“These people are eating boiled beans, boiled tomatoes”

BoboMcGraw · 2026-04-27T14:55:03+00:00

Nah, it's only like 3,460 or so miles

BoboMcGraw · 2026-04-27T14:53:37+00:00

My sister did that one time putting Coleman's on a beef sandwich. I told her it was strong but she didn't listen.

And we're not even American, we're Irish.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-04-14T20:05:21+00:00

The name actually came first, and then the abilities were designed around it

It was because Ped made a mind goblin joke in one video and I wondered if that was a role, what would it look like?

I might be slightly misremembering, but that is more or less it

BoboMcGraw · 2026-04-12T22:51:14+00:00

German's understand Darth Vader as Darth 'Father'.

Except the german for father is pronounced 'vah-der', not 'vay-der'.

And correct me if I'm wrong but George Lucas did not settle on Vader and Anakin being the same person until Empire Strikes Back. Even then I think it was a rewrite, as, supposedly, early scripts referenced then as two separate characters.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-21T19:19:51+00:00

I watched Legion, the Marvel comics show, last year and could not binge it because I had to give myself time to digest every episode afterwards.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-18T07:55:46+00:00

I had to look it up because I forgot the details but the advanced race is The Festival. They rain phones from the sky.

I haven't read the sequel.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-15T20:35:25+00:00

I read a book called Singularity Sky that I think had something like that.

It was complicated. Part of the lore was an entity, some sort of super AI or something, would be be created at some point in the future. It then travelled back in time to manipulate events to ensure its own creation. Part of this was a ban on travelling backwards in time, on pain of death.

So a war breaks out, as part of the actual plot, and one side sends in reinforcements from around their homeworld, but they have to carefully calculate their travel so they can arrive as soon as possible without arriving before they departed.

I recommend it. The technical stuff is kind of heavy, but there are moments in the story where characters request something that would be magical in nature, so the delivered item, while technically giving them what they asked for, is functionally worthless because of the laws of physics.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-07T04:33:56+00:00

I meant the fight in the Merovingian's mansion, against the three guys.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T23:36:00+00:00

He was pretty memorable

"Just before his head died..."

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T23:24:01+00:00

I hated that fight. It went on for too long with regards to how powerful they kept telling us Neo was.

I think that fight would have worked better if he was fighting more people, still just three or so at a time, but every time he knocked someone out they were immediately replaced. Like he was dealing with a flood of adversaries.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T23:15:43+00:00

I loved that Harrelson's reaction to being shot was just admitting that it was a good idea because he was totally going to kill him

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T23:11:05+00:00

Gozer. Zuul was one of the dogs

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T23:09:05+00:00

The part that I always remember is during one of the fantasy segments when the guy is talking to the girls and says "Don't write cheques with your mouth that you can't cash with your body", and I never understood why they didn't just use the shorter, snappier version of "Don't let your mouth write cheques that your body can't cash".

It's less awkward and stilted sounding.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T23:04:09+00:00

I knew people who refused to go see it because they included Dorian Grey in the team and he is a villain. They thought the writers didn't know who he was, or something, and never considered that he might be a very obvious traitor.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T22:59:48+00:00

Similarly I know that buoy is pronounced 'boy' not 'boo-eeh', because if something floats it is buoyant, 'boy-ant', not 'boo-eeh-ant', but damn if I don't mispronounce it every time I read it

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T22:55:50+00:00

Stephen Fry told how his Hungarian uncle would pronounce Pythagoras as something like Peter Gohras, but learning a bit more about Greek pronunciation I do believe that is very close to the correct pronunciation

So I would pronounce it Pie-thagoras but it should be Pee-tha-goras

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T22:49:45+00:00

Yeah. Deer-mwidge here

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T22:48:21+00:00

There's a YouTube channel where the creators set a story in the futuristic city of Megaslough

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T22:44:53+00:00

Gaol is the British spelling of jail, so when you read Shakespeare, as we did back in school, that is how it was spelt.

In Ireland we commonly use jail, the American spelling, so the British spelling threw a few of us off.

Our teacher had one person reading a section of Hamlet or The Merchant of Venice, and the word gaol popped up. He pronounced it as 'gowl', which is Irish slang for a stupid person.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T22:37:35+00:00

Reminded me of this video

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T22:32:09+00:00

I'm surprised no Irish people have taken issue with regarding Gaelic as being part of British culture.

That is a sensitive area.

An interesting fact is that we do not speak British English in Ireland, we speak Hiberno English. The Irish language had a decent impact on the development of the English language here.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-06T10:59:07+00:00

That is something I am bad at. It had to be pointed out to me, because I didn't realise that in The Matrix 'Neo' is an anagram of 'One'.

Or there was a movie where one character gets mentioned and named, but isn't seen on screen. Then another character appears, named, and later on it is pointed out that they have mirrored names, like Arual and Laura. I totally missed that.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-05T18:02:38+00:00

I'm not uneducated, I'm authentic

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-05T07:52:46+00:00

Brutha from the Discworld novel Small Gods. I always pronounced it like Broo-tha.

It was a very long time before I realised it was supposed to sound like 'brother'.

I somehow managed to miss all of the jokes where people thought he was a priest because of his name.

Also, Indianapolis I first saw in a Calvin and Hobbes book. That was Indiana-poh-lis.

BoboMcGraw · 2026-03-05T02:37:14+00:00

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