happyhippy posted:

When I take over, I'll alay all your fears and solve all crime and such by implanting mini-explosives at the base of everyone's neck.
There will a free app where you can vote to trigger it at any time.

Ms Adequate posted:

Oh and Succession always looked really boring to me

stev posted:

Nah Succession season 1 is just as good if not better than the rest. If you don't like it then you never will.

forkboy84 posted:

Man, Breaking Bad is such overhyped nonsense. And yes, anything where "it gets better after X seasons" is something I won't bother with. I'm looking at you Seinfeld. Whoever told Jerry he should wrench 5+ minutes of the worlds least interesting observational comedy into every 20 minute episode killed it.

Show I really enjoyed lately was Avenue 5, the Iannucci sci-fi comedy. It was exceptionally stupid, but very amusing with it. We're on the maiden Voyage of a luxury space cruise ship spending 8 weeks visiting the plants only for things to go badly wrong. Sadly got cancelled after 2 seasons but I still found it very funny. I may have been one of the few though.

Private Speech posted:

Live alone in a rented 1 bed flat and having takeouts just about does it, yeah.

Well actually 36k is a bit low for that.

ThomasPaine posted:

Personally I've been cultivating a gambling addiction and substance abuse problems so that helps

Mega Comrade posted:

I'm convinced on the regular US shows get pitched as 2 seasons, then if the company likes it they might stretch it to 3. Then popularity of season 1 it gets stretched to 5 seasons.

It would explain for me why so many season 1s and often 2s are high quality and things always drop off in the middle after that. They lose focus as writers try and pad out the original concept.

HopperUK posted:

Ozark is my favourite of those Crime Dramas and it's not even close. Just fantastic from the start. Though deeply oppressive, every episode is a fifty-minute anxiety attack even if nothing seems to be happening.

Pablo Bluth posted:

Was it? I was too distracted by all the tits and cocks to notice.

Betjeman posted:

THEY ARRESTED SANTA???

Guavanaut posted:

Speaker, I don't believe that is the Lord's tongue protruding into the chamber.

sebzilla posted:

I'm getting flashbacks to Tezza May's incredible series of podium speeches outside Downing Street saying nothing at all

Skeletome posted:

Not sure in the thread who recommended Small Saga on steam but it's absolutely fantastic! 8-10 hour, laser-focused JRPG about rodent society living underneath modern day London. It is super left and queer and fun, and a lot of the dialogue feels like someone in UKMT wrote it!

I can't recommend it enough!

Apraxin posted:

worst quote from that streeting interview:

Jakabite posted:

Anyone got experience with disputes via a deposit protection scheme? Previous landlord trying to pull a fast one and my tactic of ‘verbal abuse down the phone to try and make them cry’ didn’t work.

ThomasPaine posted:

Speaking of landlords I also have a question about maintenance stuff. Our flat is generally fine and the letting agent is refreshingly hands off most of the time, but does generally respond to repair requests quickly. We have one corner of the living room though where the wall is obviously hollow. I'm guessing it's where the pipes etc are. We've clearly got a leaky pipe somewhere because since like a year and a half ago we've noticed damp patches appearing on the wall and ceiling. They aren't getting massively worse but they occasionally do spread a bit. I've now reported this like 3 times, and beyond telling me to ask my upstairs neighbour if he's had any issues in his flat, which he hasn't, the letting agent has pretty much ignored the issue completely.

It's not massively urgent, and there's no mould or anything, but I feel like it's almost certainly going to be causing incremental damage. Not really sure how to proceed because on the one hand I don't care, it's not my flat and I've created a pretty solid paper trail so I can't be held accountable, and I worry that fixing it might involve a major job knocking down walls etc, which means we'd probably have to move out for a bit at least. At the same time it's not exactly great having big damp patches just sitting there, and I'm a bit concerned because there are plug sockets on the same wall right next to the damp bits. I'm also picturing the ceiling deciding to fall in at the most inopportune moment, which would be a nightmare.

So yeah, not sure. I know I'd be very pissed if I was the owner and the letting agent was just ignoring an issue that might seriously damage the fabric of the building long term.

Necrothatcher posted:

Is there any way of helping someone younger who's at risk of ending up like this?

Skarsnik posted:

The finest artisanally crafted British sex arse

kecske posted:

Tesseraction posted:

Remind me who the bearded guy and Ernest are I forget

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

there are too many finicky spaces, so a thin cordless one is what I need tbh.

