#whose line uk

[norma-jean-monster]

Colin: [to ryan] Are you Bob Billy Boo?!

Clive: [buzzing him out] Nope, too silly. Name too silly.

[francis-mulcahys-angels]

This is one of my fave Paul Merton moments from the UK version of Whose Line

[gayness-and-mayhem]

Love it when Clive Anderson and Greg Proops call each other Mr A. and Mr P. on Whose Line.

[fireballil]

‘Today we say goodbye to Orson Welles.’

#WhoseLine #Props

[loiteredvalentines]

personally i think this is one of the best examples of microacting. i dont even know if im being sarcastic or not, but the way he literally looks at him like that makes me laugh so HARD i love this prompt so much

[hipstersbleedroses]

Film & Theatre Styles

[owlbelly]

read recently that the "killer trees" episode of The X Files (with baby Katherine Isabelle!) was considered by at least one critic to be the worst of the entire series

which is an astonishing judgment to make when the very next episode is the one where Scully goes to Maine on vacation & encounters a killer doll named "Fuck" who came out of a lobster trap

[chanoeys]

#climate change got me like

[jmunneytumbler]

Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 11/10/23

Spot the Curse (CREDIT: SHOWTIME/Screenshot) Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out. Movies –Dream Scenario (Theaters) –It’s a Wonderful Knife (Theaters) –The Marvels (Theaters) TV –The Curse Series Premiere (November 12 on Showtimes, Premieres Early November on Paramount+ with Showtime) –Whose Line…

[immortalsins]

found the perfect tattoo artist in frome but the problem is i was expecting a fun trip to bristol not a day out in frome

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love 1961

Blue Hawaii is the fourth soundtrack album by the American singer Elvis Presley, belonging to the 1961 film of the same name starring Presley. In the US, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Pop LPs chart.

The songs "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Rock-A-Hula Baby" were pulled off the album for two sides of a single. The A-side "Can't Help Falling in Love," which became the standard closer for a Presley concert in the 1970s, went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it topped the British charts in 1962, spending four weeks at number 1.

The melody to "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based on "Plaisir d'amour", a popular French love song composed in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. The song was initially written from the perspective of a woman as "Can't Help Falling in Love with Him", which explains the first and third line ending on "in" and "sin" rather than words rhyming with "you".

The song has been recorded by many other artists, including the British reggae group UB40, whose 1993 version topped the US and UK charts.

"Can't Help Falling in Love" received a total of 84,5% yes votes!

[breelandwalker]

Why is Wicca not a preferred way of practice? I’ve read a couple of posts, and Wicca isn’t favored.

Moral puritanism and performative outrage, plain and simple. There's nothing inherently wrong with Wicca or Wiccans. Some people in the community just aren't doing the work and seem to think that decolonizing our thinking begins and ends with screaming BOYCOTT at anything they deem even remotely reprehensible.

Let's do some of the work and dig a little deeper, shall we?

The main complaint is that Wicca started with people who had problematic worldviews and has had some growing pains and issues with racism, sexism, cultural appropriation, and bad actors in the community as it has evolved, reaching into the present day.

But here's the thing - SHOW ME A RELIGION THAT DOESN'T HAVE THESE PROBLEMS SOMEWHERE IN ITS' HISTORY OR CURRENT CULTURE. GO AHEAD, I'LL WAIT.

It's neither fair nor reasonable to judge a religion based on its' beginnings, or to dismiss the ability of a community to grow and evolve over time, or to pretend that the modern witchcraft movement doesn't owe a large part of its' existence to Wicca. Like it or not, if it weren't for Wiccans, we wouldn't have the kind of organization or recognition that we do, nor would we have had certain landmark legal cases that led to pagans being able to claim the protection of law against religious discrimination in the States.

