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How to resist temptation?
Great show, better than I expected
The Beekeeper 2 prediction
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Blackthorne is surprised because when he said "if you touch this, you die", he didn't think someone is going to die for touching it. It is kinda like telling children that a monster will come to get them if they don't eat their food, which is a tactic some parents use to instill fear as a way to encourage compliance. Don't you think the parent would be surprised and upset if the monster really show up and take their children away?
A good story needs to have drama, which we can all agree on. As far as I understand it, this part of the storytelling is also about revealing the authority, obedience, and loyalty of the Japanese upper class at the time. The problem with the original version is that if Blackthorn never said, "...You die," then it would be up to him to decide how to punish those who disobeyed. In such case, executing the gardener without his approval would be disrespectful to his authority, wouldn't you agree?
I think this adaptation make more sense than the novel. Takeshi Fukunaga and Hiromi Kamata know Japanese culture and history better than James Clavell. Will you agree?
For a second, 'We will miss you...' tricks me to think that a user named Red Lobster had left MC. It turned out it was just a restaurant that went bankrupt. What a relief! Haha.
The last time I went there was many years ago. Seafood isn't my strong suit, so I always chose their recommended dishes. If I remember correctly, the taste wasn't as impressive as what I had eaten there before. Maybe my taste buds changed. Anyway, I haven't gone to Red Lobster since, and never tried their $20 Ultimate Endless Shrimp Returns. Now that they are about to close, I am just glad that I will miss the opportunity to boost my cholesterol levels to the roof.
"The Martian" --> Chiwetel Ejiofor
+ "the ADX Supermax prison in Colorado" --> 12 Years A Slave" (2013)
+ "midwifery" --> pregnancy --> The Pod Generation (2023)
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Jim Carrey
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Rowan Atkinson
Simon Pegg
Please take care, moderator5.
Last week, I went to the hospital for an A1C test. The young nurse spent about a minute looking for the vein in my arm. I've been patient throughout, but I can almost hear her thinking "Maybe you should go to the gym more." while I can't help but thinking "Maybe you should show your skin more."
The profile pictures of you and Kowalski speak for themselves.
Don't you think if a mask might stop some pollen, then it might also stop some respiratory droplets?
Here are two articles for nerds like me. Feel free to read them or not.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8242678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9714953/
Yes, I always wear a mask in public. The days when we lived in nature and breathed clean air are long gone.
The choice is yours: a mask or your nostrils and lungs, whichever one must filter particles and viruses from the air you breathe. Good luck and say hello to the elderly in your family. Maybe it's time for them to get a flu shot.
They must have drugged her, so she couldn't remember. But her nightmare reflects what really happened to her -
it feel like being stabbed with a knife.
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