Also, if you're into the empty feeling of nuclear sadness, check out When the Wind Blows (1986) - it's from Raymond Briggs's graphic novel - who did "The Snowman" and that Santa Claus one amongst other family favourites. Surely a lovely, fun cartoon to watch with the kids!
WARNING: DO NOT ACTUALLY WATCH WHEN THE WIND BLOWS WITH YOUR KIDS (unless your kids are adults)
The tone and scale is quite different, but the overall themes or message certainly have a lot in common. Both worth seeing.
I can't remember The Day After as clearly as I can Threads, but I remember it was definitely worth seeing, though I feel like it had a little more of a film/plot/narrative/entertainment element to it, whereas Threads was just quietly bleak and undignified - a gritty soap-opera story in Sheffield, then everyone gets nuked and you see all your favourite characters as they piss themselves and their hair and teeth fall out from the radiation and then they slowly die from illness and starvation, then you watch a documentary style presentation of the tiny remainder of population, scrabbling in dirt, trying to find a still living plant.
Absolutely watch both - all humans should watch both at some point in their lives - but maybe not on a day where you want to have any fun or talk to anyone, or do much except stare into the distance in silence.
Yes please! Most of the streets near me have been dug up three or four times now, over the last few years, for new companies to put identical cables next to the other company's cables, because they don't want to pay the rental or whatever it is.
I'm sure the extra telegraph poles are even more annoying.
Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984
>Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak, rarely seen docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984, while our writer explores the film’s lasting legacy
"The Darkness Out There" by Penelope Lively.
In short, a "nice old lady" tells a couple of young kids about what they did to a young German who survived a plane crash over Britain during WW2.
I think it was there for the "the nice old lady was actually nasty and cruel and the evil nazi was actually just a scared, fairly innocent boy".
From where I lived, just the lager and cider together was snakebite, and with blackcurrant it was a "snakebite and black" - but I think there was a lot of regional variety (in the UK, at least).
I have heard lager/cider/blackcurrant called a snakebite before though (I remember it causing a disagreement in the pub) - but I've also heard it called a "diesel" (which elsewhere was something mixed with guinness). I'm pretty sure you sometimes got different things in different pubs in the same town.
I suppose pre-internet, we were just relying on the drunk people ordering things to decide what they wanted to call stuff ("what was that purple mixed drink called that made me throw up on my own shoes?").
Mix rice up with tomato sauce, melt a bit of mozzarella cheese in, some slices of pepperoni in it, sprinkle in some basil and oregano... check behind you that nobody can see you commit culinary crimes... delicious.
To (controversially) go one step further, all unsweetened carbohydrate bases are interchangeable.
You can put pasta topping on a pizza, you can put pizza topping on rice, you can put toastie fillings on a potato waffle and it always ends up nice.
Pubs in the UK used to (or still do?) have blackcurrant and lime cordial for this.
"Lager and Lime", "Lager and Blackcurrant" and "Cider and Blackcurrant" were pretty common 20-30 years ago. A shot of cordial (concentrated juice), then filled up with lager beer.
There was also orange cordial behind the bar, but nobody ever drank "Lager and orange". I believe it was some form of crime.
Any other member of staff or the public would have corrected it with a marker pen in a second.
I enjoyed the joke but disliked the spelling. I think I am experiencing "ambivalence".
Yeah, I had a look at it myself last night and it showed up empty to me as well, which is a bit strange. I wonder if their 1.64 iso is corrupt?
Though it will not resolve anything, for the sake of curiosity, I might be tempted to check the previous 1.63 iso to see if it is also empty. If the 1.63 iso is not empty, then there's a problem with their 1.64 iso file, and see just wait for them to fix it. If the 1.63 iso also shows up as empty, then I guess the mystery continues!
[Edit] 1.63 is also empty, so something odd about how iso is formatted?
Glad you're making some progress with it! It looks like the 1.64 update is only a few days old, so perhaps it will make its way into the system updates in a few days? (In the same place you found 1.63).
Otherwise, I wonder if the windows .exe or .iso contains the .cab file (can you extract with archive manager or mount the iso?), which could then be installed using the instructions under "1.1.2 Manual (fwupdmgr)"?
Alternatively, if everything seems to be working well with 1.63, perhaps no need to worry for a while?
No guarantee this will work, but there seems to be instructions from the arch wiki here: wiki.archlinux.org Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 6)
Try at your own risk of course, but maybe an option if nothing else works?
I'm pretty sure you can do the bios on Thinkpads etc through "fwupdmgr" (I guess it means Firmware Update Manager). I definitely did mine through it.
There's a bit of info on here: Linux Mint Forums - [SOLVED] BIOS update on Lenovo ThinkPad X1C 7th gen
It should apply the same to Ubuntu as it does for Linux Mint.
