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The 1967 Casino Royale is more a Peter Sellers movie than a Bond movie.  As a Bond movie per se, it's close to the worst ever made.

Classic Bond movies that established the franchise:  Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964), From Russia with Love (1964) and Thunderball (1965). 

Best way to see them:  half-price at a drive-in movie theater, because you snuck in inside the trunk of a car, with a bunch of goofy friends.

I'm not totally out-to-lunch here in rating those 4 among the best:   https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/james-bond-movies/3/

Really hate it when people tell you to do something and lecture you on it, even though they can't do it themselves.

Inherent problem with male gynecologists.

Our vet has couple of really mellow older cats. They just hang out.  Probably helps the animals who have to stay overnight that there's someone around just chillin'

Empire building managers will try to enlarge their domains, with more people and more responsibilities, regardless of whether their group is the best one for the jobs (or even competent at the jobs they have already).

"She looked hopefully at her dad, thinking maybe he wouldn't go too hard on her date when he arrived."

Hopefully he didn't take too many sleeping pills

Is that correct English? Somehow everything feels weird and wrong rn

It's a common (but incorrect) use of hopefully.  It means "full of hope", as in "He strode hopefully up the walk to meet his date for the prom."

You meant:  "I hope he didn't take too many sleeping pills."   (verb agreement, etc. are fine)

I'm being a fuddy-duddy about "hopefully".  These days it seems like everyone uses it wrong.

Ok, but only because it's you

@NB the bottle says 9 mg/L but I don't know if that's a lot or not

For comparison, a liter of coconut water has about 100 mg and a liter of whole milk has ~450 mg.  

Somewhere between 2g and 4g per day is a healthy intake for people without congestive heart failure or existing high blood pressure.  (See https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1105553 )   Athletes, people who work outdoors, and people whose kidneys have trouble retaining sodium (for example, because of taking certain anticonvulsants) tend to need more versus elderly and sedentary people who need less.

The effects of excess sodium on people with impaired sodium excretion can be dramatic (e.g., my dad ballooning up in congestive heart failure), as can the effects of low sodium (hyponatremia) in athletes and others. (Headache from low sodium and/or potassium can be a useful warning sign. Low potassium may be accompanied by muscle cramping.)

Complicating results for hot weather:  People with prolonged exposure to hot humid weather tend to develop a high blood volume with lower protein content and blood viscosity to improve temperature regulation. Those living/working in climates that promote sodium loss in sweat will acclimate to reduce the salt content of their sweat. Hence folks visiting hot climates or moving back and forth between hot weather and air conditioning will be more prone to hyponatremia than the natives and need more salt in their diet WHILE EXPOSED TO THAT HOT WEATHER.

With Sock here.  Easterners and Europeans who go summer hiking in the Rockies will often get "altitude sickness" (at like 2000m), which nicely resolves when you correct the low sodium. Sweat has salt in in. That's what that crusty feeling is on your skin when you go hiking in the desert in hot weather. You can lose a lot of sodium in a couple liters of sweat.

Before the introduction of sport drinks, athletes from the southern U.S. would typically rehydrate with orange wedges during practice or a game.  After practice they'd go for the water, which would just slow them down during heavy exertion.

Ya, because you are actually ignorant on this topic

When it comes to hate speech, I think I probably know more than most of you.  I grew up in southern and border states before and during school desegregation. My life was full of other people's hate speech: toward "negros", toward gays, toward women, toward "Mexicans", toward fat people, toward mentally and emotionally challenged people, and so on. Acceptance of causal hate speech toward various groups of "others" was of-a-piece with acceptance of harassment and bullying. The same guys did both. They built on expressed hated of homosexuals to sexually harass other boys they felt like bullying. Toleration of their casual hate speech enabled their more personal hurtful bullying.

I don't think we should make lack of empathy a crime, but obvious empathic failure should be disqualifying for leadership of discussions of social problems. People without empathy are incapable of understanding the feelings of others in a different situation than themselves. This means they are not competent to develop an informed opinion about how to solve social conflicts. Yes we let really stupid people vote, but we don't ask them how to vote. Likewise we shouldn't be influenced by the shouts of those incapable of walking a mile in another's shoes.

there's this continuation on pixiv (also 4 pages): https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=65987885

 what's with amuricans calling someone they're introducing a beautiful person? I thought it's just some recent fad of youtube generation but it seems to have been a thing back in 50s already :thonk:

I suspect it's an LA show-biz thing.

are all these fancy signatures in whats my line what people actually used to sign stuff like or just excessively fancy for the tv show purposes?

Yup.  Fast, smooth cursive was required in school.  As an adult you had to sign stuff all the time, so your own sig would evolve. (Doctors have to sign so much stuff so quickly that their signatures tended to deteriorate. My wife's stayed legible, but she came up with a reduced version that's faster to write.) The contestants probably practiced the large size during rehearsal. 

Javier Bardem got a Best Supporting Oscar for his acting in that role. Could have easily been a cartoon villain. Instead his performance is much more complex than that.

I have a soft spot for Coen brothers movies and the pacing doesn't bother me.  Now if you want to see comically slow pacing, try one of the Fearless Frank movies. D:

Kittens have long whiskers, thick fur and they're huge.  I think we got lynx cubs by accident.