A quick visit
September 2nd 2009 09:41
I can remember getting to the last twenty minutes of the third film in Peter Jackson's trilogy of The Lord of the Rings, and wondering whether I could hold out until it finished. I did wait till the end but I was so desperate to go to the toilet by that time I could barely move.
Films these days don't make any allowances for people with weak bladders (although I must say that since I had my prostate op I have much less trouble than I used to have), and monsters like Titanic and others must have done some real damage to people's bladders over the years. It's not so bad once you know how long the movie is going to play (as those who, incredibly, went back to see Titanic again and again), but when you're left guessing as to whether it's just about to finish or has another chunk of time to go, it can turn into a disaster.
Now however, a site has come to the rescue. It's called runpee.com. Not the most attractive name, but apt in the circumstances.
What the runpee site does is list not only the running times of movies, but also suggested places in which you can shoot off to the loo without missing anything vital. With Inglourious Basterds, for instance, we're told that it's two hours 33 minutes. At 38 minutes into the movie, when you see a shot of a ladder outside a cinema, you can scoot off for up to four minutes, without missing anything vital. There are two other possible times as well, at 75 and 105 minutes respectively.
Runpee does an interesting thing on its site. When you click on a movie to check its running time and so on, it has a section in scrambled letters. The reason they're scrambled is so nothing of the plot is given as a spoiler, for those who don't want to know. However, for those who intend to use that as a toilet time, it's a way of getting some idea of what goes on at that point.
I'm not sure whether it's a problem with the unscrambling, or whether the items haven't been well proof-read before being inserted, but there are some interesting spelling mistakes in these spoilers.
Completely unrelated to this - at least as far as I can ascertain as I write this - is a site where you can buy dog ramps. What the heck is a dog ramp, you ask? You can see one pictured on the left. Basically it's a ramp for a dog to walk down from the boot of your car (where the dog has presumably been riding), or from the couch, where presumably it's been resting after walking down off the car.
I'm not sure what sort of dogs would need these, as most dogs I've come across will happily bounce out of the boot of a car without a second thought. Still, some dogs get arthritis, and other diseases of the legs, so I suppose a ramp might come in handy. It does strike me, at first, as yet another modern invention that no one in their right mind would have thought necessary a couple of decades ago.
(Actually, I've just noticed one of the other items for sale at this site: a dog stroller - just like a baby stroller, except that you bung the dog in there. How is this good for the health of the dog?)
Films these days don't make any allowances for people with weak bladders (although I must say that since I had my prostate op I have much less trouble than I used to have), and monsters like Titanic and others must have done some real damage to people's bladders over the years. It's not so bad once you know how long the movie is going to play (as those who, incredibly, went back to see Titanic again and again), but when you're left guessing as to whether it's just about to finish or has another chunk of time to go, it can turn into a disaster.
Now however, a site has come to the rescue. It's called runpee.com. Not the most attractive name, but apt in the circumstances.
What the runpee site does is list not only the running times of movies, but also suggested places in which you can shoot off to the loo without missing anything vital. With Inglourious Basterds, for instance, we're told that it's two hours 33 minutes. At 38 minutes into the movie, when you see a shot of a ladder outside a cinema, you can scoot off for up to four minutes, without missing anything vital. There are two other possible times as well, at 75 and 105 minutes respectively.
Runpee does an interesting thing on its site. When you click on a movie to check its running time and so on, it has a section in scrambled letters. The reason they're scrambled is so nothing of the plot is given as a spoiler, for those who don't want to know. However, for those who intend to use that as a toilet time, it's a way of getting some idea of what goes on at that point.
I'm not sure whether it's a problem with the unscrambling, or whether the items haven't been well proof-read before being inserted, but there are some interesting spelling mistakes in these spoilers.
I'm not sure what sort of dogs would need these, as most dogs I've come across will happily bounce out of the boot of a car without a second thought. Still, some dogs get arthritis, and other diseases of the legs, so I suppose a ramp might come in handy. It does strike me, at first, as yet another modern invention that no one in their right mind would have thought necessary a couple of decades ago.
(Actually, I've just noticed one of the other items for sale at this site: a dog stroller - just like a baby stroller, except that you bung the dog in there. How is this good for the health of the dog?)
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