I love this. Definitely going to try it sometime 😁

I guess the threat of people not voting for them. Most MPs will live in their constituency, or at least very near - it’s only really well known figures like Farage who can get away with being parachuted in, and even then it took him about 8 goes to win a seat!

Perhaps worth clearing up that although Count Binface was standing in yesterday’s Clacton by election, this isn’t a photo from that, but (I think) from Andy Burnham’s successful bid to be the MP of Makerfield, near Manchester.

On the contrary, he’s rarely shown his face there, even after being elected MP. He’s a shameless grifter.

As for being able to stand where you don’t live, yeah, it’s just a feature of the UK system that we don’t require residency. There’s probably a rule about you must have a registered office in the constituency, but that’s about it I think.

Stone and Parker are the embodiment of genX politics. That is the cynical mantra that people who believe in stuff are the real fools.

Even if that was their mantra (which I don’t think it is), it’s absurd to generalise that to all of Gen X, as if all of us have the same politics.

Ha, I only noticed afterwards that someone else basically said the same thing. Still though 😁

Debt first but redirect the payments straight into your savings (possibly slightly lower to make it easier).

And treat yourself to something small (like $50 or so), as a reward for doing the sensible thing with most of it.

And then have a brilliant time in Japan 😁

I like BlueSky, and it’s nowhere near as unhinged as Twitter.

As with how Twitter used to be, it’s just a question of curatung your feed. If someone is an asshole you block them and move on.

The key difference is that you can choose to have a feed of only those you follow, and that’s what you actually get, not algorithm-driven nonsense.

I wouldn’t say it’s equivalent - one finger is still worse IMO.

That’s true, but also it suffers from the fact that they were forced to reveal the killer mid season, thus robbing the show of its core dramatic driver. For a while they just didn’t know what to do with the world they’d built.

Deep cut first reference from The Missing Pieces - nice 😁

Would strongly advise watching the movie before S3 (but after S1 and 2) to get the most out of the final season.

I don’t think that’s the message of the show at all tbh.

EDIT to add that there’s a TP community here on Lemmy. It’s quiet, but it’s a place folk on this thread might find both wonderful and strange…

https://lemmy.world/c/twinpeaks !twinpeaks@lemmy.world

At its frequent best, it’s the finest TV around. It had a very rocky spell in the second half of season 2, but the final episode of that season was a masterpiece.

I absolutely love Season 3 as well.

IMO though, the film, Fire Walk With Me is the absolute pinnacle of the world of Twin Peaks, and indeed of Lynch’s output. I don’t really agree that you need to see Season 3 to understand FWWM, it’s pretty straightforward if you know the first two seasons fairly well, but I certainly think it adds an interesting further dimension to the film.

I’ll take this opportunity to plug a SUPERB video series on the show from a creator called Joel Bocko, who goes by Lost in the Movies on YT. His work is always fascinating, but the thing he’s best known for is his absolutely epic series Journey Through Twin Peaks. It’s a 40-chapter (and still growing) series covering the show, less from a “let’s work out the puzzles and clues” point of view and more from a cinematic, thematic and emotional perspective, including comparisons with old movies which may have influenced Frost and Lynch.

It’s marvellous, and deserves a hell of a lot more attention than it gets (and certainly more than the notorious 4 hour Twin Perfect video)

Blue Velvet was released in 1986, years before TP. I think you mean Wild at Heart, as it’s frequently said that he left the show to work on that. However that’s not actually the case either. He just stepped back from the show because he was unhappy with being forced to reveal the killer.

Worth noting that Imgur links look like this in the UK (possibly elsewhere too?) They work if you use a VPN though.

Depends what you’re interested in really - music, films, politics, food, gardening, TV, books, etc, etc. I

If you edit your post to give some idea of your interests, hopefully people can recommend some communities for you 👍

EDIT - alternatively, head to https://lemmy.org/search, and see what you can find (remember to change the setting from Local to All, so that you can find communities that are on a different instance than you).

1 Megadrive (aka Genesis)
2 PS4
3 Wii

Have also had a PS1 and 2, and really liked them as well, but these 3 are my top picks

Northern Ireland contributes to the Irish team

They actually don’t, NI has their own side and they have qualified for the WC before (1958, 1982 and 1986).

The reason for individual teams is partly traditional/historical and partly because the UK is a union of nations, with the nations each having their own footballing representation for well over 100 years. I don’t know the specifics of India, but it’s not (as far as I know) a union of different pre-existing nations.

Also, given that despite their huge population India have never qualified for the World Cup, it seems unlikely that individual states would do any better.

Everyone would just have a 1