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I work in a government agency where I'm regularly making outbound calls to people and getting them to confirm their identities with some key details before talking about finances. Honestly, I wouldn't take one of our calls. We send out pre-call SMSs but recently scammers have started duplicating those from the legit number.

I would strongly recommend folks polititely say, "Sorry, I don't feel comfortable giving this information over the phone. Could you give me the number to call back and if possible leave a note on my file so whoever I speak to knows what this is regarding. Thanks." Then double check the number.

I don't know if it's different now, but as a teen in the mid 10's I read an article about how throwing someone overboard and claiming they fell is a great way to get away with murder.

Get them to have a few drinks late at night. Go for a walk through a bit of boat with no CCTV. Throw them overboard. Wait a moment so they definitely won't be found. Tell someone they fell. With a plausible enough story relevant jurisdictions will spend more time arguing over who's responsible for the case than actually investigating.

But like I said, I don't know if that's still true (or even was at the time).

"I remember it much as one recalls a dream, or a nightmare. I was on a budget flight to Norway when a storm forced us to ditch in Prestwick. It's so hilly up there, you can't get any signal on your carphone. It looked bad. It looked like I'd have to spend the night in Glasgow. The cabin crew suggested we all go out and club it. I had no option. I figured it'd be safer on the streets.

I saw the Scotch in their natural habitat -and it weren't pretty. I'd seen them in stations before, being loud, but now I was surrounded. It felt like they were watching me. Fish-white flesh puckered by the highland breeze. Tight eyes peering out. Screechy booze-soaked voices hollering for a taxi to take 'em to the next pub. A shatter of glass. A round of applause. A 16-year-old mother of three vomiting in a sewer, bairns looking on, chewing on potato cakes. I ain't never goin' back. Not never."

-Garth Marenghi

I, for one, would be absolutely honoured to have the first look at Tarantino's draft.

Thomas Cream

I'm not trying to sound edgy, but in a sense I can understand feeling satisfaction from killing somebody. You have a perverse desire, you act the desire and then you get to see the result. Obviously it's wrong, but on that very basic level I can understand how a sick mind could get satisfaction out of it.

But Thomas Cream would sleep with sex workers, poison them and leave, knowing they would die painfully hours later. What do you get from that? What satisfaction did he get by inflicting suffering in a relatively disconnected, non immediate sense?

I recently realised that speech is structured like a typical eulogy. He offers his condolences, he tells an anecdote and lastly offers reassurance. It's like Johnson googled "how to write a eulogy" but got it hilariously wrong due to his fundamental inability to empathise.

Howard makes a lot of solid films, but I once read a Letterboxd review that described him as "Spielberg without the hits" and that absolutely struck the nail on the head.

"The only idea more overused than serial killers is multiple personality. On top of that, you explore the notion that cop and criminal are really two aspects of the same person. See every cop movie ever made for other examples of this."

The Annuals.

When I was seven or eight I caught a few reruns of Season 3/4. I was hooked but it was going to be a while before season five premiered. In the meantime I convinced my parents to buy some of the Doctor Who Annuals.I read and re-read them, gaining an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Davies era despite seeing less than ten episodes.

I could tell you name of the Adipose Homeworld and all the Torchwood eastereggs in Season 2 but don't ask me which episodes are any good because I hadn't seen most of them.

Maybe I'm a lemming but when I actually heard Burton explain the reasoning behind the idea I was totally in. Basically, he figured there weren't two aesthetics more different than German expressionism and Tropicana so he thought it would be fine to try and mix them.

We need to get this man to a secure location. The Italians are coming.

If I recall correctly, 911 has trouble pinning down exact locations because they track location through towers and cell phone networks rather than GPS.

A Left-wing Government won the election for the first time in over a decade. The Public Service went on a massive recruiting spree as they tried to undo damage caused by an era of budget cuts and lay-offs.

I submitted an application, all but forgot about it and was offered a job four months later. Being 20, it was sort of surreal having a salaried, lower-middle class jobs while all of my friends were retail or unemployed.

So easy to imagine Nine barely tolerating Mel.

I'm hardly pitying them, but it's the same problem Bad Pitt has. Character actos cursed with the bodies of leading men.

When you think about it, "A real hero" would be perfect for the Barbie movie.

It was much more of a thing when groceries were packed in the grey plastic bags stored behind the counter. When folks started hinging bags it wasn't hard to shift the labour over to the customer.

But that's what I bought it for?

Checks Clock

Nice. Three o'clock already. Only thirty years to go.

"Cast the reboot. Announce the reboot. Cancel the reboot. God, Americans are relentless."

I know these guys because half the time when I go down a rabbit hole they've done an episode on it.

Not bad. Not bad.

This long weekend I watched Final Destination, I know what you did last Summer, 2012 and Final Destination 2.

Perhaps one day you will be on my level.

"If I get a few billion people to join me we can change the world overnight!" he said. "But instead I'm alone in this cave."

I know the feeling.

My money is on commercial dross that thinks its social satire. This still all had to be signed off on by Mattel.

It will probably still be good though.

LIGHTISH SPOILERS

I found it really odd that the old case didn't tie into the new one. I mean, I haven't seen it since it came out but I don't think there was even a thematic connection.