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klsallee wrote:

My wife, a dual Hungarian-Swiss citizen has typically had a lot of trouble with US customs.  Even with her Swiss passport. Seriously. Switzerland. Yeah. That is a real source point of illegal immigration to the USA.....  She probably had more problems than some of these nefarious users of Hungarian passports provided by the current Hungarian government

Yes, all those nefarious Hungarian-Americans... Houdini, Tesla (er, Serbian), etc. Those dangded Hungarians get bloody well everywhere don't they. You can't cross a crosswalk on Fifth Avenue without tripping over a Szechenyi or a Clark Adam,,, no hang on... Clark Adam was... he was Hungarian wasn't he? No, he did something good, so he must be American. The Hungaro-Anglo-American, Clark Adam!

Clark built a bridge of Sheffield Steel
some time ago, we've got it still,
it spans from Pest to Buda, verso.
in 1848 was thereso.

Oh that's a bit half-arsed so let's have a go at a proper clerihew

Szechenyi asked Clark to span the Duna
Clark would have done it sooner
But was busy with the prototype at Marlow
The Lanchíd was to follow

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

if you get past the basic Maslow hierarchy of needs

yeah that is what I was kinda thinking of, forgot the chap who did it. Ends up with self-feel-fullment like I do when I have eaten too many Csirke McNuggetek. You're right, Orwell himself said it somewhere, politicians like to think that all the world's problems are solved when nobody has an empty belly. But that is when the problems start. When you have an empty belly, your only problem is an empty belly.

Sure.  Maslow again.

In Africa, it's day to day, hand to mouth, scrabbling for life. No socialised medicine, no free drugs, break your leg and you could be dead and dumped in a hole, no-one really knew you existed.  Same in many other places.  Priorities - water, food, heat, security, then politics and eventually "self-actualisation".

Perhaps a good example is those 911 guys. The Saudi consiprators were all wealthy - look at Bin Laden - wealthy guy.  That MFB* and his cronies had everything materially they needed to live but they decided to be terrorists and kill 1000s of people.  In other words, despite everything they had, they had no purpose until their radicalisation.  If they'd been on a desert island with those 3000 other people,  they'd have other priorities rather than choosing to kill everyone.   

*the first word is Mother, the last word is a comment on his parents marital status.  Fill in the rest!

fluffy2560 wrote:

If they'd been on a desert island with those 3000 other people,  they'd have other priorities rather than choosing to kill everyone.

They should have gone to Oman. Because 0 man is an island (according to Donne).

Just kinda continuing on the defence of the realm theme... I used to find it amusing to walk through Stevenage town centre and find signs saying "Stevenage is a nuclear free zone". Now the fact that about 20% of the leccy in your wires comes from nuclear power plants, apart from that, the biggest employer in Stevenage, British Aerospace, is a huge defence company (admittedly not doing nuclear weapons) and the second biggest, Marconi, is another huge defence company (not as as far as I know doing nuclear weapons) and the third largest, Ferrant's defence arm, between them employ about 60% of the workforce in Stevenage. I don't need to check my facts we were TAUGHT THIS IN SCHOOL. Pour out of school, job at marconi for you, job at bae for you, oh you are a fucking idiot go and work at the council then. The council was the biggest employer (20% of the workforce), and put signs up saying "Stevenage is a nuclear free zone". Oh I slept well at night because of that. The Russians obviously must have seen those signs because they never hit Stevenage. Stevenage was abuot their fourth biggest target just because of the concentration of defence business. Stevenage was built by and for the defence industry, it was kinda an inland Portsmouth in that way. For the council to put up signs saying "Stevenage is a nuclear free zone" is frankly just eye-poppingly ridiculuos. At least Orwell said of Churchill, "he realised that wars cannot be won without fighting". Whit kinda wishy-washy council spends my council tax to put up signs like that? Oh, I know. A labour council. I voted all my life for Labour until I saw that.

fluffy2560 wrote:

*the first word is Mother, the last word is a comment on his parents marital status.  Fill in the rest!

Is it *** by any chance? It should be his parents' with the apostrophe after the S. That of course is assuming he had two parents. Had he only one, of course, it would be his parent's. iwt is hard to know where to put the apostrophe, because I presume the father was absent at the birth, although present at the conception. Tut tut tut, two raps on the knuckles for you I think. Let this be a lesson in grammar for you. I am APOSTROPHEMAN! WIELDING MY MIGHTY, er, APOSTROPHE, I SCOUT THE HEAVENS FOR DROPPED AITCHES (no sorry, DroppedAitchesMan does that what do I do, oh yeah, apostrophes) I SCOUT THE HEAVENS FOR THE STARS, AGAPEMONE, CIRKE, SIRIUS, POLUS CENTER, AQUARIUS, VENUS DE MILO (see that is what happens when you chew your nails) MARS THE GOD OF THUNDER AND APOSTROPHE, THE GREEK GODDESS OF PEDANTIC PUNCTUATIOzN. Famed in art, Apostrophe the greek goddess of pedants has won exactly less than one prize at any art festival. Some say she was just a myth introduced as a printer's mark in the late eighteenth century and only migrated onto the plural S at the end of the 19th. But what does she care,

she is young, she is free,
she has apostrophes  up her sleeves,
she will spill them left and right .

