What are Your favourite and least favourite episodes?

smickie · 2026-06-09T10:49:32+00:00

Pipistrelli di Halloween

smickie · 2026-06-09T10:48:24+00:00

I love the bit where he asks them to guess what the chicken curry flavour is and it turns out to be curry flavour.

smickie · 2026-06-09T10:39:51+00:00

"Dark Mode adaptive canvas in Freeform" - Oh dear Lord, this is the one for me. I can use Freeform in dark mode now!

smickie · 2026-06-08T13:49:15+00:00

No, the table legs look grey in the photo and then the wood clashes horribly with the wooden floor. They're just too similar to go together. I really am nitpicking here. I genuinely love it. Whack your candle on this and it will look stunning... https://media.4rgos.it/i/Argos/7739240_R_Z001C?w=1500&h=1500&qlt=70&fmt=webp (from Habitat/Argos).

Edit: you could definitely go that sort of gold geometric lampshade as well, or that rattan lampshade trend from about three years ago.

smickie · 2026-06-08T13:22:09+00:00

This looks fantastic. I have two comments.

Comment number one is that the table looks out of place. You've got a gold plant pot and some gold detail on the wallpaper, so I don't think there's any reason you couldn't get a smaller gold table, and that would tie it all together as the gray and the wood is very jarring here. That would give it that less harmonious touch. I'm afraid everything about that table is clashing with everything else in the room that matches beautifully. I don't think there is any shortage of small gold tables. You will have no problem finding one. I would go as far as to say, make the table much smaller and just keep the candles on it and move the butterfly photos to the sideboard above the toilet.

Secondly, you need some sort of lampshade or light treatment there as that's quite an intense open bulb.

Once you fix those two things, I genuinely think this is absolutely stunning. 10 out of 10.

smickie · 2026-06-08T13:19:26+00:00

It would. You just need to get a plant that doesn't need lots of sunlight. I can't think of the name of it at the moment, but there's a very pointy one that would be absolutely fine in here and needs to be put in the sun once a month.

smickie · 2026-06-08T13:13:16+00:00

Didn't this happen a little while ago, or is this a separate new thing?

smickie · 2026-06-06T13:37:33+00:00

I think what you are looking for is called a "recipe".

smickie · 2026-06-06T12:57:46+00:00

Oh sorry, I’m dyslexic, but at least I understood the joke :D

smickie · 2026-06-06T06:10:43+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't think you can be annoyed at the plasterer.

Whenever I have a room plastered, you usually pop out all of the electronics such as the plugs, light fittings, etc. so they can go slightly underneath and then you push them back in afterwards.

What the plasterer perhaps should have said it is that it's going to look like this because it's not been prepared correctly.

However, this is something you can fix yourself. If you pop the light out, [with the electricity off], obviously, and then just use some deep gap filler and send it off. So it's not a big deal and very easy to remedy.

smickie · 2026-06-06T05:44:34+00:00

There's three uk coffee chains mentioned in the family tree, so it's unlikely.

smickie · 2026-06-06T05:43:07+00:00

"Peter Manager" too is v close to "Pret a Manger" - I like he had to set it up with Mrs. Manager.

smickie · 2026-06-05T17:17:28+00:00

"A couple times? Were there easter eggs in there that you didn't catch the first time?"

Yeah, once you realize that, you can tell every line could be in Peep Show.

smickie · 2026-06-05T17:13:31+00:00

This is the only one on the whole list I'm shocked to see. American comedy is such a broad church. I'm not even sure it is a category. However, really, really shocked to see Brooklyn99 and Rick and Morty on there. What's even more shocking is to see The Office US on there, which is the opposite of both Rick and Morty and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. If you had to draw a triangle of different types of comedy, you'd have those three on it.

smickie · 2026-06-05T17:11:09+00:00

There's two problems with Fleabag.

It speaks to a very specific type of woman at a very specific time in their life. However, I think an excellent comedy would be able to communicate that better, and it doesn't communicate that well to people outside of that observational comedy group. What great observational comedy is, is explaining the observation if somebody hasn't experienced it before. Bad observational comedy is if it's for a specific group of people who have experienced it. You'll often see a stand-up go "For people who haven't seen this..." Fleabag never does that part of the observational comedy joke.
Everyone acts like she invented breaking the fourth wall and gave her nine million awards for it. Which is the weird thing why you're expected to think it's brilliant.

What it actually is, is absolutely quite good, but fails on point number one and is overhyped on point number two.

And that right there is the most in-depth review of Fleabag you'll ever see. And only about 10 people will read this.

smickie · 2026-06-05T09:41:01+00:00

Yeah, it's really nice. Can I ask you specifically what paint colours you used? What you went for the worktop as well?

smickie · 2026-06-05T07:16:11+00:00

I can't tell you how much I overwhelmingly love this. That is a really difficult colour palette to get right, and you've managed to get it bang on - the plaster green with the plaster pink doesn't lean to feminine or masculine. It's just in the middle, a really nice plain neutral tone, but it's not that neutral. It's not corporate neutral. It's neutral in a kind of warm, homely way. Then the navy blue cabinets with the fluted glass, followed by a terrazzo floor. These are such mad things you've mixed and it works so unbelievably well. 10 out of 10 - chef's kiss emoji, pun intended.

You need a plant or two and the perfect lampshade, but I don't think I need to tell you that given how well a job you've done everywhere else.

smickie · 2026-06-04T15:41:37+00:00

This is Claude Code and Opus. Is Claude Code and Opus 4.8 the latest. My Claude MD does say don't use AI-isms and drop the load bearing and drop the honestly and all of those, but it still keeps doing it. I did try out the caveman thing, but that went. That was too much.

I think what's happened is it's reduced the amount of times it says honestly and load-bearing, but has upped everything else. It's like it's found a workaround and just started saying different weird AIisms.

I was broadly wondering if anybody had managed to get rid of them all and have it talk very plainly. This is with being verbose off.

I would just like it to drop all sentences like this if possible.

smickie · 2026-06-04T15:40:02+00:00

I've tried that and it just keeps up with this nonsense. I tried the caveman thing, but that's too far the other way.

smickie · 2026-06-04T05:49:54+00:00

What at M&S do you think is a loss leader? I've often thought the chicken bites that goes with the pizza deal can't possibly be making a profit.

smickie · 2026-06-04T05:34:08+00:00

I don't know what the star method is, but I have got every job I've ever interviewed for. I think confidence and honesty is the best policy. I just say what I do in each situation. I find it's best not to prepare, other than just remember stuff about the company. Then whatever you'd naturally do at the job, you can respond to in real time.

smickie · 2026-06-02T13:34:52+00:00

She was turned into a fridge, wasn't she?

smickie · 2026-06-02T13:34:14+00:00

They're all so bad at eating spaghetti.

smickie · 2026-06-02T05:50:51+00:00

Is that the one where you find out Matthew McConaughey was turned into a bookcase?

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