I struggle too, and it’s my accent. I get the same thing with American shows too though. I’m pretty much universally using subs these days.

Dog guy had a Yorkshire accent.

Quite. Also, Daleks. I mean, they could be defeated by a really thick shag carpet.

Back in 2006 I managed to quit smoking after 27 years, using Champix, which was prescribed free by the NHS along with a national monitoring and counselling program that actually was a big additional help. I know that’s an anecdote and not data, but I have to say that full-fat national health service has the bandwidth…

Batty McBatface

Bring back stoicism. 

Fortunately, you seldom travel.

A real blockbuster space epic wouldn’t call their character “Lightyear”. It does sound more like a cartoon character.

Um...I think I might be down for this.

Fair enough!

Ageist nonsense.

Same thing happened with Ricky Gervais. Courted the “anti-cancel-culture” crowd, flipped his audience overnight. Hope he’s happy with what he’s wrought.

There are no periods.

Nice to see my home town of Auckland sneaking into the background there.

More of a question than an opinion, but should people who have already had COVID be exempt from the mandate?

Wrong thread.

Field asserts that Netflix is promoting anti-trans sentiment, because The Closer (arguably) contains anti-trans sentiment. Netflix carries a ton of stand-up, including material that is political and identity-politics based. Are Netflix promoting the positions of ALL of those comedians, or is the complainant being…

This does not seem like it’s going to be any good. Way too... I want to say...glossy?

Funny how Pascal’s Wager doesn’t work the other way eh?

So “Mr. McCoy no longer works for the company,”
Nothing to suggest he was fired, or that he’s “out of a job”, or that anything has happened beyond him simply having changed jobs. No aspect of this implies punishment or retribution. But well done for inventing a story from whole cloth.