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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 3d

Podcast ahoy! This week, musician, milkman, and evil mastermind Terry Molloy chats instruments, Household Furnishings and much more!

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 2h

I mean, if everyone wants to pause the conversation and watch Dr Strangelove instead, I'd be game

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 2h

But Selfridge didn't originate the phrase, he was just an early adopter.

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 3h

The addendum "in matters of taste" represents a shift AWAY from the phrase's origin by attempting to restrict the arena in which customer satisfaction is to be prioritised.

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 3h

That is literally not true. The original point is that staff should do everything possible to satisfy the customer even if what the customer wants is stupid and wrong, and that small disputes are better settled by acquiescing in order to retain customer goodwill.

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 3h

But it doesn't clarify it; it alters it. The phrase in full, which originated around the time of Selfridge's and was used by him among others, is "The customer is always right." The unspoken implication is "even when they are wrong".

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 20h

Although there is certainly something very PKD about noir's tendency to have a central protagnoist who is the only clear-eyed man in a world of charlatans amd crooks

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah but surely "bounty hunter goes to kill a gang" is more a Western plot than a noir

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, he can afford socks. Pays better than Amazon.

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 21h

Huh! Interesting backstory to Colin Wilson's Return of the Lloigor

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 22h

Does that depend on whether you get the version with the voiceover?

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, quite a lot of prejudice is rooted in people being fundamentally shit at life. Look at the incel movement.

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with Lovecraft is that all his best ideas are because of the racism.

Like, Shadow Over Innsmouth is probably his strongest story, but the basic plot is "wouldn't it be grim if people of different races could fuck?"

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

"Opinionated weather forecasters telling me it's going to be a miserable day. Miserable to who? I quite like a bit of drizzle, so STICK TO THE FACTS" - A Country Practice, Half Man Half Biscuit

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

I think the mistake is made of thinking you have to understsnd every word before you see the play, when in fact a good actor will MAKE you understand - like Michael Keaton as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. Didn't know the play when I watched the film, but Keaton gave me everything I needed

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, I like that

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

One of my old professors would concur: "Blade Runner is a western with a scifi jacket on"

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

TBF Michael Palin pronounces it "'yperbowl" in the Piranha Bros sketch, might have been an influence too

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah but I once read an article by a woman who said she tears books in half so she can lend the first half to a friend before finishing the book, and she was clearly a sociopath

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Neither breaking the spine of a book you are reading, nor trying to ensure the spine does not break while you read it, nor using an e-reader, indicates a more 'authentic' approach to reading or signals the correct attitude to the object. 'Fetishise' or 'vandalise', two sides of a pointless debate.

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday, Katy! Xx

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

*IF Jack's sacrifice, obviously

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

Who was it who said that where people go wrong is they confuse "serious" with "sombre"?

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a student there was a postcard in the campus shop which read "Just because Kant's Categorical Imperative states that i should undertake no action which cannot be implemented as a universal rule doesn't mean I can't give you a slap"

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

I saw someone say that the two best Muppet films are Christmas Carol, because Cain acts like he's not surrounded by muppets, and Treasure Island, because Curry acts like he's one of them

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

I mean...no

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

Surely it's the fact that Jack is evil at the end. In the book Jack's been sacked for beating shit out of a schoolkid before the action even starts, he's not a good guy. But of Jack's sacrifice proves that he can be redeemed, then King - writing in his severe addict phase - can be redeemed.

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