Thanks Geoff. Unfortunately, not to be.
My little dear died at about 04.00 this morning. God I miss her; 11 years of routines.
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Thanks Geoff. Unfortunately, not to be.
My little dear died at about 04.00 this morning. God I miss her; 11 years of routines.
Oh, very sorry to hear that Guy.
yes, very sorry to hear mate...
The only consolation is she had a blissfully happy life.
Dreadful, mate. I feel your pain, almost nothing worse..:(Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
RIP Tia.
Marco.
Thanks chaps - I just feel "empty" at the moment
I can't go in the shop at the moment without the lady asking me about the census:
'Why are they asking these questions?' 'Do I have to answer them?' 'Why have I never had to do this before?' (She's lived in the UK for fifty years so your guess is as good as mine on that last one).
She's in a quandary because it's asking her to list her son's GCSE results and he can't remember them. The son is about 24 tops.
Scotland is getting it next year.
Must have done them before but don't recall that far back [emoji23]
See they are going to start producing microwave boilers for central heating. Supposedly 96% efficient and low polluting. Should be about similar prices. So that means twice the cost
They sound sharp as... er... stick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I see why you say that but they own two shops and a load of houses and flats. Better to be sharp where it counts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Filterlab
They do work 15 hour days 365 days a year which I suppose takes the shine off it a bit.
And yet they struggle with the census, which literally took me three minutes to enter the details for both of us here. Weird. :lol:
Hope they don't ask me my exam results. That was 50 yrs ago.. God that sounds a long time
Thousand quid fine if you get it wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
It's how they're going to pay for Covid. That and speeding fines.
If I got my exam results wrong I'd deserve a fine. One O level. For English Language, believe it or not :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Not if you get it wrong. If you deliberately mislead or refuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Our older population can't guarantee to remember everything correctly. And if the govt knows the right answer, then why ask in first place? [emoji4]
I'm sorry what was the question?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The govt doesn't know the right answer to anything, so we should be safe :)
I see the new 'MacGyver' series starts on Pick tv channel tonight. I don't get it, why revamp a tv series that was rubbish first time around? Mind you, it can't be any worse than Scorpion.
Yeah but it's got my very favourite lady on TV, Tristin Mays (Riley) Almost worth watching just for her. Almost.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
It was one of those weird shows that was rubbish but got loads of viewers. A bit like 'Birds Of A Feather.'Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Then you've got your shows that were so rubbish they were good. Like 'Knight Rider' or 'Battlestar Galactica.' (The original not the reboot. The reeboot was rubbish but not rubbish enough to be good so it sort of missed both targets).
To which I would add 'The A Team'. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Maybe, but the A Team never took itself seriously. To qualify as 'so bad it's good' a show has to take itself seriously. It's not an easy target to hit. It can only really be achieved by accident. Like finding Narnia.
Being fed up with the lack of any decently 'gritty' series on the box, I've ordered Ray Donovan series 1 on DVD. Can't go wrong with that!
And The Dukes of Hazzard. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
No, DoH was just good. Mainly because of Daisy Duke, the freeze-frames with voiceover, and the jumping cars. But that's by the by.
'Prisoner: Cell Block H' is a good example of a show that's so bad it's good. Or 'Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.' 1970s American sci-fi is an especially rich vein for some reason.
& Sheriff Rosco Purvis ColtraneQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Yuk yuk yuk.
I remember me and my brothers attempting to get into the car through the windows. My dad went crackers about damage to the paintwork.
And the bloke near us who had a red Mk3 Cortina with the Starsky and Hutch white stripe on it. He'd not extended it over the roof though so it was a partial fail, but we still thought that was very cool.
Funny, I can remember Daisy and the sheriff but bugger all else about it.
What about the car? The car was pretty memorable, mainly for the getting in and out through the windows.
Daisy and the Charger were the only good bits, the rest was garbage - but at least it was fun garbage.
https://i.ibb.co/chT1c5N/55-E25-C8-C...47192-C115.jpg
Legs insured for a million dollars. Back when that was a lot of money.
I was only watching an episode the other day, stands up pretty well if you ask me. First couple of seasons do anyway. Proper escapist fun.
At some point TV shows stopped being entertainment and became lectures on diversity, inclusion, alternative lifestyles, feminism, and other tedious shite. Everything is so serious now, and so obviously conscious of it too. That's why I pretty much never watch anything made after about 1995.
I'm glad you haven't seen 'Unforgotten' then. What a load of absolute crap! Standard writing these days; white men are all kiddy fiddlers, any male member of the church is obviously a child rapist, all minorities are holier than thou, all good things are done by minorities, all white people are nasty criminals, all police are inept and over emotional (and come with a damaged relationship / damaged marriage / damaged kids / damaged parents) etc etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Utter garbage, complete piffle, and an embarrassment to screen writers and police officers everywhere.
I just stared at my phone whilst the other half watched through it all. What was a shame is that there were some excellent actors in all the series; Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Trevor Eve, Neil Morrissey, Kevin McNally, James Fleet, Clare Goose - to name but a few. Obviously there purely for gravy train purposes.
thats an example of why i dont watch much modern stuff. its mostly crap
Things may be rather the other way around. Unlikely as it will seem in this age of 'political overcorrectness', the government actually publish figures on Crime and Ethnicity. The statistics are as one might anticipate. A bit of Googling reveals all..........tricky to find though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Filterlab
Interesting read though no doubt.
The car massively more so than her, IMO, as unlike many 'back in the day', for whom she was wet-dream material, I've never considered her as that special... Decent bod, but not especially pretty. She looks quite old, even now (in that pic anyway)!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Filterlab
Marco.
Funny, my sister bought me a DVD of it as a joke a couple of Christmases ago because I loved it as a kid. Two things struck me on watching it:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
(1) I must have been quite young when I watched it originally, as my only recollection of Daisy Duke was annoyance that she took screen time away from the General Lee.
(2) I don’t remember it being as rubbish as I found it!
I think Knight Rider has aged far better, frankly.
thought they were all crap tbh, but i guess i was maybe older, and catherine bach was probably the best bit. oddly a few days ago my sonn wanted me to pick up the a team on dvd for him. i got him a full set used on the bay for £19
https://clipperdata.com/wp-content/u...together-1.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
They were! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Fancy a very highly paid job sitting around with a mug of coffee, banging out the occasional pointless email and having long 'business lunches'? Only qualification required, being able to say "Oh Ya" regularly!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...nior-executive
'life coaching' aka paying someone to nag you.
Most men get that for free.
I certainly don't get it for free - my "life coach" spends all my wages then nags me about working such long hours :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Filterlab
Ahh yes, the old 'give me everything I ask for then let me nag you for working too much and spending no time with me'.
Female reasoning is a strange and warped series of contradictions.
I don't get any of that. My wife's used to living with a self centred control freak who ignores everybody else! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Filterlab
You never have a nice word to say about that poor dog...Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
As Del tells me: 'A nag is only a repeated request, so if the request is fulfilled at the first time of asking, there's no need to nag!':DQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I don't really get nags, just lists of WANTS. It's a princess thing.
Marco.