Say Something Random pt. 29 ~ Because why not

[TinyLove_CJ]

I've been looking for a Mother's day gift online and this came up as a recommended item...

 

 

Not quite what I'm looking for but I think I know a certain curly haired guy who might like this watch instead! 

[Hero]

Looking for dress ideas for the summer gigs. 

Too much? 

 

[TinyLove_CJ]

1 minute ago, Hero said:

Looking for dress ideas for the summer gigs. 

Too much? 

 

 

That's a dress?! 

 

I'm fairly body confident but I don't think even I would wear that walking down the street, maybe just on the beach but with a swim suit or bikini underneath, otherwise it's a no from me! 

[Hero]

1 minute ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

 

That's a dress?! 

 

I'm fairly body confident but I don't think even I would wear that walking down the street, maybe just on the beach but with a swim suit or bikini underneath, otherwise it's a no from me! 

I think its meant for nightclubs or, erm, private parties... but yes! One strong gust of wind and everything's on display.

 

...

 

OK, I meant a strong breeze, but now I've a mental image of the model trotting down the high street with a bad case of wind. Toot, flap, toot, flap... 

Ahem. Sorry. 

 

[silver]

Plus of course Shein is a dubious Chinese company and what you receive may not be what you expect

[Hero]

4 minutes ago, silver said:

Plus of course Shein is a dubious Chinese company and what you receive may not be what you expect

Yes, I've never shopped with them. This randomly appeared on a Google search - it doesn't quite fit the parameters I was looking for! 

[Anna Ko Kolkowska]

22 minutes ago, Hero said:

Looking for dress ideas for the summer gigs. 

Too much? 

 

 

It might work for Brava Madrid festival  If I remember it's gonna be a sort of pride parade/party.

They will talk later about the dress code. But seeing artists already lined up it should work 

 

[Hero]

14 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

 

It might work for Brava Madrid festival  If I remember it's gonna be a sort of pride parade/party.

They will talk later about the dress code. But seeing artists already lined up it should work 

 

Even if that's an acceptable place for the dress, NO ONE is going to want to see me wobbling around in it! 

[Anna Ko Kolkowska]

11 minutes ago, Hero said:

Even if that's an acceptable place for the dress, NO ONE is going to want to see me wobbling around in it! 

Are you sure? 

 

 

[Hero]

1 minute ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

Are you sure? 

 

 

Well, when you put it like that... ! 

[Hero]

Ooh, shenanigans in Hull City centre. Big police presence, groups of people rubbernecking and catcalling, ambulance, entrance to station hotel closed, taxi rank closed and all the taxis moved 2 streets over.

Will be checking the news later.

 

[silver]

1 hour ago, Hero said:

Ooh, shenanigans in Hull City centre. Big police presence, groups of people rubbernecking and catcalling, ambulance, entrance to station hotel closed, taxi rank closed and all the taxis moved 2 streets over.

Will be checking the news later.

 

 

Wasn't it a hotel fire?

[Hero]

1 hour ago, silver said:

 

Wasn't it a hotel fire?

Seems it was, although not much info yet. You couldn't tell from outside though. With all the police, the ambulance, and the different groups jostling around, I thought it was a footie bust up!

[Prisca]

On 2/1/2023 at 11:25 PM, Hero said:

Was sat waiting at the bus stop to come home after work, scrolling the forum with my headphones in. About 8pm, dark, sat by myself although a couple of other people were stood waiting further along. A shabby guy shuffles up to me, stinking of alcohol, and looms over me until I take my headphones out. He starts in a fake whiny pathetic accent that I've heard all too often round here, usually by people trying to get money out of you, while slurring his words, "scuse me love, if I give you this pound (scrabbling in his dirty ripped jeans) will you ring a taxi for me?"

 

Bit taken aback, mind whirring as to what possible scams it might be, I said "err, no."

 

He looked at me and slurred "why not? I've offered to give you a quid". I was starting to get annoyed and didn't want the discussion about not trusting him/his money, so just said "because I don't want to".

 

There's nothing quite like the self righteous rage of an entitled man with a chip on his shoulder who thinks the world owes him a favour, when a woman refuses to do something he wants. It was quite funny how off base he was with his insults. 

 

- I'm what's wrong with this s**tty country. 

- I'm a rich racist white bitch. (..he was white...)

- I'm a fat ugly ginger cow (oh yaaawwn...)

- and being ginger is why I don't get any sex.  