Bobstar posted:

You'd think that I'd be feeling unchristmassy because I decided to stay home and rest my post-Covid sequelae... but actually it's quite nice just being home on my own with the cats, and I dodged both hitting the Channel Tunnel just as its staff went on strike, and my parents have just caught Covid themselves.

No, the reason I feel unchristmassy (apart from gestures at everything) is that it Hasn't. Stopped. Raining. for the last several weeks, and seems to want to keep doing that. Interspersed with the occasional crazy wind storm (even for NL)

I've thought this too, though I fear the conspiracy theorist mindset wouldn't be satisfied with the actual "conspiracies" of the world, that are being done 80% out in the open with a sneer of "what are you going to do about it? Vote?"... doesn't give the same rush of being In on the Secret, and decoding the Scooby Doo clues (Scooby Clues?) that the delightfully devilish conspirators make sure to leave.

The Question IRL posted:

Conversely, last Christmas was one of the worst Christmas ever.
My wife tested positive for Covid on the 23rd/24th of Dec. But I was testing negative.

So she isolated herself in our office across from the main house and I stayed in our house with the 1 and a half year old.
The theory being that maybe we didn't have it and the wife could spare us it. None of us had any symptoms.

For Christmas Day we pretty much spent the day just waving to each other through the window, and the wife assembled the child's Christmas present since it was stored in the office.

We had cancelled our plans to dona big Christmas Dinner with her family on Christmas Day so had to improvise with roast Duck dinner on Christmas.
And do a simultaneous watch of The Glass Onion using my iPad.

Then on the 26th I tested positive for Covid and the whole thing was rendered pointless. And I had to cancel my flights to see jy eldest daughter.

Basically Christmas 2022 for me really sucked.

crispix posted:

NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T FIND IT, NORMAN?!?!

YOU HAD BETTER FIND IT BEFORE TOMORROW'S DINNER IN THE GREAT ROOM, NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CECILLY AND CECIL, OUR CHILDREN NORMAN, ARE BRINGING THEIR WORK COMPANIONS , NORMAN

...

DID YOU CHECK THE ODDS AND ENDS BOX, NORMAN?!!

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THAT'S NOT THE ODDS AND ENDS BOX, NORMAN, THAT'S THE ODDS AND SODS TIN!!!!!!

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S THE BITS AND BOBS DRAWER NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!!

fuctifino posted:

mmmmm

OwlFancier posted:

Close the umbrella with yourself inside it. become the bat.

Mebh posted:

Meanwhile I went out shopping for a rug and instead bought a giant golden alligator.


I should not be allowed to adult.

Gonzo McFee posted:

What's your favourite Israeli artistic endeavour?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Just looked them up and tried a few bits & pieces:

I like this one: (reminds me a bit of Igorrr)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZHZeXQF0H4

What do the words mean? (Roughly speaking not expecting full translation!) I'm assuming from the 'military' type noises near the end that it's potentially anti-war but obviously I have no idea but I read the wiki.

I found the hebrew lyrics & put them in google translate - don't make a lot of sense as presumably a literal translation - about majorities want minorities to make them tea and we can't go on without tea or something!

kingturnip posted:

Basically every street around where I work has a Palestinian flag fluttering in the breeze waving madly in the gales and it's nice to see as a person who believes the 'war' is just an excuse for genocide, but I don't think you'd have to be a Netanyahu-apologist to find it a little intimidating if you're Israeli or Jewish.

MeinPanzer posted:

One of the keys to understanding all kinds of dynamics related to Israel in recent history is realizing that much of the right-wing thinking surrounding the country, both internal and external, is just the inverse of antisemitism, and thus carries with it the implications of antisemitic thinking.

For instance, the idea that Jews cannot safely live in countries outside of Israel, which implies that Jews cannot belong in or assimilate into any other country, and thus that all Jews outside of Israel are just temporarily embarrassed Israelis. Another aspect of this that you see among some gentile right wingers is that Jews are exceptionally smart and talented, which ties into the idea that Jews control the media, culture, government, etc.

Once you realize this, it's easy to understand why the Israeli right wing is so comfortable with deeply antisemitic groups like Trumpets Republicans or Viktor Orban's political party and vice versa.

Runcible Cat posted:

Way ahead of you.