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People who say "Well, we have to go now", and are still there 20 minutes later.

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:40 am Jimmy Carr looks like Richard Nixon.

I was going to post something along the line of "Bollocks!", but, actually, you have a point.

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The Highwaymen.....Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. A netflix special. It's about the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde. I quite enjoyed it 7/10 Also new on netflix, The Thing. I hadn't seen this in over 30 years and was surprised how well it had aged. It's considered to be one of the last big special eff...

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Watched two in-flight movies this week.

"First Man", the Neil Armstrong biopic was very good, and I can recommend it.

"Widows" based on the Lynda La Plante novel/mini-series, started off well, but the final twists were a bit preposterous.

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Alan Hansen did the same on MotD.

I think the key is that "coloured" was never meant to be a derogatory term. I seem to remember that back in the early 70s "coloured" was considered more polite than "black".

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Just finished watching Black Mirror on Netflix. For the most part I thoroughly enjoyed it, but for some reason Netflix made me watch it back to front (kind of a Black Mirror moment), so I watched Season 4 first and Season 1 last. Did it make you or did it just come as by default and you didn't do a...

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Just finished watching Black Mirror on Netflix. For the most part I thoroughly enjoyed it, but for some reason Netflix made me watch it back to front (kind of a Black Mirror moment), so I watched Season 4 first and Season 1 last. All fine, until tonight, when I watched my final episode, "The Na...

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Horace Horlicks.

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Cat Buck-A-Roo is good fun on Christmas day.

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We still send cards.

I still think of myself as being in touch with a friend from university days, even though my wife writes and sends our card, and his wife writes and sends theirs.

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"Narcos: Mexico" on Netflix. I suppose it's very similar to "Narcos", but set in Mexico, and with cannabis instead of cocaine (although they do upgrade to smuggling cocaine for the Colombians). It's very violent and most of the dialogue is subtitled, but fascinating nonetheless. ...

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A pair of chopsticks. I think the knife and fork is a better invention, and don't feel my oriental meals are any less authentic without them. A pair, now you tell me, I've only got the one 😁. All joking aside John Lewis (other pretentious middle class department stores are available ) do a rookie c...

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A pair of chopsticks.

I think the knife and fork is a better invention, and don't feel my oriental meals are any less authentic without them.

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I concur again with Bradman. I find this weird. I don't think I could say who the greatest ever sportsman would be, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't choose a cricketer. Cricket doesn't test athletic abilities in any meaningful way and one person's influence over the team performance is only ever goin...

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Beasts of No Nation.. A difficult subject, but very well handled. Violent at times, but thought provoking and harrowing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b0JDfXAq1M

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I agree that both Farah and Hamilton could win more titles, but Stevenson would have been turning professional in a golden era for Heavyweight boxing. It's impossible to say how he would have fared. It certainly was a golden era for heavyweight boxing and Muhammad Ali in the mid seventies was a ver...

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I agree that both Farah and Hamilton could win more titles, but Stevenson would have been turning professional in a golden era for Heavyweight boxing. It's impossible to say how he would have fared.

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No Rocky Marciano, no Tefeleo Stevenson. Mo Farah and Lewis Hamilton should be added too. Jahanagar Khan is a good call for a non global sport though. Mo Farah's Olympic feats were surpassed by both Lasse Viren and Emil Zatopek. Stevenson was never tested, as he never turned professional. Fangio is...

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Although not a contender for "Greatest Sportsman", the US discus thrower, Al Oerter, deserves an honorary mention. In 1968 he became the first person to win a fourth consecutive gold in the same event, a feat only equalled by Carl Lewis (long jump) and Michael Phelps (200m individual medle...

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Just reading this thread again. I was thinking about boxing - it doesn't have proper tournaments. It's just a challenge thing, which doesn't cut it. You remain champion until some opponent (sometimes arguably picked for non-merit reasons) beats you. And people refer to Ali as a three-time champion ...

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Give it a go. It's a ghost story rather than a gorefest, (although there is some blood and gore). Unlike the majority of horror films it's genuinely scary.

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"The Haunting of Hill House" on Netflix. The Haunting (1963) scared the bejeezus out of me when I first saw it, aged 11. It scared me again when I saw it for a second time,7 years later. This series stays loyal to the original film, and adds a few more layers too. I'm on episode 5 of 10, a...

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Saw "A Star is Born" last week. 4/5. Bradley Cooper and Lady GaGa are both very good. The on stage scenes were first rate.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:24 pm What are the people who believe them actually doing about it other than whining on Internet forums?

Giving some meaning to their pointless, empty lives.

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Sir Bernard Lovell, the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, tracked the lunar missions all the way to the moon and back again. If it was fake then he would have to be in on it. Why is it that conspiracy theorists always believe EVERY conspiracy theory? What's his theory on 9/11? I bet his fa...

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Have you noticed that the number of sightings of Elvis has dropped off dramatically in recent years?

I hope nothing has happened to him.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:23 am I'm sure the bobble variety works for most people

Not a good look when you're strolling down the promenade in Puerto Del Carmen.

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:10 pm About ten percent, boringly.

I am told by people who have worked in restaurants that 10% is far more than the average tip. My own experience of eating out with other people and splitting the bill would also suggest that 10% is considered overly generous by many people.

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Wear a hat. Usually I look like I'm balancing the hat on my head, rather than wearing it. I can squeeze a baseball cap on, but it just looks wrong.

I often get sunstroke on holiday.

