this under 16 age ban thing is interesting. As a kid or teen I would have been FURIOUS. As an adult… I totally get it!
On one level it’s good because I don’t really think kids should be in a lot of places they are.
On the other I’m worried that all the adults are going to have to prove their age with ID which would impact on privacy and potentially leak.
That’s a line I’m not willing to cross.
Agreed, I think it won’t work and won’t do anything but harm
As a father of teens, I get why it’s being implemented. Waaay too many kids have unfiltered and unrestricted access to shit that’s just plain wrong.
It’s also 100% on the parents to know what their kids are up to.
Kids are expert in not letting p’s know though.
While that is true, there is a level of trust between kids and parents that needs to be established. I think my wife and did a job with this, and our kids very honest with us.
Ironically, I was not honest with my parents, as they wouldn’t really listen to my opinions.
That’s it, you have to know your kids.
We’ll have discussion with our kids on any range of topics. Our opinions might differ but they have a voice. And sometimes they’re right, which I’m happy to admit to them. At the same time, we encourage them to use logic and think of consequences (and causes) of different things.
Something I’ve never had with my parents, and my wife had even less.
It’s not perfect parenting, but I know my kids and our kids know us.
Alright gang. I have managed to connect to the multi dimensional VPN. I can now download you TV shows or movies that dont exist in our reality from other dimensions. Hit me up with your favorite shows that almost existed or got cancelled early. Personally, i cant wait to watch season 2 of firefly. And maybe figure out where TF stargate universe and stargate atlantis were going with their next seasons.
Hyperion movie directed by Denis Villeneuve
A Country Practice S15 please
Nah it went shit after Molly died.
True. Plus Fatso #3 was a jerk.
Fats #3 left chocolate cubes everywhere.
Oh dear. If you used to watch this show, don’t look up its IMDB. 90% of them are dead. 😢
Please don’t tease me on all those shows, I literally had a wave of sadness. And if they don’t exist in my places I know you’re lying :'(
I'm an idiot
- Babylon 5 - 5 seasons, actual start/middle/end to the narrative, and amazingly progressive for it’s time. Ivana was my TV crush.
- Farscape - because it’s fun and cool, and has Claudia Black (another childhood crush of mine 😍😍)
- Stargate SG1- because it’s amazing
- The Mummy 1 and 2 - they’re fun, silly, and Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are hot 🥵🔥
- Steven Universe - it’s a beautiful show, about trauma and acceptance, and it’s kid appropriate. The art style, the stories, I just adore it.
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - the actors and actresses are phenomenal, the story is amazing, and they cancelled it after 2 seasons 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
- Freaks and Geeks - old but gold if you can get over young James Franco’s punchable face lol
- Firefly - because it’s Firefly
- Surface (2005/6) - one season, 15 EPs. Cancelled. It was really fucking cool ffs
My actual answer:
- Dead Like Me - needed more seasons dammit and the premise is cool af
You’re not an idiot. There are some solid requests there!!!
Helliconia Trilogy by Denis Villeneuve please
better off ted s3 pls
Definitely putting Seasons 2-10 of Firefly on the list.
The book-accurate version of the later Game of Thrones series, please (and I’ll take the completed eBooks of ASOIAF while you’re at it).
And there’s an error with the final episode of Star Trek Enterprise in our reality. Can you grab the real one without the stupid stuff ours had, please?easy on that last one. I really like the refit of the NX01 in the following 2 seasons as well.
I’m talking about the final episode of the whole series - S04E22 “These are the Voyages” specifically. It had the establishment of the Federation, with the founding species etc. That part was great. There was a silly cross-over with the TNG holodeck though, and there was a thing with Trip that must have been some historical inaccuracy with the holodeck record, because it was beyond stupid scriptwriting otherwise.
District 9 sequel please
^^ I might die for this ^^
Any more Breaking Bad, that doesn’t invalidate or ruin what we already have?