(mostly on potatoe's.)

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

*the first word is Mother, the last word is a comment on his parents marital status.  Fill in the rest!

Is it **** by any chance? It should be his parents' with the apostrophe after the S. That of course is assuming he had two parents. Had he only one, of course, it would be his parent's. iwt is hard to know where to put the apostrophe, because I presume the father was absent at the birth, although present at the conception....
(mostly on potatoe's.)

OK, OK, it should have had an apostrophe but where it goes is a matter of contention.  It could be that OBL was the product of parthenogenesis- scum sucking lizard that he was  could not actually be described as human.   

My train of thought was interrupted as I was writing that OBL jibe.  It was late and I was engaged in important analytical matters related to the latest incarnation of Lost In Space. 

My mind was on how the hell Dr Smith manages to not get sentenced to death and pushed rapidly off a cliff by the rest of the survivors.  What an irritating dumb plot arc.  I was never a fan of Dr Smith in the 1960s version anyway.   Camping up with stupidity in 2018, do me a favour.  The writers need to get rid of the character or change it as it's dragging the show to oblivion and cancellation and really messing up others acting skills.  What a turn off.  Might seem like black hole storm in a coffee cup but these are important trivialisations in a tough world.   Maybe everyone can wake up in their showers and realise it was all a dream and there was never a Dr Smith on their radar. Jeez.

Thanks for the heads up on Lost in Space, won't waste my time with it.
Was viewing a UK show that stared  Michael Hall, better known as DEXTER.
Didn't realise he is from the UK. Just too weird to hear him speaking all "posh".
8 episodes of a show titled,"Safe" what a let down in episode 8. I actually fell asleep through most of it.
Where do they ever find people to write this dumb stuff?
Have we all lowered our expectations that much?
Sometimes it freaks me out knowing we have access to so much info now with the internet, at least access to what ,"they" will allow us to know.
All this info we we, myself included watch video's of car crashes and cats playing the piano...

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

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Sometimes it freaks me out knowing we have access to so much info now with the internet, at least access to what ,"they" will allow us to know.
All this info we we, myself included watch video's of car crashes and cats playing the piano...

You are not alone.  There's a chicken that plays the piano as well.   I think it was on a "Somewhere's got talent" show. I almost hate myself for knowing that.

Unfortunately I have to watch Lost In Space as it's Sci-Fi and therefore compulsory.  I became interested in science and technology because  of Star Trek and I'm hoping the same will rub off on the Fluffyettes. 

However, it's teen drama (mainly Riverdale but avoid 13 Reasons Why) and surfing the phone for Fluffyette1 and obssessively Minecraft for Fluffyette2.      The folly of youth.

My very eldest non-HU Fluffyette really likes Dexter.  Never seen it myself.

Dexter was allot of fun.
Sort of brought out the ,"psychopath" in me.
At least he did in people who needed to be done in.
It was sort of a smart show, at least it was fun.
Sci-fi, not really my cup of tea although I have probably seen every sci-fi main stream show ever made at  one time or the other.
Clockwork Orange  and 2001 Space Odyssey were more to my liking then Star Trek.
Speaking of "murder" reminds me of a psychopath my father knew growing up in Conn.
They were just kids at the time, this looney kid brought my father into his garage to show off his "collection", bags of cat heads and tails....
Later as an adult my father read in the news that this man had murdered his entire family.
This was in the 1930's then the killing spree started in the 1950's.
No child services back then I suppose, poor cats...
The kid would swing them by their tail until, well you know, they came off. So disgusting, wonder if his family had it coming after all, to have such a disturbed child and not seek help.
I don't need sci-fi to scare me, real life is scary enough, thank you.

I find Netflix to be OK, they seem to be bringing more of their own productions out both series and films. They do have films which are a few years old but its nice to have a variety.

I do like my Chromecast as it works with sites I use to watch currently aired shows. German SKY is OK, but they seem to repeat a lot of their programs, well the ones I can change into English. The only reason we have it [Sky] was that it was free for a year with buying my new TV.

We will cancel when the year is up unless they can give us a good price? Its funny although Sky is in my name, they still send mail to my other half to join up to Sky. Given up telling them to stop sending mail to the same house.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

Thanks for the heads up on Lost in Space, won't waste my time with it.
Was viewing a UK show that stared  Michael Hall, better known as DEXTER.
Didn't realise he is from the UK. Just too weird to hear him speaking all "posh".
8 episodes of a show titled,"Safe" what a let down in episode 8. I actually fell asleep through most of it.
.......

Dexter is not from the UK, he's from Raleigh according to Wiki.   His British accent is just about plausible but I noticed in the trailer a couple of times he lost it just slightly.  He does do it quite well though - at least in the trailer.  They could have said he'd returned from the USA to excuse it.  There are lots of Americans (and Canadians) in the UK so it wouldn't have been an impossible idea.

Some actors do it better to the level of being faultless - Gwyneth Paltrow and Meryl Streep.  Ms Streep is well known to be a vocal chameleon.  I saw her trying to do a Northern Ireland accent.  She was quite good even though she was completely ambushed and hadn't supposedly been coached. 

