#whose line uk

[thejadedjewel]

Just when I thought today's rough day at work couldn't be any worst, I discover that Tony Slattery has died from a heart attack. I'm devastated. He was one of my favorite UK-Only WLIIA performers.

R.I.P. Anthony Declan James Slattery.

[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

[hipstersbleedroses]

Film & Theatre Styles

[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

[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…

[elodieunderglass]

Why are jockeys not supposed to look at smartphones?? will it make them heavier

No, of course not!

It’ll make them criminals

This is in reference to something I mentioned about a prominent female jockey leaving the sport over breaking smartphone usage rules. Nanako Fujita, who raced for Japan, was an excellent jockey with a promising career and international prospects. She was lucky, talented, and in a sport that’s starving for public interest, popular. But she used her smartphone on a weekend, so on October 2024 she tearfully penned her resignation letter and left the sport.

Now, this is slightly more about Japanese sporting authorities than general horse racing practice, but it’s embedded in the idea that jockeys are inherently just such unscrupulous little bastards that they can only be prevented from cheating by locking them in hamster cages.

Going back to how horse racing is historically the province of organised crime, disorganised crime, chaotic crime, things that aren’t crimes but should be, crimes that haven’t been invented yet, and felonies; and given that it all happens for the amusement of billionaires and royalty, not noted for being generous and scrupulous; and given that - much like how claiming a hobby of “knitting” is really a cover story for collecting yarn - horse racing is really an excuse to gamble;

Given all that background - there’s always been a lot of anxiety about jockeys “fixing” races. After all, they’re historically treated as disposable and make inconsistent and indifferent money while entire fortunes are wagered on their backs they’re in an obvious position to influence race outcomes, and there are unbelievable amounts of money at stake.

Thus, the sport feels that we have to assume that jockeys are simply inherently susceptible to bribery. In the UK, jockeys can’t bet on any races and have to declare their mobile phone numbers to the horse racing authority, and have restrictions placed on where/how/what they can use smartphones for around the tracks. They can’t bring a phone to work, basically. Which isn’t too unusual in some professions. The idea is that jockeys with phones could communicate with each other or outsiders to change racing outcomes, or share information in advance before it can impact on the betting odds (like insider trading on the stock market.) this is not commonly practiced in other UK sports. It’s a working condition imposed by anxiety about preserving the integrity of the gambling.

The Japanese licensing authority is more strict. The night before a race meeting, Japanese jockeys surrender their phones and go into separate quarters without lines of communication. So you might give up your phone at 9pm Friday night, enter a sort of corporate youth hostel, work for 2 days, and recover your phone on Monday. Nanako was caught using her phone during this period of sequestration, even though there’s no evidence that she was using it for race fixing (another jockey caught for the same thing in the crackdown was making a restaurant reservation.) again, this level of control over personal communications isn’t practiced in other Japanese sports! Even Japanese pop idols, famed for having restricted personal lives, don’t risk getting pushed out of their job entirely for touching a phone.

It’s about a lot of things, but the level of control exerted over jockeys is interesting to me! and speaks to their position as athletes who aren’t the focus of the sport they do; of jockeys as the disposable pilots of things that are far more valuable than they are; of workers whose working conditions are unique; of sportspeople whose sport is defined by the anxieties of the rich about gambling; of people whose bodies are ferociously honed for a specific set of rules that don’t even necessarily make sense; of a sport thousands of years old, one of the oldest continuous sports of human history, in which the humans who play it are invisible; of ancient once-immovable traditions colliding, in the 2020s, with renewed interest in animal and human welfare and renewed pressures to Perform for social media and everything changing in ways we can’t see because we’re in the middle of them. Like when I say “one of the oldest continuous sports in human history”, as old as the domestication of horses, think about it for a minute and think how strange it is that the human athletes are this invisible, this disposable, this secondary to considerations. Why is it that you’ve been forced to learn about football against your will all your life, and you never thought for a second about this. Isn’t that wild? I think it’s wild.

(Disclaimer: I’m really not an expert, just a mild fan, which is a bit unusual for my demographic; despite the sport being ancient and internationally known, it isn’t very relatable to “people like us,” so this is kind of the first time anyone on tumblr’s really posted about having an interest in horse racing/jockeys. I’m really not an expert and I barely follow the news and do NOT attend races or understand the stats/gambling. It’s just that it was my first career ambition when I was 6, and it’s one of those things where literally no one else cares, so you get to feel like you have Secrets and a Unique OC.)

[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!

[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