Ooh or any more Wonderfalls? Ended waaay too soon.
Two more seasons of The Expanse
Proper S4-S5 of Boardwalk Empire
Newsradio with a very much alive Phil Hartman
3 more seasons of 30 Rock
Yes! Cover the rest of the book series!
Oh heck yes. Seeing those void cities (or whatever they were called) take on the magnatar vessel for the sol system, bobbie going down guns blazing! the Siege of Liconia. all woulda been amazing to see.
The whole occupation of Medina would have been great!! I loved S1 on Ceres for the atmosphere, and can only imagine they could so much more with a proper budget.
Season 3-5 of Carnivale pls.
Kubrick’s Napoleon movie
Boondocks - 2 more seasons
Adventure Time - many more seasons
Heroes - 1 more season
Lost - 1 more season
Please and thank you 🙏
Can you get Game of Thrones from a dimension where George RR Martin actually finished the books?
no seeders sadly. Turns out Martin did a rushjob just as bad as the boys did in our universe.
Damn. I’ll have to go for more seasons of Warehouse 13. Or for Warehouse 14, as I think 13 was destroyed at the end of the series.
Procrastinated a bit long on it but finally made an inquiry re: movers. Have one friend locked in to help with some big stuff on Thursday - was a bit touch and go as her own housing situation was looking precarious but thankfully she got the news today that she has some breathing space and she can take my plants (and any junk that I can’t get rid of on FBM). Another friend is locked in to help me with the main move on Saturday.
If I can get the movers booked by end of tomorrow for next Monday, I’ll be feeling very confident about being on track to clean everything up and hand back the keys next Wednesday. So glad that the moving site lets me add extra items up to 24hrs in advance, less stress about generating more heavy boxes than anticipated. I’ve got to keep reminding myself that I got this.
Okay! Time to use up this jar of banana blossoms for dinner… then wind down before a 7:30am start tomorrow
You’re amazing - so on top of all this. I’ve moved a lot in the past and have faffed around like nobody business with it
Man, my house looks barely packed and there’s gonna be a lot of last minute shit… but thank you! I’ve had to try and organise as much as I can ahead of time because otherwise my stress would be through the roof. I’m definitely faffing around a lot in between. No packing tonight or the next two nights I don’t think.
Beep Beep 🚚
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☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
A variety of foods involving custard please.
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In the interests of low cost weekend activities, my Minipeelers and I have decided;
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to have our own festival,
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to do craft about it, and
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to call it “Craftmas.”
It will involve liberal amounts of polymer clay and wool, and focus on making Xmas decorations and gifts (for those we would like to give something to, but either don’t want to buy for or don’t know what to buy). I’m really looking forward to it and am actually excited for this!
Excellent idea! Happy craftmas!
sounds so cool , and not just you but all the peelers 🥰
for xmassy baubles you can press beads into the clay
This sounds great!
Back when I was a kid, mum & dad were going through a difficult financial patch so we made xmas decorations from gum tree twigs - painted with thin flour & water glue and tinfoil laid on like it was gold leaf. Then wove the twigs into garlands and a whole xmas tree (small). Peach pits got the same treatment and were the baubles along with gingerbread shapes baked hard. Looked and smelled very nice. I remember it as kinda messy but very fun. I think I remember painting the peach pits before they were covered with tinfoil so the colours showed through the inevitable gaps in the tinfoil. The downside was our cat decided she liked the gingerbread shapes to chew on and this wasn’t good for her digestion.
No strung milk bottle tops?
We got our milk in quart jars (in old money). The jars had screw on glass lids not foil tops. Foil tops were fancy. Yes it was delivered by a horse & cart.
A themed crafternoon. Add a snack or two and this is Most Excellent.
A Crafternoon! I knew a word already existed for it but couldn’t think of it for the life of me, thankyou!
That sounds like fun! Can highly recommend orange and clove pompadours to make as a cheap gift.
That sounds so fun!!! What a great idea for a family day together! 💜 Ahhh!
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Sometimes the Best solution to a bad mood is cat pats and sleep.
Goodnight everyone ❤️
I love how they put 1 paw on you. My cat used to do that
and oh so casually
Good Night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘
Hello 2am. It’s time to smash Lego roses down the back of the fridge 🐈⬛
🤣🤣🤣
I got woken up just now to the sounds of a violent struggle with a plastic bag
Presumably the bag resulted in somewhat fewer pieces than I needed to retrieve
Not yet lol. It was one of those "what the fuck? Where is she? " moments.
Still can’t find it 😂
Is it the weekend yet?
gonna be a LOOONG one this week without the public holiday as well.
Didn’t get the public holiday last week anyway (yay for working in higher-ed!)… I’ve already hit my tolerance limit and have only been here 3 hours!
I need more coffee…
We got it for the first time ever due to new EBA. Creates weirdness over the New Year etc break as a result though
Yeah I bet it would! I definitely DON’T miss having to burn half my AL for the Christmas shutdown like in my former life.
Today’s sort of my Friday - I have the next three days off, yay!
Nearly
Phew. It’s been a long week.
Thanking my past self for booking a random day off on Thursday
I wish, I might take Friday off this week though.
Have the go ahead, just need to book it in if i’m to commit.
DO IT. Think about the 9pm coffee you’ll be able to drink Thursday night
Do eeeeet!
I should have everything to finish the work from home request now. At least today can count as one of my days in
Hmm, jerboa not working for me this morning so I’m using my browser. Seems to be a few server errors lately.
Edit: now it’s working 🤷🏼♀️
coffeeeee, coffeeeee…!
oh dear god yes
It’s nice hearing birds in the morning again. :)
Quick update on the Christmas saga. Mrs B spoke to my mother in law who was like “Of course we dont have to go to the extended family thing if you dont want to”. And Mrs B now sees the light of how dumber idea it was in the first place. More than a little annoyed that it speaking to her mum rather than listening to her husband to see that, but whatever. Saves a fight, 1k and promises to be a more chill Christmas.
Does anyone here use Whatsapp? A dear friend is travelling overseas and wants to stay in touch using it. Is there anything I should be wary of? Would prefer to get some opinions before signing up.
You add people by their phone number. Just ignore any contacts from anyone who isn’t your friend and only add them
Whatsapp is about contacts (i.e. phone contacts) rather than friends or followers. It means someone with your phone number can get access to info you set in Whatsapp unless you tweak the privacy settings. When you sign up, go to the Privacy tab and go through the “Who can see my personal info” section to make sure it suits your preferences. I don’t like to show my picture to anyone who has messaged me unless I’ve saved them as a contact, for example.
The other quirk is “auto-download” I think turned on by default, which means images etc. that get sent to you get saved to your phone. If you’re just swapping memes it can clog things up. Have a play and see what works for you.
It’s basically another Facebook Messenger app. It was its own app until 2016/2017 sometime when Facebook bought it. Your contacts will be shared with Facebook. For all of that, it’s a decent messenger.
I don’t personally use it any more because I hate all things Facebook.
no fb 🚫
If only my family weren’t so attached I’d be gone from there as well lol 😭
I went with Telegram, which functionally at least was pretty identical to WhatsApp back when I had both apps.
Telegram has a bunch of other stuff these days (channels etc); I still only use it for chatting with family and friends. I had leverage over my family: I was in Melbourne and the single source on the Internet of grandchildren photos was Telegram. So they all signed up to it. 😃
Signal?
Signal didn’t exist 10 years ago when this all happened. Encryption is nice and all, but kid photos aren’t exactly state secrets and the user experience of Telegram is 10x better than Signal.
I have both apps, but nobody I know uses Signal.
Scammers who have your phone number (like those scam call thingies) will send you msgs, you can just block and report them.
Otherwise, you just add your friend by the number they will be using overseas (mobile) and you two can msg.
