Jun. 26th, 2025

Never Mind

Jun. 26th, 2025 07:16 am
smokingboot: (head off)
Seriously tempted to drink the entire pot of coffee. One cup down, two more to go.

Big barney with Mother last night. She wants to invest in something she can't even name or describe, gave me a bogus address for it, and when I flat out said 'don't do it,' got angry with me.

I am not patient enough.

But I am wary of her being fleeced as so many pensioners have been. Got Bro to talk to her, and he reassured me that her understanding of banking security, firewalls etc is so honed as to be professional - paranoia has some benefits clearly - but he will check out the address and see what he can find. If he has flattered her enough, she may wait before opening a new bank account dedicated to this 'investment'. My personal feeling is to remember what she said many years ago re schizophrenia; that the voices never tell sufferers to do nice things like buy some flowers or go for a walk in the sunshine. The instructions/suggestions are always stick-a-fork-in-the-wall-socket type stuff, inimical, destructive, sometimes even dangerous.

I will leave her be for a few days. She got very unpleasant last night. She told me I had been short with her recently - I haven't, I've done nothing but send her pleasant prattle. She is probably referring to earlier in the year when she went through a phase of phoning me up and not being able to hear me, or me phoning her and her not being able to hear me. Bro thinks she faked that whole thing. She certainly couldn't explain it beyond the phantom 'hooligan' in the city who mucks around with her phone, and after anywhere between 5 and 13 calls in a row where it seemed she couldn't or wouldn't operate a basic phone properly, yes I got a bit frustrated.

Decision; Just peace and quiet today, me, the husband, the cats, the coffee. Bro said he could deal with it, so I will trust him. The whole situation might be less intense if he did his share of regular communication with her as he has promised to do so often. Never mind.
smokingboot: (losing plot)
My niece was up looking after the cats, and being a Disney fan, introduced me to the latest Snow White.

Hmm.

This bombed hard, mostly blamed on Rachel Zegler being a charmless sneery little goon in interviews. For sure Disney needed to have a chat about her working as ambassador for the film; when a trailer gets a million downvotes something's obviously gone wrong. But the fact is she's the best thing about Snow White. Despite some piranha-like chin waggling a la Keira Knightley, she's talented, pretty, can sing, dance, and play a saccharine part without being the spirit of cloy. The real trouble is that it's an excruciatingly bad screenplay with an overstretched plot, dull score, and uncanny valley issues through the roof. These latter don't just cover the nightmare dwarves (I don't care what Peter Dinklage says, Tyrion Lannister roles don't turn up every day and real actors with dwarfism could have used this opportunity/cash) but the whole CGI overload. It works in some places, like the interior of the cottage and the pipe organ, but often it's just an acid trip without the fun. Gal Gadot's not terrible, she's just got this terrible script. She does what's required of her, and it's not enough because nothing could be; nothing was ever going to save this badly conceived, badly executed project.

Speaking of badly conceived, badly executed projects, the cruise of the Carnival Triumph in 2013 has become infamous, but we knew no details. Now we do. In horrified awe we watched Poop Cruise on Netflix directly after Snow White, which made perfect poetic sense at the time and still does. This documentary is horrible but very funny. I never was a fan of cruises. Now it'll take bribery to get me on one.

But as entertainment goes, Poop Cruise kicks Snow White to the kerb.

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