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Hola addin for Chrome lets me watch all UK on demand services. Little bit of home.
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I watched you win!
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6/10. Stupidly rushed the Persian Gulf question. Guessed the last one.
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lol -- I missed the opening five minutes. Thank you, On Demand.
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Was that new one called !mpossible? I fucking loved that show.
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Into The Abyss -- 9/10 Cheery viewing for a Friday night. Werner Herzog's documentary about the death penalty. I didn't expect to be as moved as I was with Death Row pastor's response to Herzog's instruction, "Please describe an encounter with a squirrel." So two kids want to steal a car and in doing so stupidly manage to kill three people. One of them gets the death penalty, one gets life. The film interviews the two killers and many people related to the crime. Herzog's blunt, continental mannerisms somehow manage to eek the most honest of responses from his subjects. Hugely engaging and moving while maddening that so many lives can be ruined in a moment and it's not always obvious that all the participants appreciate that.
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Last night's episode -- Leonard gets jealous when Raj moves in and spends time with Penny. *sigh* I don't know why I watch this any more, when the most interesting thing that happens is watching all the characters pushing their food around their plates with a fork.
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I'd be tempted just to use the scores that people declared.
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It's asking for the shortest distance so it really needs to be from coast to coast. The answer that they give is from the middle of Australia to the middle of Fiji, which just can't be right. I figured that Fiji to Brisbane was probably close enough to the shortest distance. It is a crap question!
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It's the shortest distance from Australia to Fiji one. So if you got it right, you got it wrong.
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Things that annoy or delight you on the telly right now
MSU replied to welshbairn's topic in TV and Film Forum
Think one of my favorite lines is when Niles is confronting the German fencing instructor who Niles suspects is having an affair with Maris. However, no one can speak German and he can't speak English. Turns out Marta the Hispanic housekeeper can speak German (another great line from Frasier: "Apparently she worked for a German family that turned up in Guatemala ... just after the war.") but her English is poor. So we have a situation where Niles tells Frasier what he wants to say in English, Frasier translates it into Spanish for Marta and then Marta translates into German for the fencing instructor. So it back and forths and tension builds as accusations fly until Niles grabs a sword from the wall and shouts, "En garde!" and Frasier responds with, "Oh yes, Niles, that's just what we need, a fourth language!" Just perfect. -
Friday's Quiz; http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/mind-games/quiz?quizId=6523§ionId=1 A shoddy and shocking 4/10. However -- and it pains me to say this -- but there is one answer here that is DEFINITELY WRONG that prevented me from getting 5/10.
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94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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7/10 -- Wasn't fazed by the duplication in Q1 and let my approach of "pick the one you've heard of" do the business. Other than that, I'm left cursing Australian baseball (whatever next?), Australian poetry (whatever next?) and, thanks to an unfavorable toss of a coin, dead Chinese students.
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Bit of floof too,
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I thought ex_machina was excellent, probably my pick of the bunch for 2015. Interesting that you thought Bateman was the main character and protagonist. I always saw it as Caleb's story, and how as AI became more and more sophisticated, the difference between when robot ends and human starts becomes more vague, to the point that he no longer trusts himself and cuts his arm to prove he's not the AI that Bateman is so proud of, how quickly he sides against his species. Now you've got me thinking about it, I guess there is a Frankenstein kind of story between Bateman and Ava. I'll need to watch it again.
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I like Lisa Nandy and all things considered I probably wid, yes. Thanks for asking.
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Stephen King has seen an early cut and thought it was good. So that's a red flag right there. I loved the book but wasn't much of a fan of the 90s mini-series, so my expectations for this were already kinda so-so. The trailer doesn't really do much to change that.
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Lol. Not yet.
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Spiers just didn't want to admit he was wrong and tried to convince them that the point he was *really* making was that the way to get impoverished kids into football, or sport in general, is for the government (or the SFA?!?) to banish poverty. A noble ambition, certainly. But while we're waiting for that, maybe giving councils some cash to invest in public pitches or after school clubs or award grants to clubs to reduce the rental of club facilities for under 18s or pretty much any other initiative you can think of would get some quicker results. Y'know, while we're waiting for Stewart Regan to turn into Mother Teresa.
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I absolutely agree. I loved the tangent it took in episodes 2 and 3, and then it became something different leading up to the end. As you say, though, it's crafted so well and the story is told so effortlessly, it's hard not to just be carried along by it. I've been to Alabama once. I have no plans to return. The maze looks fucking incredible. https://www.google.com/maps/place/33°12'08.9"N+87°07'52.1"W/@33.202464,-87.1318085,266m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d33.202464!4d-87.131145
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Sounds interesting. Subscribed!
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It's maybe not quite up there. However, I've been listening to it all day so it must be doing something right Really memorable characters, shows the good and bad of small town life, the alliances and feuds and mysteries.
