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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Which is why I really want a new take on a Mary Poppins movie; she's not all sweetness and light, she doesn't sing songs with birdies. She's prissy, she can be petty and spiteful, and she is some sort of supernatural powerhouse. Maybe a movie by Guillermo del Toro, because he would give it the needed unsettling undertone.
Kickstarter that shit. I want it.
Kickstarter that shit. I want it.
Heh. Disney owns all rights to Mary Poppins (IIRC), so there is NO chance of getting an adaptation that is more faithful to the books.
Though it makes me wonder if the filmmakers of Disney ever get bored and whip up their own versions of their classic tales.
Though it makes me wonder if the filmmakers of Disney ever get bored and whip up their own versions of their classic tales.
Occasionally animators post roughs of interesting takes on the Disney canon.
Oh, who wanted an mp3 rip of Cookie Monster doing Share It Maybe? Do I remember someone expressing that wish?
Disney whipping. I'm sure it's a thing. At a place.
What's a reasonable lifetime for a mattress? I am willing to blame some of my sleeping problems (I'm back to having myriad--coming off the ambien and onto lunesta for a while). I am suspecting I could have a better mattress. I could turn it and bounce on it a bit, but the turning part would be a bit of effort.
It's not a normal boxspring--it's a futon mattress I have. I lost the instructions.
I feel I should gird my loins tomorrow, but I can't work out what I have is girdy
What's a reasonable lifetime for a mattress?
4 to 5 years.
I seem to remember it being 10 years, but then Martha Stewart saying that it should be sooner.
I seem to remember it being 10 years, but then Martha Stewart saying that it should be sooner.
Sure, but she's plainly been in the pocket of Big Mattress for years.
Sure, but she's plainly been in the pocket of Big Mattress for years.
You know, the mattress business is extremely strange.
And I'm not sure exactly what drives the economics of the industry but there's a great deal of obfuscation about the fact that relatively simple constructs of wood/springs/cotton cost in the hundreds to thousands of dollars.
I suspect it is an artificially maintained market like soda and diamonds.
I know the profit markup is high, because discount (high quality) mattresses can be had for huge savings.
And the same mattresses often shuffle among different labels for various prices.