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Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 28 Oct 17 at 19:56
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Just finished the last of about a million episodes of Vikings. It's not on terrestrial TV, so you're out of luck if you don't have Amazon video.
But if you do and you've missed it, take a look. I really enjoyed it a lot. And I mean a lot.
You have to accept gore though, I fear, or, as I did, spend a lot of time looking the other way at intervals and humming to yourself.
Cracking acting, great story, fantastic photography, even a pretty passable attempt at historical accuracy. Recommended.
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Woss the um, music like Cc? One of my faves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOB5xVo30BE
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I so thought that was going to be the Youtube Techno Viking. Alas not.
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If I had a heart, Dog, I'd tell you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YEyuRlSieg
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I'll have to watch that series now CC. Thanks!
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Watched 3 x episodes of said Norse saga now, and luvin it. Very violent though, and that is just the sex!!
(*_*)
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Ah, you're just beginning to get to know the characters, Dog. It just keeps getting better, honest.
And if you think what you've seen so far is violent...
I see you as a bit of a Floki, incidentally.
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>>I see you as a bit of a Floki, incidentally.
No chance! .. I see him as mad genius (to have built that boat) whereas I'm just mad.
:o}
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A new channel (to us, anyway) has popped up on Virgin. It also says it's on Sky, Freeview and Freesat, I think. It's called Talking Pictures.
I post only to say it's packed with loads of older films and programmes. We currently have the wonderful film "Morning Departure" on, with John Mills, Kenneth More, and in fact everyone else you want in an an early black and white British submarine film.
Also they have a great little series called "Glimpses", which is old home movies, GPO films and the like.
But chiefly to say that we have many times mentioned the film "Hell Drivers" on here, and they're showing it on Saturday night if anyone is interested and can get the channel.
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I rescan my TV about once a month, it is surprising how the freeview channels change. It is worth a scroll through the electronic programme guide, I find lots of documentaries and other interesting programmes on the obscure channels.
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I get a message every now and then, telling me new channels are available. Problem is, it deletes all my recording reservations if I re-tune my Humax PVR.
Found Talking Pictures many months ago. I've more stuff recorded than I'll ever watch - I think.
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>> I get a message every now and then, telling me new channels are available. Problem
>> is, it deletes all my recording reservations if I re-tune my Humax PVR.
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My Sony PVR automatically adds new channels without disrupting anything.
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I missed this on the telly but in case you've not seen it, this is a Must Watch.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40272104
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Just started watching this on sky Atlantic, I'm quite enjoying it. It's 6 or so peoples lives set in the background of a true to life political scandal in Italy. Anyone else watching it?
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Had wanted to go to the cinema tonight but events transpired to prevent me from doing so.
Watched I, Daniel Blake instead. Its quite a film and if it is even half true, is a damming indictment of the welfare state in this country.
Not condoning hand outs in the slightest, but the catch 22 situation for those that are ill and need to use the safety-net can be put through is a thorough disgrace.
(It is free on Amazon Prime.)
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I used the Job Centre many years ago and thought it rubbish. Though, to be fair, I was at an age when I thought most things rubbish.
Years later I had to build a fairly large team and was determined to recruit as much as I could through the Job Centre and was specifically looking for those who had screwed up their education, but were essentially bright and looking for a chance.
I dealt with several members of staff in the local Job Centre. I have never encountered a more worthless, self-important clueless bunch of t***s in my entire life.
I am sure that they were not evil people, but they were utterly useless and without value.
Oh for sure they got admin, and form filling, and process steps. But put any realistic thought or intelligence into helping people find work? Not a chance.
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I found myself unemployed at the age of 55, so took myself off to the job centre.
I was given an appointment of 4:30pm every other Friday.
The staff were always running late and by the time they got to see me their colleagues were slamming drawers closed and putting on their coats to go home. Guess how much attention I was given? I was asked a couple of cursory questions, told to sign and go away.
After five months of this I was called for a three monthly assessment. I told them the truth. I was going to lose my JSA at six months anyway due to other income and capital.
I felt the exercise was a complete waste of time and almost designed to let those that wanted to abuse the system do so.
I found a job shortly after.
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BT
was that St Albans Office - reflects my experience of 22 yrs ago!
