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Disappeared down an Amazon Prime rabbit hole for the last few days. Truth Seekers started off pretty well, while not being particularly funny, but then seemed to dribble away towards the end. The Boys. Finally started watching this after reading the comic book years ago. Not as fucking mental as the book but still pretty fucking mental. Loved Season One but one of those where I need a little break before I start Season Two. Alex Rider. The YA books have been a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine for years. I was pretty disappointed in the movie that came out in the mid 2000s, Alicia Silverstone notwithstanding. The new series, though, is tremendous fun and I think pitched really well, not as corny as the movie. Interesting that they're skipping Skeleton Key and jumping straight to Eagle Strike for the second season. Hope it renews after that for Scorpia.
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Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were also 9. -
Another 9 to finish the week.
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9 for Monday. Let down by the Greeks, so to speak.
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10 for Friday. Some of the recent questions do look a bit familiar. Today, educated guesses on capital and gowf.
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Not going to lie, spent an AGE trying to decide on my 50/50 on the Michigan college teams. A dastardly question. Well played, @alang1993.
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10 for Thursday. Lucky guess on the battle.
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10 for Wednesday. Monarchy questions are typically wrong or lucky guess but today, quite foxily, I actually knew it.
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There was a line outside my polling place this morning at 8:30 when I arrived, which is pretty much unheard of in my wee town. Took about 30 - 40 minutes to get through the process, which normally takes less than 5. None of this helped by a) the volume of people, b) the number of state and local elections also happening today, c) the needlessly lengthy voting process. Volunteers who have been working elections for 20 years thought this was the busiest they'd ever seen it. I'm not sure if any of this is good or bad in terms of the result I want, but it's somewhat pleasing to see people get involved. Turnout in the US is usually shockingly low.
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10s for Tuesday. Bit of luck on the Dickens question.
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9/10. Not a crusade Monday either, apparently.
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10 to end the week. Educated guess on the play.
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9 for Thursday. Went the wrong way on a 50/50 on the curve question.
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A potential week-fucking 8 out of 10 for Wednesday. To be fair, I couldn't have had many complaints had I got 6.
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9 for Tuesday. I would’ve flunked @Salvo Montalbano’s class.
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10 for Monday. Very jammy on ruins and band.
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I re-read Less Than Zero during lockdown. It's aged very well and remains my second favorite Bret Easton Ellis, pipped by Lunar Park, which I know people hated but I just loved. The ending breaks me, the massive sentence that talks about where the ashes travel and the final line are perfect. In order after that, I'd go American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, Glamorama, and then the utterly dreadful Imperial Bedrooms which barely passes as a novel.
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10 to finish the week.
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9 for Thursday. Last question wrong.
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10 for Wednesday. A little fortunate on Greek hero and Soviet Union.
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10 for Tuesday.
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Terrible way to find out.
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A somewhat jammy 9 for Monday. Couple of guesses came through on the race and the revolution. Missed the capital.
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10 for Friday. Surprisingly guess free.
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10 for Thursday. Jammy guess on the King.
