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.
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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.
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Both these B&W movies are beautifully shot and acted and they add to understanding modern history of Italy.
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🎶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
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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 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
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
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 💜🫂
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.
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 😠
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!
going to do the good old fashioned walk into a place hiring with a smile and a CV and maybe a handshake
big pay cut if i get it but it is the line of work i’ve always done and enjoyed instead of this random job i have right now
it will also bring regular breakfast back
Good luck chef! Applying for jobs is daunting but you sound like you’ve got it together 🦾
There’s definitely something to be said about doing work you enjoy even if it pays less. We won’t complain about regular breakfast returning either.
Hey Kitten. Not sure if you’ll see this.
I sent you a PM, would you be able to take a look at it?
Thank you!! It’s the exact line of work I’ve been telling people I want. I will feel much more relaxed too given it is work I’ve been doing on and off for a very long time. Offers some future too unlike what I do right now.
Sounds like a triple win. Let us know how it goes, and hopefully all the stars align and they’re a good place to work at, too :D
Thank you! Yeah part of the reason I’m going in tomorrow is to see if I vibe with them :D
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Good luck!
Thank you!
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Good luck Chef!
Thank you!
Crossing all bits for you chef!
Thank you!!
Saw Deadpool. My review: Lots of sharp self aware humour, and perfectly ridiculous high energy action sequences. Silly plot but it that’s all it needed to be. Had a good laugh.
A laugh can be a very powerful thing.
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.
Tucked-in Mickey
Nawww 😻
Best cat. Deserves all the scratches behind the ears ❤️
Kitty!!!
I want to join him
He’s smiling
Hi Mickey. Luv U 😘
Random sunday braindump:
Had a BIG reset sleep last night. Feel asleep at 5:30. Woke up at 8 for a bite to eat and listened to podcasts for.a while then back asleep round ten for around 11 hours.
I knew I had not given myself enough rest to get over that flu and my brain has been ramping up in tighter and tighter circles all week. I feel calm finally today.
Today I will clean the sheets and make some food basics for the week and catch up on a little bit of planning work.
I think I need to reset my bujo rhythm too - it’s turning into an unmanaged Todo list of doom. I think I am going to try to enforce 20 mins at either end of the day to sit down with a cuppa and review/plan/organise.
That’s awesome that you achieved a big reset sleep!! Envious - I seem to be getting it in bits and pieces but never quite enough to feel fully recharged. I think I got 60% of the way there last night and hoping to try and get the rest in tonight.
I haven’t got the discipline to BuJo but my general to do list is chaos too, everything needs doing so I feel like doing nothing. Inspired by your comment, I shall grab onto a wisp of good mood/motivation with the sun this morning to prioritise tasks and de-doomify the list
We got this!! 💪🏻
How’s the day going?
I’ve been moving at the speed of molasses but at least I got three low-effort items done (watered plants, washed and dried towels and thermals), and a medium-effort task (vacuuming the house).
Cooking up this defrosted tempeh and tidying up the kitchen. Just need to fold my clothes afterwards and I think I’ll have done enough for today…
Same. Slow day but good. Washed sheets and towels and did a laundromat dry, tidied up my little meditation corner to try to get myself back on that train, and did some reading in the sun. About to make something quick for dinner then note down “must dos” for each day at work and done
Nice!! I’d like to create more of a screen free habit myself. Your day sounds so relaxing and grounded. It was the sort of day for it, I reckon. Here’s to us both having a much improved week ahead, shaking off the last of the post-flu fatigue :D
yep cheers !
Woot! Free cast iron griddle. Not the same colour as my other stuff, but who cares about that.
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
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
It’s going to keep getting worse too. I give us about 4 years.
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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.
This just appeared in the abc newsfeed - home sewers welcome apparently Still fairly exxy by the metre. Just better than fabric lab or rathdowne remnants.
Excellent, Thanks!
Ohhhh. Sew-ers. 🪡
That’s cool and much nicer then the “home sewer” my brain visualised… 💩
Both kinds of home sewers are very much still welcome 😆
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Fabric shops are charging eye-watering prices for pure cotton and pure linen. Some of us do home sewing either of clothes or furnishings, either for fun or for better fit or to indulge our creativity. This website offers nice fabric at a reduced price. Sorry if this has confused you.
Rookie numbers.
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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.
Yes. My dad said it all the time.
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 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???”
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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.
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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.
Uh, no. It’s just black humour. "Hey dad - " dad: “he’s not here, he went mad and we shot him”
I have never heard of it.
