Profile Topics Started Replies Created Engagements Forum Replies Created Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 658 total) 1 2 3 … 12 13 14 Author Posts March 15, 2024 at 3:34 am in reply to: The Dog. #293277 HamishParticipant I sometimes prefer to believe that Cat has such an embarrassing name, so Cat cliche, that he prefers to just be called Cat. February 6, 2024 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #292476 HamishParticipant TFW you are an occasional lurker catching up on G&T right now: October 17, 2023 at 7:18 pm in reply to: God Does Not Play Dice with the Smega-Drive (Now With 47% More Blast-Processing) #289847 HamishParticipant Norman Lovett on Cameo? October 16, 2023 at 2:39 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #289792 HamishParticipant I have no idea what the situation with PBS over here was with regard to which versions aired. I distinctly remember KCTS-TV in Seattle used the Remastered versions when they were going through the entire show at some point in early 2000s. The cat evolution artwork specifically springs to mind. Most of the PBS broadcasts my parents recorded on VHS were from around the time that Series III and IV first arrived in the US though. Much of the pledge drive banter concerned explaining away all of the changes to the format of the show when compared to Series I and II. We also had the first bytes of Series IV and Series VI put out by CBS Fox that my father bought while on a business trip to Coquitlam when I was kid. Plus later recordings of Series VI, VII, and VIII when they were being broadcast on Showcase here in Canada. October 5, 2023 at 6:41 pm in reply to: Robert Llewellyn has updated his Substack #289507 HamishParticipant Does the orientation of the camera (if it’s a smart camera) matter? Maybe you get a picture of whatever the camera finds sexy. September 10, 2023 at 6:51 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #288721 HamishParticipant We only have Holly’s word that is Kochanski, which could be suspect for a whole host of reasons. August 31, 2023 at 1:38 am in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #288274 HamishParticipant I’ve never been aware of any stigma around working for the post office in my lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal Not what Rob and Doug were referencing but I had to post. August 24, 2023 at 12:52 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #287960 HamishParticipant Is that actually the same cup as the dog’s milk? August 23, 2023 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #287940 HamishParticipant August 19, 2023 at 6:03 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #287789 HamishParticipant so either A, the skutters actually must have had to navigate all those stairs and everything, or B, they had to use (either always part of their design like Daleks/R2-D2 or special external equipment that they attach onto themselves) little servos and space jetpacks to maneuver to the panel to hide the discs, which sounds adorable and is something I’d like to have seen. Or there could just be service tunnels for the smaller maintenance droids. July 21, 2023 at 4:08 am in reply to: Unanswered Questions #286697 HamishParticipant June 9, 2023 at 12:38 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #285610 HamishParticipant As someone who is both a shepherd and who just barely avoided being evacuated for wildfires, you lot now have me concerned over spontaneous lamb combustion. May 17, 2023 at 5:32 am in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #285074 HamishParticipant So you’re saying my entire life of explaining I am not a ham comes from people out here not getting BBC Radio 4? It all makes sense now. May 16, 2023 at 7:32 am in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #285040 HamishParticipant Nothing says “I love my kids” like forcing them to explain their name that you made up and how to spell it over and over and over for the rest of their life. Yeah, but I go through all that, and all my parents did was name me Hamish. I hope a few Scots in the audience are now suitably horrified. May 2, 2023 at 6:55 am in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #284588 HamishParticipant Though I never really liked the red ones. May 1, 2023 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Lister didnt need to be alone! #284563 HamishParticipant Disappearing off into deepest space like Kryton did, or Camille, or the 3 cats from promised land would seem like suicide. In TPL they don’t just disappear, they rejoin the rest of Cat society now free of the Feral King. May 1, 2023 at 9:10 pm in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #284561 HamishParticipant Did you quote yourself or are there three Daves now? May 1, 2023 at 8:51 pm in reply to: Lister could have got home several times!! #284559 HamishParticipant Psirens was always the one that felt off to me in that way. The ships are still relics, but the black box recording and the sheer number of ships make it feel too connected to the past or something for my liking. Psirens does open with them having been in stasis for several centuries, so they could have made up some ground on the rest of humanity in that time. May 1, 2023 at 4:32 am in reply to: Lister could have got home several times!! #284520 