Things you were shockingly old when you learned

So soft it's non-existent though?

Well it's normally spelt 30th an apostrophe to show where it was. So progressively soft over time. Until it's more conspicuous by its absence but thats what it was.
French, like.

In all these British spy/thriller shows, they are not calling the women in authority 'mom', 'mum' or 'marm'. I found this out last night while watching The Bodyguard with closed captioning on.

Wait, I'm confused - you have "ma'am" in the US, yeah? So you didn't realise our "ma'am" was the same word?

xp- that was normally spelt with an apostrophe until my autocorrect got to it

Throw Maugham into the mix

ma'am like slam. I thought calling women "mum/mom" was a british thing like mami.

and Rob Stark is very heavyhanded with all the "yes, mom" in The Bodyguard.

i was wondering when Kevin Costner would ever say "ma'am" in an English accent

wait til you hear what arse means

I worked at a bar in London for 6 months and whenever anyone would say "you all right" i would do a total paranoid "yes, why, what have you heard, is something wrong?"

I've been in the UK for a year now and it still feels that way tbh.

That Golgotha and Calvary were the same thing. I thought Golgotha consisted of residue from dying bodies on Calvary.
Does somebody in another media use Golgotha asa monster somewhere? Comic or Anne Rice or someone?

Calvary is also about the best track on Happy Trails btw. Nice atmospheric Cippolina meets Morricone greatness.

i've been in the UK for 12 years and i still get a little defensive about 'you all right?' i'm like, why shouldn't i be

that calvary is different from cavalry

one's a bunch of people on horses and the other is either a location in Jerusalem which was where a bunch of people supposedly including the historical Jesus got crucified, or a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point.

just slightly too late with that information stevolende

Seems like it came up on another thread right before this one.

or a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point.

subs plz chk

i've been in the UK for 12 years and i still get a little defensive about 'you all right?' i'm like, why shouldn't i be

You need to say "yeah not so bad, how's yerself?" and all will be well. If we said "hey how ya doin'?" like Americans do the responses would be all "can't complain / oh, fine, fine, you know? / it's a good life if you don't weaken" etc and it wouldn't work.

once something like that is explained to you, how does it stay an issue for ya tho?

(no aggression, juat v curious like)

a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point

I think you got that mixed up with what one unit of nutritional energy value is called.

And yet a cavalry stampede and a Calgary Stampede have much in common.

There was no census at the (supposed) time of Jesus' birth, and no census has ever required people to travel back to the city of their forefathers (42 generations back no less!)

The bones in tinned sardines are soft and can be eaten; they don't need to be removed.

...were you trying to take all those teensy bones out??

There was no census at the (supposed) time of Jesus' birth, and no census has ever required people to travel back to the city of their forefathers (42 generations back no less!)

Look, Mary had her story and Joseph had his census story. No reason to get all cynical here.

The census story was what Joseph took his other wife

*told

François Truffaut stars in Close Encounters of the Third Kind??????

In at least one or two of the half dozen different cuts of the film, yes.

You've never seen it?

(xp)

I'm choosing to believe flappy has seen one of the Truffaut-lite cuts (because if he hasn't seen it at all, wtf). That whole extended bit toward the beginning with Francois and Bob Balaban was inserted later and I think he doesn't otherwise appear until the Devil's Tower sequence.

I've only ever seen it once tbf and Truffaut being in it was one of the highlights.

Never seen it

Me neither

It's good!

Seeing it tmrw

Ah, you can report back. I hope Truffaut's in it.

it's incredibly boring

YOU'RE incredibly etc.

boring is a fake idea

I watched some of it at a schoolmate's birthday party on VHS and all or most of us got bored and gave up

went to a newly-struck 35mm screening of the director's cut in 2013 and fell asleep around the time a squad of alienspotters were hanging out up a hill

Had no idea there were cuts without Truffaut, he adds a lot

I don't think they removed any Truffaut in the later edits, they just added more Dreyfuss.

In the original theatrical cut there's the opening scene discovering the 5 planes in the sandstorm, finding the latitude & longitude on the globe, Truffaut demonstrating the hand signals, and the scene in India where everyone points at the sky. The first recut added the ship in the Sahara scene.

Fuck any version that doesn’t include the footage of the inside of the alien spacecraft. Spielberg hated it, but the studio wouldn’t let him do the Special Edition without it. NEVER LISTEN TO THE “GENIUSES”.

AFAICT there isn't a version that doesn't omit something. It's a little ridiculous.

I wish any actually-released cut had included the scene where the plane we here in the air traffic control scene lands, and Truffaut's team shows up to confiscate the passengers' cameras. It's a good scene!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNG2FDKaZoQ

Also the scene where Truffaut tests Balaban's translation skills by having him read an erotic novel.