I gave up after about 1 month. But I was not really looking for a job.
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>>was that St Albans Office - reflects my experience of 22 yrs ago!
No, but an adjacent county.
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>> Watched I, Daniel Blake instead. Its quite a film and if it is even half
>> true, is a damming indictment of the welfare state in this country.
Like any film some scenarios are exaggerated for dramatic effect, particularly 'Katie' being rehomed in Newcastle. Milton Keynes or Birmingham would be quite plausible though. Plenty of anecdotal evidence of women moving into escort work. There are recorded instances of agencies advertising in job centres and indeed that they have been legally compelled to accept such ads (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1912527/Jobcentre-ads-luring-girls-into-sex-trade.html).
Daniel's situation, denied sickness benefit and forced to look for work against advice of his own doctor is one that happens day in and day out. More common for people with mental health conditions as opposed to physical impairments but I've seen both until the cases merge into one. Input from the 'dwp medical' is meant to be just part of the information used by the decision maker but all too often it's treated as conclusive. This was supposed to have improved after the reviews by Professor Harrington and his successors (tinyurl.com/ycugyu42) but it's still common.
Success rates of 40+% at appeal, much higher for those who attend the tribunal in person, tell a sorry story about first instance decisions.
I've no problem with a benefit system that identifies those taking the pee but the current system is simply not fit for purpose.
>>Not condoning hand outs
I'm sure zippy didn't mean to use hand outs pejoratively but that's the meaning intended by journalists and politicians referring to people's entitlements under the law.
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>>I'm sure zippy didn't mean to use hand outs pejoratively...
No. I think the safety net is a key part of a modern society and I don't think it goes far enough.
There is insufficient help in re-training or bringing older people back in to education if they are made redundant.
People also need more than the basic minimum of support if they are to feel part of a society and encouraged to find work and contribute again.
There are scroungers though and I know a few, who never intend to work and that is not acceptable.
I also know people who have been ill and have totally deserved the help that they got and did everything they could to get back to work.
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Directed by Ken Loach for clearly political purposes, Loach uses his status to kick the Gov at every opportunity in a most annoying whining, droning, negative way, totally lacking in ideas and inspiration.
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>> Directed by Ken Loach for clearly political purposes,
Loach is political, end of. The point about I Daniel Blake is that on the basic story it could be documentary - see my post on Sun 30 Jul 17 @ 13:59
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Just caught this on ITV+1
Cracking film. Recommend watching it if you get a chance.
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Brilliant film, must be well up there in the top 20 ish of all time.
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Based on a book that my wife had read, watched this last night on Prime, brilliant film, beautifully shot, heart rending ...
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>> brilliant film
Glad to hear it. We'll be watching that tonight.
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>>We'll be watching that tonight.
..And we did. Best film we've seen for a long time.
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>> ..And we did. Best film we've seen for a long time.
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Good to hear!
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George 'Johnny' Johnson at 95 years of age: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093yt5c
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My boyhood motor racing hero...because he only lived a few miles from me.
Programme about him on Yesterday at 9 pm tonight. Recorder already set.
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Just caught the first episode, quite enjoyed it. Set in aden in the 60s and it was filmed in South Africa. About an RMP unit in the back end of the empire. 5 more episodes to go.
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Agreed, watched it late on Sunday night on iPlayer, missed it when broadcast at 9pm, looks like it might get a bit more lively, the first episode was scene setting and introducing characters - in which regard the constantly tipsy unhappily married lieutenant's wife is very sexy in a Natalie Wood kind of way.
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I was in Aden for a while in the 60s. A very different world in those days.
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TV documentary series
see my posting on Motorway closures
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Anyone been watching. Love the production values, especially the aircraft and the cars. There was a shot of a Vulcan overflying the base - it was in contemporary silver coloured paintwork its registration was XH558 which was the last flying one...nice touch..! Nice contemporary motors as well...Rover P6 tonight and a Wolsley 16/60 in two tone...
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Watched the first one and need to catch up having been away on a couple of Sunday eves.
Thought it had potential.
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Nice motors, shame about the plot and the acting.
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Probably a relaxing watch for soldiers as it has very little to do with reality, unless the Army has changed radically since my days. There is one aspect that does seem correct however, the cheek by jowl situation and relationships of the officers' wives.
