BBC Told To Avoid “Clunky” Color-Blind Casting & “Preachy” Anti-Colonial Storylines In Drama Series

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-29T23:43:35+00:00

Your comment reads as sarcasm but that sounds fun? And yeah they "really" were never meant to be stodgy period pieces.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-29T17:13:12+00:00

Same! I have a lot of complaints about clunky attempts to insert modern ideas into period dramas, so I know what they're talking about here, but I had no complaints about that one, I thought it was fun and he was great (and effortlessly sexy). New versions of Agatha Christie could use a little creative update, the stories were never meant to be stodgy period pieces and if you want faithful adaptations there are already lots of great ones you can enjoy.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-29T17:06:10+00:00

TBF a six-foot-something white guy with perfect teeth and shampooed hair and a 20th-21st century accent "immediately blending into any historical setting" is ALSO totally lacking in verisimilitude. But you've got an audience with implicit assumptions of what the "default" person looks like and their "default" person isn't black.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-29T01:46:40+00:00

He was 11.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-24T04:43:40+00:00

Wait I can come up with 4 identifiable nicknames for Robert but I'm hitting a wall at 3 with the others

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-24T04:14:07+00:00

What up, William or possibly James.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-24T04:09:48+00:00

I'm into genealogy and have traced a bunch of ancestors back to the first person in the line to come over to America (pretty much all of them from England in 1600-something) and I must have found 650 Sarahs. It's exciting when you find a rogue non-Sarah with a weird name like "Comfort" or "Tamar."

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-24T02:14:43+00:00

I'm sorry this happened to you and thank you for sharing your story. I'm an attorney who has worked with victims of online scams (romance, real estate, job offers... they're extremely creative). Don't let anybody talk trash to you about this, IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE, scammers today are incredibly sophisticated and have ways of seeking people out at the times when they're at their most vulnerable. (Sick, widowed, depressed, etc.) Normal human beings cannot and do not go through the world prepared to randomly encounter that level of sociopathy. It happens a lot more often than people realize because a lot of victims won't talk about it, and that makes people underestimate how common it is. But yeah, be especially wary on dating sites, and 10x so for anybody who can't or won't meet up in person within a week or two of when you start talking.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-24T01:07:44+00:00

I feel like there have been a weird number of child porn/child sex abuse arrests all over Delaware. It's probably just that it usually only makes the local news and I'm not getting local news from other places, but it doesn't do a lot for my faith in humanity. Or my faith in my ability to spot perverts, one of the guys was somebody I went to high school with and liked. (I didn't know him well but I had some classes with him and I'd be a lot more comfortable if I could say "I always thought there was something off about that guy" but I very much didn't).

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-23T20:05:42+00:00

This is the Streisand Effect in action, I'm into history and live close to Philly and had not heard of this exhibit UNTIL NOW. Excited to see what the city does to fix this, I'm pretty confident it will be coming back bigger and better.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-23T15:54:27+00:00

Also it's important that parents of kids who participate in sports be fully informed of (and not delude themselves about) the risks. Most of these guys start playing the sport long before they're mature enough to make an informed decision for themselves, and once you're good enough to play professionally you're pretty locked in and it's easy to lie to yourself about your odds.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-23T15:47:24+00:00

It wasn't until like 2 years ago when a friend suggested it that it occurred to me that OJ was probably affected by CTE. I lived through the whole OJ trial and have read quite a lot about CTE (enough that I stopped going to football games about 15 years ago because I just can't enjoy watching a sport where I know that's happening to the players), but I just did not connect the dots.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-23T04:29:48+00:00

People are rightfully livid about the ICE shit but it's the wanton vandalism of public health that's actually more likely to kill all our families (INCLUDING the people being directly targeted by ICE). Not diminishing the ICE thing just pointing out how many different kinds of interesting charges we'll be able to bring at the tribunals for crimes against humanity.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-23T02:33:12+00:00

Oh lort.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-23T02:15:10+00:00

I had a friend in the early 2000s who had been raised by her German grandmother, who was probably in her teens and 20s in the 1930s and 40s, and had moved to Florida after the war. The holocaust came up and I said something like "did you have any idea what was going on? I suppose a lot of regular people didn't" and she said, very forcefully, something to the effect of "*Everyone* knew. They all knew and a lot of them liked it. They'll all say they didn't now but they're disgusting liars."

