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@noyoushutthefuckupdad I would like you to know I just checked that didn't actually exist. Just to make sure.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad I always watch with subtitles even alone now. Re-watching movies I used to watch with my dad 20 years ago, it's pretty nice catching things I never noticed before, or heard wrong

@sun Oh, quite different then to what I thought. He does go on odd tangents

@rain @sun You might like "The Meaning of Liff" if you've not seen that before, which he worked on with John Lloyd, and which is way lesser-known. The idea was to re-purpose place names as words for familiar concepts in life that need names. A lot of it is dated now, but a lot of these definitions I still think of all the time: https://sqt.wtf/~ullard/liff.html

Good examples: "clune", "low eggborough", and "humby"

@noyoushutthefuckupdad We had at least one viewer who was hard-of-hearing and particularly appreciated it. I didn't even find out until we'd already run a few shows with him watching

@noyoushutthefuckupdad usually easiest just to say youve been busy but "need to get back into it" which will prompt a few recommendations like the latest CoD or whatever, nod along, "cool thanks i'll check it out", "oh yeah", "is that right", etc until they stop

@sun @rain It is kind of unfair because he got imitated and gushed over so much that it wrung a lot of good out of the writing. It is eye-rolling now but for the time it was startlingly good

@sun @rain It's passé and lifeless now in the same way Star Wars is: all the goodness has been hugged out of it by fawning imitation