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Phil Reynolds

Ah, good. My conscience is clear then. My friend's, I mean. What did you do? Sorry, I mean your friend. I looked the answer up in a book. Slightly longer version: When I got the callback, the researcher spent quite some time confirming my personal details, checking I'd be available for the recordin...

Phil Reynolds

I'm really enjoying it so far. Regardless of the Ingrams' guilt or innocence, the suggestion that the production team's awareness of previous attempts to hack the show made them paranoid is an intriguing and plausible one. But anyway this isn't a documentary, it's a dramatic entertainment, and on th...

Phil Reynolds

What do you define as "getting help"? Erm, asking for a friend. In this case, it was having someone there with you to listen in on the question and feed you the answer. I never found the questions particularly hard (admittedly I've a good knowledge of trivia) it was the last question bein...

Phil Reynolds

Getting help with the audition question while you're actually doing the audition: obviously cheating. What do you define as "getting help"? Erm, asking for a friend. I tried to get on WWTBAM in the early days because I was fed up with all the thick people that got on it. As I remember you...

Phil Reynolds

Getting help with the audition question while you're actually doing the audition: obviously cheating. What do you define as "getting help"? Erm, asking for a friend. In this case, it was having someone there with you to listen in on the question and feed you the answer. Ah, good. My consc...

Phil Reynolds

Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:00 am Getting help with the audition question while you're actually doing the audition: obviously cheating.

What do you define as "getting help"? Erm, asking for a friend.

Phil Reynolds

By the way, according to this BBC article : Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "People will only be allowed to leave their home for... one form of exercise a day". That sounds like a clear legal order... Well, no it doesn't. The intention seems to be that you can go out to exercise only o...

Phil Reynolds

Finally got around to watching Chernobyl. [...] I'm still in two minds about the lack of Russian accents. Ultimately I'd probably say it was the right decision but I found it jarring in the first episode. I think if more shows and films go this way though it will become the norm to not bother with ...

Phil Reynolds

Heard Rhys Benjamin doing a Mr Angry vox pop on BBC Radio 2 news this morning. It's at about 1:31:20 on here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fh90

Phil Reynolds

We all know that The 12 Days of Christine is the best episode of Inside No. 9. But tonight's story, Love's Great Adventure, comes a pretty close second.

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:00 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:24 pm Some time around 1984, I was walking round London with my mum, and she told me we passed Richard Stilgoe going the other way. I didn't see him.
Are you sure it wasn't Jeremy Corbin [sic]

Or Roger Whittaker, on his way back from delivering your sofa.

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:33 am I once bought Roger Whittaker's sofa

Did he bid it a Last Farewell?

Phil Reynolds

While recording a TV quiz a couple of years ago, I was returning to the green room from make-up and had to wait for the lift. Someone else came along the corridor from the other direction and waited for the lift alongside me. I recognised him as children's TV presenter Mr Tumble, mainly because he w...

Phil Reynolds

Also quizmasters. On Pointless Richard Osman says things like "teams in the 2018-19 Champions League" and I have no idea what that means. I know the names of some football teams, so I could have a wild guess, but I have no idea whether I'm meant to be guessing local or national teams or w...

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:24 am Football is still our national sport so I don't think it's arrogance at all.

It's the UK's most popular sport. (The national sport is cricket, apparently.) But so what? That's like saying that Coronation Street is the most popular TV soap, so everyone is expected to know all about it.

Phil Reynolds

On Pointless Richard Osman says things like "teams in the 2018-19 Champions League" and I have no idea what that means. I know the names of some football teams, so I could have a wild guess, but I have no idea whether I'm meant to be guessing local or national teams or whether they have t...

Phil Reynolds

The intro to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_(sport) describes it well. True (thanks) although it gets confusing again as it starts off by saying it's a metaphorical thing, then later it says that association football teams still award a physical cap. If so, and players are given one every time t...

Phil Reynolds

Newsreaders assuming knowledge of this sort of stuff is annoying. Also quizmasters. On Pointless Richard Osman says things like "teams in the 2018-19 Champions League" and I have no idea what that means. I know the names of some football teams, so I could have a wild guess, but I have no ...

Phil Reynolds

My lack of interest in sports such as football and rugby is nothing new, and results in a serious weak spot in my quizzing ability since I just can't retain facts and figures about a subject I find so mind-numbingly dull. Part of this is that the meaning of common sporting terms that most people see...

