Paid Members Weezenal Posted April 9, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 9, 2020 'Unchained Melody' is a called 'Unchained Melody' as the original was the theme for a film called 'Unchained'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted April 10, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted April 10, 2020 Where did you hear that @Weezenal? I'm sure that was on a podcast I listened to last week but I can't remember which one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Weezenal Posted April 10, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2020 47 minutes ago, Onyx2 said: Where did you hear that @Weezenal? I'm sure that was on a podcast I listened to last week but I can't remember which one! I'm too ashamed to say where I heard it... Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs. We're cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted April 10, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Weezenal said: I'm too ashamed to say where I heard it... Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs. We're cool. Oh fuck you're right aren't you. I genuinely hate that soporific, mawkish show but Radio 2 is always on somewhere in the house. Fucking hell I hate myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 In the first series of Dad's Army, Clive Dunn, who played Lance Corporal Jones, was 47. Liam Gallagher is 47. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PJ Power Posted April 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 13, 2020 If you're standing in downtown St. John's, the capital city of Newfoundland & Labrador in Canada (specifically in this example, the Anglican Cathedral), you are standing closer to Dublin, London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Zurich, Prague, Madrid, Casablanca, Algiers and even Vienna & Ljubljana than you are to Vancouver, British Columbia, on the other side of the country, with Rome, Bratislava, Zagreb and Warsaw all only being less than 100km more further away. Meanwhile, still at the same spot, you are closer to London than you are to either Calgary or Edmonton in Alberta, or Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, and you'd still be closer to Galway than to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It's a big country, eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 It really, really is. I was reading an article on Wikipedia about Port Nelson the other day, which is here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Port+Nelson,+MB,+Canada/@57.0551789,-92.6142305,3576m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x4b0d03d337cc6ad9:0x9968b72aa2438fa5!2sCanada!3b1!8m2!3d56.130366!4d-106.346771!3m4!1s0x527b85415fad3743:0x2a33d23005b3f179!8m2!3d57.055296!4d-92.5968933?hl=en And it's really far north, like so far that nobody lives within 100 miles of it any more. It's on the Hudson Bay, which is so far north that basically nobody lives there. And then you zoom out, and see how much more of Canada there is NORTH of there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Thesz Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 22 hours ago, PJ Power said: If you're standing in downtown St. John's, the capital city of Newfoundland & Labrador in Canada (specifically in this example, the Anglican Cathedral), you are standing closer to Dublin, London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Zurich, Prague, Madrid, Casablanca, Algiers and even Vienna & Ljubljana than you are to Vancouver, British Columbia, on the other side of the country, with Rome, Bratislava, Zagreb and Warsaw all only being less than 100km more further away. Meanwhile, still at the same spot, you are closer to London than you are to either Calgary or Edmonton in Alberta, or Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, and you'd still be closer to Galway than to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It's a big country, eh. There is a World War Two story regarding this distance. A parent had sent their kid to Newfoundland as it was safer. The plan was for the kid to stay with distant family before making his way to Vancouver to be with an uncle. The uncle received news of this via a telegram which outlined the plan and asking him to travel to Newfoundland to pick the kid up. His responded by telegramming "you do it; you are closer than I am". Always wondered if this is true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 58 minutes ago, Hugh Thesz said: There is a World War Two story regarding this distance. A parent had sent their kid to Newfoundland as it was safer. The plan was for the kid to stay with distant family before making his way to Vancouver to be with an uncle. The uncle received news of this via a telegram which outlined the plan and asking him to travel to Newfoundland to pick the kid up. His responded by telegramming "you do it; you are closer than I am". Always wondered if this is true Seems an unlikely story, since Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until a few years after World War 2 ended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Fog Dude said: Seems an unlikely story, since Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until a few years after World War 2 ended. But it still existed so it’s still possible. EDIT. Actually, it being a former British colony up until the 30s makes it even more plausible that a Brit would have relatives there. Edited April 14, 2020 by Keith Houchen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Thesz Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 30 minutes ago, Fog Dude said: Seems an unlikely story, since Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until a few years after World War 2 ended. To be honest it may be me who is making a c#nt of it here. It may not have been Newfoundland; been thirty odd years since I have heard the story. Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said: But it still existed so it’s still possible. EDIT. Actually, it being a former British colony up until the 30s makes it even more plausible that a Brit would have relatives there. It wasn't so much the 'Brit having relatives there' part that I'd cast doubt on, but the 'assumption of an easy passage to and from Vancouver' bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted April 14, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Hugh Thesz said: It may not have been Newfoundland; He was from Winnipeg you idiot. Edited April 14, 2020 by Tommy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted April 15, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 15, 2020 I was reading about Doncasters twin towns today. This felt apt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted April 25, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 25, 2020 Samuel L Jackson is 71. Fucking hell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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