I don't know about the other way. Hugh Laurie always seemed pretty good but the one that I didn't have a clue about was Louise Lombard who was in CSI.  Remarkable job to my ears.  But case of YMMV.

Canadians I can usually detect as soon as they say "eh"? Or "a-boot" (about).

NZ and Australian, no idea of the difference. Very hard to hear anything there.

SimCityAT wrote:

.... The only reason we have it [Sky] was that it was free for a year with buying my new TV.

We will cancel when the year is up unless they can give us a good price? Its funny although Sky is in my name, they still send mail to my other half to join up to Sky. Given up telling them to stop sending mail to the same house.

I am surprised Sky is still working.  My numerous Sky dishes and receivers have been in storage for about 10 years.  I was thinking of putting them up again but so far I cannot find a reason to bother. Nothing on there that's special nowadays.  Internet easily beats it with one hand tied behind its back.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

.... The only reason we have it [Sky] was that it was free for a year with buying my new TV.

We will cancel when the year is up unless they can give us a good price? Its funny although Sky is in my name, they still send mail to my other half to join up to Sky. Given up telling them to stop sending mail to the same house.

I am surprised Sky is still working.  My numerous Sky dishes and receivers have been in storage for about 10 years.  I was thinking of putting them up again but so far I cannot find a reason to bother. Nothing on there that's special nowadays.  Internet easily beats it with one hand tied behind its back.

Internet, and platforms like Netflix & Amazon. I agree with you. Not sure how it works in America they have adverts every 5 min. It would drive me insane.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

Thanks for the heads up on Lost in Space, won't waste my time with it.
Was viewing a UK show that stared  Michael Hall, better known as DEXTER.
Didn't realise he is from the UK. Just too weird to hear him speaking all "posh".
8 episodes of a show titled,"Safe" what a let down in episode 8. I actually fell asleep through most of it.
.......

Dexter is not from the UK, he's from Raleigh according to Wiki.   His British accent is just about plausible but I noticed in the trailer a couple of times he lost it just slightly.  He does do it quite well though - at least in the trailer.  They could have said he'd returned from the USA to excuse it.  There are lots of Americans (and Canadians) in the UK so it wouldn't have been an impossible idea.

Some actors do it better to the level of being faultless - Gwyneth Paltrow and Meryl Streep.  Ms Streep is well known to be a vocal chameleon.  I saw her trying to do a Northern Ireland accent.  She was quite good even though she was completely ambushed and hadn't supposedly been coached. 

I don't know about the other way. Hugh Laurie always seemed pretty good but the one that I didn't have a clue about was Louise Lombard who was in CSI.  Remarkable job to my ears.  But case of YMMV.

Canadians I can usually detect as soon as they say "eh"? Or "a-boot" (about).

NZ and Australian, no idea of the difference. Very hard to hear anything there.

Accents, I used to do a fairly good version of a Cholo... Mexican gangsta. Had so many attending our school years back.
My sister returned to the US after a decade of living in London with her Welsh husband . Had allot of Irish friends over there as well.
Good grief, what an accent she returned home with, it's long gone now, thankfully.
We all thought she was "putting on airs" talking like she was.
When I visit the US many people ask me where I come from, I do not think I have picked up any "strange" way of speaking since being around a HUngarian for over 40 years but maybe I have...
Will be interesting to see if MM starts speaking all posh after her marriage this weekend, sort of reminds me of Madonna speaking like a English person just because her husband of the moment was from the UK. Hate  it when people act fake on purpose like that, not impressing anyone.
My father often had a New Jersy type of way of speaking, as far as I now he never lived in NJ. Maybe he watched to many 1940's gangster films. He always said," Yous guys are gonna geet it."

fluffy2560 wrote:

I have to watch Lost In Space as it's Sci-Fi and therefore compulsory.

Amen!!

I am more the reading type myself. On my second read through of Galaxy Magazine. Started again with Issue 1 in 1950, and up now to December 1959. Take about a year to get through all available for my e-reader.

Others, such as Worlds of If, etc, are okay. But Galaxy is the best.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Streep is well known to be a vocal chameleon.  I saw her trying to do a Northern Ireland accent.  She was quite good even though she was completely ambushed and hadn't supposedly been coached.

Streep is very good. I looked up her name once on Wikipedia or something, having come to the conclusion that presumably her birth surname was Peters (an anagram of Streep) and she changed it for a stage name or something to get into Equity or the Actor's Guild or whatever. But it isn't. ,Somehow it is just a completely suitable surname for her, it has streepiness.

It is quite easy to do a (parody of) an Ulster accent, all you have to do is pronounce every vowel as "Ar". "Thar nartharn arelarnd garvarnmarnt warl narvar arccarpt thar darblarn prarprasarls..."  It is not too hard.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

We built a waterproof dog house/kennel for our Doberman in Hilo.

Can you give the blueprints to fluffy because he is building a doghouse for a dog he has not got.  Well he is British, he might be building a kennel instead of a doghouse.

You can't get roofing felt in Hungary, though. I have no idea they have the conception of roofing felt, no wonder every house I have ever lived in in Hungary, the roof always leaks.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

Scary, saw the remains of the old train tracks in Hilo from the tsunami that hit in 1960.

