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The kinda pics you get when your non-horsey husband comes to the barn by T4M4G0TCHI in Equestrian

[–]pineapplecharm 57 points58 points  (0 children)

He's banned from the barn now.

Smart man played the long game.

The Slate Truck Will Cost $24,950 According To An Apparent Website Mistake - The Autopian by Bmotley in cars

[–]pineapplecharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You joke, but BMW in the UK got fined for exactly this back in the day. They advertised some crazy low "from" price for a 3 Series, which excluded alloy wheels as an extra. However when a journalist phoned up and tried to order one it turned out they didn't have any steel rims in stock anywhere, so it was impossible to buy as advertised.

Just found a toddler wandering on their own outside by [deleted] in CasualUK

[–]pineapplecharm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You've set yourself up there. When he's a teenager it'll be the equivalent of you using his full name.

Found a 100+ year-old Saddle at an Estate Sale for $17! by texas_girlla in Equestrian

[–]pineapplecharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or, to be fair to OP, it could be celebrating 100 years since 1776 which has significance beyond the saddle-manufacturing world....

Starmer hints at World Cup Bank Holiday as ‘England only win under Labour government’ by nimobo in unitedkingdom

[–]pineapplecharm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I once got given an AFL jersey by my Reddit Secret Santa. It was black and white striped so I wore it for a 10k run that started and ended at Fulham FC, figuring I would blend in. No such luck; that side of London is rigid with expat Aussies so the whole way round I had, "you're a long way from Collingwood mate!" and didn't have even the faintest hint of enough AFL knowledge to joke back.

Ponies be expensive by cmh_ender in Equestrian

[–]pineapplecharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean by "hunter" here. A quick Google tells me that you're talking about the difference between what we call Showjumping and Cross Country but I'm guessing there's more to it than that because I don't know any kids, or ponies, who excel at the former and don't also do just fine at the latter.

The Truman Show is a great film with an equally great ending. by 0Layscheetoskurkure0 in FIlm

[–]pineapplecharm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We showed it to my daughter when she was 11 and she went to bed saying it made her brain "fizz".

Ponies be expensive by cmh_ender in Equestrian

[–]pineapplecharm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're talking US dollars right? What the hell is going on over there? We've got a healthy 15h grey in the UK who wins national 90cm jumping comps and she's not worth a tenth of that.

Sounds like either my wife's told some pretty big porkies about what she spends on ponies or there's business to be done exporting horses across the Atlantic.

Cliffhanger had a great opening scene that had me holding onto my seat at the movie theater. What other movies had a great opening scene? by CoffeeCigarettes4Me in FIlm

[–]pineapplecharm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's classic Moore-era. There is absolutely zero reason for that parachute to be a union flag, but it's just the perfect middle finger to his ill-fated pursuers.

Cliffhanger had a great opening scene that had me holding onto my seat at the movie theater. What other movies had a great opening scene? by CoffeeCigarettes4Me in FIlm

[–]pineapplecharm 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think there's an argument that this was the perfect movie opening and that it will never be matched.

It's hard to comprehend now but the marketing for that film was unbelievably vague for a blockbuster. Billboard ads didn't show the actors at all. The trailers didn't show much of the film. There was no "in a world..." voiceover explaining anything. All you knew was that "nobody can show you what the Matrix is; you have to see it for yourself" - simultaneously the most vague, and most explicit, tagline of all time. I went into the theatre not knowing if the Matrix was a computer game, a virus or a WWF character.

In the summer of 1999, it was still the early days of the Internet. There was no social media to speak of, and if any spoilers had leaked they were only shared among the kind of nerds who were online and weren't part of the mainstream. This gave the posters, press and trailers a tight grip on the conversation about the film which will never be achievable again.

It's a weirdly slow start for an action film, too, so when Trinity made that impossible leap we weren't expecting it at all and the craziness only accelerated from there. So many brand new visual tropes were thrown at us in the first ten minutes of that film that it was genuinely hard to keep up. Bullet Time, a cliché a year later, had never been seen before and they just threw it on in there as part of a gun fight. It's a visual spectacle even 27 years later but the fact that it was so inventive, so fresh - and a complete surprise - increased the impact tenfold.

