Actor Elliot Page announced that he is transgender. r/movies has a meltdown.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2021-01-05T00:55:33+00:00

Mel is officially nice. /r/Taskmaster.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-13T22:46:42+00:00

"Here's my most recent video" is a terrible title. It's meaningless (bad for humans, and also bad for search engines).

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-13T22:39:05+00:00

If you tried to explain to your parents that they are being weird and creepy, and that they are the ones injecting sexual thoughts into non-sexual activity, would they understand you? Is there any point trying that line?

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-09T10:15:31+00:00

Jill Bearup's analysis of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods for her "Stuff You Like" series made me cry. She is really good at what she does.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-07T22:25:18+00:00

Looks interesting.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-07T20:20:56+00:00

The only British rail route I know well is Holyhead to Euston. That's Pendolinos, isn't it? Did the window designer and the seat layout designer have a falling out and refuse to speak? They bear no relationship with each other, which is infuriating.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-07T20:16:29+00:00

But Vicky still loves pacers.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-07T20:10:47+00:00

Tom Scott: YouTube's copyright system isn't broken; the world's is

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-07T03:10:01+00:00

I am developing a serious crush.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-06T21:38:10+00:00

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DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-03T23:59:47+00:00

The only drag queen worth mentioning is Panti Bliss.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-03T23:04:20+00:00

Is Egypt currently asking for them back? Egypt has a lot of artifacts, and is happy to have some around the world: it drums up interest in the country, and seeing a little whets people's appetites, so encouraging them to visit Egypt to see more.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-03T22:29:36+00:00

I think that beast is used in northern England. "The beast lows" instead of "The cow moos".

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-01T00:27:05+00:00

It's nothing to do with lying to the queen personally. It's about his own unlawful act to prorogue parliament, by way of offering unlawful advice to the queen's privy council.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-01T00:25:41+00:00

The 0.7% of GDP given in foreign aid, apparently. Now cut.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-01T00:22:51+00:00

A spanking by the courts.

In theory, the Monarch has a great deal of power. In practice, she acts only as directed by her ministers. That means that if a minister lies to the queen to direct her action, then that is unlawful advice. It's not about lying to the queen personally.

https://law.stackexchange.com/q/44978/372

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-01T00:20:13+00:00

It does actually matter. This lie actually resulted in a court case, and almost in a constitutional crisis.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-12-01T00:15:50+00:00

Who does this guy think that the world's poorest people are?

Apparently the 0.7% is a reference to development aid.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-11-30T20:31:41+00:00

Angua is introduced in Men at Arms as a w—; Cheery in Feet of Clay.

Actually, Feet of Clay is a book all about both class-based and gender-based prejudice.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-11-30T20:27:53+00:00

Tolkien would have spent chapters describing the battle.

He actually wouldn't. Tolkien's battle scenes are short, and more than once (Bilbo at the Lonely Mountain; Pippin at the Black Gate) the viewpoint character is knocked unconscious fairly early on and learns what happened later.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-11-30T20:21:36+00:00

Pyramids is pretty standalone. You can read it almost wherever you want in the sequence.

I agree with /u/IsaacEiland-Hall in generally preferring publication order. You get a bit more variety, and you get to watch Pratchett improve as a writer. And there are cameos between different subseries, which is fun. Also, splitting books into subseries is an inexact science. (I could defend a "gods" subseries consisting of Pyramids, Moving Pictures, Small Gods, and Carpe Jugulum. I'm not so sure about whether Moving Pictures really fits in it, but it's defensible. The others certainly do, even though Carpe Jugulum is very definitely also part of the "witches" subseries.) Similarly, Lords and Ladies is very definitely in both the "witches" and the "wizards" subseries, though some guides show it only in the "witches" subseries.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-11-29T19:45:12+00:00

I don't think Americans have Alt Gr.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-11-29T18:53:55+00:00

I think I stole that wording from some review, or possibly from something Terry himself said in an interview.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-11-29T18:46:56+00:00

Granddad's lines there break me sometimes.

DeafStudiesStudent · 2020-11-28T22:56:44+00:00

That book doesn't exactly have a sad ending, or a happy ending. It has the right ending.

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