What's on your mind today?

[xSilverPhinx]

One of these days I will have a fatal episode and one of the things that concerns me is that I will not be able to continue my forays into the HAf forum.  I am going to miss you guys when that happens.  Meanwhile ...............I wish my forum friends the best of everything.

I really hope that day, inevitable for all of us, is way into the future, Icarus!

[Icarus]

Thanks xSP.   I hope so too.  Living is good.  Not living spoils all the fun, love, happiness, fascination with this earth and its wonderous beauty, friendships, spirited conversations, apple pie, motherhood,  and all the rest.  My glass is more than half full.  If I believed in the almighty, I would thank him/her/it with regularity.   

[xSilverPhinx]

Thanks xSP.   I hope so too.  Living is good.  Not living spoils all the fun, love, happiness, fascination with this earth and its wonderous beauty, friendships, spirited conversations, apple pie, motherhood,  and all the rest.  My glass is more than half full.  If I believed in the almighty, I would thank him/her/it with regularity.

[xSilverPhinx]

Yesterday evening I went on a family outing to the cinema with my mother, sister and niece to watch the kid's film 'The House With A Clock On Its Walls'. Before it started, they ran the trailers for films like 'The Nun' and 'Halloween', both of which are definitely not movies for children.

[Dark Lightning]

They probably don't do it on purpose  but that's kind of how I think it is. Movies have always had trailers for stuff kids shouldn't be exposed to at the kid movies. It's also sad the way movie ratings have devolved. When I was 17, a friend and I went to the drive-in to see a movie called "Cry of the Banshee", which was rated R, for 18 or older. The worst scene of the movie was where a rabid dog was walking the street, snarling and foaming at the mouth. Now, PG shows have people getting shot full of holes and dying. Go figure.

[Icarus]

Silver, those trailers are in English language.  Is that common in your society? Do most of the viewers speak English well enough to comprehend the plot?

[xSilverPhinx]

They probably don't do it on purpose  but that's kind of how I think it is. Movies have always had trailers for stuff kids shouldn't be exposed to at the kid movies. It's also sad the way movie ratings have devolved. When I was 17, a friend and I went to the drive-in to see a movie called "Cry of the Banshee", which was rated R, for 18 or older. The worst scene of the movie was where a rabid dog was walking the street, snarling and foaming at the mouth. Now, PG shows have people getting shot full of holes and dying. Go figure.

Yeah, they probably didn't read the memo that it's a movie for pre-teens. My niece is 9 and was told to cover her eyes, otherwise there's a good chance she won't get any sleep this week.

But guns, bullets and death are so commonplace nowadays in films (and in video games and the news), it's not like it's actually scaring anybody anymore.

[Dark Lightning]

They probably don't do it on purpose  but that's kind of how I think it is. Movies have always had trailers for stuff kids shouldn't be exposed to at the kid movies. It's also sad the way movie ratings have devolved. When I was 17, a friend and I went to the drive-in to see a movie called "Cry of the Banshee", which was rated R, for 18 or older. The worst scene of the movie was where a rabid dog was walking the street, snarling and foaming at the mouth. Now, PG shows have people getting shot full of holes and dying. Go figure.

Yeah, they probably didn't read the memo that it's a movie for pre-teens. My niece is 9 and was told to cover her eyes, otherwise there's a good chance she won't get any sleep this week.

But guns, bullets and death are so commonplace nowadays in films (and in video games and the news), it's not like it's actually scaring anybody anymore.

'tis a sad state of affairs indeed, on how inured people are to that violence and bloodshed. It's why I don't watch TV. I call it death porn. My wife watches that schlock all the time.

[xSilverPhinx]

Silver, those trailers are in English language.  Is that common in your society? Do most of the viewers speak English well enough to comprehend the plot?

Films can be dubbed in Portuguese (awful to watch actors speak in a voice that is not their own and doesn't even sync properly with their lips) or subtitled. Most literate adults prefer to watch subtitled films but even if a person can read well and fast enough, most lack competence in the English language to understand without subtitles.

Since most people in Brazilian society as a whole are subpar readers, most will prefer dubbed films. Even the most widely watched news network only airs dubbed films. 

Young people nowadays are generally way better speakers than older generations, but even so it depends a lot on a person's education and just how important parents thought putting them through extra language classes was. I don't know just how well they can follow a plot relying just on their listening skill, though. Listening is a skill that needs to be practised in order to train one's ear, and when there are subtitles available, who's gonna listen to what's being said?

[xSilverPhinx]

They probably don't do it on purpose  but that's kind of how I think it is. Movies have always had trailers for stuff kids shouldn't be exposed to at the kid movies. It's also sad the way movie ratings have devolved. When I was 17, a friend and I went to the drive-in to see a movie called "Cry of the Banshee", which was rated R, for 18 or older. The worst scene of the movie was where a rabid dog was walking the street, snarling and foaming at the mouth. Now, PG shows have people getting shot full of holes and dying. Go figure.

Yeah, they probably didn't read the memo that it's a movie for pre-teens. My niece is 9 and was told to cover her eyes, otherwise there's a good chance she won't get any sleep this week.

But guns, bullets and death are so commonplace nowadays in films (and in video games and the news), it's not like it's actually scaring anybody anymore.

'tis a sad state of affairs indeed, on how inured people are to that violence and bloodshed. It's why I don't watch TV. I call it death porn. My wife watches that schlock all the time.

That's a good reason. I don't watch TV because they only air crap but I don't mind all the violence anymore.

[Dave]

Had some slightly worrying symptoms earlier. Waiting for ambulance. Don't worry if you hear nothing for a day or two,  may be going in for observation. Internet a variable thing in our hospital.

[hermes2015]

Had some slightly worrying symptoms earlier. Waiting for ambulance. Don't worry if you hear nothing for a day or two,  may be going in for observation. Internet a variable thing in our hospital.

I only saw this now. If you can access the internet, please keep us updated on what's going on. Best of luck, Dave.

[Dave]

Had some slightly worrying symptoms earlier. Waiting for ambulance. Don't worry if you hear nothing for a day or two,  may be going in for observation. Internet a variable thing in our hospital.

I only saw this now. If you can access the internet, please keep us updated on what's going on. Best of luck, Dave.

Thanks, Hermes.

Yup, still got free access to Internet on this phone. Typing might be worse though.

In A&E/ER waiting for doc. Feel OKish now, not hooked up to EC/KG. Allowed to go and get my own coffee and biscuits, rules have changed a bit.

But it seemed to come and go before, just hoping it goes and gets lost!

Someobpne ejsewhere evidently suffering badly judging by noise.

Time for another coffee, will keep in touch.

[Dave]

Very impressed with new ambulance tech. Gone are the large paper form, huge ecg machine and seperate blood pressure one - now one small box for that both connects by NFC to hand held touch screen minicomputer that can send data to the hospital before I arrive.

Not yet fully iintegrated,  can't call up old ecgs and compare but step in tight direction.

Waiting nore blood results and specialist opinion.

[hermes2015]

Very impressed with new ambulance tech. Gone are the large paper form, huge ecg machine and seperate blood pressure one - now one small box for that both connects by NFC to hand held touch screen minicomputer that can send data to the hospital before I arrive.

Not yet fully iintegrated,  can't call up old ecgs and compare but step in tight direction.

Waiting nore blood results and specialist opinion.

Thanks for the update. Whatever it is, it has had a good effect on your typing.

Have those pesky CNN reporters been bothering you?