"You might believe that it's a natural inclination towards civil,
socially minded behavior which keeps you from acting on the impulse, but you'd be wrong."

Apologies but i'm finding what you're saying a bit muddled to be honest. What is the "… abstract, synthetic concept, independent of any direct consequences …" you're talking about ? And assuming it exists, why is it different in kind to a moral code or one of the building blocks of one like a sense of or instinct for…

Who knows, maybe ? It doesn't make much sense to me but if it works for you, go for it ;).

The aliens could even have worked IMO, they fit the 50s settings at least as well as Nazis fit the 40s but the film was screwed long before they showed up (the vines - oh god, the vines - and the waterfall killed it before then for me).

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I do enjoy M&S' offering but for my money there's just something about the E numbers in a Morrison's scotch egg which sets it apart. Particularly Es 11 to 13. I've been told it's to do with the plastic containers they keep them in but apparently no-one really knows.

For me, it's the bread-crumby taste of Morrison's scotch eggs which really evokes the auld country though some swear by the sheer boiled egg wrapped in a sort of sausage meat-ness of your more easily found Tesco stylings.

I'd be interested in the evidence that you feel supports that position since to me some system of action that allows for the consideration of other individual's wants and needs seems essential to any functioning society and that's basically all a moral code is (to be honest, without meaning to offend anyone, what…

Yeah, i've bought a few books twice. The wake-up for me was moving a few months back and shifting the same boxes of books I hadn't read that i'd shifted 5 years earlier when i'd moved in, them having sat totally undisturbed the whole time (as well as 30 or 40 all new boxes of books I haven't read that i'd accumulated…

Hmm, i'd add "Justified" and "Person of Interest" from recent years. Buffy and Angel both ended pretty well and back in the day, MASH and Cheers.

I'm the same. John Wayne I can mostly take or leave ("The Searchers" is still one of the best westerns ever made though) but i'll give anything Jimmy Stewart's in at least a chance.

That's a really good point. With non-fiction, different books at the same time can spark off each other and inspire all sorts of other ideas and avenues of interest (which usually leads to buying more books ad infinitum but that's a different story).

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Agreed with the proviso that I really think the thread of the final couple of seasons was always there, right from the very beginning. It always asked some pretty interesting means/ends questions about what the team were doing (literally from the pilot), the way it was going to play out just depended on how the show…

TMWS Liberty Valance is a really interesting film, a self-aware, revisionist western from 1962, barely out of the end of the genre's arguable heyday and still very much within its mainstream popularity window. Well worth a watch.

Trying to read and not liking is fine though, that just means you either don't like the book or it's still in your future.

Too long ?

I used to always have 4 or 5 books on the go but now I don't like reading more than one fiction book at a time (with non-fiction it's fine). Something about juggling multiple fictional universes feels like crossing the streams.

Also, the show pretty much sticks the landing, which doesn't always happen (I binged the whole thing in about 3 weeks a few years back and loved it).

My impression is that the accent we non-Bostonians identify as "a Boston accent" is more from a particular part of the city (and probably more working class) ? So she might have struggled in the same way you can be a born and bred Londoner but do a bad Cockney accent.