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I’m not going to look at all the numbers but the turnout this year was 7% lower than in 2019 so overall number of votes will be down.

Which frankly is unusual for a change election.

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In terms of seats at least, a big factor was also the decline of the SNP.

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Tongue Tied on Tongue Tied has been edited by Tongue Tied for Tongue Tied with Tongue Tied

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Strong and Stable Firefox? 

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* god damn it Firefox… *

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Yeah, we almost got the chance to have electoral reform in Canada after 2015, with New Zealand style MMP recommended by the consultations, but Trudeau than shelved the whole thing because it was not the ranked balloting he wanted…

For context, we are on our fifth minority government of the 21st century (currently a Liberal minority with NDP support, pending a probable Conservative victory in the next year), so any claims FPTP is leading to strong and stable governance is clearly bollocks.

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Iconic.

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Slightly ashamed to admit I didn’t realise that Endeavour had the same format as Sherlock (feature length episodes, only a few episodes per series) until looking it up just now. That gives extra reason to compare them, even if Endeavour had more series in total and released them more frequently.

In fairness, is that not the case for most British mystery series?
Hell, even some American ones like Columbo.

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If you’d waited 45mins you could have added Truss in there too

In the Alberta provincial election last year the main consolation was seeing the opposition NDP take out a number of United Conservative cabinet ministers, including both pandemic era health ministers and the ringleader of an anti-lockdown petition.

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Applies to most of them really…

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Started this last night on the reasonable assumption Labour’s vote share would be lower than in 2017. Little did I realize it would be less in terms of votes than 2019, and within a polling margin of error of it percentage wise… and of course the difference is I doubt Corbyn is unhappy Labour won last night, unlike what Starmer himself says of last time…

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The size of the majority means Labour are almost guaranteed two terms, assuming they couldn’t possibly do a worse job than the last govt if they tried.

If I recall correctly they said the same thing about the Conservative majority last time, so it might be wishful thinking to expect that kind of predictability.

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Corbyn wasn’t robbed (this time).

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I walked in on my mum watching it on Sky+ one night

And you were scarred for life.

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No takers for Taiwan Tory?

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I’m now reminded of the ‘young’ Picard and Riker in Star Trek: Picard and it’s making me feel weird.

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Also, a hologram chef might be useful. If they’re
like head chef and can create dish and run a kitchen have have everyone
else do the actual work. 

I highly doubt Petersen was head chef though. Unless he did in fact have hidden depths we did not know about.

Oh, and Star Trek something, something…

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Just a thought – maybe we’re getting a little off the intended topic of the Gallifrey Gals and this whole discussion about when we last see who in what form and when counts as what should possibly be spun off into its own thread?
Y’know, just thinking out loud.

The who’s who when’s own thread?

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“Died? Do you think he’d write and tell you?” would work a lot better in a show where people coming back as holograms after dying wasn’t a major part of the premise.

Not entirely sure how useful a hologram of a catering officer would be though. I imagine if you are a manual labourer you are pretty well screwed.

I am sure this has been brought up, but did the nanobots resurrect George McIntyre?

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My biggest problem with the gag is the same as all the VIII bunk room jokes: Lister is written as a Dougal-level idiot for some reason. Only a series ago he was comfortably explaining time paradoxes so complex they blew up cameras, and now he’s struggling to do a dot-to-dot.

I generally agree, but in this instance it seems more like a classic absent minded forgetting the obvious for a second. I think we have all had moments like that.

Now perhaps one could quibble about why Lister is seemingly nonchalant at the thought of Petersen being dead, but in fairness he was literally dead only a couple months ago…

So we all agree it’s a pity we never got a proper No Strings Attached then?

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This went about as expected, though they’re enjoying the jokes more than I’d have guessed.
Yeah I thought it was very even-handed, probably a little bit fairer to the episode than it deserves. On a first watch, the gags at the start probably do seem a little funnier and more innocent when you don’t know what’s to come later, it’s all the shower stuff that really taints the whole episode with unpleasantness. 

None of it the shower stuff, but a lot of the first five minutes of Krytie TV is genuinely my favorite bits of VIII. Especially…

But given Krytie TV has been either my worst or second worst episode in the least three G&T polls…

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Where was that line from?

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I prefer Catter.

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No idea how you managed to dig that out but I’m very impressed and I appreciate the effort. Nice one, Technopeasant. Thanks. :)

I did have to edit out the caption though.

And seems I sensed I misspelled “except” but not enough to actually fix it.

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We also still have An Unearthly Child…

No Shada or The Crusades, for example, so getting the Blurays has certainly been worth it though.

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Britbox Canada still has all of it…

It lists Back to Earth as “Season IX – Back to Earth” though…

Before you ask, The Promised Land is just listed as that.

https://www.britbox.com/ca/show/Red_Dwarf_b008ncn6

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he ate the chicken that turns you into lister for a frame

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It was taken back by Dumbledore so that Harry could use it now that he has come to Hogwarts.

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I dunno, would explain why the VIII crew was never seen again.

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Poor Rufus.

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Does Lister actually have the Polymorph posing as Rimmer’s mom?

Kinda hypocritical to judge the Cat then.

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William Russell has died at age 99, literally weeks after I finished my Season 2 Bluray set.

Hopefully they recorded stuff for a Season 1 set, even if that shit with An Unearthly Child probally prevents it for the forseeable (and what to do with Marco Pollo…).

I am hoping they do a Season 6 set since all they need is to fix up The Space Pirates, unlike the rest of Troughton’s seasons.

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If you can fit sentient AI in a wristwatch or light bee it definitely makes it odd they can only run one hologram.

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It is also how it works during the Marooned adaptation in Better Than Life, with Rimmer reappearing back on Red Dwarf after the power down.

One idea that occurred to me is that Rimmer is supposed to be an exact simulation of a human being, so if he encounters hallucinogenic ink, the simulation will damn well make him hallucinate. Which yes implies he can still get high from inhaling. I mean, if he can smell camphor and Lister’s moon boots then…

On a related note, we can be sure that Holly isn’t localized on Starbug given she vanishes in Demons & Angels and for good in VI.

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They had to disable the cloak in order to prevent war with the Romulans.

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I mean, presumably most of Holly’s actual programming is still on Red Dwarf whilst (most of) Rimmer is on Starbug?

That, or the screen was foggy.

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I mean, I’ve seen all three Bill and Teds and I am not sure I get all of them…

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That said, he could be simply projecting over the bike the way he does when he sits in a chair or lies in bed, but that does not answer how he travels at speed with it, unless the light bee is actually tucked into the seat or something.

In Backwards Ace notes that Rimmer could operate a forklift with just his light bee if he rammed it into the controls, but as for steering…

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The absence of a second Kochanski isn’t such a big plot hole in the grand scheme of things.

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Have you seen the trailer now, though?! I honestly like it more than the series itself. 
Well at least it’s shorter.

I mean, it only contains half the overexplanation of brown alert.

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I am surprised how little people bring up how bloody horrid the TARDIS crew are when they first encounter Vicki in “The Rescue”. They literally show up randomly, shoot her dog, and then gaslight her for being upset about it.

[January 10, 1965] A Little Breather (Doctor Who: The Rescue)

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