Easter Weekend 10th, 11th, 12th & 13th April 2020

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:31 pm

The Good Place was also excellent though I couldn’t watch the last episode

Post by **adam** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:34 pm

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Anyhoo, anyone been bingeing on any good TV during this lockdown?

I just finished the first series of 'The Missing' from 2014 on the Iplayer after reading some inexplicably good reviews.

It was just a cheesy bog standard 'kid gone missing' crime drama with all the usual cliches and tropes, the cheese being the most important ingredient as it complimented the enormous slice of ham that is James Nesbitt. It will forever be a mystery to me why directors employ James Nesbitt, he has all the acting chops of a 5 year old trying to look innocent while holding a poo in their hand next to a wall with 'poo' written on it in poo.

So any suggestions for BBC drama's on the IPlayer that don't have James Nesbitt in them would be gratefully received.

Ghost Stories - film by some of the League of Gentlemen writers/directors. On iPlayer at the moment.

Post by **adam** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:36 pm

tinyclanger2 wrote:The Good Place was also excellent though I couldn’t watch the last episode

I haven't seen any of the last series yet.

Not iPlayer but Netflix and (I think) 4od have Brookly99 which is excellent lighthearted well written well acted ensemble character comedy, with its heart in the right place about just about everything.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:37 pm

@adam

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Post by **adam** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:39 pm

Also (with thanks to PF) Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse going fishing (which I think is just called 'mortimer and whitehouse gone fishing') also on iPlayer. Two late middle age blokes with heart conditions quietly wittering on about how much life still matters.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:47 pm

gilsey wrote:This is some of my snakes-head fritillaries.

Not only are they fabulous that has to be one of the best plant names of all time.

Would they survive in partial shade do you think?

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:52 pm

adam wrote:Ghost Stories - film by some of the League of Gentlemen writers/directors. On iPlayer at the moment.

I think I've seen it. Is that the portmanteau one with the skeptic living in a caravan?

Post by **adam** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:55 pm

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:
adam wrote:Ghost Stories - film by some of the League of Gentlemen writers/directors. On iPlayer at the moment.
I think I've seen it. Is that the portmanteau one with the skeptic living in a caravan?

Yes - it was a stage play first and then a film. The play didn't let on at all what it was about and the publicity was just pictures of the audience looking terrified.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 11:00 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Actually Burnham is interestingly presenting himself as a victim in this.

But not at all surprising.

Ed M's take on all this would be highly "interesting" as well. Maybe soon?

(one small comfort in this - many of the worst people in these revelations no longer work for Labour, others might not for much longer)

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 11:04 pm

(and scary)

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Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 11:06 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Actually Burnham is interestingly presenting himself as a victim in this.
But not at all surprising.

Ed M's take on all this would be highly "interesting" as well. Maybe soon?

(one small comfort in this - many of the worst people in these revelations no longer work for Labour, others might not for much longer)

John Ashworth perhaps in an uncomfortable position!

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 11:11 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Actually I was wondering which hill you rolled your eggs down

Ask West Yorkshire Police. They'll have seen me do it as the police helicopter was pretty much overhead, they flew it around all afternoon going from park to woods to park. That would have cost a fortune in fuel, for what? Were they going to land and tell a couple of teenagers lying on the grass to get up? It's ridiculous. The only person who has stood right in front of my face in the last couple of weeks has been a policeman asking me what I was doing. Everyone else has joined in that bizarre dance of politeness.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 11:25 pm

adam wrote:Yes - it was a stage play first and then a film. The play didn't let on at all what it was about and the publicity was just pictures of the audience looking terrified.

I see well, and I don't want to sound uncharitable here, if the play was anything like the film those terrified audience members probably shouldn't be allowed to watch even childrens television for fear of harm to their delicate sensibilities.

We're they all stereotypical women from a turn of the last century penny dreadful?

I mean in the Seventies we had public information adverts way scarier than that.

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Post by **adam** » Sun 12 Apr, 2020 11:35 pm

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:
adam wrote:Yes - it was a stage play first and then a film. The play didn't let on at all what it was about and the publicity was just pictures of the audience looking terrified.
I see well, and I don't want to sound uncharitable here, if the play was anything like the film those terrified audience members probably shouldn't be allowed to watch even childrens television for fear of harm to their delicate sensibilities.

We're they all stereotypical women from a turn of the last century penny dreadful?

I mean in the Seventies we had public information adverts way scarier than that.

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I think there are sections of the film that are proper scary. Not the middle bit - the woods - so much but paul whitehouse as the night security guard with the manniquins was particularly good. I'd also - on proper scary - recommend The Babadook and It Follows, although I'm not sure where you'll see them - I think It Follows is on Netflix, it was at one point.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 12:02 am

BABADOOK

Superb. Depression is a monster.

Have you seen her next film The Nightingale?

It's one of the most horrific films I've ever seen in my life.

And the monsters are The British.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 12:02 am

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Post by **adam** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 12:09 am

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:BABADOOK

Superb. Depression is a monster.

Have you seen her next film The Nightingale?

It's one of the most horrific films I've ever seen in my life.

And the monsters are The British.

Spoliers ahoy....

no really, spoilers...

but I think babadook is the knowledge that mother and son share, and both know that the other one knows, that there are (many) times she would rather have her husband than him. It's only his remarkable maturity at the end ofthe film, the fact that he can accept this, that lets them tame the monster.

I haven't seen The Nightingale yet but I want to.

