Octopus Overlords

LordMortis wrote:I've seen three different extended previews that all eventually centered on the fast hurried rabbit going to the DMV and being forced to listen to a sloth telling a joke.

It didn't do it for me but I'm also not 5.

LA Times wrote: Instead the nuanced moment comes smack in the middle of a Walt Disney Animation Studios movie, and it's not the only edgy reference — "Zootopia," which opens Friday, also includes sly innuendoes about police profiling and workplace discrimination as well as allusions to grown-up pop culture favorites "The Godfather," "Chinatown" and "Breaking Bad.".

Yes, the studio known for its fairy tale castles and doe-eyed princesses has sneaked a tart, subtle examination of bias into the middle of a talking-animals movie.

I'm also kind of in the kool-aid zone on this one though too.

LawBeefaroni wrote:I'm also kind of in the kool-aid zone on this one though too.

Because you attended a furry convention?

GreenGoo wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote: It will top big hero 6's opening weekend, IMO.

I'll take that bet based on nothing but the tv ads I saw for Big Hero 6 and the tv ads I see for Zootopia.

This weekend belongs to Walt Disney’s Zootopia, which is headed for a record opening of $70M-plus, the best ever for an original Disney/non-Pixar animated film. That figure kicks aside Frozen’s $67.4M wide release debut. Today, inclusive of $1.7M in Thursday previews, Zootopia is looking at $18M+, which beats Frozen’s first wide day of ZOOTOPIA$15.2M (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving). Audiences are embracing this animated film directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush with an A Cinemascore and a 98% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score.

Ads are so 2000s.

Wonder Twin #1 woke up at 6:00 this morning, belted out two verses of "Little Speckled Frog", chuckled to himself, and went back to sleep. Which was just enough noise (through the baby monitor) to wake me up, and I couldn't fall back asleep.

Thanks dude.

Why cant we get real whole unseperated milk? Im talking the same as it comes fro ma cow milk. Sure pasteurize it ...but thats it. Leave it alone. i bet it thick and tasty.

You probably can, just not in regular grocery stores. People who are used to homogenized milk would probably be pretty unhappy if their milk came with a layer of oil floating on top.

As a kid we always got it from local dairy farmer. I would think now a days a specialty store such as a fresh food health food place might work.

Boy I can imagine the price they'd want there. In the old days everything was organic and normal priced. These days they slap organic on it so they can charge you a small country.

Economies of scale.

My aunt owned ran a dairy farm with the pasteurizing machines next to the barn. As kids, we would get great fresh, rich milk and it made the best ice cream and shakes. Moving to 2% milk was very very difficult having tasted the good stuff.

Daehawk wrote:Boy I can imagine the price they'd want there. In the old days everything was organic and normal priced. These days they slap organic on it so they can charge you a small country.

As someone in a household that does around 50% of its grocery shopping at Whole Foods and buys organic regularly, I feel that I need to address your comment and tell you unequivocally that organic labeling is completely and totally...a scam.

Zarathud wrote:My aunt owned ran a dairy farm with the pasteurizing machines next to the barn. As kids, we would get great fresh, rich milk and it made the best ice cream and shakes. Moving to 2% milk was very very difficult having tasted the good stuff.

Raised on a dairy farm myself. Once I no longer had access to good milk I hardly drink the stuff.

It is nothing but milk flavored water.

Down goes McGregor
Down goes McGregor
Down goes McGregor

First Ronda Rousey and now this. Is no one invulnerable?

Jaymann wrote:Down goes McGregor
Down goes McGregor
Down goes McGregor

First Ronda Rousey and now this. Is no one invulnerable?

I don't really follow the "sport" but from what understand, McGregor was fighting up a class or two, being 145lbs fighting a 170lb opponent. It's his own fault for doing so of course.

LawBeefaroni wrote:

Daehawk wrote:Boy I can imagine the price they'd want there. In the old days everything was organic and normal priced. These days they slap organic on it so they can charge you a small country.

As someone in a household that does around 50% of its grocery shopping at Whole Foods and buys organic regularly, I feel that I need to address your comment and tell you unequivocally that organic labeling is completely and totally...a scam.

True except for dairy. Or so said Wife's nutritionist. Something about hormones and antibiotics.

I'm old enough to remember when houses had a milk box and a milkman came around regularly. You'd put your empties in the milk box and the milkman would replace them with full bottles. The kind with the paper caps. You could get homogenized milk if you were newfangled or normal milk with cream on top if you were traditional.

My first apartment was in a small farming town outside of East Lansing. There was a dairy outlet store within walking distance that sold those same milk bottles with the paper caps. Milk and eggs were cheaper there than in the supermarket.

I couldn't find the original reference, but the meerkat woman got exonerated by a higher court.

LawBeefaroni wrote:

Jaymann wrote:Down goes McGregor
Down goes McGregor
Down goes McGregor

First Ronda Rousey and now this. Is no one invulnerable?