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:54 am I can Imagine lots of members of even greater groups than M People will have members without Wiki pages

I wouldn't expect a member of any group, no matter how famous, to have a member with its own Wikipedia page, but perhaps I'm naive.

Phil Reynolds

I use FB Purity - simple browser add-in, and it tells me whenever someone doesn't list me as a friend any more. I use one called Social Fixer which does the same thing, as well as allowing me to mark posts as read so I don't keep seeing them, and filtering out all sorts of crap like sponsored posts.

Phil Reynolds

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 9:22 am an Oreo is vegan, but it is not plant-based

How is it not plant-based? Are wheat, sugar cane, cacao etc. not plants?

Also: Oreos are not vegan.

Phil Reynolds

"What's your favourite album?" is also a weird question. People have favourite songs. You're asking them to work out some sort of average across the album, which is a pretty pointless exercise. Most of my favourite albums aren't comprised of songs. (Or even tracks - one possible contender...

Phil Reynolds

I stand by all of these.

Phil Reynolds

Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:01 am Got him in major trouble when it was his first thing out of his mouth to the arresting offcer...

Second thing, if we're being strictly accurate.

Phil Reynolds

Why would any man not admit that he didn't have a wank from time to time? It's hardly scandalous. I used to think that when you're in a relationship and have sex regularly, you'd probably stop, but in my experience you don't, and that doesn't mean that you're not getting enough, or anything like th...

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:24 am I am curious if most people do it but wouldn't admit to it a bit like masturbation

I've never met anyone who doesn't admit to masturbation.

Phil Reynolds

People who call a PIN a "pin number".

Phil Reynolds

Yeah, I haven't been on one for 2 years now, not getting any luck at all... :roll: :roll: :roll: Keep plugging away. Have you tried for Impossible? They are a great bunch of people, plus it's a very winnable show and you get up to five chances to win the daily ten grand jackpot. Tried once, not eve...

Phil Reynolds

You've prob been on more gameshows then anyone on here Seven, according to his Apterous wiki page, so fewer than Dinos, Ryan, me, and probably a few others. Yeah, I haven't been on one for 2 years now, not getting any luck at all... :roll: :roll: :roll: Keep plugging away. Have you tried for Imposs...

Phil Reynolds

I happened to be the contestant in the Five Words, Five Grand section on The Dave Berry Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio this morning. You can see how I did here , go to 19:45. You've prob been on more gameshows then anyone on here Seven, according to his Apterous wiki page, so fewer than Dinos, Ry...

Phil Reynolds

Was that a max game?

Edit: hadn't seen Ray's post re R8. That'll be a no then.

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:00 pm On tonight's quiz, there was a picture round where you had to name the artists self portrait, the last one you could clearly see the artists fucking signature

Only after the question had been answered. It was obscured initially.

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 4:25 am
Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Sun Dec 30, 2018 4:35 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:28 am season one came out in March
I watched it in February.
I probably was on an RTE website.
I'm guessing the iPlayer had it earlier

I watched it on a thing called BBC1. It's great, you should give it a try.

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:28 am season one came out in March

I watched it in February.

Phil Reynolds

No spoiler review of The Young Offenders Christmas Special The boys are back on form, funny, touching, sweet and gross in all the right measures. Not good for my Chest infection though Roll on Season 2 I thought it was OK. Had some nice moments, and I liked the development of the character of Billy...

Phil Reynolds

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:54 pm I show appreciation to anyone who gives me one

More so the older one gets, I find.

Phil Reynolds

My missus just got the Christmas TV guide and just to give those interested the heads up that a Young Offenders chrsitmas Special is on BBC one at 11.15 pm 23rd December. The Radio Times preview is suitably appetite-whetting: http://philreynolds.org.uk/c4c/tyo2018.jpg It's on iPlayer from today. Al...

Phil Reynolds

After watching a recording of his stand up, I decided to watch Click for the umpteenth time. It is a perfect blend of comedy and tragedy Nobody could watch the scene with Henry Winkler near the end and not be moved to tears. ( The gauntlet is thrown Gevin ) I've read your post three times now and I...

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:09 pm just to give those interested the heads up that a Young Offenders chrsitmas Special is on BBC one at 11.15 pm 23rd December.

Yeah, I spotted a clip from this in a festive trailer montage thing on BBC1 the other night. Hopefully a precursor to a full second series.

