What are you doing at the moment?

[Twodogs]

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Breeze blocks! That's what they are called.

[ledge]

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I understand Ledge, but Porter Davis has only existed since around 2000 and has never built with bessa bricks. I find it strange that such a young Victorian company would have a well known building product originating from the US in the late 1800's named after them. Particularly one that they have never built with.

I know them as breeze blocks (the UK norm), but the Kiwis call them cinder blocks - which is the generic US term. Bessa were just the US company who first marketed them down here in the 50's. I used to call them either "commission" blocks or "dunny" blocks because councils used to love them for toilet blocks. Thus the thought that you or someone you know might've mashed dunnies with porta loos and Porter Davis or something..? But obviously not!

I have just looked them up and your right they are only young so I have no idea why so many people call them Porter Davis homes and many people have since I bought it, and Bessa brick is the other name maybe its the Aussie version of breeze bricks?
I don't know it's just what people have called it whenever they have seen it.

[ledge]

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Just looked up Bessa brick and they exist under many names including concrete blocks.

[Webby]

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Just looked up Bessa brick and they exist under many names including concrete blocks.

That's right. As I say, the Yanks call them cinder blocks (along with the Kiwis and many other countries), however US manufacturer, Besser were the company who first brought cinder blocks to Australia.

It's a bit like the ballpoint pen often being called a biro or inline skates being called Rollerblades. I personally call the breeze-blocks - which is what the Poms call them. theyre made out of coking coal or coke breeze - thus the names cinder or breeze blocks.

[Bornadog]

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Just looked up Bessa brick and they exist under many names including concrete blocks.

Agree Ledge, they are commonly known as besser bricks in Australia.

[Eastdog]

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At the moment I'm back at work and at the end of February I'm going to start some part time study.

[Twodogs]

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Agree Ledge, they are commonly known as besser bricks in Australia.

We've always called them breeze blocks.

[bulldogtragic]

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Plenty of bargains for all Woofer Redders No Bulldog stuff there yet. I am not selling mine at the moment. I won't indulge myself in promoting the shop on WOOF but if anyone is visiting The Peninsula please PM me so I can give you our details and address. Can promise you a long discussion on the doggies too.

This is a dangerous mix... I admit it's dumb on my part, but early last year I was in a similar type store and saw that Queen Eliabeth & Sir Prince Phillip toured Melbourne in 1954 and I believe we're around our western suburbs in our great season. So my wife says as a joke that maybe 'why you haven't won a premiership since then, maybe you invite QE2 out and buy the (inexpensive) 1954 Royal Tour Memoribilia to break the drought'. Well I did buy it, and then our form turned last year. So I bought some more off eBay and then out form kept getting better. But I then ran out of things to buy at a cheap price by late year. Blame Talia, not me.

So I've either got to get to buying it for the sake of all of us and the club, or admit it was a coincidence and re-sell it as a big collection. Feel free to tell me that my purchasing of such items from 1954 doesn't impact the club's fortune this season!! Or, if this is a thing to invite Liz & Phil to tour our club facilities immediately!!

Man I forgot about this... Well I did keep buying this stuff in 2016 just to keep my superstition going. And we'll... Premiers baby! Wooooo!

But also sorry guys and gals and the club, it's my bad though. After the Grand Final win I got a buying this junk hangover and stopped buying this stuff this year. Now we didn't make finals and worse Prince Philip has retired at a mere bloody 96yo. My bad. I expect my end of season exit interview to be hard, but fair.

[ledge]

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I'm totally enthralled by the remake of "IT" seen it twice now absolutely love it , will have to watch the older version again and read the book when I can get it off my son !

[MrMahatma]

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I'm making my way through a bottle of spiced rum called "Ship Wrecked". It's not amazing, but it's nice. And sometimes nice is good enough.

[Twodogs]

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Worrying about Jake Stringer.

[DOG GOD]

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I'm totally enthralled by the remake of "IT" seen it twice now absolutely love it , will have to watch the older version again and read the book when I can get it off my son !

Went and saw it too ledge...and will look at going again. First impression, hmmm, only on the basis that the new pennywise just didn't do it for me. Tim curry was just TOO good. I thought he was a little "jokerish" for my liking. However, the movie was brilliantly shot. Richie and Beverly the standouts of the kids. Just didn't think it was scary enough (I'm hard to scare though), and a little too much CGI. It was enjoyable, but did have a lot of hype. Probably didn't help that a friend of mine coming out of the earlier screening said the words "the best remake I have EVER seen"

Yes, I'm a huge Stephen King fan, and LOVE the book. Movie 7.5/10
Looking fwd to part 2 though.

[ledge]

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Went and saw it too ledge...and will look at going again. First impression, hmmm, only on the basis that the new pennywise just didn't do it for me. Tim curry was just TOO good. I thought he was a little "jokerish" for my liking. However, the movie was brilliantly shot. Richie and Beverly the standouts of the kids. Just didn't think it was scary enough (I'm hard to scare though), and a little too much CGI. It was enjoyable, but did have a lot of hype. Probably didn't help that a friend of mine coming out of the earlier screening said the words "the best remake I have EVER seen"

Yes, I'm a huge Stephen King fan, and LOVE the book. Movie 7.5/10
Looking fwd to part 2 though.

Apparently Tim Currys pennywise makes an appearance as one of the dolls in the clown room.
A few little bits I found out
1 The actor who plays pennywise had his 27 th birthday during filming
2 he was told they would add special affects to make his eyes go different ways and he replied with that's ok you don't have to I can do that naturally .
3 the kids didn't see him until the actual filming started to get the kids scared reaction
4 Stephen King himself loved it so much he went and saw it twice ( apparently he wasn't to happy with the original)
5 the film was planned 7 years ago and the actors they had in mind all got dropped because by the time they started filming they were to old .

[Twodogs]

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Listening to Rolling Stones songs on my phone.


And the preacher kept right on sayin' that all I had to do was send ten dollars to the Church of the Sacred Bleeding Heart of Jesus located somewhere in Los Angeles and the next week they'd say my prayer on the radio and all my dreams would come true. So I did. And the next week I got a prayer for the girl, well you know what kind of eyes she got

[comrade]

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I'm a massive fan of the IT novel and have fond memories of being scared witless by Tim Curry's Pennywise when I was just a kid. So I had high hopes for the remake but was a little anxious, especially after they butchered The Dark Tower.

All in all, I thought it was a pretty faithful adaptation with some good scares (that scene in the garage!). There are some nice little Easter Eggs scattered throughout for the die hard King and horror fans. Not sure why they swapped some character roles around as it didn't really affect the overall narrative but I walked out pretty happy.

The movie had a ton of hype and fulfilled its side of the bargain. Looking forward to Part 2.