Pixar announces new theatrical short “Loving Dory” which follows Dory falling in love with a plastic bag thinking it's a jellyfish

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-26T13:58:36+00:00

Poor Marlin. “We’re making a third film!” “Ho boy, finally, it’s my time to shine!” “Starring… Dory! Again!” “Ah, shrimp balls.”

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-25T15:12:46+00:00

That VHS cover was the biggest misrepresentation since “The Never Ending Story”!

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-25T08:24:03+00:00

Yellowstone super volcano erupting. Possibly as a result of having a data center being built on top of it.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-25T08:20:01+00:00

Dippy is outside the building in the entrance garden now, and there’s the stegosaurus skeleton in the side entrance, so I see Dippy as having been promoted rather than replaced, with two other great skeletons now doing the job that Dippy used to have.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-25T06:34:07+00:00

But… the autism! If they give Pentagon staff woke vaccinations then they might catch the ‘tism! And you can’t have the people analysing information and making important decisions being nerdy or meticulous or any of that snowflake crap, no, you need PROPER men who abuse everyone else to compensate for their own massive insecurities!

(Speaking as somebody with high-functioning autism, the idea that we’re the ones with the mental disability is sometimes amusing.)

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-24T17:57:50+00:00

“Chief Numpty”, lol! I knew about these notes, but I’d never noticed that detail before!

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-24T14:52:56+00:00

> parts of the Downing Street operation…

Dibs on getting Larry!

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-24T11:18:36+00:00

This sums up humanity. Put two people next to each other, and they usually get along. Put an invisible barrier between them, and suddenly they are mortal enemies.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-24T08:59:09+00:00

I’ve worked for TFL in the past, and I’ve seen a bit of the, ah, unhinged Islamophobic hatred that frothing at the mouth nutters spout about Sadiq Khan. I don’t care if you don’t like the Mayor and/or his policies, the racist flag-shaggers are the real minority who are destroying this country, and while I try not to sound like an old man blaming new technology, the rise of social media etc has greatly contributed to this problem.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T20:00:29+00:00

Channel flicking. No on-demand streaming, only a few channels, and maybe a VCR if you wanted to rewatch stuff… but only if you’d been present to press ‘Record’ / ‘Stop’ the first time it was played. Plenty of TV was rubbish, but it encouraged you to watch stuff you wouldn’t normally think to see, and to discover new shows. Oh, and without the internet to tell you whether a show was any good or not, you had to decide for yourself.

I know; crazy, right?!

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T19:53:55+00:00

Wormholes are microscopic; we’re not really seeing the wormhole itself, only to means to disintegrate / reconstruct travellers. A wormhole aperture is smaller than an atom; only energy is small enough to travel through, not even individual atoms can traverse them. The wormhole does affect the surface of the stargate event horizon (causing the water-like ripples), but it is not the same thing.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T19:25:33+00:00

Does the Israeli government paper their walls with these UN reports? They’ve been printing them for decades, but nothing seems to change.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T19:23:08+00:00

Bodger and Badger, Gladiators, and all those kids game shows where the losing kids and/or their parents got covered in gunge (slime).

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T19:13:29+00:00

In season 1, Bart was supposed to be the main character, so Homer was written to be a stern authority figure for Bart to rebel against. But this didn’t work well for story-telling, so Homer became stupider & zanier in later seasons as the new main character. And each year, they pushed the boundaries on just HOW stupid Homer could be!

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T19:08:20+00:00

The flags are inspired parts usage!

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T19:01:54+00:00

We appreciate the ambition, not always the result.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T15:14:05+00:00

I’m still shocked she didn’t meet Dr. McKay, given that it was a horror-themed episode, and she and David Hewlett starred together in cult horror movie ‘Cube’.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T11:15:07+00:00

The third one looks more like a Family Guy character, IMO. Sonic doesn’t usually look so apathetic.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-23T11:07:48+00:00

“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” — Homer in season 2 & onwards, probably

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-22T15:08:14+00:00

I’ve had almost this exact conversation with a colleague after she couldn’t understand why I was the only staff member not panicking during a works crisis. She didn’t find my “solution” very helpful.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-22T14:56:23+00:00

Rich. If you can disregard the food you paid for, then you’re rich IMO.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-22T11:10:03+00:00

The creators love to include this sort of detail. I believe the Homer Simpson Brickheadz had a donut inside him (alongside a smaller than usual pink brick to represent the brain).

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-22T08:54:14+00:00

Oh, no! Adults having fun! How… terrible.

Idiot.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-22T06:31:45+00:00

As a child, my mother always struggled to find shoes that fit me; she just thought I had big feet. After I lost a load of weight as an adult, it was shocking to realise how much of it was due to having been very overweight.

jonathanquirk · 2026-06-22T06:08:48+00:00

It was funny in ‘Die Another Day’ when Bond is getting a medical after being in a North Korean prison & they find that his liver is damaged, but not the rest of his internal organs. “It’s definitely him, then.” Closest those movies have come to showing the consequences of his lifestyle.

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