Monkee

Ok, so I set this up on JustGiving. I thought it was more transparent so people can see the exact total and stuff.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/cau

1 hour ago, Onyx2 said:

Soz Monk. Your charity idea is brilliant, follow that up with a Just Giving or whatever and we can have a pinned post here for anyone that wants to contribute. 

I don’t know what everyone would prefer...

Donations split between a children’s hospice and Velindre Cancer Centre that treated him - in which case it would have to be done via PayPal (if people trust me) or GoFundMe (who’ll take a percentage) so that it can be split. Happy to do either. My idea was for a memorial butterfly in his name.

Or

Donations to one charity via JustGiving - wait for someone close to him to chose the charity it goes to.

Thoughts?

1 hour ago, Onyx2 said:

Henceforth the new name for the award, "the Good Au Award." 

That just started me off again...

I'm with you, @John Matrix. This has really hit me and I feel like I want to do something.

Would anyone be up for donating to something? I work for a children's hospice and we have memorial butterflies that go into our nature reserve. I'd need to find out how much they are but anything over that amount could be donated to the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff where he had treatment. I'm waiting to hear back about any arrangements though so maybe the family will ask for donations elsewhere. I dunno, I just feel like I want to do something from this little community of ours.

I can’t sleep... I went back to look at some of his last posts in here and absolutely love this:

”I just don’t really seem to age so I’ll ride that wave for as long as it lasts knowing it’ll catch up to me eventually.”

Guess he’s riding that wave off into the sunset ❤️

It was in honour of Chris that I brought back to Secret Santa last year. He organised the first ever one and he drew me. I hadn’t long moved into my new flat and he bought me a Welsh love spoon for good luck. It still hangs in my hallway. I so badly wanted to tell someone here that he was ill but it wasn’t my place to do so. He was a genuinely lovely person.

Why is it always the good ones?

This is so sad. I found out last year that he was terminal as he was being treated at the same place my mum works. He told me he’d be lucky to see Christmas.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Speed, Point Break - a theme here...

Probably some others too like Clue, The Goonies, Back to The Future and Shaun of The Dead.

Double post 

14 hours ago, Carbomb said:

See, I thought you were also an F-1 and Star Wars aficionado as well? If not, surely you're enough of an enthusiast that it wouldn't take you long to get up to specialist subject level with a bit of genning up? 

My F1 knowledge might be too specific. It would have to be between a 10-year period of 2000-2010-ish and then I’m not one of those people who can remember who came third at the Belgian GP of 2003 or the technical specs of the engines.

And, while I love Star Wars, if you asked me the name of the actor who play Jar Jar I wouldn’t be able to tell you.

I have a lot of passions and interests but I’m only OTT for very few subjects.

I thought the Joey Deacon photo was Harry Patch (First World War legend) so didn’t get that connection. I did get the Star Wars one though.

Currently a bit obsessed with Richard Osman’s House of Games though. I want his suitcase.

There’s no other guidance - that’s what I was looking for. For example, I know you can’t just pick *a* film or *a*book because the range of questions would be too limited so I was wondering what the criteria would be. You’re just asked for your 5 specialist subjects and the order you’d choose them for the heats.

12 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Which is?

Band of Brothers.

Unless they’d also accept ‘Keanu Reeves Films 1986-2000’

TIL you have to list FIVE specialist subjects to apply for Mastermind.

I only have one.

I watched The Hunters on Amazon Prime at the weekend. What a hell of a show. I thought the acting throughout was fantastic - 3 highlights: Al Pacino was almost unrecognisable and I thought he was quite subtle compared to other stuff I’ve seen him in; Logan Lerman was great and I loved his character development through true series; and I didn’t realise that Josh Radnor was in it - I’ve only seen him in How I Met... and thought he was a bit of a pretty boy but this really showed some skills.

The plot itself was fascinating as there were so many truths and real people named in it but I can see why the fictional aspects are controversial and have been condemned by Holocaust historians.

It did well to hide where the story was going right up until the last episode too. I didn’t expect what happened and I hope there’s a second series.

@SuperBacon What were your reasons for disliking it so much?

That. Looks. Incredible.

I’m totally doing this in 2022. This year is California so I’ll have saved up again by 2022 and this will have had some time to bed in and eek out any gremlins. I’m sold.

So, this happened today! Guess I can delete those dating apps now... 

11 hours ago, Nostalgia Nonce said:

6'2 with the ears.

That proper made me laugh!

Celebrating my birthday at Disneyland Paris 😎

11 minutes ago, Rey_Piste said:

@John Matrix Might be the person you need to speak to there.

Already on it. He was the first one I messaged.

I also had a reminder today thanks to Facebook that I was at a festival in Sydney EIGHTEEN years ago today. Meh. Bands playing included Prodigy, System of a Down, Silverchair, New Order, Jurassic 5 and Alien Ant Farm. I also got extremely sunburnt.

I had to explain to someone I work with who Dick Dastardly and Muttley are ☹️

8 hours ago, johnnyboy said:

How do they do it with a series?  Is it select episodes or a supercut?

I think it’s the first time with a series rather than a film and I’ve not been before so I can’t compare too much.

It lasted 3.5hrs and through our time in there we saw the characters a few times and they ‘aged’ as the time went on. The first time I saw Eleven age was in the pink dress with short hair; then I saw her later with slicked back hair in the overcoat; and then I saw her towards then end with longer hair and the bright short. Same with Hopper - police chief > Hawaiian shirt, etc.

You were given tasks and clues for stuff and then it all culminated in ‘bringing the 3 series together’ but I won’t go into detail as I don’t want to spoil it if anyone’s going. It wasn’t quite what I expected but that wasn’t a bad thing.

8 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Loving that t-shirt. 

Thanks! It was £7.99 on ebay. I just cut the neck and sleeves off.

Did the Stranger Things Secret Cinema today. It was fantastic, absolutely love it! Anyone been?