General chat – Sat, July 1

What’s everyone watching? I did a big Netflix binge of GLOW last night – the new dramedy starring Alison Brie, based on the 1980s women’s wrestling show. Think Hulk Hogan or Ric Flair, but with chicks. Good lightweight viewing and I love the 80s soundtrack, but not the flashbacks of my bouffy hair or gym lycra.

Mr Juz is also making me watching the new TV show The Mist. As with the movie (based on Stephen King’s novella), people start dying when a strange fog blankets their town. But because it’s a series they’ve had to add some family drama and teen angst and spread the focus to various locations around the town, not just the supermarket setting of the movie. The acting and special effects are pretty bad and there are a lot of people going off on their own, two minutes after watching someone die after doing exactly the same thing. So, it’s a good show if you like yelling at your TV “you idiot – as if you’d do that!”.



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brain dead dave

I’ll be watching AFL and then as many 48 hrs as possible.

Brussellsprout

Our team is back in the 8- yay!! Horror start for the swans, but if we can fix our inaccuracy- the season might turn around for us.

Fijane

Feeling the love, Sprout. That was the sort of clinical solid win I’ve been looking for – I get nervous with the close games, when luck seems to be too influential. If we can win like that with such appalling accuracy, we might have a chance against higher teams.

daisy

I’m doing the next best thing to watching 48hrs; reading John Grisham.

Bobi

I don’t love John Grisham. I have tried a couple of times because everything says I should but I find him very ….. american. That’s the best explanation I can come up with.

daisy

I gave up on this one because it was a collection of short stories. But he is very aware of judicial and police corruption and writes it into his stories. You know, prove your man guilty at all costs.

Bobi

Maybe thats the issue.
I find the American judicial system corrupt to its very core. But crime procedural books perpetuate the myth that truth will out and justice will prevail.
God help you if you were arrested in the US for the smallest thing. You would have no hope unless you had a bucket load of money.

Zhee

Frau Merkel harassing poor people in the tiny village I lived for several years (and where my Oma still lives):
https://www.facebook.com/nico.boesing/posts/1482570975134413

Was due to the funeral ceremonies for that corrupt Helmut Kohl. Still annoyed that the media pretended like he was Germany’s greatest gift to the world. GAH! Then they buried him in the city I grew up.
But I guess you can find a worse place to rest in peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrjt13OY1WY

Damn it, homesick now. 🙁

Zhee

Well, I don’t think that Australian news would care much about it.^^ On the other hand, my boyfriend is British and did not even know who he was. But on the other hand he was offended that I didn’t exactly know from when to when Thatcher was Prime Minister… I’d personally say that Kohl most likely was a more important politician than Thatcher (even though I absolutely disliked him and his politics).

Bobi

I had heard of him, and had heard he died (SBS and ABC) but I didn’t know he was controversial. Or, at least, no more than any other politician. Maybe Angela has been the focus for so long that we have become oblivious?

Zhee

It’s many years ago, he became chancellor in the year I was born and I grew up in the Kohl era.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/06/17/helmut-kohl-a-great-and-flawed-statesman/?utm_term=.93542fbbc9bb
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-s-schreiber-affair-the-scandal-that-helped-merkel-become-chancellor-a-640938.html

Problem is, that his achievements are indeed important and changed the face of Europe and the media in Germany only saw that. Not the other stuff.

Regarding Frau Merkel… She is one extremely smart woman, a very good politician, but I do not like her (especially after her move with opening up the way to gay marriage).

Btw, some fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZ5e5OpF1A

Tracey Ullman’s Merkel is funny, but no one really has nailed the way she speaks yet. Plus it is hard to pull down your mouth corners while speaking. 😛

Smythe

I watched “The Mist”, too, and agree with you Juz…bad acting, bad effects, just bad. Reminds me of “Under the Dome” but this time the townspeople are surrounded by the mist rather than being stuck under a dome and the mist monsters are more violent.
Watched the final episode of this season’s Doctor Who. It was good although a bit preachy. Not a fan of Bill Potts but Pearl Mackie was very good in this episode and it was sad to some extent. The way Bill moves on was stupid. Don’t know why they had to hold off until Dec. for the Doctor to regenerate. Thought it would have been the perfect ending for this episode and a big surprise but now just have to wait to find out who the next Doctor will be.

daisy

We were watching something that I think was called The Remainder. All the adults dies, and only teens and children were left. It was too much like the Dome too because they were quaratined in the town. As with the Dome, I only could take a couple of episodes.

daisy

Yes, that looks like it Juz. Not The Remainder.

brain dead dave

The Voice Grand Final tonight, daisy.

daisy

Let me guess. The big guy who needs dental work? Hosea was it. How quickly we forget.
I liked Rennie but she was hit and miss.
I might jump on Jump and watch.

brain dead dave

There are two huge guys. Katie Perry tried hard not to kiss one of them. Hosea is def there.

daisy

Hosea is the one I like. Judah belts.

Maz

We will admit that we need to watch another six episodes in the current Dr Who season but we did watch the finale.

It was Clara’s story retold. The Doctor leaves the companion in a dead/not dead state doomed to travel the universe with an immortal (female)companion.

So the Doctor does remember Clara.

The Master/Mistress dynamic could have been spun out in another episode.

Peter Capaldi, the doctor whose time was marred by some very bad scripts.

Brussellsprout

Still glued to the Blacklist here.
But sunny (although cold) in Sydney this weekend so we got outside a bit and tv viewing suffered.

