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Finally got around to watching Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Entertaining, amusing. Treads the boards between being campy space pulp adventure with dashes of serious emotion and philosophy hidden in the background. Do kind of wonder why Stallone rated opening credits since he was basically a cameo - who, okay, had like 3 brief scenes in the total film. Was caught out by Michelle Yeoh's cameo, a nd the voice of Miley Cyrus? Of course, I've now got the GotG Inferno song stuck in my head on loop.

Well, PETA is the agency that complained to Games Workshop over the prevalence of fur-wearing characters in all the art - most notably a certain chapter of Space Marines.

Abusing that's is systematic at my workplace, which isn't a small charity or anything. It's got 30k employees and is government owned, but if you take on any position with responsibility you might get more working hours, but you don't get a raise or anything. The responsibilities, stress and general worries are slowly getting to me. I'm on the verge of becoming violent at people some days. Yes. A lot of charities do seem to have that in them. The gradual emotional pressure on volunteers to put more time in because "there's no one else to do it" and the "Can you just help us cover this because so and so is off sick" and then you've suddenly got them pushing you to volunteer over 30 hours a week and piling responsibilities on top.

On their 50th anniversary, a wife found the negligee she wore on her wedding night and put it on. She went to her husband, a retired Navy Chief and asked, "Honey, do you remember this?" He looked up from his newspaper and said "Yes dear, I do. You wore that same negligee the night we were married." She said, "Yes, that's right. Do you remember what you said to me that night?"... He nodded and said "Yes dear, I said, Oh baby, I'm going to suck the life out of those boobs and screw your brains out." She giggled and said "That's exactly what you said. So now it's fifty years later, and I'm in the same negligee. What do you have to say tonight?" He looked her up and down and said, "Mission Accomplished."

I've been helping out at a local charity store the past few months, the manager is a friend of mine and was in dire need of extra volunteer help. But the other day, her boss, and her bosses boss did a visit for various reasons. Then after they left, she was all "my bosses boss was impressed by you, he was saying you're obviously sharp and put together and..." insert several minutes of compliments and "he thought you could go far. Maybe you should consider taking the the assistant manager volunteer position and maybe in time it could become a paying thing". Maybe it's my overly cynical nature, but the guy spoke about 3 sentences to me while i was there. I know I can be charming, but that's really not enough to produce several minutes worth of overly flowing compliments about my abilities. Then push to try to get me to take on more responsibility with the addendum it's still a volunteer non-paying job but "oh would look nice on your CV."

The argument could be that this should go in nerdgasms or movie, but, nope, I think it deserves to be here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMMe1drnZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ27iS1mkuo&spfreloa

So, with Kayleigh McEnany doing Trump News, and Donald's name splashed across the wall behind her as she gives that "this is the real news"... is this what's going to replace the White House daily press briefing?

"The point is, they were magnificent women; Insane, soul crushing, magnificent women."

The trouble is, once you get used to that smooth, aged tequila from down there it makes drinking the crap shooting tequila served elsewhere taste really, really dire.

Drinking on a tangent - When you realise you need to come up with something to use up the leftover coconut milk in the fridge. Throw in some vanilla extract, some almond extract. A dose of maple syrup, scatter some cinnamon, a whole heaping of Cadbury's chocolate, and a dose of spiced rum. Heat, stir, then drink.

The opening line is always a fun thing, and that was a great example of one that's pure win. One I always remember is technically two lines, but made a great opening : "To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband’s dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor." - (from Deanna Raybourn's Silent in the Grave, an interesting little Victorian era set mystery). I have to admit, Stephen King can be very hit or miss with me. He has lots of great ideas, but sometimes his writing works and others it's just annoying.

While waiting on Hollywood to sort things out... Sandman short gets fan made movie

Heh, a few practical considerations and a great ending line: There's a reason some men take up so much space when sitting down