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Who is this Souster Women, and what has she done with Eric?

I'm having a Shania Twain moment.

If any women were offended by my post, I do apologize. It was not my intention.

You said summat laddish. You were called on it, that's all. No need for all that guff about context and whatever.

There's a half hour documentary on RT right now, that will probably be repeated all day, about the struggle of a Russian transsexual trying to get a sex change operation and day to day life.

Not exactly what was asked about (again) but there it is.

So your point is . . . what?

I suspect you may have taken Rich's post a little too literally.

Shark, did you actually read the article you linked to?

All the way through, yes.

Didn't understand a word of it and didn't follow any of the links, either.  Rich merely asked if the subject had been mentioned - he didn't specify the parameters of that mention. Well, there's a mention - I don't know how many more there are.

Rich didn't provide any parameters, true. He didn't need to, though, because you provided one anyway when you said:

That doesn't mean they don't try, though

which, in your own context of RT being "cautious", infers that RT does at least report on the Kremlin's homophobia, even with the restrictions imposed on it by the channel's sponsor, the Kremlin.

Thing is, the article you linked to is over three months old and full of snark. And actually a reaction to someone saying stuff RT didn't like rather than, y'know. Just reporting the news. Which might explain why you didn't understand a word of it, because it's merely a "mention".

And which I suspect is kind of what Rich was getting at.

for RT gay laws. That doesn't mean they don't try, though:  rt.com/op-edge/meet-true-journalists-kirchick-924/

Shark, did you actually read the article you linked to?

On Venus, the atmosphere is thick with sulphuric acid clouds and CO2 - so thick that traps a lot more heat than the Earth's atmosphere, giving it a virtually constant temperature on both lit and unlit parts of the planet.

Again with that! The Flamebelt, yes, but not the entire planet. That's just part of the reptilian conspiracy (which Mikey is in cahoots with, natch) and its attempts to prevent us from exploiting the natural resources Venus has to offer.

I wasn't aware of the story or even the author, but I get your meaning.  I don't think many people would figure out one of the twists at the end from that reference.  Impressive that you did

Assuming it was deliberate, it does rather defeat the point of even having a twist if you're prepared to let some superficial fluff spoil it for anyone. 'Donner' would have been far less conspicuous, 'Domingo' or 'DiManche' more fitting.

Yeah, I thought he was referring to John Cyborg-Sent-From-The-Future-To-Kill-Sarah-Connor. 

My turn to ask "I don't see what you're getting at, would you be willing to explain?"

Don't know if it was the writers trying to be clever of just some coincidence but, either way, the main character's surname did kinda give away the twist.

Sullivan or Rooks?  Either way I don't see what you're getting at, would you be willing to explain?

The other one:










(Hmm. Can't SPOILER links, it seems, so look away now if you don't want it, y'know, spoilered)










THE MAN WHO WAS THURSBY

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Cypher

Don't know if it was the writers trying to be clever of just some coincidence but, either way, the main character's surname did kinda give away the twist.

Ah, crud. I'll try again later when Enok isn't posting on my behalf.

I'd settle for more honest reporting - which is why my "news" channel of choice these days is Russia Today (Sky 512).

Ah, yes. RUSSIA TODAY, the most disingenuous news channel on Freeview (channel 85).

It took RT two fucking weeks to even acknowledge there was any kind of shit storm over Russia's anti-gay legislation. Yet, when it did, the coverage amounted to little more than "Hey! Other countries hate fags too, so Stephen Fry should just shut up! By the way, it took us two weeks to find one but here's some ex-pat poof to say everything's just dandy".

Ordered!

DOCTOR WHO Logopolis by Paddy Kingsland
THE THING by Ennio Morricone
PI and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM by Clint Mansell

Yup, he demonstrated his opposition to a right wing mind-set by having a book burning. The eejit.

Then maybe he was being ironic. Not as if Maoist China was in the habit of burning books.

The way they hold up this idea that aliens manipulated the evolution of man as they've come up with some lofty original concept - give me strength!

The premise that aliens gave us our existence, while hardly original, still had potential to be fun. Of course, PROMETHEARSE then trips over its own pretension by smugly asking Who then created the Engineers?

It's aliens all the way up, Mr. Lindelof.