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Marc Meakin

In the lyrics to Life on Mars by David Bowie the line is Lennons on sale again and not lemons as I thought

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I really enjoyed A Complete Unknown and agree that Chalamet was superb as Dylan. Also saw We Live In Time recently which I feel was carried by the superb performances of its two lead stars. I did like We Live in Time , though why it was like one day on shuffle I don't know It was confusing at first...

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A Complete Unknown.
I've never been a fan of Bob Dyan the singer but the poet , yes.
This film perfectly captures the 60s vibe and Timothee Chalomet really captures Dylans essence and even sings like him.
Great acting from the rest of the cast too.

Marc Meakin

Lost a stone already.... I might have to ammend my weight loss goal to 4 stone

Scrabble rating back up 4 points

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Watching a rerun of The Bionic Man on legend I noticed the theme tune is virtually the same as Emerdale (though the tempo is different )

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The death of sane policies in America

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I just watched the original Beetlejuice on the iPlayer. I thought it was pretty poor. Essentially nothing really happened. I mean, stuff did happen but it then just ended. It didn't really build to any conclusion. There seemed to be no point to it. In my top ten of popular films I hate Top 3 are 1....

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Why is it that when you injure yourself like falling off your bike for example the pain from bruising hurts worse 24 hours later ?

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David Lynch
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9vymjexvo

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Linda Nolan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1ek9x7p3yo

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He had a horrible abusive childhood, struggled with his sexuality, found fame through trying to channel all that trauma into making people laugh, but succumbed to that fame and the pressures it sought, overworked, burned out, snorted the money away and isolated away with wine bottles. It's a sad st...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:32 pm Tony Slattery has died. I'm glad he was able to get slightly back out there over the last few years, but his was a tragic life of addiction.

EDIT - oh there's a new thread, OK then

Was just about to post this.
At one time in the late 80s he was on tv more than Joel Dommett is now

Marc Meakin

It wouldn't be fool proof but if you had a breathalyser test as part of the ignition process of starting a car it might be a useful deterrrent You should also have to solve a numbers round and a conundrum before you are able to drive. Fuck that I would have to take a taxi if it's 4 large or 6 small

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 1:26 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:58 pm It wouldn't be fool proof but if you had a breathalyser test as part of the ignition process of starting a car it might be a useful deterrrent
This definitely exists.

In which case make it mandatory for all new cars and subsidise retro fits.
Over to you two tier Kier

Marc Meakin

Maybe trial it at a co event?

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'The size of Wales' is oft used as an indicator to how much rainforest have diminished. My favourite measurement has always been a 'gnats cock' I once worked with a welder who used it as a measurement. I also once worked with an Aussie welder who said ' bees dick ' Also the biting point of the clutc...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 5:44 pm I'm hoping for the day that self-driving cars become good enough to render human drivers obsolete.

Now that is an unpopular opinion

Marc Meakin

It wouldn't be fool proof but if you had a breathalyser test as part of the ignition process of starting a car it might be a useful deterrrent

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Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:10 pm The Simpsons should have finished 20 years ago.

Season 10 was where it peaked for me.
I did enjoy the film though

Marc Meakin

The drink-drive limit should be nil. I don't think this is probably that unpopular. I wonder though if it should be slightly over zero. I'm not sure exactly how alcohol leaves the system, but a small amount remaining because someone had a drink two nights ago probably shouldn't get them disqualifie...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 10:59 pm Also was on News at 10 tonight or so I believe as I'm not home yet

My boss said he saw me on News at 10 last Night.
I was trying to find it online but I will have to download it at home unless anyone here is clever enough to upload it here

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Also was on News at 10 tonight or so I believe as I'm not home yet

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https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/dancing-on-ice-the-vivienne-death-new-series-tribute-b1203433.html The Vivienne Tragically young You're a bit slow on that one. Yeah I even read the original post Brain is scrambled from too much Scrabble Can I redeem myself by saying Aubrey Plazas husband died Tr...

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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:03 pm Fiona and James Burley chat a bit in today's BBC South Today at the UK Scrabble thingy. Fiona's rather rude word is visible on the TV...

ITV are coming down today

If you want to play where's Wally the back of my head can be seen on the BBC South/London report

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https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/danc ... 03433.html

The Vivienne

Tragically young

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The great thing about the revivals of Millionaire, Blankety Blank and more recently Gladiators is that they’ve hardly changed a thing. Meanwhile, ITV lazily duplicate the American versions of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune with unnecessary hour-long padding and destroy the format of You Bet! and no...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 8:55 pm From my original 2017 list I still have:

Michael Schumacher
Cher
Mark Serwotka (some union leader guy)
Brian Blessed
Nigel Farage

Ì might chuck Elon Musk on my list.

