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- Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
I'm not even going to comment on the last number round (oh wait, I just did). 645 was a piece of piss there. 71-44 is a 9-rounder score, not a 15-rounder. Very poor. Really going for it today. I'm sure back on gevincountdown you wouldn't have tolerated this behaviour! :o :o :o The champion played b...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
I'm not even going to comment on the last number round (oh wait, I just did). 645 was a piece of piss there.
71-44 is a 9-rounder score, not a 15-rounder. Very poor.
71-44 is a 9-rounder score, not a 15-rounder. Very poor.
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
Goes from bad to worse, STUMBLED was almost spelled out there. Is this going to be an epic low scoring match?
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
FFS this is poor quality. JAUNTIER was pretty obvious there, wasn't it?
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
Evidence so far is lacking. I want female players to do well, they're under-represented, but she ain't all that. She's no Wendy Roe.
19-12 at this stage is pretty poor.
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 7 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 68)
I'm pretty out of the loop just now, but that 727 was absolutely piss-easy, wasn't it? Disappointing to see neither player get it. I thought the current champion was supposed to be good?
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 29 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 620
Re: Spoilers for Monday 29 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)
Same again tomorrow to break octochamp record Is he on for that? I imagine he must be, otherwise you'd not have said it, I guess. I haven't watched for a few years but for some reason happened to see Luke's first show and thought: fucking hell, is this the general standard now (because the guy he b...
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 29 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 620
Re: Spoilers for Monday 29 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)
Same again tomorrow to break octochamp record Is he on for that? I imagine he must be, otherwise you'd not have said it, I guess. I haven't watched for a few years but for some reason happened to see Luke's first show and thought: fucking hell, is this the general standard now (because the guy he b...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 11:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5048
Re: Rachel Riley Post
I (as a former Corbynite) think she had overstepped the line in this case in regards to the image used, but the fact that she has been branded as a "Katie Hopkins" is total sloblock and plain-out wrong. I disagree. She's exactly like Katie Hopkins (although obviously coming from a different angle)....
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 11:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
I'm calling this the Jono proposal and my idea is a 20k tax free allowance, then 10% on all earnings to 50k, then 75% on all earnings above that. I endorse this proposal wholeheartedly. As to the avoidance thing, I remember when I was about 13 or 14 having a conversation on this subject with my aun...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 11:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Outing Gevin! (& similar fun activities suitable for a rainy Tuesday afternoon)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8319
Re: Outing Gevin! (& similar fun activities suitable for a rainy Tuesday afternoon)
although my name is not really a secret any more, I still prefer not to use it on here, and I think it's a bit shitty for someone to keep using it. I'm aware that I do this, but that's only because I find it a bit weird to know someone in real life and call them by a different name on here. But you...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 240
- Views: 95513
Re: Deathwatch 2017
How many years will this rollover ? None. It makes no sense for it to. It would need to be specified in advance for it to have any validity as a competition, but even then it would be completely pointless and you'd have to wait for decades to declare a winner. As I declared above, this is Deathwatc...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Controversial Musical Opinions.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13977
Re: Controversial Musical Opinions.
4. The music of Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris et al should be played. The songs aren't paedophiles. This was quite an easy one for most radio stations though. "Rock And Roll" kind of stands up today but all the rest of the Glitter stuff is really dated now. And it's not as though much other early 70s g...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 240
- Views: 95513
Re: Deathwatch 2017
I'm not killing them off or anything, but the deaths of Fernando Ricksen and Robert Mugabe have made my lead here surely unassailable. I'd kind of forgotten about this to be honest, I'll need to check all the lists before updating. I know I've got at least one more too, it's probably going to be me...
Re: Religion
Ha, that is excellent. When I was at school, R.E. used to be compulsory for the first two years of secondary school, but I dropped it as soon as I could. I don't think we ever got around to Islam, but that was in the mid-1980s and obviously things have changed since then. I'd be interested to hear h...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Right wing press
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3801
Re: The Right wing press
It may or may not be apt, but it adds nothing to any debate on the subject, and tends to reduce discussion to the level of the playground. I completely agree with Ian. I see this sort of thing all the time in online discussion - "Remoaners", "Brexshit", all that kind of thing - and it's just juveni...
- Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Controversial Musical Opinions.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13977
Re: Controversial Musical Opinions.
Music is so subjective that I'm not sure there can ever be a consensus opinion over what is "good" or "bad", though, it's all just a matter of taste, and no two people will ever share exactly the same taste. Anyway, my contribution (for now, I'll think of some more later) is that Saturday Night by W...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Left Wing Press
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3964
Re: The Left Wing Press
And anyway, the Guardian is not left-wing, it is very much centrist. They probably hate Corbyn as much as you do! I'd describe The Guardian as left wing and liberal (although admittedly, I don't read any of the mainstream newspapers, mainly rely on BBC website for my news) and Wikipedia pretty much...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 853
- Views: 259746
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Moving away from this 👆. My brother insists his birth mark has move significantly over the years, I call bullshit on the basis that tattoos don't move so how can birthmarks move. Can anyone throw any light on this ? If he's recently gained a lot of weight (or lost a lot of weight), it could appear ...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Left Wing Press
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3964
Re: The Left Wing Press
I cannot believe that after near treasonous behaviour by Jeremy Corbyn, the best headline the Guardian and the Mirror can come up with is about the Duchess of Sussex's fashion line for unemployed women, and Simon Cowell's botox. I used to laugh about North Korea and Russia suppressing news stories,...
Re: Religion
tl;dr: I'm happy and proud of my religion but I can't pretend it has all the answers or that I don't have doubts. It's important to respect people of all backgrounds, and of course anyone can be a good or bad person. PS - I'm quite taken aback to see how many people use a capital 'G' when writing '...
Re: Religion
Thanks Dan for your very interesting and thought-provoking post. It was fascinating to read it. But, a couple of things: To suggest that there is no credible evidence at all for Christianity I don't think that anyone is disputing that Christianity exists, it's the basic tenets that people have probl...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 3:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 853
- Views: 259746
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What's wrong with leaving the toilet seat up? It's certainly no worse than leaving the seat down but the lid up. It allows a miasma of faeces to escape when the bog is flushed. It really doesn't, unless you've got some sort of super-turbine toilet that throws the water from the toilet bowl all over...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 3:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 683
- Views: 274944
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
I clearly refused anything paedoey, so good luck making that stick. As for your continued efforts to paint me as some kind of anti-semite, I don't think the mere mention of a massive hat gets it done, you racist. Absolutely, I think Gavin (if that is his real name, I somehow doubt it myself) has go...
- Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Which Is Your Favourite Joke?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4899
Re: Which Is Your Favourite Joke?
I'm going to hijack this thread to discuss this year's winner of Dave's "Funniest Joke of The Fringe" . Won by Olaf Falafel, it goes "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". However, it's a bit of a shit joke isn't it? I mean, it's just a weak pun....
Re: Religion
I also hate vehemently anti-religion types. I'm not anti-religion in any sense that it would intrude into my real life. I'm totally cool with people doing religion and would never, ever interfere with that. What people are into is all fine by me. I just think that they're a bit weird, because I can...
Re: Religion
Smarter. He's smarter than us. Nothing smug there :roll: I don't think he said he was smarter. He just said that agnosticism is a smarter position than atheism. I assume he means that, because you can't prove 100% that there isn't a god, it is smarter to label yourself a "Don't Know" By the same to...
Re: Religion
You say that and yetMarc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 12:26 amAt least agnostics are never smug about their beliefs.
Smarter. He's smarter than us. Nothing smug thereL'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:40 pmAgnosticism is a smarter position than Atheism.
That's one of the only definites that can be relied on in all of this.

Re: Religion
In Stewart's definition I'm a "hard atheist" and completely with Rosemary (welcome back by the way, it's been a while!) I get that some people like to believe in a mysterious unknowable power controlling the universe, it gives them comfort and that's all great. Actually I'd probably quite like to be...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
I still think PR is preferable to what we have now. And we'd also have a decent number of Greens etc. I don't think it would be a problem having a more representative parliament even if there would be a few more nutters that got in. (Lots of the MPs in mainstream parties are actually nutters anyway...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Streaming Movies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4910
Re: Streaming Movies
I am curious if most people do it but wouldn't admit to it a bit like masturbation I've never met anyone who doesn't admit to masturbation. Yeah, that was a bit of a weird thing to say. Why would any man not admit that he didn't have a wank from time to time? It's hardly scandalous. I used to think...
- Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Streaming Movies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4910
Re: Streaming Movies
What are your views on illegally streaming movies. I have an unlimited Cinema Pass and Netflix and Amazon Prime so I rarely bother these days but there are some exceptions. For example I streamed Endgame as I have a weak bladder and wanted to watch it before going to the cinema to watch it ' proper...
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 592
- Views: 274205
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
I suppose the question for debate is whether those religious arguments take priority over informed consent. In my opinion they do not, but I have long since abandoned religion as a lost cause, but still have many good friends to whom it is a fundamental part of their lives. And I think it's more of...
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 3:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 592
- Views: 274205
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
You've been outed, Jim! To be fair, I think most of us already knew. It's not like I make any kind of effort to hide it or anything. This is probably going to come across as incredibly patronising but I think that Fiona has really revitalised these forums. I'm actually bothered to post stuff again,...
- Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:14 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 592
- Views: 274205
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
= The two things are pretty much analogous. They're really not. I agree with you that male circumcision is unnecessary and can cause problems and I would happily see it banned, but the terrible lifelong and frequently life threatening complications caused by FGM are in a different league. You're ri...
- Fri Jul 19, 2019 4:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 592
- Views: 274205
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Also, I've literally just watched A Cut Too Far? Male Circumcision on the iPlayer. I think it was a bit of a lightweight analysis of it to be honest, and you can probably guess where I stand on the issue. Must admit I didn't see this so don't know what side it came down on (if it did take a side). ...
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2018
- Replies: 134
- Views: 71732
Re: Deathwatch 2018
They might not have actively promoted it, but I don't remember it being credited differently at any point. From Pete Waterman's autobiography: We decided to put “Roadblock” out, pretending it was a bootleg, just to see what would happen. We vowed not to tell a soul who had made the record. We press...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2018
- Replies: 134
- Views: 71732
Re: Deathwatch 2018
Well, thank you for explanation, but while you are bemused by my inability to grasp this, your explanation is completely different from Mark's. No, our explanations just started from different places. I was being a bit more brutal and back to basics, assuming that you genuinely were completely clue...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
Correct. OK, sorry Rhys, I didn't really mean it. I'm sure not all Conservative members are bigots, or of the ultra-right; some of you are probably quite reasonable people. Have you met many other members? What are they iike? Is it true that there's been a problem with entryism from UKIP and EDL ty...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/bigot Irony alert... Yeah, well at some point you kind of realise that being all nicey-nicey to unreasonable people gets you nowhere and they sure aren't going to be all nicey-nicey back. So if being intolerant of right-wing arseholes like Tommy Robinson and Don...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many in a baker's gross?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3129
Re: How many in a baker's gross?
There are severe penalties for selling underweight bread. Your scales are not consistent. So for an order of 12 loaves you throw in an extra 8.33% which gives you what you deem to be a decent confidence level of being within the law. For an order of 144 loaves, for that level of confidence you do n...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2018
- Replies: 134
- Views: 71732
Re: Deathwatch 2018
It would have been a much bigger stretch to sell a group of three not particularly attractive middle-aged men who (at the time) few people had heard of, even if the songs were the same. They did get to #13 with Roadblock, which then got sampled and taken to #1 by M/A/R/R/S, so they weren't far off ...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/bigot bigot (noun) A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions. Irony alert... Yeah, well at some point you kind of realise that being all nicey-nicey to unreasonable people gets you nowhere and they sure aren't going to be all nicey-nice...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:19 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2018
- Replies: 134
- Views: 71732
Re: Deathwatch 2018
I just want to return to the discussion of this briefly. With someone like George Michael, he sang songs. It was obvious what his contribution was. But I'm not entirely sure what Avicii actually did. As far as I'm aware he was a "DJ". OK, let's go to the Wikipedia. Take the song " Wake Me Up " - I'...
- Sat Jul 13, 2019 8:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
I object to you calling me an ultra-right bigot, to be honest. And that's 150,000 people more than the zero who elected Gordon Brown. Seriously, you're actually a member of the Conservative Party? Correct. OK, sorry Rhys, I didn't really mean it. I'm sure not all Conservative members are bigots, or...
