Coronavirus Pandemic

[gilesgoat]

People, it appears, are strange.

Indeed. Did you know, for example, that there are not really any large land masses between Europe/Africa and Asia? What we see of "America" all takes place on a set of sound stages in Vatican City (they still control the world and the Empire Never Ended).

Well I live in a country that apparently doesn't exist, so...

Of course your country exists. Where do you think they have secretly filmed all those those westerns and wilderness movies? Some old Star Trek scenes were obviously shot near Ayers Rock.

You mean AWESOME SCENES LIKE THIS ???

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People, it appears, are strange.

Indeed. Did you know, for example, that there are not really any large land masses between Europe/Africa and Asia? What we see of "America" all takes place on a set of sound stages in Vatican City (they still control the world and the Empire Never Ended).

Well I live in a country that apparently doesn't exist, so...

Of course your country exists. Where do you think they have secretly filmed all those those westerns and wilderness movies? Some old Star Trek scenes were obviously shot near Ayers Rock.

Isn't it called Uhuru now?

[merman]

James Cleverly, a Government Minister, started talking about measures for airport passengers during yesterday's briefing. He said in response to a question they were "in place from February 30th".

So the non-existent testing of people coming into the country started on the non-existent date. Even in a leap year there is no February 30th. Incompetent isn't a strong enough word...

[Foozwah]

Well I live in a country that apparently doesn't exist, so...

Of course your country exists. Where do you think they have secretly filmed all those those westerns and wilderness movies? Some old Star Trek scenes were obviously shot near Ayers Rock.

Heh, I always figured they were shot in the Californian equivalent of the quarry in Wales where old school Doctor Who and Blakes 7 were filmed. But maybe I'm just deflecting from the Truth. After all, the Matrix movies were filmed here... I tell ya, it's rabbit holes within rabbit holes, man. Nothing but rabbit holes all the way down...

You mean AWESOME SCENES LIKE THIS ???

OMG I had forgotten just how... err... awesome some of those scenes were. I keep looking at the entirety of old Star Trek on Netflix and thinking I should refresh my childhood memories, and this might just push me over the edge.

Of course your country exists. Where do you think they have secretly filmed all those those westerns and wilderness movies? Some old Star Trek scenes were obviously shot near Ayers Rock.

Isn't it called Uhuru now?

I saw what you did there. Noyce.

[gilesgoat]

Heh, I always figured they were shot in the Californian equivalent of the quarry in Wales where old school Doctor Who and Blakes 7 were filmed. But maybe I'm just deflecting from the Truth.

There's a movie probably SO BAD I can't find many references ...

I am quite sure it was called "Alladin and the black lamp" and I saw it quite some time ago on Amazon Prime Video ...

I am 99% convinced that was shot in a quarry in Wales with some yellow filter in front of the lenses to give the impression they were in the desert and I am also convinced they were walking in circles using different camera angles to give the impression they were in much larger different locations.

This is the first and only film ever I've seen where they had some sort of "have to go for a pee teleporting"

One of the characters that was with Alladin and his group was a "spy" of the bad guys, occasionally "he had to go for a pee" and in ways NEVER explained suddely he was 20 miles away talking with the bad guys and 5 mins later suddenly returning back to where it was.

The movie never explained this and "everything was perfectly normal".

Also turns out "the super secret location that no-one should ever find the black lamp with the terrible powers has been thrown" was a pool of water in this quarry and guess what the lamp was found within 5 minutes ...

Missing any references I can find to that mega movie, I HIGHLY reccoment THIS one as well seen around the same time ( it wasn't 2012 ) :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1700443/

INCREDIBLE trailer ..



NOTE that they MUST have spent ALL the budget of the movie in this trailer !!

Since its first apparition is told that "Pegasus looks like A NORMAL HORSE when he's on the ground" .. in fact in ALL the movie it IS 'a normal horse' safe for a sequence of maybe 3 SECONDS where it gives the impression he's taking off/landing but you can mostly see only his legs and a quick flutter of something.

In the VERY END .. there are maybe 5 SECONDS where you can actually see it in the air with wings an all, you actually see more of that in the trailer than anywhere else in the movie.

I have no idea "what the actors were on" when they filmed it, probably tons of some Valium or such, becuase given the whole plot, the acting, the lines I have NO IDEA how they managed NOT to burst into laughter every 2 seconds thinking "how stupid I can be in doing what I am doing now" ?