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>> Probably a relaxing watch for soldiers as it has very little to do with reality,
>> unless the Army has changed radically since my days. There is one aspect that does
>> seem correct however, the cheek by jowl situation and relationships of the officers' wives.
The army has changed radically, there are no longer thousands of BFPO complete with wives.
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>>Nice contemporary motors as well...Rover P6 tonight and a Wolsley 16/60 in two tone...<<
Who needs television? I've had both of those in fairly recent years and wish I still had them. At least a friend still has the Rover. If this site was clever enough to do pictures I would prove it.
And neither of them was fitted with a satnav or a spotify or any of the other gizmos mentioned on another thread. Yet I still managed to commute quite long distances with them and go all over the place...
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I saw the first episode.
Seemed like a 1960s soap opera.
Haven't bothered since.
"Our Girl" has gone a bit the the same direction.
How does an RAMC combat medic always appear immaculately made up in a Nepalese disaster zone? She's awfully middle class, too.
The original BBC film and first series, with Lacey Turner, was incomparably better: in fact I have the film and series on my laptop and look at them from time to time.
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In the earlier days I really enjoyed QI, though in later seasons I found Stephen Fry had simply become too smug for words.
So when I heard the presenter had changed I thought I'd give it a go.
I've just sat through an unspeakably awful show with Sandi Toksvig. Who'd have thought you could dumb down QI?
Shan't be doing that again.
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 24 Oct 17 at 21:58
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I like QI, and the mix of interesting and funny. Alan Davies has been the one most likely to make me stop watching that show, he is often really juvenile and not very imaginative. I too used to enjoy Fry but he'd run for long enough. I enjoyed Sandi Toksvig on the Radio 4 News Quiz and as a result started recording the daytime quiz 15 to 1 as a time filler (which she hosts). If you really want to watch awful, try that. Can't recall what she was like on the last series of QI.
Just to throw out some other shows I enjoy which you may have missed:
Duck Quacks Don't Echo (Sky 1 I think) has been very good, Lee Mack hosts and is very sharp (complete with what appears to be genuine ad libs, not scripted). Been to see it being recorded a couple of times and it's a shame they have to cut so much for the telly!
Taskmaster (on Dave), hosted by Greg Davies with Alex Horne as his sidekick. Often daft tasks but some great "bants" in the studio bits, again sounding somewhat unscripted at times.
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>>Duck Quacks Don't Echo
I like the sound of that, I'm off to hunt it down. Thanks.
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They were going to put Fry as host of ISIHAC....there was talk of revolution. Never underestimate R4 listeners.
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>> They were going to put Fry as host of ISIHAC....there was talk of revolution. Never
>> underestimate R4 listeners.
This is why I have all. It given up with Radio 4. Tired old programs like ISIHAC, the News Quiz, Quote Unquote, and Just a Minute. Tired presenters like John Humphrires and ghastly programs like Women's Hour and You and Yours dominate the programming. My attempt to change or innovate is met by a chorus of disapproval from their ageing audience.
Frightened of any sort of change and a failure to innovate and bring on new talent are killing he station. I mainly listen to podcasts now, many of them American.
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You have a point. Mind you Fry would have spoilt an otherwise excellent programme. Jack Dee is perfect for it
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Do you think so.? The program should have been pensioned off years ago. Just not funny any more
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Yes Ido !. I agree with the dreadful Woman's Hour and Just a Minute et al though. Some first class comedy qt 6.30pm in the week and late at night - some superb factual programmes. Each to his own tough. John Humphreys is past his sell by date though
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Just looked at the schedule for today's programming. Just the same old bunch of programsmes that I could have heard 10, 20 or even 30 years ago. Where is the innovation?
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>> Just looked at the schedule for today's programming. Just the same old bunch of programsmes
>> that I could have heard 10, 20 or even 30 years ago. Where is the
>> innovation?
I like R4, pretty much all of it. Where else would one go for most of that stuff?
I like innovation too, but it doesn't need to replace stuff that is good and unique. If R4 is what one likes, there are no alternatives.
If you don't like it, please leave it to those that do and listen to something else.
