Posting here until I get tired enough to go to bed in order to sleep.

garage is full of boxes ready to move interstate
secured new house to rent
2x cars booked to be moved
truck to relocate us has been booked

plane flights have been booked -paid $100 extra to have no other seats in front of us - the paranoia is strong with this one...
booked car at Brisbane airport - fuckers won't fly to Hervey Bay anymore. No more REX (regional express -a subsidiary of Qantas)
It's a 3 1/4 hour drive. But dropping the car off at Hervey Bay.
Can't get hold of anybody here to disconnect internet or foxtel - I realised why. India is on lockdown! So no call centres!

Are you moving to Hervey Bay?
We'll be within 3 or 4 hrs of each other.
You should come visit when lockdown is over.
I'm in Toowoomba. :-)

(April 7, 2020 at 4:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Watching Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and I can’t help but notice one strange detail about the battle with the Crazy 88:





Do they have Mountain Dew in their veins, because in the black and white scenes, their blood is a translucent white. And no, it doesn’t look like an artifact of the conversion to black and white, because the aftermath of the battle is in color, and when I used my phone to compare and contrast the black and whites, the bloody parts showed up dark.

They had to do that scene with a B&W conversion because of the ratings issue. That much red blood would have them to get an up-tick in the rating to NC-17. So Tarantino decided to mock the process by making the blood look ... weird.

(April 8, 2020 at 6:09 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(April 7, 2020 at 4:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Watching Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and I can’t help but notice one strange detail about the battle with the Crazy 88:





Do they have Mountain Dew in their veins, because in the black and white scenes, their blood is a translucent white. And no, it doesn’t look like an artifact of the conversion to black and white, because the aftermath of the battle is in color, and when I used my phone to compare and contrast the black and whites, the bloody parts showed up dark.

They had to do that scene with a B&W conversion because of the ratings issue. That much red blood would have them to get an up-tick in the rating to NC-17. So Tarantino decided to mock the process by making the blood look ... weird.

Mocking the rating system is mad cool.  There's a scene in either 'Be Cool' or 'Get Shorty' in which Travolta is told by another character, 'If we want to keep the PG-13 rating, we can only drop one f-bomb' and Travolta replies, 'That's fucking stupid.'

Boru

(April 8, 2020 at 6:09 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(April 7, 2020 at 4:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Watching Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and I can’t help but notice one strange detail about the battle with the Crazy 88:





Do they have Mountain Dew in their veins, because in the black and white scenes, their blood is a translucent white. And no, it doesn’t look like an artifact of the conversion to black and white, because the aftermath of the battle is in color, and when I used my phone to compare and contrast the black and whites, the bloody parts showed up dark.

They had to do that scene with a B&W conversion because of the ratings issue. That much red blood would have them to get an up-tick in the rating to NC-17. So Tarantino decided to mock the process by making the blood look ... weird.

I remember that, just not the blood being so translucent.

(April 8, 2020 at 2:06 am)ignoramus Wrote: Can't get hold of anybody here to disconnect internet or foxtel - I realised why. India is on lockdown! So no call centres!

Lmao this gave me a much needed laugh. No doctors or scam-callers either! . You get the bad with the good I guess

Dodo, I have great fears for India (and Africa) with this virus ...
India is a perfect storm on the brink.

Just staring and grinning at my new "profile" here - purple username, 5, yes 5 gold stars and also some kind of zen'd out   golden statue! Dashing or what! I recommend others become donors to the site so they too could look, well, not quite as dashing as me but doubtless v smart 

I went out to Good Guys today with a budget in mind to buy a temporary TV for the new rental in qld, bought a samsung 75" 8K.
Yep, the wife's never taking me shopping ever again!