Tibet

When I lived in New Zealand, there was a candidate for parliament called Dick Quax. His billboards stood proudly errect on many street corners.

I was/am a little sceptical of this one, because it requires cutting a hole in the wall, pushing the hutch out of the way to enter, and then pulling it back into place to hide the hole when they leave, all without leaving marks - e.g. scrape marks on the carpet/floor.

Am I getting this right? They cut a hole in the wall, pushed the hutch out of the way to enter your apartment, then exited through the hole andpulled the hutch back into position to hide the hole?

“I’m pretty sure he made those comments to Samoans, not Kiwi”

Yeah, young people are still buying a lot of two-wheel vehicles here in the UK. It’s just that the vast majority of them are scooters. They’re nimble, small enough to not get stuck in heavy town traffic, parkable more-or-less anywhere, indestructible, low-fuel drinking, and most of all, cheap.

Please don’t be. It’s just life.

My mother had dementia and once wandered off and was found hugging a tree in someone’s back garden several streets away. Your story has given me a bad case of the sads, especially since she got really bad while I was still a self-obsessed tenager, and never got to know her as an adult. I miss her.

One final cherry on the cake that hasn’t been mentioned is that the Maybot was wearing a bracelet very clearly showing part of a portrait by Frida Kahlo, not only a woman who literally had an affair with Trotsky and was a member of the Mexican Communist Party, but the portrait shown on the bracelet is part of a…

There is an excellent discussion of this film, and the advance computer graphics, on the goodbadflicks channel, here:

I suggested ‘Apocalypse Now’ as a first date movie when I asked out the woman who is my now-wife (smooth move, doublerum. Smooth....).

If memory serves, and crudely speaking, we purchased the wrong version, plus development has overrun by 6-7 yers.

Isn’t King notorious for basically using his fame to railroad his editors? I remember reading the re-issue of ‘The Stand’, which had an additional 30-odd pages of King post-script musings about his writing and the book, including, specifically, his gloating about how he was famous and powerful enough so that he had,…

By ‘demented trots’, do you mean ‘the mostly young and centre-left members of Momentum’ (a group associated with, but otherwise completely separate to, the UK Labour party), almost none of whom are trots, but who are extremely riled up about: 1) the current state of the country under the conservatives, and 2) the…

I took to Potter more test with my 7-year old daughter. She ended up as a Sytherin. I’m only slightly disturbed....

It’s a (disputed) John Steinbeck quote:

A similar thing happened to me when I took a spill in loose gravel off my learner Honda 250 V-something shitbox some years ago. Broke some of the lights, and bent the forks out of alignment in the headstock. As I was standing contemplating the damage, and as it was slowly dawning on me that I was 30-odd miles from…

“You will be driven to suicide by the family’s child, who is Satan reincarnate”

Yes, but there are plenty of smaller sects as well as the Anglicns, who, as you say, are mostly as timid as... uh....church mice. And the smaller sects tend to be a bit more millitant.

Don’t be so sure about that. There’s an awful lot of really quiet ‘submarine’ christians over here in the UK.