The vast majority of radio and TV channels are interchangeable with numerous others. That does not apply to Radio 4.
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I have to say - Desert Island Discs and an FGM campaigner wasn't the perfect side dish with my breakfast this morning, so switched over to that overpaid jerk on Radio 2
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I am a big fan of talk radio and R4 was my mainstay for years. It seems unable to deliver anything new or interesting these day. That's why I seek out podcasts. There is a lot of interesting stuff out there
Sure some of the regular programmes on R4 argood and the news coverage remains outstanding but most of the output is tired and lacks much much in the way of new ideas or creativity. It seems unable to change. The slightest attempt at change bring about letters of outrage from its listener base. Kill off a character in the Archers and you would think the world had ended. The whole channel is rapidly becoming a parody of itself.
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That's one thing I've never heard, the archers, I take it it's still going?
Can't really imagine sitting there listening to soap, or one on tv for that matter. But radio doesn't really seem to me to be a good medium but each to their own.
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R4 on in the car most of the time. Ideal for me as I can be in it for a long time some days, and indeed up too early and home too late to read a newspaper. Of course not all the slots appeal to me but I've found these clever little switches that allow you to either change the channel or even turn it off altogether if you're not enjoying it.
;-)
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I'm addicted to the Archers. You either get it or you don't..! I love the radio when driving or undertaking a tedious task in the house. I'll be honest if it came to a choice between radio and the telly, the telly would go. News coverage on R4 is far better (analysis wise) than anything on the box . Some programmes I love apart from the Archers. The Life Scientific, A Good Read, Last Word, Front Row, Profile, Great Lives etc etc...Lots of stuff that appears on R4 (especially comedy) makes it to mainstream telly. As regards Public Service Broadcasting it is first class I love it.
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I agree, I moved out of my parents house when I was 18. There was much less TV available then but during my childhood, it seemed to be on all the time. I had a bit of an anti reaction to that and didn't (wouldn't) have a TV in my house until my mid 30s, and even then, that was only because my girlfriend ( now wife ) had moved in and wanted one.
I much prefer the radio, mainly because it can be on and you can listen to it while you do other things. I'm forever tinkering with something, much to my wife's chagrin it usually involves a bike or a bit of one that's getting fettled in the kitchen if it's winter, or alternatively I'm out with the dog, or off for a swim, or cooking, or whatever, not at all good at just sitting in front of a TV. On the odd occasions I do, I tend to fall asleep unless it's something I'm really interested in.
I think we have 4 TVs in the house now, I know I'm forever switching them off because they get left on in rooms when there's no one there.
Not that I don't enjoy some programmes of course, but I could easily live without it. When I'm away from home overnight, I never put the TV on in hotel rooms and much prefer to read a book.
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I imagine they continue these progs because they continue to maintain their audience numbers.
So, stick with tried and tested, why not? Those who enjoy them can continue to do so and new generations will also find them.
I've gone off Just A Minute and I expect it will be allowed to die with it's host, but at least I haven't dipped as low as American programmes!! :-)
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Those who enjoy them can continue to
>> do so and new generations will also find them.
I'm not so sure, I don't think any of the shows listed anyone in their 30s or younger wouldn't have a clue what the shows listed above are, i didn't, never heard of any them.
Of course they could find them later on in life but I doubt any of them listen to the radio at all, let alone listen to programs on it. I'm not sure they'd suddenly start as they get older.
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I NEVER listen to the radio!
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>> I NEVER listen to the radio!
here you go
www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nigel-farage/
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>> >> I NEVER listen to the radio!
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>> here you go
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>> www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nigel-farage/
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I get links to those, as video clips, those via Facebook.
I don't have a dedicated radio. There is one with a CD player in the car, bit it's not used.
I suppose there are radio channels on the TV.
i have no interest in 99.9% of modern music and despise self-indulgent chat/comedy shows.
The Grinch.
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>> I suppose there are radio channels on the TV.
yes there are lots. Many on freeview, they are also many on the Internet.
>> i have no interest in 99.9% of modern music and despise self-indulgent chat/comedy shows.
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>> The Grinch.
There are many things on the radio besides those two things.
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>> I NEVER listen to the radio!
What about the wireless?
