En Passant

Yawn. The Elephant Man was good but, entirely unsurprisingly, depressing. Eraserhead absolutely crushed me with sympathy for the chld/creature. I'd find that a hard if worthy watch if I saw it again. I've seen some but not all of his other work and I appreciate the effort to be different beyond words, there's not nearly enough of that, but sadly in his case its mostly all a bit too surreal for my taste. Still isn't the U3A ethos at least to some degree about showing that older generations can still pick up new things and aren't all 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks'? If so, give it a shot - it may not my thing but could well be others.

No. It looks like one of those bolt on scenes added for 'dramatic effect' that are just one of the reasons these remakes are absolutely..... And no Toastie, I'll add it to the list of Hollywood revamps I'm not going to bother with, i.e. most of them.

Yeah, it's much the same here in reality, the popular vote doesn't actually win it. Just ours is 650 political constituencies with 1 mp for each rather than your allocated numbers of votes per state.

I didn't even know they'd remade it. Bloody Americans can't swallow anything that isn't made for the home market - there's nothing wrong with the original Edward Woodward/Christopher Lee one - that was one of the biggest shockers in a film when I was younger.

Ach, Politics again, they're about making profits and pretty much nothing else and will say whatever they need to say when pressed to subscribe to envrionmental or demographic issues. Sounds silly to complain about capitalism when talking about lettuce, but still. Can't remember who it was, but "It's the worst system, apart from everything else that's been tried" or something like that, Churchill probably, it's usually him. And naturally they don't sell this stuff in quantities to suit us, they sell it in quantities that suit them. If you've got a bottom line and the authorities can't or won't force you to cater to individuals you do whatever's best for profits you don't geve a shit about food waste it just means you sell more whilst saying 'every little helps' or something equally banal. I've gone off on one again haven't I?

I use beans, and it's similar, though I can still get it for a little over 10 quid a kilo in Lidl/Aldi and they had a bunch on offer a while ago so ended up with 4 kilos in store which I'm still working through. Lettuce was the one that got me, I mean lord knows why I know this, but they were 45p in all places before it all went crazy and the damn things are now 75-80p, in sheer monetary terms it's not that much, but the percentage is crazy. Olive oil is another thing where the 'harvest' was bad, but the price increase insane. This and shrinkflation and so on is indeed just taking the piss. As ever the price rockets when it goes up, and falls slowly afterwards, if at all. Although it does get reported in the news, not much seems to actually happen about it.

Good for you.

Yeah, cause we're all on that one - the terrible committee cockup when someone dies that they didn't name. FS Sir Cunto, You're smarter than this - show it for once.

Ultimately Trump should be in jail by now, but somehow he isn't, he's still in a presidential race. I just don't understand it - every fibre of my being wants to believe it's the same for everyone, the law is fair to all. And yet every piece of evidence in the current age flies in the face of this.

You lost me. I was pointing out the difference between famous and non-famous treatment. Are you saying it doesn't exist? Chapaquidick?.....however you spell it.

Knock AI if you want Interestingly however, although this isn't exactly how I'd have put it, it does have a certain.. reasonableness? This last bit.. Conversely, non-famous individuals are more often seen as solely responsible for their own actions, due to entrenched stigmas around addiction and social class bias. Oh dear me yes. So ordinary people are responsible for their own actions and those in the public eye are less so? Yeah, figures.

Oh if only. And I don't have anything particular against this individual either, beyond his belief that being a supremely rich cock allows him to pontificate on anything at all as if he were accorded some insight people with 15 billion (or whatever) less were denied. Self Entitled Fuckwit - I'm sort of glad spending 40k (or far more) on a dubiously planet saving car is beyond my means.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/aug/15/matthew-perry-arrest-death Why can it not be that he just did himself on this? Any normal person overdoses on anything, it's on them. Because he's (was) rich and famous it was somebody else's fault? Bollocks. Not that I have anything against the man, its tough no doubt.

Yawn. (be honest you got to expect this).

Why is there both a 'french-deathlist' and a 'french speaking deathlist'. I'm not really knocking it , the whole rest of it is mostly English, but if the same people are just going to turn up twice I'm not sure I understand the difference?

At least they're not up there on sofware designed to make it cheaper to train, or rather not train, pilots on a model change and flying them, and all their passengers, into the ground in the process. Go Boeing.

The original was posted underneath the quote "If Trump wins". Thus 50.1% would be a prerequisite in that instance (electoral college variation notwithstanding). Hopefully, as you say, in reality it's less than that percentage and the world can afford a huge sigh of relief come November. @mymango A facepalm from you = 10 likes from others. My work here is done.

It's because 50.1%(+) of Americans had successful Brain Removal Surgery.

I hate these bastards. They are just chuckling as I throw my keyboard against the monitor. Not him particularly of course.

Also everyone here once this occurs, because there'll be no more pointless updates on this thread and there'll be nothing to live for. Who am i kidding? We know this thread won't die even when he does.

So you immediately respond with two comments with no qualification. Thanks for making me look like an idiot beyond my own capability of doing so. Jesus crem you never wonder why people get fed up of you?

Must be really hot today or something. Tempers flaring all about.

You're still on my personal pre-moderate list. But this must be the third of fourth straight post with a link. Others may disagree, but if you're not being banned this is at least a massive leap forward that should be recognized, so I am.

Yeah we should still compete as that. Add the Canadian and Australian outposts to the total. *yes, I used the word outposts on purpose for comedic effect, sue me.