What are you watching?

[Erestor Arcamen]

No idea about this, but there's a dragon:

Similar to the dragon in LOTR 🤪?

 

[Olorgando]

No idea about this, but there's a dragon:

Awesome voice! 😲

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Anyway, it's a Russian film from 2017

Full movie:

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Similar to the dragon in LOTR 🤪?

Hardihar.

 

[Olorgando]

Anyway, it's a Russian film from 2017

Full movie:

Interesting. Looks like they could have taken one pointer from PJ's "The Hobbit" that makes far more sense than the depiction of dragons by most artists over the centuries, including JRRT himself:
These artists seem to think of dragons as quadrupeds which sport additional wings sprouting out of their back.
Ah, no. Every creature of the Chordata phylum that has ever taken to the air has used its front limbs as wings. Pterodactyls, their distant relatives birds, bats ...
So Smaug in TH being a quadruped with the front limbs as wings makes very much sense. And I have this nagging thought at the back of my head that some variant designs for Smaug to be seen in the EEs do resemble the dragon shown in those stills.

 

[Miguel]

 

[Halasían]

Watching through the youtube clips of Nat's What I reckon cooking...

Making your own Fried Rice
(Language Warning - He's Aussie)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Olorgando]

Making your own Fried Rice

MUCH too complicated!
A cup of rice in some salted water, slow boil according to instructions on the package -
maybe a couple of dabs of butter on the hot rice, a spoon - and enjoy! 🤪
(I did grow up in Pakistan and India for the first ten years of my life ... 😋 )

 

[Halasían]

MUCH too complicated!
A cup of rice in some salted water, slow boil according to instructions on the package -
maybe a couple of dabs of butter on the hot rice, a spoon - and enjoy! 🤪

... or not. FK Packaged Fried Rice!

 

[Olorgando]

... or not. FK Packaged Fried Rice!

So just pop it into the pan for a few minutes? 😁
I had something like that back in the mid-1980s when living in a single-room apartment:
one pot to cook a bag of rice, another with some deep-frozen "Chinese vegetables", combine in the bigger pot - presto.
As the company had an excellent canteen in that city, my home cooking was rather limited - and I did go out to eat quite frequently, as a couple of friends and I had a favorite, very small pizzeria with good eats. 😋

 

[Halasían]

So just pop it into the pan for a few minutes? 😁

I guess you're not a 'champion' then

I started watching Sons of Anarchy again after I saw it mentiioned on another website. I forgot I had the 1st 3 seasons on DVD.

 

[Olorgando]

I guess you're not a 'champion' then

Very much no! 🤣
I do occasionally watch a cooking competition show, or parts of it, on our channel 2 TV that my wife watches regularly. Something on the line of "musical chairs", with six non-professional cooks starting in the competition on Mondays, whittled down to two on Fridays. Judging is done by a professional cook, a different one each day. For a while, they had changed the format a bit, having professionals competing for the entire week and being given marks by their peers (I wonder if that has caused any back-and-forth sniping? 😜 ).
Anyway, the 35 minutes that are the time limit for getting things done - that has been anything but a motivation to imitate! 😱

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

. I forgot I had the 1st 3 seasons on DVD.

That reminds me -- I need to demand that Barliman return my sets of Arrested Development.

 

[Halasían]

That reminds me -- I need to demand that Barliman return my sets of Arrested Development.

I learned the hard way not to loan DVDs. I had a special edition of the movie 'Cross of Iron' with some extended scenes and I loaned it to my brother-in-law never to see it again.

 

[rollinstoned]

I was just watching 'One Week' a short comedy by Buster Keaton. It was really funny and quite adorable. Definitely one of the funniest comedy shorts I've seen from the era.

 

[Halasían]

Just about done with season 2 of Sons of Anarchy...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Everyone remembers their first celebrity crush. For thousands of boys of a certain age, it was Joy!

 

[Halasían]

Hmm... my first celebrity crush was Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in the Avengers...

Followed by my 2nd celebrity crush... Grace Lee Whitney in Star Trek...

 

[Olorgando]

Memories more than half a century old - getting quite foggy. 🤔
My best guess is Raquel Welch, and Sophia Loren; and probably Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda.
Oh.
They're all over eighty except for Raquel, who will be turning 80 in less than a month ...