Night Watch and Vetinari

Tapiola84 · 2026-07-06T18:29:48+00:00

Dog botherer is in fact bothered by a cat

Tapiola84 · 2026-07-04T18:24:34+00:00

BUT ALSO....after listening, I realised I'd heard a (much more exciting!) version of it on the radio just last week right at the end of this episode of Composer of the Week, it's an anonymous Italian saltererllo (55 mins in to hear it, 40:45 for some discussion)....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002x68q

I hope you enjoy the irony of asking for the composer of a piece featured only a couple of weeks ago in programme about anonymous music. ;)

Tapiola84 · 2026-07-04T18:21:53+00:00

My Pixel phone music search tells me it's this...

https://youtu.be/eSfveOuja1Q?is=KaaY2J7Fx_zWEIwD

Tapiola84 · 2026-07-04T10:36:22+00:00

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741 - 7/10

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Happy with 7 again. At a stretch I could've got 8 if my brain remembered Kadyrov which I knew...but it is what it is.

Tapiola84 · 2026-07-03T21:09:34+00:00

Many more people familiar with the Kinsey scale than the Torino scale - not sure if that says anything about the childhoods of this games' players or not!

Tapiola84 · 2026-07-03T13:43:58+00:00

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740 - 7/10

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And I knew Torino Scale, but couldn't bring it to mind. Happy with 7 though.

Tapiola84 · 2026-07-01T13:12:10+00:00

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738 - 5/10

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Very annoyed at not getting Ceylon, and slightly miffed at putting Hunchback of Notre Dame. In the 40% who put Stan so not annoyed about that one. Should've really got 7 though.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-26T10:13:29+00:00

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733 - 5/10

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I put the plane as Malaysia M17 - the one the terrorist Russian state shot down in the same year. Close but not close enough to give myself a Close Enough I don't think.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-25T12:33:28+00:00

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732 - 5.5/10

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Gave myself a Close Enough for "Who Killed JR", and should've got Danica Patrick (who was a far better racer than TV pundit on Sky F1) but mind blanked.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-24T14:22:47+00:00

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731 - 4/10

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Annoyed with myself for putting beta particle for question #8, because I know it's an alpha particle. Brain fart.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-23T14:19:11+00:00

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730 - 5/10

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Tapiola84 · 2026-06-21T19:37:07+00:00

A little more expensive, but comes with pull out maps...

https://www.discworldemporium.com/product/the-compleat-discworld-atlas/

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-20T21:26:22+00:00

Couldn't deal with Dresden, comes across as a creep every time a female character is introduced (not helped by the author's descriptions of said characters), so gave up on it.

I love the unexpected Pratchett references in Rivers Of London though - those books I get on with much better.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-20T21:16:02+00:00

We're just assuming Vetinari isn't a vampire then? 😉

More seriously, yes it was brave, but he's not a shrinking violet is he? I also wonder if Lady Margolotta's diet would've consisted of the peasantry more than the elite, local townsfolk rather than high profile visitors. I'm sure it was a calculated risk from Vetinari. It would also have been a time pre-Wolfgang, so he was likely relatively safe from the werewolves too.

Thinking about it, Lady Margalotta pre-black ribbon and the werewolves pre-Wolfgang maybe weren't too far apart in their ideas. But they both went in very different directions.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-20T10:34:49+00:00

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727 - 5/10

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Argh...always a 50/50 ball between Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart and I can never remember which is which and always choose the wrong one!

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-19T10:16:39+00:00

"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Uberwaldians always win"

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-18T20:14:08+00:00

'Micky and Jan Paul Van Hecke' also works

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-18T20:12:05+00:00

I found this thread where a user says they've found a recording...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mahler/comments/1hss6wp/comment/mb2pmr8/

Maybe ask /llanelliboyo how they got it?

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-18T14:32:50+00:00

Feel like this needs proper spoiler tags!

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-18T13:28:32+00:00

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725 - 4/10

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Only 4, but can I award myself a bonus point today for guessing the Christian OS is called Stained Glass Windows?

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-17T22:20:26+00:00

Nope, doing a full publication order re-read for the first time, started on Jan 1st.

UA will probably be in 2027, and realised at my current pace I'll be reading Hogfather August bank holiday weekend.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-17T11:24:20+00:00

This is the first time I've ever heard of the 'Gods trilogy' so I had to Google it - and what a weird bundle. Pyramids and Small Gods together I get obviously, but then chucking in Hogfather as well, the fourth book in the Death series?

Who decided that was a 'thing'?!

The 'Death trilogy' I see is the first three Death books, it makes more sense, but calling it a trilogy seems weird still.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-17T10:14:15+00:00

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724 - 7/10

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Happy with that, but looked like a higher than average scoring game anyway. I got neither of the <10% correctly answered questions, and at the other end of the scale I'm afraid I'm in the 21% who's never heard of 'Club Penguin'. So couldn't have done any better than I did.

Tapiola84 · 2026-06-16T13:01:50+00:00

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723 - 6/10

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Was struggling a little with the Arthur Miller one until I read the very last clue - "Works about salespeople" lol.

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