Personally I was more upset when they made David Tennant's doctor gay, and then retconned it as if he was always gay, in preparation for the entrance of this... Thing.
Which is frankly pretty bizarre, given that Tennant literally played Casanova, shacked up with at least two of his female co-stars (and ended up marrying one), and was voted one of the "sexiest men alive", by women, at some point. In fact I don't recall him ever playing a gay character before, despite working with Russell T Davies on multiple previous occasions. So that's just... Pure sacrilege, to me. I also can't think of any previous evidence of the Doctor being gay, canonically, whatsoever, prior to Jodie Whittaker...
I hate to go all "Not My Doctor", but I don't consider Cutty Cat-waah to really be the Doctor, canonically. Frankly, everything since "The Timeless Child" has felt like some sort of weird fan fiction, so that fits.
If they want to destroy everything that made the show good in the first place, as you point out, then they may as well just call it something else at this point, given that it bears no resemblance to what the vast, vast majority of fans knew and loved.
But of course, they won't do that, because they would rather destroy what we enjoy, instead.
/endrant
Rainbow in bio or holding sign (as pointed out by others) = immediate discrediting of your opinion, to me.
I think I may have seen “Becoming Bond” at the cinema or on tv shortly after it was released, actually! And yeah, what a dude, lol. Then again, in his position, I would probably do similar.
I believe Diana Rigg used to eat garlic before they had to kiss because she so detested him, lol. Which makes me like him even more, tbh.
But yeah, if you like classic Diana Rigg, and haven’t already seen it, I would highly recommend The Avengers (tv show), which, unrelated to Marvel, basically has her running around in a catsuit and socking bad guys in the jaw, lol. The mostly-unresolved sexual tension and “Britishness” in that show are through the roof!
Edit: Forgot to mention that I believe that show was the reason she was chosen for Bond, much like I believe The Saint was for Roger Moore, which aired around the same time.
Classic British crime/action TV. 👌🏻
Yeah, they showed the Paris Marathon on tv the other day, and, as you say, one of them went around a square corner too fast, in the first four minutes or so, and rolled, badly…
They have to have sentries (appropriately, lol) or rather stewards, on bikes, riding alongside them, just in case that happens…
Then again, having witnessed someone having to be carted off to hospital during an able-bodied marathon, I would say that distance is probably not good for anyone, if you run it too often, lol.
Sprinters generally seem to be in better health, as do cyclists, provided either are clean…
Back to cp though - watching it is interesting, because it varies so much in severity, that it must be really damn hard to classify them, especially for swimming and running…
Though para-classification is a minefield at the best of times, now that we’ve moved from “amputee sports” to “any and every disability, including invisible ones”…
Edit: I used to know a girl with cystic fibrosis, who based… Much of her identity around being a wheelchair. The day that I realized that she could walk, unsupported, just with difficulty, was quite a revelation…
Like, I get why she needed the wheelchair, but to have so much of your identity be “Look at me, I’m doing so much despite my chair”, and then get up and walk across the room, while tipsy - I found that a bit disconcerting, tbh, lol…
True. Though I consider OHMSS to be severely underrated in general! Diana Rigg is great in it, too, and it does a good job of bringing Bond "down to Earth" a bit, at least in parts.
Telly Savalas does make for a weird, not-very-threatening Blofeld though, I must admit. But I do greatly enjoy that film overall.
I really don't like Thunderball, Diamonds or Live and Let Die very much, though, so when I rewatch that era, OHMSS is my go to, mostly, lol.
Edit: I literally forgot You Only Live Twice exists, even though I enjoy that one. So that says something about it's "comparative memorability", lol.
That's also my favourite Bond movie, ha. Though I prefer the "View to a Kill" theme, personally, even if I don't like the movie.
But yeah, it's grown on me over time, that song. Very 80s, however.
Apparently this is what we might have had if Dalton replaced Moore by the time of "For Your Eyes Only", and they went with the Blondie version of theme song instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5D43-MqF8
I'm kind of glad that they didn't, tbh. What we got instead is indeed one of my favourites, and, much as I like Dalton, I seriously doubt he could have pulled it off as effectively, lol. Moore did a pretty great job there.
If you haven't watched the classic Bond movies yet (particularly the Moore and Dalton era) - I would highly recommend.
