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What do you think of your neighbors?
by JustHatched- 4 followers
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Mine are all in laws, I get along with them fine. It's not like they are real close anyways, not like city living.
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How much ya Wrench?
by Sinister- 4 replies
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Who remembers that old SNL skit? Any other wrench turners in here? If so what have you worked on lately? Professional and shade tree welcome 🙂 I had to take this corroded Fuse Panel and rebuild it using this... Finished product, my fingers hurt for days.
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For kicks
by Lann- 2 followers
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What do you do for kicks? Small or big. Why do i ask? It seems sometimes something might feel missing, or things simply feeling way too everyday ordinary. So, what do you do about it?
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Retirement and $
by Lann- 2 followers
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Today the swedish system builts on retirement at age 65, and i imagine that once(if) i get there it will have moved a few years up. I also estimate income will drop to about 50% of ones salary while working, assuming i work up til then. So preparing finacially for retirement is a must. That will likely include stocks and/or funds. Are there anyone else who look into these type of areas, like stocks and the market, and strategies preparing for retirement?
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Ireland: what can you tell me about it?
by Spinnaker1981- 1 follower
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Ok, has most of you know, I am a Pharmacist in Portugal. A couple of days ago I was offered a position in Ireland as a Pharmacist in one of their pharmacy networks. I know the weather is not the same as in Portugal and I know the pay is very good compared to what we get payed in Portugal. I have been doing some research (technical and registration) and I have been doing some research on prices as well, but there is nothing like local knowledge. I do plan on going there beforehand, but that is also just a small glimpse of what might be to come. Anyone around here, with more knowledge of the country than me, to enlighten me on what I a…
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What is this?
by Lann- 3 followers
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I see its a spider, but does anyone know what kind?
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9/11
by Pb76- 10 replies
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Never forget It’s now 18 years, can you remember where you were when the news broke? how did you feel? How did it change your life?
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I'm 20.
by Schema_Slix- 3 followers
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Far from an adult though. I am under no obligation to grow up!
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Where in the world have you been? 1 2
by Squirrel- 3 followers
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After some shoutbox discussions of seeing where people have been to I thought I’d create a thread where we can share where we’ve been. https://map1.maploco.com/visited-countries/ This site doesn’t seem too bad in terms of ads and you can get a screenshot of the world map showing how far you’ve travelled. I definitely need to get out of Europe!
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Caption Competition
by CatManDoza- 15 replies
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Thought I'd start a bit of fun with a caption competiton. This is in no way stolen from Uncle's thread over on GTAF (ok maybe it is), but though it could be a good laugh if enough people fancy it. I'll start off with a picture from my collection, but I openly encourage anyone to PM me their pics for future use. THey can be from GTA, RDR, or anything else that tickles your tastebuds. I'll run it myself and pick a winner, this way everyone that wants to have a go can, no one needs to sit out to be a voter. Will post a new picture each Monday, and announce the winner for the previous week on either a Saturday or a Sunday, time permitting. This openin…
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I've been playing PS for a long time now and I've come across some incredibly odd and deranged names of our gaming peers over the years. I can't recall ALL of the ones that had me scratching my head or bursting out laughing - but here's a few standouts worth mentioning: - iEatAss4Cash (PS3) - UnicornMeatSauce (PS4) - FluffyTigerNuts (PS4) And no, I did not make these up. That said, what are some fucked up names you've seen? Totally for fun.
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Things done different 1 2
by Lann- 3 followers
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We had visitors from New Zealand for christmas. They were surprised that we always have our babies take their naps outside. Summertime we put a net over the stroller, wintertime tuck them down so all you see if their face. I guess it might be due to them having alot of dangerous animals or something. But the babies sleep alot better outside. Have you ever came across something your people do that others find weird?
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How to profit
by Lann- 2 followers
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If you were asked that during the next year turn $50K into $60K legally, how would you attempt it?
