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The character's race isn't relevant. Except that her and her husband are (from memory) the only black characters in the episode. It was a poor one and I didn't watch it twice. But it seems to me I can't win here. If I overlook this glaring example of the trope am I condoning it? And if I point it o...

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 11, 2023 3:48 pm
I'd prefer it if I hadn't wasted 3 hours of my life watching. I don't know but I'm guessing it was a short story. Maybe if it had been a short film, I wouldn't have felt so cheated.

It’s a full-length novel, but one of his shorter ones - not a shelf-breaker like The Stand or It.

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:00 pm
Watched Titanic once.

Never again.

And I think Aliens is a masterpiece.

Forgot all about Titanic. Probably the most overrated film of all time (imho, of course).

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Hahahahahahahahahaha ahhhahahahahahahahahahahaha Did it cross your mind that I simply found that film to be massively over long, boring, ridiculous and containing one of the tropes I've listed as being exceptionally annoying? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYjHixQ9Ns4 As I said, I’ve never seen th...

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My problem with it is that it is a lazy trope. I believe the trope had an established academic name which I can't find much trace of now (it included a highly offensive word for contemporary society) but I can find a wikipedia page for a virtually identical trope which I'm linking HERE . Please do ...

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boyyanno wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 11, 2023 3:13 pm
To be fair when you put Gladiator down I nearly had a little dig too

Each to their own, and I seem to recall it won a load of Oscars, but it was a load of overrated tosh, imho.

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boyyanno wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 11, 2023 3:05 pm
The Green Mile was written by Stephen King and then adapted in to a film. Would you have preferred they change his characters? Strange example.

Possibly a little solipsistic, but I’d be surprised if the choice of that specific film wasn’t a little dig at me, tbh.

All good fun, though.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEhgV06LgC0&ab_channel=Ratemyclips This is the kind of cruddy thing I'm talking about. Shockingly, this scene was written by Russell T Davies, a man of nigh-Shakespearean ability, and a right-on metropolitan sort too. I suspect he's embarrassed by this scene these da...

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Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator

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ClaretInLeeds wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:34 pm
Any transfer news/rumours?...

Nope

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Cooclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:34 pm
Football isn’t my bread and butter

Don’t be too harsh on yourself, Wout. You did alright in Germany.

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I’d agree, if I was basing it on everything but his performances. These opinions are based on his performances and my observations… I could say I don’t like his hair, and his eyes are too close together… That would be irrational 😂 The performances that took us to the top of the league, with over 10...

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I do think WW is going to be great if he stays… I also think he wasn’t to blame for the way he was brought into the club and then left. He was bang on to want to play at the highest level he could in a WC year. I also reckon he told Roberts what a plank he is in a true straight talking Dutch way! T...

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“How is it a hate campaign to go on and on about how much I dislike someone and wish they lost their job, irrespective of how well they actually perform?”

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I reckon Cooclaret might be Weghorst’s UTC username.

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Spiral wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 10, 2023 8:41 pm
Can someone tell me where 'pony' came from? I'm taking it means crap?

Cockney rhyming slang - “pony and trap”.

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Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:11 am
By & large we are talking about a unique situation here with what's gone on previously, the reason to boo wouldn't exist with any other player apart from WW.

Unless they were to demonstrate their support for anti-racism, of course.

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agreenwood wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:45 am
I didn’t realise “cretin” had any connection to disability by the way, so I’ve learnt something today and won’t be using that word again.

Apologies for any offence caused.

I didn’t know that either.

Interestingly (or not, ymmv) the word has its etymological roots in the word “Christian”.

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Turftalkers mentor wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:22 pm
The Burnley fans who know something about football should be thanking him wholeheartedly for what he did for Burnley ....

1989_claret wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:22 pm
Nah won’t be thanking him for anything....

This all adds up.

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And what of the “Girls shouldn’t sit further maths or physics; they’re just too hard for them” quote? High expectations 👏👏👏👏 I wasn’t aware of that one. Sounds pretty poor form for a teacher to say that. Ada Lovelace would be turning in her grave. Just a guess, but I’m presuming she’s yet to acknow...

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... You highlight that many of her tweets get deleted, that seems to me to be a sign of her decency: twitter is very instantaneous, better to delete something admit it wasn't wise than refuse to acknowledge mistakes. After all, nobody's perfect... I don’t know a huge amount about her, tbh, but from...

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Zom Zom wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 30, 2023 12:25 pm
Luton are in the Prem bud.

Whoosh

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StayingDown4Ever wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 30, 2023 8:48 am
Would you have him back here? If so, as the no1 or back up?

I’m not sure he’d be happy dropping down a division to play at Ewood, tbh.

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Parry was possibly better placed to change things regarding the Premier League when he was the chief exec, also don't recall him offering to give much away when he held the same position at Liverpool. Now as chairman of the football league his stance has changed. It is almost like he does what is b...

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If you're ignoring the "sweeper keeper" aspect, I genuinely think Nick Pope has to be in consideration. Maybe not quite as good a shot-stopper as De Gea but better at claiming crosses and dominating his area, imo. Thing is, I'd take Muric over both of them because, like it or not (and personally I d...

