I think the sex scene at the start of Don’t Look Now when the couple have just lost their daughter to drowning is an example of an essential scene for the plot. There is so much psychological depth in the two grieving people trying to find solace in each other.

This film had just come out when we had family friends come and visit us from the states. There were kind of tragic circumstances because my dad’s friend, who he’d met on a student elective in the 70s in New York, had recently killed himself but he’d always loved visiting Scotland. His brother, nephew and uncle were visiting to see what had resonated with him so much about Scotland.

Anyway this movie came up in conversation around the kitchen table and my dad asked his deceased friend’s uncle if he’d seen it. He replied, “No sir, I fought at Iwo Jima so I don’t much care for war movies.”

MAS*H the 1970 Robert Altman film is a dark comedy following battlefield surgeons in the Vietnam war. Based off a semiautobiographical book with a similar premise taking place during the Korean war.

Essentially the surgeons try to keep themselves sane in an insane environment by playing practical jokes and generally making light of the darkest situation imaginable.

I think the bubble bursting will cause the crisis. There is undoubtedly a bubble if NVIDIA are being valued at $5 trillion.

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It definitely tilts that way but I’ve interacted with other “centrist dad” type people like me on here (although I’ve not got kids).

Not sure if they meant column counter since you can easily get that too with Ctrl+x = if your cursor is over a character.

Line counts appear at the bottom of the emacs window by default but has a limit where it stops incrementing somewhere in the 10,000s. Also would be slower to return a value since it needs to open the file to get the count, unlike wc -l which is virtually instantaneous.

Essentially your (very specific) example is a situation where someone is citing precedence. You could either disagree that the situations are analogous or you could disagree with the precedent. It’s not really a matter of drawing a line so much as figuring out what exactly it is you disagree with.

Got caught skiving off an afternoon class with a friend. Unfortunately his absence was noticed and he had very strict parents who would ground him at the drop of a hat. When we were pulled up on it he said the first lie that came into his head, which was that he’d shat himself. I had to play along. Ultimately he avoided being grounded but had to get an unnecessary prostate exam and take stool hardeners for a year.

I do agree people romanticise school and university. I’m 32 now and in general my life has been better each year as I’ve created a home with my wife and grown into my career.

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Those pills exist but they can’t be taken in moderation so governments prohibit them and doctors tightly prescribe them for limited periods of time.

I’m a dude too just used the phrase primadonna there because my former co-worker’s tone was very much like, “Man up - you are being pathetic.”

I didn’t think a woman would have been asked to clean it up so shocking to hear that your ex was. The reason I’d assumed there might be a sexual element to it - aside from the fact they were literally masturbating lol - was that the culprit looked and sounded a bit like the Dean from Community. Can’t ever know the motive but maybe falling back on stereotypes is lazy

I’m sure the dude was back there doing the same the next week because the shop was so badly run.

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I was expecting more comments like yours and less describing situations that I’d naively assumed only happened in pornographic media

Was asked to clean up jizz of the walls (plural!) of a TKMaxx (TJMaxx) changing room with a stack of blue roll. I was supposed to be working loss prevention at the changing rooms that day so pretty certain the weirdo was thinking about me cleaning it up as he cracked one off. Potentially had a couple rounds judging by the amount of jizz on the walls.

Should have quit on the spot but there were children/families in the changing room and felt like I needed to try to prevent a larger incident if a family barged into the poorly sealed changing room, or even just got bothered by the smell. I did quit that day though. One of my co-workers had a go at me on my way out the door for being a primadonna because she’d “had to clean up shit before”. Retail is hell.

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My friend worked at a Sky call centre in the UK where their entire job was to delay someone who’d phoned to cancel. He once convinced a legally blind lady to keep her satellite tv subscription and the call was replayed to other members of staff as an exemplary piece of work. He didn’t last long there.

I was 15 years old (jk I was about 5)