Zhee

James Spader is fantastic. But when is he not? 😀 Plus I had such a crush on him in his Stargate days.

Juz

I used to watch Boston Legal just to see him spar with Shatner

daisy

Spader and Shatner together. 👍👍👍👍👍

daisy

I used to love the bit at the end with Spader and crazy Shatner sitting on the roof chatting. What a combo.

brussellsprout

My team is moving to a new office and it has a balcony similar to the roof – the bosses immediately went to town, figuring they will be Denny Drane and Alan Shore! kind of cute.

daisy

Thanks Juz.

Fijane

I’m feeling quite down this morning after the terrible Poldark episode last night. I am losing my love, with Series 3 going downhill very rapidly. The worst of it is that they have turned Demelza into the worst type of spiteful modern-style woman.

Smythe

Oh…no. I haven’t watched yet. What could have happened? Don’t tell me. I’ll watch soon.

daisy

I watched the first 2 eps of Handmaid on Stan or something, but for some reason I really hate those scenarios, Juz. I couldn’t watch Hunger Games because of the cruelty of living like a captive. I got up to the scene where Jennifer Whatsit’s sister gets picked for the games and she swaps places. Too horrible.

daisy

I might need therapy as to why I hate series/movies where people are held captive with no possible means of escape.

Pandy

How do I watch this Juz? I thought it was on tv. Not sure how to stream.

Pandy

Ok Thanks Juz, will give it a go.

Pandy

Ok Juz, you have me hooked on Handmaids. I managed to register with SBS on demand and watched the first two episodes last night. What a strange, weird show, very interesting!
I can’t wait to see what happens next, a mixture of an Amish Culture and The Stepford Wives so far. Really enjoying it, thank you!

daisy

At Amiana in Nha Trang. It’s interesting to see the different cultures and behaviours thrown together.

Zhee

Hmpf, G20 in Germany… Wow, some of the videos and pictures look like war. 🙁 Protest is important, it is needed. Peaceful though. Not with violence and unfortunately this is what happens and it diminishes the peaceful protesters’ efforts . When I was a student I went to many protests. Never did it escalate, the police forces were actually always nice and even chatted with us. But what is going on in Hamburg, is fucking embarrassing. This is not protest. This is violence for the sake of violence!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-1156575.html
That being said, my sister is a police woman and I might be the luckiest big sister in the world today that she wasn’t sent to Hamburg.

At least there was one funny incident:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/angela-merkels-amazing-eye-roll-at-mansplaining-vladimir-putin-a3583181.html

daisy

Agrre, Zhee. Seems an odd wat to protest for peace and protection of the planet; burning cars???? Also don’t cover your face if you are proud of what you are doing.
Antifa aren’t helping their cause with violence and destruction of private property.
I hope your sister stays safe.
Maybe they could paint a peace sign and do a sit in å la 70s. 😊

Zhee

Sorry, one more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RLT2sBXNI0
The joy of a split screen. 😉

daisy

Oooooh. They have America’s Next Top Model on here. Bot have I missed this show. I am going to have to go home and stream. Lots of shallow.

Zhee

Holy shit, something I did not know regarding Australia:
http://www.matthewsherwood.ca/generations-stolen/

Zhee

I started to read up about that topic. It is really a very dark spot in Australian history. Sometimes I felt like it was an experiment of some sort. Heart breaking to be honest, how they could do that to little children. And then they did not even try to integrate them into society, giving them a proper education etc.
Then again I should not say anything regarding a bad history, I am German, I am naturally born into living resentiments and still getting branded as a nazi, simply because of the country I was born in. Nearly 40 AFTER WW2…

Bobi

I watched Australian Ninja Warrior – mainly because I enjoy the European erosion so much – and found it unbearable.
Two of the hosts were so bad I had to turn the sound off (that improved the experience). When they weren’t being overly loud, they were merely sounded disinterested. And neither of them had a clue. I won’t tune in again.
But I did hear the numbers smashed the opposition. Who’d be a TV programmer.

Bobi

* version. Bloody autocorrect.

daisy

There’s a bit of cop in every teacher, so with seats scarce at busy Saigon domestic airpot, and this being front row, I was itching to record cardthis womam. 5 bloody seats.

daisy

In Saigon now. Anyone want to meet us for lunch.
Baby coconut salad with prawns.

daisy

Soft shell crab with puffed green rice.

daisy

The pics didn’t work. Try again.

daisy

Juz, did the photos work for you? Or is it just me?

daisy

No, it’s not that. I did an update so things are a bit haywire. Also my tab’s been having problems. I will sort it when we get home.

daisy

Am I the only one who can’t post a pic?

daisy

So “it’s not you, it’s me”. 😣
Have to get Woolif onto it. It was fine until Phu Quoc.

Daisy

I have been enjoying Michael Mosley’s Queen Victoria’s Slums series. They had it so tough and had to battle for everything.

Daisy

Waa! Waaa! Good Dr Phil today.”Waaah, Doctor Phil, my parents won’t support me financially”.
And Maggie and Harry are listening to this while I do pottery. Thank goodness they can’t grow up to write a book on how they were abused by neglect because I did pottery and left them to watch Dr Phil. (They are puppies btw).
I didn’t hear Dr Phil say that’s 10minutes of my life I can’t get back. Buy that woman a diaper.

brain dead dave

Iggy watches Dr.Phil and understands that “you don’t reward bad behaviour”.

I saw the ep today. She was awful.