Bingowings

^THAT!

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Trying to get the manager of the charity I’m seconded to applying for continuance funding has been a real struggle

Did you mean to say here “Trying to get the manager of the charity I’m seconded to, to apply for continuance funding has been a real struggle”?

Yes 😃
She is very well connected and articulate but she could really do with a more “computer age savvy” deputy. Someone who can assist her personally, read through and check her e-mails sit on commitees and forums when she can not and help her fill in forms in a timely fashion.

Just as I need someone to read through my online contributions to forums and question and correct my punctuation, spelling and grammar 😄

Thanks for good wishes.

For the third time since getting this job I’ve come home to find my P45 (pink slip) waiting for me. Hopefully I can get some sort of extention again just so I can manage or dismantle the existing mentor relationships while we wait for funding results. It’s frustrating not knowing one way or another. I can’t give a clear package of information to the people I feel personal responsibility towards.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170428-why-talking-to-yourself-is-the-first-sign-of-success
We had the second big event in Glasgow yesterday.
Despite the venue being not as sold and the ‘sound system’ being a tiny bluetooth speaker and the food being filthy we still managed to impress. In fact we may be inspiring a similar service to ours in my ancestral stomping ground of Galloway (frey). Hopefully my boss can secure a partial refund (we had to nip out and buy a speaker system so our film could be heard).
I don’t know if folk here have seen themselves on film before but it an odd experience. In my head I sound like Richard Bryers but in reality I’m more like Neil Gaiman with a slight impediment and hint of a cadence.
Thanks Darths.
I was given a great bit of advice from one of our service users. He suggested before people come in jumping up and down in the venue as if in celebration. It kind of worked.

Some of you will remember sometime back when I unexpectedly got my dream job working for the Mental Health Foundation.
Well I’ve been feeling a bit glum recently.
Trying to get the manager of the charity I’m seconded to applying for continuance funding has been a real struggle and I thought I would have to just close our service down despite it being very successful.
We have had two events and a film which we have had to organise for a couple of months and today was the big one for me. The events organiser was dreading it. Expecting it to poorly attended. I hate public speaking so the thought of doing it over two days is my idea of hell.
Well it was packed and the film went down really well and all the questions and the feedback were really positive. Two major funders seem very keen and I may have another extention to my contract while we wait for the results.
I’m really buzzing with excitement but also totally knocked out and tired (the stress has been playing havok on my sleep patterns) so in short not exactly great news yet but I feel much more optimistic than this time last week.

Life (2017)

More stupid scientists in space.
Not as frustrating as Prometheus or Alien Covenant but clearly Zero G is bad for the noodles.
half a ball because the ending was great

Take your feuding to another thread please.

I thought this was the famous Brenda Bristols : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6_w7aa9MHI

Lord Buckethead has a long history of being defeated by gorgons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ0o84yyutQ
And of course a feature film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_(film)

Bingowings said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

CatBus said:

this is really more about getting May out from under that “temporary caretaker government” shadow after Cameron left?

I don’t think she is seen as a “temporary caretaker government” at all, she was the overwhelmingly popular candidate for Party Leader/PM. I think it’s more about shutting up dissenting voices (of all parties) in Parliament of the “Yes we agree you’ve got a mandate for Brexit, Prime Minister… but not this kind of Brexit!” variety. She’s going to ask the country clearly and directly “Do you want a Brexit on my terms?”. The electorate will most probably answer, “Yes please!” emphatically and she can get on with the business of doing just that.

CatBus said:

Is my understanding correct that this isn’t really expected to change anything substantive? i.e. the people, parliamentary percentages, policies, etc, aren’t really expected to change much at all

Not really, I think things will change quite a bit because the Labour opposition party will most likely be wiped out due in large part to how deeply unpopular their leader (and cabinet) is, which I’m sad to say is probably for their own good in the medium to long term. Hopefully the Lib-Dem party will get back some seats after they were annihilated at the last election.

I think the general consensus is that the Conservative party will win.
This is possibly a misjudgement. When Gordon Brown the most unpopular PM for aeons finally got around to doing what May is doing here after inheriting a gulf war mess from Blair all the Tories could manage was a coalition. They were expected to lose the last election or have to make another coalition with UKIP or some other party.
The secret ingrediant to their majority was Brexit. UKIPers flipped sides to insure they got the referendum. Scotland evicted Labour for supporting the Conservatives and the Liberals lost their nice guy image propping up the Tories in coalition and breaking their manifesto pledges.
We have now a slightly different world. Brexit has happenend, it can’t unhappen so UKIP doesn’t need to exist anymore. Austerity isn’t working and isn’t popular. The SNP need someone the can do business with in Downing Street and May is not that PM.
Corbyn has always been anti-EU (just like Tony Benn). The old Labour zealots that voted Tory to get Brexit may return to the fold now that Brexit is unavoidable. The people that voted Tory as a protest against Blair and Brown will now vote Green rather than vote for the Tories.
My prediction Corbyn will suprise everyone by narrowly winning with the remainers voting against the Conservatives with the same zeal that the Brexiteers voted for them.
That’s if he stays of the hills and doesn’t have a heart attack.

Close but no cigar.

Drookit

^McCartneyism

It used to be TenFourFox because I had a truly ancient PowerBook G4 now I used Firefox because self destructing cookies mostly and Ublock origin.

I think she can wamp herself.

Dreich

I really miss SSWR and the idea of putting Anakin’s main gripes with Windu is a great idea.

[TV’s Frink said
BREAKING: Trump announces withdrawal from Paris climate accord, but says U.S. will begin negotiations to re-enter agreement.

The rhythm method

Tantive3+1 said:

doubleofive said:

TV’s Frink said:

doubleofive said:

Bingowings said:

It looks very much like the original puppet head.
Will it replace all other Wampa heads?

That’s the idea.

I read this in Tommy Wiseau’s voice.

I wrote it in Greedo’s voice.

Yes I bet you have…BANG!!

Wilf is not accessible on this phone.

There is a YouTube channel of two French guys reacting to television shows. They got me using ze French Werdz instead of conventional swears.

Tantive3+1 said:

CarboniteSolo said:

It would be cool to see that head super imposed onto the Wampa in the deleted scenes during the wampa attack in the base.

That deleted scene isn’t happening for this edit.

It might make for an interesting curio though like restoring the deleted score segments in isolated scenes. Extras but not part of the main edit. Like the anaglyphic Jabba in the first revisited

It looks very much like the original puppet head.
Will it replace all other Wampa heads?

I didn’t see many flies on the walls of the original trilogy.

Death is a pretty crappy thing for a mind to have to process generally but to lose a child and in such a senseless fashion is utterly awful. What goes through the minds not so much of the killers but the people who brainwash and equip them it’s too alien too not of the same sphere as us. All the hugs DS, take them all.

the Assembly cut of Alien 3 is much improved. The story makes sense. I would trim some of the dialogue away. Particularly the bits where Ripley almost breaks the forth wall by acknowledging she is in the final part of a three part story. And half the profanity can go to be honest. It might be accurate for that sort of environment but it fucking distracting 😄
Other than that its a good film with atmosphere and a plot that finally makes sense.

89 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40018422

One of the volunteers at work played this for me and now I just can’t get it out of my head :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIWLxbXnbJ4