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Marc Meakin

Season 4 of Black Mirror is awesome so far ( on Episode 4 ) Hang the DJ being the best, almost a companion piece to San Juipiero.
Arkangel being the weakest but still miles better than most things I've watched in recent months.

Marc Meakin

The quality of music and lyrics in general are awful at the moment. But as I grew up in the sixties I'm kind of entitled to say that.

Marc Meakin

The best singer is the youngster.
To be fair the singing by all of them is not a problem it's the songs that are dire.
Although tbf. Ed Sheeran could compose and sing one and we still wouldn't win

Marc Meakin

Bumped this to create (hopefully) some debate.
Would you be more inclined to play Scrabble more if the consonants and vowels were in seperating bags ?

Marc Meakin

How many variations of a nine letter word are there without any repeat letters ?

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Bumping this cos I can't create a new one.
If the first three rounds ( i.e.first 27 tiles ) where from a pool of the 26 letters of the alphabet plus an additional A what would be the best distribution for maximum points ?

Marc Meakin

Still Watching Black Mirror from start to finish.
Current Favourite is Playtest although I'm still only half way through season 3.....worst one is easily that Waldo Moment.....you could tell it was a rejected idea from Nathan Barley but it was still worth watching though

Marc Meakin

That the Bob Marley song Three Little Birds is the song I always thought was called Don't Worry

Marc Meakin

Started watching Black Mirror, albeit out of sequence.
Favourite so far is San Junipero inspite of the unusual ending for a Black Mirror episode

Marc Meakin

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:41 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:38 am Anyone else watching Inside No 9.
It just gets better and better
Yes, but I'd disagree that it just gets better and better.

Well to qualify my statement, I think Season 4 is getting better and better.
I know the 12 days of Christine from Season 2 is the best ever episode.

Marc Meakin

Anyone else watching Inside No 9.
It just gets better and better

Marc Meakin

James Robinson wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:10 pm Saw Darkest Hour on Friday. Brilliant display of "British Bulldog" spirit, plus how they got all those prosthetics on to make Gary Oldman look like Churchill was amazing

I agree , apart from the tube train scene it was superb

Marc Meakin

Just watched Downsizing, in spite of the mauling by the critics.
I really enjoyed it,it was well thought out and I thought the Thai actress playing the Vietemise girl was a breath of fresh air.
Also just seen the Shape of Water. Very good retelling of beauty and the beast.

Marc Meakin

After some research at the library....no I'm shitting you, Google.
If you are a Baron then you can use the Lord whatever name preceded by your Christian name if you so wish
Like Alan Lord Sugar

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 7:00 pm Why do people call Alfred Tennyson "Alfred Lord Tennyson" like it's his middle name? No other Lord in history is referred to like this.

Poetic licence maybe

Marc Meakin

Just watched Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Probably the best film with a crap title I've ever seen

Marc Meakin

Maybe a better story is to leak the success of Apterites on countdown over the last 10 years or more

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Well I think airplay can have an effect. I hated virtually every song that came out in the noughties, but didn't listen to the radio regularly then. But I do like the odd song in the last five years or so but as I listen to the radio in my job some songs are like earworms. Clean Bandit songs are the...

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I think popular music started going downhill in the mid nineties an it is steadily getting worse.

Marc Meakin

Also watching the Crown season two.
Favourite episodes are Beryl (when Maggie met Tony ) a tour de force by Vanessa Kirby, and Episode 9 the Gordunston one

Marc Meakin

The best solution is bookies odds.
But I don't think you can bet on such things

Marc Meakin

Queen Elizabeth II I genuinely think she'll still be around if you're doing this in 2028. Ain't a chance she's going soon the amount of care she gets - she can still ride a horse for god's sake. A lot of my list is based more on hope than expectation. Got me thinking.....based on a wish list my wis...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:07 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:32 pm
Mark James wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:21 pm
Queen Elizabeth II

I genuinely think she'll still be around if you're doing this in 2028. Ain't a chance she's going soon the amount of care she gets - she can still ride a horse for god's sake.
A lot of my list is based more on hope than expectation.

What's wrong with Mel Brooks ?

