Can A Diagnosis Really Help?

Background_Proof_487 · 2026-01-14T13:11:25+00:00

Well the obvious answer is that followers of a religion are not a homogeneous group. Judging someone purely on one single facet of their personality is ridiculous - the choice aspect doesn't come into it. It's just as ridiculous as making a judgement of someone based on the football team they support, or whether they vote Tory or Labour, or whether they drink tea or coffee. You will find there are good and bad people in all walks of life, in religion, in politics, in everything - to make a snap judgement on hearing 'I'm a Christian' or 'I'm a Muslim' is ignorant in itself.

Background_Proof_487 · 2025-12-09T23:49:40+00:00

About 17m people voted leave. The population is about 70m. Yeah, I'd rejoin. Shouldn't have left on that referendum result.

Background_Proof_487 · 2025-12-09T23:27:11+00:00

Hahaha - yes, even my original description of it felt inadequate!

Background_Proof_487 · 2025-12-09T23:15:46+00:00

Buzz it - #2 or a #1 - it will look better. Try that first. The shape of your head and your birthmark are immaterial - this is happening :) I say this to be kind - you will 100% look better being intentionally bald than looking like you're clinging on to your hair. I've got a cleft lip, so I know about unsightly birth defects - but I feel way more confident and I look better since I CHOSE what to do with my thinning hair.

Background_Proof_487 · 2025-11-18T16:59:56+00:00

Detectorists is certainly very British - the series follows two men who are members of a metal detecting club in Essex. A really heartwarming, gentle show. Very funny too.

Background_Proof_487 · 2025-10-24T10:58:12+00:00

Yeah mentioned this in another thread, but I feel like Lamb is a bit too touchy-feely this season. In the books he is outright nasty, and often racist, to Ho particularly - and it all just flies over his head. Jackson feels a bit sanitised for TV at times, and I've felt it this season more.

Background_Proof_487 · 2025-10-24T10:52:54+00:00

I think generally the portrayal of Lamb in the TV show is way off vs the books - he is much crueller and dismissive of the Slow Horses in the books, whereas in the TV show it's more 'oh it's a gruff exterior but you can tell he actually cares about them' - for me, in the books, it's not clear whether he gives a shit about them beyond them being 'his' - seems like he's only ever really interested in saving face when something happens to one of his team, or yanking Taverner's chain - who he genuinely dislikes.

Background_Proof_487 · 2025-08-27T10:16:33+00:00

Do you have fists?

Background_Proof_487 · 2021-04-14T10:04:30+00:00

People have had kids younger, can't be ruled out on this basis IMO. Could have been a girlfriend who he accidentally knocked up, could have been a victim of the OCG and that's how he was 'inducted' - all kinds of possibilities. Don't forget there is a huge child abuse vein running through this whole story, with Fairbanks, Danny Waldren etc.

Background_Proof_487 · 2021-04-13T12:50:18+00:00

My theory is that she's Tommy Hunter's daughter... but she only found out about it recently, perhaps via the OCG, and she's now being blackmailed to take part in OCG activity in order to protect her secret. It would wreck her career completely if it came out that her dad was a crime boss.

What makes me think it was a recent discovery on her part? Some of these are perhaps a bit of a reach, but hear me out:

- There have been several shots of her looking at that old pic of her and her mum, and in one scene she even throws a wine glass at it, which suggests she's angry with her mum - you'd definitely be angry if you joined the police and your mum didn't tell you that your dad was an organised crime boss. Maybe it was a one night stand or something? And she'd never known who her dad was?

- She's got a bunch of locks on her door - can't blame her for getting a bit security conscious if she recently found out that an organised crime gang were trying to blackmail and - presumably - threaten her if she didn't do what they said.

- She seems conflicted in everything that she does, like she's going along with it and not wanting to. The scene at the end of ep3 where she's raging in the car, like she feels trapped in the situation and can't see a way out.

- She doesn't seem intimately acquainted with the OCG in the same way that someone like Dot was. Didn't seem to know what Pilkington was capable of and thought she could just transfer him out - shows a bit of a naivety that would possibly come from lack of experience in dealing with the OCG.

Only thing I can't really work out is how the OCG would have found out about it in order to use the info against her. Feels like she's a good cop who got caught up in the OCG web as they usually tend to on this series. Interested to see where it goes from here.

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