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When we get up, we put on the radio in the kitchen. It stays on all day, unless we go out, and it gets turned off at bedtime. I wouldn't say we listen to it exactly, other than at breakfast, or when preparing meals, but it's just nice to have it as you pass through the room or whatever. It's tuned permanently to Radio 3.
Sometimes on the way past there's a really good piece you just have to listen to though.
However, I can't be doing with the radio in the car at all. I'm one of those hopeless drivers that at the first sign of complexity need no music or other distractions until I've negotiated the strange town, got past the lorry, read the obscured sign, worked out the speed limit and all the other little things that driving throws at you.
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Interesting how we are all different crankcase, I'm pretty much the exact opposite, there's not a radio in the house. Yet there's always music on in the car.
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I used to be a Radio 3 man but I found most of the discussions about music really pretensious.I would listen to every minute of a test match when the old team with Jonners and Arlott were doing it. I mostly listen to Classic FM now but 2 things are putting me off a bit. Daytime CFM seems to have little imagination and you can be sure that pieces like Zadoc the Priest, The Trout and Four Seasons will be played at some time every day. They also seem to like boring repetative music like Bolero, Gorecki 3rd, Spiegel in Spiegel ( rubbish ) and suchlike. Weekends and evenings are not too bad. Some rarely heard stuff comes on.
Secondly, the adverts drive me mad. I can cope with the actual ad but 90% of them now seem to end with the ' legal stuff ' which is rattled off at such a rate as to show it's obvious it's being crammed into as little expensive air time as possible.
I 've largely resorted to tapes and CDs in the workshop now. Classic is reserved for the bath ! SWM puts the telly on as soon as she's down in the kitchen, we used to have the BBC morning news on but it's straight to the repeats of old series, The Bill, Casualty, All Creatures and...for God's sake, Hetty ruddy Wainthrop !! I don't understand her as she's in and out of the room...and the house....all the time. Can't possibly follow a storyline ! Oh, and Judge flippin' Judy as well ! Good job I've got a Mancave.
I could live without a telly as well....I can get the footy and anything I need on-line.
Bah !
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I feel the same way about ClassicFM, Ted, to the extent I won't listen to it. I find the playlists too repetitive and it's always, without sounding like an idiot, just the "easy bits". Bit like listening to the most instantly accessible track from an album and missing out the rest. You don't get the context.
Also the ads, yes, horrid stuff.
I do have an Amazon Firestick now, and quite like to just say "Alexa, play me some" whatever. You get no ads and a range of pieces for hours, but it does work better with non classical stuff. Great if the whatever is "prog rock", or "something relaxing" or "disco", not so much if it's "Mozart", though it will work ok. I imagine that would be true however you use Alexa, on a phone or tablet, or an Echo/Dot thing.
Spotify has a whole bunch of spoken radio stuff from years ago. I've just discovered "X minus one" there. Which is NBC radio plays of short sci fi stories from the forties and fifties, to my mind the peak of the genre. For example, I've just had Bradbury's "There will come soft rains", which I've liked very much since first reading it about 40 years ago, and read again many times.
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>>Oh, and Judge flippin' Judy as well ! Good job I've got a Mancave.
Ewe gotta train 'em see, like wot I doos. My ole woman watches Judge Judy too ... with the sound orf and the subtitles on.
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>>I could live without a telly as well
Same 'ere, no probs. I listen to LBC a lot, bin good this week with Jacob Rees-Mogg, Chuka Umunna, Sadiq Khan, even Jeremy Bernard Corbyn at one time. Was gonna switch orf when the lefties came on but, found them, and what they had to say quite interesting actually.
Adverts, I just mute the wireless for 4 or 5 mins 'til they've gorn away.
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>> Adverts, I just mute the wireless for 4 or 5 mins 'til they've gorn away.
What do you do, unplug the accumulator?
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Wireless - wonderful word for a radio. Gives the impression of dust burning on valves and the deep mellow sound of a proper speaker.
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Whenever I hear it I think of someone from the 30s or a real life Mr Burns.
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Remove one of the valves. Best to use a kerchief as they can get rather hot.
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>> In the earlier days I really enjoyed QI, though in later seasons I found Stephen
>> Fry had simply become too smug for words.
