• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    12·
    5 个月前

    eee tonight’s arse end of swan bay… with 3 swans if you squint hard enough. Living up to its name.

    Ended up staying down here for an extra night for a bit of timeout alone. Back to it tomorrow.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    10·
    5 个月前

    New day new work trip new tropical soup. Trip 2 of 3 of my six months of bonkers workload and travel. It’s very strange to be so busy but doing actually good things. I am so good at survival mode I don’t know how to be healthy and successful but I am trying. ☀️☀️☀️☀️

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    5 个月前

    Slept for 12 hours. Broken up, but still, that’s absolutely amazing!!!

    This means that the gym makes a huge difference. So back to going 5 days a week.

    They grow up so fast lol

  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
    8·
    5 个月前

    Went and caught up with a bunch of old friends. Some I might not have seen for 20 years. Played some games. Got another session lined up, new campaign starting with character creation next week. Hmu if you’re interested in a monthly LARP in North Fitzroy, 3rd Saturday. Pretty nerdy and lgbt friendly group.

  • SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
    8·
    5 个月前

    Yesterday was a just about perfect day. Plan on repeating it today, just with less cocktails because flying home tomorrow 😭 🥶

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    8·
    5 个月前

    I quite like Bananas in Pyjamas. Just living their best banana lives.

    Peppa, on the other hand, needs to get in the bin. And die.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      5·
      5 个月前

      I heard Bluey was created as a response to how empty and pointless Peppa Pig feels.

      Also, I’m pretty sure the same studio did the Big Knights. We got like one season of that and endless Peppa Pig. The world is an unkind place

  • SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
    7·
    5 个月前

    Poolside book success: Icebreaker by Hannah Grace. Requires suspense of belief when it comes to competitive figure skating, but a fun, funny read with a very inclusive ensemble cast without feeling forced. 7 out of 10 for making me laugh so much.

    Poolside book fail: All We Lost Was Everything by Sloan Harlow. Terrible “romance”, annoying characters, horrible twists that had my eyes rolling out of my head. 2 out of 10.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      2·
      5 个月前

      I tried normie books once and found I don’t like them. Sometimes they’re an enjoyable read, but mostly they rely on you not knowing how human interactions or the world works to be believable

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    5 个月前

    I hate the movie Rubber (2010). I saw it years ago because I thought “oh a horror comedy about a murderous tyre, yeah sure!” And it turned out to be the most boring, pretentious slop I’ve ever seen; I should have known as it is a French film, but sometimes the French have good horror so I gave it a chance - MISTAKE! I watched it all the way through and just couldn’t stop loathing it. I made the mistake of telling my mate at the time, so when I went to see him, guess what he had on 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ so I’ve seen it twice and it sucked arse both times.

    What’s a film or piece of media that gets you irrationally angry?

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      7·
      5 个月前

      bananas in pajamas

      i fucking hate them so much, it’s the fucking laziest fuckingest twee utter shite made by a loathsome committee of upper middle class toorak wouldn’t know a story if it fucked them up the arse twit mums

      i don’t think my utter hatred is irrational

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        5 个月前

        You know what? I’m here for your hate on BiP and The Wiggles. I didn’t expect either of them to be a response to my question, but I love it!

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          5·
          5 个月前

          I have seen so many kids shows, I even took the young seagoon to see the live The Sooty Show , and i generally love kids and YA fiction, cartoons etc

          so it’s just the fucking bip , it’s the laziest children’s show that has no story, the pitch must have ticked all the boxes at the abc ( other than having an actual story with characters )

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          4·
          5 个月前

          I also hate the wiggles but I think they have improved some what since they started ( which was when my hate for them was peak ) so I’m now mostly indifferent

    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
      6·
      5 个月前

      Coincidentally, I watched a French horror film last night called Martyrs (2008).

      There was a comment review on this thread recently about 28 Years Later and how it had no redeeming value (which is a preposterous notion by the way)

      and so…

      Martyrs (2008) is a movie that actually has no redeeming value. It’s a purely violent and brutal torture porn type film with no real discernible message.

      It didn’t make me irrationally angry, just confused. Who was this movie made for? and why? What does this piece of art bring to the world?

      EDIT: rage inducing media includes:

      “Reality TV”

      “Morning shows”

      Anything with Tracy Grimshaw and that rubbish

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        4·
        5 个月前

        Morning shows. Don’t talk to me about morning shows

        decades ago I used to stay up to watch Today, an American syndicated morning show. I was like 😧. The journalism/interviews were better than anything I had seen on ABC or SBS. And then I was 😖The journalism of “trash” American morning shows is better than our best journos.

        I’m not saying US morning shows are good now or that I agree with their views.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        5 个月前

        Oh I’ve seen Martyrs (the original and the remake), and yeah I agree with you. It felt like the theme was “trauma can make you transcend and see beyond!” Which is fkn gross.

        The only barely redeemable quality of that film was the end, where we don’t hear what she said to Madame, and it was cryptic. I wanted more of that feeling, not the gratuitous torture the MC endures at the hands of some weird rich people cult.

        I feel similar about A Serbian Film. That has no redeemable qualities at all, as well, and I do not believe the creators intent that the film was a comment on the Serbian film industry. It was fkn gross for the sake of being gross, and they should just fkn own that instead of making up reasons as to why it’s a “commentary”.

        • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
          4·
          5 个月前

          You have a good point with the cryptic message whispered by the victim at the end. It’s ostensibly the revelation to what the fate of our soul is after death. It’s a compelling idea that didn’t require 90 minutes of cold brutality to reach that point.

          Flatliners (1990) did it so much better.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        4·
        5 个月前

        I totally understand where that movie is coming from.

        if you visit european art museums, churches and city halls they are full of paintings of martyred saints being brutally tortured. Not just a few paintings, so many. For example, the historic town hall of Leuven ( a city famous for Enlightenment values ) has a giant painting in a public room of a guy getting his intestines wound out . Why? These paintings are just hanging there , so many of them, and are totally out of context in space, time and culture.

        or maybe it’s just a shit movie 🤷‍♀️

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          5 个月前

          I think it could have been done better, and made the Martyr theme more prominent. Instead it was “watch a woman who is traumatised, go through more trauma and body horror”.

          Actual martyrs died for a cause or a religious reason. She didn’t have a long held personal belief that would warrant such treatment, it was just a fucked up cult doing it to her for a stupid reason.

          I’m glad that dumb cult didn’t get the answers they wanted.

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
            4·
            5 个月前

            looking at the paintings you don’t see a reason , there is no context at all, it’s just gruesome suffering

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      3·
      5 个月前

      Rick & Morty. Both voices drive me utterly nuts. No specific linked memory, just insanely annoying.