The Handmaid's Tale

[HBS Guy]

Yeah. Cash hates everyone ATM I think.

[HBS Guy]

I feel, for the first time, their true power.

A bit like:

I love Big Brother!

[HBS Guy]

Finished the book in the early hours of this morning.

Noticed that “the story” was mentioned—it became a story told by a Offred free somewhere on the underground railway.

Interesting: when females were forbidden to work and could not access their money what she thought about how Luke thought about that situation, becoming almost an owner of Offred (I can’t remember coming across her real name in the book.) Yet they, including Luke, decided to try and make a break for it.

Is the sect running Gilead the Episcopalians? (US version of the CoE.) Almost thought Catholic because of the attitudes to divorce, abortion etc.

Why did Gilead fail? Because women are needed in the workforce? Definitely one of the mistakes Hitler made–women are for children, church and kitchen.

It IS easy to cut of access to money if all money is electronic. Mind you, most money is in assets like real estate, shares, superannuation etc.

[HBS Guy]

The historian giving a lecture on Gilead and Offred’s Tale doesn’t seem to have learned from what he has studied—some cheap antiwomen jokes i his lecture.

[mothra]

Finished the book in the early hours of this morning.

Brilliant isn't? So pleased you enjoyed it.

Is the sect running Gilead the Episcopalians? (US version of the CoE.) Almost thought Catholic because of the attitudes to divorce, abortion etc.

Raised Catholic, i know very little about other Christian faiths other than that some are proper bonkers ... even for an ex-Catholic.

Why did Gilead fail? Because women are needed in the workforce? Definitely one of the mistakes Hitler made–women are for children, church and kitchen.

It IS easy to cut of access to money if all money is electronic. Mind you, most money is in assets like real estate, shares, superannuation etc.

I hope the series deals with the fall. It deals certainly with an active resistece.

[HBS Guy]

Well, the Mayday organisation, Nick arranging Offred’s rescue by fake Eyes.

But a Resistance by itself rarely succeeds—Yugoslavia in WWII and Cuba two rare exceptions.

Gilead a bit top heavy—Angels, Eyes etc. Doesn’t matter, not the real point of the book.

I will read it again soon.

Loved the Jezebel House, I suppose it was fitting that Moira ended up in it. That and a couple other smaller things (the Aunts reading and writing, etc) showed the deep hypocrisy innate in a theocracy.

Heh, loved the bit about Scrabble: I employed a woman for some years who was a Scrabble nut, into other trivia type things too.

[HBS Guy]

Watching Ser 1 Ep 1.

Don’t remember an eye being plucked out but no matter, serious injury was done to one of the to-be Handmaidens.

[greggerypeccary]

I'll have to start watching it soon.

I just noticed this on the SBS website:

"Season 1 expiring 30 June 2018."

[mothra]

I'll have to start watching it soon.

I just noticed this on the SBS website:

"Season 1 expiring 30 June 2018."

Seriously, don't miss it.

[greggerypeccary]

I'll have to start watching it soon.

I just noticed this on the SBS website:

"Season 1 expiring 30 June 2018."

Seriously, don't miss it.

I'm into The Bridge right now, but I'll have to leave that for a bit and get onto THT - only 3 weeks left!

[mothra]

I'll have to start watching it soon.

I just noticed this on the SBS website:

"Season 1 expiring 30 June 2018."

Seriously, don't miss it.

I'm into The Bridge right now, but I'll have to leave that for a bit and get onto THT - only 3 weeks left!

How good is The Bridge? I love Saga.

But it can wait.

[greggerypeccary]

I'll have to start watching it soon.

I just noticed this on the SBS website:

"Season 1 expiring 30 June 2018."

Seriously, don't miss it.

I'm into The Bridge right now, but I'll have to leave that for a bit and get onto THT - only 3 weeks left!

How good is The Bridge? I love Saga.

But it can wait.

She's great! Great show. I've watched 5 episodes.

I might tackle some THT this afternoon - there's a storm heading in, so don't feel much like driving anywhere anyway.

[mothra]

She's great! Great show. I've watched 5 episodes.

I might tackle some THT this afternoon - there's a storm heading in, so don't feel much like driving anywhere anyway.

If you regret it for even a second, i'll buy you a pony.

[greggerypeccary]

She's great! Great show. I've watched 5 episodes.

I might tackle some THT this afternoon - there's a storm heading in, so don't feel much like driving anywhere anyway.

If you regret it for even a second, i'll buy you a pony.

I'd rather a middy

(non-beer drinkers, from the eastern states, might not get that)

[mothra]

She's great! Great show. I've watched 5 episodes.

I might tackle some THT this afternoon - there's a storm heading in, so don't feel much like driving anywhere anyway.

If you regret it for even a second, i'll buy you a pony.

I'd rather a middy

(non-beer drinkers, from the eastern states, might not get that)

I once stooped a whole Melbourne bar dead by asking for an echo of Coopers.

[greggerypeccary]

She's great! Great show. I've watched 5 episodes.

I might tackle some THT this afternoon - there's a storm heading in, so don't feel much like driving anywhere anyway.

If you regret it for even a second, i'll buy you a pony.

I'd rather a middy

(non-beer drinkers, from the eastern states, might not get that)

I once stooped a whole Melbourne bar dead by asking for an echo of Coopers.

Ah!

Haven't heard that for ages

[HBS Guy]

I dunno if SA still has “butchers” (small glass of beer, 8oz? )Schooner 12 oz? Pint 15 oz.

Rarely drink away from home, glass of wine with a restaurant meal at most.

[greggerypeccary]

I dunno if SA still has “butchers” (small glass of beer, 8oz? )Schooner 12 oz? Pint 15 oz.

Rarely drink away from home, glass of wine with a restaurant meal at most.

Here in Perth, back in the day, we had ponies, glasses, middies, and schooners.

Now we have pints - that are NOT a pint! - and glasses.

A lot of places are just calling them small, medium, and large now.

Costing, respectively, $10, $12, and $14.

[HBS Guy]

Expensive way to drink!

[mothra]

Now we have pints - that are NOT a pint! - and glasses.

Indeed. 325ml? Same as here?

You used to be able to get imperial pints in the Adelaide Uni tavern. I liked those.

[johnsmith]

had middy and schooners in the Gong

now in queensland we have a 'pot' WTF is a pot?

fucken banana benders can't get anything right

[Aussie]

We also have 'handles.'

[johnsmith]

We also have 'handles.'

what the fuck are handles? haven't come across that one before.

[Aussie]

[Aussie]

Same volume as a pot.