You joke, but I hope like crazy that they don't radically change this. Same writers, same actors (where feasible), same art style. The first two seasons were excellent and surprisingly deep. Far better than I ever expected it to be.

Watership Down is the stand-out for me. Your child is never too young to learn about the horrors of fascism!

I always thought that decimilsation of the currency was a mistake. Now I have one more reason to want to go back! ;)

Interesting. John Lithgow is very entertaining. I might well give this a watch then. Thank you.

Huh? I've never even visited South Africa. You were the one that described people as "filthy boers".

To this day I still enjoy finding opportunities to say "My god, it's full of stars…"

Well when I said "poison gas", I'm only using Churchill's own words and those of army and cabinet members who used that exact term. And your down-playing it as "tear gas" shows a lack of understanding. You're trying to down-play it as that used by police forces today but what we're actually talking about are chemicals…

Neville Chamberlain is sadly misremembered and mainly for the quote "Peace in our time" after signing an agreement with Hitler. A couple of things that get overlooked. Firstly and foremost, Germany was already on a war-footing and ramping up with new weapons and a strong military. Britain most assuredly was not. What…

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Sounds like a fun story. Is it available anywhere? :)

A year. If I had someone to take care of the moulds and actually making the hulls. Not sure where I could source HFC in a way that wouldn't be easily traced so would have to either find someone skilled who could make them (the principles are easy enough but you need precision and quality components) or drop that part…

Now THAT should have been the headline! :)

The Germans had Pervitin, the Allies had Methedrine.. The German drugs were more potent but ironically this turned out to be a negative as it led to greater periods of exhaustion. It's mentioned in the excellent book "Drugs without the hot air" by David Nutt. He was the person who was appointed by the government to…

True, but usually people have a bad trip because they're pushed into taking it by people around them or otherwise are really not comfortable doing it. If you're relaxed and want to, then you ought to be fine. At least with LSD. Now nutmeg - that is NOT something people should take.

Now I have an image of Presto pulling great bags of cocaine out of his hat. :(

If I were a drug cartel, I would be playing around with drones like crazy right now. And not just aerial ones but automated subs. The chief advantages of this:
1. Without living, breathing crew the sub can be made smaller and stay down far longer. Semi-indefinitely really - it could sit on the bed for weeks offshore…

Churchill was a horrible human being who hated Black people, thought using poison gas against kurds was a good idea to "put a lively terror in them" and was about as upper class establishment as they come. Look up his childhood home sometime - it's called Blenheim Palace and it's even larger than the name suggests. He…

Cocaine turns you into a complete arsehole for a short period of time where you think you're funny but you're not. And then it wears off and dumps you in the gutter. Worse, it's habit forming and bad for you. Nobody should be recommending Cocaine. Take ecstacy which makes you feel genuinely good and for longer and at…

Really, I've only seen the film once weeks ago. The last line as I remember it was "Yes, a little". I know I truncated it slightly, but as written it really relies on Mads Mikkelsen's excellent delivery to work properly, so I wrote what read best. Or did I get it truly incorrect rather than just truncating it?

Well guns are a small amount of cheap-ish metals and a lot of precision machining. And movie popcorn is a subsidy for the movie itself as it's a "hidden cost" in so far as people don't consider it so much allowing and cinemas to compete on ticket price but still make money. The incredients are staggeringly cheap. You…