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I've never had a problem with subtitles. Heh, I remember when Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released a friend of mine came over with the dvd and we set it up to watch.. and my mother walked in to overhear us both exclaiming "What? Why is this English dubbed? Quick, turn it to mandarin and put the subtitles on!!" She found that rather bizarre. Of course, I grew up in a house with a mostly deaf mother who used the subtitles from teletext for tv shows when she could, so it's never bothered me seeing text at the bottom of the scream. Which kind of amuses me when you got text descriptions of "soulful music" or "moment of silence, followed by terrified scream"

"So after the election, are we going to have a prize for the first politician to claim he has a vision for 2020?"

Looking back history wise, the one thing I do kind of half wish, is that Spitting Image hadn't shredded John Major's credibility. He did seem to be a Prime Minister who was capable, was not smarmy, and just wanted to get the job done... but unfortunately didn't have the sparkling charisma. So when Spitting Image satirised him as the "boring, grey man" it just killed his chance for election because to the public perception, he became that caricature. Then we ended up with Tony Blair. And look what he did to the country.

The trouble with politics these days seems that it ends up with not really wanting to vote for any of the buggers that are running because they're pretty much all equally unlikable, smarmy liars backed by PR spin. But then if you don't actually cast a vote for one of them, you can't really complain about the idjits that do end up in government...

No, really not looking good for Constantine... IGN - Constantine cancelled

Business Insider - American Habits that Travelers Give Up

...Is now clickbait journalism also the fault of the SJW conspiracy? Yes They also faked the moon landing And shot Kennedy.

I quite enjoyed it. There was some element of silly to it, but in general the cast worked really well together and it played quite nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FjGP4t2zKY

For that comment from Ioan Gruffud..

Well I do know that in the south the Tories were really pushing the "It's Election day, go vote, don't just sit back and ignore it" message much harder than has been happening in the past.

Well, the issue that cropped up with the coalition of the Tories and LibDems, was that the LibDems was able to use it's part of "if we don't agree, you don't have a government" to call a lot more of the shots than they should of. Which basically had the party that most people did not vote for.. had a leading edge of power. The swings and roundabouts of coalition groups is that the small group that sways it, has influence far beyond what they would have if based on their actual voting public. Still, it's kind of amusing that various European countries have sent congratulations along with comments like "We're happy to see Cameron win, and we like his 'One nation, One United Kingdom', we just wish he'd added 'One Europe' to that statement..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gtio4V1L3o

Entertainment Weekly - Series Cancelled and Renewed Well, it looks like Forever has been given the chop, but we will be getting a second go around of Galavant...

io9 - The Marvel Cinematic Universe Has Been Cast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk0jj0MrnNM

Not specific books per se, but a kind of interesting article related to the publishing industry via Amazon e-book sales... For the random interest, here's this... Although I won't copy the whole thing, just the opener for those who might want to grok it. Author Earnings - Annual Report

With all the controversy over Joss Whedon, Sexism, and the Black Widow going on, and Whedon being driven off twitter... Here's a bit from Mark Ruffalo on Reddit over it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZRsf9sneQ