Marc Meakin

Only a suggestion and it's not as if I'm picking people already at death's door

Marc Meakin

I also think points deduction for those already seriously ill.
Leah Bracknell is a shoe in

Marc Meakin

I am listing my 10 names for 2018 also requesting all lists to not have duplicates of others. 1. James Bolam 2. Pele 3. Nigel Lawson 4. Sir Ian McKellen 5. Dame Maggie Smith 6. William Roche 7. Donald Trump 8. Prince Philip 9. Jimmy Tarbuck 10. Ken Dodd. Obviously this needs to be moved to correct n...

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Are we gonna rollover until they all rollover or make a fresh list ?

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Not long now for the final table

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Not nearly as irritating as people who wear low riders

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Read a map without turning it upside down for return journeys

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He is certainly our favourite drugs cheat, allegedly. I see Froome was 6th.

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I must hire a proof reader

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The A word is an excellent Dramedy.....and the Detectors is a very pleasant comedy with a plot

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Yeah.....been off the telly a long time and kinda forgot how he spelled his name.
Did like the Great Egg Race though

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Heinz Wolfe has passed away

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Rip Keith Chegwin.
Cheggers plays pops his clogs

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Innis is on

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I know pigeonholing genders is frowned upon in the 21st century but in my experience, women are far more likely to embrace Christmas early and are usually better at putting the tree deccies up.

Marc Meakin

Perhaps I am just being nit-picky at this issue, it particularly p**sed me off when Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby told a viewer that they had won "£1000 for Christmas" and wished her a Happy Christmas on This Morning today. I'm not a humbug and come December I'll be fine with such...

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People who still have their profile picture with the tricolour, from the I'm Charlie Hebdo terrorism

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People who still have their profile picture with the tricolour, from the I'm Charlie Hebdo terrorism

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Or the last week in September if you work in retail

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Well a Countdown related question on Tenable.....top ten presenters of Countdown......I managed nine.....No 1 was Carol Vorderman

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Just watched two good films, Marjorie Prime, a cerebral Sci-fi about the human condition, and Mudbound an excellent adaption of the book by Hillary Jordan. Excellent acting all round, could be Netflix first best picture Oscar

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Not seen Meet the Parents then ?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:50 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:23 pm Just a personal view. Can't give up meat due to the smell and taste of bacon.
With that said, some of my favourite meals are vegetarian.
Chick pea and lentil curries and porcini rissotto
You know that bacon is officially carcinogenic don't you?

Source ?
Sauce........brown

Marc Meakin

Sorry to put this in this thread, due to technical issues.
Having just witnessed the first tablet Scrabble tournament, I wondered if Apterous could be used in the same way, albeit a laptop version.
I just wondered if a face to face event would work.
Feel free to put this in the correct thread

Marc Meakin

Waitrose seem to have the best range of quality vegetarian products in a high street supermarket. The Higgidy range is good and their newest chicken tikka masala is the best meat substitute curry I've tasted. My father in law has recently been diagnosed with gout so he can't eat most meats so whenev...

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Not a problem , I did go on a vegetarian diet to lose weight many years ago.

Marc Meakin

Just a personal view. Can't give up meat due to the smell and taste of bacon.
With that said, some of my favourite meals are vegetarian.
Chick pea and lentil curries and porcini rissotto

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Fats Domino has just passed away......am I the only one who thought he died years ago ?

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Everyone is going crazy about Clive Lewis' comments, but a more extreme approach should be taken when considering the position of Sheffield Labour MP Jared O'Mara, I think even though the comments were made 13 years ago, they really were extreme for a modern day politician. I personally think that ...

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Whenever a story like this breaks, we always get the Twitter is outraged line.
When isn't Twitter outraged

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Very sad waste of a life........although I am probably making assumptions it was alcohol related

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Watching the Orville, a cross between Star Trek and Galaxy Quest, not too bad so far. More of a homage than a piss take

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I think it looked dated in the nineties, only Richard O'Briens charisma made it watchable.
It just looks like a gameshow made by six formers.

Marc Meakin

That's ridiculous, 8.30 is far too early

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We shall have to agree to disagree.
I thought, plotwise, it was one the most inventive and least derivative films of the last ten years.

Marc Meakin

From anyone else I would be upset but your film knowledge is crap at best.

Marc Meakin

The ending is fine.
The concept of an ambiguous or unclear denouement is always a good talking point for the end of a movie.
Inception being one that springs to mind

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