Banter TRTTT Part 16 - How good are fingerless gloves

[Peninsula Boy]

Getting back to Die Hard. I'm of the opinion that it is not a Christmas film.

A Christmas film has to have Christmas as its centre of gravity or central theme and in Die Hard, the central theme is kicking German w@nker's @$$ to save his wife and it just happens to be at Christmas.

 

[Steve Dore]

The Battle of the Bulge starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas was surely the greatest Christmas movie of all time.

 

[JimmyBC]

Black Christmas for the win

 

[edgie]

... Charles Bronson... was surely the greatest ... of all time.

Big call but it's got a strong case

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Get woken up by the Mrs “there’s an owl the back yard.”

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At first I thought it was injured because of the weird way it was holding its wings. It sure looks confused and disorientated. So assuming heat stress. Approached it with some water and it flew into a tree without apparent difficulty (phew). Then it flew down into the neighbour’s yard.

A bit worried about dogs or cats getting to it but it got away from me easily enough I guess.

Anyway is this some kind of omen?

You're a wizard, Raman.

 

[edgie]

Bloody hell, the elderly neighbor was out trying to set the sprinklers up and keeled over in the heat and couldn't get back up so had to run out and pick him up and call an ambulance and they're backed up. Then his wife came out and went mad and he probably wishes he was back on the footpath.

Hey pensioners

Stay inside please if you can help it

 

[240volt]

I remember my old man dousing my sunburn in vinegar and smelling like a 20 of chips freshly unwrapped from its newspaper

Yes did you ever get tomatoes rubbed on you haha.
Another bright idea from the past.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Silent Night, Deadly Night.

I'm more of an Elf kinda guy nowadays.

 

[edgie]

Why did we have to be settled by the british who have no understanding of hot weather and not the spanish where we would be taking afternoon naps instead

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Just got slugged that on a pizza delivery.

It's unostrayan.

Its Unostrayan because the people rostered on to work are probably the staff on a yearly salary not a casual wage, so the store isn't even paying them extra because its a public holiday.

 

[TazD]

 

[bomberclifford]

Serves us right for not cooking a barbie m8.

Had planned to do a barbie. Got dudded on a faulty Swap-n-Go gas bottle from our overlords at OTR. Went back to get it replaced and they feigned ignorance and said no refund because 'the seal was broken'. Never mind there was no way of knowing it was faulty until the seal was broken but hey, corporate policies rule, right.

Supremely dodgy campaigners.

 

[bomberclifford]

All Quiet on the Western Front is a Christmas movie.

 

[Jonts]

All Quiet on the Western Front is a Christmas movie.

Iron man 2

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Krampus

 

[raman]

The thing they will never stop annoying me about the Die Hard Christmas meme is that the first Lethal Weapon movie came out a year earlier and is at least as Christmassy as Die Hard, probably more so. Also it’s better.

 

[edgie]

 

[bomberclifford]

That looks like AI slop to me.

 

[bomberclifford]

The thing they will never stop annoying me about the Die Hard Christmas meme is that the first Lethal Weapon movie came out a year earlier and is at least as Christmassy as Die Hard, probably more so. Also it’s better.

It's essentially an internet meme that's made its way into the mainstream via nerdlings thinking they were being subversive.

When my 78yo dad is talking about it like it's some new thing, that horse is well and truly dead.

 

[edgie]

That looks like AI slop to me.

Lol yes it is, my bad for that.

But the first frame is legit, it was just hard to find a pic of it without an annoying caption or low quality image and I went with that without checking it.

Here's a different frame.

 

[edgie]

Who cares but

Again this is Australia, the ****ing holiday themed ****ing snow and scarfes and turkey whatever seems a total cultural importation from America.

Boring.

The only themed media Aus produces is ****ing the upper middle class adventures of Bluey

 

[JimmyBC]

There's an opening for the great australian xmas movie to be made then right? get to work m7

 

[bomberclifford]

There's an opening for the great australian xmas movie to be made then right? get to work m7

The Proposition has a Christmas scene.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[raman]

Had planned to do a barbie. Got dudded on a faulty Swap-n-Go gas bottle from our overlords at OTR. Went back to get it replaced and they feigned ignorance and said no refund because 'the seal was broken'. Never mind there was no way of knowing it was faulty until the seal was broken but hey, corporate policies rule, right.

Supremely dodgy campaigners.

Thinking of having a barbie tonight too but have to wait and see whether this bloody owl dies or not.

Would you go a rosemary basting or something sweeter?