Higgledy wrote:I’m watching The Great Escape (for the fourth or fifth time) and hoping Steve McQueen makes it.
I heard Col Jerry “The dagger” Sage speak about his experiences during WWII and participating in the actual escape, it was awe inspiring (and in the back of my mind I was thinking ‘this seventy year old dude could probably kill me before I blinked’)
Edit - forgot to mention he was the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in case the context wasn’t obvious
I’m jealous of that experience.
When you see everything they did in the movie, all the forgeries and clothes and the tunnels they dug and know they actually did all those things for real, it’s way beyond what you’d think would be possible under the watchful eyes of the Nazis.
Most of them had all ready escaped and been recaptured up to a dozen times. I wouldn’t have blamed them for sitting out the war but they just kept at it.
Oh man, the gut wrenching when Donald Pleasance's character dies...
Commentator: "Unfortunately she got a little too high. Sucked over the falls, but that's alright." (Women's Surfing)
Yeah, no, on reflection.
One of the daily games that I do is a game that shows screenshots from a movie and you need to guess the movie in by the sixth screenshot. For today's game, the first screenshot immediately made me think of the Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman Avengers movie. So, I guessed The Avengers which was in the list of guessable movies. It was the right guess but it was actually the first Marvel Avengers movie. After yesterday's shit Wordle, I'll take it.
One of the daily games that I do is a game that shows screenshots from a movie and you need to guess the movie in by the sixth screenshot.
Have they ever done my gambit from the Name That Movie thread, and posted a bunch of images of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney only for the movie to be Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid?
iaintgotnopants wrote:One of the daily games that I do is a game that shows screenshots from a movie and you need to guess the movie in by the sixth screenshot.
Have they ever done my gambit from the Name That Movie thread, and posted a bunch of images of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney only for the movie to be Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid?
Brilliant! You could probably do something similar with Forrest Gump.
fenomas wrote:iaintgotnopants wrote:One of the daily games that I do is a game that shows screenshots from a movie and you need to guess the movie in by the sixth screenshot.
Have they ever done my gambit from the Name That Movie thread, and posted a bunch of images of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney only for the movie to be Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid?
Brilliant! You could probably do something similar with Forrest Gump.
Only I saw right through it. 
One of the daily games that I do is a game that shows screenshots from a movie and you need to guess the movie in by the sixth screenshot. For today's game, the first screenshot immediately made me think of the Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman Avengers movie. So, I guessed The Avengers which was in the list of guessable movies. It was the right guess but it was actually the first Marvel Avengers movie. After yesterday's shit Wordle, I'll take it.
Oooh, where can we find that?
My birthday was last week, and I know I am thoroughly washed, because I was so thrilled that my parents got me a kickass vaccuum for hardwood floors and my sister got my a large air fryer.
Every now and then, I look at FlightTracker and am blown away at how many freaking planes there are flying over the Atlantic at any given time.
Did something happen about 3-4 years ago, to make people who make cooking videos all start wearing matte black gloves?
It became trendy, I think from BBQ competition shows and then on some cooking shows the contestants started doing it.
LOL, what a time to announce a new Borderlands game. I guarantee you they thought the movie was gonna be a hit.
Where the hell did the anime thread go? Don't we have one? Have I gone selectively blind?
Where the hell did the anime thread go? Don't we have one? Have I gone selectively blind?
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As their bond intensifies, Arthur and Lee break into songs like “Get Happy,” “For Once in My Life” and “That’s Life” that convey their shifting emotions: He’s drawn to romantic ballads; she prefers music about power. Clearly, they want different things out of a relationship. Despite all the singing and dancing, Phillips struggles with the idea of labeling “Joker: Folie à Deux” a musical.
“Most of the music in the movie is really just dialogue,” Phillips says. “It’s just Arthur not having the words to say what he wants to say, so he sings them instead.”
That is almost definitionally a musical, Todd. Like, I get it, you don't want to call it a "musical" because then the expectations for the film change, but you made a musical. That is a description of a musical.
EDIT: IT'S LITERALLY A BOB FOSSE QUOTE
Wow, Roy Scheider doesn't look anything like Bob Fosse.
Heh... I don't think that's a picture of Roy Scheider, either. I was just commenting on whoever that is in the photo not looking like Roy Scheider. 
It never fails to make me laugh that our most advanced methods of generating electricity basically boil down to "we've found a really cool way to spin this turbine."
Yeah it’s all about the steam. Like we never left the 19th century. We just found new kinds of “coal”.
It never fails to make me laugh that our most advanced methods of generating electricity basically boil down to "we've found a really cool way to spin this turbine."
There's a very good reason for that.
Turbines are one of the most mechanically efficient machines humans have ever built. Why use a less efficient method?
There's more reasons tooo.....To generate electricity you need to (A) have a readily accessible source of energy and (B) a method to extract that energy and turn it into electricity. What's humanity's easiest, cheapest and most accessible way to add energy to a system? Set fire to it! OK, now we have a hot thing for us to extract energy from. How can we extract the energy from a hot thing? If that hot thing is a solid, with great difficulty. If it's a hot fluid though, we can use that fluid to do mechanical work - hydraulics and pneumatics say hi! So we can use a turbine to convert that thermal energy into mechanical energy (torque) using a turbine, with very little loss of energy due to inefficiency. Cool, OK, so what fluid should we use? Well it turns out that water is abundant and has an insanely high thermal capacity (how much thermal energy it contains for a given temperature), so it's cheap and highly efficient! Hence steam!
It's not that we haven't looked for better ways of doing this, we've basically spent a significant portion of global GDP for most of the last hundred years trying to do precisely that and failed.
In the UK we had a much loved comedy duo ‘The Two Ronnies’ (Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker.) They often wrote their own material but would look at submissions from other writers. After a time Ronnie Barker (on the left) started submitting sketches written under an alias without telling his partner. One day Ronnie Barker saw Ronnie Corbett discussing a large invoice he’d submitted under his alias. As he passed Barker leaned in, looked at the total at the bottom of the invoice and said, “That’s too much. Don’t pay it.”
In the UK we had a much loved comedy duo ‘The Two Ronnies’
I'm only vaguely aware of them, but since there are a couple of UK folks in my D&D group, about every third or fourth session I'll have the party open a drawer and discover... well I can't type it out but you can guess 
Higgledy wrote:In the UK we had a much loved comedy duo ‘The Two Ronnies’
I'm only vaguely aware of them, but since there are a couple of UK folks in my D&D group, about every third or fourth session I'll have the party open a drawer and discover... well I can't type it out but you can guess :D
yes I can. It’s likely related to this sketch.
As a yank, I am assuming the punchline pseudo-translates as:
bollock or pillock?
Or am I way off?
As a yank, I am assuming the punchline pseudo-translates as:
Spoiler:bollock or pillock?
Or am I way off?
You’re right.
Bollocks
As a yank, I am assuming the punchline pseudo-translates as:
Spoiler:bollock or pillock?
Or am I way off?
As a dyed in the wool, limey-ass Johnny English, I wasn't sure either. Wondered if it was a joke that didn't make sense in 2024 where it did in 1970-whatever (like what even is a "billhook"?)
I thought a billhook was a metal hook with a crossbar handle on it, used for moving hay, etc but apparently it seems to be a machete type knife with a hook on the end.
Interesting, in his comments after the sketch, Ronnie Barker says he didn’t like the ending and thought of a better, simpler one. The new ending is better but also very much a product of it’s time.
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