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WCDT Strips 3601-3605 (30rd October - 3rd November 2017)
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 30 Oct 2017, 00:39 ---A drill press is a horrible thing to tie someone to.... a metal chair is much more secure.
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Eh, I’ve seen some freestanding presses where, apart from the drive, the major component is a 3" dia. steel column bolted to the floor. It’d be about the same as tying someone to a lamp post or telephone pole.
A chair is much less likely to be fixed to the floor, for one.
Akima:
Yes, in a commercial shop, I'd expect to see drill-presses bolted down, so one would make a pretty secure hitching post.
The grey streaks are multiplying in Veronica's hair. By contrast Claire seems to have age-regressed suddenly. Claire and Sam seem to be drinking the same, as do Marten and Jim, Veronica stays classy with a glass of red wine. I hope they're at least going to have a salad with their tacos, and otherwise the table looks awfully bare. It's a pretty big table too, an eight-seater. Did Jim and his ex entertain a lot, I wonder, or does Veronica plan to?
--- Quote from: BenRG on 30 Oct 2017, 00:12 ---FWIW, he managed quite well although I think that the table's legs are too short.
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I'm not sure that the table-legs are too short, but perhaps they look as if they are because they are so massively thick. The dining plates look barely twice as wide, so I'd put the legs at over 100mm square. By contrast, the legs of the chairs look too thin and rickety. It looks slightly odd too that the glasses in front of Sam and Jim look larger than those in front of Marten and Claire, despite their being closer to the "camera". Still, it's a bold and effective establishing shot.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Akima on 30 Oct 2017, 01:34 ---The grey streaks are multiplying in Veronica's hair. By contrast Claire seems to have age-regressed suddenly. Claire and Sam seem to be drinking the same, as do Marten and Jim, Veronica stays classy with a glass of red wine. I hope they're at least going to have a salad with their tacos, and otherwise the table looks awfully bare. It's a pretty big table too, an eight-seater. Did Jim and his ex entertain a lot, I wonder, or does Veronica plan to?
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These are all excellent questions.
Regarding Veronica, she is in her mid- to late-50s, I think and I suspect that, with her conscious move of career to home-maker and surrogate mother for Sam, she's less reluctant to let her age show, something positive, IMO at least. However, she's still Mom and, consequently, I could imagine that she would offer the 'children' (Marten and Claire included) soda first!
As for the tacos, squinting at them, it looks like there may be vegetables in the filling. Being a middle-class Californian woman, I can't see Veronica not making every meal at the house healthy!
Finally, with respect to the dining room table: it's big but not unusually so. It was likely selected simply for its utility and how well it fit into the dining room space more than any specific purpose in mind. That said, with the size of Veronica's surrogate family (she could easily have Faye and possibly Mrs Bean around for a sufficiently large family gathering such as Sam's birthday or Thanksgiving) then extra space would be useful, even though Sam and her school-friends would be more likely to be sitting on the couch, spilling juice and getting cake crumbs on the upholstery!
Pennepasta:
As for tacos, there is such a thing as Californian tacos, it seems, which are dripping in fat and fried, so whilst they contain lettuce, they may well not be healthy in the slightest. Took a while for my partner to realise that her stepmom hadn't produced regular tacos, as neither of us are American!
lawoot:
Apparently, Veronica scarfed down her tacos right quick. She's already wiping her mouth with her napkin, and has an empty plate, before the others are halfway through. :)
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