"Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner!... Tina, eat. Food. Eat the food!"

Or pull out of Afghanistan.

@ryanlambie.bsky.social I really enjoyed the interview. Genuinely insightful questions with revealing answers. Keep up the good work.

I'm treading carefully here to avoid spoilers but I'm intrigued how the ending plays in the US. There's a very specific and deliberately confronting British cultural reference which I assume isn't widely known outside the UK.

Jacobs Ladder at last!

One of my first DVDs, long overdue 4K treatment.

"If you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."

And

"The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator."

She "didn't much care for reading," she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces."