Did Cernan not walk on the moon after Schmidt got back into the lander then?Mark James wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 10:09 am I would say that Schmidt was the last person to walk on the moon and Cernon was the last person to be on the moon.
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- Mon May 17, 2021 9:58 am
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- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
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- Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:58 pm
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- Topic: Cool Things You Did
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There's now a sequel although I only have the briefest of cameos (as the same character): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTtwjCh4GLYJon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:10 amThis is greatPhil Reynolds wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:45 am I got buried in an insane quantity of pine cones for a music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTRP-xw7uE
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
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Re: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
I was in the audience for that recording (it was the 1000th show and they invited past contestants back) and I have no recollection of Anne making the remark, although even if she did I fail to see how referring to a black person as black is racist. If anything, what she allegedly said was fat-sham...
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 2:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
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Re: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
Cancel culture https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/new-countdown-host-anne-robinson-23527324?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar I was in the audience for that recording (it was the 1000th show and they invited past contestants back) and I have no recollectio...
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:37 pm
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Am watching Battlestar Galactica on BBC2. It's quite good, very untypical sci-fi (being more about politics, philosophy and personal relationships than technical stuff), and holds up well for an effects-heavy show from 15 years ago.
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 2:25 pm
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Two episodes in and I'm enjoying the new season of The Crown, but I have to say I'm disappointed in Gillian Anderson as Thatcher. The voice is all wrong - it's as if she's trying too hard to do an impersonation, rather than just inhabiting the character in the way Jason Watkins did so beautifully la...
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: RIP Howard Somerset
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Re: RIP Howard Somerset
This is indeed sad news. Howard was a remarkable, many-faceted character. Although we only met once, we corresponded via email for quite some time. He was extremely supportive at a time when I was struggling a little emotionally, and in turn he trusted me sufficiently to open up about certain issues...
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:47 am
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- Topic: Cool Things You Did
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TBF I watched half of it wondering about "Real gone kid" playing in the background - it fitted quite well - then I realised I had spotify going too :D Haha - this reminded me of the meme that says something like "My mind is like my web browser: 17 tabs are open, 3 of them are frozen ...
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:45 am
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- Topic: Cool Things You Did
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Re: Cool Things You Did
I got buried in an insane quantity of pine cones for a music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTRP-xw7uE
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:32 pm
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- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
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My point was that nothing about the spelling of Mary suggests it should be pronounced either "Merry" or "Meery".Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:33 pmWell, you started it:Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:05 pm "Similarly spelt words in English pronounced differently" shock.
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:05 pm
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- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
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Re: People you shouldn't trust
Whereas it looks to me like it's spelled to rhyme with wary. What about Gary? This was my thought as well. There is a standard method pronunciation of "ar" and a couple of *ary words that are pronounced "airy" isn't enough to make a rule especially when Gary exists as well. &quo...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:56 pm
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- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
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Re: People you shouldn't trust
Whereas it looks to me like it's spelled to rhyme with wary.
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:59 pm
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- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
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Mary, the way it's spelled. Rhymes with hairy.Noel Mc wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:26 pmWhat other way is it pronounced??Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:43 pmI don't understand. I don't know anyone who pronounces the name Mary in either of these ways.
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:06 am
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Just started watching Battlestar Galactica. Got the two feature-length introductory episodes out of the way and about to start on the series proper. It's quite good so far. Also: having finished all six seasons of Schitt's Creek, I'd have to say that it deserves every one of its record-breaking nine...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:43 pm
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- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
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- Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:06 pm
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- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
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Re: What films have you watched lately?
I am also watching the James Bonds - many of which I haven't seen before. Don't think ITV are showing all of them (they went straight from OHMSS to The Spy Who Loved Me I think). Nope, so far they've showed all the Eon films (i.e. the official ones) apart from Goldfinger. They're tending to show th...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:20 pm
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- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
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Re: What films have you watched lately?
It was Lew Grade, and it wasn't a review. Other than that, excellent.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:14 pm My favourite review was of Raise the Titanic,. I think Barry Norman said it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:33 pm
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- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
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Re: What films have you watched lately?
Just watched Gravity at the weekend. Quite enjoyed it - it flew by (haha). Just shows that a single-idea film can be entertaining. And well done her for landing on land in the tropics. Did you read my review of it (a few posts above)? A bit of a difference of opinion! To be fair, all you said about...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:42 pm
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- Topic: What computer games have you been playing lately?
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Re: What computer games have you been playing lately?
I saw this and thought of you.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:01 pm Does Scrabble Go count ?
During my furlough period I averaged a dozen games a day
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:10 am
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- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
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Re: What films have you watched lately?
I enjoyed The Imitation Game on Netflix the other night. I found it slightly irritating when characters kept saying how "smart" Alan Turing was. I'm pretty sure that the term "smart", meaning "clever", wasn't around in the 1940s. Turing seemed to know what they meant t...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:38 pm
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- Topic: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
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You don't say what your age is, but from the above statement I can deduce you're not 59 as that's my age and I've never heard of her.Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:35 pm She died in 1984, but everyone of my age has heard of Pat Seed.