HamishParticipant What a bunch of twonks. Every time I watch the episode I cant help but think they should have helped. I remember finding Holoship to feel a bit off when I first saw it as a kid off a VHS tape borrowed from the library. It just seemed way too populated for Red Dwarf, even if they are all holograms. April 24, 2023 at 4:15 am in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #284230 HamishParticipant You just got the one? We had at least nine emergency alerts in a row a month back. March 29, 2023 at 12:34 am in reply to: Danny John-Jules Has Updated His Instagram #283564 HamishParticipant Here in Alberta you can find cannabis stores on almost as many street corners as liquor stores, often with ludicrous names such as “LUCID” or “Mind-Full” Cannabis. I assume they are indeed taking the piss. I strongly dislike the smell of bud myself, but it has not ruined anyone’s communities over here. March 28, 2023 at 4:48 am in reply to: Danny John-Jules Has Updated His Instagram #283529 HamishParticipant Seeing Danny’s “LEGALIZE” cap broke me of my Canadian complacency of assuming it already is over there. March 3, 2023 at 5:02 am in reply to: Dermot Morgan 25 years gone #282897 HamishParticipant Oh yeah, it was watching the Christmas episode in 2004 – specifically the lingerie section bit – when I finally got what the show was and I was laughing all the time. So you left the telephone (to your lawyer) where it was and went on watching. February 17, 2023 at 11:34 pm in reply to: Dirty Feed #282514 HamishParticipant I hate to give the fake film effect in VII any credit, but it does kind of look like that Starbug cockpit clip doesn’t it? February 13, 2023 at 4:39 am in reply to: Delbert Catkins #282312 HamishParticipant Eggbert’s Station Wagon? Blupi’s Estate Car for our friends in the UK. February 9, 2023 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #282218 HamishParticipant I suppose it is easy enough to headcannon as just being a visual distortion of the light as it passes through the fading Rimmer projection. January 14, 2023 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #281559 HamishParticipant Top Gun however is trying more to be cool than real. January 12, 2023 at 7:35 am in reply to: American Fandom #281456 HamishParticipant the lowest form of life now being a man who owns a train set, as opposed to working for the Post Office. Considering the American understanding of the term “going postal” it does take postal workers being low lives to a whole other level. January 12, 2023 at 7:33 am in reply to: American Fandom #281455 HamishParticipant His accent’s usually described as more Canadian, I thought ‘ma’am’ might be one of those things like ‘zed’ where Canadian goes more British than American. January 11, 2023 at 1:20 am in reply to: Chris Barrie has updated his website #281369 HamishParticipant You could have contested even a single specific point I made Well, for sake of argument, your claim that “Non-GMO crops require much higher amounts of pesticides” does not really scan with the rest of your complaints about Organic food, as using pesticides would by definition invalidate those crops as being certified Organic, creating a false equivalence between something being Organic or just Non-GMO. A nitpick perhaps but there is a difference. I also bristle a bit at the suggestion that “GMOs are absolutely vital to solving world hunger” when by FAR the greatest issue when it comes to feeding the world is the MASSIVE amount of food that gets wasted rather than any issues in terms of production or supply. Increasing yields does not do anyone any good if it that food just then rots in a landfill rather than reaching the people that would need it the most. There is a fundamental need to restructure how our food is handled and distributed, no matter if that food is grown with GMO or Organic crops. Adding the trap of corporations claiming intellectual property rights and disrupting local supply chains with patents could very well make this problem even worse, which while not being an essential part of growing GMO crops, has far too often proven to be the reality for a lot of producers. I agree with the thrust of your argument otherwise, but those two claims did stand out to me. Speaking as a food producer by the way. December 5, 2022 at 5:34 am in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #280280 HamishParticipant Of course we do actually see them using Microcassettes in Bodyswap and they look exactly like they do today. Or rather, exactly as they did in 1989. October 31, 2022 at 4:56 pm in reply to: Smeg-Box #279068 HamishParticipant On US Britbox, Back to Earth is available as a three episode “Season 9” with the making-of special as a fourth episode. That was how it was first aired on Dave in 2009 as I recall. October 18, 2022 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Dwarf to get BBC 4 outing for 100th anniversary #278671 HamishParticipant Frankly the idea that boosters aren’t universal is fucking appalling anyway. Most people’s immunity will be severely waning by now and there are no restrictions in place, is everyone just expected to be ok catching it this year or something? I live in a province where the Premier actually believed in hydroxychloroquine, and yet booster shots are still available to every eligible adult