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#31

Entertainment / Re: New! Reading Anything Thre...

Last post by lester1/2jr - July 09, 2026, 04:14:12 PM

I'm reading Bart Ehrman's newest one "Love Thy Stranger". He compares Jesus' ideas to people who came before him, including some other Jewish guy also named Jesus! Ultimately, he feels that Jesus' sort of moral innovation was the idea of caring about people you don't know, more or less.

#32

Weird News Stories / The hero we all need.

Last post by Alex - July 09, 2026, 03:46:56 PM

I can't think of a single country in the news today that wouldn't benefit from being ran by this guy. With what is going on in the UK right now, I've ordered my figure of him.

https://www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page/count-binface-1

Vote Binface! It isn't like he can f**k things up any more than your current candidate, wherever you are.

(For people outside the UK, this is someone standing for election. He is highly unlikely to win, but if he did it would cause a major upset in British politics and most likely make me fall off my seat and injure myself laughing).

#33

Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?

Last post by Alex - July 09, 2026, 03:25:51 PM

A lot of games with big teams vs small teams seem to be running the same script.

Small team goes ahead 1 or 2 goals early on.

Big team catches up and goes ahead late in the second half.

It's like they are running on an AI plot or something.

#34

Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...

Last post by Rev. Powell - July 09, 2026, 02:39:34 PM

Also I would like to point out that chronological overlap is acceptable, as long as your movie ends after the previous one does. This may become more significant when we get to the 20th century.

#35

Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - July 09, 2026, 02:36:47 PM

#36

Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...

Last post by Dr. Whom - July 09, 2026, 02:22:16 PM

There are a lot of obscure historical movies you could uncover with research, but jumping by centuries is probably inevitable at this point.

Quite. If you take any well known historical figure, chances are that someone somewhere has made a biopic. For instance about late antiquity/early middle ages, a quick search turned up two biopics of St. Augustine. There is also the two part 'The Last Roman' of 1968, a German-Italian-Rumanian coproduction about the Gothic Wars in Italy. With the Emperor Justinian played by Orson Welles, no less.

I don't think we ought to dig up curiosities like these yet. I'm all for sticking to fairly well-known ones.

#37

Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?

Last post by Dr. Whom - July 09, 2026, 02:11:56 PM

I predict France will demolish Morrocco later, but an upset would be nice

There are historical precedents

[ERIK SATIE Piano Works Daniel Varsano / Philippe Entremont pianists]

#38

Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Allhallowsday - July 09, 2026, 02:04:07 PM

ERIK SATIE Piano Works  Daniel Varsano / Philippe Entremont pianists  

#39

Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...

Last post by Dr. Whom - July 09, 2026, 02:03:00 PM

Then the next would be

18) The 13th Warrior (1999)

Apparently set in the reign of Caliph al-Muqtadir (reigned 895-932 AD)

#40

Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?

Last post by zombie no.one - July 09, 2026, 01:45:29 PM

I quite liked the USA crowd's chant of: "Soccerball! Soccerball! We're gonna score a home run in the third quarter!"... (think that's what they were singing?)

I predict France will demolish Morrocco later, but an upset would be nice