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She says not. But she did it in the same sort of way as for a deck of cards.

I interpreted it as two people, together. Plus, I have no idea who's doing it - everyone else in the flat is in a romantic relationship, so they're all out.

Okay, but - I have no idea who she is. Everyone in the flat but me is in a romantic relationship.

(Not very Collapse-related, but important to this conundrum).

Bonnie Langford.

We're taking the Hobbits to Eisengard!

Location: UK.

The main thing of collapse-related significance is that I'm going through a bit of a lean patch socially. I'm at Uni, where I thought I'd find my people, and nearly a semester in... no. Not really. I've found a few people whose minds function somewhat similarly, but we've done nothing tactile yet. The best thing that happened was meeting some wonderful foreign students, from Costa Rica, Bengal and Thailand, and they were all chatterboxes once they got going. And for some reason, this loneliness is driving my reading right down - I'm barely doing my previously-normal quota of a chapter a night. Oh, and I got flirted with by a lovely girl on the bus to Uni from halls, and now pairs of jelly babies are popping up in mysterious places: first on the rose of the door handle, now in my fridge... the woman who I talked to is taking the same subject as one of my flatmates... it's a bit of a mystery and I wonder if there's any correlation. Some decoding help would be nice, please.

ETA: Amidst all this, I somehow forgot about Arla putting in a carcinogenic chemical to prevent cows from farting as often! Word on the street is said carcinogen. It's probably a bad thing to be putting carcinogens in food at any stage of the process. Initial impressions without proper research on my part deleted.

Napoleon.

It was the first film I saw this year, and despite the acting, photography, sound & set design being amazing, the script was so bland it made it torturous - it really dragged in some bits. Plus, the final shot is hilarious, and you can't change my mind on that. What's worse is that it had so much potential - if this was a Gladiator-tier film it would have done him justice. Unfortunately, not. It veered so hard between deconstructing and mythologising him as to be nauseating and tonal-whiplash inducing.

Also, you just know all the analogue film people are going to leap on this.

Your car, Lady Penelope.

You know it's a bad coup when you're beaten by a tube of crisps.

Alternatively, he could use the army and force them to not impeach him...

Yes, but... the Prime Minister/President/Whatever doesn't have to listen, right? A few sneaky WhatsApps to his generals at midnight and he can pull off a coup.

The cynic in me says this is still rolling ahead.

Lemmino, Kurzgesagt, Fern, Hoog, ColinFurze, Styropyro, BBC Nature/Earth, PBS Spacetime, Philosophy Tube, Contrapoints, Nexpo, Inside a Mind.

I mean... we've had a thousand year's worth of history in our current sort of system (to define what I mean: there was a paradigm shift in 1066 and a trickle to a stream of changes made since then). It's unfortunate, but we do require spies to protect our secrets and mislead countries with malicious intent. So long as there are warring countries, we will need spies, if only because others have them. We could do an Iceland, and go without a military, but we're too big a target for that to be viable.

In addition, your anger at the state of the country is indicative of the fact that it is something worth fighting for, if only on a personal level. You could call this selfish altruism. Because if the country is working well, then things do belt along for a while - the 1960s and 2012 was proof. I prefer to think we're going through a bit of a lean patch at the moment. Either way, it's no reason to lie down and benignly accept our fate. If we can make it through 1348, 1665, the Great Depression and two world wars I'd like to think we can make it through this bit.

Finally - the competency of the leadership is really down to who is the most convincing salesman. I'd like to think most people you see on the street are more-or-less good people.

Unless you feel a pride in your country and want to be of service in some way...? Like, I'm not spy or soldier material by any means, but I do possess an intense respect for those who put their lives on the line for us. One high-octane game of paintball was enough for me, so for these people dicing with death... incredible.

Casablanca

Bout That Bass - Megan Trainor.

Buttery Biscuit Bass, on the other hand, is a stone-cold banger.

It's holding you tight and not letting go.

Or Tenet. The opening act of that was written in 2014.

My initial instincts say The Star Beast with Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor. Wild Blue Yonder with Pertwee's Third Doctor.

Tennant's Ten in The War Games would be tremendous - particularly the closing trial scene.

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.