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  1. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing (redux)

    Aren't you one of those Politibrits? Sort of. So, is this about politics? Nope. So what is it about then? Read the title. Didn't you do something similar? Yes. So it's a reboot? Yes. Hopefully I'll have some more ideas. I'm not planning on writing much prose, just finishing off some...

  2. TLIAPOT: The Mighty Hunter

    Hello. Afternoon. Wot, no graphics? I can't do them. You must be one of the politibrits, correct? If you mean I spout off ill informed opinions in the British politics thread, yes. So that must mean you have written stuff on the board before? Not really, no. So what is this one about...

  3. DBWI: Channel 4 didn't commission Ice and Fire?

    I've just rewatched it on 4oD, and it got me thinking. For those not aware, it's the 1998 adaption of A Game of Thrones by George Martin made for Channel 4 and Canal+ over in France. I think it was planned to do all the series of books, but it simply cost too much and the later books didn't get...

  4. Ain't That a Kick in the Head? A mini-TL by CCM

    A mini-TL - expect (sub?) TLAID quality without anywhere near the punctuality. (Episode one: Ain't That a Hole in the Boat?) 1pm, 21 August 2008 BBC One, live coverage of the Beijing Olympics Sue Barker: And now we have live coverage of the women’s 57kg Taekwondo final between South Korea’s...

  5. DBWI: WI Rome gets cancelled early?

    So, tonight we've had the final episode of the BBC and HBO's epic drama series Rome. After six series and 62 episodes of one of bizarrely high budget TV, the historical epic has come to an end. Obviously it helped that the BBC were always really interested in the project - keeping it on BBC1...

  6. 18,000 Revolutions Per Minute - another story of Grand Prix racing, 2009-

    A thinking-aloud/on-the-fly work-in-progress-feasibility-study-at-the-same-time sports TL thing from CCM. Don't get too attached, it might stop, slow or whatever. Or take off. But most likely crash and burn. Here we go ... 25/07/2009 Hungarian GP Qualifying, BBC1, commentary Jonathan Legard...

  7. DBWI : Russia didn't get in to rugby?

    So, it's the quarter finals of the European Cup over the Easter weekend as always. This year's results - what with CSKA Moscow beating Northampton at Franklin's Gardens, Leicester Tigers getting a very close scare out playing Burevestnik in Kiev, and Cardiff losing to Spartak Tblisi at home -...

  8. Alternate actors in alternate roles game thing

    Right. One posts an actor and a role, another explains what else they were in in that TL E.G. Post 1 : Rupert Penry-Jones as Mikael "Kalle" Blomqvist in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Post 2 : After leaving his role in BBC spy drama Spooks when the show ended in 2008, Penry-Jones took...

  9. DBWI : The USA not a big force in rugby?

    So, just over a month to go until the US host their first Rugby World Cup (good call, they nearly got the first one in 1983, but for some reason they gave it to Australia). A group with South Africa and Argentina should be a challenge, but bearing in mind how good the American teams were in last...

  10. Rugby as a larger sport, particularly in Commonwealth and Eastern Bloc

    Pre-post warning : I'm particularly talking about Union here. I thought of this, switched on the laptop, and there's the baseball thread. What sort of (non-mutually exclusive) PODs could make rugby bigger in the the Commonwealth countries other than Australia, New Zealand and South Africa...

  11. Challenge : Rugby union big in the USSR

    Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is for the USSR to be a big rugby playing nation, defined as on the same level as the European big five. You may create an earlier onset of professionalism (but not later), and may create an earlier Rugby World Cup. The Six Nations could morph in to a...

  12. Rugby bigger in the Eastern Bloc and thoughts

    Firstly, the smaller point. WI Romania was added to the Five Nations (as it was then) during the 80s? According to The Genocide they were both rumoured to be interested and invited. Would Rugby in Romania have survived the overthrow of Ceausescu and subsequent events better? Perhaps ITTL Romania...

  13. WI : No Falklands conflict

    Did a DBWI on this a while ago, little interest then. Was tempted to post a TL, but I don't think I'd have the time to commit to it, and if I did it would be a steaming bag of poo. If Galtieri didn't invade the Falklands (presumably due to realism overtaking optimism), bearing in mind the...

  14. AHC : Basketball big in the UK

    Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to with a POD of your choice, to make basketball a major sport (on the level of rugby union) in the UK by 2010. Extra kudos for post-1967 (formation of the ABA, with the three point line) POD.

  15. AH Challenge / What If : POTUS Russ Feingold

    Pretty self-explanatory, the challenge is to get Russ Feingold's arse in the comfy chair in the Oval Office. You can select a POD from any point in 1993 (when he took his Senate seat) onwards, with him to win in 1996 (extra man points), 2000 or 2004 (the easy option). Also, what would the...

  16. WI - XFL not canned

    Anyone with a knowledge of US sports knows about the XFL - the one season American football league that has been derided as a failure. It did have many teething troubles - the games weren't so high scoring due to the smashmouth-oriented rules in the first few weeks, and it was difficult to take...

  17. Somewhat unusual AH challenge : Robot combat as big as MMA is now

    This sounds monumentally off the wall (yes, I thought of this following seeing some clips on Youtube), but I don't think it's ASB. The challenge is that, with a POD after 1998 (the start of the airing of the UK television series Robot Wars), robot combat (similar to the British TV show) has a...

  18. Challenge/WI : Motor racing at the Olympics?

    One of the more famous events of the Ancient Olympic games was the chariot racing. Current IOC rules (no idea how long they have been in force for) ban sports that require mechanical propulsion, meaning it is unlikely to return in the near future. In the past there was motorized sports in the...
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