Happy April Fools Day! What a dreadful holiday. I was trying to think of a fun nice prank to put up for this post and everything I thought of just felt MEAN. Is it possible there is no fun nice prank that exists in the world?
Here is where you get to ask me anything you want from “Should I see Crew?” to “why do you hate pranks?” Just keep swinging back to this post all week as you think of new questions!
Now, question for you! Two questions, first very important: Do you do fake Easter Eggs with stuff inside, or real Easter Eggs that are just Eggs?
My family always did Real Easter Eggs, and my nephews are now doing the same. They are fun! You can decorate and dye them yourself, and then you get to play Egg Fight at breakfast (two people hit their eggs together and whichever egg stays uncracked, wins). Plus the celebratory Easter treat of Multi-colored Egg Salad (because the dye always gets onto the white of the egg too).
Second question, if you had to pick, would you rather do an Easter Egg hunt or a Holi game?
Easter Egg hunt for me. Absolutely would prefer a clean quiet solitary activity to a loud messy crowded one.
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Permanent markers and children suck. BUT when I see kids with marker marks on their body, I feel like they have good parents, who let them experience life. However when my current 12 year old was in 4th grade he wrote “I don’t believe in God” in permanent marker on his arm right before leaving for my Religious parents’ house; we scrubbed hard but you could still read it if you tried. My parents are awesome, they didn’t say anything.
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Oh my, that is quite unfortunate. Have you seen Deewar yet? When Amitabh is a child, he is forced to have “My father is a thief” tattooed on his arma nd it’s deeply meaningful and symbolic.
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We genuinely laughed out loud reading this. Your poor parents! Good for them for being so nice about it. I suspect we have similar things coming in our future. Mr. Toddles’s new obsession is putting ink stamps all over his body.
P.S. his permanent marker war paint was actually so cute that we didn’t try to scrub it off until that evening. That’s probably also why it took forever!!! It has sunk deep into his skin!
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Karan Thapar recalls awkward interview with Amitabh Bachchan in ‘Devil’s Advocate: The Untold Story’ (scroll.in)
Just came across this today. Worth a read!
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Amitabh Bachchan Exploded On Jaya Bachchan When Karan Thapar Asked Him About Rekha – Filmibeat
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The most important part are the real Easter eggs, hand-colored if at all possible. What else would we have for breakfast afterwards? Though the kids could probably just eat the colorfully wrapped chocolate eggs. We do have a few artificial eggs, though – family heirlooms out of cardboard, with colorful pictures of Easter bunnies on the front. That’s what we use to hide small gifts in.
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Exactly! Easter breakfast is hard boiled eggs and hot cross buns.
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I had some really horrible pranks during April Fools Day which all made me cry so yes I agree that it is a mean spirited day.
I’m not Christian neither have i ever got easter eggs from anyone beyond my neighbours. They gave hard boiled eggs which were dyed with natural dyes – So I guess real eggs?
Holi! Holi is super fun when you’re with people you like and I also have never celebrated Easter. It is not fun with a group of people you don’t know as the license to touch can be misused. The best part is actually the foods and sweets as they’re so suited towards the climate.
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I think that’s the problem with Holi in America! It only works if you can get a large group of people you know to celebrate with you. Setting aside the icky parts, it’s also just kind of hard to loosen up and be silly if you are going to a massive event with hundreds of people you don’t know. It’s gaining ground here though, so in a few years maybe it will have spread so wildly that you can get a good group of 20 or so people you DO know to celebrate with you.
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As the kids get older we usually do real eggs for the kitchen table and for eating, and fake eggs for the outdoor Easter hunt. But this we were apart. I was sick, Spouse took stateside kids to see Grandparents, and one child was in El Salvador (he had a great time). So we didn’t do real eggs, we weren’t all together to dye them. But we have fake eggs we reuse every year, so those were filled with treats and hidden. Surprisingly kids are really bad at finding eggs. If you can’t remember where every egg you hid is, you will have plastic eggs in your yard all year long.
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There was one terrible year when we were kids that my parents hid real eggs inside the house and forgot to count how many they hid. So there was a terrible smell and a rotting egg a few weeks later.
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Holi, because I’ve had lots of fun Holi experiences but nothing related to Easter 🙂
I think you’ve mentioned you like true-crime related stuff, so here’s an investigative piece which fascinated me. It’s long and reads pretty much like a mystery thriller https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld
Not film related, but I see posts of similar sentiment often on social media, which is that people (presumably younger) are angry at the ‘boomer’ generation. As an outsider, is this a prevalent thing in the US? Why is that?
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It is a common thing in the US, but I think it is partly a joking thing like “shut up Boomer” and partly real. There is a huge economic divide between the Baby Boomer generation and the ones that came after it, which can often lead to stunningly ignorant comments from the older generation (for instance, “why did you take out college loans, I worked my way through school! You should have done that!”). On the other hand, the younger generation is quickly ready to discount any experiences of the older generation, such as thinking that today’s protests and issues are bigger than any before.
My feeling is that it is a standard generation gap just using a new terminology. The Baby Boomer generation are now mostly retired, tend to vote and think conservatively, and do not have the same money/life worries as the younger generation. They are an easy target for young people which is also partially justified. On the other hand, the Boomers see young people as overly emotional and idealistic and sort of all over the place, which is also true because young people are like that.
I’m not sure if this is just an American thing or if it’s that America does it more so? But we always have this battle between generations. Maybe because many Americans are descendents of people who rejected their elders and immigrated to America? The Boomers hated the WWII generation, the WWII generation rebeled against their parents, the 1920s generation rebeled against their parents, and so on and so forth forever and ever.
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New song from Heera Mandi! From what I can get, Sonakshi is the main antagonist who will ruin the courtesan culture of the rest of the characters. Her western style of amusement will make the respect for courtesans decrease and ruin them. Sonakshi, I have a feeling will have some weird tragic story where she got kicked out of the brothel and now is taking revenge on them all.
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Ugh! I continue to be torn between loving this cast, and hating this concept! I just do not trust Bhansali to do something like this well.
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Heeramandi trailer dropped!
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Ramayan is going to be shooted! There were talks of them cancelling this project but the set pics have come out. I am very excited to see Sai Pallavi as Sita. The rest of the cast I am more intrigued as I have never seen them in such characters before like Ranbir as Ram or Yash as Raavan.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/etimes/bollywood/watch-leaked-photos-and-videos-offer-sneak-peek-into-ramayana-ancient-style-set-design/videoshow/109035644.cms
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