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August 30

Mangal Lakshmi Hindi Tv

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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
1. Does Kusum realise That her Dumb Adult Son Adit Scumbag is having Affair with Sowmya etc? 2. Adit is Adult, so Why does Adit still Refuse to Get Simple Divorce with his Wife Mangal etc?(124.123.167.230 (talk) 10:15, 30 August 2024 (UTC)). Mangal Lakshmi is fiction. It is not real. Fiction is always incomplete. This means that if your question is not answered within that fiction (I can't bothered to try to comprehend the wall of text in that article), there is no answer. Shantavira|feed me 12:23, 30 August 2024 (UTC) That's not simply because it's fiction, but because it's a soap opera, and has only been running for six months, and isn't in English, so deep literary criticism of its storyline would probably be hard to find (though I must admit I haven't tried). In contrast, if the question was "why does Macbeth so unhesitatingly murder Duncan's servants right after his great trepidation about murdering Duncan," I could find references (absent from the article).  Card Zero  (talk) 15:41, 30 August 2024 (UTC) Angry 😡 I do not care if it is fiction. 1. Does Kusum realise That her Dumb Adult Son Adit Scumbag is having Affair with Sowmya etc?(124.123.167.230 (talk) 17:15, 30 August 2024 (UTC)).

Criteria for percent of "households" with Apple TV+

I'm using Apple TV+ in the United States for this example, but I think this refers to any subscription service. I read numbers between 6% and 11% of U.S. households have Apple TV+ subscriptions. What is the criteria? What are they considering a "household"? Thinking of some extremes... If a prison gets Apple TV+ subscription for the inmate common room, does that count as one houseold? If four people in a house each get subscriptions because they are just roommates and don't share services, is that one household or four households? I'm trying to increase the context around the statistics to make sense of it. If I threw a rock into a crowd, what is the probability that the person I hit would have an Apply TV+ subscription? Honestly, I've never met anyone with an Apple TV+ subscription. Even to this day, if I mention something from Ted Lasso, I always get blank stares because nobody I've ever met has heard of the show. But, if was a Netflix show, everyone knows about it. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 13:40, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Presumably they simply count each subscription as representing a household. I don't see how else they would determine the numbers. In any case "household" is a very vague term. They simply think it sounds better for marketing than "people". Shantavira|^{feed me} 13:54, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

See Household; it's a commonly-used term in statistical studies. Xuxl (talk) 14:12, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I doubt that anyone would seriously try to call a prison a "household". In this context, a prison is classified as an "institutional setting" along with hospitals, college dormitories, long term care facilities, homeless shelters, military barracks and the like. Cullen328 (talk) 03:35, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

August 31

Looking for the name of an old movie

I'm looking for the name of a B&W murder mystery movie that I saw on cable back in the 90s (probably AMC) but I don't remember the names of any of the actors and only the vague outline of the plot. I remember the channel host referring to the female lead as "a daffy Nancy Drew" and apparently having her sing three songs was a standard feature of her films. As I remember it, the girl was arriving by train to a city and witnesses a murder in a building alongside the tracks. She keeps pestering a novelist for help and a pair of bloodstained slippers was a key clue. The movie took place around Christmas time, so one song was some kind of Christmas carol; the other two songs took place in a nightclub. For the ending, some guy took the girl to a warehouse, the girl ran off with the guy's brother, thinking that he was the murderer. Only for the other brother to turn out to actually be the murderer. The first brother managed to save the girl, the novelist burst in to mess things up, then the police arrived to save everyone. 76.7.206.70 (talk) 23:54, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Try Lady on a Train, starring Deanna Durbin. (First hit from googling "In what movie is a murder seen from a train?") {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.209.45 (talk) 01:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

That's the movie I was looking for. Thank you. 76.7.206.70 (talk) 01:23, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

September 2

Genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

Today I tried to get into genome.ch.bbc.co.uk but the website says it's now expired and now I can’t get into the website to research the information I'm looking for. If you guys know where I can find the information about these programs from Genome on a different website please let me know. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 10:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

It looks like the website's security certificate expired yesterday. I would expect this to be fixed/updated quite soon. The content is all still there (my browser allows me to continue past the warning message to the website; I'm not sure if all browsers allow this.) Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 10:24, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Update: it has now been updated and the website is back up and running properly. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 09:27, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Good thanks for letting me know. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 21:57, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

September 3

Aria sung in "Becoming Jane" (2007)

Near the end of the film "Becoming Jane" (2007) the eponymous Jane Austen attends a gathering to hear an operatic aria sung by a soprano credited as Lynda Lee. Her performance is lovely. Can someone tell me the name or source of the aria? Philvoids (talk) 16:00, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

It is listed as "Deh vieni, non tardar" by Mozart. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 16:29, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Which is from The Marriage of Figaro, Act 4. --Wrongfilter (talk) 17:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

September 9

IMDb submitting problem.

When I've been trying to submit things on IMDb for the past two days it keeps on declining on every submission I make and there not telling me what I'm doing wrong. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 09:19, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

That sounds like a problem that IMDB, not Wikipedia, might be able to assist you with. --Viennese Waltz 09:39, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

• "IMDb Help Center". help.imdb.com. --136.54.237.174 (talk) 14:27, 10 September 2024 (UTC)