Alastair Mabbott
@almabbott
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But what do I know? I thought bhangra was going to be the next big thing.
Edinburgh
Joined May 2010
@rodstrother @EwenDCameron I've just come out of a thread in which Americans are enthusing over the British usage of words like "weapon" and "spanner". They can't get enough of it.
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@StonebrakerS @BSmackemup @TheCinesthetic Depends which version they watched. I loved the original theatrical cut. But the Directors Cut DVD that came out years later added deleted scenes sexualising Mathilda that put me off watching any version of that film ever again.
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@LRoundels I watched the whole of this the other night, and if they went back and tweaked the character models and movements a bit I would definitely prefer to watch more of these to the 2D animations we've been getting for the last few years.
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@LPOTHC Considering I've never heard of "the bigeneration documents" until today, I'm kind of sceptical of the claim that their leak caused enough controversy for a show starring the hugely popular David Tennant to be axed.
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@KrynoidRoots In the absence of shows like Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, and British offerings like Out of the Unknown, I actually think Doctor Who's potential as a sort of backdoor SF anthology (albeit with continuing characters) is, if anything, under-utilised.
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@tesssummers98 Because all our lives we've heard people claiming they had "flu" when all they had was a bad cold. The ones in hospital are those with actual flu.
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@GuntherEagleman @bennyjohnson All these months later, you're still pretending to believe that this was a parody of the Last Supper rather than (as was made abundantly clear at the time) the feast of Dionysus? The numerous posts claiming you're a Russian troll may have a point.
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@HaYoMiDe_ Adapted from the short comic strip Jakov by Uno Moralez, which used to crop up online all the time (and maybe still does).
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@SimonFoxWriter Tell you what, though: the guy who mocked up that fake Greg Wallace tweet about Bovaer and got everyone believing it must be feeling unbearably smug right now.
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@Allison19801028 Approx 50 years on, here's what remains of my late mother's Poole set. I didn't take the cups and saucers, and the milk jug, sugar bowl, etc, were long gone, but I felt very sentimental about her kitchen stuff and took as much as I could for my own place.
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@TheCinesthetic Should be seen in its original theatrical cut. The scenes added back in for the director's cut are very dodgy and left me with no desire to watch it again.
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@dartheva_ It definitely makes a difference to me. I put off buying Bonfire of the Vanities, for instance, until I could find a copy with the definitive paperback cover instead of the movie tie-in.
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@DevinHS13 Spectacular but saddening, because you're simultaneously realising that something you've given a lot of love to over the years has just peaked.
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@AnaKrivolapova I woke yesterday morning from a dream that there was a newly-discovered branch of homo sapiens named "humana scarfaxis", and Googled it in the hope that my subconscious had hit on something interesting. No such word, sadly.
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@AmbientSheep @daemonsmatt Yes, season 2 is largely a dud for me, but I went straight to jeje's page when I saw which episode she was doing today. I still think it's one of the show's high points, even taking into account some of the great episodes that came later.
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@archivetvmus71 All I remember of this (apart from bailing on it) was a scene in which Rossiter used his arithmetical skills to calculate the cost of the constituent parts of a fry-up. "That's your X." "Your eggs?" "No, your X."
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