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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 10, 2021 14:48:46 GMT
I enjoyed that too. I was a big snooker fan growing up and loved seeing all the old footage. Hilarious that he was pissed during a world championship final. You could almost smell the benson and hedges and cheap lager
The past is a different country huh?
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 10, 2021 14:55:06 GMT
That story about them laying on free booze for him in the Dublin hotel and he was up until 7 am drinking - then played the final later that same day, absolutely fucking steaming!
The scene where he beats Reardon in 1982 and calls for his baby is still very moving. He was a good old-fashioned Catholic boy, wasn't he? talking about his 'God-given gifts' to the interviewer.
(15 minutes in)
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 15:36:42 GMT
. He was a good old-fashioned Catholic boy, wasn't he? Hardly! He was a Protestant from The Shankhill Road who once threatened to have Dennis Taylor, a Catholic, shot!
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 10, 2021 15:40:02 GMT
Yeah, I should have left it at 'God-fearing'...
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 10, 2021 16:00:15 GMT
Oh how I long for the days when snooker players got pissed in world finals and threatened to have other players executed!
*sniff*
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on May 10, 2021 16:05:35 GMT
Oh how I long for the days when snooker players got pissed in world finals and threatened to have other players executed! *sniff* If I were you I'd quit my job and devote myself to becoming a professional snooker player just so I could get pissed during championship games and bring some glory back to the sport. Like ol' Gandhi said, you've got to be the change you want to see in the world (although I don't think he'd've advocated for murdering your opponents.)
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 18:08:23 GMT
Ally Sheedy just showed up the tv show OZ, outta nowhere.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2021 22:32:54 GMT
Bill maher was good last week, this juck john whorter seemed interesting.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 11, 2021 22:41:29 GMT
He’s a good guy fighting the good fight.
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Post by tory on May 13, 2021 10:26:51 GMT
Watched Repair Shop for the first time and shed a tear over the Welsh lady and her Dad's matchstick boat which they fixed for her.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2021 10:52:07 GMT
Watched Repair Shop for the first time and shed a tear over the Welsh lady and her Dad's matchstick boat which they fixed for her. Yes, we do get attached to things. I often think it would be wonderful to be able to bring things back to their former glory.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on May 13, 2021 11:46:33 GMT
Watched Repair Shop for the first time and shed a tear over the Welsh lady and her Dad's matchstick boat which they fixed for her. Yes, we do get attached to things. I often think it would be wonderful to be able to bring things back to their former glory.
It's amazing what some people are capable of. I have a couple of small Inuit stone carvings that belonged to my dad, one of a hunter and another of some sort of whale - maybe a Pilot whale - both carved out of dark, almost black, stone. One of my nieces or nephews dropped the poor whale ages ago and broke the tip of its dorsal fin off, which my dad "repaired" with some glue. Suffice to say, it looked like shit. Anyway, after I got the two pieces I decided I wanted to have the whale restored and thanks to the line of work I'm in, I have ready access to someone who does just that, so I sent it off to George the Inuit carving restorer and when I got it back I couldn't even tell it had ever been broken. I don't know how he did what he did, but it's flawlessly executed and it made me incredibly happy to have this lovely little sculpture restored to its former self.
I did the same with a painting that hung behind the bar of my local that I bought when they closed that was in rough shape from a combination of years of neglect, a coating of vaporised cooking oil, tobacco smoke and its proximity to a steamy glass washer. Same thing: sent it off, had a bit of a back-and-forth with the restorer regarding how much work I wanted him to do (there was notable paint loss, which looked even worse after he cleaned the thing) and when I got it back, again, just a wondrous transformation.
Both pieces are in this pic. The whale is near the lower right (now that I think about it, maybe I should get Jack the fish's busted tail fixed...)
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2021 11:55:20 GMT
NAD amp I see, what's the turntable ?
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on May 13, 2021 12:02:20 GMT
Dual CS5000. I replaced the Nad last year with a Cambridge AXR100 and the Polk bookshelf speakers (in cases I built myself) with a pair of Totem Skylights, which sit on a pair of old Missions.
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Post by tory on May 20, 2021 15:18:56 GMT
Motherland, which might be the funniest thing on the BBC right now, if only for Diane Morgan.
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