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Fair enough, but you keep your no good hands off Rich Evans, y’hear? 😁

Redlettermedia, Internet Comment Etiquette, Minute Physics and Crash Course.

They’re hack frauds! But they’ve always been consistent hack frauds, so it’s all good 😁

Sounds fun! 😁

A few suggestions:

B52s - Rock Lobster
Smoke City - Underwater Love
PJ Harvey - We Float
The Beatles - I’m Looking Through You
Sebastian (Little Mermaid) - Under the Sea

As a counterpoint to that, after WW2 the UK created the National Health Service, comprehensive education and the rest of the welfare state, while nationalising many huge industries. For the UK that was pretty radical stuff, and it lasted until the 1980s when Thatcher and her mob started tearing it all apart.

Whether you’d call that modern I’m not sure, but it wasn’t traditional either.

Yeah, true.

I still use a traditional forum, so in that sense I don’t miss them, no 😁

Others have mentioned the Rusty Lake series, but I’ll mention it again, as those games are great.

I’m a big fan of Golf Blitz, although I haven’t played in a while as my screen is cracked and it’s harder to play as a result (got a few unresponsive areas). The game is a lot of fun, and although you can pay to advance, I made it to the top level without paying a penny or watching any ads.

Others I’ve enjoyed:

• Antiyoy
• Minecraft (obvious, but works well on mobile)
• Colorzzle
• Gorogoa
• A puzzle series with colour names (Black, Green, Pink, etc) by developer Bart Bonte
• OK Golf
• Prune
• The Room games

Booze.

This was my first thought. Honourable mentions to golf and darts.

Agreed. And even if it wasn’t an independent country, the monarch should not EVER be getting involved in ousting an elected political leader. Including here in the UK, if it came to it (as it could have when Johnson tried to prorogue parliament - that was outrageous, but if the queen had stepped in that would have been much worse IMO)

Oh yeah! I’d forgotten people used to do that - not seen that in ages.

Edinburgh, Scotland - we had quite a lot of T/Ters (or guisers, as it’s often better known here, among older generations anyway). Maybe 10-15 groups. A lot of families round our way and we usually have a fairly busy night, so no change from normal :-)

+1 on Ask Dad videos - this is a good channel: https://youtube.com/@dadhowdoi

Also +1 on everything else you said, especially the never stop learning point.

OP, it’s totally ok not to know things - you can seek them out in advance, or you can discover them along the way, as and when necessary.

You’ll be ok, pretty much everyone muddles through life one way or another. Best of luck 👍

Meh, you won’t know what you forgot.

Yeah but you might know that you forgot, and that you used to know.

Imagine one day looking at your kid and having no idea what their name is. You know you should know, you know you used to know, but now it’s gone.

That, but with everything important in your life. Scares the shit out of me!

John Cazale - every film he was in was Oscar nominated for Best Picture, so you’d imagine this extra one would have a shot at being good too.

Here’s a few - looking forward to discovering more from this thread!

Mory Kanté’s Yeke Yeke, especially the Hardfloor and Afro Acid remixes.

Gaspar Nali’s A Bale Ndikuwuzeni

Afro-Cuban Allstars - Amor Verdadero

Lexicon Avenue - Here I Am (Rutabaga mix)

Leftfield - Afro Left

Eugène Mona - Lizo (Kiko Navarro Afroterraneo Mix)

I don’t think hip hop songs in general tend to get covered, or at least not that I’m aware of (am absolutely open to being corrected on that).

I guess a lot of the rhymes are often very specifically about the person rapping, so someone else doing it might be a bit weird.

That said, I do know of one good example in eLZhi’s Elmatic a remake of Nas’ Illmatic. It has significantly rewritten lyrics though.

about 40% (assuming you work age 20-70) of the workforce disappears over night

Although OP said “drops dead”, so suddenly there are a LOT of corpses to deal with too. Fun!