The amusing inverse of this is that, in a country like Sweden or Denmark, where this is even more taboo, when you do it, women tend to see you as even more confident than you may actually be, lol.
Like, you stand out to an extreme extent, compared to the locals, who simply don't do it, lol.
Mostly seemed to work in my favour, at least in person. Though small sample size, admittedly. shrug
Being an aide at 20 is genuinely impressive, if true. That's about all I'm taking out of this, lol...
What's that - third year of college, at most?
KOTOR (the first one. The second one was weird) remains probably my favourite game of all time. It is brilliant. The comic series of the same name (different story, but same canon) is very good, too.
But seriously, it is excellent, and, I believe, quite influential on other, non-Star Wars games that came after it.
Star Wars Battlefront (again, the first one) is fun, too, although whether it is "good" or not is a matter of opinion.
And I would also put my vote in for Age of Empires I, Age of Mythology and COD 2, as those seem to be somewhat... Underrated entries in those franchises.
Lol, this isn't so much a "good" game, but does anyone remember playing Bugdom..? I wasted many an hour during early High School (middle school equivalent, for the US) playing that and those Stickman action games, lol...
Also fucking Duke Nuke'em, which... Was very adult, for like, 12 year old me, lol... I distinctly remember you could give strippers cash to get them to flash their tits for you. Though I didn't fully "get" that, at the time.
Would not say it was a particularly "good" game, however. Ha.
Is she that ugly, though?
Just looks plastic like all of them, to me...
Unless you mean specifically because she is Israeli, in which case, eh... I'm not gonna argue about that.
I did see a comment by someone who found her nudes. They said that they really weren't that impressive, anyway, lol. So... Maybe, I guess.
Agree about going outside and enjoying the sun, though. Life is much better when you do that, yes. I think sometimes we can forget that, lol.
The NRL equivalent is obviously Tina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOp5zlRZaSE
Although I think that's always been a Nine Network thing.
Man they did a great job with that though, lol. Definitely iconic!
Yeah, you're probably right. Though I think it says something about the ABC when all their good sports presenters have gone to 10, even to shit like The Project (Georgie Tunny! What a wasted talent...), leaving the ABC with... Daniela Intili (or however that is spelled), who is almost comically terrible, and that Tony Armstrong guy, who turns up to work drunk half the time, and yet gets extra presenter gigs, purely because he is "Blak", lol...
But yeah, re the "good ole days" of Channel 10...
Remember they even had the footy at one point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSINGk5Yk5c
Unironically responsible for a revival of Hunners' career, and probably the best intro to the game ever. Also back when both the AFL and the networks still pretended to give a shit about regional communities, as you can see in the footage included there...
Seven has never managed to surpass that, IMHO.
To be fair, Inman-Grant is very much a liberal, Washington-trained, American…
It’s just that she somehow ended up out here (she fucking glows, so I’m sure the deep state had some sort of role) and has now ended up in this position specifically created for her…
It’s all really, really weird, and I doubt we know the full story, but I almost guarantee you that the US had a role in it, lol.
I mean, I’m not sure I agree on the latter point…
Go to any country town in Aus, and you’ll find attitudes are extremely different to the huge, bloated, rich capital cities…
As fucking Miriam Margoyles (fat, lesbian British clown) recently found when the BBC sent her to fucking Broken Hill (mining town) and she expected it to be straight out of her favourite drag queen movie (Priscilla: Queen of the Desert), lol…
The problem is multiculturalism, insane levels of immigration (mostly non-white, since at least the 70s) and a bloated, self-important middle class of moral busybodies…
And as for your comment about the Queen and the lack of pushback, I would counter that with the likes of Eureka, Breaker Morant, the anti-conscription fights in WW1, and people like Ned Kelly…
The national cowardice and apathy is a much more recent thing, for the most part, which can be largely traced back to a) mass immigration, and b) mass university education/indoctrination…
I was at my local RSL yesterday. I assure you that “the forgotten masses” still exist, and I saw plenty of them there. You just don’t hear from them most of the time, unfortunately…
Yeah, 10 is effectively dead and buried at this point, lol…
Though it is kind of funny how many “prominent” ABC journos still end up at 10, despite them hemorrhaging cash, which tells you just how bad things must be at the “National Broadcaster” right now…
For non-Australians, it’s worth noting that SBS, the “multicultural” second national broadcaster is also partly owned by/syndicated to Vice Media, which means that a) it is full of woke American trash, and b) surely it must be running at a loss by now, with that arrangement…
I don’t understand how that arrangement can continue to be viable, with the collapse of Vice and all, yet here we are…
Australian TV is sort of in this weird “undead” zone, with all these shuffling corpses of US networks shoving their programming on Aus audiences, too, atm…
I expect it’s only a matter of time before an ABC/SBS merger, and Ten either merging with one of the other two, or simply ceasing to exist, lol…
Streaming in Australia outside of Netflix only survives because of live sports. Quite literally. Which is why Disney+ and such have been even more of a failure over here, when competing with local services (Stan, Kayo, etc)…
I can’t imagine how these services stand to make any money at all over there, without that element…
Where's the other post..?
I didn't see it, lol.
Personally I was more upset when they made David Tennant's doctor gay, and then retconned it as if he was always gay, in preparation for the entrance of this... Thing.
