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Boring week. Did some work, quite pleased with it.
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Turns out the Lidl T-shirts (see last week) are bad, poorly sewn and strangely tailored. Unless you have a very thick neck and thin arms, in which case they’re the T-shirts for you.
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🎦 Barbie (2023) has a motor car in it – a 2024 Chevrolet Blazer – with red seatbelts that made me go ooh, that’s the first time I’ve gone ooh at the colour of some seatbelts. (I looked it up on the Internet Movie Car Database, where a berk in the comments was being strongly angry about some aspect of the soundtrack – too incoherently to make much sense of, but as far I could tell they were a new variety of massive racist.)
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Oppenheimer (2023) (several days later). I fear I’m turning into Richard Madeley, but some of the dialogue was difficult to hear. Of what I could hear, once or twice I swear Dr Robert sounded just a little bit like someone doing an impression of Terry Wogan. I was pleased to do a big wee once it was over.
It’s a shame about the hard and unyielding plastic armrests of the new seats at the cinema. But I think some of the screens still have the older, more comfortable chairs, so perhaps one must pay attention to which ones they are.
(Is “hard and unyielding” a tautology? I thought about complaining to a tabloid editor about “very ample”, but actually that has a specific meaning in algebraic geometry when describing line bundles, so er maybe it’s the same for cleavages.)
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📺 Nearing the end of Billions. It’s not very good, which is good for the times when you don’t feel like watching something good. A nice thing about the earlier seasons was that everyone’s iPhones were, by today’s standards, noticeably old. Also, there’s a step in Damian Lewis’s character’s bedroom that must be a nightmare for tripping over at night – wouldn’t a real billionaire have a level floor?
For completeness, some other content consumed recently. The new run of Black Mirror, of which I cried at one bit. One episode of The Bear, which was too good so I felt I must save the rest for later, is that weird? There’s a new series of Ed Reardon’s Week on the radio.
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Cherries.