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You are banned! 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 38 replies
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Thought I would start up a game I have played on a few forums before called ‘You are banned!’. Don’t panic if you read this while on holiday Hatch, just a bit of fun. You simply ban the person who last posted for whatever reason comes into your head. You cannot dispute a ban, all bans are final, you are banned until you ban someone else! There is no post before this one for me to ban someone so I just have to sit here and wait until I get banned...
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Smoke alarms
by Lann- 1 follower
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My son had a homework counting and testing the smoke alarms in the home. We counted 10 working fine and two in need of new batteries. Do you have any?
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So @pete_95973 started this off in the chatbox and I think it's an interesting thing to think about... Cats, hyenas and pigs were mentioned. Also otters and a specific dog breed - mini pinscher - were brought up. I'm surprised no-one mentioned camels or asses(pun intended) a.k.a donkeys! Camels keep spitting, looking at folks indifferently while chewing and even ignore people. Donkeys can be stubborn as f***. Also certain types of eagles - "sharing" is definitely not in their vocabulary.
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Was it something your parents told you to make you behave? Something your mates told you as a joke?
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Spring/Summer to do list?
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Just curious what is on your to do list once the warm weather gets here (it's not to far away)? Mine is Put new roof on garage Fix roof on barn Build Alpaca items store and website (if you come to USA @Danielle be sure to swing by) Begin total restoration of GMC Yukon Several trees need taken out Build new bridge at the wedding chapel Convert boat trailer into a car trailer Plus all the weekly, daily shit like mowing....
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Parrots
by JustHatched- 20 replies
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Seems me and @Paulie have a common interest but anyone is free to chime in Tell me about this Conure you have Paulie I currently have an African Grey (will post pic when I take one) but have had a Green Cheek Conure (best of all the birds I have had), Quaker Parrots, c*ckatiels, and Budgies
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What sites do you use to create Decals
by al_ka_seltzer- 6 replies
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I use vectorizer.io to convert JPEGS & svgomg if I need to lose more kb. I here some use Inkscape to trace images, but having tried it I found it a nightmare. There are some awesome Decals out there, but whats the best system for you?
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T shirt logos
by JustHatched- 4 replies
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If you wear T Shirts, and those with printing on them do you prefer large print in the front or the back of the shirt. I only ask my mother keeps buying my shirts with big Metallica logos on the front, and while I love Metallica and the shirts look cool I don't have the hear to tell her I will never wear them cuz I do not like having stuff on the front of my shirts. Feels like I am wearing a sheet of plywood on my chest.
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Going to Disney World
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Figured since @pete_95973 and @djw180 posted where they are going I would also @WasHatched and his high school band were invited to play at Disney at the end of March, I am going with him. We'll be there for 8 days. I am a chaperone for a bunch of kids, fun fun....
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I know you have similar issues with your kitty too
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Totally ripping off the title of Pete's recent thread, but anyway .. Me and my wife have just booked a Caribbean cruise, kind of a joint 50th birthday special holiday. Unfortunately we will not be there whilst the England Cricket team are touring, so I have no idea of what to do to pass the time. We'll be visiting Barbados, St Maarten, British Virgin Islands, St Kitts, Guadeloupe, St Vincent, Antigua, St Lucia and Grenada. At the end of March. Any recomendations of things to see or avoid?
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Travelling to Italy - any suggestions?