I know this is a bit off-topic but is it possible, simply etymologically I mean, for a tsunami to hit in 1960? We used to call them tidal waves (which is a bit redundant, really, because waves are always tidal. That is the nature of a wave.) But I think "tsunami" from the Japanese only entered the English language in about I dunno, mid-eighties or something, so I doubt in 1960 you had a tsunami. Tidal wave?

Dexter just means right-handed as any fule kno. (Sinister is left-handed, even now for example sinistra in Spanish just means leftwards. Frank Sinistra, the famous left-handed crooner, for example. No hang on he was Italian. Where was I?). By extension, being dexterous and so on, being good with one's hands. Amidextrous, a bit of an oxymoron, being able to use both hands equally.

What is often misquoted from the Bible, "Let not the right hand know what the left hand doeth", the advice is DO NOT let your right hand know what your left hand does, because your left hand is your dirty hand for wiping your bum etc and your right hand is clean.

Which doesn't help cack-handed folks out very much does it. But there we go.

I am wondering how far off-topic I can get before I kinda catch myself up and become on-topic again. What was the topic?

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

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Will be interesting to see if MM starts speaking all posh after her marriage this weekend, sort of reminds me of Madonna speaking like a English person just because her husband of the moment was from the UK. Hate  it when people act fake on purpose like that, not impressing anyone.
My father often had a New Jersy type of way of speaking, as far as I now he never lived in NJ. Maybe he watched to many 1940's gangster films. He always said," Yous guys are gonna geet it."

Too true. That Madonna affectation was really absurd but it's quite difficult not to start imitating those around you.  I know I do it. I even change the words I use to try and make myself more understandable (I think).   I think Europeans understand American usage far more than the other way around. Must be TV.

For example, I rarely say "bloke" in the presence of North Americans where I substitute "fella" and never use "chap" except in jest.  I think twice when mentioning pavements or elevators vs lifts.  I don't know really if people notice me doing it or even if it helps. 

I also try and weigh up people in Asia according to how they are speaking in order to adjust for British or American versions of English. I very rarely do anything for Aussies or Kiwis as they understand bloke and I give zero leeway for Saffas as I have a lack of familiarity with their version.

SimonTrew wrote:

Can you give the blueprints to fluffy because he is building a doghouse for a dog he has not got.  Well he is British, he might be building a kennel instead of a doghouse.

You can't get roofing felt in Hungary, though. I have no idea they have the conception of roofing felt, no wonder every house I have ever lived in in Hungary, the roof always leaks.

The doghouse is pretty much finished - needs a windproof entrance and solar panels.  It's very posh indeed and a breeze to move now it's on wheels.  Kids have been in it.  But no dog.

You can get asphalt tiles which you can nail onto your roofing object.  They come in packets.  And they are pretty rubbish unless you nail them down.

I am a bit of a empath personality, so as a child my mom would ( rightly so) monitor how long and with who I played with.
I would come home acting and speaking like another child.
Born actress , not so sure but defo would pick up traits from other children.
Had a best friend as BFF who turned out to have the same BD as me.
Might even of been born at the exact same time.
My mom could not stand her, always tried to get me to hang out with another girl.
I always got into the oddest situations when hanging with my BFF, so mom was not too wrong about her.
Sadly her father was committed into a mental health hospital for life, her mom  had numerous breakdowns and her older brother who went to school with one of my sisters and was Valley Victorian was also a case and a half.
Her mom had a public breakdown on a train when my friend was about 9. She stripped her naked in front of everyone on board and screamed that there were bugs all over her. Her mother was a teacher at a posh private very exclusive school in S. Ca., hmm... Not good to know that fact.

At the graduation speech for their high school her bro was on stage in front of a large crowd of parents and students and went off the rails about the principle of the school being a murdering Bas**** that was pre Vietnam war. The whole graduation turned into a insane fiasco when several male teachers chased my friends brother across the lawns after his rant.
He later became underground FM DJ up in Pismo Beach.
My friend and her brother were straight A+ students but she took her own life at age 33.
My mom was tuned into something very wrong in that family and really had issues with us being so close.
My sister was also a person of interest to our mother. She always told me to be aware of my own sister. maybe it was a native American,"thing" but she knew my beloved sister also had a dark side.
She warned me many times to keep my distance from my own sister.
Crazy but maybe some people are actually tuned into vibrations and energies we everyday people do not understand.
My sister I will admit did allot of very strange things but she always did protect me from herself and from most of the people she knew.
Think she was also a empath but leaned on the wild side as well.
I often wonder how odd it must be to be a parent of a large family and know each personality of your children, so many different types coming from the same source.
Yes, I tend to drift into the obscure.

fluffy2560 wrote:

My train of thought was interrupted

My train of thought is still boarding at the station. For example how do you translate vagany? Track? Way? Platform? There is really not a good translation for it. At Keleti, on an A board, they have in English "Smoking shop is located on Platform The Sixth". Like... so nearly... yet... nope. "Tobacconist is on Platform 6".  The fact that it is outside the tobacconist, which presumably is the worst place you can possibly put it, instead of over the other side, is well baffling.

