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10 votes
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We're Britain's first female rock band. This is why you don't know us. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
8 votes -
New tourism ad for Australia: "Matesong" featuring Kylie Minogue
I just discovered this new tourist advertisement for Australia. It's sung (mostly) by Kylie Minogue, and aimed directly at a British (English?) audience. As an Aussie, I found a few moments in...
I just discovered this new tourist advertisement for Australia. It's sung (mostly) by Kylie Minogue, and aimed directly at a British (English?) audience.
As an Aussie, I found a few moments in this ad to smile at.
6 votes -
How do you feel about safer kitchen knives?
Kitchen knives are frequently used to stab people. This results in serious injury or often death. Most stabbing murders are perpetrated with kitchen knives, reflecting the huge numbers of knives...
Kitchen knives are frequently used to stab people. This results in serious injury or often death. Most stabbing murders are perpetrated with kitchen knives, reflecting the huge numbers of knives available (most homes have one), and where most murders happen (in the home). (I'm talking about UK here).
Kitchen knives have a cutting edge and usually a sharp piercing point. There's nothing that can be done to make the cutting edge safer. But we can look at the pointy tip.
Pointy tips are useful, but we tend to find that only professional chefs or experienced home cooks use them. Most people cooking at home don't use or need such a pointy tip.
There are some companies releasing knives without the pointy tip, and I'm interested to know what you think.
https://twitter.com/JohnHMCrichton/status/1209095901102387200?s=20
13 votes -
JK Rowling's Maya Forstater tweets support hostile work environments, not free speech
27 votes -
'We thought it was a prank': Girl, six, finds China prisoner plea in Tesco charity card
14 votes -
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (1989)
5 votes -
Exit poll suggests Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of eighty-six in the UK general election
33 votes -
Shop Assistants - Safety Net (2007)
3 votes -
Scotland's UK election results deliver another independence mandate, says First Minister
13 votes -
How computers wrote BBC election result stories
6 votes -
What the British people voted for, and what they received
Just the facts, for now. This election holds huge significance, and the impact of the UK's First Past The Post voting system provides crucial context for understanding the result. Party Share of...
Just the facts, for now. This election holds huge significance, and the impact of the UK's First Past The Post voting system provides crucial context for understanding the result.
Party Share of Votes Total Seats Share of Seats Conservative 43.6% 364 56.0% Labour 32.2% 203 31.2% Scottish National Party 3.9% 48 7.4% Liberal Democrat 11.5% 11 1.7% Democratic Unionist Party 0.8% 8 1.2% Sinn Féin 0.6% 7 1.1% Plaid Cymru 0.5% 4 0.6% Social Democratic and Labour Party 0.4% 2 0.3% Green 2.7% 1 0.15% Alliance 0.4% 1 0.15% Brexit 2% 0 0% Ind 0.6% 0 0% Change 0% 0 0% Other 0.8% 0 0% All data from The Guardian, with 649/650 seats declared (still awaiting St Ives).
17 votes -
Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government.
11 votes -
Qantas selects modified Airbus A350-1000 with additional fuel tank for direct Sydney to London flights beginning 2023
6 votes -
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are a revolutionary sect and should be understood as such
7 votes -
A history of haggis
7 votes -
The voice at Embankment Tube station
@garius: It is election season. The world is busy and rubbish. But it is also Christmas. So take a breather and let me tell you a story about London, trains, love and loss, and how small acts of kindness matter. I'm going to tell you about the voice at Embankment Tube station.
5 votes -
Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
12 votes -
UK General election 2019: Ads are 'indecent, dishonest and untruthful'
9 votes -
'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay
8 votes -
We should absolutely find out the Queen is dead from a guy named Gibbo
8 votes -
How the right’s radical thinktanks reshaped the UK Conservative party
5 votes -
Ambitious Freddie Ljungberg has a chance to keep it in the Arsenal family, and would relish taking the job on a permanent basis
3 votes -
Are bankers scared of Corbyn? We asked them
10 votes -
Man armed with Narwhal tusk confronts terrorist on London Bridge
@theamycoop: A guy who was with us at Fishmongers Hall took a 5' narwhale tusk from the wall and went out to confront the attacker. You can see him standing over the man (with what looks like a white pole) in the video.
20 votes -
A WW II bunker under London's streets is now a vegetable farm
5 votes -
Secret documents show NHS for sale in Trump Brexit trade talks: Corbyn
13 votes -
Tricky - Aftermath (1994)
3 votes -
Uber has been refused a licence to operate in London, UK
17 votes -
Labour's spending plans aren't especially unusual – just look at Sweden
5 votes -
Environmental activist, Greta Thunberg is to appear as one of the Christmas guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme
6 votes -
Peter Kay's Car Share
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but...
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but BBC calls it "Peter Kay's Car Share". It's British, so weirdly small number of episodes: only 12 (and this includes all the specials).
