Post what you're watching

[Grahame]

^ No hurry, next week is fine. You'll have longer to find your backup source material.

[n_maher]

Castle

I caught it last night, good beginning to the season me thinks.

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeah, it rocked. Stana == , and her acting was sublime -- loved some of the subtle facial expressions they made her do throughout the episode.

[Dusty Chalk]

Drawn Together is awesome.

omg, YES.

(interview mode)

Foxxy Love: Poor, pitiful ass Clara. So incredibly gullible, she'll believe anything you tell her.

(flashback mode)

Clara: Huh. He died on the cross for our sins, you say. Yeah, I could see that.

Also, "La-la-la-la-labia baby you got something for me" == greatest song number line ever.

Edited September 23, 2010 by Dusty Chalk

[Dusty Chalk]

Still watching Drawn Together...still cracking up.

[emelius]

NBC's 'Community' to experiment with 'Twittersode' - USATODAY.com

in Community news...

[jinp6301]

the office

havent seen an episode in a few years. watching it makes me feel like im 19 again. pam is still damn cute though

[laxx]

The Ultimate Fighter

[emelius]

Quite Interesting...

[laxx]

Jersey Shore.

[Salt Peanuts]

Chuck

[laxx]

Fringe

[Dusty Chalk]

People. Mostly hot chicks.

Sent from mah Droid

[jinp6301]

finished new simpsons

man i missed the simpsons

[emelius]

Rubicon...

[Dusty Chalk]

Partly through Spellbound.

[Craig Sawyers]

Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974

An excellent semi-fact-based series. The Yorkshire Ripper was a real guy Peter Sutcliffe, who went on a serial killing spree of prosititues and other women from 1975 to 1980. Serving life in Broadmoor. The corrupt developer played by Bean was also a familiar thing in the North of England (where I come from) at around that time. The most famous pair were T. Dan Smith (Head of Newcastle city Council) and John Poulson (the developer/architect). Vast bribes (we're talking many hundreds of thousands - worth perhaps ten million today) passed to ensure a contract for building a vast mall in the city centre of Newcastle (Eldon Square). T Dan Smith was the invited speaker at one of my school's academic achievement prize events - I remember him calling making Newcastle the "Brasilia of the North" - he was arrested less than a year later.

T Dan Smith was also a central character in another excellent series called "Our Friends in the North" made in 1996. If you enjoyed Red Riding, it is worth looking this one out. Just as dark.

[Craig Sawyers]

i do occasionally have trouble with Northern accents.

The accent you are recalling (my accent) is called Geordie. It is actually a bastardised ancient Norwegian/Swedish from the dark ages Viking invaders. There are whole chunks of Geordie that bear a strong link to modern Scandinavian languages. Remarkably persistent dialect that has its roots back over a thousand years. It is no wonder you have trouble with it

[Grahame]

Indeed.

Geordie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Role-Playing/Shadowrun/Places/Tynesprawl%20Slang

[spritzer]

Also explains why I have no trouble understanding it.

[Craig Sawyers]

Indeed.

Well, it'll come as no surprise that I understood every word of that. It wasn't particulary heavy dialect either. True Geordie phrases include the memorable "Divvent cowp yer creels bonny lad" and "you lookin' for a cleb roond the lugs?"

[Grahame]

^ Any tales of Bigg Market, you'd care to share?

[laxx]

Boardwalk Empire

[Craig Sawyers]

^ Any tales of Bigg Market, you'd care to share?

Ah - the Bigg Market. Never, ever under any circumstances go down the Bigg Market at night at the weekend. You'd be asking for a "Byker kiss" - being nutted in the face. Byker is a rough area of Newcastle (there are others).

[nattonrice]

Was just watching Australia's Next Top Model 2010 final with the gf.

They announced the winner with a huge amount of music and fireworks only to realize they made a counting mistake in the vote.

Then on live national TV they had to apologize and give it to the other girl

This justified sitting through the whole thing hehe.