here in Alberta. At least for the moment. The only problem in Canada is convincing people to actually get them… October 17, 2022 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Dwarf to get BBC 4 outing for 100th anniversary #278628 HamishParticipant I could actually put my support behind Marooned under the same logic I used for Gunmen. This is a BBC anniversary marathon, it is about showing off the breadth of the BBC catalogue more than highlighting Red Dwarf itself, and Marooned is a prestige program in a way many of the other episodes are not. Gunmen would still be more impressive for a watch like this I think, but Marooned is a great self contained piece. October 16, 2022 at 11:42 pm in reply to: Dwarf to get BBC 4 outing for 100th anniversary #278589 HamishParticipant If you want an episode that highlights just what the BBC has been capable of creating, which arguably is the point of a showreel marathon like this, then Gunmen of the Apocalypse still seems to me to be far and away the best choice. From a production standpoint what that episode manages to do is an almost impossible achievement for a BBC sitcom. Just ask Janet Street-Porter. October 7, 2022 at 5:01 pm in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #278260 HamishParticipant As someone who is not British, I have never really drunk. August 20, 2022 at 5:24 pm in reply to: Who has has a Red Dwarf dream? #276295 HamishParticipant which leads to me to realise that I’ve been Mandela Effect-shifted to a parallel universe where this mysterious writer filled the role that was previously taken by Kim Fuller – only this new writer got to be more prolific in the series than Fuller, as she went on to write a number of episodes after ‘Blue’, with ‘Lemons’ being cited as her most major episode. Kim Fuller is a guy. August 8, 2022 at 2:51 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #275668 HamishParticipant Polymorph II Queeg II Emohawk? July 23, 2022 at 12:12 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #275350 HamishParticipant Which begs the question of what data Holly et al uses to extrapolate that aging, since Chris Barrie certainly aged far different than future Rimmer did in Out of Time. July 17, 2022 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Pool Table #275219 HamishParticipant I think when I first saw it I thought the baby was ‘grown’ a different way, not in Kochanski’s womb, some sort of test tube type thing. Actually this has given me another idea. [LISTER present] [Enter KOCHANSKI] <LISTER holds out the small in-vitro tube> LISTER This is for you. Just pop that in the uterine simulator in your medi-lab and… bingo. KOCHANSKI Wow… So yes, Kochanski herself is explicitly stated to never have been physically pregnant. It happened in the uterine simulator. July 16, 2022 at 12:59 am in reply to: Rename an Episode #275168 HamishParticipant Lemons / Walk to Earth Walk the Earth? July 14, 2022 at 5:54 am in reply to: God Does Not Play Dice with the Smega-Drive (Now With 47% More Blast-Processing) #275122 HamishParticipant With all due respect to the late great Peter Wragg, that is deliciously evil. July 10, 2022 at 6:58 am in reply to: Recreating Noise from the Dwarf in the Smega-Drive #275060 HamishParticipant Watch Noise from the Dwarf with autocaptions turned on. It’s a riot. June 7, 2022 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Who has has a Red Dwarf dream? #274341 HamishParticipant Dammit, I was really looking forward to finding out what happened next. Curse your overly critical narrative analysing faculties being so damn pedantic about the things your fevered imagination spurges up into your snoozing cortex. May 3, 2022 at 4:35 am in reply to: Androids Cancelled #273359 HamishParticipant April 28, 2022 at 1:30 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273270 HamishParticipant I always assumed the Simulants were Borg inspired as well, they first appear relatively soon after the Borg show up in TNG In practice though they are more like Terminators. April 26, 2022 at 3:06 am in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #273205 HamishParticipant I do find it slightly odd that, on a ship the size of Red Dwarf, the closest thing they could come to a ball is a blown-up condom rather than, say, a ball. Especially since there is a basketball court shown in Pete. Unless that was like the Karaoke Bar on C Deck? April 22, 2022 at 9:54 pm in reply to: God Does Not Play Dice with the Smega-Drive (Now With 47% More Blast-Processing) #273156 HamishParticipant That Queeg one is indeed chilling. Though perhaps not as much as what I managed with Yes, Prime Minister! here: I got the clip as YouTube advertisement would you believe? April 22, 2022 at 4:06 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273136 HamishParticipant Reading my post back, I meant vain and not venal, although the Cat arguably is that. Almost done lambing and calving, then I can sleep. April 21, 2022 at 5:25 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273130 HamishParticipant By Series VI I doubt that either Rob or Doug gave it a second thought. The character of Duane Dibbley is also not really informed by Cat being descended from cats, just from him being incredibly venal. Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 658 total) 1 2 3 … 12 13 14