I quite like Keleti, it is nicer than Nyugati I think. Well obviously, one was built by the British and the other by the French, stands to reason. You can kinda see the French style in Nyugati, very angular and whatnot, whereas Keleti is all nice curves and so on, a good train shed almost as good as Barlow's. And of course it has a couple of sound British people stuck on the front of it, the Englishman Stephenson who invented the moving kettle,  and the Scotsman Watt, who invented was it the cathode ray tube or the Rubik cube? Anyway two stout 18th century fellows stuck right at the front of Keleti pályaúdvar, how much more British can a station be? Not that old Eiffel nonsense over at Nyugati.

fluffy2560 wrote:

My numerous Sky dishes and receivers have been in storage for about 10 years.  I was thinking of putting them up again but so far I cannot find a reason to bother..

Handy hint: An old satellite dish makes a great crucible for smelting any bars of gold you have put aside in your shed.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I think twice when mentioning pavements or elevators vs lifts.

I was in Toronto airport and the elevator (lift) to collect my baggage (luggage), instead of having 0 and 1 etc had A and D. I switched to French (Toronto is mostly English-speaking) and thought oh that must be ascender (to go up) and déscender) to go down. So I hit D to go down and I went up. Oh, it doesn't mean ascend or descend. It means departures and arrivals.

And anyway why do lifts with only two floors have buttons on them anyway? I mean, obviously, you get in, you want to go to wherever you are now not. It only needs a "go" button. I have noticed that Hungarians have a not-very-interesting habit of hitting the "close door" button. Hungarians, who are usually never in a hurry, are frantic to save two seconds by hitting the "close door" button. Hungarians are only ever in a hurry when it does not matter. (Usually the "close door" button is disconnected, it is a placebo, but sometimes it may save you a second or two.)

But then I think that cash machines, holes-in-the-wall, automata, ATMs should have a "gamble" button. Double or quits. It would make them more fun.

fluffy2560 wrote:

and I give zero leeway for Saffas as I have a lack of familiarity with their version.

You mean Seth Efricans? When I lived in a rural village in Cambridgeshire a family of white Seth Efricans had moved in. I got on all right with them. Weird thing was the fether wented me te peer ep weth hes derter. Nice lass but come on, what kind of father kinda offers her daughter to a bloke (me) he has only just met. Seth Efrican whites are very odd people. Shew him yer tits lev. I know he was drunk etc, but come on, he should have been tellling me if you do anything with my daughter I will have you in a soweto necklace. White Seth Efricans are possibly the most backward people on Earth. Nothing short of bombing them will get them anywhere near the twentieth century. Let alone into the twenty-first. I don't mind being racist because they are. When you have heard other people in that country being called "keffir" once too often, this is Seth Efrican "keffir" not the Hungarian similar word (false friend) sometimes you wonder why we bothered to fight the Boer War, should have just left it to the Dutch to sort out.

But who am I to speak, I live on a street that has a Swedish charity's name. THat is helpful. I am english the missus is hungarian so we live in a street that is named after a swede. Hmmm very useful, has an accent in it that Hungarian doesn't. Nobody in Hungary can pronounce it right, even in my best Swedish Chef mode I cannot pronounce it right. Even Rachel Appleby who does the BKK announcements in English cannot pronounce it right. Trust me to find a house on a street I cannot even pronounce properly. And I am still wondering, since the signs say 48 to 52 at each end and I live in the middle, where the other two have gone? I mean the other two are at each of the corners, but they are on different streets. Such is a grid system. In the peculiar absence (despite the street signs) of Number 48 or Number 52 I have made sure I can find my way home by painting in six foot high letters in good white Hammerite  5 and 0 on the left and right hand sides of my gate.

SimonTrew wrote:

....I have made sure I can find my way home by painting in six foot high letters in good white Hammerite  5 and 0 on the left and right hand sides of my gate.

You might have made yourself a target if the villains think 5-0 lives there.

Book 'em Simon.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I have to watch Lost In Space as it's Sci-Fi and therefore compulsory.

Amen!!

I watched about 4 episodes of the new Lost in Space back to back and it got better in eps 9 and 10.  Dr Smith gets a bit of a comeuppance but there wasn't the capital punishment I was looking for.  Not sure that's a spoiler.

But if you like SciFi then you'd have to watch it for the technology predictions, spaceship sets and flashing lights alone.  Computers these days do not have enough flashing lights on them.  How the hell are you supposed to see what it's doing without flashing lights?

I used to read Superman comics.  I had quite a collection when I was about 11 but they all disappeared. Never found out where they went.

My sisters had tons of old comics stored in boxes then when the English Invasion happened in the 1960's with the Beatles, they had just about every single teen mag that was published with Beatles everywhere.
All the posters, old ticket stubs to a concert, one sister actually scored a answer to her fan letter from John Lennon's auntie. All the bobble head Beatles toys, all the Beatles playing cards and gum cards.
All the vinyl LP's.
In the 1970's when they moved out of the house and mom was stuck storing their prizes in her garage, she just had it.
Tossed all their boxes out in the trash!!!
At least they knew who to blame, mom.
Those items would be worth a pretty penny now.

