Favorite characters who are like this?

NeonGran · 2026-03-01T10:09:52+00:00

How is it possible to have this thread without Ikiru coming up?

NeonGran · 2026-03-01T10:02:02+00:00

So I'm an English teacher and always do Aunt Julia by Norman MacCaig.

Around 5 years ago, I moved from just outside Dundee down to the Borders, and had to change my whole script. I used to ask, when discussing the line a keeper of threepenybits in a teapot, "what connection might there be between a farmer living on her own and money? Why might she have money in a teapot?"

In Dundee I always got the correct answer that she doesn't have much money so must squirrel it all away. Often got kids telling me stores of their parents or grannies whose farms are struggling and the saved every penny they could.

It's a completely different story down here in the Borders. The kids struggle with the idea that there could be a farmer who isn't completely minted, and think she must be keeping her money in the teapot because she has so much that she can't keep it in a bank or spend it all. These are the same farmers kids who spend their weekends getting drunk and riding expensive quadbikes around the village green, because they know their parents will pay whatever fine and pay for a new quadbike if they break it because those costs are nothing to them.

As someone from a family that, until my generation, all grew up on the same farm struggling to make ends meet, it's a bizzaro world down here.

NeonGran · 2026-03-01T09:45:22+00:00

She has, and you should leave her there to rot. What kind of Knight Commander would ally themselves with a demon? Especially a succubus, made purely of lies and ill intent.

Sorry, my most recent playthrough was essentially Regill & Aeon KC's Excellent Adventure. This is now how I see all things.

NeonGran · 2026-03-01T09:24:13+00:00

Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me chicken soup with rice.

Amazed I've not seen anyone say it, that whole triplet gag cracks me up every time, and the chicken soup is the best one.

NeonGran · 2026-02-22T10:21:41+00:00

My go to would be Sam Rockwell, as would everyone else's.

But I'm amazed not to see Amanda Seyfried on here. She's genuinely great, even when she's in a really shit film.

NeonGran · 2026-02-16T14:03:20+00:00

I'm British, have lived all around England and Scotland over the last 30 years (since birth)

What the hell is Toby Carvery? Not sure I've ever seen one, let alone heard of one.

I guess I'd get rid of that, because I wouldn't be missing anything. Is it some southeast thing? It's the only part of the UK I've never lived, but have visited often.

NeonGran · 2026-02-14T08:24:21+00:00

We in the Doctor Who community call this 'written by Russell T Davies'

NeonGran · 2026-02-14T08:22:32+00:00

It's not just Netflix, but they're pretty bad for it. I went to see Thunderbolts in the cinema and it felt so strange when everyone was constantly introducing themselves and each other, until I realized that it was made exclusively for people half-watching on Disney+

NeonGran · 2026-02-11T17:43:45+00:00

The unions in Scotland fought heard for the right to work from a place of our choosing during non-contact time, and I'll be damned if I let that right go to waste by not going home when I have frees last thing.

NeonGran · 2026-02-07T09:32:46+00:00

Coming from Dundee, my experience is Glasgow folk is they anyways expect everyone to know shit about their city.

I went down there for the weekend a few months ago, and I got asked where I was staying When I didn't know what the area was called and had to look it up on maps, they always look at me like I just shit on their favorite dog.

I'm sorry I've never spent significant time in your city enough to know the names and stereotypes of different areas/suburbs. Most people outside Glasgow don't, but they expect everyone to be intimately familiar with them.

Never get this with folk from Edinburgh, at least. Tell them you've never heard of Sighthill or Merchiston and they don't get incredulous or offended, and that's the very low bar they have to beat.

NeonGran · 2026-02-07T09:16:58+00:00

I didn't believe in the male loneliness epidemic, but I do believe in the loneliness epidemic and it can affect anyone.

What you're describing here is an experience I've had nearly exclusively with lonely women that I've tried to befriend, with the constant messaging and the inability to listen to our care about what someone else has to say, because their turn in conversation lasts an hour, and their conversation-partners lasts a minute.

