What Are You Watching Right Now?
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Watched Oculus the other night. I love thrillers and horrors. I can't do torture porn, but I love thrilling "occult" style horrors.
This one actually had me a bit nervous walking around my house in the dark after. Took about 20 minutes to get over it and that made the movie a new favourite for me. It's rare a movie has me a bit nervous after.
Oculus Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Karen Gillan Horror Movie HD - YouTube
This one actually had me a bit nervous walking around my house in the dark after. Took about 20 minutes to get over it and that made the movie a new favourite for me. It's rare a movie has me a bit nervous after.
Oculus Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Karen Gillan Horror Movie HD - YouTube
Dave Gorman - Modern Life Is Goodish (see post above).
I Would Drink That Bathwater
In this latest episode of the unique stand-up comedy on the approriately-named channel Dave, Dave G devilishly dissects modern life as he judges the worth of online government petitions and reveals how he beat Alex Reid - not at cage fighting, obviously.
Watch Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish TV Online | Free Full Episodes | Dave Channel
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To celebrate the recent start of QI's L series (series 12) here's an episode of the popular BBC comedy celebrity panel gameshow from last year's K series...
Knights and Knaves
Only Connect host Victoria Coren Mitchell; The Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins; and Church of England musician Rev Richard Coles join regular panellist Alan Davies on the comedy quiz. Host Stephen Fry asks a range of fiendish questions on the topic of knights and knaves, with points being awarded for interesting answers as well as correct ones
QI XL K12 - Knights and Knaves - YouTube
I Would Drink That Bathwater
In this latest episode of the unique stand-up comedy on the approriately-named channel Dave, Dave G devilishly dissects modern life as he judges the worth of online government petitions and reveals how he beat Alex Reid - not at cage fighting, obviously.
Watch Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish TV Online | Free Full Episodes | Dave Channel
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To celebrate the recent start of QI's L series (series 12) here's an episode of the popular BBC comedy celebrity panel gameshow from last year's K series...
Knights and Knaves
Only Connect host Victoria Coren Mitchell; The Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins; and Church of England musician Rev Richard Coles join regular panellist Alan Davies on the comedy quiz. Host Stephen Fry asks a range of fiendish questions on the topic of knights and knaves, with points being awarded for interesting answers as well as correct ones
QI XL K12 - Knights and Knaves - YouTube
Selfactivated, who started this thread 7 years ago, was amazed when I told her--we're still in very irregular touch via email--that this thread is still active.
Some of us she likes. 
She's permanently timed out, I think. She was in a very bad place emotionally 7 years ago, got seriously picked on by some of the lesser lights at CC, and went a little overboard in some of her responses. I don't think she'd come back even if she could, too many bad associations. But for those who are interested, she seems okay now.
She's permanently timed out, I think. She was in a very bad place emotionally 7 years ago, got seriously picked on by some of the lesser lights at CC, and went a little overboard in some of her responses. I don't think she'd come back even if she could, too many bad associations. But for those who are interested, she seems okay now.
Some of us she likes.
I think I remember her. I remember a few blow ups around that time period though. 7 yrs is a long time...She might be surprised at how well she can handle herself now. And they don't do permanent bans, do they?
and to maintain the topic of this thread....
Watched Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt last night AND enjoyed it. Not a huge fan of "action" movies for the most part but love alien movies so...
I didn't suggest that, certainly she bears some culpability and she knows it, but she also received a lot of petty meanness and cruelty. And not just in the public forums.
always good to start out the weekend with the Three Stooges - this being the Halloween season, I watched "Spook Louder" which, though political in nature, was and remains quite a laugh:
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With Guy Fawkes Night once again almost upon us, in which millions of people will step out into the cold night air to celebrate the thwarting of the plot by Catholic terrorists to blow up King and Parliament in 1605 by watching fireworks displays and effigies of Guy Fawkes being burnt on top of huge bonfires whilst they eat treacle toffee or black peas in vinegar, BBC last showed showed a brilliant one-off docudrama:
Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot
For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament.
Wintour's insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother, to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot out on November 8th.
The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the King's bodyguard and Fawkes' attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the King in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot
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The next episode of "Powerpoint stand-up comedy" Dave Gorman's Modern Life Is Goodish, which was shown on men's TV channel Dave this week:
Episode 7
I Like Hot Bananas
Dave Gorman and his unfeasibly big screen
One very funny man, his laptop and a large screen. Dave puts 'Greatest Hits' albums and superlative abuse under the spotlight. Warning: contains nude yo-yoing.
Watch it here: Watch Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish TV Online | Free Full Episodes | Dave Channel
Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot
For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament.
Wintour's insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother, to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot out on November 8th.
The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the King's bodyguard and Fawkes' attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the King in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot
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The next episode of "Powerpoint stand-up comedy" Dave Gorman's Modern Life Is Goodish, which was shown on men's TV channel Dave this week:
Episode 7
I Like Hot Bananas
Dave Gorman and his unfeasibly big screen
One very funny man, his laptop and a large screen. Dave puts 'Greatest Hits' albums and superlative abuse under the spotlight. Warning: contains nude yo-yoing.
Watch it here: Watch Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish TV Online | Free Full Episodes | Dave Channel
I watched the first episode of the fourth series of Tony "Baldrick" Robinson's brilliant Walking Through History last night, in which the former Blackadder actor, who is now an amateur historian, the Time Team presenter and Labour Party activist, walks for miles through some of Britain's most historic landscapes.
Episode 1
Brontë Country
The dramatic moors and valleys of West Yorkshire were the home of, and inspiration for, the Brontës, the remarkable literary family that produced Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Over four days, Tony Robinson heads out from the Victorian wool capital of Bradford, now Britain's fifth largest city, and treks in a giant loop around what is now known as Brontë Country. From the birth of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell in the Bradford suburb of Thornton, Tony traces their childhoods to the much-romanticised Brontës hub of Haworth. But the shocking reality of 1820s life in the mill town was far removed both from the tourist town of today, and from the fantasy world dreamed up by the Brontë children at their father's parsonage home.
Watch it here: Walking Through History - Channel 4
Episode 1
Brontë Country
The dramatic moors and valleys of West Yorkshire were the home of, and inspiration for, the Brontës, the remarkable literary family that produced Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Over four days, Tony Robinson heads out from the Victorian wool capital of Bradford, now Britain's fifth largest city, and treks in a giant loop around what is now known as Brontë Country. From the birth of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell in the Bradford suburb of Thornton, Tony traces their childhoods to the much-romanticised Brontës hub of Haworth. But the shocking reality of 1820s life in the mill town was far removed both from the tourist town of today, and from the fantasy world dreamed up by the Brontë children at their father's parsonage home.
Watch it here: Walking Through History - Channel 4