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I would probably tip £4 on that bill, but like Gavin, I hate the concept of tips. I usually aim for 10%, but might only leave £45 on a £41 bill, for instance. I rarely tip at all if it's a prepaid meal, in a pub for instance, even though they bring the food to you. I don't take many taxi rides, but ...

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As per title. How much do you tip?

As an example, you have a meal plus drinks in an ok restaurant. The waiter/waitress was perfunctory. The bill comes to £38.40. How much would you leave?

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Goldfinger. Any song that finds a rhyme for "Midas touch" gets my vote, and Shirley Bassey's delivery is epic. In fact, there isn't a Bond theme that wouldn't sound better if sung by Shirley. She should have been given the gig years ago.

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Burt Reynolds RIP.

Francis Ford Coppolla's first choice for the part of Michael Corleone.

He also turned down the role of James Bond in 1970.

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I watched The Thing the other day. Thought it was quite good. A bit silly really, but entertaining enough. One of my favourite Sci-fi films. It's almost like a whodunnit with special effects. That film is 25 years old and the special effects still look superb. The Thing was released in 1982, so 36 ...

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Pilates of the Caribbean
Wangs of New York
Shitter Island
Fanny Face
Midnight Rub
The Jungle Bonk
Seven Brides for Seven Brothels

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Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:52 pm
Jennifer Steadman wrote: ↑Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:22 pm [
A few hundred people having a paddy
Unfortunate choice of phrase considering the thread topic, no?

Are you taking the Mick?

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I can tell you why I love football. It's the goals. There's no feeling like when your team scores a great goal, or winning goal. Every football fan can relate to this. For me the greatest goal was Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's last minute winner in the 1999 Champions League final. Other goals that stand ou...

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One of my Facebook friends died last year, but I unfriended him. Is that bad form?

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I was recommended a few films to watch on Netflix and enjoyed them. Calibre. A couple of guys go on a hunting trip in Scotland and end up being hunted. Bad Day for the Cut. A mild mannered farmer becomes vigilante when his frail mother is killed in a home invasion. (Fairly violent) Don't Breathe. Su...

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BSc Hons) in Pharmacy. Didn't really try very hard, so only got a Douglas. On a plus side I could identify any beer in Manchester and smoke a packet of 20 Marlboros by the time I left Uni (1983).

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Jun 30, 2018 4:06 pm Hope you watched the Four hour version of Once upon a Time in America and not the US edit. ( Which made the film almost incomprehensible )

I haven't seen it for 10-15 years, but I've only ever seen the full length version.

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Also watched the first two Beverly Hills Cop movies and Fletch recently. Love the Harold Faltermayer soundtracks. What's everyone's favourite soundtracks? I'm looking for original score only, not just a film with a good collection of already released songs. Might try come up with a top ten list of ...

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Watching The Sinner on Netflix. Episode 3 and it's pretty good.

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Just finished Manhunt:Unabomber on Netflix and really enjoyed it, Without giving too much away, they caught him with the help of linguistics. I never knew the origin of the phrase "To have your cake and eat it".....

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Mark James wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 3:58 pm Oh. And I don't mind fat people either.

I agree. Except when they try to compensate by being jolly.

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I really like the Paul McCartney and Wings cover of The Moody Blue's hit, "Go Now" from the live album Wings Over America. I recently discovered that The Moody Blues version was a cover too, the original being by an american singer named Bessy Banks.

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What are people's least favourite covers? One of those rubbish bands like Fall Out Boy or Panic at the Disco, I can never remember which one, did a horrible cover of Michael Jackson's Beat It. That would up there for me. Boyzone/Ronan Keating have made a career out of doing cover versions, each one...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:07 pm I would say that given the topics on this forum right now, anyone who has done stand-up comedy about cruelty in horse racing must be pretty good.

I tried it once, but it was like flogging a dead horse.

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I agree that George Carlin's comedy has aged much better than Richard Pryor's, but when Pryor came along no-one had done stand up like that. Maybe he gets too much credit, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I first saw "Richard Pryor Live".

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Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Apr 13, 2018 5:47 am
Highly recommend Norm MacDonald. His Netflix special Hitler's Dog is amazing

Very good! Thanks for the recommendation.

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As a child my brother and I were allowed to pick a horse in the Grand National and my Grandad would place a bet for us (10p e/w). It was always a highlight of the sporting calendar. I stopped placing bets on the race about 25 years ago when I realised what an ordeal the race is for the horses. The r...

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Bill Burr is hilarious.

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Am I allowed to say that Gary Glitter was one of the best concerts I ever went to?

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Yesterday by The Beatles. I think I was 3 or 4yo, but as Mark said, memories can be very unreliable. I also remember singing the chorus to Yellow Submarine over and over again from about the same time. First single bought was "I Did What I Did For Maria" by Tony Christie in 1971 (45p). I d...

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Why is it that people who play music loudly in their car always have crap taste in music?

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I can recommend all three I would watch Black Mirror next unless you don't like dystopian anthologies I went with Stranger Things. A cross between The Goonies and the X-Files. It's well done and has kept me watching, but I may be a bit too old for all the teen angst stuff in it. I will probably do ...

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Just finished Better Call Saul and Ozark. I enjoyed them both and will watch any future series. ( Ozark Season 2 is scheduled for mid 2018).

I'm undecided what to start next. It's between Stranger Things, Black Mirror and Peaky Blinders.

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I can recommend Mindhunter on NetFlix. It's about how the FBI set uo their serial killer profiling programme in the 1970s. There's only one series (10 episodes), but there's bound to be more to come. Narcos... The first two series are about the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord and head of the Me...

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