I was sat laughing to myself at most of this, including how he'd suddenly lost the whiny tone in his voice . Realised I wasn't biting so moved onto:

- My mother was a fat ginger bitch too, well she must have been to have me...  (nope, she was a normal sized blonde, one of the nicest people you could hope to meet, and good job she raised me properly so I know not to respond to that blatant provocation...)

- I'm illiterate. (?? Cleverly deduced from a verbal discussion )

- I'm an ugly illiterate selfish racist bitch with no hope because I'm from Hull. (No mate, I just work here... at an educational establishment as part of one of the biggest international communities in the area...)

- I'm typical of the lowlives that plague Hull. (Funny, I was just thinking the same about him...)

 

From there it degenerated into the usual F off, f you, and him shouting insults at me as he stomped down the street. Oh no, please, don't go.. I've so enjoyed our conversation, you've really brightened my day, so glad I met you. Do be careful crossing the street, I'd hate for that bus to run you over...  etc. 

 

So! How was your day? 

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about it. I'm so sorry that he insulted you like that. His insults are so nonsensical.

[Prisca]

On 2/22/2023 at 2:32 PM, TinyLove_CJ said:

- Alpaca Man

 

On 2/22/2023 at 2:44 PM, Hero said:

He has one? Or he looks like one? 

[TinyLove_CJ]

Binge watching The Flash again and in series 3 the character H.R often says this little rhyme:

 

"If a string is in a knot, patience will untie it.

 

Patience can do lots of things, have you ever tried it?"

 

I love this little poem as I think it can apply to all Mika fans! 😄

[Tunde Pfeffer]

6 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Binge watching The Flash again and in series 3 the character H.R often says this little rhyme:

 

 

I re-watched the Flash last summer, it was good until about the 4th season maybe. The first three seasons were really great, especially Savitar. And later on in the musical episode, I liked the song "Running home to you". :-)

Edited March 26, 2023 by Tunde Pfeffer

[TinyLove_CJ]

2 hours ago, Tunde Pfeffer said:

 

I re-watched the Flash last summer, it was good until about the 4th season maybe. The first three seasons were really great, especially Savitar. And later on in the musical episode, I liked the song "Running home to you". :-)

 

When I watched it before I found series 4 slightly confusing and a little boring, who knows I might change my mind this time around! (or not... 😅)

 

I have Running Home to You on my phone but have to be in the right mood to listen to it. 

[Tunde Pfeffer]

9 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

 

When I watched it before I found series 4 slightly confusing and a little boring, who knows I might change my mind this time around! (or not... 😅)

 

I have Running Home to You on my phone but have to be in the right mood to listen to it. 

 

I don't remember exactly what happened in series 4, I just noted to myself, that from that I didn't like it that much than before. I think Grant Gustin is the best Flash. :-)

 

I'm always in the right mood for Running home to you.  It's a beautiful song. :-)

 

What other series (TV Show) do you like? 

Edited March 27, 2023 by Tunde Pfeffer

[TinyLove_CJ]

1 hour ago, Tunde Pfeffer said:

What other series (TV Show) do you like? 

 

Even though it's finished now my absolute favourite TV show is His Dark Materials. I have so much love for the cast, production team and writers, it was adapted beautifully! There's rumour that Philip Pullman's 'Book of Dust' will get adapted in the future, I certainly hope so!

 

I don't watch a great deal of TV shows actually on TV, I tend to go through box sets every so often instead. I've yet to delve into Marvel (apart from SHIELD, which went down hill very fast 🙃). I'm going through the DC Universe of stuff first. Arrow is my favourite so far and after The Flash I'll go onto Supergirl.

 

I'm a total geek so anything either fantasy or sci-fi is right up my street!

[Tunde Pfeffer]

33 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

 

Even though it's finished now my absolute favourite TV show is His Dark Materials. I have so much love for the cast, production team and writers, it was adapted beautifully! There's rumour that Philip Pullman's 'Book of Dust' will get adapted in the future, I certainly hope so!

 

I don't watch a great deal of TV shows actually on TV, I tend to go through box sets every so often instead. I've yet to delve into Marvel (apart from SHIELD, which went down hill very fast 🙃). I'm going through the DC Universe of stuff first. Arrow is my favourite so far and after The Flash I'll go onto Supergirl.

 

I'm a total geek so anything either fantasy or sci-fi is right up my street!

