What are you doing today?

Alli said:
Are you at Jeep Beach? If you ever see a brown Jeep with a Peaceful Pirate sticker, and lots of dog stickers, it’s my brother. They go there regularly.
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Oh, that's Porpoise Point, here:

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Been a glorious sunny day here. Unusual for a UK bank holiday. Spent most of it in the garden working. Did pop round to a neighbours that Mrs AFB talks to online to swap some plants. Ended up staying far too long and got burned as I had left my hat at home. They had a beautiful garden with a huge pond they put in last year. Gave us some guinea fowl eggs to try. Looks like that's tomorrows dinner sorted. They have two old spaniels, 4 guinea fowl and some sheep.
I did my weekend work yesterday so I could have tomorrow off. In the office tomorrow, so an early start. Hope everyone is well and enjoyed the holiday Monday (for those of you that had one).
 
Apple fanboy said:
Been a glorious sunny day here. Unusual for a UK bank holiday. Spent most of it in the garden working. Did pop round to a neighbours that Mrs AFB talks to online to swap some plants. Ended up staying far too long and got burned as I had left my hat at home. They had a beautiful garden with a huge pond they put in last year. Gave us some guinea fowl eggs to try. Looks like that's tomorrows dinner sorted. They have two old spaniels, 4 guinea fowl and some sheep.
I did my weekend work yesterday so I could have tomorrow off. In the office tomorrow, so an early start. Hope everyone is well and enjoyed the holiday Monday (for those of you that had one).
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Sounds as though you had a lovely day.

Let us know what the guines fowl eggs are like, as I have never had them.
 
OK, so...

We are getting ready for a week getaway at Universal / Hard Rock, lots of fun restaurant reservations (Bigfire Grill, The Kitchen), a cabana every day, we're going to stay masked up as needed (and we're all vaccinated), got a nice special suite on the Rock Royalty floor:

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Food, eats, beer/wine all day long at a special lounge ...

Hopefully going to get to ride the Velocicoaster again (we usually have that kind of "good luck").

Taking the extra-extra vehicle since we haven't sold it yet, the DD/RT rides again :D (side note: the Jeep is on week 3, driven nearly every day, with the same full tank of gas ... I am so in on EVs ...)

We scored this _killer_ cooler by Camp-Zero several months ago, it will literally keep ice for 3 days, it's bear proof (I'm not joking), beautifully engineered:


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... but it's heavy loaded up, so I got a little foldable, ~100lb capacity hand truck type thing, it works perfectly with the cooler ! So we'll be wheeling our cooler into the hotel :D Taking some beer, wine, vodka, ginger beer, you know, standard breakfast consumables :D
 
Alli said:
We are going to our first movie since the pandemic. My husband loves the cinema with the reclining seats and a great dinner menu. He loves going to the movies, and with that theater he no longer cares what’s playing. So we’re going to see Cruella.
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My condolences to him. I'm not sure whether I would even sit through that one on a long flight.
 
Eric said:
We loved it, Wink looks like our dog Milo, we even took a pic of him with a pseudo eye patch for fun. He won't kick your ass like Wink but he'll smother you with kisses. :ROFLMAO:
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Alli said:
Yea! That’s the place.

It was actually a really cute movie.
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It doesn't sound particularly faithful to the character from 101 dalmatians. Also I don't really do cute. There's a relevant Futurama clip involving Bender, but I can't find it at the moment.
 
thekev said:
It doesn't sound particularly faithful to the character from 101 dalmatians. Also I don't really do cute. There's a relevant Futurama clip involving Bender, but I can't find it at the moment.
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So this review is based on the trailer then?
 
thekev said:
It doesn't sound particularly faithful to the character from 101 dalmatians. Also I don't really do cute. There's a relevant Futurama clip involving Bender, but I can't find it at the moment.
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Totally not faithful to the original character. This one would never kill a dog. Sometimes you need cute to offset all the crazy that is real life.
 
thekev said:
It doesn't sound particularly faithful to the character from 101 dalmatians. Also I don't really do cute. There's a relevant Futurama clip involving Bender, but I can't find it at the moment.
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Alli said:
Totally not faithful to the original character. This one would never kill a dog. Sometimes you need cute to offset all the crazy that is real life.
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Agree with @Alli and for much the same reason as @Alli suggests; my tolerance for "cute" - especially well-intentioned "cute" - has increased somewhat (and somewhat unexpectedly) in recent years.
 
Alli said:
Totally not faithful to the original character. This one would never kill a dog. Sometimes you need cute to offset all the crazy that is real life.
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One thing I would never tolerate harm to animals in a movie, fictional or not. However, this movie the biggest threat comes from little Wink kicking your ass and outsmarting you, those scenes with the little dogs were flat out hilarious.
 
Alli said:
Totally not faithful to the original character. This one would never kill a dog. Sometimes you need cute to offset all the crazy that is real life.
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It's possible that the original character wouldn't translate that well. I imagine this has to be much earlier in their timeline than 101 dalmations as well. The original character is much older. If you look at the character drawing, there's a lack of fat in the cheeks, and her chin juts forward. At the same time she has a wide smile and perfectly straight teeth. This is suggestive of a woman in her late 50s or older, who has undergone some degree of cosmetic treatment. The character in 101 dalmations is probably > 20 years older than Emma Watson (32), who plays her in the live action film.

On a side note, wikipedia suggests she's supposedly 65 in 101 dalmations, which seems about right.


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Scepticalscribe said:
Agree with @Alli and for much the same reason as @Alli suggests; my tolerance for "cute" - especially well-intentioned "cute" - has increased somewhat (and somewhat unexpectedly) in recent years.
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I'm generally okay with cute. I blame online videos of cats and pygmy goats for this.
 
thekev said:
It doesn't sound particularly faithful to the character from 101 dalmatians. Also I don't really do cute. There's a relevant Futurama clip involving Bender, but I can't find it at the moment.
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I’ve only seen this modified clip which made perfect sense to me given the character from 101 Dalmatians. Don’t ruin it for me! :mrgreen:

 
Pumbaa said:
I’ve only seen this modified clip which made perfect sense to me given the character from 101 Dalmatians. Don’t ruin it for me! :mrgreen:

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I haven't watched Cruella, so I can't really ruin anything. I'm just noting enough of an age gap to allow for some character adjustment from the younger to older portrayal of the character.
 
Chatted to Other Brother for around 30 minutes today.

He reminded me that today was our parents' wedding anniversary, (mea culpa, and so it is), something that - to my embarrassment - had slipped my mind.

Okay, neither of them are with us any longer to celebrate this day (and date) but it is nice to remember it, (and them), for they were friends, lovers, and partners (a word they - especially my father - fell on with undisguised gleeful joy when people with egalitarian relationships started using it in the 1990s) as much as parents.
 
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