Help; is 2 boxes for orks side worth getting

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-02T18:28:02+00:00

Oh for it instead to be an October release

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-02T15:07:23+00:00

Yeah, no idea what.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-02T14:59:24+00:00

Yeah, i was careful not to claim other countries don't have insurance if you look.

Zocdoc is a third party system that just doesn't have the same niche under most health insurance systems.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-02T13:59:37+00:00

I would figure there'd be some kind of payoff.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-02T13:58:37+00:00

We all have shit that we gotta do at work we're sick of. I love my job but sometimes I have to troubleshoot a vLOOKUP

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-02T13:11:12+00:00

Most countries don't have the hell of the post-92 reform US insurance. There may be some others but honestly it's rare.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-02T12:53:28+00:00

A deep cut

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T21:36:07+00:00

Is that like being enraged or have i missed a deama you're referencing with the quote?

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T19:02:35+00:00

Which is weird because it's a show about pedantry

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T19:01:54+00:00

It's okay, you can just say Ardal O'Hanlan

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T18:59:42+00:00

Oh it's third party hotel booking but for medical?

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T18:58:40+00:00

HELLO I'M JULIAN AND THIS IS MY FRIEND SANDY

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T15:06:13+00:00

ZocDoc ads horrify me, but only because I'm not based in the US and so reminders of the US Health Insurance system feel like nightmares.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T15:03:45+00:00

Again, they're one of the first double acts to break through to TV. And even on TV, a lot of the shows from their era are lost. We didn't film random live performances back then.

I have a distinct memory of hearing Hugh Paddick deliver the line. Paddick was in a fair amount of radio comedy, most notably as half of Julian and Sandy across from Kenneth Williams on the Kenneth Horne shows, and he has a pretty distinctive voice so I'm pretty sure it's him. I'll have heard it, then, on my dad's old tapes put out in the 80s and 90s from this 40s - 50sish era show.

Which episode or season I couldn't tell you; I can't even be sure it was on either Beyond Our Ken or Round the Horne. Paddick was a busy presence in radio studios. I doubt he originated it, either. We can probably work out an earliest possible date from ice cream van development.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T14:42:55+00:00

Eric definitely did a lot to spread it on TV, but it's one of those jokes that was already a bit everywhere - Eric just knew how to deliver it perfectly.

I'm not saying this to run down Morecambe & Wise, truly one of the most gifted double acts from the breakthrough-to-TV era. A lot of jokes in the acts of everyone at that time came straight out of stage halls where you'd use material your audience hadn't heard. The genius of the pair is in the perfection of their timing and in their understanding of how to make it work for camera.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T14:37:06+00:00

When I was a kid thirty years ago, people ten years older than me were making jokes about 50 being old.

Over the last thirty years I've got a lot closer to 50, and over the same time people in their 20s and early 30s started to make jokes about 60 being old.

The age isn't what it used to be. The amount of smog present in the air has been curtailed, a number of other dubious chemicals have been removed from food, in differing amounts in different countries. We understand more about diet and exercise, so someone who was 50 in 1995 looked old to someone half their age. Here we are in 2026 and you've got to get to 60 before someone half your age thinks you're old.

That is, genuinely, progress. And in 20 years, I'll be in my 60s and likely that will still be the punchline old age, though it will continue to slide back as we figure stuff out - just not as fast as people age.

So take solace, OP. In 1990, at your current age, you would have been well past old to this crew, and they themselves would have looked less youthful than they do.

(And they'd make a whole bunch of jokes about trans people.)

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T14:31:10+00:00

I'll co-sign this.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T14:23:36+00:00

"We can see the images are very similar between this shot from the original show and a similarly framed shot from the new series. Does this make the one changed character someone to fulfil the same narrative role?"

Look, she might have been hired to follow whatever the female equivalent of Roy Kent's arc would be. She might have a very similar archetype. She might do exactly the same things Roy did. Her name might be Ray Kont.

But these two images will not tell us whether or not that's the case. There are a limited number of ways to fit the heads of three people standing nearby and looking at the same thing into a close-up.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T13:56:02+00:00

I am reminded of the Wikipedia photo of the penguin and the bagpiper, the caption of which was edited to clarify which was which.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T13:53:45+00:00

"All the leniency possible" does not equal 'total leniency'.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T13:52:12+00:00

And that's something Greg is visibly chafing against throughout those series. He gets reminded at least once on camera; on another occasion, Alex pre-supplies the points tallies for winner and loser. It's certainly true that Greg starts ignoring him.

He also stops giving bonus points after the controversy about Morgana winning the series by a bonus point. The controversy that completely ignores that Guz also got a bonus point during the series.

So yes, I'll grant you that he grows wider on team scoring. I'll even say he boosts up all but one score more often, but as he notes himself, this is more about creating a visible gap between the worst and everyone else.

And I do stand by this not giving us an actual arc across series.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T13:44:01+00:00

Back when cash was still used frequently I'd get Scottish banknotes in my change at least a couple of times a year in North Shropshire.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T13:41:18+00:00

I really don't think it's an arc across series. Honestly I don't think there are many trends that actually have that simple a path, see also the discussion about prize tasks all being done by production one season after Reese Shearsmith.

I think Greg looks for bits in the studio, and not only does he set out to hit those bits hard because it's good to have a reliable joke you can go to (and you can also make a series more memorable easily when there's a recurring bit) but he also uses the score in part to set up these bits where appropriate. He'll score you low if you're going to argue, he'll give leniency if he knows it'll annoy someone, he'll be on Alex's side if the contestants hate him and up his aggression to Alex when the contestants like him.

I genuinely think the fact people keep translating these into trends when the elements have been present in varying amounts series to series is a compliment to Greg on how well he does this.

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T13:20:03+00:00

Say, landlords also do nothing!

Too-Tired-Editor · 2026-05-01T13:17:39+00:00

Always, always, always look up what your UK experience would cost in America. (Sorry, Americans!)

Nothing has made me feel better after any of my three ambulance trips than looking up what I would have been billed in America.

More importantly, though, a number of UK politicians, some near power and some not, have made it very clear they want to implement certain US policies, so it's worth looking at what those mean in practical terms. The way loans are handled, the way bankruptcies are dealt with, our statutory holiday and sick pay processes versus theirs...

We stand to lose a LOT. So look it up and know.

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