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Was You Sheldon the show they set out to make, or did somebody have an idea for a family sitcom set in the past, and linking it to BBT was the only way it got made.
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May 17, 2024 08:05
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It is pretty scary how often you'll get a chud channel with millions of views though, like El Grillo said. Not just weird soft incel comedy but everyone's had an experience of watching any video and suddenly having the guy (always a guy) go off about the woke agenda. I don't feel like we have an equivalent on the left.
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May 17, 2024 08:56
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Khanstant posted:Was You Sheldon the show they set out to make, or did somebody have an idea for a family sitcom set in the past, and linking it to BBT was the only way it got made. Apparently it was Jim Parson's idea and he passed it along to the producers.
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May 17, 2024 08:58
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This week's Inside No 9 was a far better take the trolley problem than The Good Place's. Made me wonder if it was written in response to it. Taear posted:It is pretty scary how often you'll get a chud channel with millions of views though, like El Grillo said. Not just weird soft incel comedy but everyone's had an experience of watching any video and suddenly having the guy (always a guy) go off about the woke agenda. I wonder if there is, beyond the right perceiving there to be something similar (e.g. smuggling "woke messaging" into kids cartoons). I wonder if it's a consequence of how disenfranchised the left is, or perhaps that it's just a betrayal of their diasporic ambitions.
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May 17, 2024 10:06
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Honestly I thought it was like the most basic Inside No. 9 episode ever lol. Like for that show just extremely straightforward. Still solid though
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May 17, 2024 10:09
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Escobarbarian posted:Honestly I thought it was like the most basic Inside No. 9 episode ever lol. Like for that show just extremely straightforward. Still solid though Yeah, I thought it had exactly two ideas going for it the scene with the dual poisoned drinks, and Pemberton chained to an oven explaning why the trolley problem is dumb. The rest was a bit barebones though and probably the most stripped production they've done since maybe the George RR Martin one? I mostly brought it up because the thread was talking about televised representations of the problem last week. But also because the show rules and there are only four episodes left.
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May 17, 2024 10:14
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do i need to know anything before watching x-men 97? i remember watching the cartoon as a kid, but don't remember the prevailing story. and recently, have seen like two of the marvel movies. i know the basic stories of the main characters, i suppose.
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May 17, 2024 17:58
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I think that makes you the target audience. Go for it!
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May 17, 2024 18:04
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abelwingnut posted:do i need to know anything before watching x-men 97? i remember watching the cartoon as a kid, but don't remember the prevailing story. and recently, have seen like two of the marvel movies. i know the basic stories of the main characters, i suppose. There's only a couple of plot points that are kind of important to know: Morph was thought dead but was brainwashed by Mr Sinister, they eventually broke the mind control and rejoined the team Time travelling Sentinels tried to kill a young Charles Xavier in the late 50s but were defeated At the end of the previous series Xavier was almost killed in an attack and had to leave Earth, presumably forever, which is why everyone's acting like he's dead
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May 17, 2024 20:12
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Sugar had a pretty wild season finale, especially considering how just two episodes ago they revealed the main character was a space alien.
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May 18, 2024 01:37
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I generally liked Sugar but I found it pretty funny that the big finale twist revolved around a character I didn’t even remember existed
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May 18, 2024 01:53
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Adam Savage, Bobby Fingers update. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTDnuK0q7E
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May 18, 2024 03:08
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Who is bobby fingers
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May 18, 2024 03:13
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The best YouTube person
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May 18, 2024 03:30
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Peer reviewed best content on the platform.
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May 18, 2024 03:46
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Watching Abbott Elementary and the really need to establish a tone for Ava's character. You can't both have her be so ignorant that she doesn't even know that there's student who's hearing impaired but also have her care enough to fight for her getting an ASL-interpreter. Also, lol at american teachers still insisting on students using their surnames.
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May 18, 2024 11:45
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Alhazred posted:Watching Abbott Elementary and the really need to establish a tone for Ava's character. You can't both have her be so ignorant that she doesn't even know that there's student who's hearing impaired but also have her care enough to fight for her getting an ASL-interpreter. Wait, what’s this complaint about? Do schools in Europe not use surnames? Or does Abbott Elementary get especially weird about it or something?
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May 18, 2024 13:05
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I dunno about Sweden, but when I was a kid teachers used their first names, and so did the kids.
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May 18, 2024 13:08
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Rappaport posted:I dunno about Sweden, but when I was a kid teachers used their first names, and so did the kids. Oh generally speaking, sure, American teachers use first names when just calling out names. “Sarah, come here!” Or something like that. Does Abbott Elementary always say, “Sarah Jones” literally every time they call out a name? Or does Europe literally never use surnames for anything?
