Jack's House

Vivat Rex

(And, George, don't do that)

[A water pump? A well? You were lucky.  When I was a boy we had to walk ten miles and back every morning before school to fetch water from the nearest lake.

Trees? You were lucky.  When I was a boy we had to plant our own tree and wait for it to grow before we could pee.

Three to a bed? You were lucky.  When I was a boy we had to sleep on the ground outside in the snow.

You had a washtub? You were lucky. When I was a boy....

Luxury!

Chapter two is now on MMSA

https://malespank.net/viewStory.php?id=51589

It appeared a few days ago but somehow came in under my radar

Good to hear from you, David.

I hope you feel better soon.

Yesterday, after my last class, I had gone to the gym to talk to Marcus as he was about to start lunch ....  About forty kids changing into gym clothes ... you're not allowed to wear boxers in gym - it has to be something that gives support.  The ones in boxers were stripping down and putting on straps or compression shorts.

Could you see, did you notice if jockstraps or compression shorts were more popular

Mr. Sanders was waiting to paddle a couple of boys...The two boys were seventh graders.  Apparently they'd been scuffling at the start of lunch and were sent to the office. .... he didn't think it was actual fighting, but there was no question they'd put their hands on each other in anger, so he wasn't going to call their parents, but they were each going to get three swats with their pants down.

Taking into accounts from previous school troubles, it would seem that it is the standard the paddling to be trousers/shorts down and over underwear for 'scuffling'.

Mr Saunders is one the group of new principals? Do you if this was his first paddling in the job?

I can hear the parents now. (I know the parents were not called) But in my head I can hear them.

"One week!  You could only get through one week, before getting your bottom paddled!"

In some cases it might be considered an achievement to get through the first week, or even past the first day, before the first paddling.

The single worst thing that ticks me off about the Transformer movies is I can't tell what's going on during the action scenes.  They came up with some way of having the robots change, so you end up with all these metallic moving parts flashing around on screen, and I can't even tell who's supposed to be who.  It frustrates me, and I won't go see a Michael Bey movie anymore.

A line from Macbeth (at least I think it Macbeth, might be Hamlet) comes to mind:
"Full of sound and fury signifying nothing"

What drove me crazy with Skyfall, Captain America: Civil War, and (worst of them all) Batman v. Superman is that none of those stories should have happened. (Spoiler Warnings!)  Silva only escaped from Bond in the middle part of the movie by setting off a bomb that derailed a subway, which means he knew exactly when they'd be going through that area, which was only possible if he knew exactly when Q would plug in his laptop.

This leads onto a problem I have with Skyfall, and other films/dramas where this device is used, I just found very hard to beleive that an expert like Q would have a computer from a very dubious source turned on with access to the network? Why wasn't it quarentined? At least not physically connected to the network and better still somewhere where wireless connection was prevented? But of course, the plot needed it. [Sorry for the rant but been wanted to get that point off my chest ever since I saw the film]

Similarly, still with Bond, if you watch Goldfinger carefully, you realise that he almost a complete failure in it. He gets almost everyone he meets killed, spends a about the final third of the film as a prisoner, and he is clueless about who to deal with bomb which is eventually, an unnamed character who finally, and with beautiful simplicity, stops it going off. The whole plot relies on the day being saved by **** Galore having a change of heart after a role in the hay with Bond.

Something occurred to me after reading the summary of our discussion is that is often these 'safe' films which make the money for studios that allow the more experimental, different, risky, original films to be made.