Detournement

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/02/tavistock-trust-whistleblower-david-bell-transgender-children-gids This guy gives a good account of the issues relating to vulnerable children. The stuff about pro nouns, clothes, changing rooms, toilets etc i'm fine with. If adults want to have surgery and hormones then fair enough. The fact that this topic is dominating our national politics despite the fact that there is no set definition of gender or gender dysmorphia is something I find a bit strange. I'm in double figures in down votes on that post and not one person has replied with an answer to what gender dysmorphia is.

It has to be something and there aren't many options.

What is it then?

I don't see Rennie taking and I don't think he's suited to just working with the players in the Test windows. At Glasgow he got a lot of out the guys who were always there and very little out of the players who were in and out of camp to join up with Scotland.

That's how Gosling plays every scene in the film.

I'll believe it when I see it. UK Gov/BoE predictions are usually made for political reasons.

I'm smart enough not to give a f**k what gas spot prices are in Amsterdam because that makes zero difference to my bills. Our bills will not come down and the energy support scheme will be phased out.

The guy who gets paid to making losing arguments at the Supreme Court for Sturgeon will be looking at second homes in the south of France tonight.

@Todd_is_God I'm sure there will be a letter coming through my door any day now telling me my tariff is coming down?

There is no chance of food or energy prices going back down.

The article does say at the end they want to create a new planning category between residential and fixed caravans. Trailer park owners in America make a fortune and it's probably something that is inevitable here given where we are politically.

White Noise (2022) A shite and fairly pointless adaptation of the Delillo novel. It's probably a better watch if you've not read the book. Why anyone thought it was a good idea for Noah Baumbach to direct this is beyond me. It ends with a completely forgettable new LCD Soundsytem song is unintentionally the only part of the film that channels the book.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/15/priced-out-uk-house-hunters-turn-to-lorry-sized-tiny-homes Trailer Parks but for hipsters. These are my favourite genre of articles where the media takes something dystopian - in this case living in rented wooden box in a field - and tries to make it sound aspirational. The guy who grew up in a 7 bedroom Victorian villa, works 6 days driving a lorry and can't afford to buy a one bedroom flat so he's spending 30 grand on a wooden trailer to park it on "land his parents own" seems totally legit....

And that's how to use VAR to fix football matches. The title race will go to the final day.

That's a terrible decision.

It's funny how often on VAR decisions they don't show a proper replay. The replay of the Casemiro potential push from the important angle there started after the contact either or didn't happen.

Shockerooni. Sturgeon really is the Scottish Martin McGuinness.

It gets a lot weirder than that.

It's mentioned in a round about way in the book. Nabokov also seems to be saying that JM Barrie and Lewis Carroll were nonces which is well known but maybe also AA Milne and RL Stevenston.

Something I learned on my recent Lolita deep dive is that Edgar Allan Poe married his 13 year old cousin when he was 27.

He was on the wing for Edinburgh last week and again for the trip to Castres.

@Frankie S https://www.avclub.com/nicolas-winding-refn-amazon-buried-too-old-to-die-young-1849970496 I would love to know how much it cost to make, how many people have watched it all and what happened when they showed the Amazon execs what they had made. He says Netflix are still talking to him which is good news. He's the only person working in TV who seems to understand the potential of making shows for high quality wide screen TVs. Everything else looks like shit in comparison.

Some of the stuff coming out is wild. One of the accusers returned to his house 15 times. Another one approached him in a club and started grinding on him the night after alleged rape. The defence also played a blinder introducing a video of an accuser having consensual sex with him and his mate during the trial after the jury had heard the prosecution make allegations which were shown to be completely false. We obviously don't know about the other charges but on those ones he has been harshly dealt with. They never should have came to court.

Only God Forgives is great as well and you have to hand it to Gosling for embracing NWR's depravity but the Pusher trilogy makes you feel like you are buying gear in a dodgy strippers in Copenhagen or Hamburg or Amsterdam and not many movies go there. I'm currently watching Copenhagen Cowboy and rewatching Too Old To Die Young so I'm Refn'd out my nut. TOTDY is incredible, it should not exist.

Pusher II is amazing. It's my favourite Refn film. It's also maybe the only decent depiction of coke addiction i've seen on film.