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Yeah I decided idyllic English villages aren't for me, after watching Hot Fuzz and Midsomer Murders.
recommend any other such films? I'm all over that small town lawless stuff
Death in Paradise (TV series)
In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
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Yeah looking at what photos there are the terrain there is pretty open and you'd think you'd find someone, but "rules out" just sorta doesn't sit well with me there.
It's "impenetrable head high thick scrub" according to the article, which makes it sound like the kind of place a body could be hidden trivially. But that might just be nonsense - I don't believe the Australian desert can support impenetrable anything.
Yeah that got me too, but looking at pics it just looks arid and fairly clear land.
Maybe they meant impenetrable.....as in walking too far off the road won't get you anywhere..... otherwise it seems pretty hikeabke.
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#114>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.
Yes, especially with drownings, where the body would not re-appear for weeks and months.
Yeah and if you live where it is cold and snows, can be even longer.
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> I hope you're not assuming Midsomer Murders bears much resemblance to real life. :) Unlike Hot Fuzz, which is basically a documentary.
Uhh, I thought it was an over-the-top comedy film...
Seriously. There is a scene in Hot Fuzz wherein a handful of policemen are toting - in the modern day in a first-world country - Sten Guns, SMLEs, double-barrel shotguns and a pump-action with the price-tag still on it, and as they move from cover-to-cover all of their movements are punctuated by somebody checking their chamber (except that that's only sound effects). It even has a "Gilligan's Cut".
How does that scene belong in a film that is even slightly outside the realm of (attempted) comedy!?
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#116Lost in Larrimah Podcast https://www.theaustralian.com.au/podcasts/lost-in-larrimah/n...
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> “anyone who has read 'hillbilly elegy' can relate to: in small communities, sometimes there is a cone of silence which is really strong, and quite at odds with what we think of as "the law"” I both read Hillbilly Elegy and also grew up in a small rural Ohio town near Kentucky, very much in the epicenter of the book’s described culture. I don’t think the book or rural culture has any type of “cone of silence” like t…
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…
I grew up in the same part of the country around the same time as the author. While I agree not everything in the book is a fully realistic depiction, it is honestly highly accurate in many regards. It goes in depth with the type of inconsistent, moralistic and tribal decision making and thought process in Appalachia in a more detailed and accurate way than I’ve seen in almost any other account.
I’d suggest to also read the book Dreamland about the opioid and prescription drug epidemic in Appalachia.
Between base knowledge of how tribal morals work there, how skills gap unemployment had hit that area, and how the addiction crisis has hit them, it helps dramatically to understand why it creates a conservative-leaning voting bloc that feels scared of modern progressive politics and would generally vote modern Republican despite having deep historical roots in voting Democrat as a worker solidarity signal.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uhh, I thought it was an over-the-top comedy film...
Seriously. There is a scene in Hot Fuzz wherein a handful of policemen are toting - in the modern day in a first-world country - Sten Guns, SMLEs, double-barrel shotguns and a pump-action with the price-tag still on it , and as they move from cover-to-cover all of their movements are punctuated by somebody checking their chamber (except that that's only sound effects). It even has a "Gilligan's Cut". How does that sc…
You weren't downvoted because you were wrong - of course Hot Fuzz is significantly a comedy film. You were downvoted because you missed the sarcasm.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously. There is a scene in Hot Fuzz wherein a handful of policemen are toting - in the modern day in a first-world country - Sten Guns, SMLEs, double-barrel shotguns and a pump-action with the price-tag still on it , and as they move from cover-to-cover all of their movements are punctuated by somebody checking their chamber (except that that's only sound effects). It even has a "Gilligan's Cut". How does that sc…
You weren't downvoted because you were wrong - of course Hot Fuzz is significantly a comedy film. You were downvoted because you missed the sarcasm.
I see. HN is textual and it was unmarked so I consider that the sarcasm-author's fault.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
You weren't downvoted because you were wrong - of course Hot Fuzz is significantly a comedy film. You were downvoted because you missed the sarcasm.
I see. HN is textual and it was unmarked so I consider that the sarcasm-author's fault.
IMO, it's apparent from the context, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