Tommunist posted:

Tommunist posted:

didn't even credit my alternative OP smdh

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

First impressions of Spirited Away from someone who's interests do not come close to Anime.

For context, I am a 6ft 260lb Strongman who likes Quentin Tarantino films, drinking good quality IPAs, Bourbon and Rum. I like tech-metal and heavy electronic music. I have never had any interest in anime before, it has never appealed to.me, nothing about it.

I had surgery on my arm last week and am signed off work for the next 6 weeks, can go for a walk, but can't drive. I cannot use my right hand so am fairly limited in what I can do.

Today, I decided to out my prejudice behind me and give Spirited Away a go, I had heard of Studio Ghibli and thought, 'why not?'

I have to admit, I absolutely loved it. I had no idea what to expect, but I love how the story evolves constantly. The whole film escalates continuously in a dream like world that kept my attention the entire way through. I'm prone to drifting during films, but I was watching properly the whole time.

The plot, characters, storyline and setting kept expanding, so rapidly, that before long I wasn't concentrating on the 'why's', just accepting what was happening for the sake of an adventure film and going with it.

Don't get me wrong, I have so many questions that I'm happy to leave unanswered, such as:

Why are they all animals?

Why are there some humans that noone is questioning?

What is No-Face?

Why does the bathouse business need to exist?

Why is there suddenly a Geisha house?

Why is there a disproportionate amount of frogs?

Why does the bird lady look identical to Margaret Thatcher?

Why is No-Face eating everybody?

What on earth is this giant baby doing?

Why does Alice in Wonderland look like a day trip to the beach after this?

Why does No-Face go completely back to normal after leaving?

I think No-Face is absolutely fantastic for reasons unbeknownst to me.

I was dreading that there would be a 'she woke up and it was all a dream' ending and was glad to see there was a subtler, more clever ending to it than that.

Highly impressed, never thought I'd watch an anime film yet alone enjoy it.

Pikehead posted:

Yup. One of the Nationals MPs is reportedly still going to sit on the crossbench, taking the NSW government majority down to one. Some change, but not much.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-nationals-back-down-after-berejiklian-s-ultimatum-20200911-p55ult.html

There's mention of "concessions" that the Nationals are going to get, whatever they might be.

quote:

The Nationals had earlier resolved to push for early talks in September and had compiled a list of changes that they wanted. But the premier insisted on normal processes and declined to offer concessions.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

hooman posted:

I made this six years ago. I pray this is the last time I will ever be exposed to his idiocy such that I feel the need to use it.

So, I say, optimistically, for the final time

Buttcoin purse posted:

How far away would it be?

Is there some threshold they wouldn't ask you to travel further than?

Anyway good luck with the process!

Bucky Fullminster posted:

For anyone wondering how and why the lockdowns have been such an effective 'recruiting' tool for the far-right, here is a nice long piece that puts it all in to context. Conservatives have used the 'Conspiracy Narrative' in the fight against collectivism since at least the end of WW1, and Trump's election tore the mask off, and now here we are:

https://medium.com/@daniel.ed.morrison/the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-pulled-10caa1cec8b5

Telling the story like this may have a chance at reaching some people, who knows.

SHALASHASKA HAWKE posted:

scottbeet

GoldStandardConure posted:

BeetO

JBP posted:

VCE scoring for vanguard millennials. I thinks it's atar now?

Tommunist posted:

Tommunist posted:

hambeet posted:

left: tommu's posting
right: anidav

thatbastardken posted:

then why isn't it funny

Anidav posted:

Tommunist posted:

Hello if you are an American who reads this thread for bizzare reason I have questions to ask you

Tommunist posted:

Melbourne Florida

Cartoon posted:

What's the Supreme Court of Melbourne Online?

CKH was found hanging in his cell at Maryborough correctional centre in the early hours of 7 November 2012. In the preceding months he had, at various times, been accommodated in the MCC safety unit due to self-reported suicidal ideation. However, two days prior to his death CKH's risk classification was lowered and, having already begun a process of reintegration, he was returned to a regular cell. The drawstring on a prison laundry bag, thinner than it should have been, enabled CKH to fashion a noose through the otherwise inaccessible holes in an air vent.

ISSUES RAISED
Mental health / cognitive impairment.