I was expecting to disagree with the "top five", but you know what, that's a pretty solid selection of games.
I probably played the sequels "Jet Set Willy" and "Back to School" more than "Manic Miner" and "Skool Daze", but they were both fundamentally the same as their prequels.
Hahaha, Five points! I've hardly ever got five points on an Only Connect. Bit of a cheeky guess though :) I love these, please do more :)
[Edit] couldn't make spoiler work. Anyway, I didn't specify the timeline bit, but you said that was fine in a different response
It's a bit weird, isn't it?
Technically, the navigational tool is "a compass" and the geometric draw-a-circle tool is "a pair of compasses" (I don't know why) - but in general use, people just call both of them "a compass".
We've had hundreds of years to rename one of them, but for some reason haven't bothered.
You might be right, actually. There's only one way to find out: re-watch it all again :)
Only in Rimmer's logic :)
I think it was something like "If Lister hadn't been imprisoned in stasis for smuggling a cat on board, he would have been there to help me mend the drive plate, so I wouldn't have made the mistake which caused the failure, which killed all the crew".
If Michael Gove really wants to root out the forces threatening British society, perhaps his party should look in the mirror, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
"If Michael Gove really wants to root out the forces threatening British society, perhaps his party should look in the mirror"
There's a man on my train this morning, and he's listening to stuff out loud on his phone, like fully out loud, not even slightly subtle. The train is in Britain. He keeps listening to 5 seconds of an annoying song, then switching to another song. It sort of sounds like kids TV music. He appears dressed to go work in a fancy office or something, and this is a morning commuter train, so I don't think he's escaped from a prison or mental hospital.
Anyway, amongst myself and another couple of hundred quiet passengers, we've tried everything:
- tutting and rolling our eyes
- harrumphing, whingeing and sighing
- when a bloke got on the train with headphones on, someone said loudly "Isn't it great when someone wears headphones? They can listen to whatever they like and nobody else has to hear it"
- sometimes it stops for a minute, and there's a widespread muttering of "Ooh, thank god that's over with"
- followed by an en-masse groan when it starts again "Oh no, not this again!"
- a lady on the phone saying loudly "Sorry, I can't hear what you're saying, because someone is being inconsiderate and playing music really loudly"
- saying to one another, loudly enough for the man to hear "isn't it annoying when someone plays their music out loud? I wish he'd stop doing that"
- muttering aggressive words, under our breath, in his general direction "prick", "wanker" "knobhead", "bellend"
- Someone getting onto the train, and not sitting at his table and saying "God, I'd rather stand than sit next to that prick", loud enough for him to hear.
- the ticket-checking man rolled his eyes, but didn't do anything
I think generally we're running out of ideas. I heard someone behind me mentioning they were thinking about "sparking him out", and someone else had suggested they might grab his phone and throw it out the window.
I was toying with the idea of going nuclear on him, and directly but politely asking him to turn it down, but it's a bit early for that kind of extreme behaviour. Perhaps I should throw something at his head?
Anyway, anyone who's been in a similar situation have any suggestions?
[Update] The train got full, so people were standing all the way down the aisle. Three people sat on the table next to him.
Opposite him, an older woman stared at him and shook her head at him, in a gesture I interpreted as "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed". He put his phone in his pocket and stared out the window. I gave her the subtlest of nods, to communicate "thank you" and "good job".
So we're safe, this time - but I'm still interested in solutions, as something like this could happen again!
My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie
> My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’. Sound familiar?
> For the umpteenth time, my son, with an Ikea stuffed ball he has had since infancy, is playing football in the living room. He is joined by one of his best friends, an equally football-obsessed 10-year-old who, before slide-tackling in what can only be described as a deliberate attempt to knock my son’s legs off, shouts: “Brexit means Brexit!” Confused, I pass it off as an example of tweenage precocity: which 10-year-old is happy to quote Theresa May while playing football?
I must admit, this gives me some hope for the future.
Singer whose idiosyncratic performances helped the German band Can stretch the limits of experimental rock
> "Singer whose idiosyncratic performances helped the German band Can stretch the limits of experimental rock"
Saw him sing/speak/make noise at a 2 hour long improv set in a small gig venue in Yorkshire about 10-20 years ago, supported by a handful of local improv musicians.
After they finished the set, he individually thanked (and optionally hugged) every single audience member.
Cats Protection UK Website - National Black Cat Day
I include a complementary picture of a black cat in a carrier bag.
Three cats spread over the stairs, staring at the camera person, blocking access to the upstairs. (Actually they're just waiting for someone to throw the fuzzy ball for them to chase).
Photo is from about a year ago, when the cats learnt that as well as "on the bed" and "under the duvet", if you explored the area where the buttons were, there was also "inside the duvet cover".
Three cat brothers, sat neatly on a staircase, Jan 2023. This is probably my favourite photo of the three of them together.