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Mark Watson
@markwatson.bsky.social
Tech entrepreneur. CTO ComplyAdvantage. Previously CTO WorldRemit, VP Eng Causata, Founder/CTO/CEO Volantis & Skipjaq. Not the comedian. Opinions my own.
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Maybe he mistakenly mixed up his copy of "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe with his original script for Grosse Point Blank.

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Although I'm subtracting jealousy points for the fact you're using windows

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I was far less jealous before, put it that way (and I was quite jealous)

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you have the hawk as well?

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Technically, I think that says the penguin was glittering; it makes no mention of the penguin wearing glasses.

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... and if you want to yokelise the hobbits, they should have Warwickshire accents, and sound like the Archers (one thing of course about the Jackson LotR movies is that the main hobbits have all grown up in the same place but have completely different regional accents)

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They're Celtic, I think. But Tolkien was for a while Professor at the University of Leeds; Leeds gets its name from a huge forest which surrounded the last Celtic kingdom in England, Elmet (Elfed in Welsh). So the elves are to my mind Welsh but Lothlorien is the West Riding ...

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As long as the entire cast (including director, producers, key grip, best boy, etc) was born in Yorkshire I'm not fussed about their ethnicity

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Bloody immigrants from the celestial plane, come down here, eat our food etc

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Also Sweden's is descended from one of Napoleon's generals (Bernardotte).

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Mark Watson
@markwatson.bsky.social
Tech entrepreneur. CTO ComplyAdvantage. Previously CTO WorldRemit, VP Eng Causata, Founder/CTO/CEO Volantis & Skipjaq. Not the comedian. Opinions my own.
47 followers265 following18 posts