Oddly, I was fortunate enough to be drunk on brandy whilst watching the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie - featuring slapstick pirates! - at my local cinema.

I love that: I have a bottle of Pere Magloire in my cabinet at home. That's a pretty basic brand, but good enough for everyday sipping.

When I worked in a bar, a pint would have achieved that for me. Hooray for pre-minimum-wage-jobs.

I meant for the name they gave him.
But, yes, the rugby nude calendar is a pretty big deal, especially at Stade Francais.

He says you're a flatulating butthole.

There is only one I'd like to see (and broadcast Christmas Eve):
lBC present live, via satellite from New York, Bethlehem, Helsinki, West Berlin and the Great Barrier Reef, Charles Dickens' immortal Christmas classic…

I stand corrected, but will always love their music.

- especially now that the BBC has turned its website news section into a sad parody of what it once was:

Remy is a nice standard brand.

I always have a Talisker 10 and 18, and Macallan at home. I currently have Bowmore, which is lovely, and a Balvenie Doublewood that I have yet to open.
I am also partial to a JD Silver Select - a good gift choice,as it has brand recognition, yet is still unusual enough to be interesting.

I spent my honeymoon in the Charente region.
We visited the Martell distillery - well worth it. Personally, though, I have a taste for Armagnac.

BBC3.
I did enjoy it, especially the Paedofinder General. That has proven to have been uncomfortably prescient.

London is like the TARDIS - that's how so many people can fit in such a small area.
Mentioning Dorset gets an upvote from me, btw.

I unashamedly love that film, and think Grant was great in it.

Too many. Bastards.
Queen (Greatest Hits 1,2, and 3), and The Beatles Red and Blue are, however, justified in both cases.

That reminds me of going into a pub one Sunday afternoon, when they had the jukebox set to "free play". The beer was so bad that we left without drinking it, but not before putting a Chris de Burgh album on to play several times over for all the other patrons to enjoy.

This exactly - I was so jaded about yet another Lecter production, but this show was sold to me by the staff and commenters of this site.

Oddly enough, Mrs periscopes loved the slow burn: it's not normally her thing. I really didn't engage with Top of the Lake, and my wife only watched it because I was so keen to.

From experience: get the diagnosis when you've been with someone for 17 years. By then, they will know that it's not the sum total of your personality.

HipsterDBag will not have been in jail (other than a holding cell), as I'm assuming he must have the world's best lawyer team.