I don't really follow the "sport" but from what understand, McGregor was fighting up a class or two, being 145lbs fighting a 170lb opponent. It's his own fault for doing so of course.

Just did a quick Google search because I had no idea who he was. Apparently when he fought at 145lbs, he looked a bit like Skeletor. He actually was 168lbs for the most recent fight.

http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/what ... ght-030616

Daehawk wrote:Why cant we get real whole unseperated milk? Im talking the same as it comes fro ma cow milk. Sure pasteurize it ...but thats it. Leave it alone. i bet it thick and tasty.

We can get it here, it's called cream line milk. I have no idea how much more it costs than regular milk but it's worth it. I am the only one who drinks it so I don't bother shaking it before I pour, I just enjoy the first couple of high butter fat glasses.

Z-Corn wrote:We can get it here, it's called cream line milk. I have no idea how much more it costs than regular milk but it's worth it. I am the only one who drinks it so I don't bother shaking it before I pour, I just enjoy the first couple of high butter fat glasses.

That sounds absolutely disgusting. I can't stand milk, I won't even pour it in cereal. Growing up, the kind of milk that we had, it wasn't considered safe to drink without boiling it first - but once you boiled it, if you didn't drink it within a couple of minutes, a milk skin would form on top...so gross. I refused to touch milk ever since I got old enough where my parents couldn't make me drink it anymore

I had to laugh when I read that McGregor got beat by Diaz after the way McGregor treated Diaz in interviews over the last week. Knowing only those interviews about McGregor I was happy he lost.

Scuzz wrote:I had to laugh when I read that McGregor got beat by Diaz after the way McGregor treated Diaz in interviews over the last week. Knowing only those interviews about McGregor I was happy he lost.

In my world, you are either talking about some kind of spat between Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz I haven't heard of, or you're talking about two minor presidential candidates in a recent debate.

UFC 196 in this case.

Rip wrote:

Zarathud wrote:My aunt owned ran a dairy farm with the pasteurizing machines next to the barn. As kids, we would get great fresh, rich milk and it made the best ice cream and shakes. Moving to 2% milk was very very difficult having tasted the good stuff.

Raised on a dairy farm myself. Once I no longer had access to good milk I hardly drink the stuff.

It is nothing but milk flavored water.

One of my college roommates in our fraternity house drank nothing but skim milk. For some reason, I got into the habit as well and to this day, that's all I can drink.

Isgrimnur wrote:UFC 196 in this case.

Which I would then assume was either the name or codename of an upcoming film starring Ewan and Cameron, or the name of a legal code § UFC 196 or some such. I've heard of the UFC but I have no idea what the 196 means.

wonderpug wrote:

Scuzz wrote:I had to laugh when I read that McGregor got beat by Diaz after the way McGregor treated Diaz in interviews over the last week. Knowing only those interviews about McGregor I was happy he lost.

In my world, you are either talking about some kind of spat between Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz I haven't heard of...

Puts a new spin on "Down goes McGregor."

Jaymann wrote:

wonderpug wrote:

Scuzz wrote:I had to laugh when I read that McGregor got beat by Diaz after the way McGregor treated Diaz in interviews over the last week. Knowing only those interviews about McGregor I was happy he lost.

In my world, you are either talking about some kind of spat between Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz I haven't heard of...

Puts a new spin on "Down goes McGregor."

Yeah I had the same thought. "Did Cameron Diaz slug Ewan McGregor?"

hepcat wrote:

Rip wrote:

Zarathud wrote:My aunt owned ran a dairy farm with the pasteurizing machines next to the barn. As kids, we would get great fresh, rich milk and it made the best ice cream and shakes. Moving to 2% milk was very very difficult having tasted the good stuff.

Raised on a dairy farm myself. Once I no longer had access to good milk I hardly drink the stuff.

It is nothing but milk flavored water.

One of my college roommates in our fraternity house drank nothing but skim milk. For some reason, I got into the habit as well and to this day, that's all I can drink.

I can't do skim. I can go as low as 1% after that it tastes like impure water, nothing even remotely milk like. I also can't do substitutes. Almond, soy, whatever. They don't taste like milk at all, they just taste sweet, not rich or creamy and mellow like milk does. My parents when from whole to 2% when I was relatively young. Early teens, maybe. That switch never bothered me and whole milk is a bit to thick for my tastes now.

But what I really really really miss is high butter fat cream based ice cream. I don't really eat ice cream at all any more because they pretty much killed it. I has assumed I just outgrew ice cream until I had some created in store at La Vida Dulce in Ann Arbor and their ice cream tasted like childhood. One tiny little vanilla scoop from this place and I totally remembered why I loved ice cream when I was kid. I keep saying that's a sign for me to start buying butter fat and churning my own ice cream but then I remember. I'm lazy.

Isgrimnur wrote:

There were 2 newscasters in that scene. The female was a leopard here IIRC. Would be interesting to see if other regions had different females too.


