I had a brilliant day. Sun. Got bought two coffees by different friends and got a puppy cuddle and a toddler cuddle (don’t worry I know the puppy and the toddler). Had an amazing haul at the salvos - dishes to put under my pot plants, a denim jacket and a nice blazer for work, even a bloody calculator that I have needed for ages. Shopping done and food washed and away. Kitchen cleaned. I am ded.
Only dark spot was mould on the pizza base I was planning on cooking …boo. having a wine and thinking about what to cook instead…
I love these autumn days.
I love autumn too
I grew up in the tropics where it’s perfect 4 months of the year and a sauna hell the rest and I find autumn with its perfect days then four seasons magical even after all these years. Dark cold august can get in the bin but autumn 👌🏻
I am 100% of the same opinion. You’re right, August is the worst - everyone’s sick of it all by then - but I’d take Melbourne’s 4 seasons any day over the tropical swamp I grew up in (shitty every month of the year). Autumn is my favourite season hands down. Days like today are just magic.
It’s a lovely day to be outside today. I’ve just been out taking some cuttings from my rosemary, hopefully I will have somewhere decent to plant them when I move. I have blue, pink and white flowering varieties. The blue flowering one I originally planted over 20 years and three houses ago, mostly moving in a pot, but now growing in the garden along with a child plant grown from a cutting.
I’ve also pegged down a bit of thyme into a pot for it to hopefully root so I can take that too, but I only grew it from a seed last year so I’m not too concerned with that one. My mint tends to grow rampant in the garden so I’ll probably grab a few rooted pieces of that to take with me too.
It feels like I only woke up 2 hours ago.
Belated Happy Equinox.
Equinox… equine ox… a horse-like cow.
This has been today’s That’s Definitely Where The Word Comes From, No Need To Look It Up.
Nah, its “equi+nox” = nuts that split in half. Or possibly serves of poison (like in noxious).
Also wrong. It means Equine (horse) Nox (not) - literal translation: Not Horse (Day). Traditionally this was a day that farmers would let their horses rest, and the humans would perform the laborious tasks normally left to horses. Such as, pulling ploughs, taking hauls from the market home, etc.
That actually listens. Its (almost) opposite end of the year to Melbourne Cup Day, when horses work harder than usual. So it all balances out. I like this theory.
now you bastards have made me look it up
directly from Medieval Latin equinoxium “equality of night (and day),” from Latin aequinoctium,
A common misconception.
I’m going to start saying this a lot more to annoy people.
Thank you. …lol
Give me your most overrated actor that somehow is critically acclaimed.
Mine is Sean Penn. Apart from being an arrogant douche that beats women, his acting is pretty shit.
Dude just mumbles his lines and acts surprised at random shit.
I don’t know what the deal with George Clooney is. Apart from Ocean’s Eleven I can’t think of another good movie he’s been in.
Yo what?
Syriana
The Descendants
Out of sight
Burn after Reading
Monuments men (I loved it)
Hard disagree. His acting is boring. His characters are boring. His movies are boring. The dude is overrated.
George is very popular because he’s handsome and a really nice guy.
I liked him in Solaris.
I respect your opinion but disagree.
Gotta love freedom of speech 😁
I respect the fact that you can see something that I can not. 👍
Artistic opinions are 100% subjective.
Disagreeing and respect are an amazing part of being human.
Let us all enjoy what we enjoy.
Very true.
From Dusk Till Dawn.
I didn’t care for it but ER catapulted him into fame.
Gal Gadot - she can’t act, every line is said without feeling, and she has no emotion. It always feels like I’m watching Gal, and not the character she’s portraying.
If it has to be a male actor though, then Brad Pitt. He says his lines with emotion, but I can never see the character he’s meant to be - just Brad Pitt being Brad Pitt
Gadot is a god dam plank of wood. Treated pine at best.
Fkn ey!
No arguments about Gadot. If she wasn’t a knockout, she’d be nothing.
Brad Pitt is interesting actually. Perhaps his fame has overshadowed his acting, cause he’s got some chops.
I think he’s great, but not Oscar calibre. I do enjoy his movies though.
And he can take the piss too (Deadpool 2)
No lie, Brad Pitt has been in heaps of my fav movies (Interview with a Vampire, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Ocean’s 11, World War Z, etc), but I always just see Brad Pitt - it’s hard for me to see past the actor.
He’s good at what he does (even if he is a piece of shit human), but he doesn’t melt into a role the way, say, Gary Oldman does.
