Ross
@flicksfan.bsky.social
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flicksfan.bsky.social
It's reassuring that with the proposed social media age verification system teens and younger wouldn't be able to access the Youtube instructions and grow up to be 2nd hand car dealers.
flicksfan.bsky.social
Wind your memory back to them? Fortunately there's no penalty for that and everyone of a certain vintage should do it...while they can
flicksfan.bsky.social
Please note that 'illicit' in this case is full on shopfronts with no apparent illegitimacy in local shopping centres (we have 2 in my small one) and not back alley 'pushers'. Add inadequate policing and you're minting money unless you cross the smuggling gangs; then you're dead.
flicksfan.bsky.social
The Speaker has an enormous influence on the whole of a country's governance. Australia has had some terrible ones who were very partial. Our current Federal one is fair and has a sense of humour. I guess you're stuck with yours for a while and the consequences.
flicksfan.bsky.social
License dog owners, not dogs. And make it a very stringent barrier. And liable to suspension when the damn things disturb the amenity of neighbours, and heavy sentences for dog related events.
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flicksfan.bsky.social
The big revolution was the achievement of video recording editing. Before that recordings of TV camera originated material for distribution were shot on 16mm film from a tiny TV screen. One of my small jobs was deleting 'fluffs' from Playschool telerecordings (kinescopes in USA) as they were called.
flicksfan.bsky.social
'I Love Lucy'? The penalty was fairly unexciting lighting, as with multiple video cameras, if each camera was to achieve an OK result:
theasc.com/articles/fil...
Filming the I Love Lucy Show
The weekly CBS-TV comedy show filmed in Hollywood sets pace for top-quality television.
theasc.com
flicksfan.bsky.social
Great news, now the solar panel hocking pests can ring THEM just as their dinners are at a critical cooking point. The 'Do Not Call' registry never worked for landlines, it appears to have disappeared altogether now.
flicksfan.bsky.social
Makes our 'Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi' look extremely pathetic.
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netchicken1.bsky.social
Now this is cool.

Overseas comedian making a joke about Kiwis not having a chant.

Then someone in the audience sings out Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi and the whole audience shouts Hi aue hei in response.

So the comedian tries to learn it.

Good vibes, real kiwis.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Kiwi crowd schools US comedian
Visiting US stand-up Jeff Arcuri expressed his surprise that there were no New Zealand chants - his fans quickly put him right.
www.stuff.co.nz
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mthrjo.bsky.social
I’ll be honest, I don’t think this is my cup of tea (though it’s hard to judge off the back of one photo!)

But it’s certainly not a desecration (and graffiti, generally of a less theologically engaged nature, has often been part of the story of historic churches).
churchtimes.bsky.social
A Graffiti -style installation in #CanterburyCathedral has drawn strong public criticism before it has officially opened 🎨⛪

#churchnews #churchart #churchtimes
Graffiti installation in Canterbury Cathedral divides public opinion
Dean of Canterbury defends the work, saying its disruptiveness was part of its challenge
www.churchtimes.co.uk
flicksfan.bsky.social
I thought that both would have more important (and appropriate to their place in society) matters on their minds. But I guess populism has few bounds.
flicksfan.bsky.social
The supermarket ones in Australia have no astringency these days; the cultivators must have bred it out of some species. It's novel to eat a crisp, non astringent one, as nice as the super soft ones are.
flicksfan.bsky.social
It's a wild guess from my non tech brain, but we used to use 'bulk erasers' in the days of 1/4", 16mm and 35mm magnetic tape & media. Most sound studios had one.
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moviessilently.bsky.social
Required reading kills the book, more often than not

(I read THE SCARLET LETTER as an adult and of my own free will and loved every word of it. Most people who were assigned it...)
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
flicksfan.bsky.social
Woolf's bourgeois and dull 'Mrs Dalloway' confirms the masterpiece status of Joyce's universal 'Ulysses'
flicksfan.bsky.social
'Pride and Prejudice' as prescribed English exam English novel for a bunch of Australian 16 - 17 year old rowdy boys? More like punishment than education, and killed it for many of us. Seeing the Greer Garson/Laurence Olivier 1940 movie as a study supplement was the last nail in the coffin for us.
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
Arthur just couldn’t quite get used to working from home.
A black and white dog stares at the image of a flock of sheep on a computer monitor.
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skot.bsky.social
“I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner.

-Lenny Bruce #BOTD