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Richard J
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 4h
The stadium?
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@duncanweldon.bsky.social has written for them
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 4h
Unzoomed #631 2/6 🔴🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️
unzoomed.com a stadium day
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Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 14h
Rick is the disappointed hero who we’d like to think we’d be; Renault is the Everyman who’s made up the usual compromises with the powers that be to get into an apparently personally safe position only to find out that buried underneath the protective cynicism he still cares.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Yeah. But they got Casablanca, we get Star Wars X Fill In Name Later
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Welcome to finding out any information about a US private company, beyond the merest fact of its existence
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Ah, varifocals, and yes, after a week or so of having annoyingly weird distortion of books and devices if it didn’t hold them precisely perpendicular to my face the eyes learnt to compensate
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
No charge.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
The old Hollywood studio machine was breathtakingly cynical, mercenary, and ruthlessly exploitative, but when it worked…
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Make sure to print to fit page size so he doesn’t need to pop his readers on.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
And dear god, the Marseilles bit
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Captain Renault is both the comic relief and also the true moral core of the film.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Like Citizen Kane and Some Like Hot it’s one of those films that “surely can’t be that go… my god, it’s great”
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Which is pretty much my recollection of it being objectively shit but enjoyably so
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
I haven’t seen it since I was that much older than the Boy Scout tbh
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Aka “it’s a Ken Russell film”
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Tbf it’s probably an improvement over a very young Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi hamming it up, but godamnit
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
Erm…
Um. It’s actually The Limey
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15h
People may try to convince you that this is good; and you may look at the cast and director and half expect this; I go back and forth based on how the wind blows tbh
The Lair Of The White Worm IMDb 6.1 1h 29min 1988 Included with Prime
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16h
> provided these invoices to be paid (an asset on the balance sheet) actually are with commercially-viable counterparties. If they’re not, then trouble arises very quickly
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16h
Ah , yes, they were factoring trade receivables (or translating from accounting speak, borrowing money short term on the basis that they sold and delivered the goods to the customers who’d later pay the invoices due for this goods); which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do for pressing cash>
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16h
Debts you should have impaired because you were never getting that money back but didn’t would be my first guess here
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 18h
Ah Viz
Battling Saints 5th Nov... AND WE ARE GATHERED HER TO PAY OUR THANKS TO THE LORD FOR GIVING YOU, MY PARISHIONERS, THE STRENGTH TO DONATE MONEY TO OUR CHURCH STEEPLE FUNO... PRAISE HIM. WHAT'S THAT CA UP TO NOW? THE APOSTLE GOT UNDER The vicars of neighbouring churches - Protestant St Fiacra and Catholic St Adelbert - were always fighting a Holy war...
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 19h
Mitigating circumstances
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 19h
The blackest of humour needed for them