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CoolCab posted:it's 8 pm. hangovers are now allowed to continue until 8pm. that's illegal. You've never had the fabled two-day hangover? It's hateful.
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The fact that Harry Potter went from being a successful kids series to being a run of turgid fantasy epics is what made it successful. Giant tomes of fantasy lore with eight thousand characters and terrible subtexts are very very popular and funnelling a huge audience of kids into that just as they became teens is pure alchemy. Once you add in films, you have a gateway for parents to get engaged too and suddenly Harry Potter is a universal point of reference. It's a mistake to look at the relative quality of either end of the snake because it's the whole thing that was a success. Other kids novels were hugely popular but didn't successfully make the transitions (Dark Materials, Alex Rider) and other fantasy epic were blowing up but didn't have an inbuilt audience of children as their marketing campaign (you may have heard of a little novel called "A Game of Thrones" which was big at the time).
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There's an old private eye column that lists a ~20 year history of Branson claiming Virgin Galactic is just around the corner. e: there it is: 
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Jan 14, 2020 13:11
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Guavanaut posted:Bouguereau would be disappointed that the proliferation of occupation related niche erotic imagery has coincided with the obsolescence of his particular niche. I dunno, I can think of some farm-themed special interests he might have moved sideways into.
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e: whoops, wrong tab!
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Jan 29, 2020 23:31
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They've been writing that same article about Oxbridge for at least twenty years now.
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crispix posted:Today I have been mostly gammon spotting. Aw, got me nostalgic for High Wycombe's high street. Way more diverse than any of the surrounding towns in Bucks, too.
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