Last update I saw it did $75M, beating Frozen which opened on a holiday weekend. (If GG is keeping score, Big Hero 6 did $54M.)

Saw it with the Kiddo on Saturday morning in a nearly empty 3d IMAX theater. Loved it. It was my first 3d movie (of the current generation) and the first movie I've taken her to.

LawBeefaroni wrote:

GreenGoo wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote: It will top big hero 6's opening weekend, IMO.

I'll take that bet based on nothing but the tv ads I saw for Big Hero 6 and the tv ads I see for Zootopia.

This weekend belongs to Walt Disney’s Zootopia, which is headed for a record opening of $70M-plus, the best ever for an original Disney/non-Pixar animated film. That figure kicks aside Frozen’s $67.4M wide release debut. Today, inclusive of $1.7M in Thursday previews, Zootopia is looking at $18M+, which beats Frozen’s first wide day of ZOOTOPIA$15.2M (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving). Audiences are embracing this animated film directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush with an A Cinemascore and a 98% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score.

Ads are so 2000s.

While I'm a very numbers orientated guy, this has done nothing to dissuade my ennui about the movie. I assume the people who went to see this did so after leaving a Trump rally.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating made a minor dent in my Zootopia armour. But didn't penetrate.

wonderpug wrote:

Scuzz wrote:I had to laugh when I read that McGregor got beat by Diaz after the way McGregor treated Diaz in interviews over the last week. Knowing only those interviews about McGregor I was happy he lost.

In my world, you are either talking about some kind of spat between Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz I haven't heard of, or you're talking about two minor presidential candidates in a recent debate.

UFC isn't exactly my thing but the guy I listen to on ESPN radio thought the interviews were hilarious and kept repeating them during his show Friday. And then McGregor, who really came off like 2016 Scottish version of Muhammed Ali got his ass handed to him by Diaz.

LordMortis wrote:

hepcat wrote:

Rip wrote:

Zarathud wrote:My aunt owned ran a dairy farm with the pasteurizing machines next to the barn. As kids, we would get great fresh, rich milk and it made the best ice cream and shakes. Moving to 2% milk was very very difficult having tasted the good stuff.

Raised on a dairy farm myself. Once I no longer had access to good milk I hardly drink the stuff.

It is nothing but milk flavored water.

One of my college roommates in our fraternity house drank nothing but skim milk. For some reason, I got into the habit as well and to this day, that's all I can drink.

I can't do skim. I can go as low as 1% after that it tastes like impure water, nothing even remotely milk like. I also can't do substitutes. Almond, soy, whatever. They don't taste like milk at all, they just taste sweet, not rich or creamy and mellow like milk does. My parents when from whole to 2% when I was relatively young. Early teens, maybe. That switch never bothered me and whole milk is a bit to thick for my tastes now.

But what I really really really miss is high butter fat cream based ice cream. I don't really eat ice cream at all any more because they pretty much killed it. I has assumed I just outgrew ice cream until I had some created in store at La Vida Dulce in Ann Arbor and their ice cream tasted like childhood. One tiny little vanilla scoop from this place and I totally remembered why I loved ice cream when I was kid. I keep saying that's a sign for me to start buying butter fat and churning my own ice cream but then I remember. I'm lazy.

Yea, I can do 2% but 1% is drinking cloudy water. And I drink it now anyway, it just goes on the cheerios on work days.

We put 1% on cereal and whole milk in coffee.

I guess I could mix the two if I wanted a glass of it for some reason.

I put milk in coffee in a pinch but it really doesn't do it for me, not even whole milk. It doesn't seem mellow a coffee at all like I like... Or change it to the proper caramel color... Half and half or non dairy creamer. Either/or.

I might be able to put skim on cereal or even milk of the almond, as it's not the central flavor. It's hard to say, but I'd try it, at least.

How 'bout this weather, huh?

El Guapo wrote:How 'bout this weather, huh?

Today, I read we passed some sort of magic 2 degree Celsius mark.

Leo DiCaprio and his Prius have failed.

Edit:

Here you go

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/201 ... story.html

LordMortis wrote:

El Guapo wrote:How 'bout this weather, huh?

Today, I read we passed some sort of magic 2 degree Celsius mark.

Leo DiCaprio and his Prius have failed.

Edit:

Here you go

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/201 ... story.html

Funny that this is probably the beginning of the "snowball" effect. We fucked.

I think we've answered the question of why we haven't seen signs of advanced intelligence in the universe. No one makes it past the carbon barrier. If you stay primitive you live. You go carbon and you die.

Moat_Man wrote:I think we've answered the question of why we haven't seen signs of advanced intelligence in the universe. No one makes it past the carbon barrier. If you stay primitive you live. You go carbon and you die.

Nahh. The technological/engineering challenge is fairly straightforward. It's the political/economic front that's failing, and that's purely human. "Advanced intelligence" should not be this dumb.