tetris11

I want to see Down and Out

I don't mind it if it's a labour of misguided love, like Stephen King's many many many hit-or-miss film adaptations pre-2020.

I do mind being told repeatedly that I should like it by viral media, it being overhyped to the point of ridiculousness, it being given the full red carpet treatment by one of the two main studios, and then when I actually watch it it's been changed to suit some audience mass appeal (e.g. make the clown scarier / less scary / not like that) .

I guess what I'm saying is, I like it when books are adapted into films where the director can do whatever the hell they want, for good or for worse, without the studio whipping them to appeal to the mass audience, many who weren't even fans until they were told to be 5 minutes ago.

They did, and though it was a short segment, it was good

*chef's kiss*

Döner-Mann
nimm mich an die Hand
führe mich in das Land
das du verstanden kann

Döner-Mann
die Reise zum die Ecke des Globus
ist eine echte Trip (Trip (Trip (Trip)))

Genuinely. If the council is operating laissez-faire, then they shouldn't blink when people take matters into their own hands by climbing onto roofs garbed in kevlar spandex and fighting drunk drivers on said rooftops using spinning kicks and batons whilst proclaiming that they are the night even though it's still daylight and they have to keep holding on to the chimney to stop themselves from slipping on the wet roof tile whilst the fire brigade has to hoist a ladder up there to gently ease them down due to complaints of pants-wetting pleas to be let down.

“halloo, what’s this?”

"haaaallooooo" is used a lot by Germans as a slow exclamation to mean "hey idiot, what are you doing?"

While that all sounds sane and rational, it's a sad fact the price trend does not appear to go both ways. Do you believe that food prices will go back down after supply goes up?

The rational part of me thinks "yes, of course". The cynical part of me thinks, "no, of course not, aritificially limiting supplies would be too profitable."

You have to bear in mind that the "like it used to be" part operated when digital card payments were not a thing. A customer would give you cash, and maybe you would write it down in your taxes, but there was no digital indicator of what actually happened.

Small business owners got to stay afloat by swindling the government, and this was the normal way for centuries.

I'm not saying it's right, just that the high business tax of the past wasn't as effective as you think it was, and will hit extremely differently this time around in the digital era.

There are countries in the world, where you enter a room in the morning full of dear and beloved friends and colleagues, and you would neither greet them nor make eye contact until they wanted something from you.

I don't know whether this would be my heaven or my hell, but as a brit, useless smalltalk is practically baked into my bones.

found the german

take the L, regroup