Anyway back to coronavirus, but it's good to have some distractions some time

Now "Alladin and the black lamp" is something "not very worth" but Pegasus Vs Chimera I warmly reccomend it .. just don't come after me to kill me after you watched it

[edit] - I wonder if they renamed it, given the 1.7 I suspect "could be this one" :

[KlaxonCow]

I always figured they were shot in the Californian equivalent of the quarry in Wales where old school Doctor Who and Blakes 7 were filmed.

There's a Tom Scott video about that:



Basically, union rules. There's a 30 mile zone within Hollywood (a TMZ - and, yes, that is actually where that organisation gets its name from) where you don't have to pay cast and crew until they turn up at location. Saves cash for productions.

(Though, these days, everything tends to be filmed in Canada. Because Hollywood raised costs and so it's now actually cheaper to ship everyone up just over the Canadian border and do it all there, where they've cleverly fiddled their tax rules to be kind to productions filming there.)

You'll notice that where Kirk fights Gorn, poorly, looks suspiciously like Vasquez Rocks. Indeed, looking at the Wikipedia page for it, it's actually nicknamed "Kirk's Rocks".

[Foozwah]

Missing any references I can find to that mega movie, I HIGHLY reccoment THIS one as well seen around the same time ( it wasn't 2012 ) :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1700443/

INCREDIBLE trailer ..



Now "Alladin and the black lamp" is something "not very worth" but Pegasus Vs Chimera I warmly reccomend it .. just don't come after me to kill me after you watched it

[edit] - I wonder if they renamed it, given the 1.7 I suspect "could be this one" :

[img]https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Aladdin-Adam-Hollick/dp/B07RN319Q8/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Aladdin&qid=1589904090&s=instant-video&sr=1-6

Haha, that Pegasus vs Chimera trailer has so hooked me - will definitely track that one down for a watch, if only to see the gulf between trailer and actual movie - some of the reviews I've read are SO savage! (And I promise not to come after you with murderous intent, you've definitely given me more than fair warning! ) Might give the Aladdin one a miss though...

And now, yes, back to coronavirus...

[Foozwah]

I always figured they were shot in the Californian equivalent of the quarry in Wales where old school Doctor Who and Blakes 7 were filmed.

There's a Tom Scott video about that:

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Basically, union rules. There's a 30 mile zone within Hollywood (a TMZ - and, yes, that is actually where that organisation gets its name from) where you don't have to pay cast and crew until they turn up at location. Saves cash for productions.

(Though, these days, everything tends to be filmed in Canada. Because Hollywood raised costs and so it's now actually cheaper to ship everyone up just over the Canadian border and do it all there, where they've cleverly fiddled their tax rules to be kind to productions filming there.)

You'll notice that where Kirk fights Gorn, poorly, looks suspiciously like Vasquez Rocks. Indeed, looking at the Wikipedia page for it, it's actually nicknamed "Kirk's Rocks".

Cool video - makes a weird kind of sense. (TMZ naming is a fun trivia fact.) And wow, Vasquez Rocks is so iconic. I get the Canada thing; at times Australia gets used as Hollywood's "Canada of the Southern Hemisphere" for similar tax break/financial incentive purposes. Though my mind boggles at how big the financial breaks would have to be to move an entire production over here...

Okay, really back to coronavirus now... Things are weird and inconsistent here, with a federal government hell-bent on opening things up again, but most of the states (with the notable exception of NSW, which coincidentally(?) is governed by the same conservative political party as federally) are determined to not rush into anything and undo all the good that's been done so far...

Here in Victoria we did seemingly well in locking down and controlling things/flattening the curve early, but infection clusters around an abbatoirs and a McDonalds' distribution centre have now put our infection rate back on the rise, whereas nation-wide it's about 0.94.

But at the same time I'm aware that we have (so far) gotten off so mildly compared to so many places - the entire country's death toll has only just hit 100 in the last 24 hours, for 7,079 cases from a population of 25.5 million, but I can't help wonder how many cases are still going undiagnosed, or if rapidly spreading complacency about PPE and social distancing will just screw us over in a second wave anyway...

[gribbles]

People, it appears, are strange.

Indeed. Did you know, for example, that there are not really any large land masses between Europe/Africa and Asia? What we see of "America" all takes place on a set of sound stages in Vatican City (they still control the world and the Empire Never Ended).

Well I live in a country that apparently doesn't exist, so...

