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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

5 bottles of tomato sauce made, 16 home made chicken sausage rolls in the oven , vacuuming done, spot cleaning of carpet done, kitchen floor clean, one load dishes done, one load washing done and put away, cat litter room clean, chili plants watered, tail sewn back on Bill's toy mouse, Still have some sorting of clothes to do and hope to get in an hour of calligraphy after I clean the kitchen 😡

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hey, I sass you hoopy Seagoon. You're a frood who really knows where their towel is.

Sass: know, be aware of, meet, ~~have sex with~~;
Hoopy: really together guy;
Frood: really amazingly together guy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

are you channelling Zaphod Beeblebrox? ... πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The major problemβ€”one of the major problems, for there are severalβ€”one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

And yes, I was channelling Zaphod, I love the Hitchhiker series, I have them all and read them multiple times hehehe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love that we quote simpsons and hitchhikers here. I always enjoyed the bit about Zem, the mattresses. and that robot who shouted hells bells because he took out the floor from underneath him. Did they ever make a series with all the books? The og series was great as was the movie with the guy who played every role I ever wanted to but never became an actor. Of course now I can't play anyone but a trans woman cos that's exactly what I choose to look like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Martin Freeman or Sam Rockwell? I have had the biggest crush on Sam Rockwell since I saw Hitchhikers when I was 13.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Martin freeman. He also played someone important in lord of the rings I think. yadda yadda, both are better in print.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed it is. I thought frodo initially but no. Bilbo. Bilbo is kinda mean in lotr. Ruined by the ring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, both are exceptionally better in print, though I posit that LoTR is more palatable to a wider audience in movie-form; the books read like an account of a history of a world (which, as we know, it definitely is and was intended to be a history and not a story) but the movie makes it easier to understand, strains out the songs or adds them in better ways than recounting them over pages and pages ahah

The Silmarillion should be many many films, one or multiple for each chapter. Just Luthien and Beren are a few films, and Turin Turumbar would be like watching a shakespeare tragedy lol!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Controversial! I have so much to say about this looool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what's a few boats and a little genocide

They were his sparklies, his!! He did everything for them. Ingrates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

aw man, the teleri didn't deserve to be murdered for their boats lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% Sam Rockwell. There’s something a bit off about Martin Freeman. He doesn’t come across as very nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeh nah no Martin. Gimme Sam at a Fijian resort pretty please 🀀 😍

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Home made sausage rolls are the best and I'll fight anyone over it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

they are made of good ingredients and taste yum :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One burger and 3 beers later. I'm catching up to ya.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got to save the beers for the Ashes next week!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have plenty and back up liquor too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cheers buddy 🍺

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the burger and beers sounds like heaven πŸ€—

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. Someone’s been productive today.

While here’s me sitting in bed after a shower.