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May 18, 2024 13:12
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thrawn527 posted:Oh generally speaking, sure, American teachers use first names when just calling out names. “Sarah, come here!” Or something like that. Does Abbott Elementary always say, “Sarah Jones” literally every time they call out a name? Or does Europe literally never use surnames for anything? What? No, that the kids have address their teacher by their surnames, like ms. Teagues.
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May 18, 2024 13:21
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thrawn527 posted:Oh generally speaking, sure, American teachers use first names when just calling out names. “Sarah, come here!” Or something like that. Does Abbott Elementary always say, “Sarah Jones” literally every time they call out a name? Or does Europe literally never use surnames for anything? Well I mean they're, in the Heinlein sense, used to show that you are you. But as far as I can recall, no teacher of mine ever used my surname even when I was being unruly. Again, this could be different in other places in Europe. Alhazred posted:What? No, that the kids have address their teacher by their surnames, like ms. Teagues. Why doesn't the edit feature let you quote people? I called my teachers by their first names all through senior secondary. One of them even enjoyed having a nickname.
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May 18, 2024 13:21
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Alhazred posted:What? No, that the kids have address their teacher by their surnames, like ms. Teagues. Ohhhh, my mistake, I completely misread that post. Yeah, teachers here definitely insist on that.
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May 18, 2024 13:23
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Teachers are addressed by their last names in the UK too, at least until you get to university
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May 18, 2024 13:27
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Alhazred posted:What? No, that the kids have address their teacher by their surnames, like ms. Teagues. Yeah that's normal in the US. From kindergarten to high school.
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May 18, 2024 13:28
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thrawn527 posted:Ohhhh, my mistake, I completely misread that post. I find this amusing, given that teachers are not a protected profession in the US. Wait, what thread am I in?
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May 18, 2024 13:29
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We're good at pretending teachers and other public service people are respected and have authority
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May 18, 2024 13:31
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Mu Zeta posted:We're good at pretending teachers and other public service people are respected and have authority Teachers should be respected! But that goes both ways. If you call me by my surname, I'd feel weird, unless it was prefixed by "Doctor" since I am one.
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May 18, 2024 13:32
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Mu Zeta posted:We're good at pretending teachers and other public service people are respected and have authority You can have respect and authority without being addressed by your surname.
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May 18, 2024 13:39
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Mu Zeta posted:We're good at pretending teachers and other public service people are respected and have authority
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May 18, 2024 13:50
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Alhazred posted:You can have respect and authority without being addressed by your surname. Yeah that's what we're good at pretending
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May 18, 2024 14:11
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I mean, in the US, it's not even strictly teachers. It's a cultural thing that minors don't call adults by their first names (especially your parents.)
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May 18, 2024 14:34
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I hope I don't come off as weird, but I call my mom and dad "mom and dad"
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May 18, 2024 14:40
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Rappaport posted:I hope I don't come off as weird, but I call my mom and dad "mom and dad" By far the scariest part of The Ring was that creepy little kid calling his mom Rachel
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May 18, 2024 14:41
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Where I grew up children were not to be seen or heard, and certainly we did not address our teachers by names.
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May 18, 2024 15:52
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bull3964 posted:I mean, in the US, it's not even strictly teachers. It's a cultural thing that minors don't call adults by their first names (especially your parents.) At least around where I live, that's gone away. I was born in the 80s, and remember everyone calling adults "Mr./Mrs./Ms. (Surname)" My daughter and every kid I know in her generation call adults by their first names, or, just as often, "(Kid's name)'s mom/dad".
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May 18, 2024 16:03
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Mr./Mrs./Ms. has pretty much disappeared from common usage here in Denmark, people who use it are either old-fashioned or very formal.
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May 18, 2024 16:24
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Oasx posted:Mr./Mrs./Ms. has pretty much disappeared from common usage here in Denmark, people who use it are either old-fashioned or very formal. Famously the usage of Mr./Mrs/Ms in Norway was so gone from Norway in the eighties that one politician was accused of being condescending because he continued to use it.
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May 18, 2024 17:19
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I have come to realize that Big Door Prize reminds me of Lodge 49, both shows have a bittersweet tone and are about people who feel unhappy and depressed. But Lodge 49 manages to tell a really good story about that, while also being funny, but BDP can't seem to make up its mind what its message is.
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May 18, 2024 17:26
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My grandmother still signs the birthday cards she sends me as Mrs (my grandfathers name), who has been dead for 30 years.
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May 18, 2024 17:36
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Media has traditionally used kids referring to grown ups by their first names as shorthand for disrespect or dismissive attitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzCeO3HzEkE It's used a LOT to show strained relationships between kids and foster/step parents.
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May 18, 2024 17:47
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