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Gesundheit.

One of the reasons their count is so low is that (at the moment at least) they're not interested in rapid expansion. When I visited the plant in September 2018 I was told that they were in the process of actively reducing their headcount. They don't want the headaches associated with being a...

...is one of the more bizarre statements I've come across on CF.

You're right, of course, but I'm not convinced the comparisons are all that valid. Friends and The Simpsons, along with the likes of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Seinfeld are among the most popular American sitcoms of all time. Modern Family is second-tier compared to those. I didn't hate the final few...

Never gets talked about?! It's one of the biggest American sitcoms of the last decade, it's been hosed down with awards and repeats are still pretty much a permanent fixture on British telly. Dunno how you've managed to avoid it for so long! Great show, mind, and one of the very few...

Grauniad link for lefties...

Couldn't agree more, but you should be watching it with the original German audio and subtitles.

It's an absolutely superb show. Surely the best ever TV series to deal with time travel. It's Netflix's bona fide masterpiece.

Ah okay - fair enough. It's probably much more famous in the UK due to frequent TV screeings. It was last on the BBC as recently as 2006 - at 10 in the morning, fully uncut!

Eh? Of course it was released. In fact, according to Wiki it was actually re-released five times between 1956 and 1986, the last time as a promotion for Splash Mountain.

Sacrilege! Hands off Funnyland! I love that place. Isn't it the last remaining 1930s funhouse in the world? If so I'd have expected it to have some sort of heritage protection.

There could be a more prosaic reason - the collapse of the Dubai housing market since 2014 due to oversupply.

Anyone with an exemption from the final exam got an A grade, the assumption being that if you managed an average of an A grade in the first two exams, you were likely to get an A in the final. (Should probably point out that I only ever managed one exemption - first year maths. After that, I...

Ha! No, I'm not that keen on Bergman either. I just mentioned him as lazy shorthand for that type of dour Scandinavian drama. Truth is, his films aren't much like either Bergman or Python. They're difficult to pigeonhole (see what I did there?) because they really are quite unique and...

Is this really a traditional UK approach? I genuinely don't know. At Glasgow University I had exams just before the Christmas and Easter breaks. If you got a high enough average score in those two exams, you were exempted from the final exam and granted a pass for the year. (This could well be...

Nice list @ECG! Noticed you gave a shout out to two Charlie Kaufman films (aka The World's Greatest Living Scriptwriter) but didn't mention him by name. It isn't always all about the director y'know! His latest film I'm Thinking of Ending Things is, as usual, quite superb. Nine Queens is...

I'll just drop this here...a neat drone shot of the deserted pier during lockdown, from a BBC article.

16/25 here, and of the nine I haven't been on, five are in the top ten (SteVe, Skyrush, Zadra, Shambhala, Untamed). Which sucks a bit.

A Dutch television special with Kate Bush from 1978, filmed at Efteling to promote the opening of Haunted Castle...

Haven't had a tub for years to be honest, but I've gone for Purple One, Green Triangle and Coconut Eclair. The Purple One used to be better when it had a brazil nut instead of a hazelnut. And I miss the old Coffee Creme.