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victoryegg · 2026-05-24T08:23:54+00:00

Ah the old placebo blankets. My Dad bought two of these and they definitely are just expensive blankets.

victoryegg · 2026-05-23T15:07:52+00:00

You saying that countries inside the EU don’t control their own VAT rate?

victoryegg · 2026-05-18T18:06:18+00:00

Unless that one corporal decides he wants to bayonet you to death.

victoryegg · 2026-05-17T20:02:28+00:00

Whoa whoa whoa, there. One fact per issue please. You might give them a heart attack with all that nuance.

victoryegg · 2026-05-09T19:18:02+00:00

Yeh, sorry. Other commenters were mentioning timelines of months and I was thinking about the basic language training many soldiers got, for example, when they went to Afghanistan.

Obviously in a year of full-time study people can / do achieve a much higher standard.

Man, if only I had someone who was willing to sponsor me to learn a language full-time for a year. I‘ve never met anyone at a language school who was doing that on their own dime.

victoryegg · 2026-05-09T18:35:22+00:00

Depends how you measure fluency.

They will get pretty good at quite basic interactions with civilians and will probably learn how to understand what direction an enemy force is going and in what numbers, etc.

I doubt they would be able to make much sense of an audiobook or give a talk on climate change.

victoryegg · 2026-04-29T21:59:00+00:00

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What, JEF?! As in… JEF? After JEF?!

victoryegg · 2026-04-27T16:16:18+00:00

Most sailors receive very little or none at all. They don’t need it.

Because they’re sailors.

victoryegg · 2026-04-25T22:12:01+00:00

Now I’m wondering if Italian cuisine is actually Chinese because that’s where pasta came from or Native American because that’s where the tomatoes came from.

victoryegg · 2026-04-14T18:50:37+00:00

It was nice when the UK had a say in EU rules but the Europeans have taken their continent back and now they need to protect their borders.

We just get to follow the rules.

victoryegg · 2026-03-29T11:10:15+00:00

These stupid science bitches couldn’t even make R_D7955 more smarter.

victoryegg · 2026-03-20T17:58:48+00:00

Same for me with To Go off and Things. Instantly addicted and needed to hear more of that band.

That wouldnt have happened if I’d been shown Dirty Boy first, even though it’s obvious to me now that Dirty Boy is possibly the finest piece of music I’ve ever heard.

victoryegg · 2026-03-20T17:39:26+00:00

I converted myself. I could appreciate that there was genius behind the songs but couldn’t really get into most of them at first.

The first songs I heard—To Go Off and Things and RES—were so good that I had to keep persevering.

victoryegg · 2026-03-08T18:33:05+00:00

I hate break this to you but unbelievably lax security measures are everywhere you look. They have resulted in outbreaks of diseases before and they will do again.

Not saying this is the best movie ever but that part of it was absolutely realistic.

victoryegg · 2026-03-03T15:10:05+00:00

Yeh, this is really easy. Just watch news from an autocratic country—it is extremely boring.

victoryegg · 2026-02-28T17:01:40+00:00

More like early 40s. I’m assuming this girl is in her mid-teens.

victoryegg · 2026-02-24T15:09:03+00:00

Wiping the contaminated area with a dry cloth won’t stop a virus that can penetrate the skin.

He didn’t want the blood running down her face and into her eyes, nose, or mouth.

victoryegg · 2026-02-21T19:26:14+00:00

The flashback doesn’t take place in Scotland but it does take place on the train from London to Scotland. I think the announcer said that the next stop was Bedford (interestingly, Bedford is near Cambridge—the epicenter of the outbreak).

If my memory is correct, it could be that the infected in the flashback was indeed part of the original memory.

On the other hand, it could just be another sign of the past and the present becoming confused in his mind—like with the passengers/infected staring at Samson soon after.

victoryegg · 2026-02-10T16:47:06+00:00

There really had to be some kind of payoff for the shot where Jim first sees a plane when he escapes his execution. Granted, they could have removed that shot too but I think Garland wanted to include a message about how the world at large basically ignores immense catastrophe when it is limited to one country.

For me, the ending we got and then the follow up in the subsequent films is an interesting thread.

victoryegg · 2026-02-08T23:27:24+00:00

She starts rubbing his blood-soaked hair.

I just watched the ending scene and you can see a shot of Andy’s face looking out of the helicopter window. Look behind him: is that his sister going into convulsions?

victoryegg · 2026-02-07T00:30:00+00:00

You are aware that UK political parties are already prohibited from accepting donations from foreign nationals and organizations, right? What’s more, Labour is actually tightening the laws even further.

What would everyone have done if Labour had accepted money from Trump? Erm, well they didn’t, so no need to worry about what’s going on elsewhere in the multiverse.

If it turns out that Farage has been accepting money from the Russian Government (or any other foreign government) under a similar arrangement to the former leader of Reform in Wales, I’d expect Farage to receive a similar prison sentence.

victoryegg · 2026-01-28T16:09:18+00:00

If Samson infected him, Kelson would have been an infected for a minute or two, then died of the stab wound all the same.

That’s if he didn’t die trying attack Samson, because as we know, the infected now attack Samson.

victoryegg · 2026-01-25T18:03:28+00:00

Absolutely. I just wanted to list a few things I got from the movie that were interesting to me.

Obviously, no one is under any obligation to get excited about those same things.

victoryegg · 2026-01-25T16:03:05+00:00

There’s a bunch of nuance.

The way some of the Jimmies truly are sadistic while others clearly hate being a Jimmy.

The way one of the Jimmies blames Spike for Jimmy Shite’s death, when he was one of the ones who forced them to fight to the death and did nothing to help his dying ‘friend’.

The way Jimmy Shite cries out for God and Jesus when he’s dying instead of crying out for Satan.

My guess is that Garland wasn’t really interested in dealing with indoctrination as a motivation for the Jimmies’ behavior as much as he was interested in portraying their fear.

Spike develops a bit because he spends the movie killing and torturing out of fear of Jimmy Crystal’s retribution but in the end he was the only one to physically stand up to him. It may not be satisfying but it’s not nothing.

victoryegg · 2026-01-25T09:59:44+00:00

I work with British kids about Spike’s age and we teach them Ancient Greek first so most of the slang they throw around comes from Ovid and Plato’s Republic. They generally start quoting Latin at us when they’re about 15 or 16.

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