Die Hard was based on a novel
I logged into my old Hotmail account for the first time in years to try to find an old email and stayed for an hour reading old emails. Ace!
if i ever need an alias i’m going with nimal h. spita.
It's raining! Shawshank Redemption escape scene recreation, here we come!
Band of Brothers — Assault on Brecourt Manor (Part 1)
(Part 2)
Seeing Ronnie Bruce’s post has made me want to watch Band of Brothers again. I usually work through the series about once every six months.
This scene is one of the best of the series and also contains one of my favourite moments (which is right at the end of this six-minute clip), when Joe Toye nearly gets hit by a hand grenade twice within a few minutes.
His stunned, muttered, “fucking twice,” is something I always think of and quote whenever something ‘bad’ (e.g. getting stuck at traffic lights or letting a coffee go cold at my desk) happens to me a second time.
Hanging up the phone after a conversation with some people in another office, who were all acting strange
- Me < after hanging up > : What's going on? They were all acting funny.
- Guy behind me < smiling > : But you don't know why?
- Me < finally getting it > : Excuse me!
- Guy behind me < dead happy > : While I kiss the sky!
- Both of us : Dun-dun-dun dun-dun-dun dun-dun-dun
Flying over Liverpool today, we got a good view of Stanley Park, Anfield, and Goodison Park.
I didn’t take a photo, but I’ve tried to recreate it in Google Earth.
Just do your job!
It’s either the older I get or the more times I fly, but whatever it is, I’m getting more and more apprehensive about flying. I don’t have a fear of flying, but it never used to bother me as a kid. I loved it. Now, though, I’m listening to every sound, feeling every bump and if I get a seat near the wings, all I do is study the undercarriage, the flaps, the bolts on the wing, looking for something that doesn’t seem right. Unless I fall asleep, which is probably better for everyone.
On our flight from Edinburgh to Manchester today, the pilot actually came out of the cockpit before we took off and stood at the front of the plane and gave a little talk to the passengers over the intercom. He seemed like a nice guy, and made a few jokes about how the safety demonstration wasn’t just something to annoy him, and how he was just about to climb back into his cubbyhole, and that the fact that the co-pilot was doing the pre-flight check wasn’t anything to worry about.
Then he ended it by saying, “…I just like to see the faces of the people I’m responsible for.”
That was most definitely not normal. I don’t know if it’s something he does for himself, or if he thinks it makes the passengers feel more at ease, but Jesus Fucking Christ! I was sitting by the wing, and you better believe I was studying the undercarriage, the flaps and the bolts on the wing. Until I fell asleep, at least.
