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   Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 03:22:30 JST Ben

   What's got two thumbs and has just discovered archive.today?.....

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     Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 03:22:28 JST Ben

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     "The chimps in 28 Days Later are infected by the rage virus after being bombarded with images of war and brutality on screen. Fast-forward 23 years to today, I say, and are we not all monkeys scrolling distressing images on our phones?"

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     Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 03:22:29 JST Ben

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     Whilst I applaud Danny Boyle's ingenuity, there is something about this that irks me. I don't think it's even actually that he got the girls to do it or that it worked. Just that it speaks to something underlying.

     ... I ask if it was hard to pull off a deserted London in 28 Days Later. “No,” he says, surprisingly. “We didn’t have the money to close the bridge, but had a plan to be there at 4am. The police can’t ask the traffic to stop, but they will allow you to ask drivers. So we hired a lot of girls, including my own daughter, who was 18. Anybody driving at that time is a bloke, so we had the girls lean in, saying, ‘Do you mind?’ And it worked fine.”

     Mr. Bill repeated this.