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I completely understand wishing that the Labour opposition was stronger and more radical in a lot of ways, but like Quinn says I think they’ve very deliberately played to the centre

Not exactly the best person to be selling that line to as an outside observer, but my main point is that if Sunak or Trudeau are to be defeated, then there must be an expectation that their wrongs will actually be repudiated, not covered over with just another pail of red or blue paint.

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My abiding feeling is that I would dearly love for people like Rishi Sunak or in our case Justin Trudeau to be toppled in recognition of their very real failings, but when the benefactors are the likes of Keir Starmer or in our case Pierre Poilievre, something has clearly gone wrong somewhere. In a global sense, the same frustration that is toppling the Tories is being harnessed by those seeking a second Trump presidency.

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As a Canadian I think the greatest insight I can give is that the Tories are not really losing due to their (many) faults, and Labour is certainly not gaining ground out of merit. It is just an incredibly bad time to be an incumbent right now. Look at the polling for the next Canadian election and you will see the exact same thing is happening, just with the colours and the roles largely reversed.

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You haven’t seen The Wizard of Oz?!

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Hm, Yahtzee Croshaw’s comic fantasy novel “Mogworld” had a few jokes nicked from Dwarf (or at least very inspired/similar), Discworld too. I suppose they were homages.

http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/essays/rimmer.htm

Safe to say he is a fan, yeah.

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O Canada, we take our fucking time…

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I used to be bothered, as others have been, about Kryten being ‘Additional 001’ in The Inquisitor, as opposed to ‘002’ after Cat. 

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As for the campaign itself, I can not sign the petition as the Canadian one has not been approved as of yet. I also can not pester Ubisoft directly as I do not own any of their games. I refuse to buy any games encumbered with DRM or support any platforms that promote it, which yes even includes Steam.

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oh hey it’s the Freeman’s Mind guy

Oh hey someone who knows what that is at last!

I’ll do one better and say I follow the Game Dungeon.

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VII does actually get better without Rimmer but not really because of it. It just takes a little while past that to find its feet before tripping and falling again.

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Blame my Red Dwarf server where we secretly plot to confuse and annoy you by using first names on G&T. If anyone refers to a “KT” (which I know quinn has done several times) that is also me.

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I sometimes prefer to believe that Cat has such an embarrassing name, so Cat cliche, that he prefers to just be called Cat. 

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TFW you are an occasional lurker catching up on G&T right now:

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Norman Lovett on Cameo?

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I have no idea what the situation with PBS over here was with regard to which versions aired.

I distinctly remember KCTS-TV in Seattle used the Remastered versions when they were going through the entire show at some point in early 2000s. The cat evolution artwork specifically springs to mind.

Most of the PBS broadcasts my parents recorded on VHS were from around the time that Series III and IV first arrived in the US though. Much of the pledge drive banter concerned explaining away all of the changes to the format of the show when compared to Series I and II.

We also had the first bytes of Series IV and Series VI put out by CBS Fox that my father bought while on a business trip to Coquitlam when I was kid. Plus later recordings of Series VI, VII, and VIII when they were being broadcast on Showcase here in Canada.

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Does the orientation of the camera (if it’s a smart camera) matter? Maybe you get a picture of whatever the camera finds sexy.

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We only have Holly’s word that is Kochanski, which could be suspect for a whole host of reasons.

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I’ve never been aware of any stigma around working for the post office in my lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal

Not what Rob and Doug were referencing but I had to post.

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Is that actually the same cup as the dog’s milk?

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so either A, the skutters actually must have had to navigate all those stairs and everything, or B, they had to use (either always part of their design like Daleks/R2-D2 or special external equipment that they attach onto themselves) little servos and space jetpacks to maneuver to the panel to hide the discs, which sounds adorable and is something I’d like to have seen. 

Or there could just be service tunnels for the smaller maintenance droids.

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As someone who is both a shepherd and who just barely avoided being evacuated for wildfires, you lot now have me concerned over spontaneous lamb combustion.

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So you’re saying my entire life of explaining I am not a ham comes from people out here not getting BBC Radio 4?

It all makes sense now.

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Nothing says “I love my kids” like forcing them to explain their name that you made up and how to spell it over and over and over for the rest of their life.

Yeah, but I go through all that, and all my parents did was name me Hamish.

I hope a few Scots in the audience are now suitably horrified.

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Though I never really liked the red ones.

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Disappearing off into deepest space like Kryton did, or Camille, or the 3 cats from promised land would seem like suicide.

In TPL they don’t just disappear, they rejoin the rest of Cat society now free of the Feral King.

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Did you quote yourself or are there three Daves now?

