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35 votes
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Coronavirus declared global health emergency by World Health Organization
11 votes -
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her
11 votes -
An attempt to name a child after the Devil has won no sympathy from Iceland's official naming committee
12 votes -
China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns
29 votes -
Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan.
7 votes -
Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77
15 votes -
Greta Thunberg: ‘Forget about net zero, we need real zero’
19 votes -
Prince Harry and Meghan will no longer use their HRH titles and will not receive public funds for royal duties, Buckingham Palace has announced
20 votes -
Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
12 votes -
Previously unseen footage of David Bowie has been released. The thirty minutes of experimental film was for a hologram.
5 votes -
Sweden has seen a 4% drop in the number of people flying via its airports, as flight-shaming takes off
13 votes -
His Dark Materials s01e01 - "Lyra's Jordan" discussion thread
The first episode of the BBC/HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman. Synopsis: Orphan Lyra Belacqua's world is turned upside-down by her long-absent uncle's return from the...
The first episode of the BBC/HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman.
Synopsis: Orphan Lyra Belacqua's world is turned upside-down by her long-absent uncle's return from the north, while the glamorous Mrs Coulter visits Jordan College with a proposition.
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Barry Hearn: Snooker's elite can 'go or pass' on Saudi Arabia tournament
4 votes -
Langjökull – Thirty-nine tourists got stuck for hours in a blizzard at an Icelandic glacier, but are now safe
4 votes -
The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world – Mette Lykke, co-founder of fitness tracker Endomondo, and CEO of food waste app, Too Good To Go
4 votes -
Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C – the main cause for the record-breaking temperatures at this particular site was from a foehn wind
9 votes -
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveil a global prize to tackle climate issues in the next decade
8 votes -
How Germany reacted to Dortmund's coup – teenage sensation Erling Haaland's shock move to the Bundesliga is dominating the sports pages
4 votes -
Author and Norway princess's ex-husband Ari Behn dies aged 47
5 votes -
Book nooks: Take a look behind the 'small doors to imaginary spaces' within bookshelves
6 votes -
Australia heatwave: State of emergency declared over bushfire crisis
18 votes -
YouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is "feeling very tired"
24 votes -
"World's first" fully-electric commercial flight takes off
13 votes -
UK General election 2019: Ads are 'indecent, dishonest and untruthful'
9 votes -
Art Basel: Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana eaten by artist
12 votes -
Sweden's telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced
4 votes -
Norwegian convicted of spying in Moscow says he was wrong to trust an intelligence officer who recruited him to pass on payment for secrets about Russia's submarine fleet
4 votes -
Who is Greta Thunberg, the #FridaysForFuture activist?
6 votes -
Statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Malmö's stadium has been vandalised on the day it was announced he had bought 25% of the shares in Hammarby
3 votes -
Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand
10 votes -
Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars?
24 votes -
Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished
18 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/
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Kenya Airways stowaway: Mystery of the man who fell from the sky
5 votes -
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
6 votes -
Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010
8 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 -
Protests erupt over Iran petrol rationing: Demonstrators take to the streets in many cities as petrol prices go up by at least 50%
6 votes -
The rise of 'facadism' in London
13 votes -
Mexico ambush: How a US Mormon family ended up dead
8 votes -
Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining
8 votes -
Bolivian opposition senator Jeanine Áñez has declared herself interim president of the country
4 votes -
Thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland – the result of a rare weather phenomenon
6 votes -
Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019's tech?
11 votes -
Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions
5 votes -
Icelander livestreams ten-year-old McDonald's cheeseburger – Hjörtur Smárason bought his McDonald's meal in 2009 to see how long it would take to decompose
13 votes -
In-form Sierra Leone striker Mohamed Buya Turay scored a second half equaliser to help Djurgårdens IF win the 2019 Swedish league
4 votes -
Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
14 votes