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Post by oh oooh on Apr 16, 2021 9:58:38 GMT
Oh she's absolutely adorable. Nobody with a pulse could fail to fall in love with her.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 10:05:22 GMT
Oh she's absolutely adorable. Nobody with a pulse could fail to fall in love with her. Who are you talking about?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 16, 2021 10:06:42 GMT
Oh she's absolutely adorable. Nobody with a pulse could fail to fall in love with her. She's the kind of lass you'd fall for in your 20s but in your 30s you'd be far more annoyed by her. She's selfish, immature and, I won't spoiler it but....you know. There is some growth there but, christ, she'd drive you mad.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 10:11:01 GMT
It made the careers of Spall, Nail, Healey and Whately, and was a boost to Fairbank. Pat Roach and Gary Holton not so much. Funnily enough I found myself reading about Gary Holton the other day. He always wanted to make it as a rock star I think, so treated the acting as a bit of a sideline. Holton at least could act a bit. Roach put in the worst performance of anybody ever in anything ever. Reading about him (Holton), I was surprised to see he'd been in the Royal Shakespeare Company asa teenager! Kind of hard to imagine. Interesting fact about him was he turned down the chance to replace Bon Scott in AC/DC..which he must've regretted!
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 16, 2021 10:13:20 GMT
Oh she's absolutely adorable. Nobody with a pulse could fail to fall in love with her. Who are you talking about? Fleabag
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 10:13:55 GMT
Andrew scott is in the 2nd series i believe, he's always watchable too. His Moriarty was very good, although trivialized i thought near the end.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 10:58:51 GMT
Frank Of Ireland, i have it recorded and looking forward to it. The Gleason family are the understated acting family of Ireland, they're all very good at what they do from da down to youngest. Good be good.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2021 15:52:14 GMT
Sharon Osbourne is on Maher's show. That should be worth a butchers, should be loud. We don't get it until tomorrow night.
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Post by oleandermedian on Apr 22, 2021 16:44:02 GMT
Sloop mentioned this series on another thread and it sounded interesting. It’s dominated by three characters – Fred Brennan, who wrote the website known at one point as 8chan, and the site’s owner and admin, Jim (dad) and Ron (son) Watkins. Or four if we include the mysterious Q, who only ever posts on 8chan. The Watkins are a devious pair with a mischievous gleam in their eye. Fred is ostensibly the most likeable of the three. When the story catches up with them they’re all living in Manila, and Brennan and the Watkins have had a very serious falling out and are now pursuing their quarrel online, each party doing its best to smear and discredit the other.
(Meanwhile back in the rest of the world the QAnon phenomenon is gaining global traction and more and more people are walking the streets with their heads shot off by the internet. They see socialist conspiracy everywhere they look, and dress up in beaver outfits with horns. They hang on Q’s every gnomic pronouncement. Evidence refuting their claims is effortlessly assimilated into their infinitely pliable narrative as the counterfactual that proves the fact – “that’s what they want you to think”. Things are never what they appear in Q-land, and although 8chan may look like a platform for frightened right-wing nutjobs, paedophiles and spree killers, in actual fact it’s a beacon of free speech in a benighted world etc.)
Then the story moves on from Manila – in his ongoing spite-war with the Watkins, Fred falls foul of filipino libel law and has to flee the country to avoid a possible 25-year jail sentence – at least that’s his explanation for leaving his wife and beloved dogs in the lurch and escaping across the Pacific. Soon Jim is back in the US too, and has spruced himself up a little. You still wouldn’t let him babysit your kids but you might, in straitened financial circumstances, buy a used car off him. The last we see of him is near the US Capitol building in early January this year… but that’s probably not the end of the story. I’d watch more!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2021 11:20:27 GMT
This is a tough watch, the despair, constant threat, menace, it takes its toll on you. The writing is good, most of the time and the actors do their parts well. I'm still on season one but i'm fully engaged in terms i can understand actions by prisoners and see the justification for them. You need to be in the mood to watch this, i don't think you can fire it on to pass a few hours.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2021 11:23:39 GMT
Even the bum sex, or especially the bum sex?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2021 11:01:36 GMT
Finished watching fleabag and it left me feeling a bit empty. Outside of getting her cafe on the go, she hasn't matured or properly dug in to any of her issues, like with her best friend. It was still good and i got some laughs but in all, it was ok.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 27, 2021 21:51:14 GMT
I picked up a used copy of the blu ray set of Monty Python's Flying Circus which came out last year, and I'm only halfway through the second series, but - holy mother o' pearl, somebody went to a lot of trouble and expense (presumably) to get it right - it looks a-MAY-zing! And there's outtakes and such in the Special Features - who knew this stuff had survived? There's even one bit that (as far as I know) was always previously censored - a reference to cancer was changed to gangrene at the Beeb's behest - that's uncensored here. (Actually, the censored version is funnier - but still...)
I haven't enjoyed this stuff this much since I was first seeing it in the '70s!
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 27, 2021 22:04:26 GMT
Watching it all again was honestly one of the highlights of the last 12 months for me, Charlie. I didn't expect I'd enjoy it as much, in fact.
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 27, 2021 22:21:43 GMT
I enjoyed Snackmasters tonight. The basic idea is clever and it's original - getting master chefs to recreate mass-produced biscuits, chocolate bars etc. It's really difficult and it's kind of pointless - but it's fun to watch these experienced kitchen wallahs knock themselves out making cheap grub.
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