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scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
This week has seen the cultural whiplash of the Israel/Palestine conflict and the outrageous behaviour by the leader of Belarus, in the same week as the Eurovision Song Contest.
The BBC found itself in hot water when it was confirmed that it's famous 1996 interview with Princess Diana had partly been set up by the interviewer using falsified documents, and when the guy who'd produced those documents tried to blow the whistle, he was blacklisted from ever working for the UK again.
Of course, whilst the behaviour involved was utterly reprehensible, seeing the current government lecture another publicly funded body on professional conduct is a bit rich, to say the least, and one has to wonder how this might be used against the BBC by those seekign to defund it, despite it being 25 years ago.
Timothée Chalamet is apparently in talks to play Willy Wonka in a prequel.
"Powerpuff", the slightly bizarre idea of a live-action sequel to The Powerpuff Girls cartoon, featuring the trio as adults who feel aggrived they had been denied a childhood because they'd been so busy fighting crime, has had it's pilot scrapped, but it will be reworked and reshot using the same cast and crew
Today is the 20th Towel Day, celebrating author Douglas Adams
It's also 44 years to the day since Star Wars was first released in the USA.
And it's also also, being the 25th of May, the anniversary of the "The Glorious Revolution" in Ankh Morpork. (See Pratchett's "Night Watch" for details)
And, just for fun some random birds who have been making a name for themselves on social media.
It has been commented on that some of the "Random Questions of the Week" have been seeming a little too close to phishing expeditions of late (they're not, but I wish I'd thought of that), so in an effort to confound that trend this week#'s Random Question is "Cartesian Dualism: Yay or Nay?"
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
This week has seen the cultural whiplash of the Israel/Palestine conflict and the outrageous behaviour by the leader of Belarus, in the same week as the Eurovision Song Contest.
The BBC found itself in hot water when it was confirmed that it's famous 1996 interview with Princess Diana had partly been set up by the interviewer using falsified documents, and when the guy who'd produced those documents tried to blow the whistle, he was blacklisted from ever working for the UK again.
Of course, whilst the behaviour involved was utterly reprehensible, seeing the current government lecture another publicly funded body on professional conduct is a bit rich, to say the least, and one has to wonder how this might be used against the BBC by those seekign to defund it, despite it being 25 years ago.
Timothée Chalamet is apparently in talks to play Willy Wonka in a prequel.
"Powerpuff", the slightly bizarre idea of a live-action sequel to The Powerpuff Girls cartoon, featuring the trio as adults who feel aggrived they had been denied a childhood because they'd been so busy fighting crime, has had it's pilot scrapped, but it will be reworked and reshot using the same cast and crew
Today is the 20th Towel Day, celebrating author Douglas Adams
It's also 44 years to the day since Star Wars was first released in the USA.
And it's also also, being the 25th of May, the anniversary of the "The Glorious Revolution" in Ankh Morpork. (See Pratchett's "Night Watch" for details)
And, just for fun some random birds who have been making a name for themselves on social media.
It has been commented on that some of the "Random Questions of the Week" have been seeming a little too close to phishing expeditions of late (they're not, but I wish I'd thought of that), so in an effort to confound that trend this week#'s Random Question is "Cartesian Dualism: Yay or Nay?"
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