Crowded House's Together Alone. Still my favourite CH album to this day.

Others on high rotate for me on my 3-CD player and later my 25+1 CD player/stero were:

Radiohead - The Bends Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation Gomez - Bring It On Chemical Brothers - Surrender

That is a cracking selection of music. Radiohead's best album for me.

@bones said in Sky TV:

@crucial said in Sky TV:

@bones I guess they’ve got their reasons
But I just don't want to know.

Hey I got a lot of faith in ya

Good times never seemed so good

@billy-tell said in Whisky / Whiskey:

Imho the Balvenie 12 double wood is a fantastic standard level whisky.

For whisky with an e, Teeling has some good stuff.

I concur on the Balvenie. Classic drop.
I had a bottle of Teeling once and even though I am partial to the Irish stuff didn’t really enjoy it. Just on personal preference probably

@kirwan said in DCEU:

@nepia said in DCEU:

@kirwan I'd genuinely want to see a Batfleck movie directed by Affleck. I'd rather it came out in the movies than on HBO Max as there's less chance he goes Snyder on it.

Movies Affleck has directed so far haven’t been too long, whereas that’s a Snyder trademark.

Yeah, I know, I hope his filmaking style hasn't been infected by Snyder is my point. 😉

@machpants In my defence the last post (no pun intended) on that thread was 5 days ago, and it was the resurrection of the 2016 ANZAC Day thread.

I would merge - but I'm obviously a technophobe ...

i love watching a commercial kitchen. Sat next to an open one in St Kilda a couple of years back. I was fascinated by their hot plate. Over actual coals, on a pully system so they moved it up and down depending on what they were cooking. It was awesome.

Fucking great meal too from memory (i also drank a skinfull)

@taniwharugby We had a similar experience as "victims" when my wife had a drugged up and drunk driver hit her car doing 186 KPH. After wife had ricocheted off concrete median barriers, etc for a while her car looked more like a golf ball than a Golf GTi. Tribute to modern cars that she was fine. His car wasn't so new and his GF wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Had her feet up on the dashboard. Both legs concertina and is an horrific roadside scene. She did survive.

We then had the whole "victim support" thing. The kid was bought in with his parents, he had to face up to us, the mediator (for want of a better word) in front of his parents. It was awful. The kid knew that he had seriously fucked up and was obviously clean (drugwise) and remorseful. His parents were really nice and apologetic. Made me wonder how the kid had got into the drug mess when his parents seemed so good but maybe I misjudged the situation. The father was a disciplinarian, no doubt. A bit Once were Warriors about it but genuine affection as well.

I didn't go to the court case, didn't seem much point as he plead guilty, but I did hear what was offered to him, accepted, and seemed to have helped him by the time that we met. We were offered financial recompense for the insurance excess, emotional distress, etc but this kid had been punished enough so I declined it all.

You just have to hope that they take these second chances I suppose.

@dogmeat said in Songs that remind you of...:

@snowy yeah but as a recompense you get to call yourself - A TROUBADOR!

You spelt "twat" wrong.