By episode 3 of Sweet Tooth, it was a pretty canned soup of incompetent characters & recycled kid dialog.  Such is the way of TV shows.  The middle episodes are filler to pay for the beginning & ending episodes.  The doctor was pretty clueless.  The kid still didn't figure out the guys with guns were going to kill him, after 3 episodes of getting chased by them.  


The New Zealand visuals are a relief.  A high end New Zealand house is now comparable to what an  H1B would own near jobs.



The amazons are finally revealed.



More importantly, anorexic amazon who reveals.


She's mane tuft anorexic.  Unfortunately, anorexic hottie (Luciane Buchanan)

is only in 1 episode.  The amazon who joins the merry band of refugees is frizz mane.





https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HF46Q4R 


The M1 - M1.7 screw set was a failure in that it measured the outer thread diameter.

https://www.amazon.com/LBY-Stainless-Carbon-Tapping-Combination/dp/B07GL1TCBR

There's an even more expensive set of screws which should contain what lions have been using.  The mane plan is to just design for the 100 M1.7 screws, but 3D printing may not be accurate enough. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P2WQNGL

Counting the M2.5 bolts ordered in April, lions have spent $15 on just 6 farsteners.  Finding a screw has become insanely expensive in the last 20 years.



Lions are kind of perplexed how the mighty Steinway D went from $89,000 20 years ago to $180,000 today.  On the 1 paw, it's a comparable increase to most other items.  On the other paw, there are a lot more alternatives & there aren't as many people setting out to own Steinways when they can own a Tesla or fly into space.  

The lion kingdom's CP33 sounds better & feels better than a real piano, most of the time.  The inflation of Yamaha's CFX has been a lot more subdued, rising from $250,000 to only the low $300,000's.  High end crap like Lamborghinis has actually dropped in price.  Cheap cars have tripled in price, but the cost of getting the same performance as a supercar has dropped.

Lions believe the mane reason is increased spending on music education.  Universities are rolling in dough so replacing their pianos more often.  When lions were in school, the pianos were all crap.  Nowadays, at least the gootube videos show them doing a lot better.































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