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@jswriter65 @horrormuseum I grew up watching this, it is magical. Beauty and subtlety, like horror for that matter, are not to everyone's taste but true art grows more meaningful as we age so be prepared to give it time and don't fret if you remain cold to it. Love it for itself not its reputation.

@horrormuseum I've tried watching it twice because of its reputation, and bailed both times because it bored me. Thanks for reminding me it's time to give it another shot.

It's hard to find a classic director who wasn't inspired by THE TALES OF HOFFMAN 1951 George Romero and Martin Scorsese met because they kept renting out the 16mm print in NY in the 60s. Censored in the US, it's a nightmarish, disturbing, beautiful masterpiece.

@TheAttagirls It was English grammar rather than literary critique but you're welcome.🙂

@DiCapelano Thank you for your unsolicited literary critique. I will file it with all of the others.

Woman of the Day pioneering suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage of Cicero, New York, died OTD 1898, aged 71. The Matilda Effect - the phenomenon in which the achievements of women scientists are claimed or stolen by their male colleagues - is named for her because she first identified it in her 1883 essay Woman as Inventor. Matilda worked with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to found the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, and collaborated with them in writing the History of Woman Suffrage (1881–1887) and the Declaration of the Rights of Women. She published and edited the National Citizen, a paper devoted to the cause of women. The fight against inequality was in her blood. Born into an abolitionist family, Matilda and her husband offered their home as a station on the Underground Railroad despite the risk of harsh penalties and imprisonment. She described herself as "born with a hatred of oppression” and was a staunch advocate for Native Americans, publicly criticising their treatment by the federal government. In 1870, Matilda wrote “Woman as Inventor” promoting the work of female inventors, including Sarah Mather who invented the deep-sea telescope and Margaret Knight who invented a machine that created flat-bottomed paper bags. She pointed out that society disapproved of women inventors, thus suppressing their talents, deterring them from learning about mechanics, and patenting their inventions under the names of their husbands to evade insults and ridicule. “In not a single State of the Union is a married woman held to possess a right to her earnings within the family; and in not one-half of them has she a right to their control in business entered upon outside of the household. Should such a woman be successful in obtaining a patent, what then! Would she be free to do as she pleased with it? Not at all. She would hold no right, title, or power over this work of her own brain.” Widely regarded as an excellent speaker and writer, Matilda also took direct action. In 1871, she organised several women in an attempt at voting in New York. In 1872, she tried and failed to vote in the presidential elections, but she actively supported Susan B. Anthony who was arrested and tried at court for successfully casting a ballot. When the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in 1886, she led a protest arguing that it was hypocritical to depict Liberty as a woman when real American women were denied political and social rights. Writing about laws which allowed a man to leave his children in his will to a guardian unrelated to their mother, she said, “It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.” Christianity especially drew her ire. “The most stupendous system of organised robbery known has been that of the Church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her own judgment, her own conscience, her own will.” Matilda died in 1898 at the age of 71 but it was her contention in Woman, Church and State, published in 1893, that struck a chord with me. The parallel with today is striking. “The witch was in reality the profoundest thinker, the most advanced scientist of those ages. The persecution which for ages waged against witches, was in reality an attack upon science at the hands of the Church. As knowledge has ever been power, the Church feared its use in woman's hands, and levelled its deadliest blows at her.”

@WomenOfWessex DMH is throwing these good nurses under the bus because it has been captured by a deeply ideological (and in some cases disturbing) culture. Some working there including imported agency staff are radicalised to the point of insanity.

@PatrickChristys One assumes like other public bodies it has to have 'staff networks' of specific activists within it who will promote this kind of thing.

The NHS has been completely captured

@TalkingPicsTV I recently heard the late Robin Chadwick, God rest him, possessed courtly good manners - what a rare and wonderful tribute. He was fabulous as the perennially restless David Hammond and I hope his family will be comforted by the knowledge that his work remains much loved.

We at TPTV were very sad to learn of the recent death of Brothers star Robin Chadwick. We dedicate this evening's episode to his memory. THE BROTHERS (1976) 8pm #TPTVsubtitles Premiere episode 'The Ordeal'.

@TalkingPicsTV Thank you for showing this; another TPTV gem I would not otherwise have got to love. I recall fleeing from the credits as a warning of impending boredom as a child. Today I'm absolutely hooked. Keep on trucking!

There's a 'Tug of War' in the family and in the business! 🚛 THE BROTHERS (1974) 1:55pm #RobinChadwick #RichardsEaston #JuliaGoodman drama #TPTVsubtitles

@TalkingPicsTV Fabulous performance by Denholm Elliott; and how unnervingly perceptive of Dickens to understand the fatal combination of boredom and responsibility. Always enjoy classics from the era before tv adaptations had to insert contemporary obsessions or revisionism into them.