Post by **adam** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 12:10 am

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:[youtube]wIKpkjlptNY[/youtube]

I can't remember who it was but I remember reading a thing from a very small indieband who were touring as the support act for House of Love who said that they'd never met such a huge bunch of dicks in their lives.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 12:24 am

I think the dickishness mainly came from the guitarist Terry Bickers who was by all accounts, including Hazel who used to work in the Newcastle Riverside, a massive wanker.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 12:31 am

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gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 12:52 am

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:
gilsey wrote:This is some of my snakes-head fritillaries.
Not only are they fabulous that has to be one of the best plant names of all time.

Would they survive in partial shade do you think?

I should think so, these are under trees. As long as it’s not too dry.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 1:07 am

The nature of Monkey was irrepresible.

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 1:33 am

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 1:43 am

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PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 1:51 am

Maudlin time.

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You started it off with Nick Cave.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 1:55 am

That was splendid.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 1:56 am

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:05 am

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PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:13 am

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:18 am

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:25 am

You and I have very different views of American country music.

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:33 am

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PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:34 am

Yes. I think my tastes are generally more Church Of the Latter Day Saints than yours are?

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:44 am

Well indeed.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:55 am

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:58 am

Done this so many times before.

I'm boring.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 2:59 am

And bored of myself.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 3:07 am

I've been trying to remember the name of the thing I'm trying to remember, but it's not going to happen. It will come to me tomorrow. So you'll need to wait 'til then to probably dislike it.

So I'll sleep on it.

Night night.

Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 3:37 am

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 3:56 am

Calling Octopus.

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Sky'sGoneOut · Post by **Sky'sGoneOut** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 4:10 am

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tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 6:12 am

Morning.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 6:12 am

Oh yes.
****ing virus.

tinyclanger2 · Post by **tinyclanger2** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 6:13 am

I almost forgot.

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 10:16 am

I wish I could forget.

It looks like it's going to be another day of wall to wall "resurrection" and it's getting very frustrating as I really want to know what's happening, where the outbreak is worse, how it's affecting people, how many people have been laid off or are on furlough, whether the financial packages announced by the government are working for people and so on.

I want some news, basically. Some new news, not raking over the disaster Labour's been for the last 5 years. We all know Ed's attempts to keep everything together failed. What now needs to be accepted is that all out war doesn't work either. Anyone who thinks that Labour will be saved if we just purge this group of people or that group of people don't understand how first past the post works and they have to get over it, and that includes the Blair worshippers who have to accept that when Blair won a landslide in 1997 he did so with a broad coalition of shadow ministers from across the board, not narrow minded purists all singing from the exact same song sheet. How Starmer reacts will be informative, I guess, but I can predict no one will be happy. We've got some characters on the right of the party who have behaved completely inappropriately and said some appalling things on the one hand but on the other hand we have the people who have leaked this potentially breaking privacy laws in doing so and thus dumping Labour in a whole lot of other trouble too.

And, boy, did it get chilly again or what? 8°C here, after 24°C yesterday.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 10:19 am

Don't be fooled: Britain's coronavirus bailout will make the rich richer still

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gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 10:20 am

UK government 'giving incorrect information on self-isolation', say GPs

Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 10:20 am

Good morfternoon.

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 10:22 am

Willow904 wrote: I really want to know what's happening, where the outbreak is worse, how it's affecting people, how many people have been laid off or are on furlough, whether the financial packages announced by the government are working for people and so on.

I refer you to my previous post. They haven't a clue about the answers to those questions.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Mon 13 Apr, 2020 10:40 am

Willow904 wrote:I wish I could forget.

It looks like it's going to be another day of wall to wall "resurrection" and it's getting very frustrating as I really want to know what's happening, where the outbreak is worse, how it's affecting people, how many people have been laid off or are on furlough, whether the financial packages announced by the government are working for people and so on.

I want some news, basically. Some new news, not raking over the disaster Labour's been for the last 5 years. We all know Ed's attempts to keep everything together failed. What now needs to be accepted is that all out war doesn't work either. Anyone who thinks that Labour will be saved if we just purge this group of people or that group of people don't understand how first past the post works and they have to get over it, and that includes the Blair worshippers who have to accept that when Blair won a landslide in 1997 he did so with a broad coalition of shadow ministers from across the board, not narrow minded purists all singing from the exact same song sheet. How Starmer reacts will be informative, I guess, but I can predict no one will be happy. We've got some characters on the right of the party who have behaved completely inappropriately and said some appalling things on the one hand but on the other hand we have the people who have leaked this potentially breaking privacy laws in doing so and thus dumping Labour in a whole lot of other trouble too.

And, boy, did it get chilly again or what? 8°C here, after 24°C yesterday.

This stuff needed to be leaked, quite frankly.

I've been involved in left wing politics for nigh on 40 years now, and have seen a fair amount of things with my own eyes that were not for the squeamish. I have no illusions that factionalism will always exist, or that things will sometimes get nasty and people may even say things they don't really mean.

But certain stuff in these files is just - in the most elemental sense of that word - inhuman. Pure sociopathy. People who have forgotten why they got involved in the Labour party in the first place - save for certain individuals (and alas I have no doubt that this is true) who did so for totally amoral self-interested careerist reasons.

(but again, why were those types ever allowed to reach such prominent positions in the party hierarchy in the first place?)

Starmer needs to respond in some way - much of his support was motivated by a desire to put this kind of unpleasantness behind us.