A Munchkin hanged themself.. I had a read on that. It's not true they say as the scene in question was filmed before the smaller actors appeared. Says the tin man died of an iron lung from breathing in aluminum powder. and the witch suffered bad burns. The Munchkin actors got ripped off and only earned $50 each.
Isn't there a remake from the 80s? Either way, they should leave it alone and I hope it fails badly if they do make it. Don't they have film writers these days? Why have they got to ruin everything.
No need for a long sweary rant, but they are remaking The Wizard of Oz! That is all! :))
It's been remade many times. The musical we're all familiar with was far from the first version, and there have been quite a few since, at least one within the last decade.
A Munchkin hanged themself.. I had a read on that. It's not true they say as the scene in question was filmed before the smaller actors appeared. Says the tin man died of an iron lung from breathing in aluminum powder. and the witch suffered bad burns. The Munchkin actors got ripped off and only earned $50 each.
Isn't there a remake from the 80s? Either way, they should leave it alone and I hope it fails badly if they do make it. Don't they have film writers these days? Why have they got to ruin everything.
The original tin man was a song and dance actor called Buddy Ebsen who was first selected to play the scarecrow before getting the later role, he suffered a reaction to the aluminium powder in the make up after breathing it in but didn't die although was seriously ill for a time and went on to have a long acting career. The role then went to an actor called Jack Haley.
The "hanged" munchkin was apparently the shadow of a large bird (crane) put on set to make the set appear more lifelike.
Sigh! Just write your own f*cking movie and do something new. See now they have made me swear and get angry. ;)
I also have finally got it why stories with cheap, gender fixated characters, instead of well paid actors is of less quality.
Look, if you are going to skimp on paying your actors, then you will also not pay for good quality scripts, and definitely you can't afford good quality production either, and definitely you can't afford a sequel or a second season.
Bad leadership causes bad movies and bad tv series. That being said, if you just want to burn money by doing that, be my guest. =))
My smoke alarm has started chirping every few minutes or so. Trouble is there's no way to open it and i'm not allowed to touch it and the office that manages the flat is closed for the day! Scottish bank holiday.
Think the backup battery might be dying so switch it off at the mains won't help and is probably iilegal.
If you have something high like a portable ladder try piling up boxes on it and a cushion or blanket at the top to "trap" the sound coming out of it.
I had the same issue but I just removed the damn thing. In the very unlikely case a fire breaks out, if that's gonna be my demise then so be it. This world is gradually turning into a big sh*thole anyway ...
My smoke alarm has started chirping every few minutes or so. Trouble is there's no way to open it and i'm not allowed to touch it and the office that manages the flat is closed for the day! Scottish bank holiday.
Think the backup battery might be dying so switch it off at the mains won't help and is probably iilegal.
It'll be the battery - we had the same a couple of years ago. What is it with smoke alarms and their uncanny ability to start chirping at 2.30am?
Yeah battery. I just installed the interlinked system, one in every main room, last month. I didn't have to, but I did. I figured it will be law soon anyway. Not just the rented sector at present. I've got 3 of the buggers to go wrong now.
I wish i could remove it but it's hard wired to the mains so switching it off won't make any difference. I think it started at 4am as that's when i first heard it. Ear plugs didn't help so i'm feeling very tired.
I did open it even though i'm not really meant to and the backup battery is behind a plate that looks like it needs a special screwdriver to open up..
The ladder idea sounds appealing. I have lots of boxes i could pile up and a cushion but that might block access in the hallway.
They’ll have to drop the name cowardly Lion because that counteracts being “Stunning and Brave”. Unless they keep him cowardly and he asks the wizard for a safe space :))
I can see Jupiter in the sky tonight!
It'll be the closest it's been to earth in 59 years, just 336 million miles away rather than the usual 600 million! :D
If you look outside and have clear sky you'll see 2 white dots. One is Jupiter and one is Saturn. I can just about make out Jupiter but can clearly see Saturn and i can just make out the distinct rings it has. That's how close they are tonight.
I'm too sombre to debate space travel. Massiver druckabfall in Nordstream 2 pipeline earlier. Looks like the pipeline has been damaged somehow off the coast of the Baltic states. Russia will annexe Eastern Ukraine maybe this week. Any attack on that area will soon be a direct attack on Russia. I think we could very well be at war soon. I don't care about woke, moon landings or stuff right now. Dark times. I don't want to bring it here, but I don't know where else to put it.
