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What's Good On TV? V. Saul Changed His Number

Not sure if these have been mentioned already... but the LImitless TV series is pretty good, and 50 Cents "POWER" also worth a watch!
 
Heya, Jon <3

Don Luigi said:
The Horizon physics/cosmology documentaries can be good. My main gripe is just that they are slightly dumbed down but I suppose they need to explain these things for the first time to the uninitiated (like Shambles, I gorge myself on the stuff). When you try to watch the American documentaries, you really do appreciate the good old BBC. It's impossible to watch some of the American documentaries with their over-production, constant re-caps, bizarre visual metaphors, and blockbuster film trailer narration..
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Agreed on all of that. I don't ever really expect to find huge revelations in science docs these days. Do catch lil snippets that are new to me now and then though and if nothing else they tend to be rather pretty to look at just as entertainment.

In related news...

The Sky at Night - Stephen Hawking on Black Holes

Little bit more info about the recent discovery of gravity waves (at least to me - sure I've always read that black holes should be perfectly spherical but apparently they're not.
 
Thanks for posting that chasing dad doc shambles. Can identify with so much in it.
I know that area marks gate ,Harold hill very well don't know the people though.
 
Shambles said:
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle: Childhood

Found this recent series a bit patchy compared to normal but that last one is a belter. Was in pain laughing at that last night. Piss funny =D
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Agreed that Stewart Lee series wasn't his best, but that still makes it excellent for me ("this... is this")); though if we didn't find it funny, we're probably going to have to raise our game ;) - i thought episode two was also a stand out episode (bloody quakers!!)

I've been getting into Heroes:Reborn (on one of channel 5's channels) - i usually haven't got time for the marvel-type superheroes genre (unless Alan Moore was involved of course), but i've got into that for some reason (i think i must have missed the last series, cos i was a bit lost, but the storyline has developed well).
 
Been watching episodes of "Sons of Guns" on YouTube .......until I remembered that Will Hayden fella is currently banged up for raping his 12 year old daughter ......which kind of took the shine off it a bit......

Horrible inbread redneck....(plus that Kris character is an absolute fucking clown who apparently is also in bother for child abuse ......hardly helping to alleviate the stereotypes surrounding these folk)

Shame cos they did build some cool looking firearms....
 
Shambles said:
Chasing Dad: A Lifelong Addiction

Second episode of BBC3's current season of addiction docs. Grown-up son documents a year or so in the life of his father who has been on the gear for 30+ years. Thought it was rather well done myself. Not at all sensationalist - I suspect at least some here will recognise a lot in there. I know I did.

The previous one following a homeless fella addicted to Spice was good too and is still available on iPlayer.
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Cheers for posting those. I watched both of them, i found the first one really sad, which was the whole point i guess.

I also watched the Spice one which appeared on my screen straight after Chasing Dad, the Britains Drug Epedemics, Wolverhampton Spice Epedemic, apologies cannot remember the exact title, but it was a real eye opener about the evils of synthetic 'noids.

I had seen people posting that the stuff seems to be engineered to be addictive, and there were loads of twenty-somethings in Wolverhampton getting totally destroyed by Spice addictions. One of them saying that it was harder to quit than methadone. I guess i'm lucky that i only went through about a fortnight of using the stuff on a dayly basis, and only using tiny amounts as i found it so potent, i think this was after one of my kratom quits, and i remember getting cravings and sweats but i put that down to kratom w/ds, not thinking for a moment that it could be the noids. I have to say that it is very evil to deliberately manufacture a synthetic substance using chemicals that make it physically and psychologically addictive. School kids in Wolverhampton are smoking that shit, and as one guy said on the documentary 'if they are into Spice when they are 12, what the hell are they going to be into in ten years?'
 
^ Biggest problem with the synth 'noids is that with two or more "generations" of 'em banned already they're seriously scraping the barrel in terms of being even remotely linked to any prior in vivo studies. At least the early one had basic human trials under their belts but as the chemical names descend ever deeper into alphabetti spaghetti strings they become riskier and riskier (not to mention ever farther from the original effects of cannabis itself). I hold 5F-AKB-(?) almost single-handedly responsible for the sudden and massive increase in psychotic effects I experienced from a number of other substances I had years of experience with with some, but nowhere near as severe, psychosis-related issues with previously.

We Can Be Heroes

Watched 'em all recently and thought it was pretty good. Who will be the ultimate Aussie? You decide!!!
 
Watching the documentary SHERPA What amazing people they are. How they live with the altitude carrying all that gear is mind blowing. One Sherpa climbed Everest 24 times one year.
Programs about the Avalanche that killed 16 of them in 2014.
 
Shambles said:
^ Biggest problem with the synth 'noids is that with two or more "generations" of 'em banned already they're seriously scraping the barrel in terms of being even remotely linked to any prior in vivo studies. At least the early one had basic human trials under their belts but as the chemical names descend ever deeper into alphabetti spaghetti strings they become riskier and riskier (not to mention ever farther from the original effects of cannabis itself). I hold 5F-AKB-(?) almost single-handedly responsible for the sudden and massive increase in psychotic effects I experienced from a number of other substances I had years of experience with with some, but nowhere near as severe, psychosis-related issues with previously.

We Can Be Heroes

Watched 'em all recently and thought it was pretty good. Who will be the ultimate Aussie? You decide!!!
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We can be heroes is pretty funny. My favourite was the dolphin collecting roller.
 
Urbain said:
Game Of Thrones! Good start to the new season.
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Ah, good man - you just reminded me to set it to record <3

I was in two minds about whether to watch this season as I'm waiting patiently for the next book. I'm reading what's already been released for a second time, currently on A Storm of Swords. It's amazing how much extra detail you miss on the first read through, but realise just how many small, enigmatic, details are important to the story.

