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Henry Oliver's avatar

Basement Jaxx makes me thank that, despite all of her wonders, Sally Rooney hasn’t yet written the great “90s school disco” novel.

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Promachos's avatar

The millennial CAPTCHA was fun! Though as a typically invisible, early adopting/internet working GenX, I looked at most of it as stuff we/our friends made. Which in turn has made me wonder how long GenX can keep ducking the great pointy finger of blame for all the dystopian tech seeds we sowed during the late 90s/early 2000s for all millennials to learn to be digital natives on.

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Ullr's avatar

Cheers to remember wring the surprising moving episodes of Angel. The one that stuck with me was the Las Vegas Casino episode - demons feeding off of people’s misery. It the way it was presented was moving and clever.

I watched a lot of the extras on DVD of Angel one winter while recovering from the flu. Fascinating behind the scenes about the writers and production. I miss DVD extras…

Random trivia- the actress who made it big in commercial work as Flo, the insurance lady, had a character part in one episode of season 1 of Angel.

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Lee's avatar

Owen Jones in the Guardian today still confidently declaring who is and isn’t on the right or wrong side of history

Just imagine being him with his social media history and not even a month after the Cass report still thinking “I need to pass some ‘right side of history rulings today’

The narcissism is truly next level, at this point I just assume he’s trying to do a Bari, trying to get sacked from the Guardian so he can take his few thousand cultists and earn $60k a month on Substack, only not sure he has the wit to go full Bari & quit while still playing the martyr as the origin story

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James Leach's avatar

I love that you take the Lorne quote as wisdom for every day life.

My favourite Angel wisdom is

"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. Cos that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today. Because if there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world."

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Paul Black's avatar

That Amanda Knox piece is great - people talking about getting things wrong is SO INTERESTING

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Snow Queen's avatar

as an american, even with CC on, i had *no idea* what peter kay was saying, lol

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Jo Candiano's avatar

And Angel sang Mandy. And "oh Angel" from, I think, the Muses. Loved that show.

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Charles Arthur's avatar

If LLMs can’t do Wordle does that mean that the future of CAPTCHAs is “solve this Wordle”?

Also I couldn’t do the Millennial Captcha, which is probably affirmation for both sides.

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Patrick Lawlor's avatar

My favorite Angel quote : “Nothing we do matters, so the only thing that matters is what we do.”

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Liz's avatar

Basement Jaxx! Nice choice of song!! It will always remind me of Bend It Like Beckham 😂❤️

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pozorvlak's avatar

Another thing that started in 2014 was Tom Scott's incredible ten-year run of posting a YouTube explainer video every week: https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo/videos

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Carabus problematicus's avatar

Amen to not feeling angry. I did this meditation the other day so I didn't spend hours fuming, and I have to say it definitely helped:

https://youtu.be/roonHFb1x0I?si=-PpbuxUaYhRUnGpC

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pseudonyms for fun and safety's avatar

I think I may have been the wrong kind of millennial for the Captcha. I got there eventually but if did not inspire nostalgia (I was not a Micheal Cera fan and had a Creative Zen micro, not an iPod!)

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Ian Paul Sharp's avatar

Saw Basement Jaxx at WOMAD one year. They were fun, funky, and fitted the mood perfectly.

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Sarah Best's avatar

You're right, they were fun and funky. So many great songs but Bingo Bango is my personal favourite. Saw them play at Rock City (in Notts, UK) and they were ace.

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Promachos's avatar

I love Jump n’ Shout, personally. Remember them from when they were playing the pubs up Brixton Hill - now that’s a nostalgia trip!

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Sarah Best's avatar

Just had the greatest hits on, so many great songs!

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Maireaddy's avatar

They came up on a random playlist this week and I thought “must dig them out again”

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