> sometimes there is a cone of silence which is really strong, and quite at odds with what we think of as "the law" Reminds me of the plot of the movie Hot Fuzz.
Yeah I decided idyllic English villages aren't for me, after watching Hot Fuzz and Midsomer Murders.
I hope you're not assuming Midsomer Murders bears much resemblance to real life. :)
(Source: until a couple of years ago, we lived in one of the Oxfordshire locations where it frequently films.)
That book is so full of nonsense. It’s a string of desperate theories that strive to explain present-day tensions in such a way that ignores the context of present-day. The milieus of turbo consumerism and associated economic strife are in conflict with certain less-compatible self-identities, and not others. This underwrites everything the book aims to address with far more cohesion (as is often the case with succes…
wow. this is so po-mo it's beyond criticism, into conspiracy theory. are you literally saying he "made it up" or are you projecting something else here?
Steve Case bankrolled the fictional accounts in Hillbilly Elegy so that he would have a sympathetic figure head for his Rise of the Rest movement. Is J. D. Vance even his real name?!!
Yeah I decided idyllic English villages aren't for me, after watching Hot Fuzz and Midsomer Murders.
I hope you're not assuming Midsomer Murders bears much resemblance to real life. :) (Source: until a couple of years ago, we lived in one of the Oxfordshire locations where it frequently films.)
Let's encourage that belief. I'd like house prices to fall there
>A three-day search by foot, on four-wheel-drives and from the air ruled out death by misadventure. To date, the police have found no trace of Mr. Moriarty or his dog. I'm kinda surprised that this ruled out something. Particularly in a rural area. I grew up in rural areas and there are often stories of massive searches, and the body didn't turn up until it was stumbled upon surprisingly close to civilization.
I suppose it depends on the terrain, but I'd agree. Another possibility is that something in the behavior of the townsfolk during questioning does not suggest, to the police, actual ignorance of what happened. Which wouldn't mean the police are necessarily correct, of course.
Altogether such kind of searches are probably more about calming people's mind than actually finding something. Especially in this case where the human AND THE DOG went missing without traces. It's super unlikely that they both had an accident and not one of them was still alive enough to at least try to get help. Dogs and humans, due to different physics, should likely have different patterns of dangerous accidents.
An Australian outback community needs three things to sustain and survive: a doctor (GP) a bank and a pub. Well.. in the final analysis, a pub will do. BTW, colloquially a "hotel" is a pub. Its not impossible town has two watering holes... not one. This is not that dissimilar to a situation I've seen in small Italian rural communities: one drinking hole which the left wing sit at, and one the right wing sit at. (or g…
> An Australian outback community needs three things to sustain and survive: a doctor (GP) a bank and a pub. Well.. in the final analysis, a pub will do. Last time I drove through it was more like a pub, a service/gas station and a crystal/woo shop.
>Last time I drove through it was more like a pub, a service/gas station and a crystal/woo shop.
I'm not sure why that combination is present in so many Australian towns.
recommend any other such films? I'm all over that small town lawless stuff
Top of the lake, broadchurch, sharp objects. Those are all tv series.
I loved Top of the Lake. It was a very relatable TV show for me as a New Zealander. That kind of thing does actually happen in rural NZ, although I would've said it's stereotypically more a Northland than a Southland thing.
Reminds me a bit of the Bobby Dunbar story: > In 1912 a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found in the hands of a wandering handyman in Mississippi. In 2004, Bobby Dunbar's granddaughter discovered a secret beneath the legend of her grandfather's kidnapping, a secret whose revelation would divide her own family, bring redemption to another, and becom…
How was that possible that 4 year old boy didn't recognise his own mother?