Three of those are probably my favourites, including the theme songs (mostly), although Lazenbond will still always be my "guilty pleasure" watch, lol.
One of Fedeev’s posts did say something like “Baby killer? I’m a literal baby maker,” or similar, so that carries, I guess…
Because it’s hiding the problem, rather than actually dealing with it…
However this happens all the time, with these events. Beijing, Baku (Eurovision) and Delhi (Commonwealth Games) are all known to have done the same…
Sydney was unironically pretty good.
Last Olympics to break even, too!
Last time my country achieved something like that. And probably the last actually good Olympics.
It’s worth looking “Gun Waifu” (Natalia Fedeev) up. All of her posts are so hilariously tone deaf that it really does border on parody. Though I don’t think she has that level of self-awareness (if she even writes any of the shit herself).
Hot? Sure. But also dumb as fuck, and has successfully put a fairly massive target on her back, I imagine…
Then again, I imagine the pay grade for “propaganda agent” is probably higher than for ordinary conscripts… Perhaps considerably so.
Ooh, I missed this. Sounds spicy lol.
So I looked through previous posts - this was that secret synagogue tunnel in NYC, right..?? 😅
Racing wheelchairs (which this obviously isn’t, and I don’t know if that would work for someone with teh palsy) are unironically considerably faster than walking…
However the real answer you’re looking for is stairs. They need only run up some damn stairs, lol. Or steal her glasses, I imagine.
I mean that’s the thing - if the serum thing fixes her vision, shouldn’t it also grant her the ability to walk..?? Lol…
"Words with Friends" but as a board game seems like a pretty dumb juncture for Scrabble itself to go down, but I can't say I'm all that surprised...
Every woke Zoomer chick I know absolutely loves that sort of shit, presumably because it allows them to be able to appear "smort" with minimal actual effort or knowledge...
Oh, I still don't get it, but ok...
Like, "When they're all dead", or something..?
What's ttd? I couldn't find it via a quick Google, lol...
Here's the original, so you can, if you wish, watch the TikThots do their thotting in video form:
Stupid fucking "nation".
Wiew. I hate "Lol calm down" as a response, but I'm not sure what else to say to you at this point...
Touch grass, maybe?
Hmm, this woman positively glows...
DC, then Microsoft, then Twitter, and now this job...
Talk about a hypocrite. But also talk about failing upward, lol...
Context and subsequent developments: https://archive.is/AoJlq
This is the original, because the fucking archive cuts off half the page (which is the fault of the original site, but anyway): https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/australia-puts--arrogant-billionaire--elon-musk-on-notice.html
This is dystopian as fuck. It really is...
Julie Inman-Grant, who is a Yank who moved here because America just wasn't authoritarian enough for her liking, is a genuinely evil person, IMHO. Despite having no relevant qualifications or experience, she somehow literally has the power to scrub the internet in Australia clean to her liking, and that of the (centre-left) government...
Scary shit.
Edit: I was wrong about her "experience", although it only makes it even more creepy, when you look into her background, lol...
She doesn't strike me as a "covert lesbian", from what I have seen, although I do admit that I have obviously watched much less than you or the others commenting here...
That wouldn't have been my assumption.
Same with Sydney Watson, who, while obviously not really a conservative/adjacent with our values here, does make good points sometimes.
But she's also mid-30s, and also single and childless. But I am very confident that she is not a lez.
But then I also can't get over the fact that I used to know a girl (and by know, I mean "know well") who had almost exactly the same name as Melonie (different spellings), and it weirds me out every time I see this girl mentioned/pop up, lol...
Oh no, I know all of that (Footloose was my school musical, after all!) - I just wondered why, in this instance, the people censoring the game had used that as their argument, given they are clearly doing this for the latter reasons you describe there…
Unless it was “niche gamer” that put those posters in that image..?
But nah, I think I was alive for the end of the “Satanic Panic” shit, even if I don’t remember it myself, lol…
I distinctly remember the cancelling of the Dixie Chicks, at the very least!
I think it’s more a question of timing. As in, were there still cannibals in New Guinea by then..?
Almost certainly not, given that’s where the Battle of Kokoda was fought, and I don’t recall any mention whatsoever of cannibals in that context.
Could be wrong, though.
Where's the other post..?
I didn't see it, lol.