Dwayne the rock.
j. Statham to an extent
Julia Roberts to an extent (probably won’t win that argument though).
Could lump in Vin Diesel with them too lol!
oooooh I have a soft spot for Pitch Black (2000). Probs the only one he’s in though heh. Filmed mainly in aus too!
I love Pitch Black! And I have a big soft spot for Chronicles as well haha
I mean… Rock and Statham play the same roles each time. And neither are really acclaimed as actors.
Roberts is interesting. I think she’s great but hasn’t done anything significant since the late 90s, acting wise.
However, she’s a solid performer.
neither are really acclaimed
Heh that is true.
Anthony Hopkins.
he did one really good role where he actually seemed to do some acting, Dr Kellog, and he was passable in Elephant man. Everything else he was very ordinary.
Al Pacino. I just don’t understand the hype.
The only good film I’ve seen Al Pacino in was The Devil’s Advocate
spoilers for The Devil's Advocate
He does The Devil extremely well!
Wow.
That’s controversial as hell, and probably justified.
His Hannibal lector was great, and honestly he was great as Odin in the Marvel flicks.
World’s fastest Indian was a treat too
Apart form that I can’t remember seeing him in many flicks, but his performances have always been memorable.
Great pick for this silly question.
His Hannibal lector was great,
ordinary
it’s easy to play a killer but he did not play a psychopath, he didn’t give the creeps at all
it was a movie with great stills and a few good lines
memorable lines just means a good writer
ok, he was ok in 22 Charing Cross Road.
Anthony was real good in The Two Popes as well!
Guess the movie and receive a kiss
I cheated so I can’t say.
I’m surprised reverse image works on that.
Now what does the text say?
it’s usually initialed as INRI
Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum” translating to English as “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”
The Passion of the Christ.
I have not seen it.
Good movie. Long but good.
I kinda know the ending already.
Do wrong answers count?
Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
“He’s not the Messiah; he’s a very naughty boy!”
a movie i do not think I have seen
Amadeus: thanks for playing
It’s the first scene , isn’t it, with the nuns walking.
I thought it was but wasn’t sure.
An early good morning to all. Just want to let you know I really appreciate this place. The banter, support, friendly advice, cute animal pics, all of it. It really is a wholesome corner of the internet. May you all have a superb weekend.
2nd doggo walk done.
Still hopeless.
He does attract the ladies though, just not when he’s passed out under a table with his face in a puddle of drool.
aw, what’s not to love. 💖
Zzzzzz 💧
Greeks wife…
Ghastly things. The supposedly good bit is on page 86.
Lately there’s been this thing of making romance novels out of Fantasy. You get into it as a fantasy setup, and BAM! all about which character will shack up with whom.
It’s become so big that Good Reads now has a “Romantasy” section of its book awards.
Hmmm. I reckon I could write something like that but for Sci-Fi lol
🤨
biggest selling books
but who other than old ladies remembers Jacki and Ari
But mom, I don’t wanna go to work!
MEOW
Pspspsps
Garden
The cooler weather is kinder on the plants. Less drying out. I’m secretly hoping it means fewer people about as well. Keep the disruptive ones away from me 😏
The snow peas are starting to sprout already which is good. I’m not going to be emptying the pots when the tomatoes finish and the zucchini fully die, I’m just sticking legume seedlings in there afterwards. handwave Crop rotation.
I planted 20 seeds (2 to each secondhand or improvised pot) thinking they were expired and the number that sprout do vary a lot for me… so if too many grow I might just shove some in among the pumpkins. I don’t know if the pots will be large enough but eh… handwave Companion planting.
Maybe a friend would like to take any extras for her kid’s garden. And I still have a lot of pea seeds left.
Edit: If anyone was curious the eBay rotary tool did struggle a little with the thicker parts of the plastic bin but got through. I just had to go carefully. The drill bits are quite thin so I may have to enlarge the holes with the abrasive tips intended for grinding or beveling. When I get more energy.
I got some dill seedlings to try and attract more ladybugs because the leaves and buds of the pumpkins are being eaten alive by aphids. (Yes they are now flowering!) I have eco oil but applications may not last long. Maybe two approaches together would work when one alone can’t
Sky yellow.
For the third time a so called friend has scheduled a belated birthday do on my actual birthday. That will be a Regrets, none at all.
“Sorry can’t come, doing stuff for my birthday” is a valid reason not to go.
Fuckers.
Gon cook some dumplings