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Psirens was always the one that felt off to me in that way. The ships are still relics, but the black box recording and the sheer number of ships make it feel too connected to the past or something for my liking.

Psirens does open with them having been in stasis for several centuries, so they could have made up some ground on the rest of humanity in that time.

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What a bunch of twonks. Every time I watch the episode I cant help but think they should have helped. 

I remember finding Holoship to feel a bit off when I first saw it as a kid off a VHS tape borrowed from the library. It just seemed way too populated for Red Dwarf, even if they are all holograms.

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You just got the one? We had at least nine emergency alerts in a row a month back.

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Here in Alberta you can find cannabis stores on almost as many street corners as liquor stores, often with ludicrous names such as “LUCID” or “Mind-Full” Cannabis. I assume they are indeed taking the piss.

I strongly dislike the smell of bud myself, but it has not ruined anyone’s communities over here.

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Seeing Danny’s “LEGALIZE” cap broke me of my Canadian complacency of assuming it already is over there.

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Oh yeah, it was watching the Christmas episode in 2004 – specifically the lingerie section bit – when I finally got what the show was and I was laughing all the time.

So you left the telephone (to your lawyer) where it was and went on watching.

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I hate to give the fake film effect in VII any credit, but it does kind of look like that Starbug cockpit clip doesn’t it?

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Eggbert’s Station Wagon?

Blupi’s Estate Car for our friends in the UK.

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I suppose it is easy enough to headcannon as just being a visual distortion of the light as it passes through the fading Rimmer projection.

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Top Gun however is trying more to be cool than real.

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the lowest form of life now being a man who owns a train set, as opposed to working for the Post Office.

Considering the American understanding of the term “going postal” it does take postal workers being low lives to a whole other level.

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His accent’s usually described as more Canadian, I thought ‘ma’am’ might be one of those things like ‘zed’ where Canadian goes more British than American.

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You could have contested even a single specific point I made

Well, for sake of argument, your claim that “Non-GMO crops require much higher amounts of pesticides” does not really scan with the rest of your complaints about Organic food, as using pesticides would by definition invalidate those crops as being certified Organic, creating a false equivalence between something being Organic or just Non-GMO. A nitpick perhaps but there is a difference.

I also bristle a bit at the suggestion that “GMOs are absolutely vital to solving world hunger” when by FAR the greatest issue when it comes to feeding the world is the MASSIVE amount of food that gets wasted rather than any issues in terms of production or supply. Increasing yields does not do anyone any good if it that food just then rots in a landfill rather than reaching the people that would need it the most.

There is a fundamental need to restructure how our food is handled and distributed, no matter if that food is grown with GMO or Organic crops. Adding the trap of corporations claiming intellectual property rights and disrupting local supply chains with patents could very well make this problem even worse, which while not being an essential part of growing GMO crops, has far too often proven to be the reality for a lot of producers.

I agree with the thrust of your argument otherwise, but those two claims did stand out to me. Speaking as a food producer by the way.

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Of course we do actually see them using Microcassettes in Bodyswap and they look exactly like they do today. Or rather, exactly as they did in 1989.

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On US Britbox, Back to Earth is available as a three episode “Season 9” with the making-of special as a fourth episode.

That was how it was first aired on Dave in 2009 as I recall.

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Frankly the idea that boosters aren’t universal is fucking appalling anyway. Most people’s immunity will be severely waning by now and there are no restrictions in place, is everyone just expected to be ok catching it this year or something? 

I live in a province where the Premier actually believed in hydroxychloroquine, and yet booster shots are still available to every eligible adult here in Alberta. At least for the moment.

The only problem in Canada is convincing people to actually get them…

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I could actually put my support behind Marooned under the same logic I used for Gunmen. This is a BBC anniversary marathon, it is about showing off the breadth of the BBC catalogue more than highlighting Red Dwarf itself, and Marooned is a prestige program in a way many of the other episodes are not. Gunmen would still be more impressive for a watch like this I think, but Marooned is a great self contained piece.

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If you want an episode that highlights just what the BBC has been capable of creating, which arguably is the point of a showreel marathon like this, then Gunmen of the Apocalypse still seems to me to be far and away the best choice. From a production standpoint what that episode manages to do is an almost impossible achievement for a BBC sitcom.

Just ask Janet Street-Porter.

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As someone who is not British, I have never really drunk.

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which leads to me to realise that I’ve been Mandela Effect-shifted to a parallel universe where this mysterious writer filled the role that was previously taken by Kim Fuller – only this new writer got to be more prolific in the series than Fuller, as she went on to write a number of episodes after ‘Blue’, with ‘Lemons’ being cited as her most major episode.

Kim Fuller is a guy.

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