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since his first screenplays, abt the IRA
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since his first screenplays, abt the IRA ronan bennett has assiduously mined the “political outlaw” seam, the borderline between fanatical idealism and crime
and the hamburg cell, an unscandalised and non-demonising C4 telefilm abt the […]

Spending time on holiday with my nephew
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Spending time on holiday with my nephew means I get to watch television he cannot fathom and I barely understand. I am not talking about Yu-Gi-Oh! – I mean old episodes of Scooby-Doo (written independently of the Mark S treatise below. The Tao […]

Travel month eh?
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Travel month eh? Well I am writing this on a plane, how is that for travel. I still cannot get blas’ about air travel, despite doing it twelve times already this year. What I have become to particularly like is the quirks of the individual comp[…]

San Andreas – Quick Questions?
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San Andreas – Quick Questions?
1. Is it the case that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the first big-ticket computer game in which the player character is invariably black*?
2. Does this matter at all? In particular does it matter given the &#8[…]

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  1. Ugh. Well, I can provide some connection there -- the Hebrew words for "cow" and "fruit" do actually begin with…

  2. I think looking back at my posts in The Other Place during my lockdown re-read that it's got something to…

  3. I realize that the answer may well be "Sim made it up from nothing", but is there more detail (presumably…