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Welcome to the forums Sparky! You would be surprised of how many of us originally founded the series / joined in that way It's a slippery slope... Great to have you here, hopefully you have fun!

Welcome neighbour! It's great to have you here in our ranks, I hope you enjoy your time here Can't wait to see some of your art!

A veteran fan, eh? Welcome to the forums Harmony, hopefully you have fun here! It's never too late to join in. ( And yes, time flyes by alarminly fast )

Welcome to the forums! It's never too late to join in, great to have you here. Pleased to meet you too!

Due to everybody staying indoors private motoring have decreased. Air in the cities is much cleaner to breath and pollution rates have dropped significantly

Luckily nothing too major have yet been outright canceled, only postponed for later date. Concerts, theater plays and such... Though I had to re-arrage and -schedule whole bunch of work related stuff, social events and visits to friends/relatives. Same as everybody else. Irritating, but what can you do...

Parasite. Oscar for the best picture certainly went to the correct address this year

I like decorating, it's important that place that I call home actually looks and feels like one. I admire people who can decorate their home minimalistically and keep things neat and simple, but blank white walls aren't for me

I enjoy growing plants and vegetables. I guess I'm not too terrible at it since they seldom die under my care, though most of them don't flourish either.

Just finished watching new mini-serie adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'ABC murders'. Not quite sure what to think about it. Since the original book and the tv film from the 90's are timeless and iconic, I don't really feel we needed a new take on the classic story. If it's not broken etc... As far as I remember, original plot was completely different so this didn't even feel like something Christie would have written. Not bad, but still bit of a let down in some areas Though John Malkovich was superb in the main role, as always

"Perfetti sconosciuti" ("Perfect strangers"), an italian drama comedy from 2016. Excellent writing and acting!

Hallo, and welcome to the forums! Great to see new people joining in even though tv show ended. Have fun and enjoy your stay!

Cow brain goulash Surprisingly tasty, but still disturbing

At first Disney/Pixar movie about elves sounded bit lazy and done to death on paper, but this could actually be worth of watching. Though I'm not huge fan of how Disney uses same (voice) actors over and over again. Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, oh where oh where I have heard those names before?... Still, trailer looked quite nifty. They had me at pet dragon and trash eating unicorns

Hi and welcome! Don't worry, you picked a perfect time to join in now when the season 9 is about to begin. Have fun here in the forums and enjoy your stay!

Hi Blade and warm welcome

In general I don't mind if athletes have different backrounds or roots than the majority of the country they reprecent. If they have citizenship, it should be the only thing that matters. Tone of one's skin or where their family originates from shouldn't be an issue. However, there's always the "but"... For some time now, certain countries like Bahrain, Qatar and Turkey have aggressively scouted for talented foreing sportsmen/women - most notably African runners from Kenya or Ethiopia - and straight up "bought" them to reprecent their new homelands in the international arenas. This isn't anything new, but the scale of things have gotten even bigger in the recent years. And it's not only the few rich arab states that are doing this. Many European countries have made some pretty shady deals in order to get top tier athletics under their colours. Sweden for example, hasted the handling of nationality process of Ethiopian runner Abeba Aregawi in 2012- conveniently just before Word championships of Athletics held in 2013... she never lived in Sweden, not before or after she was granted citizenship. To top that, she later gave positive results in doping tests Saddly, few bad apples spoil the whole punch Be it steroids or bought foreing athletics, cheating is still cheating. Politics are ruining sports for good.

As I see it, 'legitimate career' can be anything that provides you, pays the bills and gets food on your table. As long as you get money out of it, it can be seen as a work/job/career. There are people who make a living by taking selfies(!?) or making videos of how they unbox things(!!??). It's weird, but apparently there are market for entertainment like this... As in many cases, "hate the game, not the player". I personally value "real" old school professions like teacher, factory worker, cleaner etc. more than youtube critics and such, but if someone can turn it into a profitable business, that's cool by me. In some cases, youtube content creators can be like entrepreneurs or remote workers. They don't necessarily have a traditional nine-to-five jobs, but that doesn't mean that some of them wouldn't dedicate huge amount of time and care into their videos. Not all of them, of course... It's also worth remembering that artists, writers, musicians, athletics and the rest can equally be seen as similar freeloaders. They don't necessarily produce any physical goods that other people need, but I guess that's one of the definitions for entertainment and art...