The series gets more profound with every rewatch. Especially after PM Starmer got hounded out of office by the press.

Rewatching the episode Marionettes (Lord Altrincham criticising the Queen's PR machinery), and contrasting with how Diana was practically hounded to death. And now, a decent politician, Keir Starmer, tried his best in Broken Britain. He was pressured to resign for a shorter period of service than most supermarket managers. It appears the fourth estate is dictating power, more than the other 3. A LOT changed in 75 years.

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u/stevebucky_1234 — 10 days ago
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"Are You Being Served" - I discover classic, literary, elegant British / Anglophile references every time

(while trapped in a house by diabolical hounds), "We will just have to wait till Lady Baskerville gets back from the SPA!!" In an episode titled Are You Being Served (the classic Brit sitcom)? Fook me, how do the team tickle me afresh, time and time again over the decades???? (ps, I'm not British but deffo Anglophile)

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u/stevebucky_1234 — 26 days ago

Can someone please help cook Chinese Olive Vegetable at home, with Indian ingredients?

I'm Indian, and I LOOOOOOVE Olive vegetable paste, available in Singapore and Hong Kong and Macau.Used to finish a jar a week, like lovely caviar on everything! It was sooo cheap and easy to find.

Weirdly, very difficult to find in India, even online.

I had no luck with Google search for recipes. Mustard leaves, black and green olives, garlic , Ajinomoto are all available where I live. Please bless me with your recipe to recreate this umami marvel.

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u/stevebucky_1234 — 26 days ago

What sitcom situation seemed cute and funny at first watch, but actually a problematic real life issue when you rewatched years later?

My specific example is Lily's shopping addiction and huge credit debt in HIMYM. funny to watch as a twentysomething. Big Red Flag, especially if this is your adult offspring marital choice. I guess we will never know if she figured out the debt or just bought 100O more pieces of arty crap.

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u/stevebucky_1234 — 29 days ago

I'm happy that my father, who made himself the centre of an extended ageing family, was so quickly forgotten after his demise

Essentially, some parents end up dominating our lives despite us individuating, and are able to become the focus of attention at cost to others. I'm 46/ f only child, father had an explosive temper + verbal abuse, not physical. My father's brothers and my mother's siblings got into the circle of his illness and a narrative of an energetic person struck down by illness, and spent years enabling him by tolerating his attitude. Not about power or inheritance, just about being histrionic. After my father passed last year, my mother and I are thriving. It's interesting how virtually nobody is mentioning him, it's so upbeat. I am just recalling how much familial effort was spent for one man's ego. And honestly, nobody misses him a year later.

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u/stevebucky_1234 — 1 month ago
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It appears that loads of wealthy people (especially when in Europe) from the last century would just live at a hotel for months and years on end. Agatha Christie novels have stays longer than 2 months on the Riviera. (I specifically recall Coco Chanel living in a Paris luxury hotel till she passed. Howard Hughes also lived in a Vegas hotel for a few years). This question struck me when I learned JKR moved to The Balmoral Edinburgh for several months to write the last book. When money is no expense, why not live at a hotel?

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u/stevebucky_1234 — 2 months ago

As above. I have installed the app. I have virtually never had nonpsychotic patients express this level of bizarre inner thoughts to me, let alone to the public while in office. This is madness by every definition.

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u/stevebucky_1234 — 2 months ago