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Nick Barlow (nickbwalking@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 17:52:54 JST Nick Barlow

Odd for Meta to be launching Threads while it's Elno and his team currently doing a re-enactment of the emergency administration team trapped under City Hall.
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1. Harry Beety as Mr Sutton in Threads (1984). A black and white picture of a middle-aged white man in a suit and tie standing in front of box files on metal shelving.
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  the trouble with mia :baner: (fkamiah17@toot.wales)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 17:53:50 JST the trouble with mia :baner:
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  @nickbwalking Right up there with Watership Down as "most traumatic thing I watched as a child"
  
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  Nick Barlow (nickbwalking@zirk.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 17:53:51 JST Nick Barlow
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  For those of you who don't get the reference, congratulations on having never seen Threads and being unable to forget it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
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    Threads (1984 film)
    
    Threads is a 1984 British-Australian apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England. The plot centres on two families as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts. As the nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw Pact begins, the film depicts the medical, economic, social and environmental consequences of nuclear war.Shot on a budget of £400,000, the film was the first of its kind to depict a nuclear winter. It has been called "a film which comes closest to representing the full horror of nuclear war and its aftermath, as well as the catastrophic impact that the event would have on human culture." It has been compared to the earlier Academy Award-winning programme The War Game produced in Britain two decades prior and its contemporary counterpart The Day After, a 1983 ABC television film depicting a similar scenario in the United...

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