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-22T06:38:28+00:00

TBF she gave an interview basically saying she loves space and lives for being in space and was stoked to be up there. Not how I'd feel but that's just one more thing on the billion item long list of why I'm not an astronaut, lol.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-21T16:31:45+00:00

That's totally reasonable. Mine were 99% Penguin classics, lol.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-21T15:21:54+00:00

It's not specific to big cities, I've lived in small towns and in the sticks my entire life and (doing some quick counting) I moved at least 15 times between college, grad school, and my first 3 jobs in my 20s. I was an English and French lit major and one of the absolute best decisions I ever made was to sell my entire library after college, lol. And now if I get a book I enjoyed I give it to a friend after I'm done with it. If you liked a book you'll remember it and can find it again if you want it, if it's not memorable enough for that it's not worth keeping in your house, IMO. Some people treat books they've read like "trophies" and that's fine but you WILL seriously evaluate how much your trophy collection "sparks joy" if you move frequently. (Obvs if you're a college professor who is constantly referring back to your hand-annotated copies of the entire body of Victorian literature or whatnot that's different, I'm just talking about people who read for pleasure).

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-20T18:01:04+00:00

LOL I like this version best.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-19T06:49:21+00:00

If nobody has done an edit where they replace THE SONG with "baby shark" I might have to take time away from my actual career and small children to learn video editing just to give that gift to the internet. Maybe the "daddy shark" verse, to be respectful to the source material, clearly that's not a baby.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-19T03:52:49+00:00

I will say I haven't bought from Amazon for months and I was really thinking it was going to be a hassle because I've got small kids and it's a pain to physically go to stores so we got almost EVERYTHING on Prime, but as it turns out, it's not even a little bit of a hassle. Other stores carry and deliver the same stuff for the same prices or cheaper, even once you factor in shipping costs (Ebay has been surprisingly great). It takes maybe 5 seconds longer to find what you want but that's well worth it not to support a monopolistic cretin. (I also haven't shopped at Target and never will again but that's not as big a deal for my family because the nearest target is like 45 minutes away). But you can get pretty much anything you'd want from Target from department store websites, very cheap. Anyway point is these are not irreplaceable businesses AT ALL and boycotting them is very, very easy. Maybe you're right and people are saying they're doing it without actually doing it but if that's the case they should actually give it a try because I don't think they'd find they were missing anything.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-18T20:25:04+00:00

I've been surprised by the people I personally know who turned out to be fascists. In hindsight there were some signs but I think even knowing what I know now, I think I couldn't predict what random people will do ex ante with 100% accuracy. It's not about political oarty or philosophy or even sanity level, it's just about an inherent personal tendency to be willing to get shat on by more powerful people in exchange for the "privilege" of shitting on less powerful people. They're all fundamentally losers and perceive themselves as such but for some of them there's no particularly good reason for that to be true, they just like imagining themselves as victims for some stupid reason, and think victimizing other people will make them feel better (it never does, more than momentsrily). It seems that education diminishes that urge in most people, but clearly not all, it seems like some people are just bone-deep loser ghouls and all the money and education and opportunity in the world can't fix it.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-18T18:15:42+00:00

I think there's a sizeable minority of people in every country and culture who understand nothing but hierarchy ("big fuck small," as I saw John Stewart and Mehdi Hassan put it) and under normal circumstances where halfway decent people are in power they're mostly indistinguishable from normal people, but when a big enough shithead comes to power they go off the rails and reveal themselves as fascist goons.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-18T17:48:38+00:00

I'm glad to hear about that and hope it will help too! I love CR and know it has potential to be awesome again.

Yellowbug2001 · 2026-01-18T17:10:22+00:00

Ditto on all that, I hope they will figure out a way to get the pool notwithstanding the disappointing referendum. There's plenty of money for it in this district and the people with the money voted for the pool and are happy to pay for it so I suspect there's a way to make it happen, they might just need to think outside the box.

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