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Phil Reynolds

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.

Did Cernan not walk on the moon after Schmidt got back into the lander then?

Phil Reynolds

Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:10 am
Phil 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
This is great

There's now a sequel although I only have the briefest of cameos (as the same character): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTtwjCh4GLY

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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...

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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...

Phil Reynolds

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.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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...

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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 ...

Phil Reynolds

I got buried in an insane quantity of pine cones for a music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTRP-xw7uE

Phil Reynolds

Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:33 pm
Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:05 pm "Similarly spelt words in English pronounced differently" shock.
Well, you started it:

Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:59 pm Mary, the way it's spelled. Rhymes with hairy.

My point was that nothing about the spelling of Mary suggests it should be pronounced either "Merry" or "Meery".

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:33 pm Looks to me like it's spelt to rhyme with Ferrari.

Whereas it looks to me like it's spelled to rhyme with wary.

Phil Reynolds

Noel Mc wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:26 pm
Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:43 pm
Noel Mc wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:35 am See also the pronunciation of the name Mary: (Merry/Meery)
I don't understand. I don't know anyone who pronounces the name Mary in either of these ways.
What other way is it pronounced??

Mary, the way it's spelled. Rhymes with hairy.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

Noel Mc wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:35 am See also the pronunciation of the name Mary: (Merry/Meery)

I don't understand. I don't know anyone who pronounces the name Mary in either of these ways.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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

It was Lew Grade, and it wasn't a review. Other than that, excellent.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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

I saw this and thought of you.

Phil Reynolds

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...

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:35 pm She died in 1984, but everyone of my age has heard of Pat Seed.

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.

Phil Reynolds

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,...

Phil Reynolds

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:32 pm I sometimes wonder how aware most people are about relative distances in space

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.

Phil Reynolds

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 ?

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.

Phil Reynolds

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 ...

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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.

The last series ended in 2000.

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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...

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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.

Phil Reynolds

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...

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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.

I just meant it sounds Irish! I like 'Deal With It' too.

Phil Reynolds

“Stay alert, control the virus, save lives” is an anagram of “Easily survives travel north to Castle”.

Phil Reynolds

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 1:19 pm Fiona will be reading this thinking "WTF is with the analysis of my post?"

Perhaps we should wait for her to come back.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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 ...

Phil Reynolds

Can't get my head round "cocktail or drink". Is a cocktail not classed as a drink?

Phil Reynolds

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?

I'm 33 years older than Pete Sandiford (and 32 years older than Daði Freyr) so, er, yes, nothing pervy about it at all.

Phil Reynolds

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.

Phil Reynolds

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 ...

Phil Reynolds

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 2:30 pm Don't know if it's weird, but it's still Tom Daley.

That's just a celebrity crush.

Phil Reynolds

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...

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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...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 11:03 am For years it was Honor Blackman

Why is that weird?

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 3:49 am Lorraine Kelly.

Ooh, good call.

Phil Reynolds

Mine is little Pete Sandiford off Gogglebox. Who's yours?

Phil Reynolds

Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 8:23 am I never knew that being called Dave was associated with such people.

I genuinely misparsed this at first and wondered who "that being called Dave" was.

Phil Reynolds

Nice work. I like the instrumental (Disclaimer) - can hear your roots coming through.

Phil Reynolds

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

Well, at least she recanted.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

I can't imagine wanting to watch anything, especially a film, so desperately that I would resort to watching it on a phone.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 9:53 pmI prefer the manual feel of grinding.

Yes, I remember.

Phil Reynolds

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...

Phil Reynolds

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...

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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 ...

Phil Reynolds

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.

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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.

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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...

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