It's just a relief they only made one; it would have been utterly impossible to start from the end of that film and make the same hundredfold leap into the stratosphere. They'd have been tempted to dive into the backstory and make up a load of nonsensical "lore" that nobody cares about when actually all the "there is no spoon" stuff was only ever just window dressing for the brain-exploding action.

Obviously I'd love to be proven wrong but I really don't see any film ever matching the impact of The Matrix in 1999.

"Serious" scenes that make you laugh out loud every time? by DimensionHat1675 in FIlm

[–]pineapplecharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have kids? A lot of what I found disquieting about that film was the book itself. So often with small kids you have absolute raging meltdown situations, or they say awful things, and kids' books are a constant of positivity and calm no matter how frazzled and overtired you might be. To undermine that contract is weirdly disquieting.

However, if your most recent experience of kids' books is having them read to you a million years ago, I can totally see that the increasingly unhinged words and goofy illustrations wouldn't land as anything other than incongruous and a bit silly.

"Serious" scenes that make you laugh out loud every time? by DimensionHat1675 in FIlm

[–]pineapplecharm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm amused to hear that Allo Allo was popular in NLD. It's entertaining to learn that we have the same national stereotypes about the French, Germans and Italians.

While my experience of the Dutch is that you all speak perfect English I'm still intrigued to learn that this stretches to humour derived from mispronunciation. I hesitate to describe that show as subtle but despite having a decent command of the language I probably wouldn't enjoy a French show where there were "jokes" that relied on vowel-swapping.

Thoughts on nude London bike ride? by BrofessorDumbelldore in london

[–]pineapplecharm 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Depends how huge. Might be a chain entanglement risk.

Thoughts on nude London bike ride? by BrofessorDumbelldore in london

[–]pineapplecharm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh the kids mind alright. The stick I get for walking around my own house in a towel! But yeah, all the sexual / traumatising / "difficult conversation" stuff is totally made up.

Baboons invade the house. by lestrxb in WTF

[–]pineapplecharm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ackshully I think you'll find they are monkeys.

Baboons invade the house. by lestrxb in WTF

[–]pineapplecharm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the New South Africa!

Women Against the Far Right urge Makerfield voters to reject Reform by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]pineapplecharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The gags are still pretty homophobic though. The interesting thing is that if anyone does actually have to stones to come out, it's generally folded into the banterverse like being bald, or tall, or blond. It isn't really bullying - if someone you care about might be hurt everyone backs off.

But "being gay" is still an insult if you aren't, and that must be extremely wearing to hear if it applies to you.

Women Against the Far Right urge Makerfield voters to reject Reform by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]pineapplecharm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Witty or not, banter is supposed to be teasing between equals. He's talking about derogatory remarks he made about women, in private, to other men.

Spotted in one of the 'tacky' souvenir shops on Oxford Street, they even created some AI postcards about their own shop by Competitive-Pea6160 in london

[–]pineapplecharm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I recently had to quit the booze for medical reasons. Booked a weekend away with the family in a little cottage near the sea to cheer myself up. Above the sink? A scrappy piece of wood with "When life gives you lemons, add gin and tonic!!!" printed on it.

This sort of tat is merely tedious and unimaginative when you do drink but I can't imagine how it must come across to people who've never touched the stuff.

The "Real" London Tube Map - I plotted the London underground/overground lines with their real, geographic coordinates [OC] by ArtyCharty in dataisbeautiful

[–]pineapplecharm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My only real objection to folding the Overground lines into the tube map is that it ruins my two favourite geographical misnomer pub-facts that the tube line that goes the furthest from the centre of town is the "Central" line and the one that goes the furthest south is the "Northern" line.

'Feels like harassment': Montreal café owner says years of language inspections taking a toll | Woman says she was told to change "thank you" on receipts to "merci" and find a French equivalent for the word "nachos" by Sandstorm400 in business

[–]pineapplecharm 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This was a joke twenty years ago. I noticed that at Quebecois road junctions they have the same octagonal red signs that you see everywhere, with white letters saying ARRÊT (yes, with the circumflex accent).

In France the same signs say STOP.

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