General Discussion Thread

[kjeks]

And speaking of the time left to tick down on the clock ... happy 51st birthday, Dinner for One!

(Yes, I'm linking to the "German" version on purpose, though it's blocked for German users. Lookie here for others. And yes, it's the 51st birthday of it on TV, the actual sketch has been on stage a bit longer.)

ohhh 51
actually my parents gave me a DVD with it once . It went to a DVD-Geocaching box near a former ammunition factory

[JoB]

(And yes, it's the 51st birthday of it on TV, the actual sketch has been on stage a bit longer.)

Correction: 51st as a recorded TV emission. Stage play from the 1920s, copyrights bought by Freddie Frinton later to make it his, on live German TV in 1961, then again (on NDR) in 1963, both recordings (first the "Swiss version", then the NDR's two months later) in the same year, NDR wanted to do a re-recording in color in 1968 but Freddie Frinton died two months prior, instead they hand-colored their recording ~2000.

[Fen Shen]

There is a coloured version?? Sounds like blasphemy to me.

[Nimphy]

So for New Year I found myself once again in the mountain. This time though we won't be two families and two grandparents. There will apparently be well over 20 people.  At least for now we're just in thirteen... Help me...

[JoB]

There is a coloured version??

Yes. Quite realistic even - in the sense of photorealism, not "we'll make it look like Technicolor #4 'cause that's what they had back then".

Sounds like blasphemy to me.

I'd better not tell you what other versions I've watched over the day, then ...

[ThisOneGuy]

Apparently, there was a ship near Italy with a lot of refugees in it and no crew anywhere. They managed to help the ship to shore, but if it just me or does this sound eeriely like how the Rash was first encountered in SSSS?

[JoB]

Apparently, there was a ship near Italy with a lot of refugees in it and no crew anywhere. [...] if it just me or does this sound eeriely like how the Rash was first encountered in SSSS?

Ships with refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean, complete with traffickers insisting to make an exit before the target country's police shows up for some triage, are, alas and quite literally, an everyday occurrence. I'ld venture a guess that it actually was reality inspiring Minna, rather than the other way around.

[StellersJayC]

So for New Year I found myself once again in the mountain. This time though we won't be two families and two grandparents. There will apparently be well over 20 people.  At least for now we're just in thirteen... Help me...

Oh no! If I were you I'd be finding a place to hide right about now.

[kjeks]

So for New Year I found myself once again in the mountain. This time though we won't be two families and two grandparents. There will apparently be well over 20 people.  At least for now we're just in thirteen... Help me...

you can do it Nimphy!

Gosh JoB what did you do all day? I guess watching Sailormoon right after Fury is already weirdom at its best, but different versions of Dinner for one?

[Nimphy]

Apparently, there was a ship near Italy with a lot of refugees in it and no crew anywhere. They managed to help the ship to shore, but if it just me or does this sound eeriely like how the Rash was first encountered in SSSS?

That, as JoB already said, is an everyday occurrence. It's dangerous for someone to illegally ship people so either they ship just the people or more probably let the people swim to shore after a while. Every couple of months or so someone will notice that said people have died and bohoohoo everyone saying it's a tragedy and minute of silence etc. Then erase experience, wait two months, repeat.

[Sunflower]

So for New Year I found myself once again in the mountain. This time though we won't be two families and two grandparents. There will apparently be well over 20 people.  At least for now we're just in thirteen... Help me...

You could always try some of the "Play by Post" games on them, e.g. How do you kill someone with a toothbrush, a piece of chocolate, or a loop of dental floss?  (Only you have to excuse yourself if someone throws one of your own previous answers at you, Firebird...)

[Piney]

You could always try some of the "Play by Post" games on them, e.g. How do you kill someone with a toothbrush, a piece of chocolate, or a loop of dental floss?  (Only you have to excuse yourself if someone throws one of your own previous answers at you, Firebird...)

I'm imagining a bunch of family members trying to play the Play by Post roleplay game ???

[JoB]

Gosh JoB what did you do all day? I guess watching Sailormoon right after Fury is already weirdom at its best, but different versions of Dinner for one?

Technically I was working (telecommuting all week due to ... events at home), but there's no place for me to do that other than in the livingroom, facing the family's TV.

[Piney]

Welp, my family members have all gone to separate New Year's Eve parties... leaving me in the house completely alone but with absolutely nothing to do. 

[OrigamiOwl]

I got two bars of reception! Yeah!!!!! Not... Really sure what to do with them now I've found them.... U_u
Ah man, the 70's decor down here is just as eye-hurty as I remember xAx and sharing a room with siblings and cats is.....well...I'd rather just the cats :S But, at least we're not sleeping on the floor like the old days. *shudder* And I think my sister is trying to melt me ;__; I don't wanna go outside because there's sun and pervy pirate neighbours, and she won't let me turn off the heater! I'm going to catch fire or something it's toooooo hottttttt ;;;___;;;
But enough of me complaining: New Years was a quiet affair for us, or me at least (I just watched anime all night X'D) but the time has finally come when the neighbours with experience and expertise with fireworks have finally run out of their illegal stash...and the drunken bogan novices think they can take over.....u____u the safety violations I have witnessed *Mikkel face* the clan I regret to call my cousins lit a bonfire...under a tree: tree on fire. There was a man dancing with a flare outside my window: burnt his hand and ran away screaming. I just...the /stupidity/ of some people?? I love this place...it's just the PEOPLE that...UGH. My youngest sister just looked out the window and said "Natural Selection. Natural Selection. NATURAL SELECTION." Hahaha I guess they bug her too X'P
/rant.

Sorry to put a rant in here *is summer-induced party pooper*