The setup sounds like it's going to be unbearably claustrophobic, a series long bottle episode. A supermarket sets up a car sharing scheme, and we watch John and Kayleigh share a car as they drive to work everyday. But this creates intimacy and we get to learn about the characters. It's heartfelt and lovely. It's well acted, and I think it's very funny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635922/
4 votes -
Squarepusher - Vortrack [Fracture Remix] (2019)
9 votes -
Kenya Airways stowaway: Mystery of the man who fell from the sky
5 votes -
In Denmark, children's homes are places of stability, comfort and support – now a British entrepreneur is bringing the model to the UK
3 votes -
From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year – a towering tree for London's Trafalgar Square
7 votes -
Former UK consulate worker says he was tortured in China
12 votes -
Detectorists - "unremarkable lives gone slightly awry"
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two...
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two men and their friendship around their metal detecting hobby.
Here's the link to the BBC Four webpage for it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l51nr
Some review sites -
Rotten Tomatoes 100% (few reviews), 99% audience score: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/detectorists
IMDB 8.6 : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082744/
Guardian review (because she writes about it far better than I can): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/dec/09/detectorists-rich-portrait-unremarkable-lives-gone-slightly-awry-mackenzie-crook
Detectorists is about nothing and everything. Made with palpable love, it’s about people and their passions; camaraderie and community. As a portrait of male friendship, it is closer to documentary than drama, delving beneath the topsoil of mid-life ennui via the sparsest of exchanges. You won’t find a laughter track, or smart-arse punchlines or an oh-so-subtle veil of irony here; instead of begging for your attention, Detectorists is notable for its avoidance of snark. It’s the drama least likely to culminate in alpha plonkers blowing up cars, taking down baddies or ravishing beautiful women.
Instead, it lingers lovingly over dewdrops on grass, magpies on gateposts, scudding clouds and gently fluttering leaves. Even an alfresco wee takes on a painterly aspect, viewed solely through the steam cloud billowing from behind a sunlit tree. Meanwhile, the camera makes high art out of Lance’s face in closeup, crestfallen as he unearths a scaffolding bracket instead of an Anglo-Saxon nugget, and from Andy’s silent incredulity when a colleague jokes about Richard Attenborough when he means David.
Radio Times review https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-12-13/detectorists-series-3-review/
If all British programmes took this much care over their tone, look and overall distinctiveness, the golden age of television would never go away.
Modern comedies are often predicated on cruelty: laughs are hard, clanging or sharp as barbed wire. In its quiet, undemonstrative way, Detectorists has ploughed its own furrow. Buried in its field of fun are evergreen truths about life, and the things we don’t say but should. So if kindness and companionship are unfashionable, I know which side of the hedge I’d rather stand.
13 votes -
The rise of 'facadism' in London
13 votes -
Interpreting GDPR data requests: Why does British Airways need to know that I'm 98% LGBT?
10 votes -
Slot Machine - A British Pathé short film about vending machines in 1960s Britain
5 votes -
Taskmaster now has a YouTube channel for people outside the UK
7 votes -
Harrods was accused of ruining the spirit of Christmas after limiting Santa visits to customers who spend over $2,500
11 votes -
Roads from the past - a short animated history of Britain's Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers
6 votes -
"Children and Politics" - a 3 minute interview with British children before the 1964 general election
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously...
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously as humans.
EDIT: Somehow I missed the main link, which goes to a BFI page here: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-children-and-politics-1964-online
There are some amazing old (1960s, 1970s) British tv interviews with children carried out by Harold Williamson. He asks children a question and then just lets them answer. There's no attempt to laugh at the children, and there's no attempt to say "zomg look at what this cute kid is saying".
A few clips here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b and there are probably more on Youtube: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b
It's showing its age - "what would you do if your husbands went on strike? How would you run a household?" (asked of two girls) isn't acceptable.
7 votes -
London protest ban on Extinction Rebellion ruled unlawful
10 votes -
Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot...
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Today is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes night, where we commemorate the 1605 plot by Guy Fawkes and a group of English Catholics who...
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.
Today is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes night, where we commemorate the 1605 plot by Guy Fawkes and a group of English Catholics who planned on blowing up Parliament and King James I to set off a popular revolt and putting a Catholic Monarch on the throne.. We do that by burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire, eating black peas, treacle and parkin and terrorising pets everywhere by setting off fireworks.
Unfortunately because of its proximity to Halloween and silly things like "safety" many of the traditional celebrations are dying out. Kids used to essentially beg for money by stuffing clothing and asking for "a penny for the Guy" which they'd use for sweets or fireworks. Locally made bonfires are also becoming rarer with most these days done by professional and regulated firework companies and organised by the council so it feels more like watching a show and less like getting together with your neighbours and family.
Are you going to any events, hosting one, do you have any stories or questions about Bonfire night, do you have any traditions. Thoughts on fire works etc.
Just a general Bonfire Night thread.
18 votes -
How Britain dishonoured its African first world war dead
7 votes -
Jungle - Casio (2018)
4 votes -
Her's - Cool With You (2017)
4 votes