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explain to her that technically “infinity” is only Aleph-null, that should help put things in perspective and calm her down

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

Boy I tell you, this Laphroaig pairs really well with the wildfire smoke

my extremely boring James Bond opinion is that casting a handsome young dude who can credibly punch bad guys and smolder sexily at ladies is all we need to do here it's James Bond, there's a formula, people like the formula, people will watch the formula

The Independent@the-independent.com · 17h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Worst game of Guess Who? “Was he a secret Nazi?” “Did he murder his wife?”

I seem to recall that Heinlein was a believer: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

A Gust from Another World | Geoffrey O’Brien

The Search for Bridey Murphy caused a sensation in 1950s America, and while its tale of reincarnation was soon discredited, it revealed a deep cultural fascination with the supernatural.

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I'm not saying it's an omen that I've randomly seen The Stones of Blood's Nicholas "Plymouth? For heaven's sake, Martha!" McArdle in two things in the past few days but there must be confirmation of the next Doctor Who bluray Collection coming sooner or later.

I remember 20 years ago, the editor of Judge Dredd Megazine devoting the editorial bit to raging about the time he'd read a book about the moon landing on the bus and someone asked "oh is that about how it was faked?", because that meant they were choosing to believe something LESS incredible

Got a film out of it too

Jeffrey Bernard had a column for like 25 years about the fact he was a deranged alcoholic. That was the whole column.

I think you can launder a lot of really out there opinion stuff if it's sandwiched between a decent reporting-led political team which the Spectator has had for a long time and a reasonable books, arts and culture section.

I was offered the full DVD set by a College Fellow when I was leaving to go back to France. Great gift! 👍

I did try to watch it. It had some DNA I sensed but nothing you’d recognize :)

I believe they have sort have tried recently with Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe. We lasted 10 minutes.

Have you seen the ill-conceived '80s American remake, 'Reggie'? It had the wonderful Richard Mulligan at its heart, but tried to soften the edges by making him more of a tender dreamer than a man on the edge of a breakdown.

Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.

Yes, it feels like my repeat was 9pm BBC 2 and then straight to bed. In its potential defence, I have discovered that things obviously satirising the prevailing attitudes of the 90s are now broadcast with "language of its time" warnings. So perhaps RP felt more satirical on first broadcast?

It's a rare comedy show where every episode ends with its protagonist screaming into the camera.

It got a repeat around 1990, which I watched due to a friend's parental-induced interest. Even as a ten-ish year old, bits of it felt like they'd not aged well. Others (the general UK malaise) felt and feel relevant

Watched the first two episodes of 'Reggie Perrin' last night (as in 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin', not the remake) with M last night. The Eschaton alone knows what she made of, but it is exactly 50 years old and is very much of its time

Glad it helped some people :-)

Ironically that is why I ended up as Vernor’s unofficial body man because he had to skip the GoH dinner and I hung with him while he sipped a fizzy water. He then kept coming to hang with us, hence Keith’s first impression.

I avoided that. Fortunately.

As long as you didn’t get the food poisoning 🤮

i understood this joke but also agree with it

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last wk.

Forth xkcd.com/3277/

It was a hell of a weekend.

holden is a perfectly decent kid going through a hard time

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

it took a lot of effort to get my niece a copy of this, but that’s what she wanted. she was like, “i just really like holden” and i was like, “you’re a 14 year old girl, of course you like him, wait a few years until you meet him in real life”

I learnt who held the power when I was about eight