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Watched another Maigret over breakfast and as soon as I saw this film sequence I thought "This is a Rudolph Cartier episode isn't it". The shot through the bullet hole isn't the kind of thing most BBC directors at the time would even think of doing.
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Watched another Maigret over breakfast and as soon as I saw this film sequence I thought "This is a Rudolph Cartier episode isn't it". The shot through the bullet hole isn't the kind of thing most BBC directors at the time would even think of doing.
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Power move by Lois
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Power move by Lois
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ME: WHY’S IT CALLED BOWLING AND NOT PINBALL
SKYDIVING INSTRUCTOR: *strapped to my back* WE DON’T HAVE TO TALK
SKYDIVING INSTRUCTOR: *strapped to my back* WE DON’T HAVE TO TALK
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
ME: WHY’S IT CALLED BOWLING AND NOT PINBALL
SKYDIVING INSTRUCTOR: *strapped to my back* WE DON’T HAVE TO TALK
SKYDIVING INSTRUCTOR: *strapped to my back* WE DON’T HAVE TO TALK
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It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
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[a deer about to sit down to a steak]
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
[a deer about to sit down to a steak]
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And how exactly will Trump “cure cancer” without science and medical research funding?
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
And how exactly will Trump “cure cancer” without science and medical research funding?
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Almost everything wrong with the UK housing market is due to Thatcher kicking off a 45 year long credit bubble by financializing something we all need—homes. It's so pervasive we can barely imagine life without it, but it's destroying our social cohesion and infrastructure now.
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Almost everything wrong with the UK housing market is due to Thatcher kicking off a 45 year long credit bubble by financializing something we all need—homes. It's so pervasive we can barely imagine life without it, but it's destroying our social cohesion and infrastructure now.
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for a modest fee I will comment “ai slop” on your ex boyfriend’s selfie
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
for a modest fee I will comment “ai slop” on your ex boyfriend’s selfie
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Hearing Rachel Reeves explain why it is so important to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty is a reminder of what a Labour government can do. It is also a reminder of how little of this sort of thing they have done and how much more needs to be done.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hearing Rachel Reeves explain why it is so important to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty is a reminder of what a Labour government can do. It is also a reminder of how little of this sort of thing they have done and how much more needs to be done.
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Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
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"The key to Wolfblood's success is the series placing character dynamics at the forefront. Together, the packs combat danger while also maneuvering through platonic adoration, unrequited crushes, first loves, and true love."
Nice to know the pack are still finding new audiences!
Nice to know the pack are still finding new audiences!
This Free-to-Stream 5-Season Sci-Fi Series Is an Underrated Replacement for ‘The Vampire Diaries’
With engaging characters, unique werewolf mythology, and relatable themes, this is the perfect binge-watch for fans of The Vampire Diaries.
collider.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"The key to Wolfblood's success is the series placing character dynamics at the forefront. Together, the packs combat danger while also maneuvering through platonic adoration, unrequited crushes, first loves, and true love."
Nice to know the pack are still finding new audiences!
Nice to know the pack are still finding new audiences!
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It also doesn't really make sense. He already has a codename, it's 007, why does he need another one. Why give the same fake name to multiple agents, you're just making it easier for the enemy to spot them. Why is Teresa's legal name on her gravestone "Teresa Bond" if it's just a codename. Etc
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It also doesn't really make sense. He already has a codename, it's 007, why does he need another one. Why give the same fake name to multiple agents, you're just making it easier for the enemy to spot them. Why is Teresa's legal name on her gravestone "Teresa Bond" if it's just a codename. Etc
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Also why do people present "What if James Bond is actually... a CODENAME" like they're the first person to think of it. Everyone has thought of this, it's a really obvious retcon.
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Also why do people present "What if James Bond is actually... a CODENAME" like they're the first person to think of it. Everyone has thought of this, it's a really obvious retcon.
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That's the way to do it. I remember seeing an episode of Sunset Beach where a voice over announced at the beginning of a scene the character of X would now be played by Y, and as soon as she entered, another character said "have you changed your hair??"
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
That's the way to do it. I remember seeing an episode of Sunset Beach where a voice over announced at the beginning of a scene the character of X would now be played by Y, and as soon as she entered, another character said "have you changed your hair??"
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Bond writers in 2025: agonising over the change of actors
Interview with the Vampire (series) in 2022:
Interview with the Vampire (series) in 2022:
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Bond writers in 2025: agonising over the change of actors
Interview with the Vampire (series) in 2022:
Interview with the Vampire (series) in 2022:
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The Response Ed Should Have Given: "Hearsay were shit, Liberty X were better"
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The Response Ed Should Have Given: "Hearsay were shit, Liberty X were better"
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I keep getting flashbacks to my Vietnam: Myleene Klass attacking Ed Miliband over the mansion tax.
the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I keep getting flashbacks to my Vietnam: Myleene Klass attacking Ed Miliband over the mansion tax.
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The gall to apply to a studio using work you stole from the AD is just...wow. The only case that was similar happened when I was at 343 on Halo 5. Some guy applied using work stolen from the portfolios of a few folks on the team including mine if I recall.
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The gall to apply to a studio using work you stole from the AD is just...wow. The only case that was similar happened when I was at 343 on Halo 5. Some guy applied using work stolen from the portfolios of a few folks on the team including mine if I recall.
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The wildest interview story I've ever heard/confirmed from years ago. A guy brought his folio all printed out and showed it to the interviewer who then called in the art director. The AD sat down and paged through it, asked him questions, then basically said: you're full of it. This is all my work.
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The wildest interview story I've ever heard/confirmed from years ago. A guy brought his folio all printed out and showed it to the interviewer who then called in the art director. The AD sat down and paged through it, asked him questions, then basically said: you're full of it. This is all my work.
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Sorry but I’m at the age that if a colleague spins round in their chair to me and says “Question” then I’m obviously gonna reply “Tell me what you think about me? I buy my own diamonds and I buy my own rings”
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Sorry but I’m at the age that if a colleague spins round in their chair to me and says “Question” then I’m obviously gonna reply “Tell me what you think about me? I buy my own diamonds and I buy my own rings”
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It's part of his occasional series of looking like he's going to beat up people he meets. See for instance, this one of him meeting President of Moldova, Maia Sandu
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It's part of his occasional series of looking like he's going to beat up people he meets. See for instance, this one of him meeting President of Moldova, Maia Sandu
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genuinely not photoshopped before you ask www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
genuinely not photoshopped before you ask www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...
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wtaf is the PM doing here?
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
wtaf is the PM doing here?
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Probably the main lesson I learned, after painting my garden shed black, is that that's a completely impossible thing to do without having 'Paint It, Black' as an ear worm, with the lyrics amended to "I see a shed door and I want it painted black".
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Probably the main lesson I learned, after painting my garden shed black, is that that's a completely impossible thing to do without having 'Paint It, Black' as an ear worm, with the lyrics amended to "I see a shed door and I want it painted black".