Mostly MSN and I also used IRC a lot. Sometimes AOL, plus a tiny bit of ICQ and Yahoo. Only really used Skype to talk to family. So all of them, basically!

CAUSE ITS f@#!ING SLOW THATS WHY

These snails actually hustle around quite fast!

Also, I could blow my nose 20 times until it is completely clear AND then do a saline rinse and it didn't matter... 3 minutes later I am completely clogged up again with snot coming out of my nostrils and down the back of my throat. It was relentless.

This is my life already somewhat. Due to my allergies, infections are prone to getting stuck in my sinus for a long time. I've had the same recurring sinus/ear infection since Oct 2018, plus a nasty virus that went around here in Sep 2019 which I don't think I got rid of 100%. My parents had to cancel a holiday because of that last one. I dunno if it was a coronavirus strain. It didn't get to my lungs but it did affect my Dad's a bit. No fever/aches, just coughing up a lot of mucus, sometimes bright yellow, sometimes brown and bloody. I guess with corona my sinus problems would double!

Debut single from New Zealand band Ripship, good stuff:

https://ripship.bandcamp.com/track/man-after-man-2

I feel like film in general has become so bad in the last 15 years or so. There's been a couple of movies that I've been excited to see but overall it's just a bunch of shit coming out that I couldn't care less about.

I totally agree, but I figured it was a less popular opinion than thinking just the franchise movies have lost their spark. I have friends who love a lot of new ones. I watch a lot of movies by myself, a good mix of old and new ones. But I'm very skeptical of recommendations for new films to watch now. Many films from this century I liked are not US productions (God's Puzzle, Relatos Salvajes, Exam, Tideland, Enthiran, Ginger Snaps, Cat Sick Blues...)

One I had to watch just because it was talked about for so long was Hereditary. I thought it was particularly bad. I just couldn't suspend belief of seeing such a goofy family and comical B-grade deaths/violence presented with polished and serious A-grade cinematography and acting. A friend of a friend simultaneously commented that the main theme of the film is mental illness/trauma, yet it requires prior knowledge of King Paimon to understand it and it would help to watch it high. She was right about the King Paimon part at least. I generally hate when films reveal more and more supernatural stuff like it's some kind of clever explanation.

I think the polished and serious part is where most of today's films really go wrong for me. The key components that I like in films are quirky/awkward dialogue, absurd scenes/spectacles and just comic relief in general. Some films which are lesser favourites come to mind, such as The Spanish Prisoner, The Parallax View, and Happiness. For example, there's a scene in The Parallax View where police cars and an ambulance drive into a huge indoor arena, squealing and skidding among the empty tables. It makes sense that they need to get there somehow, but it's also a somewhat hilarious spectacle in the middle of a very stark and sombre part of the movie, so it boggles my mind delightfully.

This is the house I grew up in for the first 18 years of my life, now a total showgirl. The circle on the gate just about marks where I crashed into it the last time I drove a manual car...

I decided I was completely against the death penalty maybe 10 years ago or more. I guess my compassion matured. If people deliberately do such horrific shit, then there must be something wrong with them from birth and/or how they were raised, so it's not 100% their fault. Anyway, especially in Western countries like the US, it's cheaper to imprison for life instead of wasting money on all the extra costs associated with the seriousness of a capital trial and death row.

If someone starts a war or hostage situation and it's easier/beneficial to kill them rather than capturing, then that's sort of an exception.

The good news is that the Norwegian police managed to stop the book to be totally burnt.

The good news is if nobody is killed because of it.