Phil Reynolds

Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:45 am I had Malteasers top and Galaxy Caramel bottom.

I believe both can now be successfully treated on the NHS.

Phil Reynolds

Very clever film, Ethan Hunt always good value. I prefer Ethan Hawke. I still can't remember if it was my cock up or the predictive text. Predictive text eh. If only there was some way of examining a post before submitting it (say, by looking at it with your eyes) to confirm that what it says is wh...

Phil Reynolds

Anyone seen "Predestination"? It's another relatively low-budget film (although not as low-budget as "Primer", obviously) that deals with time travel, but in a completely different way. To begin with, it seemed as though it was going to be a bit slow, but the story becomes reall...

Phil Reynolds

Fleabag - Not finding it as funny as I thought I would? The Obama scene was very entertaining though. I've not watched this because I was put off by the Guardian's constant articles about how it was The Greatest Comedy Show Ever Made And So Transgressive And Amazing And Empowering. Whereas if the g...

Phil Reynolds

Jennifer Steadman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:21 am Fleabag - Not finding it as funny as I thought I would? The Obama scene was very entertaining though.

It's another of those genre-busting things that either appeals or it doesn't depending on what you're looking for. The last episode is brutally sad - and yes, I cried (again).

Phil Reynolds

But also, you might say "lacking empathy", whereas I might say "less emotionally manipulable". And this goes for e.g. adverts that have an emotive theme but that are really tenuously linked to the product in question - Mr Phil Reynolds I'm looking at you (same link as the Jono o...

Phil Reynolds

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 7:14 pmMr Phil Reynolds I'm looking at you

You're only human.

Phil Reynolds

Or what Jim said. Yeah, that's definitely nicer.

Phil Reynolds

This isn't even about being unwilling to show emotion. I think it's more about not forming a particularly strong emotional attachment to a fictional character you first encountered half an hour ago. I don't think it's about forming an emotional attachment to a character so much as having empathy an...

Phil Reynolds

Inside No. 9 really is tremendous, isn't it? Really glad there's going to be another series. I've enjoyed every episode in one way or another but as Marc has said, "The Twelve Days Of Christine" is the real standout, probably the best half hour of television I've ever seen (and I've been ...

Phil Reynolds

Are pyjamas that universal? I would have thought it's more normal to just wear undies and maybe a t-shirt (if not nothing at all). They certainly seem to be more of a female thing. Can't think of any men I know who wear them. Haven't owned a pair of pyjamas since I was about 15. Generally sleep in ...

Phil Reynolds

Villa Park, in 2011, to see Take That's Progress tour. Er, that is all.

Phil Reynolds

this episode was basically just incoherent noise from the derailing of the series 1 episode onwards. It was just silly and there was nothing there to "believe" anyway. I agree that once we realised what had happened in the first ten minutes was intentional and that what we were watching w...

Phil Reynolds

If you analyse it you ain't enjoying it. I mean how can a go pro camera suddenly be broadcast. Because the plot suggested that what we were seeing were not supposed to be random technical glitches - the "ghosts in the machine" were controlling what was being shown. It's also plausible to ...

Phil Reynolds

I can understand that there might have been some people who thought they were genuinely showing that episode from the first series but then when it suddenly went "weird", that was it. But that was over ten minutes in, by which time apparently a fifth of viewers had switched off. And I can...

Phil Reynolds

Don't think any of it was live. But it was very good. I've now checked out Sunday's BBC1 10 O'Clock News on iPlayer (so you don't have to), and the TV in Reece and Steve's dressing room was indeed showing what was on BBC1 at that time, so unless they employed some real-time technical wizardry to su...

Phil Reynolds

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:25 pm
Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:02 pm I feel sorry for anyone watching it on catch-up as they won't have that element of surprise.
I will let you know

No need, I already know the answer. The fact that it's available on catch-up at all means the twist doesn't work. Should still be an enjoyable watch though.

Phil Reynolds

So, the big question about tonight's special "live" episode of Inside No. 9... Was it actually live? Dunno, but it was awesome regardless! It was. I'd predicted that they would pull a stunt like that and yet I was still fooled when I was watching it. I feel sorry for anyone watching it on...

Phil Reynolds

So, the big question about tonight's special "live" episode of Inside No. 9... Was it actually live?

Phil Reynolds

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:05 pm Thing is, the email contained the password they had hacked. And it really was one of mine. Bit disconcerting

Er yeah, that was the main point of my original post.

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