convinced that Kuei Chih-Hung was pulling from The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (first 2 frames) for his empty nightclub scene in The Boxer's Omen (second 2 frames)

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So many conversations where I just want to ask the other person to diagram a sentence at the end.

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Not to mention that Canopus was arguably less heavily armoured than Good Hope (both had a 6" central belt and Good Hope had thicker armour at the ends, though Canopus had 12" armoured barbettes) - but because she was a battleship Churchill thought she was equivalent to a dreadnought

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A mixture of optimism and his typically superficial knowledge of technical detail. Canopus' guns had a shorter range than those of Cradock's armoured cruisers but Churchill was unable to understand that because all things being equal (which they weren't), the larger calibre gun had the longer range

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The difference being that Fisher was a competent maniac

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