Thank you for this comment, I was logging out and back in over and over getting more and more frustrated, I just cleared the storage and the cache and bingo! Working like a dream. It didn't help that I was having trouble opening some of my documents on a work system at the same time, I was starting to get paranoid that the computer overlords were deleting me.
Sitting on my sofa reading the paper with the TV on mute before I had to go to work. Looked up and thought huh that's a weird film to be on daytime TV. Realised it was breaking news and put the sound on. I think both planes had crashed at that point.
Left to get the bus to go do my shift in the pub I worked in. I remember there was a guy on the bus on his phone (still not ubiquitous at this point) saying "I'm not kidding man one of the fucking towers has completely collapsed". I got to work, it was about 5pm at this point so the pub was starting to get a bit busier with some of our regulars already in, I tried telling them what had happened but I don't think they really understand the enormity of it. There was no TV in the pub, and people didn't have the internet on their phones, they all just went 'huh' and went back to their pints and conversations. It was only the next day after everyone had been home and seen the footage themselves that it was the only topic of conversation.
I knew at the time that it was the start of a war, and that everything was about to change, for the worse. I marched against the war with 1 to 2 million other people in London, because we knew it was wrong. All the politicians who still took us there were either liars, or dangerous idiots, or both. Tony Blair should be in prison.
I was just having this conversation yesterday. Also live on my own, I think mine is 60/40 fridge/freezer, and I need more freezer space. I'm sure I waste a lot of energy with the freezer door open trying to fit everything in like a game of Tetris. I don't understand the law of physics that says that when I take something out of the freezer and use some of it, there's no longer space to put the (now smaller) thing back in? I can only assume it's freezer gremlins messing with me. Ideally a 50/50 or 40/60 fridge freezer would do me I think, but when you're limited to buying cheap and / or second hand you don't tend to have many options.
Oh yeah, I've read up on the explanation since, but for me it doesn't really add anything. It doesn't take away anything either. I think it was just so captivating I didn't need any meaning. That probably makes me sound far more shallow than I am but hey ho.
I didn't get the allegory in Mother, and I didn't really care. Totally wtf, but I loved how nightmarish it was, and how it looked visually, I was completely enthralled.
Are you talking about white kids, or black kids though? I think the issue is that black kids unfortunately will hear that language anyway, as the targets of it, and that hearing it read out in the classroom is going to be a very different experience for them.
Thank you for this comment, I was logging out and back in over and over getting more and more frustrated, I just cleared the storage and the cache and bingo! Working like a dream. It didn't help that I was having trouble opening some of my documents on a work system at the same time, I was starting to get paranoid that the computer overlords were deleting me.