Mundane News

[HertzvanRental]

Not a drop here since 6pm.

Huh!!!

 

[raleighnut]

Not a drop here since 6pm.

Ah but is it still raining.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Huh!!!

Driasabone on my beach

 

[Hill Wimp]

Ah but is it still raining.

No spirits either on my side of the windbreak, not sure about on his side though

 

[midlife]

I've just met my younger son's girlfriend for the first time. She's very nice.

Have you seen the film American Beauty ?

Best pretend that didn't enter my head........

Shaun

 

[vernon]

Have you seen the film American Beauty ?

Nope.

Just looked up the plot. I'm so glad that I have a simple monogomous life. I couldn't cope with the complexity of Lester's life.

I am, however, piesexual. No chance of being shot by a jealous pie.

Lester Burnham is a middle-aged office worker who despises his job. His wife, Carolyn, is an ambitious real estate broker; their sixteen-year-old daughter, Jane, abhors her parents and has low self-esteem. The Burnhams' new neighbors are retired United States Marine Corps Colonel Frank Fitts and his introverted wife, Barbara. Their teenage son, Ricky, obsessively films his surroundings with a camcorder, collecting hundreds of recordings on video tapes in his bedroom. He also secretly deals marijuana, using a job as a part-time bar caterer to help keep it secret from his father. Having been previously forced into a military academy and a psychiatric hospital, Ricky is subjected by Col. Fitts to a strict disciplinarian lifestyle. Jim Olmeyer and Jim Berkley, a gay couple who live nearby, welcome the family to the neighborhood; Col. Fitts later reveals his homophobia when angrily discussing the incident with Ricky.

Lester becomes infatuated with Jane's vain cheerleader friend, Angela Hayes, after seeing her perform a half-time dance routine at a high school basketball game. He starts having sexual fantasies about Angela, during which red rose petals are a recurring motif. Meanwhile, Angela brags to her friends at school about her sexual promiscuity. Carolyn begins an affair with a business rival, Buddy Kane. Lester is told he is to be laid off, but instead blackmails his boss for $60,000 and quits his job, taking employment serving fast food. He buys his dream car and starts working out after he overhears Angela tell Jane that she would find him sexually attractive if he improved his physique. He begins smoking marijuana supplied by Ricky, and flirts with Angela whenever she visits Jane. The girls' friendship wanes after Jane begins to express an interest in Ricky. Jane and Ricky grow closer after Ricky shows her what he considers the most beautiful image he has ever filmed: a plastic bag being blown in the wind.

Lester discovers Carolyn's infidelity, but reacts indifferently. Buddy ends the affair, fearing an expensive divorce. Col. Fitts becomes suspicious of Lester and Ricky's friendship and later finds his son's footage of Lester lifting weights while nude, which Ricky captured by chance, leading him to think that the two are in a homosexual relationship. He later beats Ricky and accuses him of being gay. Ricky falsely admits the charge and goads his father into kicking him out of their home. He goes to Jane, finding her arguing with Angela about her friend's flirtation with Lester. Ricky convinces Jane to flee with him to New York City and accuses Angela of being boring and ordinary.

Col. Fitts confronts Lester and attempts to kiss him; Lester rebuffs the colonel, who flees. Lester finds a distraught Angela sitting alone in the dark; she asks him to tell her she is beautiful. He does, and she begins to seduce him. As they are about to have sex, she admits that she's actually a virgin, and Lester changes his mind. He instead comforts her and the pair bond over their shared frustrations. Angela goes to the bathroom and Lester smiles at a family photograph in his kitchen. An unseen figure presses a gun to the back of his head, and fires. Ricky and Jane find Lester's body, while Carolyn breaks down crying in the closet. A bloodied Col. Fitts returns home, where a gun is shown to be missing from his collection. Lester's closing narration describes meaningful experiences during his life; he says that, despite his death, he is happy because there is so much beauty in the world.

 

[HertzvanRental]

Nope.

Just looked up the plot. I'm so glad that I have a simple monogomous life. I couldn't cope with the complexity of Lester's life.

I am, however, piesexual. No chance of being shot by a jealous pie.

Aagh, but do you like roses?

 

[vernon]

Aagh, but do you like roses?

Not since they dropped the lime barrel.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

In the style of Reggie Perrin's cousin Jimmy.

Bit of a cock up on the ablutions front tonight. Got home from a wee jaunt round the lanes, jumped in the shower and then found I had no shower gel left. My choice was the Dog's shampoo or Mrs SB's foamy flowery stuff.

It was a close call but now I smell of foamy flowers & have no urge to sit on the rug licking my unmentionables

 

[HertzvanRental]

In the style of Reggie Perrin's cousin Jimmy.

Bit of a cock up on the ablutions front tonight. Got home from a wee jaunt round the lanes, jumped in the shower and then found I had no shower gel left. My choice was the Dog's shampoo or Mrs SB's foamy flowery stuff.

It was a close call but now I smell of foamy flowers & have no urge to sit on the rug licking my unmentionables

If you did, you'd be a yoga natural!!

 

[midlife]

Our dog shampoo is called Malaseb, use that and you wouldn't have any unmentionables left to lick

Shaun

 

[HertzvanRental]

It's still pouring down!

 

[PeteXXX]

Not here it int...

 

[Hill Wimp]

It's still pouring down!

I think you have your own rain cloud

 

[HertzvanRental]

I think you have your own rain cloud

I'm huffing and puffing and blowing it south!!