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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on July 16, 2025, 10:48:53 AM »
The Cleaner is pretty entertaining.  I've seen 2 episodes.  A crime scene cleaner.  Light comedy.  A changing cast in each role.  So far Helena Bonham Carter and David Mitchell.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on July 15, 2025, 01:03:39 PM »
Scrambled eggs for lunch with a side of green beans.  I never eat eggs for breakfast, but lunch is a regular thing, and sometimes, an omelette for dinner works, since it isn't very difficult to throw together.  Not exactly gourmet fare, but it's quick and easy.
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on July 15, 2025, 11:18:32 AM »
Dept Q sounds interesting, so thanks, goldie.

Utopia was pretty much oppressive.  Bad "edgy" music, pornographic levels of violence, like "give it a rest, guys, we get it" levels.  And predictable ending.  Thank god I'm done with that.  I guess BBC 4 is supposed to be fresh and original.  This failed on all counts.  Good cast members, though.  So, kudos to BBC for giving them some more paying work.  Too bad it was for a train wreck of a series.

At the end of the day, there's always this:
https://www.crazygames.com/game/robot-unicorn-attack
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by goldshirt*9 on July 13, 2025, 06:53:13 PM »
Just completed Dept Q (on netflix)
"A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases."
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 8ullfrog on July 13, 2025, 06:36:27 AM »
I mean if they're introducing a genetic sequence, that could be the equivalent of conditions where you have to take a pill every day or die.

I had a friend who was very dire about his thyroid med. He said "Any societal instability leaves me in numb terror, because if I don't get my pill every three days if I stretch it, I'll just straight up die."

He was in a similar boat to me, responsible for an aging parent, so every cut in the safety net brought him dread. His dad was a civil engineer but got early onset dementia, so he's pretty much a homebody.

His hobby is exotic plants. Can't say I shared the interest, but the man lit the golly up over rare cuttings and getting them past customs (legally, he didn't sneak, he just learned every single facet of the law)
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on July 12, 2025, 04:33:01 PM »
I made some lemon curd.  It took a while but it is pleasant on scones.   For some reason, the rats aren't attacking the lemon tree this year.  Maybe they've all gotten positions in Trump's cabinet.
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on July 12, 2025, 04:30:44 PM »
The show is kind of a mess, plot wise.  It's not really clear what's going on:  multinational company engineering food in order to introduce some not so healthy ingredient into the general population, at the same time developing some kind of Russian engineered flu vaccine, while there's some old graphic novel by a chemist that everyone is getting killed for.  There's lots of gratuitous violence in this and curtailing some of that while clarifying the rest of the plot could make it better.  I'm kind of racing through this so I can move onto something else, and hopefully better.

The endless splattering brains from execution style gun violence verges on pornographic.  It's like a bad video game with a whisper thin plot.  I'll be glad to be done with this. Maybe it's time to revisit that Unicorn game on here where I'm constantly losing the unicorn to collisions with mountains and the like.
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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on July 10, 2025, 11:58:31 PM »
I read a novel recently called Blindness about a dystopian situation when a virus infects an entire country except for one woman who hides her ability to see in order to get along with everyone else.  By the Portuguese author, José Saramago.  He won the Nobel Prize for literature.  But there's no hot superheroes in it, just some thugs who extort from others when everyone's blindness renders them vulnerable.

Right now, I've stumbled onto Utopia, the BBC series.  It's kind of grim and has plenty of unnecessary violence in it, so that's irritating in that it detracts from an otherwise interesting plot.  On amazon prime with ads, so those give me the occasional break from the dread.  I thought someone else had mentioned it on here but couldn't find the references.

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TV / Movies / Re: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?
« Last post by smokester on July 10, 2025, 03:59:44 PM »
Ok. I'm really, honestly, truly enjoying Apple TV's "See" with Jason Momoa. I can't think of a show quite like it that I have seen before.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on July 09, 2025, 05:09:34 PM »
When I was in my 20's I'd routinely go on 3 day fasts to cleanse toxins from my system.  I was allowed water for thirst but no other foods.  On the 3rd day, I would read cookbooks if for no other reason than to fantasize what I would eat when I could eat again.

And the broth gets old after a day of it.  I assume you can't even eat something innocuous like peach jello due to the color and potential stains.  I'm trying to think of something colorless that might assuage hunger but I'm kind of at a loss.  Even lemonade might be a problem.  At least the dental work seems to be worth the trouble, although it sounds expensive.  Good luck with that.
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