I cry at the end. Every damn time.

Fourth wall Jojen!

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I find it odd what's on the US vs. Canadian Netflix. It's already been on Canadian Netflix for quite a while.

I would like to see "Directed by Brad Bird" in the credits.

As someone who has mild face blindness, The Departed confused the heck out of me.

FIYH is the only film related podcast I listen to.
Planet Money - Economics explained. This podcast makes me almost want to be an economist. Almost.
More or Less - Explanations and debunking of numbers and statistics in news. They really do their homework. It's quite impressive.
99% Invisible - A podcast about design. Generally interesting. Occasionally amazing.
Radiolab - Popular social sciencey stuff. Used to be my favourite podcast, but I can't stand the occasional foray into semi-spiritual stuff.
Hello Internet - By CGP Grey and Brady Haran of YouTube. Just started, and is so far about being YouTube people. The Copyright episode was interesting.

Excuse me for a second while I get the feelings out of my eyes...

Brazil (1985)

Spoilers follow, but you've had nearly 30 years and I get the impression I'm one of the last people to see it so whatever.

Pop personality quiz:
A guy you just met leaves you in his mother's apartment saying not to leave or let anyone in while he goes to 'save' you from the government. What do you do next?
a) Leave and go hide in a less obvious place, considering they're after him too.
b) Stay but find a weapon with which to defend yourself.
c) Search the apartment for information about this guy.
d) Dress up in a wig and see-through dress and frolic around.
If you answered d) you might be the female love interest in an 80s movie.

I guess Terry Gilliam just isn't my bag. Having read 1984 and Brave New World, the beats of this movie were pretty obvious. I had some hope that there would be some twist because Sam seems to actually have a knack for paper work. He's...Bureaucracy Man! Cutting through red tape with a single sweep! But no. He's just Privileged Man who only realizes the system is eeeevil when it's turned against him. Even then he just wants special exceptions for himself and his dream girl. Because he's special, you see. So special. We also learn that creepy stalker obsession 'love' does not conquer all, and specifically not dystopian oppressive regimes. Shocking.

On the up side, there were a number of references to Wall-E.

Avatar's post sent me on a Google search that turned up such delightful articles as Should the people of Middle Earth have done Quantitative Easing to mitigate against Smaug’s tight monetary policy?. Invid...has inflation backwards.

Unrelated to the rest of this thread, the cooking show with the old guy that Chloe remembers was probably The Urban Peasant. For me it came on after The Polkadot Door and I'd watch it waiting for the fraggles or muppets or someone interesting to show up.

Team Alba.

Edit: Watched again. Whoever did the set dressing, please let them know that I noticed the half dozen long coats in the front hall, all black. I laughed. I take it you borrowed all the coats.

Thanks for the congrats all

Eddie: I almost did post it there. Zoë's is over there I believe.

sellew and fireproof 78:  First was 65 hours (2.5ish days) so I was hoping for shorter. This one was zero to baby in less than 4 hours. I am apparently also not normal people.

Dave: Despite having a midwife, home birth was not even on my radar as an option. Hospitals have wonderful features like people who clean up messes and doctors who deal with complications. Also drugs. They have all the best drugs.

Tomahawk and Trey: *got, at least for the next few weeks. I'm not superwoman. Unless we're talking about cuddles. Spiff gets all of them.