by pete_95973- 1 follower
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I am getting married in April and just 3 days after the wedding my new wife and I will be off to Italy for our honeymoon. Neither of us have ever been. Neither of us have even been to Europe. We will be spending 4 days and 3 nights in Rome. Our hotel and room has a view of the Colosseum! Then we will take a train to Florence and spend two nights there in a beautiful Villa. Then from there we take a train to Venice where we will spend our final 3 nights. So far the only thing we have planned officially is that we booked a Vatican and Colosseum tour with one of the companies that allows you to skip the lines and have your own english speaking tour guide. With th…
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I agree @djw180 The Fall of the House of Usher is worth a watch for Mark Hamill’s performance alone. Plus, I’ve been on the fence about watching Kaos. I will definitely give it a go now. Thanks!- 2
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I just finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Highly recommended! It's a horror-drama in 8 episodes, very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories or poems with each episode named after a different work of his. I have never read any of them and some had not even heard of, but I now at least know the brief synopsis of them from Wikipedia. What the creators have done is woven together a plot primarily based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" that greatly expands on that. The first episode has the same name as the whole series. Roderick Usher, corrupt billionaire head of a major pharmaceutical company, invites an old adversary, lawyer August Dupin, to his family's derelict house, to confess to a host of crimes. Dupin has been trying to prosecute the Ushers for decades but they always got away with it. Now, following the recent deaths of all six of his children, supposedly in freak, horrific, unrelated accidents, Roderick wants to come clean. Most of the story is now told in flash back, both to the early years of Roderick and his sister Maddie (the brains behind their rise to power) and the children's recent deaths. The next 6 episode each focus on the violent deaths of a different son or daughter, each related in some way to the Edgar Allen Poe story that episode is named after. The final episode, The Raven, then brings everything to it's conclusion, revealing the true cause of all that has happened. It's very, very good. It is a bit bloody and gory at times, but never over-the-top, always done for a reason and usually to fit in with the story that death is named after. It features Mark Hamil in the most un-Luke-Skywalker-like role you can imagine. I never really rated him as an actor in Star Wars, but here, as the Usher's ruthless lawyer he is excellent. Another Netflix series I think is worth a mention is Kaos It's a modern day story of Greek Gods and Heroes, in a world where they most definitely exist and are still worshipped by mortals. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus and there's other recognisable faces amongst the rest of the cast, including David Thewlis as one of Zeus' brothers and fellow god Hades and Suzie Izzard as one of the Fates. It loosely follows the story of Orpheus in the Underworld, but this is part of a bigger plot with both gods and mortals having to accept what fate has in store for them, whether they like it or not.- 1
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178Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #148 (Oct 28-Nov 3) Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person dir. Ariane Louis-Seize/2023/1h30m Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a teenage vampire who, much to the exasperation of her parents, refuses to kill as she has too much empathy, a decision that is slowly killing her. She meets suicidal Paul (Felix-Antoine Benard) and he offers his life for hers, but over the course of the night the two form a bond and find a reason to live. Deadpan humour and charmingly awkward teenage romance add a lightness to what is a very deep emotional drama that is more complex than it at first seems. This put me in mind of a strange mix between A Girl Walked Home Alone at Night and Napoleon Dynamite. There's a beautifully staged scene where the two listen to an old record and, without a word, nervously steal looks at each other for an unbroken three minutes and it has more depth and meaning than most films manage in an hour and a half. You really get the feeling that you're caught up in that dramatic first flush of love where you feel like Romeo and Juliet. The two lead performances are extraordinary, especially Montpetit, and the direction has a real warmth to it despite being set mostly during the night. I loved this. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Jigsaw dir. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig/2017/1h31m Most of the time while I was watching this I was thinking “have I seen this one before..? No. No, I haven't. Wait, have I? I have! No? Oh, yeah I have”. I think this is the eighth film in the Saw franchise, and by this point they all just kind of blur into one homogenous mess. It's a shame because I think the original is a really good, tense thriller with a great, if ridiculous, twist. 2/10 Terrifier 3 dir. Damien Leone/2024/2h5m It's Christmastime and, five years after the events of the last film, Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is back playing Santa and everyone is on the naughty list, especially Sienna (Lauren LaVera) who bested him the last time they met. Not as long as Terrifier 2, this is still bloated and full of ridiculous bits of lore that makes the whole thing feel like a parody at times, I actually found myself invested in the character of Sienna here. I think LaVera does a decent job in portraying the trauma and PTSD she's suffering after the last film. Again, the gore here is very well done but so gross that it becomes banal. The best thing about this film, as is the case with the others, is Thornton's performance as Art who manages to be both creepy and funny. 