Free Giveaway CDs and DVDs with newspapers

jobbingmusician

quoia wrote:

Well now that you have posted in it you have automatically subscribed to it.

At the top of this thread and in the same place on almost every MSE page is the UserCP link (User Control Panel)

This will take you to your subscribed threads that have been very recently updated. If it isn't in the list for the given time period then just click the subsequent onward link to "View All Subscribed Threads"

Dead easy to find any thread you want to return to again and again

Ummmm - I hate to say it, but this doesn't work! 'View all subscribed threads' displays only 4 threads. OK, they are 4 threads I have subscribed to heavily, but in over 1700 postings (from memory) I have subscribed to a few more than that!

quoia

jobbingmusician wrote:

Ummmm - I hate to say it, but this doesn't work! 'View all subscribed threads' displays only 4 threads. OK, they are 4 threads I have subscribed to heavily, but in over 1700 postings (from memory) I have subscribed to a few more than that!

Works for me !!!!

Every thread I have ever posted to seems to be there - all 737 of them

tmb2000

Strangely it doesn't work for me either - what going on would be very useful if owrked as Quoia described (PS haven't posted DVD's yet Quoia but will do Monday)

Bookworm63

jobbingmusician wrote:

I'm sure this has already been discussed, but why isn't this thread a sticky?

Takes me ages every week to find it

I save threads to my Favourites each day before I turn off the computer at the relevant page. There might be a better way of doing it but this works well for me.

debtworrier

offbeatgirl wrote:

The Independent today comes with a DVD of the film Indochine, and a Michael Moore book, Idiot Nation. Not bad really, especially as I work on a University campus and can pick up the independent for 20p

You can? I work on campus too, but never heard of this offer. (Been nobly denying myself my Indie fix in the name of economy too!)

Misterel

Dingdangdoforme wrote:

Christmas (already?) DVD's in tomorrows Daily Mail & Sunday's Mail, followed by Disney PC games (presumably pick up instore).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/prmts/prmts.html?in_article_id=414388&in_page_id=1777

I wasn't holding out great hopes with a Disney game (they have an admirably consistant reputation for *ahem* quality) but does anyone else suspect that they've been giving out the wrong discs?

Disc is labelled as an "Action Game" and describes "high speed arcade-style" games for up to two players - whereas what intalls is an "Activity Centre" with painting, drawing and some much more sedate games...

AdrianR_2

For those wit the free ancestry cd from the Times, I am not sure if you are able to see the actual images of the original images. I do know that if you go the the daily telegraph site first and link from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/familyhistory and click on the ancestry.co.uk link there, You will have access to view the original images of the 1901 census. Its great.

If you are a linux user and you want a geneology program, There is none better than GRAMPS. Now at version 2.2.2. It is just a touch more pro than the ancestry.co.uk program but takes a bit more to get into. http://www.gramps-project.org/ for more. There is an ability to use it on windows http://www.gramps-project.org/windows/ but it is worth trying ubuntu at the same time. Gramps even has a live CD download, so you get Ubuntu, and Gramps on a bootable operting system. It don't get much better!

tmb2000

Just as I thought it had gone completely quiet, like the idea of the 45 mins Bond girls tribute :T

To celebrate the release of Casino Royale, on November 16th, the News of the World has gone 00-crazy with a sensational FREE DVD for every reader!

Casino Royale (Cert 12A) is the 21st James Bond adventure in the most successful franchise in film history. Starring Daniel Craig in his debut as 007, Casino Royale is based on Ian Fleming’s first novel to feature the ultimate secret agent, which was published in 1953.

Casino Royale traces the early career of James Bond. His first “007” mission leads him to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the world’s terrorists.

In order to stop him, and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. Bond is initially annoyed when a beautiful Treasury official, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), is assigned to deliver his stake for the game and watch over the government's money.

But, as Bond and Vesper survive a series of lethal attacks by Le Chiffre and his henchmen, a mutual attraction develops leading them both into further danger and events that will shape Bond’s life forever.

Get a taster of this action-packed blockbuster with our fantastic FREE DVD featuring the Casino Royale trailer. Then watch Bond Girls Are Forever– an exclusive 45 minute dedication to the most beautiful girls to ever grace the screen alongside James Bond himself…Finally, witness the magic of Casino Royale with our EXCLUSIVE Behind the Scenes sneak peak.

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See https://www.casinoroyale-movie.co.uk for more about Casino Royale.

helps to relieve those footie blues (a little)

white_were_wolf

Saturday 18th November

Pygmalion (1938, IMdB 7.9) - The Telegraph
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Starring Leslie Howard


While the British film industry tumbled into one of the more serious of its periodic crises, an unlikely bunch of radicals and adventurers set out to breathe life into GBS's pre-First World War excursion into language and materialism. They produced a very radical - if still very male - film. Unlike the later My Fair Lady, the stress here is on Higgins' creation of a princess from 'a heap of stuffed cabbage leaves'. There is no Cinderella story: Eliza's transformation is forced and painful, and Higgins' final 'Where the devil are my slippers?' a refusal to forget, sentimentally, the enduring reality of patriarchy. Above all, the film is remarkable in that it strengthens rather than dilutes Shaw's insistence on language as the vital instrument of power and oppression.
More Info:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0030637/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1016943-pygmalion/


Sunday 19th November

The Browning Version (1951, IMdB 8.4) - The Sunday Telegraph
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Starring Michael Redgrave


Infinitely superior to Mike Figgis's 1994 remake, this expert collaboration between writer Terence Rattigan and director Anthony Asquith is another in a list that includes The Yellow Rolls-Royce and The VIPs. But what makes this version of Rattigan's hit play so memorable is the mesmerising performance of Michael Redgrave as the classics teacher whose life is as redundant as his subject. The supporting cast is also first-rate, with Jean Kent chillingly heartless as Redgrave's adulterous wife and Nigel Patrick suitably cocky as the man who cuckolds him. The shabby gentility of the school is neatly captured and the merciless revelation of each new woe is, thanks to Redgrave's dignified self-pity, agonising to watch. Only the concluding optimism fails to ring true.
More Info:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0043362/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1043923-browning_version/

jmarko

white_were_wolf deserves more thanks!!!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=306285

do you know anyone else that does too? nominate above...

jmarko