Did anyone hear about the Hungarian hairdresser who was blown up inside her shop in S. Ca.?
Really sort of sad, seems a old boyfriend sent her a package bomb.
She moved to the US about 16 years go, got married had some children, divorced then got involved with the crazy rocket man.
His hobby was making homemade rockets.
The US news reported the police sent out over 70 bomb unit officers, cleared out over 100 children from a pre school and generally cost the tax payers a ton.
A lover's dispute, business deal gone wrong or something involving her ex in a business with her.
I know my son's Hungarian ex was a "dud" but we never thought of doing her harm, I admit I was ready to contact ICE on her but my son talked me out of it.
He said living and working in the US would be her punishment enough.

We almost moved to S. Africa in 1975.
My husband actually went over for 6 weeks to check it out.
He said at the time it was very clean, very nice and people treated him great.
Of course being a white man back then it was normal to be in "the club".
I was told that if I came over after he looked around first, that I would have to fill out papers stating everything from my religion to my race.
I was advised  to not mention I was 1/8th native American. Right then and there I didn't want to go over, wasn't exactly sure if I would mention it or not, a moral dilemma , way to heavy for a 20 year old to figure out.
He talked allot of how great things were over there with a good job, maids, nice homes etc.
I just couldn't see myself there, never ever felt "better" then anyone else just because my skin burned easily.
Would of been a laugh in some ways as my mother was often referred to in a negative as a child for being with her native granny.
I think I wouldn't feel comfortable having others do things for me that I can do for myself. Just morally wrong to me.
My husband also said he knew me well and I would probably wind up behind bars the first day over there for speaking my mind.
Dodged that bullet.
Later I worked for a S. African beauty salon in Westwood Ca.
They at the time had salons in Europe , S. Africa and all over Ca.
Almost all the senior staff were from S. Africa. Nice enough although they did tend to love to boss us jr. staff around as much as they could get away with.
I didn't stay there for long, only about 2 months.
My friend from work was a jr. staff member who was just about ready to get her own chair in the salon.
She married a man from S. Africa but just 2 short weeks after her wedding she was seeing her old American BF. Divorced less then 2 months later... Very odd.
Her father in the early 1980's had spent over $40,000 on a wedding in their home.
Brought in a full marching band and rented limos etc.
Just such a waste.
She told me a she wa shaving a BBQ at her house with all her hubby's SA friends, we were invited.
Didn't go, the menu was chicken wing tips BBQ. What, how many of those does one have to eat to even taste any chicken?
Odd stuff.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

My sisters had tons of old comics stored in boxes then when the English Invasion happened in the 1960's with the Beatles, they had just about every single teen mag that was published with Beatles everywhere.
All the posters, old ticket stubs to a concert, one sister actually scored a answer to her fan letter from John Lennon's auntie. All the bobble head Beatles toys, all the Beatles playing cards and gum cards.
All the vinyl LP's.
In the 1970's when they moved out of the house and mom was stuck storing their prizes in her garage, she just had it.
Tossed all their boxes out in the trash!!!
At least they knew who to blame, mom.
Those items would be worth a pretty penny now.

I think that's what happened to all my stuff too.  Went in the trash.  I believe my Superman and other comics would have been worth about $100 each.  I had about 150 of them.  I am still very annoyed with my Dad at that - he's the main suspect.  My Mum thinks he did it, not the butler.  Parents should think carefully about their kids treasures.

But it's what happened back then - they even wiped the tapes of old TV shows without ever a thought that an valuable archive could be made.  Tape was expensive and had to be re-used.  The cost of storing shows digitally now is so trivial there's no excuse. I believe everything media wise is archived now.

I'm a "good mum" I have many of my son's old items in my personal storage unit.
He has boxes of anime in proper sealed storage bags.
I know way back in the 80's he "forced" me to track down comics from Japan which I shelled out over $20. each for back in the day.
He has some Japanese toys that were recalled because they had lead paint, I kept them so those have to be worth a few bucks.
Transformer sets I think they are.
I also have some early 1960's GI Joe dolls that my younger bro owned and a few of his "dangerous to children" metal western fort sets with soldiers.
Learned my lesson with my sisters toss out.
Have boxes of 1980's Lego sets if they are worth anything at all.
Just need to activate  my E-bay account one of these days.
Also have a never worn pair of vintage bell bottom white men's Levi pants from the 70's.Button fly.
Waist size 28. Dang my husband used to be so slim.
Think now the only market with anyone who is that slim must be only in Japan.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

I'm a "good mum" I have many of my son's old items in my personal storage unit.
He has boxes of anime in proper sealed storage bags.
I know way back in the 80's he "forced" me to track down comics from Japan which I shelled out over $20. each for back in the day.
He has some Japanese toys that were recalled because they had lead paint, I kept them so those have to be worth a few bucks.
Transformer sets I think they are.
I also have some early 1960's GI Joe dolls that my younger bro owned and a few of his "dangerous to children" metal western fort sets with soldiers.
Learned my lesson with my sisters toss out.
Have boxes of 1980's Lego sets if they are worth anything at all.
Just need to activate  my E-bay account one of these days.
Also have a never worn pair of vintage bell bottom white men's Levi pants from the 70's.Button fly.
Waist size 28. Dang my husband used to be so slim.
Think now the only market with anyone who is that slim must be only in Japan.

Save it all because it'll be worth something to a collector.

Waist size 28?   I don't even remember having clothes that small.  They say 1cm on the waist is 1kg.  If someone is more portly in older years, say 38 waist, that's 10 inches, 25cm, therefore 25kg extra weight.  Sound about right?