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:13 pm
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- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
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Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Not sure if this is a REALLY obvious thing, but it's probably quite well known. Ever since my dad took me to see Live and Let Die in 1973, I've seen pretty much all the subsequent Bond films in the cinema on their original release. Until recently I'd never actually seen any of the Sean Connery ones,...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:52 am
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- Topic: Words and expressions that grind your gears
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Re: Words and expressions that grind your gears
Well, if the typical Sainsbury's customer is anything to go by, most people don't even have a fucking clue what 2 metres is.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:32 pm I sometimes wonder how aware most people are about relative distances in space
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 3:57 pm
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- Topic: Words and expressions that grind your gears
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Re: Words and expressions that grind your gears
I know that ATM is the generic name, but I've never heard anyone use the term (with or without the redundant extra word). Everyone I know calls it a cash point.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:58 am Why do we say things like PIN number and ATM machines when the last word in both acronyms are the same ?
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:38 pm
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- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
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Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
When I Google an unknown number that's called me I get hundreds of results from similar looking websites, many with similar sounding names, like whocallsme.com, who-called.co.uk, who-calls.me.uk, shouldianswer.co.uk, unknownphone.com and countless others. Is there a site that's generally recognised ...
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:08 pm
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- Topic: Victor Meldrew
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Re: Victor Meldrew
I'm not sure if they should totally ret-con Victor or make a long lost son/ nephew coincidentally called Victor to play the part. Victor did have a long-lost son, in a way, but his name was Stuart. At one day old he was stolen from the maternity hospital by an emotionally disturbed young woman. The...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:21 pm
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- Topic: Words and expressions that grind your gears
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I've probably mentioned this before but "on a regular basis" is such an ugly, stupid way of saying "regularly". Likewise "on a daily basis" etc. On the subject of Americanisms, I'm generally quite forgiving of words and spellings that are different to ours, especially s...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:10 pm
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- Topic: Victor Meldrew
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The last series ended in 2000.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:22 pm It's the most recent thing I binge-watched. I was genuinely surprised at the ending, especially that I'd somehow missed hearing about it in the intervening decade and a half.
- Sat Aug 01, 2020 4:19 pm
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- Topic: Victor Meldrew
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Victor Meldrew
I'm currently engaged on proofreading & typesetting a novel by David Renwick based on his original scripts for One Foot In The Grave. I thought the membership of this community (featuring as it does quite a large number of Victor Meldrews among its number, self included) might appreciate the fol...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:22 am
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Has anyone else here been watching Dispatches From Elsewhere? I guess that's a no then. 8-) Now it's finished I'm not much wiser as to what it was all about, but it was imaginative, thought-provoking and I enjoyed the ride. Also, the soundtrack featured some great original music, of which this is a...
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 11:52 pm
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Has anyone else here been watching Dispatches From Elsewhere? It has a sort of oddball charm, although I've given up attempting to understand what's going on.
- Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:02 pm
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- Topic: Fun stuff you've just found (music, games, etc)
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During lockdown our local paper has been printing several extra pages of puzzles, quizzes, crosswords etc. One puzzle that I've become addicted to is called Gogen - I think it appears in lots of papers but I hadn't come across it before. In its basic form it's a 5x5 grid of cells into which the lett...
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:30 pm
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- Topic: A bit of music
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Re: A bit of music
I just meant it sounds Irish! I like 'Deal With It' too.Andy Wilson wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:34 pm Thanks Phil. Wondering what my roots are. Have added a new song to that little project btw.
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:57 pm
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- Topic: Cummings and goings
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Re: Cummings and goings
“Stay alert, control the virus, save lives” is an anagram of “Easily survives travel north to Castle”.
- Fri May 29, 2020 1:32 pm
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Perhaps we should wait for her to come back.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 1:19 pm Fiona will be reading this thinking "WTF is with the analysis of my post?"
- Fri May 29, 2020 12:33 pm
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This is quite interesting, but I'm not sure that actually getting colds is necessary. I don't think Fiona was saying that colds themselves are beneficial, rather that isolating babies with the aim of preventing them catching unwanted infections has the unintended side effect of reducing their expos...
- Fri May 29, 2020 11:34 am
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Isolating babies so no colds or similar are caught has unknown longterm effects on general health. This is quite interesting, but I'm not sure that actually getting colds is necessary. I don't think Fiona was saying that colds themselves are beneficial, rather that isolating babies with the aim of ...
- Sat May 23, 2020 11:42 am
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- Topic: Favourite alcoholic cocktail or drink
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Can't get my head round "cocktail or drink". Is a cocktail not classed as a drink?
- Fri May 22, 2020 12:05 pm
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- Topic: Weird celebrity crushes
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I'm 33 years older than Pete Sandiford (and 32 years older than Daði Freyr) so, er, yes, nothing pervy about it at all.Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 12:58 am Is it ok to have a celebrity crush who is 25 years younger, cos I've got a shitload?
