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| Italian Two Seat Harrier Trainer |
Operating out of an Air Force Base near Milan, Italy.
Wikipedia knows the difference between the various types of Harriers.
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Friday, July 5, 2024
The Double (Chinese) - Netflix
The Double - Official Teaser Trailer | Wu Jinyan/Wang Xingyue | YOUKU
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We've got a couple of women who have been victimized by powerful scumbags operating within the Emperor's circle, so everything is political and every word is analyzed for hidden meanings and potential traps. One of the women dies and the other decides to take her place. Since the dead woman has been gone from the capital for ten years and she left when she was a kid, no one really knows what she looks like, so with excellent coaching from her maid, the double is able to pass herself off as the absent woman. Our girl was supposedly murdered by her husband who was being threatened with the lives of the rest of his family. We've got a real snake's nest here, but our girl has had her eyes opened and she is pretty sharp, so you know revenge is coming.
The acting is a little crude, but I suppose when your audience is peasants you want to make things obvious, and that they do. Of course, since we are in the very uppermost level of society, there are fabulous clothes and ridiculous rules governing behavior down to how you say good morning. Very much like an English drawing room, but in Mandarin.
Gangs of Galicia - Netflix
Gangs of Galicia - Official Trailer [English] | Netflix
MVSRS
Then we have the jackass of a cop who is willing to bend the rules as long as he can bring the Padin family to justice. The Padins are not nice people, but at least you know where you stand with them. This cop threatens people and lies to them in order to get what he wants. He is the villain in this show.
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| Cambados, Galicia, Spain Northwestern Spain |
The drug smugglers use a combination of fishing boats and go-fast boats to ferry bundles of cocaine from freighters sitting far off shore to the beach where they hustle the bundles into waiting vans. The fishing boats are pretty safe, I mean they are out there putt-putting around on the ocean which is what fishing boats do so they are not going to attract much attention. They bring the bales from the far offshore freighters to closer in shore where the bundles are transferred to the go-fast boats. The go-fast boats are the weak link. There are not many of them so if they get spotted by the cops, the cops are going to be after them, and the cops have some really big go-fast boats of their own. Kind of scary actually.
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| Mussel farms in the Vigo estuary. Rias Baixas, Galicia, Spain |
There are several scenes where we see the go-fast boats racing around these floating platforms. No explanation in the show. Seems they are mussel farms.
Happy Birthday to Me
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| Faucet Aerator Thread Gauge |
Wednesday July 3 went to Cafe Nell for lunch. Had an order of huevos rancheros, my favorite dish there. It's kind of a foo-foo place, but I've gotten old and slow so I enjoy it. Stopped at older son's compartment and his kitchen faucet had gotten kind of wonky, so we walked half a mile over to Ace Hardware where they had a rack of about hundred different aerators. They also had a thread sizing gauge very similar to the one shown above. I swear every one of those threads was something demented. One was like 55/64" by 27 threads per inch. The Amazon blurb reads: "Identify thread pitch & diameter for 20 of the most common aerator sizes from 1/4-18 to 15/16-27". I think ours ended up being something like 15/16" by 23. It took a while to sort through the selection but we eventually found one. $10. I cracked wise that back in the day they probably cost 15 cents, and it turns out I was about right:
Anthracite - Netflix
Anthracite - 2024 - Netflix Series Trailer 1 - English Subtitles
Phoenix Media Distribution
Crazy, overly-complicated serial killer murder mystery. Ida (Noémie Schmidt) is the shining star, as in a bright spot. Full of energy and enthusiasm, she seems to be too good to be true, and she is. She's dying of leukemia, chemotherapy has been ineffective, so she says fuck it, she's going to do what she wants. What she wants is to find her father who disappeared in one of these little villages tucked away in the French Alps. Her father was investigating a series of disappearances that have happened over the last 30 years. Okay, that's spooky number one. Then we find there was a cult operating in this area that staged a mass suicide 30 years ago. That's spooky #2. Are these two connected? You betcha, but that's not all. We also have a secretive biological research center up in the mountains that is investigating a microbe that was discovered in the anthracite coal mine that is inside the mountain. That's spooky #3. There are 100 miles of tunnels in this coal mine, and in many cases the last place a missing person was seen was not too far from an entrance to this maze of tunnels. Spooky #4.
There was a real suicidal cult, Order of the Solar Temple, operating in this area back in the 1990's. They managed to kill like 75 people. In the show, the leader of the cult is locked up in a psychiatric hospital, doped to the gills. The head nurse might be his most devoted follower. Turns out most, if not all of the characters in this show are related to each other, though they only find that out as the show progresses.
The scenery is spectacular, not surprising given the location.
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| Anthracite Filming Locations |
They showed a map of the coal mine tunnels, but they only flashed it on the screen for a moment and I haven't been able to locate it. There are a couple of hetero-sex scenes, and a couple of fags. Is that because this is Netflix, or is it because that's what the real world is like?
Thursday, July 4, 2024
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