Derek Hopper

@derekmhopper

Irish. Liberal of the extreme right. Interested in travel, culture, history. I write sometimes:

Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand
Joined January 2012

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  1. 16 hours ago
  2. 20 hours ago

    The Disney reboot of Episode IV.

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    Dec 14

    Netflix is a basic human right.

  4. 21 hours ago

    Now it’s just another series for soy-boy directors to out-dweeb Joss Whedon.

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  5. 21 hours ago

    George Lucas gave the Star Wars universe of the original trilogy a Tolkienesque gravitas. He threatened to destroy that with the slapstick of Jar Jar etc. in the prequel trilogy.

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  6. 22 hours ago

    The Last Jedi is the worst Star Wars film, except for Attack of the Clones maybe. They’ve looked at the success of the Marvel movies and aped it. Badly-timed humour, shoe-horned characters. Terrible.

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  7. Dec 14
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  9. Dec 13
  10. Dec 12

    Few pints, having a vape, premier league football down the local pub.

  11. Dec 12

    If they can sustain this for five seasons we could be looking at the greatest television series of them all.

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  12. Dec 12

    Three episodes into The Crown season two. The quality has not dipped since the first season—in fact it may have improved.

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  13. Dec 11

    You just earned yourself a follow back, William.

  14. Dec 11

    In my alma mater’s alumni magazine, Victoria Showunmi is haranguing a Greek student for not understanding the semantics of words like “migrant”.

  15. Dec 11

    Imagine Irish people were this vigilant about the Religion of Peace.

  16. Dec 11

    Ireland is still so peacefully uneventful that murders make the front page of the national newspaper.

  17. Dec 11

    Notice how the Irish newspaper of record has no problem describing Irish illegals as illegal.

  18. Dec 11

    Here is the first set of messages he sent me.

  19. Dec 11

    The purpose of my perambulation of course was a pint or six of Guinness in a local pub, complete with fire of course.

  20. Dec 11

    Back in Ireland. Staying with my sister for a couple of days and just took a walk down to the village. Nice crisp day.

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