Which is frankly pretty bizarre, given that Tennant literally played Casanova, shacked up with at least two of his female co-stars (and ended up marrying one), and was voted one of the "sexiest men alive", by women, at some point. In fact I don't recall him ever playing a gay character before, despite working with Russell T Davies on multiple previous occasions. So that's just... Pure sacrilege, to me. I also can't think of any previous evidence of the Doctor being gay, canonically, whatsoever, prior to Jodie Whittaker...
I hate to go all "Not My Doctor", but I don't consider Cutty Cat-waah to really be the Doctor, canonically. Frankly, everything since "The Timeless Child" has felt like some sort of weird fan fiction, so that fits.
If they want to destroy everything that made the show good in the first place, as you point out, then they may as well just call it something else at this point, given that it bears no resemblance to what the vast, vast majority of fans knew and loved.
But of course, they won't do that, because they would rather destroy what we enjoy, instead.
/endrant
Rainbow in bio or holding sign (as pointed out by others) = immediate discrediting of your opinion, to me.
I think I may have seen “Becoming Bond” at the cinema or on tv shortly after it was released, actually! And yeah, what a dude, lol. Then again, in his position, I would probably do similar.
I believe Diana Rigg used to eat garlic before they had to kiss because she so detested him, lol. Which makes me like him even more, tbh.
But yeah, if you like classic Diana Rigg, and haven’t already seen it, I would highly recommend The Avengers (tv show), which, unrelated to Marvel, basically has her running around in a catsuit and socking bad guys in the jaw, lol. The mostly-unresolved sexual tension and “Britishness” in that show are through the roof!
Edit: Forgot to mention that I believe that show was the reason she was chosen for Bond, much like I believe The Saint was for Roger Moore, which aired around the same time.
Classic British crime/action TV. 👌🏻
Yeah, they showed the Paris Marathon on tv the other day, and, as you say, one of them went around a square corner too fast, in the first four minutes or so, and rolled, badly…
They have to have sentries (appropriately, lol) or rather stewards, on bikes, riding alongside them, just in case that happens…
Then again, having witnessed someone having to be carted off to hospital during an able-bodied marathon, I would say that distance is probably not good for anyone, if you run it too often, lol.
Sprinters generally seem to be in better health, as do cyclists, provided either are clean…
Back to cp though - watching it is interesting, because it varies so much in severity, that it must be really damn hard to classify them, especially for swimming and running…
Though para-classification is a minefield at the best of times, now that we’ve moved from “amputee sports” to “any and every disability, including invisible ones”…
Edit: I used to know a girl with cystic fibrosis, who based… Much of her identity around being a wheelchair. The day that I realized that she could walk, unsupported, just with difficulty, was quite a revelation…
Like, I get why she needed the wheelchair, but to have so much of your identity be “Look at me, I’m doing so much despite my chair”, and then get up and walk across the room, while tipsy - I found that a bit disconcerting, tbh, lol…
True. Though I consider OHMSS to be severely underrated in general! Diana Rigg is great in it, too, and it does a good job of bringing Bond "down to Earth" a bit, at least in parts.
Telly Savalas does make for a weird, not-very-threatening Blofeld though, I must admit. But I do greatly enjoy that film overall.
I really don't like Thunderball, Diamonds or Live and Let Die very much, though, so when I rewatch that era, OHMSS is my go to, mostly, lol.
Edit: I literally forgot You Only Live Twice exists, even though I enjoy that one. So that says something about it's "comparative memorability", lol.
That's also my favourite Bond movie, ha. Though I prefer the "View to a Kill" theme, personally, even if I don't like the movie.
But yeah, it's grown on me over time, that song. Very 80s, however.
Apparently this is what we might have had if Dalton replaced Moore by the time of "For Your Eyes Only", and they went with the Blondie version of theme song instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5D43-MqF8
I'm kind of glad that they didn't, tbh. What we got instead is indeed one of my favourites, and, much as I like Dalton, I seriously doubt he could have pulled it off as effectively, lol. Moore did a pretty great job there.
If you haven't watched the classic Bond movies yet (particularly the Moore and Dalton era) - I would highly recommend.
Three of those are probably my favourites, including the theme songs (mostly), although Lazenbond will still always be my "guilty pleasure" watch, lol.
One of Fedeev’s posts did say something like “Baby killer? I’m a literal baby maker,” or similar, so that carries, I guess…
Because it’s hiding the problem, rather than actually dealing with it…
However this happens all the time, with these events. Beijing, Baku (Eurovision) and Delhi (Commonwealth Games) are all known to have done the same…
Sydney was unironically pretty good.
Last Olympics to break even, too!
Last time my country achieved something like that. And probably the last actually good Olympics.
It’s worth looking “Gun Waifu” (Natalia Fedeev) up. All of her posts are so hilariously tone deaf that it really does border on parody. Though I don’t think she has that level of self-awareness (if she even writes any of the shit herself).
Hot? Sure. But also dumb as fuck, and has successfully put a fairly massive target on her back, I imagine…
Then again, I imagine the pay grade for “propaganda agent” is probably higher than for ordinary conscripts… Perhaps considerably so.
Ooh, I missed this. Sounds spicy lol.
So I looked through previous posts - this was that secret synagogue tunnel in NYC, right..?? 😅
Yeah, 2 is my favourite, too (lol).
Especially the Russian campaign, where they yell something like "Die, fascistii" all the time, and with the random quotes each time you die.
Ahh, good times, good times.
I did also like the first Modern Warfare, though, with the Russian Separatist/Middle Eastern shit. Kind of gave up after that one though, lol.