(And because someone somewhere is going to demand the encyclopedia answer - This is not to discount the contributions of other groups, but the historical fact remains that the people responsible for the foundations of Wicca kickstarted the movement in the UK and subsequent practitioners brought it into public view in a positive light during the counterculture movements of the 1950s and 1960s. And it was Wicca that was first pagan religion in the US to be recognized and therefore included under the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. This does not change the CULTURAL AND SOCIETAL response to witchcraft or paganism, or the problems that witches and pagans still face in other places, only the presence of civil rights that were not there before. And that has, in fact, contributed to an increase in wider normalization and acceptance. We may not owe EVERYTHING to Wicca and Wiccans, but we would not be where we are as a movement or a community without them.)

Not to mention, Wicca hasn't even been around for a whole century yet and already it's being judged like it has the same kind of cultural and political clout that, oh say, Christianity does in much of the Western world. And it's no coincidence that a good number of the criticisms leveled at Wiccans are the same ones flung at Christians.

Wicca DOES have a strong influence on modern witchcraft, because Wicca and Wiccans were such a big part of the foundation of the movement. Furthermore, many of the published works viewed as standard beginner texts were written by Wiccans or heavily influenced by Wiccan ideas and concepts. Admittedly, there was a tendency for quite some time to think of Wicca and Wiccan tenets as the default for modern witchcraft, and now that we're moving away from that and discovering just how much of our thinking relies on that framework and the ideas present within it, there's backlash happening.

It's important to try and decolonize your thinking as much as possible when it comes to witchcraft. But that involves more work and more effort than just pointing fingers and broadly condemning anything remotely problematic or anything that's ever been touched or influenced by people whose moral and ethical codes don't pass muster under a modern lens. We cannot and should not expect people from 50+ years ago to toe the line when people living today can't even do so reliably.

So to wrap it all up - there's nothing wrong with Wicca and there's nothing wrong with being Wiccan. We are none of us completely unproblematic and until we address the fact that issues with racism, sexism, manipulation, cultural appropriation, and so forth exist in MANY parts of the modern witchcraft and pagan community, we don't get to tar and feather any one group. A bit of critical thinking and self-reflection, and a great deal of Knowing Our Own History, is the key to moving forward here.

Because until the people voicing these complaints most loudly can realize the head-splitting irony of condemning Wicca in one breath and celebrating the Wheel of the Year or venerating a Maiden-Mother-Crone-model goddess in the next, we're not actually getting anywhere.

Anyway, I hope this helps to answer some of your questions. For more information, I highly recommend reading Margot Adler's "Drawing Down The Moon" and Ronald Hutton's "Triumph of the Moon" for a more comprehensive overview of the history of the modern witchcraft movement. Both are written from an outside scholar's perspective and are presented as research rather than rhetoric. Part of knowing where we are and deciding where to go next is knowing where we started and where we've been, after all.

[francis-mulcahys-angels]

It's almost Christmas so you know what that means !!! Watch the WLIIA UK Christmas special..

look at them their so cute

[siryouarebeingmocked]

https://x.com/OfficialSPGB/status/1173235826446061568

I love how they thought throwing walls of text (with no actual backup)  and "Google it!" at anti-communist people would be a persuasive counterargument.

Even though that's precisely what stereotypical reds do, all the time.

One supporting tweet down the line said trade unions, worker co-ops, and universal public services are all examples of socialism "working".

Speaking as someone whose used those services in the UK who's also familiar with the healthcare situation in Canada, "working" is a very strong word here. Even assuming the people being "rebutted" didn't implicitly mean "-on a national scale".

[fireballil]

https://x.com/fireballil/status/1745701363567190088?s=12&t=_1NyU_a74Wxx_h6kxihRoA

[loiteredvalentines]

is the whose line is it anyway fandom completely dead did i miss the funeral WHERE ARE MY FELLOW GIRLIES WHO LIKE FUNNY MIDDLE AGED MEN HELLO?!?!!?!??!!? AM I THE ONLY ONE SWIMMING IN THIS POOL????