- Thu May 21, 2020 4:50 pm
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- Topic: Weird celebrity crushes
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I think I have a new one: Daði Freyr. That combination of genuine talent and self-mocking humour is often attractive, I find. And the song is about his baby daughter. Awww.
- Tue May 19, 2020 3:15 pm
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Also, in the Trebuchet font that c4c uses, the base of the l has a little curve to the right that isn't there on the I . In many other fonts they're identical. Not on my phone though. It's only curved for me on my laptop! Never would have occurred to me to browse C4C on my phone, but anyway I just ...
- Tue May 19, 2020 3:06 pm
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- Topic: Weird celebrity crushes
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That's just a celebrity crush.
- Tue May 19, 2020 1:56 pm
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Visually , on a computer or phone , is there a difference between an upper case I and a lower case l ? It might depend on the font. But anyway that's why I call Linkedln Linkedln. Linked natural logarithm. IlIlIl. Yeah, they're different here. The ell is taller. Also, in the Trebuchet font that c4c...
- Tue May 19, 2020 1:50 pm
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For years it was Honor Blackman Why is that weird? She is older than my mum , or was , bless her. I very nearly asked the same question of why Lorraine Kelly is a weird celebrity crush But still one of the world's most beautiful women (HB, I mean), regardless of her age. I guess Lorraine is not gen...
- Tue May 19, 2020 11:21 am
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Why is that weird?
- Tue May 19, 2020 7:57 am
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Ooh, good call.
- Mon May 18, 2020 2:48 pm
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Weird celebrity crushes
Mine is little Pete Sandiford off Gogglebox. Who's yours?
- Mon May 18, 2020 2:16 pm
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- Topic: Weird stuff that's happened to you
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I genuinely misparsed this at first and wondered who "that being called Dave" was.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 8:23 am I never knew that being called Dave was associated with such people.
- Mon May 18, 2020 2:05 pm
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- Topic: A bit of music
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Re: A bit of music
Nice work. I like the instrumental (Disclaimer) - can hear your roots coming through.
- Mon May 18, 2020 1:52 pm
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- Topic: Dubs or Subs
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Well, at least she recanted.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 11:46 am Watching Money Heist and the British schoolgirl who is the ambassador's daughter was recanting a story that took place in Nor Witch instead of Norwich.
So the dubs do have flaws
- Mon May 18, 2020 1:50 pm
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- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
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Re: What films have you watched lately?
Once Upon a Time in America was very self indulgent . For a film that lasts close to three hours nothing really happens until the last 15 minutes That said it's still visually better than most things I saw at the cinema in 2019 ( I watched a lot of movies in the cinema ). Great performance from Bra...
- Sat May 09, 2020 11:54 pm
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- Topic: Dubs or Subs
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Re: Dubs or Subs
I can't imagine wanting to watch anything, especially a film, so desperately that I would resort to watching it on a phone.
- Tue May 05, 2020 11:02 am
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- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
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Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Also am I the only that says , who? after someone says The World Health Organisation on the TV Probably. That reminds me though, there was a great gag in the Catherine Tate/Lauren sketch which was easily the funniest item on The Big Night In. Her teacher, played by David Tennant, was correcting her...
- Sun May 03, 2020 11:04 pm
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- Topic: Joke Items
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Re: Joke Items
Yes, I remember.
- Sun May 03, 2020 4:18 pm
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Friday Night Dinner has one of the coolest theme tunes of any programme on TV - Animal (Punks Jump Up Remix) by Miike Snow I downloaded Animal onto my phone years ago. I completely agree! I can't tell you what a lovely feeling it gives me to have found something we agree on. Let's never converse on...
- Sat May 02, 2020 11:56 pm
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
I watched the last of the series of Friday Night Dinner last night. It's a really good comedy. Mark Heap's character is a bit of a caricature of every role he's ever played but I don't think it's a massive problem really. Also it has one of the coolest theme tunes of any programme on TV - Animal (P...
- Sat May 02, 2020 11:49 pm
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- Topic: Joke Items
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Hang on, I'm confused. Is there an issue with salt grinders in general? The use of the word "mechanical" somehow puts me on edge and makes me think you might be talking about a particularly special kind of salt grinder. Because yes, freshly ground rock salt is an entirely different thing ...
- Sat May 02, 2020 10:26 pm
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Dispatches From Elsewhere. Possibly the weirdest thing on TV since Twin Peaks and yet based quite closely on a true story. I'm enjoying it.
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:30 pm
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
I realise I'm one of the last to the party with this, but no one seems to have mentioned it here, so: Tiger King. Fascinating, skin-crawling, car-crash can't-look-away-from-the-TV TV.
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:20 am
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- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
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Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If every human above a certain age were to die instantaneously, what is the minimum age that could be for the human race to still survive into the future in some form? I think it would struggle below about 4 or 5. Besides the obvious examples in fiction, there are numerous documented cases of child...