Heh. My car is on the fritz, right after an MOT. Feel like crashing it into an asteroid now...for the insurance. Written off by asteroid collision. Whiplash claim too.
NASA the bunch of feckers, wasting a perfectly good probe by crashing it into Dimorphos. The bstards. ;)
How dare they stop a huge asteroid wiping us out in the future, who do they think they are God. They wanna go back to putting men on the moon, and looking for spaceships and little green men. :))
I have something that fits this thread. This time it's the premise that these days, everbody works in an office.
Context: I was reading an article about autumn and how it can bring people down because of the sudden changes in weather and less sunlight. Somewhere in that article it said "if you leave home early when it's still dark and spend the whole day in the office, your body catches very little sunlight".
When I came across that line, I noticed that I had read similar sentences many times before. And they always mentioned working in an office. It doesn't seem to occur to those "journalists" that there are tons of people whose work takes place elsewhere. To me, it is fairly obvious they don't except any of those dumb blue-collar industry/warehouse workers, nurses, shop cashiers, bus drivers or butchers (to list just a few examples) to read their article.
It's pretty ironic too, wording it like that: "leaving home when it's still dark", considering many office workers start work comparatively late, often at around 9 am - so in autumn, it most likely won't be dark anymore when they leave their house (unless they have a very long commute). Now the poor shift working schmuck on the other hand, who may have an early shift beginning at something like 6 am ... (been there, done that).
Good rant XTM, and very true. I found my mornings getting earlier and earlier over the years.
When I left school I joined BT, that meant an 8 O'clock start, which was of a shock to the system, it was also in the next Town, so the bus journey, end to end was about 45 mins, so leaving at 7 it was dull and dark from the weather, slowing heading into dark skies in the winter. I spent 10 years doing that. I was lucky compared to the people you mention as I would get a full hours lunch every day without fail, so I could at least go out and get some air.
When I decided to change career as a developer my thoughts were later starts. However, two things kicked in, all the jobs were out West London, so the was an hour and a half to two hours journey time, so I was still leaving about 7 to 7:30 depending on where I was working (I changed jobs quite regularly back in them days.). The second was I got so use to working till five I found it hard (and still do) to work past that time. It is now ingrain in my psyche. After awhile, I got so p*ssed off with the trains I started driving to W. London. In order to do that I had to leave before seven and work till about 4. Plenty of winter mornings and evenings in the dark.
Late Autumn and then Winter at 63 degrees north. It get's dark ..quite a lot of dark.
Yeah, it's like office workers is a cut above and in UK, the obsession is compounded by the journalistic idea that there being no existence outside London. One thing you might remember when you have a job that starts really early or coming home from nightshift is that whole early morning world you never knew existed or forgotten.
I personally think we're supposed to semi-hibernate in winter. Come Autumn, some ancient yearning is saying ...Hey! Slow down buddy.
Why is it that in 2022, politicians are still lying that trickle-down economics will work, after every single experiment has failed for the last 100 years?
The good news is that trickle-up economics does work, and will be much better for the immediate economic situations too.
On the other hand, trickle-down economics is a brilliant way to cause a lot of badly managed companies to go bust, and to lose all your political powers.
I'm not sure they even care anymore. As long as they get rich. Right now it feels like last minute robbery before the Titanic goes down...this time with the lights ..OFF.
I expect we'll get really fed up this winter when the power goes off. We'll go out on the streets ..and they'll cut us down with silver sabres like in the old days...for our own good. Suddenly law and order will become important.
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Isn't there a remake from the 80s? Either way, they should leave it alone and I hope it fails badly if they do make it. Don't they have film writers these days? Why have they got to ruin everything.
It should be woke really if they remake it, "friends of Dorothy" and all that?
It's been remade many times. The musical we're all familiar with was far from the first version, and there have been quite a few since, at least one within the last decade.
Sigh! Just write your own f*cking movie and do something new. See now they have made me swear and get angry. ;)
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The original tin man was a song and dance actor called Buddy Ebsen who was first selected to play the scarecrow before getting the later role, he suffered a reaction to the aluminium powder in the make up after breathing it in but didn't die although was seriously ill for a time and went on to have a long acting career. The role then went to an actor called Jack Haley.