#DenholmElliott delivers a haunting performance in... 👻 A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS: THE SIGNALMAN (1976) 1:05pm with #BernardLloyd #ReginaldJessup drama #TPTVsubtitles

@RevdBrettMurphy @TCIMarketer With respect, they voted on 2 separate issues years apart and false equivalence is not a valid argument. Want to make a similar point about them taking YEARS to discuss Brexit ? Either way, many of us oppose either form of barbarism regardless.

@TCIMarketer Speaks volumes when our leaders value animal lives over human beings!

700 hours of parliamentary debate took place before the bill banning killing foxes was passed. 6 hours were spent today debating killing vulnerable, elderly and disabled human beings. The Godless UK will be harshly judged by Jesus Christ lest it drastically repents.

@VictoriaCoren @AudioAndrea @exitthelemming Would she by any chance be the pseudonym of a Veronica Barker?

@AudioAndrea @exitthelemming No, that one was actually written by another of our long-standing question writers, Geraldine Wiley.

Do I spy an @exitthelemming question on #OnlyConnect? @VictoriaCoren #QuizzyMondays

@BpRobertReed Get well soon, Bishop. Prayers for your recovery and for your sister and her late son, God rest his soul. ( thanks too for the memory of Large Marge!)

I’m home today recovering from an infection. I decided to wear this, my nephew Dan’s T-shirt. He died nine months ago - a fentanyl overdose. Please pray for his soul, and for my dear sister, Nancy, who grieves this loss daily. Thank you.

@Chad4328 Sorry you took that personally, I did not refer to you so well done for not feeling disrespected. Whether you assert I 'must' feel disrespected or not I'm afraid you are totally wrong. I'm not and I still believe spiritual and temporal fathers should be honoured.

@Chad4328 Only a very insecure man would feel disrespected by anyone else honouring men in their lives who play a fatherly role, be it temporal or spiritual. Anyone with a father figure in their lives knows full well love and respect are not worship.

@CatholicTV Depends on the homilist, 2 minutes can be interminable with some but short attention spans shouldn't dictate liturgy. I'm guessing when Our Lord was teaching he wasn't told to 'wrap it up, you're losing some of them.'

Pope Francis encourages priests to give brief homilies: “The homily should not be longer than 8 minutes, because after that people lose interest and fall asleep.” Do you agree with Pope Francis on this?

@DermotKearney3 @LifeNewsHQ Agree, she's a silly little girl who feels she doesn't get enough attention. and resorts to getting a rise out of people. She may grow up and out of it but the dead eyed man in the green bandana may not be so fortunate.

@LifeNewsHQ I am inclined to question her honesty...

“I’ve had like 45 abortions and I’m gonna keep having them!”

@TalkingPicsTV You can keep Oceans 11, this is the heist film for me. Great plot, nice satirical pot shots (even at army catering) camp chorus boy Oliver Reed and a great cast including the sublime pairing of Jack Hawkins and Nigel Patrick. Never miss it and still hope they'll get away with it.

A Bank Robbery of Military Precision! #JackHawkins #NigelPatrick #RichardAttenborough THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960) 1:25pm. A British classic #TPTVsubtitles

@DianneN10 Either playing to the gallery for shock value or mentally unable to relate to people and normal emotions, either way pitiable and in need of help. The would be cool nom de guerre is adolescent at best.

@annamlulis A stopped clock is right twice a day but I wouldn't necessarily rely on it.

The new President of Argentina, Javier Milei, in his own words on abortion: “When you construct on the basis of an incorrect moral principle, the result is filth. How can being able to kill other human beings be a right gained? As a liberal, I believe in the unrestricted right to life based on the defence of life, liberty and property. I defend life, biology says that life begins with conception”

@LilaGraceRose I totally agree, this is despicable and the decision of the judiciary to prevent Indi's treatment is indeed a stain on my country's moral judgement. May she rest in peace.

Deeply saddened to share that Baby Indi has passed away, after being deprived breathing assistance. Let me be clear: the British government murdered her. They denied the right of Indi’s parents to pursue other treatment for her, keeping her captive by the court mandated medical team that decided Indi must die. The medical team violated their sacred duty to Do No Harm. This is murder, plain and simple. It’s a stain on the national conscience of the United Kingdom. There must be a reckoning, there must be reform, and there must be reparations for the evil acts committed by both the medical teams and the UK courts. Pray for Indi’s grieving parents and let’s work together to ensure such horror never happens again.

@Tonia_Hankins7 @LilaGraceRose Bad judicial decision but not a consequence of free at source medical care for which I remain thankful. Let's leave politics and concentrate instead on praying for Indi's family.