It's very quiet here. 

I'm back, like Mighty Mouse, here to save the day! Ha, ha!
Walked myself half to death today but it was fun too.
Met some Americans on tour at the farmers market, one lady was from Minn., not too far from where my older sister now lives.
I can't really imagine though how these one day stop tourists can really enjoy a thing.
One day or even a week is not long enough to see much here.
This group looked like "senior' aged people on what was promoted as a "boat and bike" tour of the Danube.
I only noticed about 8 tired tourists sitting on a bench, no boat or bikes in site!
As I spoke with this lady I told her to be wary of talking to "strangers" laughed because I was a stranger to her... I was told I had a "honest face" how sweet...
Been a bit upset lately with watching far too much news coverage of the events over on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Lived there for a bit over one year back around 94-95.
Know many Hungarians that still live around the Puna area.
My American friend who is really a sweetheart, lives in Hilo and she sends me daily updates on the situation.
She and her husband are safe for now but they volunteer in one of the shelters for displaced people.
Nerves are wearing out as one can imagine.
People running out of everyday items such as baby diapers and pets being allowed in the shelter but must be in cages.
So stressful for so many people.
Makes me sad in many ways, some of the nicest people one can meet live over there, some of the oddest too.
Oh well,at least we can lay our heads down at night without fear of being Lazed or hit with a flaming bomb of lave.
Small things to be grateful for.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

I'm back, like Mighty Mouse, here to save the day! Ha, ha!
....... I was told I had a "honest face" how sweet...
Been a bit upset lately with watching far too much news coverage of the events over on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Lived there for a bit over one year back around 94-95.
Know many Hungarians that still live around the Puna area.
My American friend who is really a sweetheart, lives in Hilo and she sends me daily updates on the situation.
She and her husband are safe for now but they volunteer in one of the shelters for displaced people.
Nerves are wearing out as one can imagine.
People running out of everyday items such as baby diapers and pets being allowed in the shelter but must be in cages.
So stressful for so many people.
Makes me sad in many ways, some of the nicest people one can meet live over there, some of the oddest too.
Oh well,at least we can lay our heads down at night without fear of being Lazed or hit with a flaming bomb of lave.
Small things to be grateful for.

I saw a report some guy had been hit by lava.  It was on the BBC news.  The report said he was hit on his leg by spatter which sounds like just a small splash but according to the report, spatter can be lumps as big as a refrigerator and weigh as much or more.   I'd have thought it could burnt his leg off and be a major life changer.    I'm surprised we aren't getting more news footage - quite fascinating. 

Apparently it's getting bigger with new cracks opening up here and there. I'd have thought they'd have to start forcibly evacuating the entire area soon.  I saw some reports that a few people are refusing to leave.  That's just nuts.

It wasn't that long ago that a big chunk of the British island of Monserrat in the Caribbean was destroyed by a volcano.  Amazing footage of that too. In the end, they had a new capital, new airport and had to rebuild a lot of housing.

I saw the guy that had his leg crushed in a video taken a day or so before he was hit by the lava bomb.
He is one of those hold outs, he was hosing down 2 homes, putting out fires on the roofs before the entire house went up in flames.
An old "Hippie" dude of course.
Heard his other neighbors took over for him and the 2 homes so far are still standing, holes in the roofs and windows blown out but still standing.
Land in that area of Puna was very cheap, everyone knew this could happen so not the best spot to put up your dream home.
I remember when we lived there that people were protesting hard against the thermal plant, they knew it could be dangerous.
We lived in Hilo far up on a hill many miles from Puna area.
Puna is super dupper Hippie Dippy, a bit too much for even me.
Lots of "growers" out that way too.
Worked in a beauty salon, more of a barber shop 90 min drive away from HIlo.
Used to ride share 2 days a week with a co worker from Puna.
Always late to work when I had to wait on her to show up at our meeting place.
She couldn't find her son's "slippa" one time , another time was her daughter cooked sausages and made her late, just crazy excuses.
I' m not that laid back. Hated giving her rides after being late all the time.
She told me not only were we on ,"Hawaiian Time" but we were on Hilo Time.
Super slow, drove me crazy how slow living is over there.
We leased a nice condo in Waikiki beach, only a short 5 min walk to the ocean.
My dog was getting out of dog prison after 4 months and we couldn't take him to the condo.
We had a small business on Nimitz Hwy. but no one wanted to stay there full time with the dog so we traded places with a HU guy and his Japanese wife over on the Big Island for 2 months until we had time to find a place in Hilo for ourselves. I liked Oahu so much better but my husband was promised a business opt. on the Big Island that never came through... Besides at the time it was close to impossible to rent a condo or apt. with a dog that was so large. Not sure why but most people don't like big dogs over there unless they are used as guard dogs or dinner.( serious about the dinner part, crazy place)
They had just built a brand new nice house with white carpets and new everything, they had 2 little boys but the Big Island was killing his wife because it was so slow and all her old friends were in Honolulu.
She was so excited to trade places with us, she literally forgot her sweet Japanese ways and just grabbed the condo keys from our hands as she ran to the airplane to get off of the Big Island.
It was funny , I should of taken heed because a bit over a year later, I was also running for the airplane out. So dull over there unless you surf or smoke all day long, I never touched the stuff and it was everywhere.
Sake was good there, miss that.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