The "hanged" munchkin was apparently the shadow of a large bird (crane) put on set to make the set appear more lifelike.
I also have finally got it why stories with cheap, gender fixated characters, instead of well paid actors is of less quality.
Look, if you are going to skimp on paying your actors, then you will also not pay for good quality scripts, and definitely you can't afford good quality production either, and definitely you can't afford a sequel or a second season.
Bad leadership causes bad movies and bad tv series. That being said, if you just want to burn money by doing that, be my guest. =))
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Think the backup battery might be dying so switch it off at the mains won't help and is probably iilegal.
I had the same issue but I just removed the damn thing. In the very unlikely case a fire breaks out, if that's gonna be my demise then so be it. This world is gradually turning into a big sh*thole anyway ...
It'll be the battery - we had the same a couple of years ago. What is it with smoke alarms and their uncanny ability to start chirping at 2.30am?
I did open it even though i'm not really meant to and the backup battery is behind a plate that looks like it needs a special screwdriver to open up..
The ladder idea sounds appealing. I have lots of boxes i could pile up and a cushion but that might block access in the hallway.
It'll be the closest it's been to earth in 59 years, just 336 million miles away rather than the usual 600 million! :D
Are they woke? Now you've got me thinking!
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https://www.luny.co.uk
How dare they stop a huge asteroid wiping us out in the future, who do they think they are God. They wanna go back to putting men on the moon, and looking for spaceships and little green men. :))
Context: I was reading an article about autumn and how it can bring people down because of the sudden changes in weather and less sunlight. Somewhere in that article it said "if you leave home early when it's still dark and spend the whole day in the office, your body catches very little sunlight".
When I came across that line, I noticed that I had read similar sentences many times before. And they always mentioned working in an office. It doesn't seem to occur to those "journalists" that there are tons of people whose work takes place elsewhere. To me, it is fairly obvious they don't except any of those dumb blue-collar industry/warehouse workers, nurses, shop cashiers, bus drivers or butchers (to list just a few examples) to read their article.
It's pretty ironic too, wording it like that: "leaving home when it's still dark", considering many office workers start work comparatively late, often at around 9 am - so in autumn, it most likely won't be dark anymore when they leave their house (unless they have a very long commute). Now the poor shift working schmuck on the other hand, who may have an early shift beginning at something like 6 am ... (been there, done that).
When I left school I joined BT, that meant an 8 O'clock start, which was of a shock to the system, it was also in the next Town, so the bus journey, end to end was about 45 mins, so leaving at 7 it was dull and dark from the weather, slowing heading into dark skies in the winter. I spent 10 years doing that. I was lucky compared to the people you mention as I would get a full hours lunch every day without fail, so I could at least go out and get some air.
When I decided to change career as a developer my thoughts were later starts. However, two things kicked in, all the jobs were out West London, so the was an hour and a half to two hours journey time, so I was still leaving about 7 to 7:30 depending on where I was working (I changed jobs quite regularly back in them days.). The second was I got so use to working till five I found it hard (and still do) to work past that time. It is now ingrain in my psyche. After awhile, I got so p*ssed off with the trains I started driving to W. London. In order to do that I had to leave before seven and work till about 4. Plenty of winter mornings and evenings in the dark.
@luny@mstdn.games
https://www.luny.co.uk
Yeah, it's like office workers is a cut above and in UK, the obsession is compounded by the journalistic idea that there being no existence outside London. One thing you might remember when you have a job that starts really early or coming home from nightshift is that whole early morning world you never knew existed or forgotten.
I personally think we're supposed to semi-hibernate in winter. Come Autumn, some ancient yearning is saying ...Hey! Slow down buddy.
The good news is that trickle-up economics does work, and will be much better for the immediate economic situations too.
On the other hand, trickle-down economics is a brilliant way to cause a lot of badly managed companies to go bust, and to lose all your political powers.
So it's fine either way. =))
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I expect we'll get really fed up this winter when the power goes off. We'll go out on the streets ..and they'll cut us down with silver sabres like in the old days...for our own good. Suddenly law and order will become important.