WE CAN TOTALLY CALL AQUAMAN, ALL WE NEED TO GIVE HIM IS BOOZE AND BEARD CONDITIONER.
2nd Deadpool has... I forget his name but he's this killer child actor from New Zealand. I am so glad we're seeing more New Zealanders in hollywood movies, their sense of humour is so hilarious, it's like a nihilistic version of Australian humour, not quite as nihilistic as Irish humour. I just love everything he's in, he's got range, but he brings a real... realness? To what he's doing, even if his character has progression, he's as real at the beginning of the movie as he is at the end.
Black Panther is awesome, I saw it at the drive in, those guys know how to do puns- the Tolkien White Guys- I love it, they saw the chance and took it.
We have Netflix but I'm not addicted to it, it's mostly for others. I like having things on for background noise but I suppose maybe I'm particular over what I watch and if I like it hard enough I will buy it. There's not much on atm. That's Australian Netflix, tho, and I know the North American Netflix is vastly... more vast... than we get because EVERYTHING WORKS THAT WAY.
No, of course I am not bitter about living on an island in the middle of the sea surrounded by NOTHING and ANTARCTICA where NOTHING HAPPENS and ALL OF OUR GOOD AUTHORS AND BANDS AND ACTORS MOVE OVERSEAS BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING HERE. Why would I be?
I might be one of the oddballs here, but believe it or not, sometimes I would much rather live somewhere like New Zealand. Having so much here, especially by way of media, makes it really easy to plop on the couch and spend hours listening/watching media or playing screen games (whether cellphone, tablet, or computer). Without a firm fist to say 'that's enough', it's easy to get addicted.
As a youth, hanging out with friends meant spending the day at a sports club or park. No-one talked about TV shows or games. Movie talks were limited to whatever was on the big screen. Now, I can honestly say at least 50% of the group hangout time is spent glued to a phone. If you can't talk about the most recent TV show episode that someone else is hooked on, it's tough to find a conversation topic. There's a big reduction in face-to-face communication. I think it is actually harder to maintain real life friendships these days because there's so much 'stuff' out there.
I have a personal theory that when you live somewhere most of your life, you start to believe 'there is nothing here'. (Sometimes I think the same way of my city, but if I look up the tourism website I remember why we still get tourists). You really have to put yourself in the shoes of someone who has never been to your country to realize how beautiful it is and what opportunities and wonders it holds. I think I may have mentioned this story before, but I have a friend from overseas who never saw a heavy snowfall before. The awed expression on her face when she saw everything completely covered in snow, golden sunlight making everything sparkle, made me realize how 'routine' snow was for me.
When I think of New Zealand, there are two things that come to mind first: - Landscape (believe it or not, it's on my 'want to travel to' list, and I'm an outdoor, all-terrain, all-weather runner) - Medical School (a family member spent a few years in New Zealand for their residency)
Technically there's a third thing that comes to mind, but uh.... let me know if this one is annoying: sheep. I was hesitant about mentioning sheep, as people asking if Canadians live in igloos, regularly see polar bears, and say 'Eh' all the time is a tiny bit annoying. (It's also completely false, EH?)
Well. Full stop, you don't want to live in New Zealand, not at the moment, unless you don't need to work or use medical services because the job market sucks and the mental health crisis is getting way way worse.
No I am afraid that while you do have a point where people get jaded about where they live and say 'there's nothing here' that does not apply to me. When I say nothing you had better believe I mean nothing. Barely any concerts and the ones we get are hideously expensive because of the cost of getting here, also very few concerts (because of the cost, like Green Day was here a few years ago, like ONE show PER state (nt including Territories OR Tasmania), P!nk is good, she has lots of shows when she comes, but the fact I can mention by name the biggest names that visit shows that they were so rare and commented on so widely that there really isn't much else on), we have a state exhibition fair show type thing for two weeks a year, we have... two (or three if you count the gold coast one) conventions in the state, big ones, per year, one is on this weekend. I live in a very touristy state, we have several theme parks- all in the same place, far far away. And once you've been a time or two... the only reason they're still open is for tourists who haven't been. And I used to live in Tasmania. Tasmania is the state that has NEGATIVE anything. No concerts ever, it's too remote, one university (ONLY ONE IN THE ENTIRE STATE) no theme parks, lots of natural beauty, but yeah, cool, it's pretty, and the food is good, but it is cold with no snow, and just so depressing. There's barely any cities, only the capital city is really worth calling a city in comparison to cities elsewhere in the world. All of everything is centred around the capital city and then the further you are out the less there is until there is nothing.
I would be one of those people obsessed with the snow- I wrote a story about it on the guild for an event a few years ago, won the writing contest. There is snow RARELY in Tasmania and NEVER in Queensland, to the point where people thought I was lying when I said it had snowed twice in my backyard when i lived in Tasmania because 'it doesn't snow in Australia.'
