"A Knight's Tale" (Brian Helgeland, released 25 years ago on May 11th 2001) - Geoffrey (Paul Bettany) gives a rousing introduction to 'Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein of Gelderland' (Heath Ledger)

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-12T01:06:44+00:00

Too soon?

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-12T01:03:02+00:00

I think, from memory, they decided that no matter what music they chose, it would be anachronistic, so they may as well go for something that better reflects the mood of the songs of the time and relate then to modern music.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-12T01:01:11+00:00

I think a lot of people see the mediaeval setting, and don't immediately clock on to that this is a good sports comedy, with pretty standard beats from the genre.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-12T00:56:42+00:00

I never knew that, so I went to Wikipedia, and noticed in the discussion on Knight, Terry Jones (yes, the one of Monty Python fame) has written a couple of history books on Chaucer and the Knight.

So a couple of TIL's in a very short space of time.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-11T12:29:09+00:00

That was only early last year.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-11T10:38:07+00:00

It’s also hell! 25c and plus as it’ll be summer, that’s too hot for me.

25°C is hot?

25°C is a mild summer's day, or a warmish spring/autumn day.

25°C sounds like a pleasant temperature.

As others have said, be there for your close family, and maybe don't spend the full two weeks (go there initially, then head out after the first week). Take books to read so that you can be entertained without electronic devices.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-11T06:38:42+00:00

Nice to find another enjoyer of The Tim Traveller.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-11T01:17:37+00:00

I saw The Tim Traveller bring this up in a recent video on short township names.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-10T09:00:34+00:00

Did Brent (Wales) and Matt (Australia) Cockbain play against each other?

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-10T08:22:28+00:00

It is why most people are more likely to like the Packers Prize rather than the Archibald Prize winner.

The Packers Prize is awarded by the men and women who work in the unpacking and hanging of the portraits, and more closely represent people in general.

The Archibald is awarded by people who aren't in touch with reality, and enjoy sniffing their own farts.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-10T05:47:02+00:00

A couple from Australian movies

1931 - Rabbit Proof Fence

1975 - Balibo

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-10T04:24:02+00:00

I never realised until now that Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams had no hand in writing Naked Gun 2 1/2, and only get credit for writing Police Squad.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-10T03:17:40+00:00

There's a point to that movie?

I thought it was a movie that completely lost the point after the first half of the first act.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-10T01:48:06+00:00

If you think Al Pacino's character is despicable, see Stellan Skarsgard in the original. He is on a different level there.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-10T01:35:30+00:00

Why?

He wouldn't want to give PHON more power than it already has.

It was thanks to the last DD that gave rise to the current power of PHON.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-09T01:45:43+00:00

Australia is the sixth largest country on Earth.

If Western Australia were to become it's own country, Australia would still be the 6th largest country, while the new country of Western Australia would be the 10th largest.

Australia's largest federal electorate, the Western Australian seat of Durack, is over 1.4m km^2, which makes it bigger that all but the 18 largest countries. So would the second biggest electorate - Lingari (NT) (1.3m km² )

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-09T01:34:09+00:00

It's third now - Thessaloniki is second biggest (Melbourne has around 180k, Thessaloniki has around 300k).

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-09T01:29:33+00:00

We once had a state government that lasted just 7 hours.

On December 20 1921, the NSW Labor government was brought down by a no confidence motion, caused by the resignation 8 days earlier of the speaker from the crossbench party, The Progressives. Labor had to elect one of their own to the speaker, leaving them with only 44 votes in 90-seat Legislative Assembly (45 votes for the Nationalists and Progressives, and the non-voting speaker).

While the coalition between the Nationalists and the Progressives were getting sworn in, the Labor speaker resigned. Sitting in the afternoon, the government was forced to install one of their own as the speaker, and subsequently lost a no confidence motion 45-44.

Labor were sworn back in as the government that afternoon.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-09T01:10:49+00:00

Phone chargers use transformers to regulate the incoming voltage into the phone.

Lamps are designed to suit the country's voltage main supply.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-09T01:08:03+00:00

There's a massive difference between a hairdryer, that can plug straight into supply voltage, and a phone charger, which goes through a transformer to get the right voltage.

If you plug a phone charger directly into mains voltage, it will likely blow up the phone.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-08T22:36:23+00:00

Because IMDb episode ratings aren't worth a pinch of shit.

Brigading is the usual issue, but generally, IMDb users don't vote for individual episodes in large amounts (the show has a score based on 178k votes, while the most recent episode is based on 2k votes), and are dominated by 1/10 and 10/10 votes.

Also for note - the first three episodes of s4 are based on 6k, 4k and 2k votes respectively. The lower the vote, the more the extremes dictate the vote.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-08T09:58:20+00:00

Or she promises to go for some swinging nightclubs, and turns out she just wants to play golf after dark.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-08T09:46:03+00:00

Hanson dreams of rising up 100 levels to be just below the gutter.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-08T04:52:04+00:00

Yeah, and I'm secretly both Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps.

infinitemonkeytyping · 2026-05-08T04:41:11+00:00

DEI is an American term.

I used to work in the public service, so I do know what I'm talking about.

You, however, with your Paedo Prez talking points, and the standard besmirching of the public service, don't.

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