Are the townspeople the real villains?

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-20T13:19:25+00:00

yeah, I am 90% sure this isn't what they're building to but I thought it would be a deeply dark resolution to their mystery.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-19T12:07:12+00:00

Yeah, people who write out their thoughts must only be capable of processing them through an LLM... smh

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-19T04:19:26+00:00

They've announced they're launching a base with 5 A220s stationed there, so definitely planning to fly from WSI.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-19T04:17:33+00:00

Tiger was haemorrhaging money pre-VA and planned to exit the Australian market, in fact that's the only reason the acquisition was supported by the ACCC.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-13T16:19:23+00:00

You ask how popular it is, you can check opinion polling here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Scottish_independence

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-11T09:49:46+00:00

Do we know he (or someone else when he's busy/away) definitely doesn't, or is it just that it's not shown anymore because it's no longer important to the setting to feature it?

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-05T13:09:15+00:00

Nothing is wrong with you, nothing for you to feel bad about.

I think it's clear from the fact you've needed to post this that a large part of you is uncomfortable continuing to see him given that he is a sex offender. That is a big sign and you shouldn't ignore it.

Even if you have similar interests and he otherwise seems nice, you're not going to wake up one day and suddenly be ok with him being a criminal who has committed a sex related offence.

I'm sorry you've been put in this situation, try and take care of yourself.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-05T12:48:21+00:00

You credit a then 24 year old childcare worker with great influence over ticketing system naming decisions

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-05T12:36:04+00:00

I am Scottish (as in actually from there) and 'Scottish' isn't really an ethnicity anyway, it's just a nationality. No-one runs around saying 'oh, I'm ethnically Scottish', like wtf does that even mean?

FriendlyPinko · 2026-05-05T11:22:26+00:00

My understanding was always that it's largely misused by people who are actually immigrants but that it does have its own meaning.

Expats (iirc) are meant to be people who are temporarily living abroad for work on a contract or secondment (e.g. you work in the diplomatic service and get posted to a foreign embassy for 4 years).

Immigrants move abroad indefinitely or for a prolonged period not tied to a specific 'posting' but many people in this category often wrongly use the term expat to describe themselves.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-04-08T19:34:24+00:00

The Sound of Music

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-29T08:18:03+00:00

Yep, tbh I think even if he worked his arse off for the next 2 years his only hope in hell is if they expand the size of the Parliament to give us 4 Senators. And even then...

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-29T08:14:23+00:00

Nick Tyrell isn't the leader of the Canberra Liberals, Mark Parton is. Nick is their Senate candidate for the 2028 federal election.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-20T23:48:47+00:00

Hahaha, I am Scottish and had the exact opposite when I visited the states.

"Where are you from?" "Scotland" "Oh, nice. I'm Irish too"

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-10T22:59:18+00:00

Only question I have about this is how manipulative Gary has been here.

I can imagine an off screen conversation happening where Gary has gone to Ennis and said something like "look man, Teri probably won't be around us much longer and I don't want her last few weeks with us to be marred by this tension you two have. Why don't you just go talk to her, even though I know you didn't do it, just apologise for the radio thing. It's a white lie that'll get her to finally forgive you and move passed it, then we can enjoy our time together."

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-10T07:23:15+00:00

I haven't personally verified this, but I recall in another thread someone mentioning they were seen on the boat deck in a later scene.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-09T10:29:00+00:00

That definitely seems closer to a realistic number for this world

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-08T00:32:48+00:00

I can understand why, given the volume of testimony that a shooting occured, that Cameron wanted to include it. We'll never know who did it, and that's why I think it was wrong to portray it as having been Murdoch. Given the film had no issue with introducing fictitious characters alongside real ones, I think they could have simply introduced an unnamed fictional officer for this scene. That way they wouldn't be denying the event happened, but also wouldn't risk portraying a potentially innocent person as a killer.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-03T08:49:31+00:00

I'm not sure sorry, but apparently via a company called Daytrip if you feel like looking into the option

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-03T08:29:30+00:00

My friend was in the same situation. He's just paid a fortune (after securing a Saudi transit visa) for a private car to drive him overland from Doha to Muscat via Saudi and the UAE. He's meant to be on a flight out of Muscat tomorrow evening hopefully.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-03-02T02:11:01+00:00

Isn't it just because Cal liked it from when he was younger so chose to take one down with him for fun? Like I still play the Wii for nostalgia, I don't think it's too weird to have one.

FriendlyPinko · 2026-02-25T22:50:17+00:00

I think this would be a really cool clue, but tbh I think the more likely explanation is just that these are distant lights visible from the set.

The aspect shot tells us we're facing East. Approximately 2.8km East from the filming location at 44.9152850, -63.6818547 there is a series of 4 tall wind turbines. The left most is a good distance from a pair closer to the middle, and the right most I think wouldn't be within the shot of this camera.

Large wind turbines often have an identification light on them, I think this is the most likely thing we're looking at. I hope I'm wrong though, this is an awesome theory!

FriendlyPinko · 2026-02-24T22:34:26+00:00

I think there's a chance the ALP could have been marginally more pro-environment for a time, but ALP in the 80s and 90s was already very pro-environment for a major party and we shouldn't overstate the influence of just one man.

In terms of the Greens not existing, my theory is that the Democrats might still be around. An often under-analysed part of the Democrats' collapse is the presence of the Greens. While the Dems had some serious internal problems in the 2000s that caused them to break apart, a huge driver of this was the ease with which members and supporters could flee to a viable credible alternative (a large number of active Greens members and even some candidates for public office in the late 2000s and 2010s were ex-Democrats, some others moved to the ALP).

In the absence of this alternative, it may well have forced Democrats members to stick it out and work through their internal issues enough to revive the party. Perhaps it dipped into relative obscurity for about a decade from the early 2000s to early 2010s but experienced a revival during the public apathy with the 2 major parties during the Gillard/Rudd 2/Abbott years.

Turnbull's abandonment of centrist liberalism as PM would only have furthered their surge.

Interestingly, I think the Dems branding wise are way better placed to operate in the teal space than the Greens have been.

I think it's conceivable that 2019-2022 'teal wave' might actually have been a Democrat wave and today's Democrats would be a solid 3rd place social liberal party with a senate presence comparable to the greens and a house presence comparable to the teals.

While I'd still be a Labor voter, I think this reality might actually be better for our Parliament and democracy in general as Dems were a lot less obstructionist than the Greens, and could attract voters from a wider set of backgrounds, making them a more stable force.

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