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I've acquired it on DVD. I was pleased to see that there was an option for subtitles, because I often have trouble making out dialogue, either because of accents or poor diction (why do actors whisper so much?) Anyway I settled down with the subtitles option enabled, and at first there were some subtitles - although I couldn't hear any dialogue! But then, no more subtitles even though there was audible dialogue. I gather that the subtitles only function when people are not speaking English. I haven't got very much further because the dialogue seems to be muffled and distorted. The scene where Grace Zabriskie visits Laura Dern - I could barely make out a word that was said. Is it just me? If it's like that all the way through I will just have to give up on it.

Nobody's died afaik, but this might be a better place to ask than the films thread. Has anyone here seen Inland Empire?

Tue 30 Jan 30 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset 29 The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin’ 28 The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night 27 The Beach Boys - God Only Knows 27 Barry Ryan - Eloise +1 17 The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul 15 The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place +3 13 Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well +1 12 The Who - My Generation 11 The Troggs - Wild Thing 11 Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto 07 The Rolling Stones - Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 07 Los Bravos - Black is Black 06 Petula Clark - Downtown -6

Humour failure? Did you not read to the end of the post? Now that was funny.

Prostate, not prostrate. Still. at least you didn't put "prostitute operation" which appeared somewhere.

FTFY. Her name hasn't been "Kate Middleton" for over 12 years.

Steroids.

Mon 29 Jan 30 The Kinks- All Day And All Of The Night 26 Barry Ryan- Eloise +3 25 The Kinks- Waterloo Sunset 25 The Beach- God Only Knows 25 The Spencer Davis Group- Gimme Some Lovin' 21 The Who- My Generation 19 The Yardbirds- Heart Full Of Soul 17 Elvis Prelsley- In The Ghetto 17 Fleetwood Mac- Oh Well 16 The Rolling Stones--- Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 16 Petula Clark- Downtown -6 14 The Animals- We Gotta Get Out Of This Place +1 12 The Troggs- Wild Thing 11 Los Bravos- Black Is Black

Check out other counties. I'm with Oxfordshire Libraries, and anyone can join. On the downside, you do have to turn up in person at one to show ID and collect a library card. That may not be convenient for you, but there may be somewhere nearer that will oblige.

Done. Good spot, thanks Handy.

I loved the poker pool. Would have liked to see that expanded to a year.

That is one where they've provided an audio. I don't see why they can't do that for everything. The OED does, and even gives both British and American audio pronunciation. Which leads me to another gripe. The Oxford English Dictionary has recently revamped its website and it's very good. I'm grateful that I can use it at home via my library membership. However! It logs you out every time you leave the site. And it doesn't remember you. Previously it left you signed in until the next day. Signing in is a bit tedious. I have to select my library or institution from a drop-down menu, then type in my 9 digit library number. Every time! The only way round it is to leave the tab open permanently which isn't ideal. I have emailed them about this so hopefully it'll get fixed.

Sun 28 Jan 27 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 25 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 25 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night 23 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul 23 Barry Ryan — Eloise 22 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 21 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 20 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place +4 19 The Who — My Generation 19 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 19 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 18 The Troggs — Wild Thing 16 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 15 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 12 Petula Clark — Downtown -6

Two things that are really inconvenient about Wikipedia. On the pages for politicians, monarchs, statesmen etc., they list all their appointments, terms of office etc before the actual biographical details. So you have to scroll down some considerable way to find out the basics. That should come first. Pronunciation guide. It's fine for English, hover over the phonetics and it guides you through the pronunciation for each letter. But for any other language it refers you the full page IPA guide to the language in question, which is hard work. Why can't they do the same? Even better, they could include an audible pronunciation - some pages have that, but not many. Example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Gainsbourg Oh and a third thing of course is despite promising not to pester you after you've donated, they do. Over and over again. This has achieved the result of me not donating any more. Well done.

I was really asking Crem if he knew what was said before pronouncing it racist.

Politically daft it might be, but as a humanitarian sentiment I don't see it as offensive and certainly not racist.

Do you know what she said? Because there's no clue there.

IIRC Susie Steiner didn't have a Wikipedia page, despite a career in journalism and several best selling detective novels.

Sat 27 Jan 27 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 27 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 27 The Who — My Generation 27 The Troggs — Wild Thing 25 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul 24 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 24 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 23 Barry Ryan — Eloise 22 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 22 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 22 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 22 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 21 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place +4 16 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night 13 Petula Clark — Downtown -6

Aww, I loved Saltburn. Barry Keoghan is tremendous.

Update on the Headington Shark house. Bill's son has been renting it out on Air B&B without change of use permission from the council. He's clearly a chip off the old block. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24071492.headington-shark-house-owner-banned-renting-airbnb/?ref=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR1SRQweihgqqfFnplSjfSo-T3SkkywfUvMiQQeh4pcMgr5zwih8SFVyslo

This is rife on Youtube as well. There's a whole list of words that people are forced to avoid, eg you can't say "sexual" which is problematic if you want to refer to sexual assault or harassment. Tarot readers using the traditional Rider Waite deck have had to deface their cards because some cards show unclothed figures.

Did this get posted yesterday?