As someone currently living in China, fucking lol! Would absolutely make the same mistake.

What are you into?

Learn to draw? Build/make something?

Learn to program?

Shoot videos with your phone and learn to edit (davinci resolve is a free editing software). Shoot whatever, little stories/vlogs/clips for friends.

Clean everything in your house, inside the fridge, the whole shower (above/below), dust the walls, go through your closet/drawers/bookshelfs/etc. The places you’d never otherwise pat attention to.

Move furniture in your home and reorganize the layout of your stuff.

Learn to cook, really dig into how to make sauces, properly cook steaks/fish/etc. Practice cutting veggies and perfect your knife skills.

I mean, there’s a million things to do.

Do more things, start doing something at home that will take a long time and keep doing it until you’re so tired you can’t keep going.

If you go 9-5, is it possible to go back to doing shifts if you want?

Lol, you think it’s the ruling party that’s the problem? That’s what I mean, how are you just duck in this loop of thinking.

Is it any good? I liked the movie.

Nothing is gonna change if you keep behaving like this.

Stop asking what to do. What’s wrong with you?

The bubble inside America is so crazy.

You change. Stop asking and start doing?

Isn’t your whole thing “by the people, for the people”? The people are an overweight zombie staring into a TV slurping an empty soda. Seeing this from the outside is absolutely crazy. You guys are so, so, SO passive.

You’re becoming poorer and poorer, your world is quite literally burning and drying up, quality of life has bottomed in a way no one even a generation ago would even imagine.

And what do you do? I mean…

How has it been 60 years of the same shit and you guys don’t pick up on it? What’s going on over there?

Americans surely must understand by now that they’re only seen as consumers, statistics, a unit from which money can be extracted. They’re not seen and treated as humans.

Americans who lived abroad, what do you think about this?

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Jesus, the US is sliding backwards faster and faster. Really cementing that first “3rd world country” label.

Hey man, don’t call them that. Just because they believe some fairytale doesn’t make them morons.

“Full Stop”, lol.

Is that the current temper tantrum buzzword?

I’m sure it is, FULL STOP!

From Wikipedia with the original source being The Python Years. Michael Palin (2006)

In the Monty Python film Life of Brian, there is a scene where Michael Palin (as Pontius Pilate) talks about a friend with the name Biggus Dickus, which causes several extras to crack up. In character and in a long, drawn out fashion, he confronts the extras and dares them to laugh while repeating the name. Palin himself nearly corpses, most obviously when he asks the guard if he finds it 'wisible' when he says the name Biggus Dickus. The extras completely lose composure when he mentions Biggus Dickus' wife's name is Incontinentia Buttocks. Ad-libbing like this was intentional to create an authentic reaction from the extras.

This is from Michael Palins diary and doesn’t make any reference to withholding pay from actors and just says the scene had some improvisation in it.

This quote is taken verbatim from an answer to a similar question on Movie’s stack exchange, it tells a similar story of the scene being improvised and again makes no reference to the withholding payment for laughing

I have a physical copy of Monty Python's Encyclopythonia; which contains some interviews with the Python members.

It's not that the guards weren't aware of the script. They were. However, when the scene was being shot, one of the actors couldn't help but laugh because of Michael Palin's character. It was just that funny.

Instead of ending the scene, Palin stayed in character and approached the guard; resulting in the scene you are referring to.

However, that does not prove that the guard's reactions (after their initial unintended outburst) were genuine. They could have picked up on the fact that Palin was improvising, and they continued the scene based on how Palin was steering the conversation.

Monty Python is well known for its improvisation. In improv, when you are dealing with more than one actor; all actors need to understand what they are acting out, and will therefore "build a sketch together" on the fly.

Presumably, only the initial laugh was genuine. The rest is simply a continuation of the scene in an improvised manner.

All evidence points to the fact the scene was improvised to an extent by Michael Palin and the extras Chris Langham, Andrew MacLachlan and Bernard McKenna. I could not find a single piece of evidence that even slightly points to the guards being threaten to not be paid.

Lol, 15h of audiobooks? What are they thinking…