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Author: truant

  • Didn’t watch any films this week

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    I will tell a story though, I tutor this 13 year old kid (in Vietnam, I’m in Vietnam now lol) and I give him homework which is 1. Write 100 words2. Some grammar shit3. Watch a film and tell me about it The film I gave him yesterday was Raiders of the Lost Ark was…

  • Falling Down

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    This is an interesting film because it weirdly got repurposed by the alt-right as with D-Fens as a hero, which is just mental. Like Fight Club though, I always loved it, but I never saw it as a right wing film. I mean, even as a kid I knew that he was a lunatic. But…

  • I think I will just try and do film reviews

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    So I watched 28 Years later the other day. I have a lot of thoughts about it. I’ve become completely addicted to dopamine and online teaching and have not been able to do any creative endeavours. This is due to personal issues but I have as a bonus moved into a flat where I have…

  • If you’ve seen one….

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    Lamine Yamal’s dark past Lamine Yamal is probably the world’s most exciting footballer right now. At only 13 years old he has not only featured in, but starred in some of the most thrilling encounters in La Liga and the Champions League as well as emerging as Spain’s new star player But life was not…

  • The Martian Revolution

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    This is just to highlight something from one of my favourite podcasts. Already pretty famous and apparently very internet famous right now. Mike Duncan is a ‘kind of famous’ podcaster who does accessible ‘deep dives’ into historical events. He made a name for himself by going through the entire history of Rome, over about 10…

  • Fact About My Dad

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    My dad is a very interesting guy. I could tell you loads about him, to steretype him, he’s one of those guys who always had a crazy wavy beard. Like beards were in fashion and are still a thing, back in the day people had moustaches more than beards, but he always had the beard,…

  • So how did you let the town down?

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    Ok, so I moved around a couple of jobs. Because I was not doing well in Wenzhou but they liked me, they sent me to Yangzhou. Yangzhou is another super interesting city. In history it was where all of the salt on the Yangzthe was taxed, in the old days salt was way more important…

  • It’s beginning again

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    It’s not exactly an original take, but it’s still crazy how we are just watching world war 3 start and we can’t really do anything except comment. Mercenary armies and drone armies returning to earth. I don’t know if it’s true, but people claim that the US army wargames that they absolutely could not beat…

  • I let a town down

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    When I first moved to China, I was in a bad way, I do have this charm which really suits teaching, like people believe what I say, and I think because I have quite weird mannerisms and so on, it’s even more funny for Asians lol. But anyway, I was offered a job in Wenzhou,…

  • More Hauntology

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    I love these, this is one of those Second Life style worlds that was big in the 00s and then closed down. This video is interesting because the guy tries to find if people are still playing it and why. It’s a very interesting story with a surprisingly nice sweet end. I must admit I…