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Comment Re: No more Dr who on Australian ABC after 50 year (Score 1) 53

"Dr Who has gone full Disney." Not yet and I dearly hope Disney don't have the rights to interfere creatively or start their own Who EU. Else earth will be flooded by:

"One of those regeneration-wave devices, strapped to the Doctor now, dropped on a planet and done. Forever and ever and ever and ever."

Comment Re: Behind the sofa (Score 1) 53

Oh that's what it was - I remember chasing my little sister round the room zombie style, arms outstretched, going "The seaweed, the seaweed!" in a spooky voice. Topical then with the North Sea oil rigs just starting. I never feared the mechanical foes, it was always the squidgy organic ones. The yetis were quite terrifying and there was one where something came out of the foam-filled London Tube tunnels.

Comment Re: Give it time (Score 1) 238

Putin realized he couldn't get rid of the corruption which had beaten and outlasted the Soviets, so he decided to meet it halfway, judoka style, allowing the looting and mafias to continue but under his rules, and on condition they did him favours when asked (plus 10% for the big guy). Having half your economy disappear into a black hole will never allow it to be stronk enough to compete with competent states.

Comment Re: Tasteless tomatoes... (Score 1) 66

Not just the supermarkets. Here, most tomatoes (many from the Netherlands) are tasteless and barely ripe but they cost 2 quid a kilo. Riper, tastier versions are available but they're much more expensive, up to 10 per kilo and most people don't buy them. Growers, buyers and customers have together decided that cheap and not very good are what the market mostly wants.

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