Ah. Michael Sheard, Prince of Hitlers.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T JINX IT

True (though to be pedantic, the Stone Tapes really isn't a kids programme and this is the first time I've seen it referred to as one).

I loved his surprisingly sweet - if a little slight - novel, Whitstable. Didn't register it was the same writer for ages.

It's my understanding that the surgical precision is more of a tale that's grown with the telling than anything. But bear in mind this is all just me having occasionally read articles and thought 'huh, neat' rather than a belief formed from years of study!

I'm a fan of the theory that Jack the Ripper didn't actually exist (at least as as a single, serial killing, person). A violent death for sex workers - or just working class women - wasn't particularly uncommon, and a bunch of unrelated deaths ending up attributed to basically the bogeyman just because it's the…

Yeah, maybe it's just because I live somewhere with not terrible - not perfect but not terrible - wage and labour laws, but I don't really get the argument that hiring a cleaning, laundry, whatever service is intrinsically exploitative*?
There are issues with agencies treating staff poorly of course, but that's not…

Serious question to anybody who has employed one: What does a professional organiser actually do?
My house is chaos, and after years of being skint I'm in a place now where I could possibly put aside some cash to get somebody to help de-chaos it, but what do they actually *do*? Do they actually process your clutter or…

Lancashire, not Yorkshire or Liverpool (though Liverpool did used to be in Lancashire). It's a whole Thing.

We actually know a fair bit about the workers who built the pyramids. Down to the rates of pay (pretty decent) and the crew nicknames ('X's Boozehounds', 'Y's Pussy Chasers', the same sort of thing work crews call themselves nowdays).
They weren't slaves, they were a mix of small settled 'mill town' style communities…

My reading was that Takei feels that having Sulu be openly gay in the new films retrospectively makes his performance as Sulu into a closeted gay man rather than a heterosexual. And that this - as a former closeted gay man - makes him uncomfortable on a personal level.

I'd thought the same as you (that it was a sudden thing) but I was skimming the reviews here yesterday and realised that, no, it's quietly been a thing for practically the whole third season.

You fucking idiot.

It's not even particularly little known (in the UK that is. Presumably it never made it to America). It's just that it's from a programme that was on fifteen years ago. This is like if somebody in the late eighties kept saying 'I know NUTHINK' at work and the newspapers ran with it.

The Legend Of Hard-Core

My spouse, an adult human in late middle age with a masters degree, *loves* that fucking film. They honest to god quote it regularly (mainly 'never worry, underdog is… furry?').
Not in a douchey ironic way. They're just broken inside somehow I guess?

Carry On Cabby is just a genuinely great film.

I once saw a jpeg of Eva Green's head badly photoshopped onto a porn star's nude body. It's haunted me ever since as the most nonsensical thing I've ever seen. It has no reason to be. IT HAS NO REASON TO BE.

Lillian says something that suggests their building is actually a tugboat (similar to the joke in the previous series about it having 'real floors, yup, definitely not painted dirt'). I don't think there's a deeper layer to it than that, but I might have been missing something.

Cyndee was kidnapped from the steak house where she worked, so presumably she was at least three or four years older than Kimmy (I'm not in the US so I don't know what age teens can start work from). I think the need to take care of her is just general Kimminess.