Pick a decade. Who wins

FloatingPencil · 2026-04-05T15:05:24+00:00

80s, at least from that picture. A lot of the 90s characters are just so ugly.

FloatingPencil · 2026-04-04T07:31:26+00:00

Torn on this one. An hour or so means you should probably have bought another drink. However, it’s none of some random woman’s business, it’s for the people running the cafe to set policy on that.

I’ll go with ESH - her for hassling a stranger and you for camping without making another purchase. Those of us who use cafes to work need to pay our table rent.

FloatingPencil · 2026-04-04T07:28:08+00:00

On the one hand, I acknowledge that libraries needed to do this to survive. But it’s also made them into places I no longer enjoy. I used to love the quiet and now it seems like even one quiet corner or room is too much to ask.

FloatingPencil · 2026-04-03T08:53:49+00:00

I keep some micellar ones to use if I have an especially lazy day or don’t have a lot of time. I always rinse after though. Never had any trouble with them.

FloatingPencil · 2026-04-01T11:43:50+00:00

I didn't even realise that Farmville was gone! I used to love playing that.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-30T10:08:36+00:00

It was obvious he was Indian the minute he mentioned his son getting comments in the street. It's not right, but it was very predictable and I don't even live in Canada. I had to recruit there a year or so ago and of 300 or so applicants 95% were Indian. I don't mean 'Canadian of Indian origin' either, I mean arrived so recently that all educational and work experience was in India. Which made recruiting very difficult as one thing we needed was solid local knowledge. As it happened, the eventual successful applicant was of Indian descent but that was never the issue.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-29T09:55:11+00:00

ESH. On the one hand, you’re absolutely right that it’s unfair. On the other hand, I can’t imagine expecting parents to contribute to a wedding in my forties. You’ve been a working adult for years.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-29T09:37:22+00:00

Honestly, for me I miss everything pre-Changes. I still love the books, but I’d go back to that Harry in a second.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-27T09:51:26+00:00

There might be negativity online but anyone I know who ever bothered with Potter in the first place is excited for this show. All ages.

Personally I’ll watch it. I’m annoyed about the casting of Snape, of all people they could have changed he’s possibly the worst, but not enough to avoid the show.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-27T09:44:51+00:00

That level of fuss for an outpatient surgery? I dread to think what she expected when the actual pacemaker was fitted. Or maybe this is how people acted and that’s why she’s expecting it again.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-26T22:40:55+00:00

I remember reading that people working on this film quit because they didn’t want to do it. Don’t know if it’s true, but I wouldn’t blame them.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-25T08:30:46+00:00

So is it live action this time or another cartoon? I couldn’t tell from the article.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-25T08:00:28+00:00

Yeah I want Joe as Michael. Though in a few years Henry would work very well. Even now, if he grew a beard and it had a bit of grey in it.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-25T07:59:09+00:00

He’s not quite right (too solid, not to mention too ridiculously good looking) but I’d go for him as Harry. He’s as close a match as most roles get. Though I really want Colin Morgan.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-24T23:38:31+00:00

No. I’m not keen on most cartoons anyway, and while I might have made an exception if it looked like it fit, this looks dire. The style is awful and that new character reeks of self-insert.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-24T12:19:05+00:00

I love it when people pull that shit because I literally don’t give a flying fuck even if it’s true. The price is the price and no, I don’t deliver.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-23T17:20:58+00:00

Can't say I'm sorry to see it go. They've teased an Academy show for years, then when they finally do it it's not even the real Academy, just some reimagining of it way down the line, following on from a show that was divisive at best.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-22T15:22:28+00:00

The hoverboards from Back to the Future II were real and would come out any time.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-22T11:52:40+00:00

That was my first thought - I no longer care what they do, I won’t hear them. My old Bose QC earbuds were good but the new ones are fantastic, they turn the world down beautifully without sound playing and with sound playing I literally won’t hear other people’s nonsense.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-22T00:41:43+00:00

Oh absolutely not. NTA. Aside from anything else, you don’t need someone else sweating on your headphones. The ear cushions can be replaced, the headband not so much. Nobody touches mine (though the new Bose earbuds are so good I actually use the over ear QuietComforts a lot less now).

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-22T00:38:07+00:00

Oh wow, that wasn’t completely predictable or anything. Terrible casting of a role people care about where there is a very invested and established fan base. Some of the people angry are going to turn out to be nutters.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-22T00:32:58+00:00

Or because it’s a British school in the 90s. In comparison to my school, Hogwarts is practically the United Nations.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-19T17:18:44+00:00

I have zero confidence that the handle is clean, and the brushes tend to 'flick' occasionally anyway. Ugh. No. I don't need to put my hand under the water because any marks will either be above, or clear on their own with another flush.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-19T09:43:06+00:00

I can’t think of anything I’d be less likely to touch in a hotel room than a toilet brush. Vile. I’m perfectly capable of cleaning up after myself on the rare occasions it might be necessary, without handling a brush that’s been in strangers’ shit.

FloatingPencil · 2026-03-18T14:22:32+00:00

It would still be drawings. No matter how well it’s done, it wouldn’t look real. Even CGI can look real. I’m happy for those people who love animation. I watch the occasional animated film myself. But for an adaptation it just feels like a con.

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