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Wonderful tricky fake mirror and body double stuff from Severance here. Love this shit. If ever your cinematographer does something sneaky with a mirror and a body double like in T2 I will hoot and holler like an ape.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

All HP Lovecraft stories begin like “I will try and relay the events as best as I can manage, though what I encountered that September night may not be able to be expressed in human language, nor be comprehended by the human mind” and then the story boils down to ‘I saw a building that was large’.

submitted 21 hours ago • 165 comments

The one drawback of balatro - and I’m not sure if this is something the developers could look into fixing - is that it looks like you’re playing online poker at your son’s swimming lesson

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

This is such a funny phone call for a chief whip to get, because the situation being described doubles in badness every four or so words.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

With everything going on in the US it's easy to lose sight of the fact that here in Australia, the fabric of society is also coming apart at the seams.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Some years ago, Ivan Milat went on a hunger strike because he wanted a Playstation in jail. I just saw this quote from the prison warden about it and it's one of the most real life Brass Eye quotes I've ever seen.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I have flown Away the Pink You were enjoying In concert Forgive me I needed her To get my Party started

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

My six year old is going through a phase where he’s talking like an NPC in a video game. There’s really no other way to describe it. Today we were out and he needed to go to the bathroom and he said “Looks like we’re in luck. There are toilets up ahead.”

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

I have been laughing at this all day.

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

NYT Crossword comments section remains absolutely undefeated for pure, radioactive boomer energy.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I do wonder if a lot of this is happening because people stopped holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I actually told the Job joke that’s at the start of this in a writers room the other day and it got a nice warm round of “okay sure!”

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

drove myself bonkers tracking down this @bencjenkins.bsky.social article bc 1) the gawker site / any reference to it is gone 2) original tweet was impossible to find via x search 3) anyone saying "just shits me" online is NOT doing so in places google deems important web.archive.org/web/20230329...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I have a little piece of glass in my heel and it's too deep to dig out so my current plan is to walk on the heel as much as possible in the hope I'll stomp the glass into dust. This is also how I approach problems when writing.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Everything else aside, this will be a disaster for the NYT crossword.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Why is the world of Bob the Builder made up of 1) Normal people (fine, sure) 2) talking trucks and so forth (makes a certain amount of sense) 3) a fucked up scarecrow creature that’s alive (hang on) 4) nothing else like (3) anywhere else in the show

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Paris Hilton is entering her This Guy era.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

MICHAEL: Bit of a dog whistle, don’t you think? TOBIAS: Oh no. I am being quite overt. If anything, Michael, I am blowing hard on a “man whistle”. MICHAEL: Uhuh.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

A strange amount of the plots of English kids shows - Thomas and Bob the Builder at least - are concerned with lessons about doing your job diligently and staying in your lane. I would not put this lesson in the top 50 things kids need to know (#1: stop hitting daddy in the face and eat your dinner)

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

I honestly reckon I could have come up with the Fibonacci Sequence.

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

At the risk of saying something outrageous, I reckon the ole United States of America may be in a bit of a pickle.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

I still reckon this is one of the most deft and efficient pieces of cinematic logic I’ve ever seen.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Wonderful to be in a business partnership with Michael Hing

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

I’m starting to think that bob the builder doesn’t know shit about shit.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I have had bosses that did not like me before, but I can confidentially say none of them ever tried to blast me into space.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

I think the only interesting thing I’ve learned from a celebrity being on social media is that Tim Heidecker is actually quite handsome.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I just asked Arlo what he wanted for lunch and he said “dinner”.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

This has reminded me to rewatch Waiting For Guffman.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Some great puns in the NYT crossword today. This has been “Crossword Corner”.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

I really can't recommend Freya highly enough. I hired her to edit and proof a treatment and two scripts and they were some of the best notes I've ever received. If you have any kind of creative project, work with her. If you don't, start one so you can work with her.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

The younger child has now discovered Thomas. I thought I was out. I thought I was free. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

And how is the fifth week of school holidays going for you?

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments