"The Wire" on HBO

Malorie Blackman reference?
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noughts and crosses

http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png http://i.imgur.com/zPtMUKE.png

Do we have some sort of fucking problem with the idea that things are called different things in different places?

so dumb of people to change the historic name of tic-tac-toe to "noughts and crosses" two years ago

The different names of the game are more recent . The first print reference to "Noughts and crosses", the British name, appeared in 1864. In his novel "Can You Forgive Her", 1864, Anthony Trollope refers to a clerk playing "tit-tat-toe". The first print reference to a game called "tick-tack-toe" occurred in 1884, but referred to "a children's game played on a slate, consisting in trying with the eyes shut to bring the pencil down on one of the numbers of a set, the number hit being scored". "Tic-tac-toe" may also derive from "tick-tack", the name of an old version of backgammon first described in 1558. The U.S. renaming of Noughts and crosses as Tic-tac-toe occurred in the 20th century.[3]

I'm gonna go with the "tit" one.

clay davis otm

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt

Jeez the anglocentrism, it's called ''Kryds og bolle''

Do we have some sort of fucking problem with the idea that things are called different things in different places?

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa andrew farrell just got really heated about tic tac toe!!!

whoa andrew farrell just got really heated about tic tac toe noughts and crosses!!!

Sorry for my countryman's continued impertinence, he meant , please don't get mad.

Do we have some sort of fucking problem with the idea that things are called different things in different places?

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa andrew farrell just got really heated about tic tac toe!!!

― k3vin k., Tuesday, June 9, 2015 5:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

callin a dude out by his ACTUAL name

the game be the game

Unless they're some smart-ass naughts.

callin a dude out by his ACTUAL name

Mr Currie if you're nasty.

Just rewatched the first episode. 2 things.

1. Don't know how I never noticed that Bubbles literally blows bubbles when he shoots up.

2. It's kinda implausible how nobody else in BPD (especially in narcotics) had any idea whatsoever about the Barksdale crew, but McNulty did and was familiar with Stringer Bell and the others.

Eh, I kind of feel that the show's view is that what makes a good cop is that details niggle at you. Also that there aren't a lot of good cops.

It does sorta ring false, compared to the rest of the story. The cops learn much more about the street in later seasons. Like, when Bunk tries to free Omar in season four, all the detectives know that he never kills citizens. But that's what tv-shows are like, they sorta fall into place over time. Wire is more fully formed than most, but there are still small weird things.

Nick Sobotka is Liev Schreiber's brother!

Yeah I was kinda shocked when I learned that the same guy played Porn Stache on Orange is the New Black

Sydnor makes an appearance on OITNB too.

i was at a convenience store buying a water over the weekend and frank sobotka was in front of me. his jeans looked brand new.

Hadn't noticed that same actor thing with Subotka(?) but am noticing it a lot across other series I'm watching.
Just saw a guy from Longmire stop Tony Soprano for speeding for instance.

&more topically since its the same source material as The Wire, the actress playing Carmela Soprano played a sergeant in Homicide.

she also played a prison guard in Oz

falco was an officer's wife on homicide, not a cop herself

(the officer was the one who was blinded when shot, who crosetti listened to miles davis with)

Yeah sorry think I got the 2 confused and I haven't actually seen Homicide yet to any degree. Just got hold of the first series.
I was just looking through IMDB for other things cast members had been in yesterday and thought I'd seen her elsewhere. Had been thinking that the cast was probably studded with people I knew from other roles or at least had seen in bit parts.

I think a number of Wire people also turned up in Good Wife. Think at least KIma has been on there and think I saw a couple of others but that show seems to almost constantly have people well known from elsewhere cameoing.

there is a thread for Wire Actors in other things fyi

Off the top of my head, Good Wife cameos include Herc, Dee, Bodie, Chris P., Burrell, Kima, Carver.

there is a thread for Wire Actors in other things fyi

worth its own thread? Cast looks interesting at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj5Nt-HoBhw

from the director of "Crash"

maybe he'll be good now that he's not a Scientologist

I like Oscar Isaac but that preview is v White Man Crusades for the Rights of Black People(tm) and Crash was awful and just ... yeah I wouldn't get your hopes up

haggis is generally awful

Longer trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFfSbQ87JQ

R.I.P. Melvin Williams

Not sure I'd stretch to 'peace' for one of the main figures in bringing heroin to Baltimore.

David Simon would.

I'm in the third season again, and I'm always impressed whenever the Deacon is onscreen -- very effortless charisma.

rip Melv

Chi-Raq has Snoop Pearson as well as Clay Davis saying sheeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiitttttt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZivDg3cpY

Snoop was in Da Sweet Blood as well.

idk why but i am re-watching s1, it is really good and on par w/ the better seasons imo

also daniels is one of the best characters on this show

I've probably said this before but s1 is so much more enjoyable when you know who everyone is and what's going on.

yeah i'm rewatching with a housemate right now, and seeing the beginnings of arcs knowing how they'll twist and resolve is really pleasurable

I just now realized that Dukie's last job on The Wire was literally RIDING A HORSE.

http://i.imgur.com/qUx0sBA.jpg

GOOD GRIEF.

Rewatched S1 last week, all the years and weight put on it as the Great Russian Novel Series blah blah blah I'd forgotten so many great little moments that hooked me the first time - Lester flirting with Chardine, "Lester, are we still police?" "Technically, I suppose" etc.

kinda cool seeing all three Sbotkas in the Prius car chase superbowl commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EluvJby2baA