Marc Meakin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20wl3957g5o

Wayne Osmond

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This may have been done in previous years but I need a marker for my resolutions. 1) to lose 3 stone by Christmas. I have signed up the NHS path to type 2 diabetes remission and it's a years program. 2) to improve my woeful scrabble rating (currently 122 has been 141) by 10 points minimum 3) to brea...

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:58 pm Barbra Streisand is on her way out this year. I call it.

Based on what ?
I've been reading (OK she's reading it to me ) her autobiography , very interesting read.

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People haven't fundamentally changed style or look for over 20 years. If you think of 80s ,70s ,60s style they all have their nuances with clothing , hair etc. But if you watch something contempory at the cinema or on tv made 20 odd years ago the only way of dating it is the computer screens or phon...

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Arctic (bears) from the Greek Arktos
Antarctic (No bears)

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:09 pm For discussion of 2025 deaths.

Can we have an updated dead pool too ?
I'm doing one anyway
Dick Van Dyke
Joe Biden
David Jason
Michael Caine
Gene Hackman
Clint Eastwood
Ringo Starr
Ronnie Wood
Mike Tyson
Paul Gadd
Elon Musk....not natural causes btw

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Johnny Walker RIP

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New years Eve Celebrations are Over Rated when you get past 50

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj6pqd2v16o

This isn't necessarily good news in fact it reinforces my argument that pop or rock bands are a dying breed

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Better Man , the Robbie Williams as a Chimp biopic.
Surprisingly good , well choreographed similar to Rocketman in style

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Seafood sauce for prawn cocktail is essentially Tommy sauce and mayo mixed in equal measure

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A lot of Girls Aloud songs have a school curriculum link

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As entertaining as the show is , there is a finite amount of unique questions available

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Outnumbered Christmas special. Doomed to failure from the outset. In̈ a family sit com cancer isn't funny. It's usp was based on the things kids say as funny and the family dynamic is too but having the kids all grown up was doomed to failure .( take note makers of Malcolm in the Middle) It makes th...

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Why can't subtitles in sport be below the main screen rather than obscure what's going on the pitch

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People who use voice notes

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Merry Christmas all Apterites and, Forumites .
Forgot about this thread
It's a shame it's date specific.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2we313k6ro

Not Mick (Paul.Hogan ) but Burt
I was convinced it was Paul

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A one-off hour-long Christmas edition with new host Freddie Flintoff airs on ITV 1 tonight at 6 pm (also on ITV X), with Luke Littler and Richard Ashdown joining the team. In new rounds and classics, which pair of knowers and throwers will be in with a chance to win the speedboat? If a hit with a n...

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:08 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2024 1:54 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2024 12:35 pm In the Bundesliga the player names are sometimes below the short number rather than above.
The fact that you haven't corrected your typo (which is rich coming from Lord Fat fingers himself) is a minor irritation
Oops. It's because I was blonded by rage when I typed that.

Dock

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2024 12:35 pm In the Bundesliga the player names are sometimes below the short number rather than above.

The fact that you haven't corrected your typo (which is rich coming from Lord Fat fingers himself) is a minor irritation

Marc Meakin

I posted it because the BBC spoiled it for me but I did put a spoiler warning albeit more subtle than I realised

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Inadvertent spoilers. Usually if I go to the cinema and the classification is a 15 and it says contains scenes of suicide. Why couldn't it say adult themes. Also if I'm watching a limited season and 3 episodes from the end the tv channel announces on the socials that it has been recommissioned for s...

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Warning spoilers for series champ result

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dp6lv1008o

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People who's real laugh sounds like a fake laugh.
Youtube Lord Charles for evidence

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 7:23 am The sound of other people eating cereal.

Mines people crunching apples.
Also people scraping a yoghurt pot for the last morsel , " it's not crack cocaine Karen"

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And another thing (it must be the wrong time of the year) When you go to concert venue they are very specific about doors opening time by very vague on the time the main act comes on. At the O2 Paul McCartney Concert the doors open at 6.30. There is no support as he does nearly a 3 hour set (I've d...

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Jean Adamson of Topsy and Tim fame
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rn7lzne5ko

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Looking back most punk rock bands were shit.
But maybe that was the point

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And another thing (it must be the wrong time of the year) When you go to concert venue they are very specific about doors opening time by very vague on the time the main act comes on. At the O2 Paul McCartney Concert the doors open at 6.30. There is no support as he does nearly a 3 hour set (I've do...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 5:58 pm Alan Carr is okay.

Since Changing ends and Picture Slam , I quite like him too.
But not when he is on chat shows etc

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Stratford International Station had probably the longest set of staircase from concourse to platform yet the lift can barely fit 4 people in , though escalators not working is probably a bigger annnoyance

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 12:06 pm I'm not really on C4C so I haven't read this thread but I hope I'm not the first to mention that you can't read "Scrountdown" without thinking about scrota.

Maybe Countabble is better , though you may be thinking of testes

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