Of course your country exists. Where do you think they have secretly filmed all those those westerns and wilderness movies? Some old Star Trek scenes were obviously shot near Ayers Rock.

Isn't it called Uhuru now?

That's it. I'm locking this thread, 'cos it ain't getting any better than this.

[gilesgoat]

Missing any references I can find to that mega movie, I HIGHLY reccoment THIS one as well seen around the same time ( it wasn't 2012 ) :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1700443/

INCREDIBLE trailer ..



Now "Alladin and the black lamp" is something "not very worth" but Pegasus Vs Chimera I warmly reccomend it .. just don't come after me to kill me after you watched it

[edit] - I wonder if they renamed it, given the 1.7 I suspect "could be this one" :

[img]https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Aladdin-Adam-Hollick/dp/B07RN319Q8/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Aladdin&qid=1589904090&s=instant-video&sr=1-6

Haha, that Pegasus vs Chimera trailer has so hooked me - will definitely track that one down for a watch, if only to see the gulf between trailer and actual movie - some of the reviews I've read are SO savage! (And I promise not to come after you with murderous intent, you've definitely given me more than fair warning! ) Might give the Aladdin one a miss though...

And now, yes, back to coronavirus...

.. wait until you'll see "the ritual" to call Pegasus .. ( I don't want to add any spoilers ).

[Foozwah]

.. wait until you'll see "the ritual" to call Pegasus .. ( I don't want to add any spoilers ).

Noted!

[gilesgoat]

.. UNsuprsingly they just arrested for corruption and illegal doing 3 "high functionaries" in Palermo ( Sicily ) that were some heads of NHS stuff and Covid task force ( or shit like that ) ..

Ironically one of them was part of an "anti corruption team" ..

Italy will always be Italy ...

[KlaxonCow]

Tomorrow's World back in the '80s: "By the year 2020, we'll have flying cars, moon bases and robots doing the housework".

Actual 2020: "Here, have a pandemic. America has Trump and the UK is run by BoJo the clown. You're welcome."

[merman]

Two Government advisors hounded out for breaching lockdown when they were both well.

Dominic Cummings and his wife, both SUFFERING SYMPTOMS and later testing positive, travel from London to Durham to visit his elderly parents.

So now Government ministers and even journalists are trying to defend the hyper-hypocrite.

He should be fired and never allowed near a Government job ever.

[KlaxonCow]

Dominic Cummings and his wife, both SUFFERING SYMPTOMS and later testing positive, travel from London to Durham to visit his elderly parents.

I did wonder. Because how could anyone with elderly parents support wild herd immunity?

Well, simple. They don't actually like their parents - possibly resent them for a bad childhood or missed opportunities or something (as, indeed, the poem has it: "They fuck you up, your mum and dad", though most people gain the wisdom to understand that if that's universal, which it is, then it's part of the Human Condition, not anything you can individually blame on anyone - humans are fucked up by mere existence itself) - and, as that Prof June Andrews put it, they'd actually find it "quite useful" if the virus bumped them off, to remove the family burden from them and allow them to inherit their home and assets a little earlier.

Screw calling out their hypocrisy. Charge them with attempted murder.

There is precedent. A HIV sufferer, who knew they had the virus, who purposefully tried to get others infected by sleeping around. If it can be demonstrated that the person was well-aware and conscious of the consequences of their actions - that their intent was to shorten / end the life of others - then that's a criminal offence. At least assault or bodily harm, if not attempted murder. Because, yeah, it still counts as enacting physical violence against another person. Deliberately poisoning someone with, say, cyanide, is murder / attempted murder. Using yourself to introduce a virus to others is legally in the same league, when it can be demonstrated that that person knew exactly what they were doing and wielded their illness with malicious intent.

And I think any prosecution lawyer could hardly have trouble proving that of the guy who inserted himself into every SAGE meeting, of entirely knowing what they were doing visiting elderly parents to a greater level than nearly anyone else, bar actual epidemiologists. Who, from the sounds of things, tried to influence the nation's policies towards "let the elderly die", while having elderly parents themselves, showing their willingness to sacrifice everyone's elderly parents and, indeed, setting up conditions where bumping their parents off would be overlooked as mere "statistics" in an ocean of elderly death.

Screw lockdown hypocrisy. This is, at least, physical assault, up to potentially attempted murder. This is premeditated violence against others, standing to grab an inheritance early, and very much a criminal offence.