There's like two sheep for every person in New Zealand. They have very good sheep. It's not as good as the Australian sheep, but different climate, possibly different sheep for different uses there. Japanese business suits are made out of Australian Merino wool, and those guys can wear whatever they want so they must like it for a reason. I'm not fussed to visit, to be honest. Family lives there, but my cousin is going to try and move here (because bad job opportunities and terrible medical care- I mean, there just isn't enough of it.) and she might bring her son. I don't think he'll come, though. He fits in too well there. People think he's Mauri XDD He's not, we're just so white that he came out looking Pacific Islander when he's African XDD He used to work with Dairy Cows up in the North Island but he got injured and now he does something else. Only really young, too, I think 19? When my cousin got married, my mum went over to visit. I didn't because it's expensive and I also did not want to, though I love our cousin. They had a better time together than with me, she's mum's age. I don't really care to visit anywhere, except Universal Studios Harry Potter world one day. Sure NOTHING happens here but I'm not bored enough to leave. Because it's far too expensive to go anywhere. People don't realise the absolute vastness here and the nothing that's in it.
I'm so depressed about it now.
But to tell you the honest truth if a friend and I went out together and they spent any time on their phone which wasn't to answer a text and then leave the phone alone once or twice in the entire afternoon, they wouldn't be my friend. Last time I caught up it was for a games night with board games and everyone played. I don't think anyone discussed any movies or Tv shows, except when someone mentioned a meme and I was like 'That's Andy and April from Parks and Rec- have you not seen it? You only know them as a meme?' and only briefly when we played Trivial Pursuit and how Marley brought her partner who had never seen almost all the good movies in our childhood. Then a band I used to like is apparently coming for a small concert and it was mentioned by another friend asking if anyone was interested in seeing it with him- but standing room was 80 dollars a ticket. For just standing room. That's a nooooo. The only entertainment here is for the rich.
I just think perhaps it's a culture difference. Things in other parts of the world are crammed in together so you can get to stuff. Here, no.
WE CAN TOTALLY CALL AQUAMAN, ALL WE NEED TO GIVE HIM IS BOOZE AND BEARD CONDITIONER.
2nd Deadpool has... I forget his name but he's this killer child actor from New Zealand. I am so glad we're seeing more New Zealanders in hollywood movies, their sense of humour is so hilarious, it's like a nihilistic version of Australian humour, not quite as nihilistic as Irish humour. I just love everything he's in, he's got range, but he brings a real... realness? To what he's doing, even if his character has progression, he's as real at the beginning of the movie as he is at the end.
Black Panther is awesome, I saw it at the drive in, those guys know how to do puns- the Tolkien White Guys- I love it, they saw the chance and took it.
We have Netflix but I'm not addicted to it, it's mostly for others. I like having things on for background noise but I suppose maybe I'm particular over what I watch and if I like it hard enough I will buy it. There's not much on atm. That's Australian Netflix, tho, and I know the North American Netflix is vastly... more vast... than we get because EVERYTHING WORKS THAT WAY.
No, of course I am not bitter about living on an island in the middle of the sea surrounded by NOTHING and ANTARCTICA where NOTHING HAPPENS and ALL OF OUR GOOD AUTHORS AND BANDS AND ACTORS MOVE OVERSEAS BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING HERE. Why would I be?
I might be one of the oddballs here, but believe it or not, sometimes I would much rather live somewhere like New Zealand. Having so much here, especially by way of media, makes it really easy to plop on the couch and spend hours listening/watching media or playing screen games (whether cellphone, tablet, or computer). Without a firm fist to say 'that's enough', it's easy to get addicted.
As a youth, hanging out with friends meant spending the day at a sports club or park. No-one talked about TV shows or games. Movie talks were limited to whatever was on the big screen. Now, I can honestly say at least 50% of the group hangout time is spent glued to a phone. If you can't talk about the most recent TV show episode that someone else is hooked on, it's tough to find a conversation topic. There's a big reduction in face-to-face communication. I think it is actually harder to maintain real life friendships these days because there's so much 'stuff' out there.
I have a personal theory that when you live somewhere most of your life, you start to believe 'there is nothing here'. (Sometimes I think the same way of my city, but if I look up the tourism website I remember why we still get tourists). You really have to put yourself in the shoes of someone who has never been to your country to realize how beautiful it is and what opportunities and wonders it holds. I think I may have mentioned this story before, but I have a friend from overseas who never saw a heavy snowfall before. The awed expression on her face when she saw everything completely covered in snow, golden sunlight making everything sparkle, made me realize how 'routine' snow was for me.
When I think of New Zealand, there are two things that come to mind first: - Landscape (believe it or not, it's on my 'want to travel to' list, and I'm an outdoor, all-terrain, all-weather runner) - Medical School (a family member spent a few years in New Zealand for their residency)
Technically there's a third thing that comes to mind, but uh.... let me know if this one is annoying: sheep. I was hesitant about mentioning sheep, as people asking if Canadians live in igloos, regularly see polar bears, and say 'Eh' all the time is a tiny bit annoying. (It's also completely false, EH?)
Well. Full stop, you don't want to live in New Zealand, not at the moment, unless you don't need to work or use medical services because the job market sucks and the mental health crisis is getting way way worse.
