The Silver Screen Oasis

KayFrancis wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 1:21 pm Masha. Hope you feel better soon. My daughter is starting to get over a miserable cold I think I've been fighting it off but not feeling great. So far it's been a very cold winter here, although we've been spared a lot of snow. At any rate, hope you're feeling better asap.

I thank you for your kind wishes. We are both susceptible to long colds: a few days of: "I may be coming down with something" followed by a few days of: "I have a little cold" followed by a week of: "Please put me out of my misery" and then trailing off to a week of recovery. We often synchronize with one or the other catching up with the other's stage so that we both have the worst of it together. I believe that he missed this one but I will not know for sure until he returns tomorrow for he has not mentioned it in his messages but he does tend to not talk of his health issues.

CinemaInternational wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 3:04 pm Hope your health is on the mend very soon.

I thank you for your kind wishes. I hope to return to the fray very soon.

LiamCasey wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 4:03 pm Here's hoping your time being under the weather is a short one.

I thank you for your kind wishes. I believe I may be at the end of the worst part.

Dargo wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 6:43 pm I can never remember.

So is it, "Feed a cold, starve a fever" or "Starve a cold, feed a fever"???

(...well, however that's supposed to go, here's hopin' you're feelin' better very very soon, Marsha)

I thank you for your kind wishes.
It is: "feed a cold and starve a fever" because of the Medieval belief that the human body is like a furnace and a cold means you need stoking up and a fever means you have to cut back on the fuel. This belief is so engrained that the values of both carrots and coal are measured in calories. Yeah! I have not lost the ability to be pedantic!

I am sorry to say that I know of no good advice when your cold presents with a fever.

Thompson wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 6:54 pm Let’s see, I just might start a new discussion — Thompson’s moans and groans and trapped gas topic. Yeah, then I can post four or five long paragraphs of physical complaints that have nothing to do with nothing.

You are quite free to do so. That is what: General Chat means. It is much better to start a thread here for that purpose than to interject such things into other threads on other boards.

laffite wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 10:03 pm Masha

May your ills soon be gone. Think of when they will wane and fade away altogether. Tomorrow the sun will come shining through. Watch a fave movie and give it your undivided attention. Eat sparingly and drink tea.

---laffite

I thank you for your kind wishes. I believe that I may have passed the worst stage. I actually had a bit of restful sleep! I remain completely and utterly useless but it does seem as if there will be an end to it someday.

scsu1975 wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 11:38 pm

laffite wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 11:16 pm With your last post, Dargo, you did not scroll far enough down. You merged your post with that of Lawrence. Wow, the quote problem will need continual study deserving. I have made my share of mistakes with it. And I may have made one here. Is that what happened?

I think we need a poll to determine if we should get rid of the quote function.

We surely do need one of your polls! They are one of the things which I feared might be lost forever.

scsu1975 wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 11:38 pm

laffite wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 11:16 pm With your last post, Dargo, you did not scroll far enough down. You merged your post with that of Lawrence. Wow, the quote problem will need continual study deserving. I have made my share of mistakes with it. And I may have made one here. Is that what happened?

I think we need a poll to determine if we should get rid of the quote function.

Oh, you mean one of YOUR polls! Reading Masha's post has bestirred my poor brain. By all means, do.

Oh, that sounds just awful. I'm very impressed that you not only were able to type it all out, but to be so amusing in your misery! May you feel better, and soon.

Masha is a humorist, and a good one. I am a wannabe humorist and am not so successful. I keep writing them and posting them because I laugh so hard.

TheGayDivorceé wrote: ↑December 30th, 2022, 4:52 pm Oh, that sounds just awful. I'm very impressed that you not only were able to type it all out, but to be so amusing in your misery! May you feel better, and soon.

I thank you for your kind wishes. My efforts here should not impress. It is all done for the sake of self-delusion. Typing seems productive and distracts me from the fact that I can not do real work such as installing the new three-way-switches in the laundry room or removing the tool hangers from the garage wall or the long list of little things which need doing. The fact that I can point to one thing which I 'accomplished' means that I was not the lifeless lump which I feel that I am. Making jokes is a basic defense reaction.

laffite wrote: ↑December 30th, 2022, 7:51 pm Masha is a humorist, and a good one.

I have long been told that I am very funny.

It is fortunate that looks are not everything.

Masha wrote: ↑December 31st, 2022, 12:54 am

laffite wrote: ↑December 30th, 2022, 7:51 pm Masha is a humorist, and a good one.

I have long been told that I am very funny.

It is fortunate that looks are not everything.

AS I see you are up an around these last few minutes, is my post in ATYPICAL MOVIES appropriate to the theme of the thread. If not, I can move it. I can delete it so far as it has not been quoted.

laffite wrote: ↑December 31st, 2022, 1:11 am
AS I see you are up an around these last few minutes, is my post in ATYPICAL MOVIES appropriate to the theme of the thread. If not, I can move it. I can delete it so far as it has not been quoted.

It does not seem to be the type of movie which might suit my taste but it is surely atypical.

Masha wrote: ↑December 31st, 2022, 1:32 am

laffite wrote: ↑December 31st, 2022, 1:11 am
AS I see you are up an around these last few minutes, is my post in ATYPICAL MOVIES appropriate to the theme of the thread. If not, I can move it. I can delete it so far as it has not been quoted.

It does not seem to be the type of movie which might suit my taste but it is surely atypical.

Then I shall leave it, if I may. I don't think I ever even read your opening post (as I should have) to check on restrictions. I like to take that in consideration. Some take these things quite seriously and I am probably one of them though I do not initiate threads very often.

I meant to add in my 'review' ... "and to coin a phrase, not for everybody." I may go back and add it. True cinephiles (which I am not) can watch anything (according to my definition) regardless of 'taste' because they want to know many aspects of how it was done, even though they might not like the film at all. I am more a general movie watcher and taste IS a factor. I do like Art films and I think TL is one. It certainly grabbed me. A determining factor no doubt is Willem Dafoe. It was him that made me venture a look.

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