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#2176
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
11 February, 2021, 02:38:51 PM

Heh, that's Post of the Week right there!

#2177
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
11 February, 2021, 01:20:40 PM

I really must watch The Wire as I'm given to understand that it's rather good.

#2178

Phew and thank you!

#2179



Please tell me that worked...
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#2182
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 11 February, 2021, 11:22:30 AM
Shark... if there's supposed to be an image in any of those posts, I'm not seeing it. By all means drop me a DM if the forum's playing silly buggers and I'll pop the image onto my Imgur account and then post it here on your behalf.

Thanks, Jim. Looks like I overestimated Dropbox, it won't display my images unless I pay it. (You can delete those empty posts if you like, to tidy the thread up a bit.) In the meantime, let's try again...

#2183
Games / Re: What was your best game?
10 February, 2021, 08:23:45 PM

My best ever game was Doctors and Nurses with Samantha Fairbrother behind the bikesheds at primary school.

She won.

#2184
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
10 February, 2021, 10:18:22 AM

No snow here to speak of, a few flakes here and there, but mostly sunny. It was quite magical (as well as perishing) in the ditch yesterday. With all the greenery around the ditch, the babbling water and the bright sunshine, it might well have been an image of high summer - if it wasn't for a gentle flurry of snow shining like stars as they drifted through the trees like cherry blossoms.

When I lived on the narrowboat in this kind of weather, one of the guiltiest pleasures was watching the ducks attempting to land on the ice. A few are experts, most are wobbly but okay, but a few are hilarious.

#2185
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
09 February, 2021, 05:04:10 PM

Thank God that day's over - it's waaaaaay too cold to be digging out drainage ditches. Even my bones feel cold.

#2186
Off Topic / Re: Day of Chaos 2: a.Covid-19 thread.
09 February, 2021, 02:57:13 PM

Tordels, you have mail.

#2187
Off Topic / Re: The Black Dog Thread
05 February, 2021, 09:58:00 PM

I have been there, Jade. I know that's no consolation and that our experiences are different and I can't truly understand - but the feelings I do.

I somehow, with help where I could get it, found within myself the strength and perspective to turn around. I didn't find that inner strength all at once, like being struck by a divine thunderbolt, but uncovered it bit by bit, like an amateur archaeologist. Everybody has that strength in them, somewhere. The trick for me was not deciding where to look, but whether to look at all.

Look for that strength and you will find it. One of the books that helped me begin to sort myself out (as nobody was going to do it for me), and still provides guidance in trying times, is the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Sounds terribly dusty and highbrow, I know, but it ain't.

All my best to you, Jade - never forget that you are a being of infinite value and potential, and that everyone hereabouts thinks you're very cool. xx

#2188
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
05 February, 2021, 09:33:25 PM

Chariots of Fire, purely for the soundtrack, of course. And the story (whatever it was, I forget because I was too wrapped up in the soundtrack). I think there might have been a war in it.

I guess films like Hidalgo and Seabiscuit would also be eligible. What was that fairly recent one about the ice skater who punched people? That was pretty cool.

But yeah, I reckon #1 has to be Escape to Victory - it has Sly and Pele and Nazis [spoiler]getting beaten in the end because football[/spoiler] and... everything. It's like Zulu with FA oversight.

#2189
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
05 February, 2021, 06:36:56 PM

Does Salute of the Jugger count? If so, Salute of the Jugger.

#2190
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
05 February, 2021, 03:42:14 PM

And that's how it all started, Your Honour; you have to believe me...