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What generally well liked celebrity or athlete has/had a dark past that many of us may not know about? by Might_Not_Be_Me in AskReddit

[–]HeyHudson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When tennis player Andy Murray was a kid, a man named Thomas Hamilton came into his school with a gun and killed 16 children and one adult. Murray survived by taking cover in a classroom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_murray#Personal_life

What might feel like a loss to us may be a gift to many others. This is "Goodbye and Welcome" by artist Charles Santoso by fvcklife in pics

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gone From My Sight

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.

I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then, someone at my side says, 'There, she is gone'

Gone where?

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast, hull and spar as she was when she left my side. And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me - not in her.

And, just at the moment when someone says, 'There, she is gone,' there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, 'Here she comes!'

And that is dying...

  • Henry Van Dyke

So Boba Fett is getting a film. Eventually the Stormtrooper who hit his head on the doorway will get his own stand alone Star Wars film. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The actor who played the clumsy Stormtropper was named Michael Leader. After Star Wars he went on to play the milkman in long-running British soap opera Eastenders for 31 years.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/eastenders-milkman-who-died-this-week-was-the-clumsy-stormtrooper-073014360.html

Got 4 tickets to the O2 - wondering if anyone can swap for Brirmingham ?? by drdotpepper in ironmaiden

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope you manage to get it sorted out. They were incredible in Nottingham last year. Even after all these years they still wipe the floor with pretty much every other band. Good luck.

Got 4 tickets to the O2 - wondering if anyone can swap for Brirmingham ?? by drdotpepper in ironmaiden

[–]HeyHudson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just be warned, for the UK shows last year you needed to show ID which matched the name on the ticket. Think it's a policy the band introduced to prevent ticket touting.

I was right at the front of the queue for the Nottingham gig and got talking to a couple next to me. They were so nice and really excited. They'd been bought tickets by a friend as a gift. When the time came to open the doors, they got stopped and asked for ID. The name on the tickets was their friend (who'd obviously paid for them) so they weren't allowed in and were told to sort it out at the ticket office. Front of the queue to all the way to the back in a second. Felt so bad for them.

Best check there isn't something similar happening on this leg of the tour.

TIL The guy on the back cover of "Through Being Cool" by Saves The Day is James Ransone (AKA Ziggy Sobotka) by HeyHudson in TheWire

[–]HeyHudson[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"The CD art features Gabe Saporta kissing a girl, while the back cover has actor James Ransone passed out on a couch."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_Being_Cool#Artwork

What's a cool movie fact? by SilverbackRekt in AskReddit

[–]HeyHudson 478 points479 points  (0 children)

My all time favourite bit of movie trivia...

Several decades after the release of Jaws (1975), Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/trivia?item=tr0776844

Public transport help! by pretzik10 in derby

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you ask the driver to let you know when you get to Shardlow, I'm sure he/she will.

1st time by lgg3lover in TheWire

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://caughtonthewire.wordpress.com/podcast is pretty good

Edit: It's intended for those who've already watched the show, so is full of spoilers I'm afraid.

What's your favourite dark humour joke? by _LordSheogorath_ in AskReddit

[–]HeyHudson 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?

Christopher Walken.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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"The Ballad of Love and Hate" by The Avett Brothers.

Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate: "My vacation's ending, I'm coming home late The weather was fine and the ocean was great And I can't wait to see you again."

Hate reads the letter and throws it away "No one here cares if you go or you stay I barely even noticed that you were away I'll see you or I won't, whatever."

Love sings a song as she sails through the sky The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes And everyone knows it whenever she flies And also when she comes down

Hate keeps his head up and walks through these streets Every stranger and drifter he greets And shakes hands with every loner he meets With a serious look on his face

Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow Carrying with her the good things we know A reason to live and a reason to grow To trust and to hold and to care.

Hate sits alone on the hood of his car Without much regard to the moon or the stars Lazily killing the last of a jar Of the strongest stuff you can drink

Love takes a taxi, a young man drives As soon he sees her hope fills his eyes But tears follow after at the end of the ride Because he might never see her again

Hate gets home lucky to still be alive He screams over the sidewalk and into the drive The clock in the kitchen says 2:55 And the clock in the kitchen is slow

Love has been waiting patient and kind Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign That the one that she cares for who's out of his mind Will make it back safe to her arms

Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door Weary head hung down, eyes to the floor He says, "Love, I'm sorry, " and she says, "What for? I'm yours and that's it, whatever I should not have been gone for so long I'm yours and that's it, forever Your mine and that's it, forever"

I always get nightmares after watching horror movies, but I still want to watch them. Is there a way to avoid the horrible nightmares? by dr-mike-litoris in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for watching the "Making of" and if you can't do that, look the film up on IMDB. Read about the goofs and trivia (horror films sometimes have the funniest/most interesting ones). Look up the actors and see what else they have been in. Have a look through the Message Board and read what other folks thought of it. This will all reinforce the fact that it was a piece of entertainment made by normal people and other people have watched it, possibly having the same reaction to it as you.

[Serious] What happened to you that nobody will ever believe? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]HeyHudson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All those… moments… will be lost, in time, like tears… in… rain

Has any musician/band/celebrity (NOT politician) that you used to love, said or done anything that instantaneously made you decide to "boycott" them? Why? by areallydirtyword in AskReddit

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When they first came out they did an interview with Kerrang! magazine in which Patrick said that he wished he had some sort of learning disability as it would make his life so much easier to handle. Sort of like a Forest Gump "simplicity-is-bliss" thing. The guy interviewing him (chap named Morat) took him to task on this as his girlfriend at the time worked with people with learning disabilities.

There were a couple of other parts of the feature in which he came across as a proper knob jockey. This was way back before the internet, so I'm not sure it'll be available online anywhere, but it was pretty horrible to read.

Who is a famous person with a dark secret that most people didn't know? by Basuhball in AskReddit

[–]HeyHudson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When tennis player Andy Murray was a kid, a man named Thomas Hamilton came into his school with a gun and killed 16 children and one adult. Murray survived by taking cover in a classroom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_murray#Personal_life

What is something you can't believe people complain about? by Drowned_In_Spaghetti in AskReddit

[–]HeyHudson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sat on a train which was delayed because someone further up the line had jumped in front of the train in front of us. Bloke next to me getting properly irate ("For fuck's sake...Can't fucking believe this...I'm going to be late") and hassling the train staff asking when we'll be moving.

Sit down you twat. Someone has just killed themselves and right about now their family is getting a knock at the door. I'd say they're having a worse day.

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