Why should you care?
Well because it’s one of the best games ever created for an iOS device, ever.
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The Bridge Returns To BBC Four This Saturday
Why should you care?
It’s bloody brilliant, that’s why.
A fellow co-author of this website, Alice Rose, used to watch these live at the same time I was, we would feverishly text at the moments between one episode and the next. Being a public programme broadcast in Sweden and Denmark, the BBC has rights to it, there are no ad breaks, and you have to pay attention to the screen for the subtitles all the way through. This means opportunities to text or tweet about the show are few and far between.
Many people are thrown off the thought of watching a show if it involves subtitles (lazy), but I assure you the quality of the script and listening to the lovely Nordic languages more than makes up for it.
Last time around, the programme followed a “truth terrorist”, who was basically a mass murderer who was killing people to make a point about each of his victims (he poisoned a nursing home to point out how little we care about old people, for instance). It’s dark, twisted, and I cannot wait.
The two detectives on the case are a man from Denmark and a woman from Sweden. He spends his life trying to explain to her social etiquette, she’s hired as she’s brilliant, but mildly autistic, meaning she will come out with things like “we probably won’t find your son, by the way”, this sounds very dark, but this kind of humour in an otherwise murky series is often needed.
If you didn’t see Season 1, they’re all available on iPlayer for another week, and I’d strongly advise you watch this excellent series before everything restarts after Christmas. Set up iPlayer downloads on your computer every week, and enjoy. It is simply fantastic.
Here’s a trailer.
What To Expect From TV In 2014
Let’s be honest, it’ll be mostly shit.
But, let’s also try and be positive, it may now all be that bad.
I’ve tried to get together a list of the stuff which I think will be worth watching out for, the stuff you should be watching if you’re not, and compiled them into a sort of “list”.
Only Connect – BBC Four (moving to BBC Two) – This may look boring as hell, and also as difficult as trying to pull a nipple off, but it is actually brilliant. Watch an episode and I promise you it’ll intrigue you enough to watch the next episode on iPlayer, you have to find connections between seemingly unrelated objects. This is the hardest episode ever produced and is available on YouTube. You’ll also see how unbelievably British the whole affair is.
If you don’t get a single question right in that whole episode, don’t worry, no-one does. But isn’t it relaxing to watch, what with it’s nice music and lack of audience? I can’t stop watching it. The first few episodes of every series usually has a few easy questions and then you feel AMAZING having watched it and got a few right. So yeah.
Top Gear – BBC Two – This will invariably return, it always does. Despite it being presented by an idiot and his two much nicer friends, it’s always enjoyable to watch. I find myself increasingly wanting to watch the special episodes these days, and I’m not so bothered about the normal episodes. Judging by Idris Elba hosting a number of shows recently on BBC Two about Motor Racing, it looks like he’s up to take Clarkson’s job upon his eventual leaving of the show. This would make it actually perfect. In case you hadn’t gathered, I dislike Clarkson intensely.
Big Brother – Channel 5 – Am I the only one who stopped watching this once it moved to Channel 5? I actually stopped watching it before then. It’s apparently still around, though.
Sherlock – BBC One – This is a “modern” programme even my parents like (and that is seriously saying something, they hate most things they see), and I love it too. Returns early January, I can’t wait. Presumably he’ll actually be alive this series, I mean, he did die at the end of the last series and all that, unless they’ve got a morbid sense of humour I presume he faked his own death.
Papa Pear Saga – Is It The New Candy Crush?
The new Candy Crush?
Unless you live in the middle of a deserted forest with no internet, you’re bound to have heard of and probably been captivated by Candy Crush Saga at some point during 2013 (or, if you’re like our very own Emily Normington, you’ll still be playing it…)
But as times change, so do popular apps and the newest one to storm the app stores is Papa Pear Saga.
It is of course produced by King, but works very differently.
The aim of the game is to satisfy the needs of a set of animate paint pots at the bottom of the screen by filling them, you guessed it, with pears! (You probably didn’t guess it, unless you actually have pear loving paint pots in your garage).
Sound easy? Well, it kind of is. You just shoot the pears out of a cannon, destroying all the obstacles blocking the path between you and the buckets, scoring as many points as possible.
Ignoring the fact that shooting a pear out of a real cannon would probably destroy it, that they probably wouldn’t be appealing in to real paint pots in any way and that pears don’t actually wear hard-hats, the concept is pretty fun.
As you progress through the game, you unlock bonuses to make your life that bit easier. A personal highlight is the exploding pomegranates, they’re just so fruity and so dangerous at the same time.
One annoying thing carried over from Candy Crush is that you have to rely on Facebook Friends to give you new lives, so if you don’t have friends, or Facebook, or Facebook friends that play Papa Pear, then you’re going nowhere soon.
But we are enjoying the Spanishness of the title. How exotic, pears are so often associated with Spain, it makes so much sense…
Our Favourite Spam Comments Of The Year So Far
It’s been about ten weeks since we started this project, and in that time, being a WordPress blog, we’ve accumulated some fantastic spam comments.
Unfortunately, if you’ve ever managed a WordPress blog, you’ll know that this is just a fact of life, but we do have some personal favourites here at Lincoln & That. It’s fortunate that WordPress is so very good at removing these.
Here are a number of unrelated information, nonetheless really really worth taking a your time to visit this website
That was a comment on our Doctor Who post.
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This is another “banger”, we particularly like the Italian enthusiasm and flair which starts on the last word. If only this could have been longer. That was on this post about a tattoo parlour, nonetheless.
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I’m glad we inspired them so much, especially on a post about lights being turned on.
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Canada Goose Jackets on Sale
This was on a post about a restaurant.
Excellent story, bro.
Badass: Google Play Music
So you don’t own an iPod or an iPhone because you are way “too hip” for that. (Yeah I went there). And don’t want to be a hipster like the other four members of Lincoln & That. Well I have the ideal solution for where you can listen to music for FREE! Continue reading
Simpsons Tapped Out
For the last few weeks, Homer Simpson bellowing out the words “better them than me” has been following me everywhere. These little outbursts take place at the most inconvenient times – on the bus, in the queue for a pint of milk, even in the uni library, but why is Tapped Out such an addictive game? Continue reading