4/10 Immaculate dir. Michael Mohan/2024/1h29m Sydney Sweeney plays Sister Cecilia, an American nun recently arrived at a remote Italian convent. Things take a sinister turn when she becomes pregnant despite being a v*rgin and she starts to think that all is not so holy at the convent. This religious horror doesn't do anything new and owes a huge debt to the likes of Rosemary's Baby but it does do a very good job of ramping up the tension and supernatural elements at a deliberate pace until it's ready to go for broke in the final act. There are a couple of unexpectedly gruesome moments that shocked me more then anything in the Terrifier films precisely because they are so unexpected. Sweeney gives a good performance as a true believer who must become a fighter in order to survive, and there are a couple of memorable supporting performances from Dora Romano as the Mother Superiour and Alvaro Morte as the charismatic Father Tedeschi. A well made, if uninspiring, thriller with a memorable smash cut to black ending, emphasis on the smash. 7/10 Joker: Folie a Deux dir. Todd Phillips/2024/2h18m This sequel to 2019's Joker picks up from the end of that film with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in prison awaiting his trial for multiple murders. While inside he meets and forms a relationship with Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga), the two seeming to make the perfect couple. The first film was a well made rip off of Scorsese's The King of Comedy elevated by an incredible performance from Phoenix that didn't need a sequel. Thankfully this isn't taking the predictable route of charting Fleck as he wreaks havoc as the crown prince of crime but instead does something interesting and sees him try to face his many mental health problems while struggling to break free of his anarchic alter ego. This hasn't gone down well with comic book fans as it strays far from the source material, but not being a big comic book guy myself that isn't an issue for me. Phoenix is once again excellent, really giving his all in his performance. Gaga is also good and I liked how her character became a kind of antagonist in always pushing Arthur to be Joker. Brendon Gleeson has a supporting role as the lead prison guard and as much as I like him, and he does give a good performance with what he's given here, his character is too much of a caricature, one scene even implying that he and some other guards r*pe Arthur. Steve Coogan also pops up in one scene as a television reporter interviewing Arthur and it just came across as Alan Partridge doing a bad American accent to me. I haven't mentioned it yet but this film is also a musical - another sticking point for a lot of people – and I think it works well at portraying Arthur's mental state. I loved the moments where we go full fantasy and Arthur and Lee are singing and dancing on an old school style soundstage like a musical from the 40s and 50s. But I am a musical fan so I'm probably biased. Don't believe the anti-hype, not everything here works but it's going for something different and for that alone it should be commended, and I honestly think it's better than the original. 8.5/10 Piece by Piece dir. Morgan Neville/2024/1h34m Piece by Piece is a hybrid biopic/documentary about the life and career of musician and producer Pharrell Williams starring the man himself and featuring appearances by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake. The gimmick here is that the whole film is animated with Lego. This makes for a playful, vibrant and imaginative film that matches Williams' method for creating music, putting it together piece by piece until you have something new. This is also a very funny film, making full use of the medium and the absurdity of everything being Lego to make some hilarious visual gags. Being a family friendly film this does smooth off some of the rough edges of his story but I still found Williams to be an open and honest subject not afraid to discuss his shortcomings. I love it when the style and form of a film like this matches its subject – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and the David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream come to mind – and Piece by Piece does just that with its eclectic and imaginative presentation. 9/10 Strange World dir. Don Hall, Qui Nguyen/2022/1h42m Farmer Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhaal), son of legendary explorer Jaeger (Dennis Quaid), must go on his own adventure deep beneath the surface of the planet when his crops, which also acts as the planet's energy source, start to die. The plot here is quite simple but it has an excellent third act twist that I though worked really well and fits in with the environmental themes and message of the film. What works best here is the look of the world beneath the surface, populated by really well designed creatures that feel truly alien, as do the environments. Not quite as good is the family drama between Jaeger and Searcher and between Searcher and his son Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White). It's the classic case of simply sitting down and talking to each other would solve all their problems, but then there'd be no film. The performances are all good, with Quaid's bombastic 50s b-movie style bravado standing out to me. This won't go down as a Disney classic but there are some really good ideas here alongside some gorgeous animation. 7/10 @djw180 The Bad Sleep Well is the least faithful of his Shakespeare films, the other two are much more recognisable.- 3
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