My experience with any simple plumbing job is the opposite of that!
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Precisely. Up until now, that has been my experience. Something will go wrong. It hasn't yet. This is what worries me.
Oh my friend if only it were that simple.
I have about 8 of the same under desk unit. I think I could assemble them with my eyes closed! But I've bought self assembly furniture from other suppliers and its been harder to put together or follow the instructions.
Pet peeve of mine, but when ever I see a Nativity scene that includes the 3 Kings/Magi/Wise Men it chaps my hide. First off, nowhere is it said there were 3 kings; only that there were 3 gifts. People just assume it was 3 guys each bearing one gift. It could easily have been one guy with 3 gifts. Next they--assuming it was more than one guy--weren't there on the first Christmas day. They travelled a great distance and stopped to chat with King Herod. Finally, *IF* they had arrived on that first Christmas day, the star stopped above a house, not a manger. They met Jesus and Mary in a house!
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Same kind stuff irks me in other fiction too. Jar Jar Abrams version of Star Trek, Star Trek Discovery, Wolverine Origins and so on. It grinds my gears when they piss all over established canon.
Jar Jar and STD ignored everything TOS. Wolverine had some BS backstory for Deadpool. A good story would be able to stand on its own merits and not ride the coattails of others. One more thing, Han shot first. I will die on that hill.🤨
Don’t get me started on the way they messed with the SW cannon. 30 years of reading the further adventures of the original characters just deleted. Grrrrrrr.
Perhaps profit trumps canon.
A rather depressing thought to have to dwell on, this January afternoon.
So true. Disney wanted a significant ROI when they paid George Lucas all that money.
I think ever since Peter Jackson worked on Tolkien's books the idea that profits are the main goal over any detail from the written stuff.
The LoTR trilogy was well done and adhered reasonably close to the books. He left out the linguistic stuff that would interest hard core fans, but then it made the movies watchable for a wider audience. I can count on one hand the number of people I can talk Sindarin (Elvish) with in real life. Zero.
The Hobbit trilogy though...yeah. Money grab.
You're right, the Hobbit was the bigger money grab for sure.
I must stop looking at etsy.
I opened it up, and there it presents me with a brand new brand of fountain pen I have not seen before.
And it looks very nice, and it has lots of other very nice looking versions, and it's not too expensive.
Must NOT Click on the Buy Button!!! Need money for other things. Have enough pens (at least that's what my wife tells me...)
Stand away from the keyboard, turn the computer off.
I opened it up, and there it presents me with a brand new brand of fountain pen I have not seen before.
And it looks very nice, and it has lots of other very nice looking versions, and it's not too expensive.
Must NOT Click on the Buy Button!!! Need money for other things. Have enough pens (at least that's what my wife tells me...)
Stand away from the keyboard, turn the computer off.
The Hobbit (the book), is a charming book, and I have always had a soft spot for Bilbo (whereas I loathed Frodo and Samwise); however, I simply cannot conceive how one can make three movies from it, or from its contents.
Normally, movies cut, excise, remove, vast tracts of whatever book they have been derived from, paring it to the narrative bone, often at the cost of nuance, subtlety and depth.
However, in this case, this is pure bloat and an expression of crude greed.
I can relate. I shouldn't go online browsing at all, really. My mind loves shopping new drums and cymbals, but I also love anything I can interface with - tablets, monitors, keyboards. Speakers... Headphones... Lego...
We still have a 'Candlemas' semester at my University in Scotland (and a 'Martinmas' semester).
They've largely lost their religious meaning, but it is nice to acknowledge tradition.Oh, and I am going to be a grandparent.
Oh, and I am going to be a grandparent.
Wow, congrats! First time or multi-time?
I remember Michaelmas term (semester) at my (rather ancient) University; my brother (Decent Brother on these fora) used to snigger when using the term to me, and found a way of somehow inserting it into the strangest of sentences.We still have a 'Candlemas' semester at my University in Scotland (and a 'Martinmas' semester).