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I remember this at the time. And it still scares the shit out of me. John Noakes. What a man. Apparently, the sound wasn't working properly on the first take, so they had to do it again. And then there's the bloody cameraman. Jesus Christ

Naomi Wolf's latest book talks about prosecutions for sodomy in the 19th century and the hitherto unknown executions that resulted. Dr Matthew Sweeting takes issue with it in the calmest, politely way possible and rips the entire premise of the book to shreds because she's completely...

This will be fun:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05m5xb9 I remember watching this 30 years ago. It had a profound effect on me then, and I'm sure it would anyone seeing it for the first time now. It's about a man on death row, insisting he's innocent, as his lawyers try appeal after appeal. It is...

I've put it in the post match thread, but just here as it might be more visible for the next few minutes. Whole match is being shown right now, it's 5 minutes in.

People who respond to a mass email giving out information by hitting the Reply all button to say "many thanks". That is all.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/06/gambling-firms-back-live-sports-advertising-ban-bet365-william-hill-ladbrokes Good. I don't have any problem with betting per se, but the normalisation of gambling in live sports is a problem.

The great rugby commentator's last game is this weekend, England v Australia. He was a fine player himself of course, representing Scotland, but his finest commentary moment must surely be the 2003 World Cup final, which I'll type out, just because it still sends shivers down my spine: "35...

Now I have to admit, I've never been much of a cook. It's been mostly done for me, to my shame, and I'm sick of popping out and nabbing a takeaway when I'm on my own. So I've decided to learn to cook. The missus has stood over me and answered my stupid questions, and thus far I've produced a...

I'm getting this constantly on the forum at the moment, and only on this site. I suspect it's the ads that are doing it. Now obviously I could block them, but equally obviously I don't want to. I go through the clearing of cookies and so on and it stops it for a bit, but then it comes back...

I'll admit it. Bit of dust in my eye.

Couldn't see a thread, and since England are playing their first warm up right now (and have scored a couple of cracking tries), why not? Who to win, how the home nations will do etc.

Has died. Ah, that's sad - always one of those supporting performers who was memorable in his own right.

Deeply silly. But quite good fun. And then there's Sara Martins....

Just seeing Ray Burdis on Pointless, I was trying to remember about this one. Did anyone else watch it? About 15 years ago...

On BBC2 now. Utter genius.

Couldn't see if it had been posted in a thread, but this is a wonderful read: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/11277373/Manchester-Citys-new-150m-academy-The-English-Milan-Lab-from-which-they-aim-to-rule-Europe.html"...

I heard this on the radio, and basically started crying. It's incredibly powerful stuff. I'm afraid you need to put up with a 20 second advert at the start which seems amazingly inappropriate for some reason, but do watch it, if anything can bring it home this can: <a class="postlink"...

Odd how you can randomly find a website and it turns out to be utterly, totally engrossing. Even more so when it's not porn. This is brilliant: <a class="postlink" href="http://shatnerstoupee.blogspot.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://shatnerstoupee.blogspot.co.uk/</a>

As I'm sure many know, he's terminally ill and hasn't long left. He wrote a poem for the New Yorker a week or so ago, and it's both beautiful and heartbreaking: Edit: I should add, the nominal subject matter is a tree in his garden given to him by his daughter. Japanese Maple, by Clive James...