The weeping thread

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:00 pm

So many left unpunched.

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:46 am

I wish Balor had been in To The Manor Born.

It would've given the show more replay value.

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:19 pm

To the Balor mourn

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:55 pm

dng wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:19 pmTo the Balor mourn

*applause*

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:27 am

Max Mosley turned a gun on himself.

Blimey!

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:10 pm

Particularly when so many others would have gladly done it for him

Post by **dng** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:46 pm

weeeep

https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/david-mckee-1935-2022/

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:50 pm

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:34 pm

I'm surprised nobody wept about The Death Of GIFs

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:35 pm

Even if he insisted on recommending a pronunciation I detest til the end

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:53 pm

dng wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:46 pm weeeep

https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/david-mckee-1935-2022/

:'(

Post by **vom** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:56 pm

An Unicorn wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:35 pm Even if he insisted on recommending a pronunciation I detest til the end

indeed

unless he also had a truly bizarre pronunciation of "graphics", I will allow it if so

Also, weeep

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:57 pm

I'm sorry, but 'jraphics' is making me laug and laug!

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:28 pm

dng wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:46 pm weeeep

https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/david-mckee-1935-2022/

amazing

Post by **dng** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:36 pm

Not now bernard is basically the greatest book ever written

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:19 pm

2000AD Benn:

https://www.reddit.com/r/2000ad/comment ... not_young/

I really digs that.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:34 pm

vom wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:56 pm
An Unicorn wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:35 pm Even if he insisted on recommending a pronunciation I detest til the end
indeed

unless he also had a truly bizarre pronunciation of "graphics", I will allow it if so

Also, weeep

I was going to play devil's advocate and argue that there's no rule necessitating that an acronym must be pronounced according to the initial phoneme of each constituent (e.g. /g/raphics not /dʒ/raphics), but I'm blanking on any major exceptions. Bruce, help.

My main objection is more that /dʒɪf/ is a space already occupied by jiff "shortening of jiffy; a short span of time, 'It'll be done in a jiff!'" (which i swear was also used in some media production circles to mean "1/100 of a second" but can find no evidence to corroborate this), while /gɪf/ is sitting there unoccupied for the taking.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:37 pm

My linguistic obsession has metastisized

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:45 pm

I guess you could say "we don't pronounce <NATO> as 'nay-tcho' even though common varieties of English realize the <tr> cluster as a weird kinda /tʃɹ/-dealie ("tchrip" rather than "tuh-rip/ter-rip".)

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:25 pm

Weep

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/ ... x-obituary

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:18 pm

Aw crap.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri May 13, 2022 7:18 pm

Fred 'Tremors' Ward has carked it.

Post by **dng** » Fri May 13, 2022 8:37 pm

weeep

Post by **vom** » Fri May 13, 2022 9:46 pm

weep

Tremors is one of the very best films ever

Post by **dng** » Fri May 13, 2022 9:49 pm

also he was in this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remo_Will ... ure_Begins

which is one of the most bafflingly terrible things i have ever seen

Post by **dng** » Fri May 13, 2022 9:50 pm

co starring captain janeway and someone from the thing

Post by **vom** » Fri May 13, 2022 10:21 pm

I quite enjoyed that

Post by **dng** » Fri May 13, 2022 10:23 pm

my flatmate at university was obsessed with it and made me watch it every week or so

Post by **dng** » Fri May 13, 2022 10:23 pm

that and mallrats

Post by **dng** » Fri May 13, 2022 10:23 pm

it was a dark time

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sat May 14, 2022 11:12 am

dng wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 9:49 pm also he was in this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remo_Will ... ure_Begins

which is one of the most bafflingly terrible things i have ever seen

The original book is also one of the most baffling things I have ever read and to discover that over 150 sequels have been written by various people is absolutely weird.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sat May 14, 2022 11:19 am

also one of the stupidest scenes in any movie. Ever.

https://youtu.be/JmSmZRCl6A4

Post by **dng** » Mon May 16, 2022 7:20 pm

Post by **dng** » Mon May 16, 2022 7:20 pm

also that fact about there being 150 different remo books has somehow completely broken my brain

Post by **dng** » Mon May 16, 2022 7:21 pm

i hope they were all written by georges simenon under a psuedonym

Post by **dng** » Mon May 16, 2022 7:21 pm

in an afternoon

Post by **vom** » Thu May 19, 2022 4:46 pm

Vangelis

megaweep

Post by **dng** » Thu May 19, 2022 5:03 pm

oh no. worst day

Post by **Pual** » Thu May 19, 2022 5:32 pm

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu May 19, 2022 5:49 pm

piss.

Post by **endar** » Thu May 19, 2022 10:51 pm

Big weep

Post by **vom** » Thu May 26, 2022 4:22 pm

Ray Liotta

deadfella

only 67

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu May 26, 2022 7:19 pm

bah. Not good.

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:06 am

weeeep

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/ ... ed-65-b52s

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:58 am

Oh no

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:20 pm

i'm not sure i ever knew she was in the b-52s

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:23 pm

I definitely did not!

Roam is probably my favourite B-52s song. I hadn't considered the possibility of dying to it, but... solid choice IMO

Post by **vom** » Thu Jul 07, 2022 5:16 pm

James Caan

weep

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 07, 2022 6:58 pm

weeep