gnomeicide.bsky.social
Mad inventor. Rides bikes a lot. Plays D&D. Forager.
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I wonder if the "we're filthy like you" look is what they're aiming at here?
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I think back to my early childhood and the scale of the ships I saw launched from the Tyne and it was a marvel. The visitors are still impressive, but seeing Ark Royal heading off for sea trials is a memory I will always have.
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...when did the evil stop listening to their stylists?
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...what I don't get about Trump, Bannon, Musk et al. is that they don't make evil look good. It's ugly, unsettled, scruffy, nasty, debased and just fucking unpleasant looking...
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Nazis at least had good costumes, which is in no way a defence of genocidal evil of course. But it reminds us that evil doesn't have to look evil. If it did it wouldn't be as seductive for some...
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Counterpoint: In really bad weather, some reporter will be sent out to do an OB piece about how traffic is completely snarled up and no-one is going anywhere. In the background of the shot, someone will pedal past on a bike clearly wondering what on earth is going on.
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...but I do think there's space to tell other connected tales, within that constraint.
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I've long thought that telling sories of other 'OO agents would bring something new to the Bond mythos, but there should be resistance to over-crowding the market. The franchise has survived by NOT stacking things tightly...
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It also bends well when boiled in steam, so its great for curved backs of chairs. So considering how well it then survives in wetter environments a heck of a lot of the antique kitchen chairs you see are elm.
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(oh, and I don't fish - but if an angler tears a fishes mouth open, he's very much getting things wrong)
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...but if prevention of animal cruelty is the goal, catapults would be a long way down my list of priorities,
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...mass gin fuelled bird massacres are not my thing either, but it's not the same as (for example) the rabbits and pigeons culled by pest controllers to protect the huge market gardens producing vegetables here in East Anglia. I don't pretend they're all the same...
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I mean, take your pick - I'm not trying to defend any of that, nor am I saying that any of the examples are precisely equivalent. I'm saying that such a news focus on the rarest of events is nonsense.
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Oh, without a doubt it is.
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...so, yeah, we could ban all sorts of things. While the massive wildlife massacre continues essentially unabated.
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It depends on the fisher. The hobby of catching a fish as an act of pissing it off before putting it back is baffling to me, but many of those fish get caught dozens of times without getting killed. I find the concentrating on tiny minority causes of animal harm to be definitive whatabouterry