@Tordah said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

The Matrix is a boring, shit & pseudointellectual movie Squid Game was a bad & predictable TV show Dredd (2012) is brilliant Queen is an extremely overrated band Ace Ventura 1 & 2 are very underrated Cats are annoying Dogs are even more annoying

I'd agree people look too much into Matrix these days, but at the time I thought it was excellent and original.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Haven't watched them.
Can be.
Can be.

I got snapped by Auckland Transport driving in a bus lane.

Ironically I am usually very dutiful about not transgressing priority lanes but I wasn't even aware that I was in one

However I did challenge the fine on their website on the basis that you can clearly see from the photos that they provided that I was unable to merge into the other lane so what was I supposed to do stop at the entrance to the bus lane and completely block all traffic but more importantly legally you have 50 metres to exit a priority lane and given that the supporting photos they have supplied are taken less than one second apart I would have had to be travelling at 180kph to exceed 50 metres in that time.

I heard nothing for two months. Then I got a phone call from Baycorp who Council has passed the infringement to. I explained I had appealed. Baycorp got me to put it in writing as they had no record.

I've come back from holiday to a letter from Akl Transport saying I didn't appeal and I have driven in a bus lane.

I am considering going to court. Not so much for the fine but just the arrogance.

@Bones Youth is wasted on the young.

Is there a more risible term than eco-warrior?

@Nepia said in Memes:

I'm an Apple fan, not an overbearing one

That's a new one!

Not many people know that in the classical age of Asterix and Obelix personal delivery was possible via a sophisticated voice recognition system that responded to "Hey, elixir."

@Catogrande said in Movie review thread...:

I'm off now to drink too much gin, listen to Leonard Cohen and search for a razor blade.

Recommend "Songs to Slit Your Wrists By" from his Blue Raincoat period

I'm about a decade late to these guys but enjoying catching up

@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:

Looks like the next (E08) will jump again (10 years or so), on youtube I saw Aemond as an adult on the video image.

Yep, a lot of the child actors seem to have been replaced - again.

I thought that the beginning of this episode was boring but it ended stronger.

@MiketheSnow said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

@Bones said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

Would

Looks like shes put two kettle bells to good use

Look like a decent weight too

For @Tim 's enjoyment

You're welcome.

@MajorRage said in Twitter:

Is that Robert Mugabe?

I'm tempted to say "They all look the same, don't they". But won't as that would be racist.

(Actually a line used by a black friend who sadly died a few years back when he had difficulty remembering people's names)

@MN5 said in Chillis:

I think Paremata is a slightly better micro climate than Wellington

real estate speak for "short people might not mind the climate so much"

I’m whinging about this in the GOM thread…….

“Call me the breeze” is their best song by absolute far. Free bird is a boring wank fest.

No idea if this is the right thread or if this is old news or totally bogus, so I'll leave for you nerds to enjoy or dismiss as appropriate

I’m glad people like Chloe are around to tell us what we’re allowed to find funny or not

I might be judging a book by its cover but the words ‘barrel of laughs’ and ‘Chloe’ look like an uneasy mix at best.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/130027874/hospo-workers-roast-wellingtons-avida-bar-for-its-facetious-job-ad

@canefan said in Marvel movies and tv shows:

@Bones wasn't the guy from Castle on it too?

@Kiwiwomble said in Marvel movies and tv shows:

@Rancid-Schnitzel i quite like that...as far as early 2000's sitcoms go, nathan fillon seems like another good bloke

yeah, nathan fillon, although i generally remember him from firefly/serenity

@mariner4life I watched Free Solo last night.

I think I still preferred The Alpinist, but agree, those guys are just different...I mean lets take 3 hours climbing a rock, with your life based on a tiny little ledge of a few MM that your foot is on or hand is holding.

Dude had ape-like feet though, wonder if what he does has made them slightly different.

But that whole last 20 mins or so as he was climbing that rock, gave me butterflies.

Might have to look at Dawn Wall too.

@dogmeat said in Travel:

@booboo I thought Kuranda was massively over-hyped.

Do agree about the Tablelands and Daintree though. Cape Trib is awesome

Do not under any circumstances think a day trip to Undarra lava tubes from Port Douglas is a good idea. In particular do not leave at dawn, drive for bloody hours only to arrive and find out there are only two tours a day, you've missed the first one by 15 minutes and the next one isn't for another 5 hours.

The town itself was a waste, as was the Butterfly house, but the train trip up was good, as was @mariner4life 's Rainforestation and the gondola back down.

@MajorRage said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

@Frank said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

@MN5 said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

@Frank said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

Worst NZ TV I have ever seen was the last few minutes of the Covid fundraiser where they made a train and did the "Thank you very much" dance.
So contrived, so awful.
But, luckily, I can't find it on YouTube,

That sounds absolutely horrific.

Found it. Go to 7hours 58 minutes.

Christ on a bike.

Cringeworthy doesn't even begin to cover it.

It's got it all.

@booboo said in RIP 2022:

Coolio, rapper of Gangsta's Paradise fame, dies in Los Angeles aged 59 according to US media

Sep 28 Gangsta's Paradise rapper Coolio found dead in friend's bathroom Gangsta's Paradise rapper Coolio found dead in friend's bathroom

US rapper Coolio — who achieved enormous success with his 1995 hit Gangsta's Paradise — has died aged 59, his manager says.

Sad to hear.

This tune always filled the D floor back in the day, me and other wiggers trying to be “Gangsta”. Clever dude.

RIP.

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

@canefan The images of the target were cool, a lot of detail of the surface

Missed an opportunity for final frame to look like this
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@antipodean said in Bogans with kids:

Guess this is the best thread for this.

He looks like he fell asleep pissed and his mates went to town with the tattoo gun

@MN5

https://www.reddit.com/r/MSsEcReTPoDcAsT/comments/xpjtov/here_is_shanes_set_that_got_copyright_claimed_on/

@bayimports said in TV Serieseseses:

@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:

@Crucial said in TV Serieseseses:

Bear - just have the last ep to go.

Fantastic scripting, acting, direction, filming etc. Interesting characters. I am enjoying it but in all of its search for authenticity every now and then it does something really jarring on the food front.

Show content
an example would be the pastry chef dude, after all of his dedication and study toward making a perfect donut gets a 'revelation' to use a yeasted dough rather than a cake one. WTF? Donuts are a yeasted dough. That's your start point.

I've never worked in a US kitchen or for a US chef but I think the obsession levels and toxic environments are actually realistic over there. The kitchen talk and constant 'yes chef' stuff is well overdone from my experience but I do understand that's how they have taken something and become over-serious with it.
I will disagree with the notion the he worked like that at Noma though. Noma is well known as a very quiet zen like kitchen and not a place of high stress

Cracks me up that you considered that worthy of a spoiler hidey-thingee 😁. Kudos for your concern for us!

Great fucking series, huge Shameless fan of Lip, but reallt loved the girl in this.

couldn't help think I was watching Lip for a couple of episodes.. great series this one though

Me too, thought they should have set it in a different city than Chicago to help remove some of that similarity.

I had a 147 GTA about 18 years ago and didn’t have any issues other than the leather around the gear stick got worn a bit. Mechanically didn’t miss a beat and I gave that 6cyl a decent workout.

@MajorRage said in Happiness Scale:

One of the biggest breakdowns in relationships is that woman & men communicate very differently, as others have alluded to.

My wife and I routinely make this joke:

Some spoilers in the article if you have not seen the movie, but great article about how they did the night shots for the recent movie Nope

Sep 4  /  Cinematography & Cameras How DP Hoyte Van Hoytema Reinvented Day-for-Night in 'Nope' How DP Hoyte Van Hoytema Reinvented Day-for-Night in 'Nope'

This cinematographer reinvited the wheel on day-for-night shots, and this is how he did it.

Saw one of these flying quite slowly from the train near Settle in Yorkshire.

Not a clue what it was doing there, but Menwith Hill is nearby

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Got a bottle of Cardhu 15 year old single malt as a present. It's fruitier than anything I've had before. Very easy drinking

@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Purchase Thread:

one thing i forgot about the jabra's (maybe common now) is they have "hear through" so the opposite of ANC, turns them into effectively a hearing aid, quite handy when on the bike for things like traffic and on the rare occurrence when im in the office and dont want people sneaking up on me

Settled on these - https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/jabra-elite-5-anc-true-wireless-in-ear-headphones-titanium-black

Jabra Elite 5. Have ANC and hear-through which were the main things. Kind of hard to get used to if I'm honest, in terms of them just sitting in my lugs but the sound is good and they were $199, which I can live with (having been paid my annual bonus yesterday 😀 )

Just trying to figure out how to remove Google Assistant so I can go back to using left/right for volume up/down.

EDIT: Ah I see - need to hold it down for longer....

I remember playing this on green screen on my mates dad's accounting computer. Awesome, and frustrating!

Graeme Mason  /  Sep 22  /  Games ‘I saw the possibility of what could be done – so I did it’: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40 ‘I saw the possibility of what could be done – so I did it’: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40

The developer of the text-adventure game on how, at 20, she overcame 1980s misogyny to turn a Tolkien book into one of the most groundbreaking titles in the gaming canon

Liu Cixin - The Three-Body Problem
... and then the rest of the trilogy

It seems I'm a bit late to the party - I thought it was a fairly recent thing, but apparently not.
Anyway... interesting in a few ways...

First book - not really sure what's going on until nearly the end. Just... so many cryptic storylines going on. Which made it kinda hard going at first, then intriguing, then confusing, then... good. Also... the relatively unique viewpoint of a Chinese writer... Especially in the scenes set during the Cultural Revolution.. a Chinese person writing about that was... interesting. But also... I think in one of the later books, some chat about the academic culture under a leader rather reminiscent of the current... and... rather critical And also - just having a non-seppo-centric view of the future... a future where the culture is actually reasonably well represented by the major entities But then... eventually - just high-concept Sci-Fi. But reasonably well thought through. Oh, and little ol' NZ, the Tangata Whenua, the Haka, and what-not - make an appearance at some point.

In general - pretty good read.
Tit-watch - zero.

@MajorRage said in Passing of Queen Elizabeth:

I think the ultimate tribute came from, oddly, Macron.

“To you, she was your Queen. To us, she was The Queen”.

You can’t top that.

That's brilliant

Love this from the 2 Ronnie's...Four Candles...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid023W3cgLnoqU2K1SdWD8rh5CqRhAC448iqjppe5mZjAM2HAQGjsvc8WnozTURRBxvbl&id=102982455569963

@Kruse said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:

Geek out nerds

I only discovered about 4 months ago - that "Spendthrift" meant the opposite of what I thought it did. What I'd thought it meant for decades.
Still fucking furious.

Fuck. That's today for me

@booboo said in Extreme Weather:

@Machpants said in Extreme Weather:

@booboo said in Extreme Weather:

Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud.

Wow that's pretty rare, nice shot

So google tells me.

Haha many hours of met training tells me