I'm hungry.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:25 pm

I just thought you all should know.

Food is very important, am I right? So why is it that I always skip out on breakfast and am ravenous by the time 2 pm rolls around, yet usually only opt for toast and coffee/tea?

I think it may be because I'm lazy. I rarely cook anymore. I live on pitas, frozen veggies, froot, veggie soup and vitamins. Oh, and tea, toast, and coffee, of course.

This is what city life does to you! Avoid the city, at all costs!

On another note, I watched the remake-type dealy of War of The Worlds last night. Though chances are that if you haven't seen this movie by now you really don't give a flying one, I'll leave a spoiler space before I say anything about it. [though imo it's not really anything that needs a spoiler space, it's mostly for the nitpicky folk. Youuuu know who you are!]

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Why, I ask... why, in the opening bit where the lightning causes all the electrical stuff/whatnot to stop working, is there a guy holding a working camcorder?

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:42 pm

From IMDB:
"Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It's a special Hollywood EMP that disables only the electronic equipment that the filmmakers want it to. While "technically" it's a factual mistake that, for instance, the camcorder is still working, it was clearly a deliberate decision by the filmmakers."

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:17 pm

Maybe the camcorder is clockwork, like those radios and laptops they send as aid to the ungridded majority of Africa?

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:32 am

Ohhh, no fun going to IMDB!

I want some whacked-out reasoning here. Actual brainpower wasted in the pursuit of an answer to a really dumb question.

Clockwork laptops? Woooow.

Tom Cruises' watch stops working at the same time, incidentally. That doesn't make any sense either, does it? How can his watch stop working? It wasn't digital or anything, and if it had stopped working, wouldn't that have meant that he'd have been affected by the lightning, also? Crispy-Fried dead Cruise within the first half hour probably wouldn't have made much of a movie though. Pity.

... And why was he apparently the only one who could figure out how to make a vehicle work, btw? I'm fairly certain that given the amount of people in the city/country, a few more could have feasibly figured it out. Or nabbed a working vehicle from an unaffected area.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:38 am

but cooking is so much fun!

If I did not have breakfast I would faint at 9:00.

But if you don't like cooking, why not try a microwave dinner? We have those steam/microwave stuff that is quite healthy and has lots of vegetables.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:34 am

Man, i hated the ending of that film

[sarcy spoilers]

"Oh? You ran across the country and almost got /drowned/blown up/vaporised/eaten bya tripod? We just sayed indoors with the grandparents. Oh look, its our son, he's fine. Group Hug. Yay."

shee-ite.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:48 am

Isn't it a ye olde tv/film tradition that only the working classes are susceptible to alien attacks?

Want to be safe from the end of the world? Be posh!

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:57 am

Gah. I'd given up watching movies with the words "Tom" and "Cruise" in them, but I was a little tempted by this.

I wish I had stuck to my guns now.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:12 pm

Best First wrote: "Oh? You ran across the country and almost got /drowned/blown up/vaporised/eaten bya tripod? We just sayed indoors with the grandparents. Oh look, its our son, he's fine. Group Hug. Yay."

shee-ite.

I had the exact same reaction. I was sitting in my living room at about 3 am watching this ****, all the death and destruction and what do we end up with? "Awww, feel-good movie." F**k that! That kid should have been toast!

Another thing that annoyed me: no dead bodies in the rubble. I don't care if these things do apparently run on humans, there should have been at least a hint of death after the bloody plane crashes on top of that house. A hand sticking out of the rubble, a little blood, anything. I'm not calling for gore everywhere, just something to make it a little bit more believeable. I mean, they had these tripods spewing human juice out of their rears later on... compared to other bits of the movie, it just looked sterile and unreal. Though that might have been the aim, I don't know.

I hardly see it as time wasted now,though. After all, I get the absolute pleasure of joining in with the bitching about it at work. Wheee.

Eline wrote:
If I did not have breakfast I would faint at 9:00.

But if you don't like cooking, why not try a microwave dinner? We have those steam/microwave stuff that is quite healthy and has lots of vegetables.

I think it might have something to do with my bizarre schedule. I get up usually about 10 or so and I'm usually hungry, but then I get coffee, work out [usually] and I think it's the combo of those two that tends to kill my appetite. I could drink coffee all day and not feel hungry once, but I'd be jittery and nervous as hell. I hate being madly hungry at 2 pm or so though, so I'm thinking about just eating a bowl of Cheerios or something while I watch TV in the morn, even if I'm not that hungry.

I wouldn't mind trying the microwaved stuff [and I have in the past, actually] except that it's a lot more expensive than just buying a bag of frozen veggies. 'round here.

Plus, I don't know if it's improved any but microwaved foods seem to cool differently than food cooked on the stove, to me anyway. I find it inedible after it's lost it's warmth. Much like canned soup, which is just disgusting once it's cold.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:01 am

I'm hungry too.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:40 am

That must be the difference. I don't drink coffee so I need food.

The microwave stuff is expensive, that's true. Maybe you can cook a lot, and then freeze it, so you have always something to eat?

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:44 am

Hell yeah, I still have a roast beef dinner from Sunday in the fridge.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:14 pm

I found I really liked cooking once I accumulated about 60 different spices.