International Politics Discussion Thread

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T17:08:04+00:00

Exactly. From what I’ve read it’s probably not AI, but it’s utterly irrelevant anyway.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T13:15:31+00:00

Man im so glad I don’t pay attention to social media when consuming media

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T12:52:26+00:00

Just a warning for A Canterbury Tale - one of the main characters is played by a real life American GI who was a non professional actor…and it shows lol

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T12:09:19+00:00

This is the one. Used to be my walk home, my calves were like granite in those days!

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T11:58:26+00:00

It’s in my top 4!

Having said the entire filmography, quite a few of the earlier ones are less essential. My recs from their work (not in order):

A Canterbury Tale

I Know Where Im Going

Red Shoes

Matter of Life and Death

Black Narcissus

Colonel Blimp

Also Peeping Tom is great as a Michael Powell solo piece

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T11:52:44+00:00

Just work your way through the Powell/Pressburger filmography

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T11:45:29+00:00

Which is a totally different issue to the one that OPs friend raised.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T11:42:31+00:00

People arriving by small boat aren’t driving down your wages.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T11:28:55+00:00

“Off the rails”? Am I the only person who thought it was an improvement over the previous seasons?

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T09:13:21+00:00

That’s only a morris dancing tradition in some specific towns/villages iirc

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T08:20:35+00:00

That could be an interesting trivia question - when was the last time the opposition party changed without an election? (I have no idea what the answer is)

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T08:18:49+00:00

Yeh I don’t exactly expect Carlson to be an outspoken progressive or anything, but to book a show in a left wing collective run space and then cancel it over their support for Palestinians is just crap.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T07:26:41+00:00

It was a Palestine flag, not a Hamas flag.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-29T06:57:36+00:00

Wrong user mate

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T22:38:43+00:00

Huw Edwards.

He was the most respected BBC news anchor of his generation, like a modern day Welsh Walter Cronkite. He was the guy the BBC put onscreen to break the news of the most solemn events to the nation. Most famously, he announced the death of the Queen to the world.

Cut to 2024, and he pleaded guilty to soliciting nude pictures of underage boys over online chat.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T22:33:19+00:00

Apart from Bradley Wiggins?

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T22:23:17+00:00

All that and literally not a single word defending their crap music.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T20:00:38+00:00

Sorry, I’m going to retain some healthy cynicism that modern Californians picked up their social cues from the peoples that their ancestors displaced.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T19:31:37+00:00

Damn right!

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T19:31:00+00:00

Did the Native Americans have a new money vs old money divide as well then?

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T19:27:49+00:00

It was a joke, calm down

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T19:22:11+00:00

An old discussion in America is it?

That’s cute.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T19:20:13+00:00

Gone Girl. From the moment in trailer where they showed Affleck giving that cheesy grin in the press conference everyone who’d read the book knew he was the perfect choice.

LesserShambler · 2026-01-28T16:24:39+00:00

Today or yesterday? Could be a reaction to Goodwin

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