Just...................whatever

On related lines, has anyone seen Derren Brown's latest show called Showman? It's been on Channel 4 in the UK but not sure if it is available anywhere else.

I have VPN so I can watch it. But I  haven't yet. It seems like a mass hypnosis thing. I cant be hypnotised so I am very sceptical. I know I cant be hypnotised because I went to a therapist to get hypnotised because of my PTSD/anorexia due to the pandemic, and she couldn't do it. I kept saying 'have you hypnotised me yet?', and she said 'no, you wont let me'. So you have to want to be hypnotised.

Hypnosis is largely a voluntary thing. You can perhaps be fooled into being hypnotized, but only if you have acquiesced in some way without realizing it is a road to hypnosis. But some people are just too ornery.

I can only halfway be hypnotized. There's a part of me always standing off to the side trying to analyze what's going on. It's not total submission.

Ornery. I had never heard that word before, but it sums me up perfectly.

It's worth a watch. I imagine there are things that you could both be influenced by if you weren't directly aware of it.

I went to the live show and can say for the first time I had a moment... more 10-20 seconds that I have no recollection of!!

Ornery rarely shows up in print, but it's very common in conversational American English.  Tomcats are typically ornery critters.  So are New Jersey girls. Scotshobbits are definitely ornery.

Scotshobbits invented it .

{{ I fail to see what's wrong with 'crabbit' besides, I'm not 'difficult to deal with' (N. American definiton) you bunch of bastards! Wheres my sober stick? That's the stick I keep for beating sober wisecunts with See nothing 'difficult' about getting twatted over the nogin with extreme crabbit prejudice }}

Nana nana nana nana baatmaaaan! 

Lordi. Warming up for Sabaton.  

Ama is enjoying herself  

{{ Is it Devil Worshipping and Headbanging Day again on the Dark Planet! }}

And health and safety day! Do's and don'ts in to use the  extinguisher. It's  a glorious day. 

I get the sense Am's a couple drinks in....

Indeed!   Had a great time! 

After Lordi there was Baby Metal which is Japanese kawaii metal (!) Then the main act of Sabaton who sing of historical events and WWII. What's not to love?

I saw Nightwish a few months back, they were great.

Haven't really gotten in to much more of that end of the metal scene though. Babymetal always seem more about the show than the music.

I wouldn't mind seeing all 3 live as most live music is good.

I didn't know anything about Babymetal before this, it was certainly more about being cute than metal. But fun in small portions.

We'll see Nightwish at Tons of Rock in Oslo this summer and I'm very excited about that. I listened to them a lot in my student days but never thought I'd see them live.

Had to look up Babymetal. Yeah, they're adorable. Can't imagine sitting through more than about 10 minutes of that though.

Watched the coronation. High point, VIVA! VIVA! VIVA!

Penny Mordaunt channelling Sansa Stark

{{ First time that woman has actually impressed me, those swords are bloody heavy and she held that one up for what, better part of an hour? Thats impressive upper body strength, and she also dressed the part it has to be said, like she was expecting Henry VIII to catch her eye at any moment. }}

{{ Hey Amarie, you know about shippy design things for when you Fjordians go raiding, saw this photo taken the other day of the paddle steamer Waverely on her pre-season trial runs, passing the MSV Preziosa, a modern ginormous cruise ship.



And I know which one I think looks better. The Waverely is sleek, exciting to look at, beautifuly designed with an eye to not just its efficiency in the water but to how it looks on the water. She doesnt look like she was built for the water, she looks like she naturally belongs on the water, as if Mother Nature just happened to design a ship.
The cruise ship looks like a kid designed it, in lego. Whats happened to ship design? Why is it so crap looking? Modern ships look like floating bricks. }}

I agree Petty, your ship looks elegant like a beautiful swan, whereas the cruise ship looks like a fat ungainly hippo. The Waverley looks like it was built in the age when things like that were made to be a pleasure to look at, maybe Art Deco? the age of elegant travel.

{{ She's not as old as people tend to think, she was launched in 1946, but her design and engines are a lot older, she was built as a direct replacement/copy for another paddle steamer of the same name and design launched in 1899 and sunk in ww2 (yeah we used every ship we could in the war covering about 100 years or more of sailing). So her design is Victorian even if her manifucturing was not. }}

That's not a tour ship, it's a barge.

Ah, on googling the MSV Preziosa I see what the problem is: we are viewing the ass end in that photo. The front of it (not seen) looks like a proper ship.

{{ Even seen full and cutting through the water-



it still looks like an ungainly box with a pointy bit stuck on the end

I watch them going up the Clyde in the morning from work, and they do impress with their sheer scale and magnitutde, when they go past the Gantocks Lighthouse and you relaise the top of the lighthouse is only the bottom row of portholes its hard not be impressed.
But adjectives like 'beautiful', or 'pretty' or 'sleek' 'elegant' 'majestic' just dont spring to mind when looking at one. They somehow dont look natural in the water, too big and bulky, they impose themselves on the environment rather than seem to fit it in a natural way like Waverely does. }}