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30m ago
Same for 'bloody' as a prefix, which I still don't get.
"Bloody" is generally just used a generic intensifier. I have a very vivid childhood memory of listening to a newsreader talking about Bloody Sunday on the radio and feeling baffled as to why she was suddenly cursing mid-sentence.
Some examples that might be helpful.
- "Bender" can be used as a derogatory term for a gay man.
- "Bugger" can used as a verb meaning "to sodomize" (I don't know if this word has an innocent meaning in the US).
- "Pants" refers to boxers and briefs, not trousers.
- "Pissed" means drunk, rather than angry.
- "To pull" means to get a girl to come home with you e.g. "I managed to pull at the pub last night."
- "To shag" means to have sex with (I assume a lot of Yanks are familiar with this owing to Austin Powers).
- "Slag" means a promiscuous woman.
- "Spunk" means ejaculate.
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8hr ago
I'm a big believer in building redundancy into a system and don't like the idea of my entire life being in my phone/phone case. I pay for everything with Google Pay on my phone, but still carry my physical debit card with me in case I lose my phone or it dies. But my wallet now seems impractically large compared to the size of the contents within it I actually use.
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11hr ago
About two-thirds of the way through A Canticle for Leibowitz. Story is starting to pick up now. Committing to reading at least 10% a day until I've finished it.
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1d ago
If you could launch a show with The Simpson's budget and be assured of 2,000,000 viewers, you'd get a green light.
Do you think so? I've heard it said that The Simpsons is one of the most expensive shows on TV. This article claims that, by 2011, each episode cost $5 million to make, or $110 million for an entire season. I have a hard time imagining a network greenlighting a show that costs $100 million a season only to get 2 million viewers a week.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Do you often use cash? I hardly ever do nowadays. I'm thinking I really ought to swap my big leather wallet for something more compact, the only thing in there that's really of any use to me is my driver's license.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Bahaha, I immediately thought of this clip.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
I disagree, although even now I wouldn't really say I find her particularly attractive.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Last night I impulsively decided to download the movie In the Line of Fire. At the time Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump, I was in the middle of watching a documentary about the JFK assassination.
Can I... predict the future? Do I have some kind of sixth sense about when someone tries to assassinate Trump?
I don't dispute the existence of dedicated fans who will go out of their way to watch certain shows every week that I would turn up my nose at. Plenty of my female colleagues make a point of tuning in to Love Island every week, in part because they don't want to be excluded from the "did you see what happened on Love Island last night?" water-cooler conversations the next day. I'm not suggesting that only shows admired by the intelligentsia or by snooty TV critics can attract a fanbase of devoted, hardcore fans. Probably an outright majority of shows with devoted fanbases are ones that TV critics wouldn't be caught dead watching (e.g. just about every soap opera you care to mention: Coronation St, EastEnders and so on).
But I don't think it's controversial to claim that some TV shows can be sustained by attracting a sufficiently large audience of casual fans who won't tune in for every episode, but will collectively watch enough episodes to keep the ratings up. (Probably most game shows fall into this category.) The impression I get is that this is now a category The Simpsons falls into, with the audience of devoted fans who will go out of their way to watch every episode having dwindled over time. I could be wrong, but that's the impression I get.
In an attempt to put hard figures on my gut feeling, it's indisputably true that the show's ratings have plummeted over time, from a peak of 30 million early on to something like 2.5 million today. (The decline would be even more striking when controlling for population.) This pattern is certainly consistent with only the most hardcore of the hardcore fans sticking around. Alternatively, it could be the case that the show's audience is primarily made up of casual viewers who'll only tune in when they have nothing better to do or there's nothing else on the tube.
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2d ago
IIRC Force Majeure got an English-language remake with Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, I haven't seen it though.
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2d ago
I would define it as bored eyes
I think this is just the default Gen Z expression. Say what you will about millennial cringe, at least we weren't cutting about looking like we just woke up all the time.
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2d ago
Hard agree on the first two recommendations, haven't seen the others.
I first saw The Vanishing after reading a review of Seven which claimed that Seven had the scariest ending to a thriller since The Vanishing. It didn't disappoint. The only thing I didn't like about it was the soundtrack.
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2d ago
If I turn the sound off this video could be very useful.
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2d ago
Lucinda Williams’ World Gone Wrong
I had to turn it off after less than a minute. Good job.
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2d ago
She's got great taste in underwear, though.
Citation requested.
(I apologise, that was rather Reddit of me.)
going to the club is, in fact, meant to be an enjoyable experience in itself, not some cumbersome prerequisite protocol for finding a mate.
I think this is a folk etymology. Dances as rituals for finding mates are one of the oldest human institutions, to the point that they aren't even peculiar to humans.
They also use it very freely in Scotland.
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