jonsharky

When I was littler and first saw a penguin in a book, there was no sense of scale. For some reason I thought they were six feet tall. I still love penguins, but even today when I see one I still get a twinge of disappointment that 6ft penguins don't exist, because I think they'd be… Read More

My ex's young son laughed at me for being older than the word 'lag'. To clarify, back in the early 90s before the internet and internet gaming, sometimes console games would glitch if there was a lot happening on screen and the framerate would briefly drop causing a slow-motion effect… Read More

Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in the original Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. She embodied Lisbeth so well that Rooney Mara in the American remake just paled in comparison.

My friend growing up had a dog called 'Sorry', because she had such a sorry look on her face when they adopted her. She grew into a sweet and happy dog but the name had stuck.

Inception - is the ending real or a dream? When we see Dom's kids in the dream sequences, they are one age - the age they were when Dom went on the run, which has been frozen in Dom's subconscious as that was the last time he saw them. When we see them at the end of the film, they… Read More

Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the famous observation that Indy has no bearing on the plot whatsoever - the idea that if he had not gotten involved, the Nazis would have still found the Ark, opened it, and been destroyed by its power (it's even discussed in an episode of The Big Bang… Read More

Ben's funeral in Scrubs is sad, don't get me wrong, but the Scrubs moment that hits me harder was the episode where Dr Cox loses 3 patients after transplanting organs into them from a donor who they didn't realise died of rabies. After the second one dies and you see him a broken… Read More

Our 6th Form Ball (the equivalent of Prom here in the UK) was held at a reasonably nice hotel where many of us had booked rooms to spend the night after the Ball ended. I was sharing a large suite with all male friends - none of us had dates (although it would have been extremely… Read More

Charlie's death by heart attack in the penultimate episode of The Newsroom. Will's still in jail, everything they've worked for is being ruined, Sloane looks like she might be fired, Charlie's yelling at everyone trying to keep everything afloat and then he just freezes, and in that… Read More

Not me, but my brother. He'd always wanted to travel to India and Nepal, and finally booked a big trip in 2015 with lots of different activities and excursions planned. While in India he booked a 5-day excusion, but after 2 days he was underwhelmed and decided to cut that particular… Read More