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A few days ago I learned about this.

Fascinating. I was in Bali a few weeks ago and I didn't notice any, but I might have just seen "Bucket in bathroom" as so normal that it didn't even consciously register. What they did have in all the bathrooms I visited was bidets of various kinds, including "just a sprayer on a hose next to the loo", which seemed more civilized than the Western approach honestly.
 

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I had no clue there had been a Law & Order: UK. Haven't seen it, but was looking up where I might have seen an actress in a Death in Paradise episode before and it was in her IMDB list.
There's also a "Law & Order Criminal Intent: Toronto", that started up a couple of years back. Like the original, the stories are slightly rewritten versions of actual crimes. Nice to see some local colour, like the infamous Filmores Hotel, that's a short(ish) walk from my workplace. Yes, the sign likely means what you think it means.

 

Filmores Hotel, that's a short(ish) walk from my workplace. Yes, the sign likely means what you think it means.

Is that building really as skinny as it looks, or is that just a trick of the perspective of the picture? I'm curious now what it looks like inside.
We have a similarly shaped building around here, the Flatiron, but it's thick enough at the thin end that it has a small coffeehouse on the ground level and looks to be about twice as wide as that one.
 

Is that building really as skinny as it looks, or is that just a trick of the perspective of the picture? I'm curious now what it looks like inside.
We have a similarly shaped building around here, the Flatiron, but it's thick enough at the thin end that it has a small coffeehouse on the ground level and looks to be about twice as wide as that one.
It is pretty thin, but take a step back in the link and you'll get a better perspective. The entrance is right at the junction of Dundas and George Streets, which split at about a 45 degree angle. I used to have to walk past it, on my way to a building where the university rented space, further east on Dundas. Fortunately our people moved out of there recently, as it was one of the longest walks I had to do on a regular basis.
 

I had no clue there had been a Law & Order: UK. Haven't seen it, but was looking up where I might have seen an actress in a Death in Paradise episode before and it was in her IMDB list.
It's pretty bad but some far from the worst L&O spin-off. I wouldn't watch it unless you wanted to see how funny the concept was (the England & Wales legal system is not an ideal one for this format lol, especially as the whole thing is set long, long after PACE became a serious thing, which means British cops have to behave pretty reasonably for the most part, unlike US ones). I think I watched all of it but I used to be an L&O completist.

(Eventually SVU becoming just "the Olivia Benson and a bunch of forgettable charisma-free-non-entities show" and Stabler getting the ludicrous Organised Crime spin off broke me of any completism lol.)
 


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