The Post Whatever Thread

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by serenesam, Jul 8, 2018.

  1. sculptor Valued Senior Member

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  3. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    :blinks audibly: How does one forget what happens at the end of Dorian Gray?

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    The ending IS the story! Isn't that like forgetting what happened to the Titanic?

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  5. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    lol! I didn’t remember “how” the suicide took place...but, I’m going to keep reading because I’m not really all that affected by spoilers in the way that I’d not want to watch a film or finish a book. But still wish I’d had arrived at the ending on my own, being surprised all over again as the first time. Oh well. -_-

    Do you mind spoilers or do you get upset when someone spoils an ending for you?
     
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  7. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Wait. What?

    The house fire? The painting catching fire? Melting? Him following suit?

    My life is a total lie?

    The Frogstar Fighters in this universe are green?
     
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  8. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    At the risk of spoiling this for someone else...

    Dorian stabs the picture at the end, inadvertently killing himself.
     
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    My life is a lie.
     
  10. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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  12. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    The stats for obesity not given

    Quick Google gave me this

    Extract

    For example, the hearts of people who were overweight beginning in their 20s were 7 percent heavier than the hearts of people who became overweight in their 60s

    https://www.medicinenet.com/script/...example, the hearts of,ACC), in San Francisco.

    I would have thought the goal would be to avoid anything which had a potential to cause the heart to be a "heavy heart". Not whether the substance was legal or not

    Sad sad sad

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  13. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

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    drug use and fitness and socio-ecconomic groups etc ...

    the quality of the study is probably not very high

    keeping people sick is big business in usa
    imagine how many billions of dollars people would save if they all lost some weight
    but who would save the money ?

    the insurance companys would make more profit & would policys come down a lot ?
     
  14. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    In an astonishing coincidence, Facebook decided I needed to remember this post from 8 years ago:

    While shuffling around the house this morning, I wrote the outline for a short story called 'The Slippers of Dorian Gray'.
    It's about a man whose feet stay sweet and clean and fresh-smelling eternally while upstairs in his bedroom his slippers get nastier and stinkier.
     
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  15. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    It could work as a spin off series on Netflix, never know. ~ LOL
     
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  16. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    To “affect” change or “effect” change? “Affect” change is incorrect, yet affect is a verb. *hmm*
     
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    I get those two words mixed up quite a bit.
    Affect is the Action.
    Effect is the Result.
    It never stays in my head.
    Is there a word meaning result that begins with 'E' ?
    So, I can say Effect is the 'E...'
     
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  18. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    That’s a good way to remember - “effect is the result.” Makes more sense, now!
     
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    The sun affects the earth, the effect is warming. Still had to think twice about that.
     
  20. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Except you also had it right earlier, when you wanted to effect a change.
     
  21. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    Right, but it’s because effect becomes the result (change)

    Still, visually...it looks odd to me.
     
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    Michael,

    Could you please clarify this a bit? I would love to see The Blob again, it was one of my favorite movies as a youngster. What website are you referring to, and how did you download The Blob?

    For public domain e-books, I have used Project Gutenberg before:
    https://www.gutenberg.org/
    They usually offer the e-books in a few different formats, some with illustrations, some just text.
     
  23. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Project Gutenberg - not been there in many many...... years. Thanks for the reminder

    Hope I can help you

    Site is called The Archive

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    Scrolling screen of movies held and supposedly able to be download

    https://archive.org/details/movies
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    This link should take you directly to The Blob movie without going through joining up etc

    https://ia904600.us.archive.org/19/items/the-blob/The_Blob.mp4

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    Click on 3 dots your far right, click on Download and you are away

    Spoiler - the sound sync is way out of whack, hope you don't have the problem

    I'm going back because looking for what you requested I saw something about a APK for downloading The Archive movies

    Might have missed it first time

    Cheers

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