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[nicki-mac-me]

When in Rome Vegas.

We did the Stranger Things shop as well for my nephew!!

[nicki-mac-me]

OMG!!!

Holiday in Las Vegas with the family and you KNOW I had to do the Hunger Games Exhibition!!!

Snow’s office for announcements.

Wedding Dress and Mockingjay Dress.

AND, my fave:

Lucy’s colourful dress from the new movie!!!

[nicki-mac-me]

Squatterbloat when Dream rings the gong:

[nicki-mac-me]

Me watching ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’ before last week:

OMFG, why, like c’mon Bathsheba, Boldwood and Oak, two great choices and you choose Troy???!!!

This motherfucker:

Me after watching The Sandman:

Okay….so, I, uh, yeah!!!

This King of my Dreams:

[nicki-mac-me]

😂🤣

So true!!!

Troy - Moustache + Eyeliner = DAMN SON!!

We read FFTMC in school and I really hated Troy, Gabriel Oak was my guy!! Matthias Schoenaerts really worked for me as Oak and have had a thing for Michael Sheen since Underworld so even Boldwood was a ‘yes please’.

But no, definitely a total GLOW UP!!

[nicki-mac-me]

Me watching ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’ before last week:

OMFG, why, like c’mon Bathsheba, Boldwood and Oak, two great choices and you choose Troy???!!!

This motherfucker:

Me after watching The Sandman:

Okay….so, I, uh, yeah!!!

This King of my Dreams:

[nicki-mac-me]

Watching WAY too many Bigfoot shows on Discovery Channel and it literally just occurred to me how off putting the ‘let’s play BF mating calls on loudspeaker’ plan the BF Hunters deploy would be.

Like, you’re in your house, settled in for the night and all you hear, loudly, is ‘I WANNA FUCCCKKKK’.

So inconsiderate!!

* I love these shows in the same way I love reading r/nosleep, like yeah it’s ‘real’ 😜, so spoopy.

** Loch Ness Monster’s different. As a Scot, even if you don’t believe in Nessie, you believe in Nessie!

[normal-horoscopes]

America is pretty shit but I think every single non-american I've ever talked to agrees that American breakfast food fucks super hard.

[normal-horoscopes]

Ah! I see how you can make that mistake! You see, Whimsy Boiled Gutter Beans or whatever the English "people" eat for breakfast is not actually food.

[normal-horoscopes]

English breakfast beans aren't even on the same planet as Latin American breakfast beans.

[nicki-mac-me]

As a proud Scot, I have to say that every holiday to the US I’ve been on, first on the agenda, locate the Denny’s!

UK breakfast ain’t shit compared to a full Denny’s breakfast, bacon (your bacon straight up FUCKS) scrambled egg, dry as a bone, the way I like it, toast, and all with a stack of pancakes.

Only thing that you guys do differently that is not for me is the tea, but like, I’m not looking starting a war over tea. Xx

[lihiominaa]

The Last Duel 2021 • Dir. Ridley Scott

[nicki-mac-me]

Lying or completely self-deluded?

***SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE TO FOLLOW***

Really enjoyed this movie but can we talk about how fucking awful Matt Damon’s character Jaques is as well as the other two? Like, he’s just as bad!!

He finds out a frenemy raped his wife, talks about how it’s another attack ON HIM! Uses it as a pretext to go after his rival. Rapes his own wife who’s still traumatised by the previous attack. No, he didn’t physically hold her down but if she had resisted after he insisted, do we not think he wouldn’t have?

Worst of all, he hides the penalty from her. He’ll suffer a heroic death in combat and she’ll be stripped and burned alive?

What makes it more galling is how kind and attentive he (thinks he is) to her in his testimony. He’s religious so presumably he thinks what he is saying is the truth. You come away thinking he’s just kind of a bumbling and gruff idiot with honour and a heart of gold!

Driver’s character LeGris obviously paints himself as a flawed man who’s ‘only human’ and shows off how pig headed Jaques truly is. However, you doubt his account on the basis of what he’s been accused of and how Jaques recounts. As it turns out, yes, LeGris completely ignored her refusal because he chose to, he wanted to do what he did. Even his account is a million miles from consent. But, he even thinks he is defending her by saying she made the customary protest because she’s a lady.

We were expecting Comer’s Marguerite to read the receipts on LeGris but she really read all these gross fucking men for the utter filth that they are and all whilst they thought themselves honourable in their own story where THEY are the aggrieved hero.

Neither LeGris, nor Jaques thought themselves in the wrong, right to the end.

They learned nothing!