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
Seriously, you're actually a member of the Conservative Party?Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:31 pmI object to you calling me an ultra-right bigot, to be honest.
And that's 150,000 people more than the zero who elected Gordon Brown.
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 814
- Views: 383808
Re: Politics in General
After about 100 attempts to remember my password after resetting my laptop.... I'm going to vote for Boris Johnson. He does have some nice policies that really appeal to me, such as the reduction of "sin" taxes. Jeremy Hunt represents continuity Theresa May, so I'm avoiding him like the plague. The...
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Things you can't do that it always seems like everyone else can
- Replies: 91
- Views: 46746
Re: Things you can't do that it always seems like everyone else can
I'm not sure how many people can actually do this but I've seen people running down stairs while missing out steps and not tripping and killing themselves in the process. How is this even possible? It's not only possible, it's really easy. In today's busy world, I haven't got the time to take stair...
- Thu May 23, 2019 5:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Negative picking
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8921
Re: Negative picking
So when me and Zarte were doing the second marathon, we had a conversation about the concept of "negative picking". Essentially - and none of this is a criticism - Zarte thought I was picking negatively because I overwhelmingly picked three-vowel letters rounds. For what it's worth, not for a singl...
- Thu May 23, 2019 4:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Eurovision Song Contest 2019
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5079
Re: Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Then you would get a truer reflexion of which song deserves to win This is totally off-topic but I enjoyed your use of "reflexion" rather than "reflection" here, you don't see that any more. I used to read a lot of Agatha Christie stuff when I was very much younger and was always struck by her use ...
- Thu May 09, 2019 7:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 781
- Views: 231248
- Thu May 02, 2019 10:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14003
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
Can you add a "not sure" or "can't possibly know" option? I genuinely don't know and can't go for a binary choice.
- Thu May 02, 2019 8:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14003
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
With almost 100% certainty no, she wasn't. One of my interests is in longevity and I've been following it for a number of years now and am thoroughly convinced of her case. For those unaware, to be validated by the GRG (gerontology research group) you have to have at least 3 (I think) documents sup...
- Thu May 02, 2019 6:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14003
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
I'm actually sort of still with you (in that I think it's more likely than not that some kind of fraud went on) but Conor raises some good points. Far as I know, she only ever lived in a small town and it's really stretching credulity that everyone there would have been in on it. And really, who tak...
- Wed May 01, 2019 5:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14003
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
Was this the Japanese guy or is that someone else entirely? I remember him being in the Guinness Book of Records having reached 120 but when I looked him up again a while ago doubts had emerged. Yep, that was him. I got a few details wrong though as I was going from memory but I've found my 1984 Gu...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 11:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14003
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
I'm not surprised, this sort of thing isn't at all unusual. I remember reading a really old Guinness Book Of Records that my grandma had (1960 edition I think) and it was noted in there that the longevity records attract far more fraudulent claims than any other. They were at the time dealing with (...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How much do you weigh?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 32462
Re: How much do you weigh?
Do you feel/look thinner? No, not at all, it's a bit weird. I know 10-10 isn't so different to 11-7 but even so, you would think I might do. But I can't tell any difference at all. Just weighed myself again and I'm a another kilo lighter than last time, despite having eaten a shitload of food and h...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How much do you weigh?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 32462
Re: How much do you weigh?
I hope this doesn't come across as offensive to people who do struggle with their weight, but I do kind of have the opposite problem in that I can't seem to put on any weight these days however hard I try. I stuff myself with all the bad food, pasties and pies and biscuits and crisps - oh so many cr...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 781
- Views: 231248
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who go to the toilet on their lunch break. Don't waste a perfectly good bathroom break you capitalist boot awlickers. When you gotta you gotta go. Members of the proletariat who can't hold it in to stick it to the bourgeoisie. Straight to the gulag with you. Couldn't agree more. Marc is evid...
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 10:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 306
- Views: 131906
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Can you ever forgive me? - Kinda bleak and sad yet funny and in a way uplifting. Worth watching. I'm really looking forward to seeing this. I love Melissa McCarthy. I've only seen her in comedy roles up until now and can't wait to see what she's like in something more serious. A lot of comedians tr...