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wilks_bfc wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 29, 2023 7:07 am
I see the Foster bashing has resumed (if it ever stopped)

I’d like to see how well those perform within their first 6 months of moving to a new country and joining an established group of workers

I only see one poster bashing Foster, and he’s obviously a Rovers fan anyway.

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The 25 pass team goal for me. Barnes v Wigan was my favourite, closely followed by Hendrick v Everton.

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We've done this before it is impossible to be 100% sure somebody is a liar until you have been directly lied to face to face by that person.... You literally accused CoolClaret of being a liar less than half an hour ago (for stating facts about a rapist human-trafficker you’d never heard of before ...

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It isn't funny to most, its boring. A thread on possible transfers should be interesting at least. To trawl through the inane petty squabbling of self righteous children, it isn't why members joined this message board. I quite like it. Especially when the thread veers back into talking about transf...

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Spiral let’s keep it really simple Has this man been found guilty of anything at all yet? If your answer is no what do you call him other than innocent You seem to be missing a few posts, so I’ll try again. Was Jimmy Savile innocent? How about the bloke who murdered those people in Nottingham the o...

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:09 pm
So he is innocent? If you are not found guilty you have not committed a crime

He's as innocent as Jimmy Savile, if that's the metric you want to use.

(I thought that was quite clear from my last post, but always happy to spell stuff out when required)

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:01 pm
You have to have broken the law to have committed a crime. He is innocent as it stands

Wrong.

He's not (yet) been found guilty of a crime in a court of law, but then neither has Jimmy Savile.

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If you Google pope's market value that's what it comes up with, 1 club wanted pope & pope wanted to go, hardly the ingredients for holding out for a top price, pope went dirt cheap. This is how all transfer fees should be decided. Just Google “(x-player) market value” and take the average of the to...

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Judging from this 70-odd (!) page thread on the Sunderland messageboard their fans would be furious if we got him for anything like £10m. Most of them seem to be saying they shouldn’t let him leave for less than £20-25m https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/bid-rejected-for-clarke.1608553 Usual cave...

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:27 pm
Rowls can you please answer me this

Which is a country that has ‘got it right’ for you?

- I’m trying to plot your purported fiscal policies/beliefs along with whatever other crap you churn out into an actual, functioning country

Germany in the 30s?

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. ...It's the worst idea to gain traction since Communism. I think you might want to provide some clarity on what you’ve been trying to say here, because it seems (not just to me, but to quite a lot of people, from the subsequent comments) that you’re suggesting that ensuring people are provided wi...

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:20 pm
I think the opposite. It's something everybody should have in common.

I know you think the opposite. It’s entirely in keeping with your “Victorian Dad” persona.

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Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:45 pm
I don't remember mentioning smoking.

I don’t remember you mentioning it either. I did, though.

Greenmile

I've made no such inference or accusation against you. I had a takeaway the night before last because I'd spent 12 hours of the day decorating. Takeaways are fine. Junk food is OK - in moderation. There's a time and a place. But looking at this map again... https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/50/15/qpeT20yV...

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You're free to do as you please Greenmile. You can label it "moralising" if you like but the way I see it is that there are many benefits of cooking from scratch, eating healthily and, whenever possible, eating at the table as a family. The benefits include better mental health, weight loss, being ...

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Eat what you want as long as it makes you happy, it’s your life & your choice to eat what you want. Not often Jakub gets an unironic “like” from me, but this is one of those occasions. Some of the moralising on here about what people choose to eat is a bit stomach-turning (or is that the takeaway c...

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The BBC are highlighting this problem tonight at 8:00pm in Panorama. Bravo! There are two simple rules to follow in your cooking. 1. If it contains an ingredient you haven't heard of then it's ultra processed . 2. If you only have to heat it in an oven/microwave it's ready-to-eat then it's ultra pr...

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Here's-Johnny wrote: ↑
Mon May 08, 2023 12:26 am
Why...

No answer....

I think he might be asleep.

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It’s entirely hypothetical, of course, as it will never happen, but I suspect if VK stayed on for 10 years, we’d become tired and bored with the language he uses in press conferences etc, too.

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Hapag Lloyd wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:20 pm
Mercury news makes the Guardian look rabidly right wing

Ok. What about the judge and jury that made the award of over $3m to a black Tesla worker for the institutional racism he endured at work? Are they all woke lefties, too?

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I find unfounded accusations of racism offensive and believe the more it’s bandied about the more it makes people less sensitive to actual racism. “Unfounded”. :roll: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/03/tesla-racism-lawsuit-elon-musks-firm-to-pay-3-2-million-after-137-million-award-tossed/ (and ...

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:12 pm
The quotes are all there and nothing has been "fabricated". People can read them for themselves.

They certainly can, and let’s hope they do before you get the thread deleted.

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I've got enough dictionaries, thanks. What I had meant by the question marks was, " what has been fabricated or made up ?" Did somebody mention bad faith ?? <---- this is a rhetorical question. The quote. You can tell because I referred to “fabricating quotes”, as opposed to “fabricating huts” or s...

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:50 am
????

It means “making up” or “inventing”

Maybe we can all chip in and buy you a dictionary for your birthday.

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... I have to add though, that I'm amused that he's blocked me because I've been polite to him whereas I (having never blocked anybody) am still free to read his insults. It feels like that isn't somehow what the blocking function was intended for. I suspect he blocked you more for this type of dis...

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