The books and the show have diverged quite a bit but they are each their own entity, so I don't feel like it is going to spoil the future books too much.

We went out early one morning with binoculars to watch them film a few scenes on a local beach for the previous season. I never would have imagined that our cold north coast would be used to film scenes for the hot, arid Dorne :\
 
I've just watched the first episode and, I must say, I was beginning to get anxious that there'd be an episode without tits. I had to wait until the last bloody scene.

Speaking of the last scene (without speaking about it) - that was rather interesting and unusual.
 
I can remember that people were talking about 'Daredevil' season 1 - Season 2 is really weak compared to season 1 but ...spoiler
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introduces Electra and The Punisher who is set to have his own series


Penny Dreadful Season 3 is out and off to a great start.

The new one that I'm watching is 'Containment' - typical 'viral outbreak' stuff but I have enjoyed the first couple of episode.

Is anyone watching 'fear the walking dead season 2' - its awful ! 'The walking dead' is pretty bad but this 'fear' is worse :D
 
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Watching House again from season 1. I love this show. The medical side is really well researched and Dr House is a fucking classic. I love in one episode where a patient complains of pain and he goes " here...have one of mine" and hands her a pill. I knew a few doctors like him minus the painkillers. Brilliant doctors who pissed off the beurocracy but were too good at their jobs to let go. I do miss working in the hospital. I like my new job..it pays better and the hours are much better but its much more paperwork orientated. I think i will end up going back to the hospital eventually. But i thoroughly recommend House to those who have not seen it.
 
I've tried a few times to watch 'House' but can't get into it - don't think I've watched a full episode tbh.

I hope the new job is going well (not new now but I have not been online for a while)
 
Bearlove said:
I've tried a few times to watch 'House' but can't get into it - don't think I've watched a full episode tbh.

I hope the new job is going well (not new now but I have not been online for a while)
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I guess having worked in hospitals the show just holds a special appeal to me.

New job is fine but not as hands on or client focussed as working in the hospital. I think i will do it for a year or so to give my body a break from the physical side of nursing then look to go back to the hospital. I am keeping an eye out for any jobs that come up in any of the local EDs (our version of A & E) and if any do i will throw my hat in the ring. Its really the pointy end of nursing but i would love to give it a go and broaden my skillset.

Anyway going to watch some Faulty Towers now...i need a laugh.
 
Just watched the new Louis Theroux on iPlayer. Drinking to Oblivion focusses on the King's College specialist alcohol and liver unit and several patients with serious alcohol dependency issues. As you'd expect with Louis Theorux it's his usual style o' thing and, as usual with Louis Theroux, worth a watch. It would be nice to see him working on some longer form docs that went a little deeper but he has his way of doing things and he always seems to manage capturing the heart of the matter even without delving too deep into individual cases. Good stuff. In a somewhat scary way in parts.
 
Shambles said:
Just watched the new Louis Theroux on iPlayer. Drinking to Oblivion focusses on the King's College specialist alcohol and liver unit and several patients with serious alcohol dependency issues. As you'd expect with Louis Theorux it's his usual style o' thing and, as usual with Louis Theroux, worth a watch. It would be nice to see him working on some longer form docs that went a little deeper but he has his way of doing things and he always seems to manage capturing the heart of the matter even without delving too deep into individual cases. Good stuff. In a somewhat scary way in parts.
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Yeh, I saw that. It still amazes me that Louis Theroux makes such compelling viewing, because when you think about he's largely ineffectual and spends most of the time seemingly lost for words :\
 
I'd say that was precisely how he makes such compelling viewing. He lets the subject do all the talking by providing minimal guidance. Kinda like how counsellors and therapists tend to keep schtum and let the client fill in the silence. Very effective way of getting people to open up. May seem simplistic but very tricky to achieve which is why you don't get many who manage such consistently good results on such a range of subject matter.

I often also get the impression - and he says as much when interviewed himself - that he likes to go in with minimal expectations and outlining. Come to the issue with as few preconceptions as possible and just let the subject speak for his or her self. I wouldn't say he is lost for words so much as thinking on his about what to say and how to respond to people - and, importantly, when not to - rather than having a set idea of where he wants to get to and guiding his audience and subjects to it as so many other documentaries do. The best documentarians tend to keep their own input to a bare minimum cos it's just far more compelling to stay out of it and let the stories unfold naturally and go where they go.
 
Shambles said:
I'd say that was precisely how he makes such compelling viewing. He lets the subject do all the talking by providing minimal guidance. Kinda like how counsellors and therapists tend to keep schtum and let the client fill in the silence. Very effective way of getting people to open up. May seem simplistic but very tricky to achieve which is why you don't get many who manage such consistently good results on such a range of subject matter.

I often also get the impression - and he says as much when interviewed himself - that he likes to go in with minimal expectations and outlining. Come to the issue with as few preconceptions as possible and just let the subject speak for his or her self. I wouldn't say he is lost for words so much as thinking on his about what to say and how to respond to people - and, importantly, when not to - rather than having a set idea of where he wants to get to and guiding his audience and subjects to it as so many other documentaries do. The best documentarians tend to keep their own input to a bare minimum cos it's just far more compelling to stay out of it and let the stories unfold naturally and go where they go.
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Definitely! People do respond well to good listeners, and he certainly appears to be thoroughly analysing their every word, eventually responding with one sentence that totally hits the nail on the head. A much more effective, interesting and sincere interviewing style than the likes of Stacy Dooley, who seems more concerned with doing simpering puppy impressions than actually listening, completely missing the point in the process and insisting on asking inane, predetermined questions however irrelevant and/or misinformed they may be.
 
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