havocpants

Slipped getting out of the bath when I was about 12. My foot hit one of the metal poles supporting the sink, with my little toe going one side and the rest of my foot the other. My foot tore on impact, leaving my little toe hanging off.

I bandaged it up, and kept changing the bandage when it was soaked through with blood and it eventually stopped bleeding. I have a scar on my foot, but other than that no lasting damage.

At least Scale AI isn't 700 Indians in a trenchcoat like that company Microsoft poured money into.

My little brother's was both the best and the worst wedding I've ever been to in many ways. The mother of the bride stood up to make a speech and it was just insane. She opened with "eeee would have been giving this speech" (pointing at the bride's stepfather), "but he's just had a gastric band fitted". She finished by saying how she didn't feel she was losing a daughter, but she was gaining a friend ... in (daughter's name).

The bride's family didn't speak to any of us for most of the reception, there was an invisible line across the room with the two families on each side. The bride's little brother with learning difficulties destroyed the cake by punching it repeatedly before anyone could get a piece. My family all got drunk and had a food fight during the reception. My little brother slept with someone else the night before the wedding and they separated the week after the wedding.

This was nearly 20 years ago, but we still laugh about it. God I wish someone had filmed that speech from the bride's lunatic mother, it was amazing.

imagine it was the wife, mine also complained that I was spending too much time with the guests we'd invited to our wedding. With hindsight, it was not a great indicator for the rest of the marriage.

Who Will love My Children? 1983

Mask 1985

I defy anyone to get to the end of either movie without being a total mess.

Tom Hanks is amazing in it.

US democracy dies cause Dems can’t/won’t fight effectively or message appropriately.

Really? It looks to me like US democracy dies because a majority of Americans voted for the overt fascists, largely based on disinformation, propaganda and prejudice, and helped along by a dollop of voter suppression.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not American.

"Justice will prevail". Not until the whole rotten US administration is behind bars it won't.

I still find it absolutely wild that the president of the US has this much power, that the president can be an unqualified, incompetent drooling fucking moron and they are allowed to veto sensible knowledgeable people and do dangerous, stupid things like control the dumping of reservoirs.

WTF is wrong with America? In my country we have a parliamentary democracy and a civil service of qualified, intelligent people. We don't allow one total fucking imbecile to ride roughshod over everything and ruin anything they like. US congress is like some useless appendix right now when it should be in charge of making these decisions.

I don't want to set your expectations too high, because it's far from perfect, but I thought Picard S3 was basically the good TNG movie that we never received. It was great to see so many of the TNG crew back on screen, and probably for the last time together since they're all in their 70s. The story was mostly good and there were some real high points.

Picard season 3 was pretty great too. I skipped season 2 as I hated season 1. Apparently season 3 just ignores the events of 2 completely because it was that bad.

I get the feeling that he was forced to include Family Guy style jokes in the first series and was allowed to ease up after it was clear that they weren't working.