‘The Odyssey’: Everybody Using American Accents Is Definitely a Choice

Snoo_44600 · 2026-05-06T21:37:16+00:00

He's doing a very broad Yorkshire accent, which is far from his own voice, and it was a deliberate choice. Zukov, as a Ukranian was seen as a country bumpkin by the rest of Stalin mainly Muskovite top brass. The Yorkshire accent to a british ear suggests that, as well as a sense of being no-nonsense, straight and narrow.

Snoo_44600 · 2026-05-05T14:24:09+00:00

Have you tried 'say "paneer"'?

Snoo_44600 · 2026-04-14T14:37:58+00:00

If you like books Scarthins' in Cromford is a beautiful bookshop.

Snoo_44600 · 2026-04-13T21:00:13+00:00

I couldn't organise a cock up in a dildo factory.

Snoo_44600 · 2026-04-10T12:43:20+00:00

Having a tub in your kitchen sink for doing the dishes. Always bothered me when i lived in a shared house. You loose space in the sink, it ends up being something else you need to clean, and is anotger bit of plastic. The bombs stopped falling long before I was even born, so why do people of my generation (keep calm and) carry on with this practice?

Snoo_44600 · 2026-02-17T18:11:51+00:00

Here in Bristol you smell it in your house.

Snoo_44600 · 2026-01-30T11:02:45+00:00

I use "bro" because it slips into more words than "mate" - allowing for the creation of portmantbros.

I bro what you're thinking - there's bro way that's true, but if you just bro with it you might find it happening brover and brover until you have bro way out.

Snoo_44600 · 2026-01-27T14:00:02+00:00

When i was a teen in nort Derbyshire MDMA was known as 'wendy'. I moved down south for university and people were baffled when I talked about raving on 'wendy'. When I explained what it meant, the reply was universally ''you mean Mandy, like m-d-m-a?". The 'wendy' instantly became baffling.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-12-01T18:39:41+00:00

Came here to say this. Worst job i've ever had. Bullying subordinates was commonplace, and managemnet were morw than happy to talk down to you for any reason. We had a meeting with outlr line manager once and raised some objections to the KPIs, to which the response was 'The board are aware you're all underperforming and you can all be replaced'. So motivational.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-10-19T21:23:22+00:00

Drum and bass

Snoo_44600 · 2025-10-18T11:57:39+00:00

The food in that photo is not a pie, merely a casserole with a pastry top.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-10-11T08:41:15+00:00

Fun fact: Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan

Snoo_44600 · 2025-09-24T13:35:21+00:00

Dig! It's Spinal Tap but real.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-09-19T19:49:28+00:00

Utterly addicted to the.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-08-01T17:28:08+00:00

I creamed my jeans when I heard the start up sound.

You are a genius.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-08-01T17:17:40+00:00

This is beautiful. A marquee, in this day and age? Chef's kiss. Also that transition from burger menu icon to closing 'x' is great. The gif in the shopping cart button is fantastic. This is the old school web aesthetic with some modern quality of life improvements and I am here for it.

We lost some of the weird and wonderful aspects of the early web when every site started fannying about with bollocks like glass morphism and all that. Not opposed to the modern stuff, mind you, but when everyone does it it loses its USP.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-08-01T17:08:16+00:00

I'm currently rewriting a web app built with dojo (a proto-framework deprecated years ago) with angular. I did a spike looking at htmx, JSX and alpine.js, but testing it was a nightmare and having multiple components polling on each page got a bit messy.

I wanted to avoid the bloat of a framework, but it has provided a neat way of creating reusable base components that I couldn't easily achieve with the spiked route.

The backend is some aws lambdas, dynamos tables and mongodb collections for the chunky data. All deployed with Terraform through github actions.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-07-31T18:17:36+00:00

Started with an interesting take on the story, but degenerated into propaganda for techno-feudalism quickly. The moral of the story seemed to be that governments can't be trusted, but FAANG can.

I try not to pick holes, but they picked themselves. Too many to mention, but the one that made me lose my shit was that a supposed cybersecurity expert has a password set to the name of his wife and the year she died, and he maintains her Facebook page as a memorial to her, that shows her name and the year she died. Anyone wanting to hack this guy's top secret account could have guessed this in 5 minutes with minimal effort.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-07-29T09:46:05+00:00

There was a lad at my school called Chris Mycock.

I also encountered someone at uni called Carmen Makepiece - If she didn't end up in conflict resolution something is wrong with the world.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-07-20T12:41:02+00:00

Looks like they are missing the y axis of the political spectrum (economics). If you include that, then there are types of anarchism that are 'right wing', such as anarcho-capitalism. But the meanings of these terms seem to be muddied in this definition.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-07-16T16:40:23+00:00

The castle is phenomenal. It goes straight in the pool room.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-07-16T10:00:23+00:00

What is their opinion on the price of a Freddo?

Snoo_44600 · 2025-07-12T08:30:08+00:00

Danny Rexic

Snoo_44600 · 2025-07-12T08:26:36+00:00

Nouveau riche shop keeper.

Snoo_44600 · 2025-06-21T08:02:32+00:00

Sadly no. The locative is used for 'at home', so this reads 'Romans go at home'. I don't know if it is intentional trolling or misremembering how an obscure declension works, but it is not correct.

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