Poilievre‘s problem is that he has exactly one bit (partisan attack dog)

I mean tbf ”people who hate their families and friends“ seems to be the demographic AI companies seem to be going after going by all their ads

Hey remember a few months ago when the Republicans big appeal was that they weren’t the party of nagging moms

Guy who is an OldWho fan obsessed with the legendary wiped episodes, analyzing any other form of media:

This post is also about two sentences away from calling Bouie an ungrateful [racial slur]

I’ve always noticed that people who watched OldWho are always much more disdainful of when the Revival used the Silurians/Sea Devils

Britain really elected this Onion columnist as prime minister

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I like Natalie Portman and Ewan MacGregor in most things but they are giving absolutely nothing to work with either

It’s alway very funny to me when writers write an avatar of themselves into their stories who is just a total hack of a writer

In some of the later novels there’s an author stand-in character who writes mystery novels about a Finnish detective based in Britain, and she can’t stand her character and admits to doing absolutely no research about Finland.

Again, purely a matter of taste, but I found the latter extremely compelling

The entire relationship Catholics (in the west at least) have with the church can be consolidated into the phone call with the woman at the construction company and [spoiler] ”I confessed to the wrong priest"

Tbh based on the way my partner and I reacted to the film when we saw it together (very differently) I think it genuinely might come down to whether or not you grew up Catholic

joining the bandwagon. No preferences for genre, I want to learn about something completely new

I’m not disagreeing with you to be clear, I think this is a simple and harmless matter of taste

Poirot and Marple are essentially supporting characters in half the Christie novels and are for the most part blank slates - I think a lot of the characters‘ reputation is down to just how much work Ustinov, Suchet et al did to bring them to life in the screen adaptations

I get that but I feel that while he has less screentime he was far better used? He does have a clear arc in the WUDM that he doesn’t IMO in GO. And tbh I guess I prefer detective stories where the detective ends up being more of a secondary character