Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Jannik wrote: "Oh boy, you really want very different things out of GoT than I do, Dave. :D
I'd hate a 'feel good' scene like that at the end of the series. "

We can have one scene with 2 people happy can't we ;-)

I expect many deaths and large parts of Westeros destroyed before the final episode.

I don't care who else they kill off, but after that sweet retirement plan by Missandei and Grey Worm, I want to see them survive and have that as one of the final scenes of the show.

The pair of them on a beach walking off into the sunset.

Don't you dare kill them Benioff and Weiss.

Very late to the party. Not much more I can add.

10/10

It deserves every award it has won and still to win. Fantastic :-)

My view is that the end of the TV show is going to be the condensed version and we are going to have to wait until GRRM tells the real story in the books.

Which I am seriously doubting me and/or George are going to live to see finished at the rate he is going.

Sing along. You'll recognise the tune :-)

yIba' 'ej vaj lut bIQoy
lut leng Sanbogh taghta
yuQvo tuj je bIQ
tIj Duj mach'a'

chIjwI' po' yas wa'DIch
yoH je voq HoD
jaj 'e' tlheDta raQpa'pu' vagh
leghvaD repmey wej
leghvaD repmey wej

ghegh'a' mojtaH SuSmey logh
SeH chIlta' Duj mach'a'
toDuj beqpu' yoH'a' Dachchugh
mi'nov 'e' chIllaw'
mi'nov 'e' chIllaw'

yuQ Deb je tu'be' ghorDaQ
Duj Saqta' Qatlh je let
nuvmey ghili'qan je HoD
loD mIp'a' je be'nalDaj
beDawI' je janwI' je marI'ahn

ghIlI'qan qo'Daq

(view spoiler)[I have added the music below if you need a tune to sing along to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKb6Y... (hide spoiler)]

Brian wrote: "Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth wrote: "I can't read the article. What was it?"

Cartoon: Man talking to woman with bandaged head and arm in cast lying in a hospital bed: "If you get into such rows, maybe ..."

Here is the cartoon.

Trike wrote: "I enjoy bashing JJ’s movies. I *love* doing that. It gives me great pleasure to do it, which is why I do it every chance I get. I’m not sure why that would be a surprise to anyone."

and I love that you love bashing JJ and everything else you dislike.
I might not agree with everything you say, but I like your style :-)

Grumpy old men have very few pleasures left in life. Let us have our contrary rants ;-)

Melani wrote: "I don't consider it Science Fiction. I'm also pretty sure that Trike has argued this very point in a couple of different threads so..... "

Many of us have. Many times in many threads. I think the usual compromise is that it is Space Fantasy. It certainly ain't (sic) science fiction.

Trike wrote: "Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker Trailer dropped.

Oh, FFS."

A perfect 5 letter review :-)

I don't agree, but that's ok.

Trike wrote: "Rick wrote: "Holy shit people... Rob's right. If you dislike the new SW films watch something else but a lot of you are just reinforcing the angry nerd stereotype."

Oh, hello, Mr. Pot, calling all us kettles black."

high five ;-)

Mostly a set up episode

(view spoiler)[Dara wrote: "I'm curious as to what Jon's actions will be following the revelation of his parentage. His reckoning with Dany and her ruthless side will be interesting to see.."

and how she feels about having a sexual relationship with her nephew,
and he with his aunt :-? (hide spoiler)]

David wrote: "But wow, so that means Saga will have 18 volumes in the end. I only know of a few American non-superhero comics with that many (Usagi Yojimbo has 33 and counting, Fables had 22, and maybe the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. universe has 20+?) "

The Walking Dead is up to Volume 32 (6 issues per volume) with no end in sight. Latest comic was #190.

One of them has been much-touted as one of the scariest movies of all time, so allegedly terrifying that Netflix viewers are turning it off midway through.

With that ringing endorsement, I doubt Veronica will be viewing this ;-)

Joanna wrote: "Israeli moon probe Beresheet failed to land due to engine failure."

It landed. Just moving a little bit faster than intended when it hit.

;-)

Todd wrote: "I get the message "This title is not currently available for purchase" all the time when I click these links. Alternatively, I get the normal price. Does this happen to anyone else? I'm in Australi..."

Yep one of the disadvantages of living in the greatest country on Earth :-)

Phil wrote: "You even put three holes in your ring binders when everyone else has four,."

I've never seen 4 :-?

3 is standard here. But 2 seems to be almost as common.

John (Taloni) wrote: "I'm appalled that they made the Shazam movie a comedy."

My only experience of Shazam is the TV show from my early teens. (Mid 70s) So hearing it's a comedy makes sense for me. That was always light drama with a bit of comedy.

I never read the comic.

Ruth wrote: "nything above about 25 Celsius is ‘unbearable’"

We find it amusing when they say Britain is in a heat wave and it's like 28. A heat wave in Australia can mean up to 50C. Even Tassie can get into the 40s

I know places in Australia where it doesn't get below 25 at night and a typical winter's day is 35.

I find Celsius easier to rate weather

0 = Freezing
1 to 10 = Cold to Cool
11 to 20 = Cool to Mild
21 to 30 = Mild to Warm
31 to 40 = Warm to Hot
41+ = Unbearable

A really cold day here (Western Tasmania) it will be -6C (21F) overnight and only get to about 5C (41F) during the day.

But that is extreme (Once every 5 years). A typical cold winter's day is 0C overnight, getting up to 10C (50F) during the day.

Unless you live on top of a mountain, Australia doesn't really do very cold ;-)
Heat on the other hand we have too much of :-(

Some parts were easier than others.

Changing the temperature scale from Fahrenheit to Celsius scale happened quite quickly. Even my grandmother and parents were using Celsius exclusively by the early 80s. We changed in early 70s

BTW. As I've never experience them, I don't believe negative Fahrenheit temperatures exist ;-) (The lowest I've seen to is about 20F) (view spoiler)[Of course I know they exist. Somewhere, like unicorns and fairies :-) (hide spoiler)]

We quickly adopted kph for car speed, and distances in kilometres. Which is why I find it odd that the British still use Imperial units for those

Other measures took a while longer. As I was half way through school when we converted, I am quite fluent in both systems. Older people still use Imperial for their height and weight.

Cup wrote: "Glad folks are enjoying this one and I'm looking forward to the next pick!."

Which Tom has already chosen.

I have a hunch he is going to pity pick The Martian Chronicles

We need to read some Bradbury and it is a 5 time poll loser.

That's why I use metric for cooking and anything else important.

A litre, kilogram etc are the same where ever the recipe is from.

It is a real pain converting from US recipes using non-metric weights and volumes :-?