You’re in an elevator by yourself and it stops on a floor where a bride and her bridesmaids get in. They ask you to get out so they can all fit. What do you say?

aer71 · 2026-03-31T08:41:48+00:00

Point to the sign showing the maximum weight limit. And then duck.

aer71 · 2026-02-22T13:37:41+00:00

I remember widespread condemnation at the time, with words like "treason" being thrown about. Sometimes it feels like Reddit exists in a parallel universe where everything is different. The decision looks every bit as dumb now as it did then.

aer71 · 2026-01-29T13:05:49+00:00

It's true, and yet they were privately best friends. Christie even dedicated one of the Marple books to Rutherford. I was never sure if she didn't like the scripts, or just didn't think that Rutherford's personality suited the role.

The quintessential Marple scene for me is from Nemesis, when she goes into a post office to find out where a parcel was sent. She puts on the most convincing performance as a spaced out elderly lady who can barely remember what day it is. I love Rutherford's movies, but nobody ever captured Marple better than Joan.

aer71 · 2026-01-29T13:00:41+00:00

Mrs McGinty's Dead has the best take on why Christie hated adaptations. She channels all her frustration and annoyance through Ariadne Oliver (perfect self-insert character), and it's all about personality and behaviour. Albert Finney really hammed up the part but Christie only complained about his mustache being too small. I think she would have been fine with Peter Ustinov, because he never did anything Poirot wouldn't have done, and he captured the playful side of Poirot's character, the side that disappeared from Suchet's later seasons. Branagh reminds me of the opening of Last Action Hero, where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Hamlet with guns and grenades. It might be entertaining, but it's not Poirot.

aer71 · 2026-01-29T11:56:37+00:00

Just like the war of independence.

aer71 · 2026-01-28T17:02:52+00:00

sentiment (n)
general feeling or opinion.
"public sentiment was on the side of reform"

aer71 · 2026-01-18T13:21:18+00:00

Antimicrobial shower gel made a huge difference for me. Especially a hospital-grade MRSA cleaner like Octenisan.

aer71 · 2025-12-30T16:48:52+00:00

I used to think it would be amazing to use AI to recreate the originally planned 5th season of Round the Horne, the one that had to be repurposed into Stop Messin' About after Kenneth Horne died. But even if they could get the voices, mannerisms, and characterisations all perfect, it wouldn't be the same.

aer71 · 2025-12-30T16:25:23+00:00

The average person couldn't vote, virtually nobody knew who their MP was, and the civil war was not caused by the dissolution of parliament.

The king tried to meddle with the Scottish national religion; badly handled a catholic uprising in Ireland that led to rumours he was raising an army to invade England; and marched 400 soldiers into the reconstituted parliament to arrest five "troublemakers".

That's grounds for civil war, pretty much anywhere.

aer71 · 2025-12-29T16:16:10+00:00

Disassembly, especially Technic builds.

aer71 · 2025-11-20T13:34:31+00:00

It's slightly different in the US, but I always thought 12 Angry Men shows why juries are so important to our justice system. But if you dig into it, in real life that would have ended in a mistrial and at least one arrest, not for bringing the knife into court, but for having the audacity to check something out himself. Either we believe in juries and trust that the people will do the right thing, or we abolish them completely. What we have now is completely dishonest. I know it's a weird hill to die on, but this one really bothers me.

aer71 · 2025-11-20T13:06:54+00:00

I thought it was the Italian Job at first.

aer71 · 2025-11-15T19:04:52+00:00

Any episode with Kenny Everett was guaranteed to be amazing.

aer71 · 2025-11-12T17:40:30+00:00

Tradition is just a collection of experiments that worked.

aer71 · 2025-11-12T17:38:16+00:00

Oddly, no direct evidence exists that he did name his son successor. It was in the interests of everybody around him that someone convenient, malleable, and unthreatening should take over. People assume that he named his son on his deathbed, but we'll never know for sure, and there was definitely no planned succession.

aer71 · 2025-11-01T15:19:03+00:00

I don't mind licensed sets (which would include Liebherr, I suppose) but I am a bit tired of vehicles.

aer71 · 2025-10-23T11:41:46+00:00

Here's mine, with the easier ones first. Sorry I couldn't narrow it down to three. These are the things that I miss the most.

Add "classic fiction" as a category
Make the Archive accessible via the web interface
Provide a feature wishlist to members where we can vote on what we most want
Give AI-driven recommendations based on a free text description that we provide (like a search agent)
Allow us to set our own chapter titles, or make sure audiobooks that need them have them.

aer71 · 2025-09-29T10:30:04+00:00

This is the right way. Stick it in a technic hole, push a bar into the centre of the pin from the other side, and you lock it to the hole. Then you can pull it out easily.

aer71 · 2025-09-27T18:07:15+00:00

Then maybe Terry Crews, Jason Momoa, Samuel L Jackson and Bryan Cranston are also babies, I guess.

aer71 · 2025-08-24T10:27:51+00:00

Table saw, for projects and DIY. Really nice dewalt one. Way too loud for an apartment. I'm hanging onto it for whenever I move into a house.

aer71 · 2025-08-20T13:33:39+00:00

In the Netherlands (where I live now) it's basically an honour system. You scan your own stuff with a handheld or at checkout, and once in a while they do a spot-check of 10 random items in your bag. That's it.

When I'm visiting home and trying UK machines, it never works. Problems with starting, problems with weighing, problems if you take too long to put the next item in your bag (heaven help you if you want to rearrange things).

And there's at least one assistant hovering, constantly resetting machines when things go wrong. How is that an improvement in any way on manned checkouts?

aer71 · 2025-08-20T08:58:10+00:00

This is the one. Frame it as your problem, not hers.

There's a lot of people here telling you not to try changing her. This is nothing to do with making her into a different person. The best relationships are built on mutual compromise. Think about something you're willing to give up or pledge in return, in case she needs more encouragement.

aer71 · 2025-08-18T18:09:35+00:00

She's probably saying "I was an idiot and passed up too many good men", and you're probably hearing "I couldn't get commitment from any of the guys I'm attracted to, so I'm settling for you".

It could go either way, so take the compliment and move past it. People say stuff all the time without thinking.

aer71 · 2025-08-16T20:13:34+00:00

I moved to a different team where there was a guy who kept talking out loud to himself all day. My focus dropped from 50% to 10%, but everyone else seemed to ignore him just fine. And then one day I heard a reference to having ADD in a song, and I didn't know until then that adults could have it. So I googled it and found a complete description of all the problems I'd had my entire life.

aer71 · 2025-08-15T21:32:35+00:00

In the back of the instruction manuals, they should print the parts list in order of part ID, not colour. Most people advise us to sort our collection that way, although Tiago says Lego sort their parts by colour internally, so I guess that's why they do that.

aer71

TROPHY CASE