Acting, duvets, and Urinal Etiquette

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Behold: a torrent of the complete episodic version![4] Worth it just for the smug satisfaction you get from using file-sharing legally, on files which the creators actually want you to have.

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[0] A gentleman would find it impolitic to observe that I had told Hugh three weeks earlier that we hadn't got these. So I shan't.

[1] Not seen them yet? Go. Now. Watch.

[2] Don't worry, Hugh—they weren't all taken off the bar tab.

[3] I was Danforth in The Crucible and Theseus in MND. (Typecast? moi?) Minor roles in other performances—i.e. those in which I do not get a Nazi Strutting Speech—are exempt by definition.

[4] see [1].

Buggy-whip Manufacturers Ass. of America

M&S caught in copycat design row [news.bbc]

Unsurprising, but vaguely interesting. Of course, if you think you can get away with selling a handbag for five hundred quid—when an identical but less proprietary version can be produced, distributed, and sold for under a tenner—then of course someone is going to come up with a cheaper, better one. And of course the people who are making five hundred quid off each shitty handbag are going to think they have some sort of god-given right to make five hundred quid off each shitty handbag.

We're going to see a Fashion Industry Ass. of America now?

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For those of you who haven't seen it yet: A Life in the Day: Tom Baker. It's almost certainly all true too (which I think marks the first time I've ever said that about anything in the Murdoch press). Tom rocks.

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