@HiddenYorkshire It's not quite a spy thriller in the traditional sense, but Killing Eve scratches a similar itch, especially the first season
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John Barleycorn
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I have a spy thriller itch a la Tinker Tailor which needs to be scratched. What should I watch next?
Seen: Bond, Mission Impossible, A Very Secret Service, Ipcress Files
Not seen: Spooks, Babylon Berlin
Didn't like The Americans.
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@bazashc @twilliamc15 @pete_churchill I think I read it for the first time in First school. My mum loved LOTR but she gave me the Hobbit to read first, specifically because it was more geared towards kids than LOTR. She did read sections of LOTR to me though.
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@twilliamc15 @pete_churchill Same! I loved it when I was in primary school and then re read it for the first time last month at 22 and thought wow this is still unreal
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Don’t want to rain on the parade here but is the hobbit not very famously a kids book
Max Gagliardi@max_gagliardi
Got tired of reading the kiddy books for bedtime and decided to read the Hobbit to my 6 & 7 year olds I hadn’t read it since like 5th grade and it’s over the top linguistically advanced for kids I thought they might struggle but they absolutely loved it Every page they’d stop me 5+ times asking what certain words mean and I had to consistently stop and explain things but man I feel like it has been absolutely great for them (and me tbh) Only classical novels from here on out at bedtime
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@homesteadpilot Said straight up "if I had the money I would buy it for you" and keeps offering to buy me furniture and such. I don't expect her to do any of that and wouldn't ask for it but it shows a very different mindset.
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@homesteadpilot Yup, I love my dad but he's a bit like this too, there was a time when I was effectively homeless and I knew I wouldn't get any help from my parents. Which is fine I guess, I survived. I'm now in the process of buying a house and have been speaking with my Gran about it and she
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Now here is the Pre-boomer vs Boomer dichotomy:
My wife and I and our 2 kids lived in a camper while I was building my business for a year and a half.
My grandparents (on my mother’s side), recognized my family as well as my mother needed a long-term home and acted as the bank in order for us (3 generations) to go in on a 10 acre piece of land and to build two small homes on the property.
Since I own a small business obtaining financing from a bank is very tough, not to mention the outrageous interest.
So my grandparents freed us from the banking system (we pay monthly into a trust), and in turn in 20 years I’ll be able to do the same for my children.
Homestead Pilot@homesteadpilot
My dad (boomer with 5 houses, worked very hard his whole life), had a 2013 F-150 lariat. Garaged every day, looked like it just came off the showroom floor, never so much as a potato chip inside. 170k miles. He just traded it into the dealership…. For $5,000 He visited me 4 weeks ago, he knows I drive a 2001 Tacoma with 300k miles on it. I would’ve given him $10k. He didn’t even think to ask if I wanted it. Called me up all proud of the deal he made, said “I bet I could’ve gotten 7k for the truck but it wasn’t worth the hassle.” The dealership will sell it for $18k and I’m still driving the Tacoma.
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@HiddenYorkshire We lost touch but when my mum died last year he came down from Edinburgh to attend because he remembered how I would play with him as a little kid. It was very touching
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@HiddenYorkshire I was the youngest in my family and used to get bullied by my siblings and cousins. The elderly couple next door used to have their grandson stay with them and he was quite lonely so as an older kid/teenager I used to play with him. He's an adult now
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My 4 year old nephew keeps asking me to play and I say yes because I didn't have anyone to play with when I was little. And maybe by playing enough I can reach back into the past, trick time, and fix things
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@AHomelyHouse Also forgetting that historically, a 'foreigner' could refer to someone from the same country/ethno-cultural group but not from that particular area
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Funny how folks never seem to realize that the Levitical Law is setting up the policies for a theocratic ethno-state. Foreigners were welcome to live and trade there, but they're not voting or holding office, and if they violate the national laws or practice a foreign religion they were put to death without mercy. Not quite the situation most of the pro-infinity-immigration types would want.
Jamie Kay@TheRealJamieKay
Funny how these ‘patriotic Christians’ never seem to follow this part of the Bible. Leviticus 19:33–34.
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@SirJBritain What did I see at midnight when I walked back from the beach to the tiny village? Some flavour of south east Asian walking down the main street talking out loud in FaceTime.
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@SirJBritain I went to Holy Island a few weeks ago. It's quite a popular tourist spot so is very busy during the day (although mainly white people). I went across at the last crossing so pretty much all the tourists had left. I was there to scatter my mother's ashes on a secluded beach.
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My daily observation for today.
Walking to my kids school today to do pickup, walking there, did not see another single White person.
Just African & Chinese people wandering about. I guess they haven’t got jobs.
I live in a rural area that was 97% Native British last census.
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