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doctorwho:

bbcamerica:

A new BBC America Original Supernatural Series INTRUDERS is premiering this Summer.

INTRUDERS is about a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others. 

A contemporary, chilling, paranormal tale set in the moody Pacific Northwest, INTRUDERS spins a fascinating and complex web of drama. As strange, apparently unrelated events start happening, multiple story-lines — a missing wife, an assassin covering his crimes, a child on the run — begin to intertwine to reveal a conspiracy that will forever change our understanding of human nature.

Starring John Simm and Mira Sorvino with James Frain & Tory Kittles. From Writer & Executive Producer Glen Morgan (The X-Files) based on Michael Marshall Smith’s novel ‘The Intruders’.

Don’t let them in. Watch the teaser now.

Reblogging for our John Simm related interests.

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#interesting idea #though I’ve been watching S3 of Red vs Blue #so now all I can hear is Doc saying #’well technically it’s *my* head’ #’but I don’t mind sharing’ #’remember that talk we had about sharing?’ #sounds like these people need a talk about sharing

slepaulica asked: is there a way i could have tagged that post that would have helped? i covered the options i could think of but if you have something in specific saviored i can try to use that in the future

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I don’t have anything relevant saviored. You’d be surprised how rarely it comes up*, and when it does it’s usually people talking about how ill they are under readmores (so I don’t need an add-on to let me skip it). And like I said, all in all I’m glad for the warning.

*On the Internet, I mean. It comes up a lot when grocery shopping and suchlike. (Did you know Canada doesn’t have a consistent date-writing method? Good luck figuring out whether a bar of Cracker Barrel labelled “14 DE 13” is still good. (It is. Cracker Barrel writes the year first. But you can’t generalise that to non-Cracker-Barrel products.))

 

{{Looks like the linked post has been access-locked, so here is my comment from it:

“You can never have enough pi. There’s always some digits you’re missing.

Besides, Canada doesn’t have a single standard date-writing method. The closest we’ve got is 2013 MR* 14, but a lot of things don’t use it. (Say you have a box of crackers. The current date is October 20th, 2012, your phobia of rotting food prevents you from eating only-just-expired crackers but you have a friend nearby who will eat them, and the expiration date on the box is “11/10/12”. What should you do with it? The correct answer is “It is impossible to say without more information on how this particular brand of crackers writes their dates.”)

*Every month-word shares at least two letters in English and French. Many share more (there’s not really a significant difference between “November” and “novembre”), and if you saw a date written “2013 Fev 03″ you could almost certainly guess what it meant even if the third letter isn’t quite right. But two letters means it can be completely consistently written.”}}

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#tales from the askbox #I hardly ever eat strawberries anyway #I got a rash after eating strawberry baby food #so I spent like fifteen years thinking I was allergic #and when I got up the nerve to try them I found them a bit of a let-down #too crunchy #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #our home and cherished land

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slepaulica:

feliscorvus:

ajax-daughter-of-telamon:

Scary bugs hiding in fruit is a thing that worried me a lot as a child, because my family had a grapevine and my mom told me once that I had to be careful it I was going to pick any of the grapes and eat them, BECAUSE THERE COULD BE BEES IN THEM.

Yeah, guess who never picked another grape ever again, LOL.

I am generally compelled to cut strawberries in half before eating them, given that I did actually find a worm of some sort living in the middle of one a few years ago!

i have to look for holes in cherries, because if there are little holes in them there are little worms in them too.

It’s always been the possibility of moldy/rotting fruit that worried me (though I do check down the middle of raspberries for bugs), but I think I’ll have to start cutting strawberries open.

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#bugs #bees #food #worms #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #and while slightly annoyed at having a new reason for manifestation of this #is mostly glad not to have found out about wormy strawberries the hard way

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