** One thing I thought was clever was when Affleck’s character is watching LeGris’ dead body be dragged away by the ankles and it temporarily takes a ‘Christ-On-The-Cross’ pose, like he genuinely saw his friend as a martyr.

[alwaysladyfraser]

My best boy Gallowglass on season 3!

[nicki-mac-me]

Always really liked Gallowglass as a character but now…

DAYUM!!!!

The de Clermont men are gonna be the death of me!!

[smudgedeyeshadow]

I should get minimum wage for just being alive

[idk-my-aesthetic]

This but like. Unironically. I want universal basic income

[nicki-mac-me]

Dividends are better.

If the government provides UBI then companies will simply raise their prices to take that money from the government via your bank account. They’ll continue to lobby and prevent their taxes from going up to pay for it so we’ll end up paying our own UBI and be in the same situation as we are in now.

Also, there’s the completely manufactured spectre of ‘entitlement mindset’ makes people feel ashamed to receive money from the state despite the fact that they paid into it and are therefore ENTITLED to have access to these funds. Dividends cuts this off because you’re not receiving money from the state, you are being compensated.

How this might work in practice:

Facebook, Google and any other ‘free’ service that make money from collecting and selling our data should be made to pay us for that data. We can refuse to allow them permission to use said data, in which case there might be a small monetary fee* if we still want to use the platform.

This could seem counter-productive but hear me out.

Facebook uses servers, has staff, buildings, overheads and also does have costs. We are already paying for this via the exchange of our data for access to the platform. If you want to use the platform but don’t want your data sold you can still use it. The small payment on part of the user makes for a more binding contract so if the company does use the data they are in breach of contract with you and whoever they sell the data to.

This goes for any information gathering platform.

Just a thought!

* Adam Ruins put this price at $12, that was a few years ago so I don’t know how much that would be now.

[nicki-mac-me]

If you can get the covid vaccine, (i.e, you are not in a medically exempt group, and you are in a country with a surplus) please get it!

This past Monday my nephew (14) came home with a cold and sore throat. My sister tested him with the home kit and turns out, he has Covid. She got him tested at the centre and that confirmed it.

Besides mild cold symptoms for a few days, he’s been totally fine, thankfully! My sister, her husband and my other nephew (20) tested negative.

We are all double vaccinated, except for my sister…who is triple vaccinated, she works in the care sector so has already had her booster jab.

Now, the 14-year-old got his about two weeks ago, AS SOON AS it became available for 14+ kids to get, he demanded it the day of release, talked it up to all his friends. I don’t know how long the vaccine takes to work but if it gave the tiniest protection I am very glad.

My Mum picked him up from school that day, before we knew, I then hung out with her. In her house is my Dad (72) and my Grandma (93). Again, all double vaccinated. Daily home tests for all have been negative.

An extremely contagious virus where we all had contact with infected person, Typhoid Marvin (affectionate) but none of us caught it because:

*DING DING DING DING DING*

VACCINATED

Please get the vaccine if you can. I totally understand that it’s stupidly difficult to get it in some countries (fuck you Bill Gates, at this point he OWES us 5G enabled vaccines*)

PSA OVER

* Although Gates is not putting trackers or 5G into the vaccine, nor is he leading a cabal of child eating satan worshippers (as some believe) he is responsible for the vaccine shortage. He convinced world leaders to give manufactured vaccines through his charity instead of providing the formula to smaller local drug companies to make their own.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nicki-mac-me]

It’s really like that, or, if they were more honest:

“Yes I’m a twenty-five-year-old millionaire because I took full advantage of the privilege afforded to me by rich parents/good connections/right-place-right-time etc, I worked these privileges for all they were worth to get what I aimed for but although I worked hard to get here, I needed those initial breaks to even have a shot.”

But in reality it’s usually:

I worked super hard to get here, blah blah rich parents but I could have been a bum coasting on their success and wealth so because I feel in my own experience that I worked for my position, I think you could do the same, something something grind, hustle etc….

My Dad’s yacht gala partner did give me a start but I would have made it anyway, thousands of intern applications, I’m sure I would have got the unpaid position. I did stay with my parents until I got a paid position but really you can’t count that. I could have moved into the flat my gran bought me but I was collecting air-b-n-b rent, which is how I saved up for a down payment on this house. Guys, I did not have any Starbucks, I saved that money and used my mom’s french press instead.

Self made millionaire!!!

[ngalitzine]

I was wondering, did Buffy end up with someone? Honestly I never got into watching the show, but I’m interested in knowing what happened with that specific topic. Thanks

no, she doesn't.