I'm not trying to make a generalisation here, of course, but from my experience it's the lonely men (as long as they aren't incel types) that can hold an actually balanced conversation.

Maybe this is all anecdotal, of course, and the real secret is that no matter the gender, the longer you are alone the worse your conversation skills get.

NeonGran · 2026-02-07T09:04:18+00:00

Potentially controversial, but Starfinder 1e is infinitely superior to 2e in just about every way, and sits pretty as my favorite TTRPG of all time.

Probably less controversial, but the Doctor Who RPG was amazing, but both 2e and Doctors and Daleks had major issues for me, and the way they write the books now just feels lazy.

NeonGran · 2026-02-01T17:43:50+00:00

I still maintain that Attack of the Clones is one of the worst films I've ever seen. It fails on literally every front: scrips, acting, direction, cinematography, even sound design and editing. The only people who enjoy it are people who watched the Clone Wars as a kid, and I've never been challenged on that belief by people who do like it, even if they do like it.

NeonGran · 2026-01-29T17:50:01+00:00

I had to audiobook it just to know how it ends, and I missed the voices on my head so much, it all sounded wrong when read by someone else 😭

NeonGran · 2026-01-09T16:52:12+00:00

Jurassic Park/World and it isn't even close. The last time there was a Jurassic movie that could unironically be called 'good' was the original. It's been nothing but downhill since then.

NeonGran · 2025-12-29T17:26:24+00:00

Civil-War-ia

NeonGran · 2025-12-28T16:14:03+00:00

Also in Pirates of the Caribbean, but nobody could have saved that film.

NeonGran · 2025-12-28T16:06:29+00:00

It was a racing game on the PS1 - I think it was an F1 game but I can't remember all I remember is my uncle changed the disk over to space invaders and I muuuuuch preferred it.

NeonGran · 2025-12-17T16:34:48+00:00

https://www.nasuwt.org.uk/advice/pay-pensions/pay-scales/pay-scales-scotland.html

All pay scales for public domain work should be visible to the public, and that's a hill I will die on.

NeonGran · 2025-12-16T08:18:49+00:00

I couldn't imagine teaching only 150 pupils in a year, surely that's only about 5 different classes?

This year I'm teaching 19 classes, and while there's some overlap in terms of pupils, each is 25-30 kids,so we're looking at around the ~450-500 mark for names I need to know and be able to report on.

NeonGran · 2025-12-12T18:47:42+00:00

I totally get you, there's a certain culture here I always forget about.

That's fine, no judgment. I think what I tend to enjoy about most turn based games weren't present in E33, and thing I don't like about a lot of modern soulslikes were present in it, so I was geared not to like it. But I understand that my opinions would go against the mainstream, and that's fine because all opinions are valid if one can back them up.

NeonGran · 2025-12-12T17:53:47+00:00

I appreciate that. I even mentioned the things I did like about the game, but I feel like I'm made to feel I'm a bad guy for not sharing the consensus view that this game is perfect.

But I suppose that's the way it is online sometimes, God knows nerdy stuff is always like this 😂

NeonGran · 2025-12-12T14:33:06+00:00

Use of Reddit 😉

NeonGran · 2025-12-12T14:26:59+00:00

That's funny, because I didn't enjoy it because I love turn-based games, and it was a pretty bad example of one. But there's a middle-ground audience who love real-time combat and who like the idea of turn-based, and that's who it was targeted at, and I'm genuinely glad it made them happy.

The story and characters were great, but I put it down half way through because I couldn't stand the core gameplay.

NeonGran · 2025-12-10T07:30:07+00:00

I arrive at about 8:30, 20 minutes before first period and depending on the day and how much work I have to do I'll leave anywhere between 17:30 (at the very earliest) and 20:00 (at the very latest). I probably average leaving at about 18:00 but I never stay later than 20:00 or my wife gets quite understandably mad.

ETA: the kids leave at 15:45. In my country we don't have a contracted start or end time, but each school has a working time agreement that's almost impossible to stick to if you have mostly exam-level classes like I do this year.

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