 

I watched His Dark Materials, not my favourite to be honest, but it's very well made and coincidentally I will refer to it when I will start looking for a literary agent for my fantasy novel because there are similarities between the two (mostly that there are many worlds in them). Literary agents want authors to point out a few other novels which have similarities to yours, so they can place it in their minds.

 

I liked Agents of Shield if you were talking about that (I know there is another show called Shields but I don't know what it is about, I didn't watch that). My favourite shows are mostly sci-fi: Battlestar Galactica is my ultimate favourite, I don't think that has ever been or ever will be another so perfect and beautifully written and acted television show like BSG. But I like Dark Matter, Humans, Misfits, Stargate: Atlantis, Sherlock (BBC, written by: Steven Moffat), Doctor Who (episodes and seasons written by: Moffat), "You, Me and the Apocalypse" and  other non sci-fi shows like The Good Wife, Brooklyn 99 etc.

 

 

Edited March 27, 2023 by Tunde Pfeffer

[silver]

I loved His Dark Materials too, though I can't help feeling it sort of fizzled out after the drama of the fight with the angels. ( I don't know if the ending is handled better in the books as I've never read them).

 

I liked the whole of the Stargate series and the spin-offs, but never really got into BSG.

[TinyLove_CJ]

1 hour ago, Tunde Pfeffer said:

I liked Agents of Shield if you were talking about that

Yes, Agents of Shield is what I meant, for me around series 3 just got really boring. Mum has promised a Disney+ subscription so I probably will go back and watch it to the end this time!

 

(and there is an unspoken agreement amongst Marvel fans that we DON'T talk about Inhumans 🙃)

 

Disney+ also means The Mandalorian so I'm looking forward to that! 😁

 

All of BSG is on BBC Iplayer, and my Mum has watched it before but I haven't. Once I have more free time I'd love to watch it all too!

 

I also love dark fantasy, I watched The Originals a while ago and I'm watching The Vampire Diaries now (yes I know I got the order wrong 😅). The Vampire Diaries isn't as dark as The Originals but I'm enjoying it. Would love to watch Hannibal but I don't think my Mum will sit and watch that with me.

 

I'd love to know any other horror shows that people can recommend!

[Tunde Pfeffer]

18 minutes ago, silver said:

I loved His Dark Materials too, though I can't help feeling it sort of fizzled out after the drama of the fight with the angels. ( I don't know if the ending is handled better in the books as I've never read them).

 

I liked the whole of the Stargate series and the spin-offs, but never really got into BSG.

 

When I first watched BSG, I started with the miniseries (which is the 0. episode of the first season), and I didn't like it either. But then a few years later I watched the first episode of the first season (title: "33") and instantly got hooked. That episode is one of the best of BSG. The Cylons are attacking the people every 33 minutes. They haven't slept for a week and the pilots are on pills to stay awake. Very well made. :-)

[Tunde Pfeffer]

25 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Yes, Agents of Shield is what I meant, for me around series 3 just got really boring. Mum has promised a Disney+ subscription so I probably will go back and watch it to the end this time!

 

(and there is an unspoken agreement amongst Marvel fans that we DON'T talk about Inhumans 🙃)

 

Disney+ also means The Mandalorian so I'm looking forward to that! 😁

 

All of BSG is on BBC Iplayer, and my Mum has watched it before but I haven't. Once I have more free time I'd love to watch it all too!

 

I also love dark fantasy, I watched The Originals a while ago and I'm watching The Vampire Diaries now (yes I know I got the order wrong 😅). The Vampire Diaries isn't as dark as The Originals but I'm enjoying it. Would love to watch Hannibal but I don't think my Mum will sit and watch that with me.

 

I'd love to know any other horror shows that people can recommend!

 

I don't remember when I got bored with Agents of Shield, but even later on they had episodes I enjoyed (like the ones with the androids and stuff. I had a thing for androids and time travel or dimension travel  ).

I watched the first season of the Mandalorian, and I didn't get hooked but I'm not a huge Star Wars fan either (and no, that's not sci-fi despite what most people think   ).  I tried time and time again but it was not for me somehow.

BSG has a sublime tone to it, and very deep and most of the time depressing but it is like a dark poem, it's beautiful. (It is actually an Exodus story.) I hope you'll like it.

I really liked the Originals too, and the Vampire Diaries, but yes, TVD is not dark at all (especially from the early seasons), but it was fast-paced, I enjoyed it.

I don't really watch horror shows, but if the Originals count as one, then you should watch The Boys too. It is a superhero show but very violent so brace yourself. :-)

Edited March 27, 2023 by Tunde Pfeffer