[nicki-mac-me]

Yeah, the last time Buffy was mentioned was in an episode of Angel (S5 I think) where he and Spike find out she’s dating someone called ‘The Immortal’ and they go to Europe and ‘see’ her (totally not SMG if I remember correctly, just someone who looked like her from behind) dancing with a guy and both decide to just let her get on with her life.

[nicki-mac-me]

Having already indoctrinated my 14-year-old nephew with Spaced, Black Books, Pushing Daisies and IT Crowd (he later discovered Still Gsme and Chewing The Fat by himself, so proud) we were at a loss for stuff to watch a few weeks ago.

Enter Ted Lasso and Schmigadoon!

Now, bit of background:

I do watch shows/movies with my older nephew (20) that has adult content, I watch the same stuff with my mum too, and what do we do?

We Fast Forward!

No we are not religious or overly prudish, nobody wants to watch stuff like this with their parents. We laugh, grab for the remote and FF, no awkward silence where we pretend it’s not happening. She watches stuff on her own that’s a bit racy that I don’t (Peaky Blinders, Sons of Anarchy) and whether she FF’s through this whilst watching alone, is her business.

Now, I have watched shows like GOT, The Tudors, White Queen & Princess, with the older nephew since he was about 15 and followed the exact same principle, when things are going in that direction, one shout of ‘oh, wagon’ (rhyming slang for ‘shaggin’ wagon’) and the scene in question is FF’ed!

Back to Ted Lasso!

Not overly sexual, there’s more just discussion and suggestion of sex but I do the same thing, just FF.

We both love this show, it’s hilarious and heart warming, like all kids on the show his fave is Roy. I personally never realised how much I could loathe an Anthony Stewart Head character more than Uther Pendragon (how dare they call him ‘Rupert’, Giles was a pure bean and did not deserve to share a name with that snake!).

The blend of kindness and optimism is so refreshing, writing and acting is flawless.

Oh and Schmigadoon is tremendous fun, he’s a big fan of Key & Peele so that’s a winner for him, also, his Pushing Daisies fave ‘Olive’ Kristen Chenowyth helps too!

[the-unseelie-court-official]

Breaking: CDC announces if you are fully vaccinated you can walk into a fairy circle.

[stpndsbdss]

*squints at username*

…..nah, I’m good.

[nicki-mac-me]

Technically you CAN.

The PSA didn’t mention anything about walking back out!!

[nicki-mac-me]

Kinda been busy helping my friend who’s started making candles and melts and I’m getting her to make me some ADOW scents.

Matthew is cinnamon and cloves.

Baldwin is burnt wood and saddle leather.

What other ADOW smells can I trick her into making for me? 😂🤣.

[jacobgalapagos]

i dont know what an NFT is and im too afraid to ask

[queersamus]

imagine if you went up to the mona lisa and you were like "i'd like to own this" and someone nearby went "give me 65 million dollars and i'll burn down an unspecified amount of the amazon rainforest in order to give you this receipt of purchase" so you paid them and they went "here's your receipt, thank you for your purchase" and went to an unmarked supply closet in the back of the museum and posted a handmade label inside it behind the brooms that said "mona lisa currently owned by jacobgalapagos" so if anyone wants to know who owns it they'd have to find this specific closet in this specific hallway and look behind the correct brooms. and you went "can i take the mona lisa home now?" and they went "oh god no are you stupid? you only bought the receipt that says you own it, you didn't actually buy the mona lisa itself, you can't take the real mona lisa you idiot. you CAN take this though." and gave you the replica print in a cardboard tube that's sold in the gift shop. also the person selling you the receipt of purchase has at no point in time ever owned the mona lisa.

unfortunately, if this doesn't really make sense or seem like any logical person would be happy about this exchange, then you've understood it perfectly

[nicki-mac-me]

This is the most comprehensive explanation of NFT’s actually!!

But, it feels less like rich people being taken advantage of and more like a tax avoidance scheme.

The only part I can’t figure out is the ‘charitable donation angle’.

Usually, if you owed 5 million in taxes, you could buy a piece of art for 1 million and have a friendly valuation done that says it’s actually worth 6 million. You then donate the art to a gallery and because it’s a charitable donation, you can get a good amount of your tax wiped.

With NFT’s, you’re still spending that money but since the tax code is not set up to deal with this type of purchase, how would you claim that?

If someone knows how this would work I’m all ears!!

Not saying some people aren’t gullible or narcissistic enough to want a ‘I am the most special boy’ receipt but usually rich people have good accountants and competent staff to manage their finances.