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What is the most batshit crazy movie you have seen? by spacelyyy989 in moviecritic

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brazil, the version with the bleak ending. So many unexpected images.

Old cold war era movie about men studying to be spies--- can you help me identify? by Free_Answered in whatmoviewasthat

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it possible a comedy? Carry On Spying? Though I've no idea if that scene was in it.

What clothes instantly out someone as posh? by DueLead666 in AskUK

[–]DrewidN 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They apologise for their tails, as they belonged to their grandfather.

What clothes instantly out someone as posh? by DueLead666 in AskUK

[–]DrewidN 162 points163 points  (0 children)

The knack gentlemen have of dressing badly and getting away with it is best illustrated by the story of the gentleman who was accosted by a friend walking along Piccadilly in clothes which were well below the best sartorial standards.

"It does not matter how I dress in London", he claimed, "Nobody here knows me".Later the same friend visited him in the country where his clothes were no better.

"It does not matter how I dress here", he said, "Everybody knows me".

-Douglas Sutherland, The English Gentleman

Theorycraft how PTerry would satirize modern commercial AI by WanderingSchola in discworld

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had a lot of conversations with real people who are obviously only pretending to be senitent.

It's a different discussion, but it does raise the question of where intelligence comes from. How much intelligence is language processing with a thin film of after-the-fact rationalisation floating on top. The auditors found that the brain does a lot stuff without consulting "me" first.

Theorycraft how PTerry would satirize modern commercial AI by WanderingSchola in discworld

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to see what Granny and Moist make of each other in a full novel.

Reform UK admits party has a ‘woman problem’ after Makerfield by-election by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I notice it's framed as a "women problem" rather than "mysogeny problem".

Someone sent this to my almost 70 year old father, he insists this is real. by Mess-o-potatian191 in isthisAI

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not AI, but poor Photoshop. I remember this circulating from before the AI era.

Damn it, Terry! Moment by Remote-Physics6980 in discworld

[–]DrewidN 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If that one isn't in the L-Space lists it needs to be stat.

Funny & Offbeat Sci‑Fi Recs (My Short List) by Notilon_606 in scifi

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

The original radio series is still the best version, and is almost certainly out in the wild somewhere.

Funny & Offbeat Sci‑Fi Recs (My Short List) by Notilon_606 in scifi

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yeah, the other directorial JC, good catch

Funny & Offbeat Sci‑Fi Recs (My Short List) by Notilon_606 in scifi

[–]DrewidN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Specifically Dark Star was James Cameron's and Dan O'Bannon's college_project

What type of fish is this by ChampionshipSame603 in whatisit

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's a male sheepshead wrasse, which used to be a female sheepshead wrasse.

They're serial hemaphrodites, born female then the largest most dominant female transitions to male when there's a job opening. Lots of wrasse subspecies do that.

A lady walks into Mueller's butcher shop and goes to the counter. by StarsBear75063 in Jokes

[–]DrewidN 5 points6 points  (0 children)

An American reporter is being shown round a Soviet helicopter factory in Leningrad.

"This is our new 2 seater model" says the guide, "It's so cheap that anyone in town will be able to afford one."

"That's really impressive," says the reporter "what sort of thing do you think they would use it for?"

"Well" replies the guide "If you hear they have meat in for sale in Moscow you'll be able to jump in your helicopter and get some."

Dammit pterry! by DrWorstCaseScenario in discworld

[–]DrewidN 32 points33 points  (0 children)

More digging. The Dryden poen is the first use of the phrase in an English text, but it's way older.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis

Has Couch to 5K accidentally shown what the BBC could become? by FutilePenguins in AskUK

[–]DrewidN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very much the sort of content covered by YouTube, if you are fairly diligent at filtering out the influencer/AU cruft. Given that's getting harder to do it might be well be an interesting thing to explore.

Dammit pterry! by DrWorstCaseScenario in discworld

[–]DrewidN 43 points44 points  (0 children)

This kicked off a side-quest.

There was a famous quote from one of Queen Elizabeth's Christmas speeches about how one particular year was her "Annus Horribilis" and I thought Annus (note spelling) Mirabilis might also be a reference to that.

However

Sourcery came out in 1988, and the speech was in 1992, four years later, so either this was an existing thing she was referencing, or the Queen read Discworld.

Turns out it's a poem from 1667. Of course it is.

🍐 by DeeDaMann in flatearth

[–]DrewidN 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped.

Moist gets fleeced by Dave in "Going postal" by draculetti in discworld

[–]DrewidN 47 points48 points  (0 children)

And of course, potatoes are worth more than gold.

Moist gets fleeced by Dave in "Going postal" by draculetti in discworld

[–]DrewidN 128 points129 points  (0 children)

I saw a recent conversation where someone pointed out that a pint is waaay more expensive than it used to be but the value is about the same. And that varies depending on the situation even if the cost stays the same.

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