No I am afraid that while you do have a point where people get jaded about where they live and say 'there's nothing here' that does not apply to me. When I say nothing you had better believe I mean nothing. Barely any concerts and the ones we get are hideously expensive because of the cost of getting here, also very few concerts (because of the cost, like Green Day was here a few years ago, like ONE show PER state (nt including Territories OR Tasmania), P!nk is good, she has lots of shows when she comes, but the fact I can mention by name the biggest names that visit shows that they were so rare and commented on so widely that there really isn't much else on), we have a state exhibition fair show type thing for two weeks a year, we have... two (or three if you count the gold coast one) conventions in the state, big ones, per year, one is on this weekend. I live in a very touristy state, we have several theme parks- all in the same place, far far away. And once you've been a time or two... the only reason they're still open is for tourists who haven't been. And I used to live in Tasmania. Tasmania is the state that has NEGATIVE anything. No concerts ever, it's too remote, one university (ONLY ONE IN THE ENTIRE STATE) no theme parks, lots of natural beauty, but yeah, cool, it's pretty, and the food is good, but it is cold with no snow, and just so depressing. There's barely any cities, only the capital city is really worth calling a city in comparison to cities elsewhere in the world. All of everything is centred around the capital city and then the further you are out the less there is until there is nothing.
I would be one of those people obsessed with the snow- I wrote a story about it on the guild for an event a few years ago, won the writing contest. There is snow RARELY in Tasmania and NEVER in Queensland, to the point where people thought I was lying when I said it had snowed twice in my backyard when i lived in Tasmania because 'it doesn't snow in Australia.'
There's like two sheep for every person in New Zealand. They have very good sheep. It's not as good as the Australian sheep, but different climate, possibly different sheep for different uses there. Japanese business suits are made out of Australian Merino wool, and those guys can wear whatever they want so they must like it for a reason. I'm not fussed to visit, to be honest. Family lives there, but my cousin is going to try and move here (because bad job opportunities and terrible medical care- I mean, there just isn't enough of it.) and she might bring her son. I don't think he'll come, though. He fits in too well there. People think he's Mauri XDD He's not, we're just so white that he came out looking Pacific Islander when he's African XDD He used to work with Dairy Cows up in the North Island but he got injured and now he does something else. Only really young, too, I think 19? When my cousin got married, my mum went over to visit. I didn't because it's expensive and I also did not want to, though I love our cousin. They had a better time together than with me, she's mum's age. I don't really care to visit anywhere, except Universal Studios Harry Potter world one day. Sure NOTHING happens here but I'm not bored enough to leave. Because it's far too expensive to go anywhere. People don't realise the absolute vastness here and the nothing that's in it.
I'm so depressed about it now.
But to tell you the honest truth if a friend and I went out together and they spent any time on their phone which wasn't to answer a text and then leave the phone alone once or twice in the entire afternoon, they wouldn't be my friend. Last time I caught up it was for a games night with board games and everyone played. I don't think anyone discussed any movies or Tv shows, except when someone mentioned a meme and I was like 'That's Andy and April from Parks and Rec- have you not seen it? You only know them as a meme?' and only briefly when we played Trivial Pursuit and how Marley brought her partner who had never seen almost all the good movies in our childhood. Then a band I used to like is apparently coming for a small concert and it was mentioned by another friend asking if anyone was interested in seeing it with him- but standing room was 80 dollars a ticket. For just standing room. That's a nooooo. The only entertainment here is for the rich.
I just think perhaps it's a culture difference. Things in other parts of the world are crammed in together so you can get to stuff. Here, no.
Oof! That does sound pretty rough!
Noticed I forgot to respond to your thoughts on Black Panther. Glad the movie is awesome. I was curious about T'Challa's story after his appearance in Captain America: Civil War. What is your favorite superhero movie/show?
BTW, please don't think that I'm not a serious player just cause I keep guessing Ds.
Wah! I noticed I forgot to include your quote and 'D' in the last update. Thank you for staying a step ahead of me and making your additional guess! Will update with the D guess momentarily. 3nodding
I assumed you thought I was trolling in here cause I keep guessing Ds and ignored my guess. FYI, I've never trolled anywhere and I'm not gonna start trolling during this event. xd
Post it in the Bonanza thread if you want to enter it in the contest!
King Pepbitar
ninja There are three different avatar contests going on. Pretty confusing, but maybe this will help sort them out:
Wild Avatar Contest - location: ♜ Oceania ♜ [aquarians team thread] - open to Aquarians only for the entire duration of the event
Siren's Casting Call ⋆ Avatar Contests - location: Tears of the Sea event subforum - open to Aquarians and Cascadians for the entire duration of the event
Bubbling Bonanza Avatar Contest - location: Bubbling Bonanza thread - open to Aquarians and Cascadians only on Sept 22
I might be one of the oddballs here, but believe it or not, sometimes I would much rather live somewhere like New Zealand. Having so much here, especially by way of media, makes it really easy to plop on the couch and spend hours listening/watching media or playing screen games (whether cellphone, tablet, or computer). Without a firm fist to say 'that's enough', it's easy to get addicted.
