John Cazale.

Only appeared in 5 films but all five were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars:

The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Deer Hunter (1978)

Died of lung cancer in March 1978, aged 42 ☹️

I’ve often thought the same OP, except instead of preparing for it, I’d argue they may even be deliberately hastening it. There’s a book by British comedian Ben Elton, called Stark, which explores basically this concept.

Poo tee weet 👍

A few I’ve read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:

• Catch 22
• Infinite Jest
• The Windup Bird Chronicle
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• Full 5 part Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy
• His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Brave New World
• Slaughterhouse Five

The other thing about this price point is that it’s a headline grabber - and then once people find out more, they will spot that if you buy a Switch with MK preinstalled, the game costs half that.

So suddenly it feels like, “oh hey, that’s a great deal, and I was obviously going to buy a Switch 2 anyway” - and Nintendo get the sales and the decreased cost of manufacturing the physical game.

It would be subjectively new to them, yes. But objectively it’s still an old game. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, irrelevant or whatever, it’s just old. And that’s fine.

As the Countess in Roman Holiday tells us, either way is correct :-)

Doesn’t make it any less annoying though! 😁

One reason to avoid using words is that in a global economy, they may want to sell the same product in multiple countries, so you potentially run into translation issues/costs and confusion over whether a product is the same or not between two different places. Using just letters and numbers eliminates that.

Of course, that’s all for their own convenience, not for the convenience of the end customer.

Pretty sure there’s at least one Agatha Christie novel that uses that idea. A little here, a little there…

Although, actually, maybe it was the other way round, like someone was deliberately dosing themselves gradually to build up a tolerance. Something like that.

Thanks for the reminder, I really must change my bookmarks to this, such a simple change.

Not viable for the mobile app of course, but even having the browser sorted would be a start.

Ah, I never knew what that piece was. It’s fantastic though, a perfect fit along with all of Badalamenti and Lynch’s music.

My particular favourite is the weird drone of The Pink Room, turned up loud, but it’s all good!

A few that spring to mind…

Vertigo
Psycho
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive
All 3 LOTR films
Star Wars OT
Indiana Jones (especially Raiders)
The Sweet Smell of Success

Re epi pens, and apologies if this is a stupid question - could people for whom they help after a reaction potentially use them as a preventative measure? ie use the pen before any reaction takes place, to try and stop one happening at all?

I’m sure the answer is no, or else that would be what people did, but it occurred to me.

Ha, good answer 😁

What about those aged 41-60? ;-)

You’re right, I’ve made an utter arse of that, ha ha! I meant to type “honour”.

I think the difficulty people have is when writing English down. In speech they will generally get this stuff right automatically, but when it’s on paper “a history honour” can easily look right even though it’s not.

EDIT - I am dumb.

Definitely “a history” for me but someone who drops the h for accent reasons, eg a cockney accent, would likely say “an 'istory”.

How they would write it, I’m not sure.

Exactly - I’m all for subverting expectations, but not to the extent that what you’ve made barely coheres to that which came before.

I like Rian Johnson films in general, Brick is a favourite of mine and Knifes Out is great, and so on. But this was just… horrible…