I have watched this movie several times over the years, but I recently watched the 4K UHD Blu-Ray release of the 2012 50th anniversary digital restoration and it feels like this was the first time I truly saw the full greatness of this movie — until now I had always regarded it as a truly great movie, one of the great classics, but seeing it like this now finally made me see why so many of the greatest filmmakers who came after it are obsessed with it.

Casablanca

There’s absolutely no way that’s true.

Eh, I know US-bashing is really popular here, but it has to be at least a little bit believable to be funny.

What school has metal detectors and xray machines?!?

That’s a misunderstanding on your part.

When they inevitably reboot Bond, it would be cool to see period adaptations of all the Fleming novels.

That’d be very cool, and it’d make me very happy if they started with making a seriously good adaptation of Moonraker.

I’d say Moonraker, which might be my favourite of the first books, but the movie adaptation keeps little more than the title and changes pretty much everything else (and as a result ends up being quite bad, receiving noticeably lukewarm reviews and nowadays often appearing in lists of worst Bond films ever).

Knives.

Any product that is perforated to tear easily, 9 times out of 10 they fucked it up and the perforations may as well not even be there or even make it worse

Interesting — I’ve always assumed that this was deliberate, in order to increase waste (and thereby sales). Do you really think that it’s because of something innocuous like incompetence or inattention?

to more obscure and risky providers who don’t care about the law instead

There’s no need to go that far, there will still be plenty of well-known and trustworthy providers who care about the law but simply operate outside of UK jurisdiction.

Sydney Sweeney

“All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.” — http://mutt.org/

It’s kind of sweet that they write that you need at least RAM 1500 to get these ads in your truck, so that the solution simply is to install less RAM in your truck if you don’t want the ads. (I’ve never owned a truck so I don’t know how much RAM is normal, but 1500 sure sounds like a lot.)

Me too, the original communicator from the 1960s!

So this is what insanity looks like.

The best one is ETH, it’s as simple as that.

The most famous weekly newspaper is probably The Economist. I myself am quite fond of NZZ am Sonntag.

A reminder to avoid reading the daily news:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181219225833/http://www.dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Avoid_News_Part1_TEXT.pdf

The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.

Do you honestly find it weird that people all over the world obsess over the one country in the world that constantly sends its enormous military all over the world?