mpettitt.bsky.social
Cyber security consultant, parent, sewist, reader, Lego builder, etc.
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*please be Kingsbridge, please be Kingsbridge*
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Being hard of hearing, it was an absolute nightmare! However, it was still fantastic to have programmes making adaptations for disabilities - Taskmaster, Strictly, Only Connect!
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I found the first one better, although there were some interesting ideas in the later ones. They just didn't seem to work as well though.
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My suggestion is that if corporal punishment of children is allowed, corporal punishment of elders should also be allowed. I mean, it's the same power dynamic - strong adult hitting someone with limited capability to respond, right?
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Thank you - doctors said about 4-6 weeks, but also to do normal things rather than trying to coddle it. It'll get there at some point!
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This whole series is fantastic!
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Not finished watching it yet, but so far, it's awesome. Also, it neatly connected with my previous watch of A Man on the Inside, with an actor in common!
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He sucked her blood
She danced en pointe
What more can I say?
He wearing black
She did as well
Secretly she liked to goth
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had their blood swiftly drunken
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I swear that humans need a ridiculous amount of sleep approximately once every 3-6 months. Like a reboot for a computer which rarely gets turned off.
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My youngest was telling me about how Santa was God's brother. Apparently they compare notes.
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Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets.
Die Hard
Alan Rickman
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Instant stress testing!
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On Android, press and hold a hashtag to bring up an option to follow or MUTE a given hashtag
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Which one? #innocence
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Woohoo! Congratulations! Enjoy the feel of it, the smell of it, the sound of it, the look of it, but probably not the taste of it!
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What did you get?!
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I try to follow this, although do require a little age appropriateness, mostly because they're not quite old enough to be reading explicit sex, violent murder, or nightmarish horror without it resulting in disturbed sleep. I always explain why I've refused specific books though.
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If anyone was wondering about the "sort of", I knew him before he'd written anything, making it less "meeting an author" and more "acquaintance from school became an author". Gives a slight nervousness in case you recognise yourself in a book - some characters seem to fit others who went there!
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He gives everyone a common enemy in the form of talking animals? Or distills everyone into fancy water? Or realises that nature finds a way and leaves it on an island? Or programs a virus to disable the shields and uploads it to an unknown computer system?
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My logic is that if it was a film first, the characters are probably doomed to have the characteristics of the actors anyway. For a book first, my mental picture of the characters is the definitive one.
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Player of Games is my favourite, but I also like Excession and The Algebraist. You can't really go wrong with Culture books though!
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I couldn't get on with the printed version of that, but in audiobook, it was fantastic. Someone else was dealing with the phonetic spellings!
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Also, they all have the same lines, just delivered in a different order for each. Except for "I'm Batman", which is all of them at once.
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I will accept it for books which were written based on the film (e.g. novelisation of Ghostbusters or Back to the Future), but not for books which were adapted into films.
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I'm pretty sure fairly explicit sex and depictions of drugs are also central to the book plot, but didn't make it to the stage and film versions. Probably for the best, although I'm now picturing a cross between Wicked and Trainspotting.
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Also, it's been coloured to reflect classic Hollywood films, rather than more modern blockbusters, which is probably why some people are complaining it looks a bit washed out at times. Pretty sure that is entirely intended.
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He has quite a lot of issues, but I wouldn't have said his lyrics were particularly high up the list of problems. They fit the music well and are fun to sing
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Such a good book - but really bad for some phobias!