I saw the guy that had his leg crushed in a video taken a day or so before he was hit by the lava bomb.
He is one of those hold outs, he was hosing down 2 homes, putting out fires on the roofs before the entire house went up in flames.
An old "Hippie" dude of course.
Heard his other neighbors took over for him and the 2 homes so far are still standing, holes in the roofs and windows blown out but still standing.
Land in that area of Puna was very cheap, everyone knew this could happen so not the best spot to put ....
We lived in Hilo far up on a hill many miles from Puna area.
Puna is super dupper Hippie Dippy, a bit too much for even me.
....
She told me not only were we on ,"Hawaiian Time" but we were on Hilo Time.
Super slow, drove me crazy how slow living is over there.
.... they had 2 little boys but the Big Island was killing his wife because it was so slow and all her old friends were in Honolulu.
She was so excited to trade places with us, she literally forgot her sweet Japanese ways and just grabbed the condo keys from our hands as she ran to the airplane to get off of the Big Island.
It was funny , I should of taken heed because a bit over a year later, I was also running for the airplane out. So dull over there unless you surf or smoke all day long, I never touched the stuff and it was everywhere.
Sake was good there, miss that.

Very hard for anyone to "get it" who is not familiar with these places.  To some people it might sound pretty good to be on a slow moving tropical island. 

I tend to think of Hungary in that way too.  I get to go to all sorts of busy places and Hungary itself, even in the burbs, is pretty slow moving too.  I always wondered why people don't move to these places for retirement but on the other hand, in the twilight times, one needs access to services.

Mrs Fluffy and I actually lived on a small (Islamic) tropical island for about 2 months.  By the end of the 1st month, I couldn't wait to get off.  All I did was work, drink tea and coffee, swim in the sea (very warm, coral, fish everywhere), go diving every weekend, take a circular walk around the edges (1h to walk all the way around), eat fish and lay about in the sun.  We could only get a cold beer by taking a boat to a neighbouring island - kind of part of the entertainment to take a boat to the pub. 

All sounds very nice but that's the problem - it's an island so you get island fever!

Believe me, things could be worse than being in HI on the Big Island.  At least there's space.

My old yoga teacher from Germany has bought a home in Kona, she has another house in Las Vegas.
Her husband stays in Kona and she travels back and forth between homes and to work in Vegas.
One smart lady,years ago I couldn't figure out why she had so many things going on at once, hardly had a free moment between different jobs.
Teaching swim, yoga body building etc. at several health clubs in town, helping some women sell little gifts in a vending stall, working with dogs.
Now she still teaches exercise for fun but has bought Las Vegas Conventions, has dozens of people paying her rent to use vending stalls, opened up a animal rescue in her dogs name.
Does those frequent flyer things to HI, travels there every 2 months or so.
She is a interesting person, used to be a professional dancer on cruise ships and was a child tv personality in Germany and worked in a show as a child with her younger brother in a circus.
She still is on local Vegas news every so often promoting her animal rescue and showing off pets
  for adoption. She's a natural on tv, right at home with the camera in her face.
She is a natural entertainer. Her husband is about 17 years her senior so he is semi-retired in Hawaii and plays drums at night in local places in Kona. They met on a cruise ship many years back. She danced at night in those big broadway style shows they do on ships and he was a drummer in the band. Such a cute way of meeting. I have no idea where she gets all that energy, not typical of anyone living in Hawaii.
I know it's odd to get Island fever, I used to be on the phone with my sister in Minn. She would tell me about some snow storm and I'd be moaning about how bored I was just looking at the ocean from my living room window, I must of sounded insane to her.

Heading over to the hospital this afternoon to visit our 87 year old neighbor.
Was my big idea to visit her but now not exactly feeling it. Hate going inside those places, think I'll jump in just before visiting hours are done, that way I won't have to stay too long.
Poor old gal, she got too heavy and didn't keep up her regular health check ups. Had to go into the hospital to finally get some tests done.
Think she will be going back to her home soon. Maybe even by this Friday.
So sad, her daughter is around 65 and has no life other then taking care of her mom for these past 10 years or so.
She wanted to put her mom in a home but doesn't have the heart to do it and actually has spent too many years being her aid. Not sure what she would do with her free time if alone.
Ran into her yesterday and she was already missing her mom is these past 5 days she has been in the hospital.
I was sad to see how worn down her girl was in the past few weeks of worry about her mom, it almost seems the mom will outlive the daughter at this point.
Not so sure the city is the place for older people but the countryside isn't set up for them either.
I know they have allot of "old folks" homes in Hungary.
One day in the city park a very elderly couple was sitting near us. We got to talking and they told us they live in a home but they really liked it.
They sold their home and moved into a small private room in the old folks home.
They were in their 90's and walked on their own and seemed in good shape for their ages.
Maybe as couple is better off in a home then a person by themselves like our neighbor would be.
She became a widow in her early 30's and never married again.
Hate to say it or think about it but maybe I should make sure my little black dress still fits me.
Never know, I really dislike getting close to "old people" as soon as you get to know them, they check out.