I do do other work for companies that have set freelance rates and I just have to accept them, but those are my least favourite jobs :)

I'm contemplating having dinner in Wetherspoons right now!

I used to go for a pint on my own all the time and nobody ever hit on me. The secret is to be Lena Dunham-sized or above.

I have a kind of similar situation; I used to work for a small company (A) that got hired to do some writing for another small company (B), so basically my time was hired out by company A at a certain rate. We started off quite low but my boss kept putting the rates up as we got better known etc. I then got made…

Fingers crossed for you. Mine's a couple of weeks late at the moment, and there's no chance of being up the stick so it's either a very early menopause or stress. So just to say stress can totally do it. I bet if you do a test, the relief would mean it will arrive. best wishes, anyway.

I saw and liked Phoenix!

username/comment synergy!

You mean categories like Films Featuring Men Sitting On Park Benches and Slightly Depressing Films and Suspenseful Yet Not Thrilling Films don't help you figure out what to watch?

I'm new here but I love Party Down. is that a faux pas? should I make my excuses and leave?

I was watching something the other day which kept talking about RDDs, ie radiological dispersion devices, ie dirty bombs, but all I could think about was Ron Donald Don'ts. And now this post is probably on some kind of watch list.

It's been done: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It works best if you engage with the overall themes - propaganda is fed to us to distract us from what's really going on, our heroes are created rather than born, etc - and don't focus too closely on the details. Because otherwise it becomes a series about a fascist regime that discovered that putting beautiful young…

For sure.

If they got Kit Harington to play young Haymitch, it coud just be Pompeii all over again. With additional Snow intertextuality.

I think that would have been better, for sure.

replace Daisy with Bobbi and Hunter and, absolutely.

awww I like Hawkeye. I like Renner as Hawkeye. tthey decided to do terrible things to him, but those weren't his fault.

I think you'll find it's called the pool of shirtlessness, and is therefore entirely justified.

the only good thing about limited crossoverness is limiting the amount of Quake we have to watch tbf

the thing I most remember about Ultron was that a guy - a proper fan of the MCU, so it meant something - had told me that I was the only person he wanted to see it with. swoon, right? but by the time it actually came out, he'd dumped me fairly heartlessly, so when I went to see it I spent half the time in a mood,…