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kk Posted Oct 20, 2010
That's the next least worst option ... is this colleague north or colleague south?
So sorry, but now I'm curious, I'm admitting it and, in a parallel universe, I'd have been saying that this is not a hint.
If:
Not a hint, then Psi's a tease
Psi does something, then Psi's been bullied
Hint ignored, then kk doesn't mind really,
Reason: gonna 121 glitz freedy
That's got most bases covered innit.
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Psiomniac Posted Oct 20, 2010
I shouldn't have mentioned it, sorry, I can't think of a reason why it would be anything other than boring to find out about, it was on my mind and the fingers typed and sent it whilst my inner editor was on a coffee break. Normal service will be resumed forthwith!
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kk Posted Oct 21, 2010
Ah well, it was such a rare infringement of the self-fulfilling prophecy that I doubt anyone will notice
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kk Posted Oct 23, 2010
Yesterday, we toasted the caller who'd phoned me yesterday morning with the words "I suppose if I want to talk to you on my birthday, I'll have to call you myself" (which seems ungrammatic when written but sounded about right at the time) - I was thrilled to bits to hear from a former work colleague, who's changed mobile numbers too many times for me to keep track
Which meant lots more tea so I was sober enough to drive home ... joking aside, I'd had a glass of rosé five hours before HiHo obeyed the Wagons, roll! command
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Psiomniac Posted Oct 23, 2010
Seems grammatical enough to me.
I am sober since like last night I have to captain a Liberian freighter for YC who is out partying again. Grutter...just making tea now.
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kk Posted Oct 24, 2010
A bit too violent for my comfort, which means that I probably won't watch it when it's on telly again; well, not in the immediate future anyhoo. In fact, I was planning to watch the final hour on 4+1 again but, by then, it was too bloody for me.
What, in the end, happened to the money? If it had disappeared by the time the sheriff found Llewelyn, then presumably the psychotic hitman would have tracked it again, once he had kept his psychotic word about killing Carla Jean (and unless fate, in the form of someone else's accident, intervened) ... there seems to be a follow-on story in there somewhere.
It was Llewelyn's unhappy fate to be targeted by a psycho. He couldn't have known initially that his fate was sealed, even if he abandoned his attempt to keep the money for himself. Come to think of it, it was an interesting exercise in how priorities switch, in stressful situations - he could have walked away at almost any stage, in the belief that it was the money that the hitman was after. Yet he committed to the challenge of cat and mouse, and lost. Um I presume there must have been more than one bugging device in the money bag?
Or did I:
- close my eyes once too often?
- nod off? (How?!)
The sheriff's mountain pass dream: this resonates with a known American folk tale of sorts, I'll try to remember it and/or the song.
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Psiomniac Posted Oct 24, 2010
The violence wasn't the kind that really gets to me. I thought Anton Chigurh (the hitman) had a curious fatalist view coupled with a principled approach to morality, which turned out to be an unfortunate combination for his victims.
On the question of the money, my assumption was that Chigurh got it. Remember that the Mexicans were tailing Carla Jean and duped her mother into revealing their destination, whilst Chigurh had simply asked the chicken lorry guy about the only available airport. All he had to do then was tail the mexicans. When the sherriff got there, the Mexicans were in full retreat, and the death toll had Chigurh's signature. Also Chigurh returned to the crime scene and did you notice the vent and screws the sherrif noticed after narrowly avoiding a confrontation?
I've probably missed lots of obvious things because I'm not very noticey, so I won't be surprised if I've got it all wrong.
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