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IMO, (the few times I have seen him) Stephen Fry is, and always has been, the epitome of smug.
He thinks he is clever (he may be) and superior (he is not) and it shows.
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Why does Joey (emergency plummer) have to remove the toilet cistern ballcock, when the water is obviously coming through the bathroom ceiling?? - ;-))
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Did anyone watch this series on ITV, finished a couple of weeks ago?
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Yes. Mainly enjoyable. Police procedures were crap and irritated Mrs RP.
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Started watching it last night so please avoid spoilers - watched 2 episodes, SWMBO is enjoying it more than me but it's OK.
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>> Started watching it last night so please avoid spoilers - watched 2 episodes, >>
How are you watching it, They only have the last three episodes on the ITV Hub.
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You mean you recorded them?
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Yep, we try to keep an eye out for upcoming dramas, record the lot, then binge watch. I expect we'll have watched Liar by end Saturday.
TiVo can also recover stuff form ITV Hub and BBC iPlayer etc but watching a recording is a better experience - faster, and the fast forward/pause etc buttons work better.
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>> Yes. Mainly enjoyable. Police procedures were crap and irritated Mrs RP.
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Quite a few continuity type errors (no spoiler here) for instance bloke walks into a bar and offers to by a drink, she says "no I'll get them" and wanders off to the bar without asking him what he wants.
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First class, if offbeat series. Billed as a comedy, which it wasn't. Superb acting from the two leads. Some classic cars in there as well including a beautiful 1984 Vauxhall Monza. Lovingly made.
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I love TV crap, I have little interest in programmes that make me thing, typically I am looking for mindless entertainment....
At the moment my list would be...
Bad Move
Brooklyn Nine Nine
Bull
Criminal Minds
Major Crimes
Mindhunter
Modern Family
NCIS (all of them)
New Blood
Seal Team
Shades of Blue
Sherlock (if it ever comes back)
Suits
The Big Bang Theory
The Blacklist
The Night Manager (if there's ever another season)
Wisdom of the Crowd
Plus Match of the Day religiously, X Factor quite often, lots of NFL shows from the US, other stuff sporadically. Quite like Pointless, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Roadshow, stuff like that.
I've always got more to watch then I'll get around to watching.
In daylight hours though, its the radio. Can't be doing with CDs or playliss or anything like that. I just pick a Radio station depending on my mood, typically R4, R3, TalkSport or Jack, and let it play.
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Sine we got the lounge sorted I have to admit that planting myself in the Stressless and binge watching crap late evening has become a little bit of a habit. I love factuals and keep a store of (mainly) WW1 programmes to hand is preferred, but since we have decent broadband here, the added delight of streaming has become a habit.
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Agree on NCIS: but only the original.
Major Crimes - tick.
Loved every single episode of Bones, which I largely binge watched.
Enjoyed early episodes of Person of Interest.
Loved the whole series of The Mentalist.
Regrettably there was only one season of Forever. US. A great show.
I'm about to sample Valor, The Brave, The Gifted and Mindhunter. Ihad a look at Seal Team, but it didn't grab me straight away.
I use subtitles to watch these on my laptop, as I find wearing headphones for long periods to be trying. SWMBO has very different TV tastes to me!
addic7ed dot com is a good source of subtitles.
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>>had a look at Seal Team, but it didn't grab me straight away.
Its the bloke from Bones, so I thought I'd give it a go. Its ok, not great so far, but we'll see.
>>Enjoyed early episodes of Person of Interest.
It did get a bit "meh" in the middle, but the last two seasons, especially the last half of the last season were great. Excellent ending.
The Gifted is the Marvel XMen one, right? I dislike all things DC & Marvel now they've decided to interlink them all into universes.
NCIS New Orleans is a source of horrendous acting, but Los Angeles is ok. I presume you know that the current season of NCIS is the last for a couple of characters? Makes me wonder if it'll be renewed.
I shall look up the couple you mentioned that I don't know.
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I find Pointless educating and entertaining. Just the right time to come in from the garage, scrub up, and have a pre-news cuppa. It also shows just how little a lot of peeps know...like the girl who, when asked to name a country in Africa with more than 7 letters said 'Paris '. I would have won the jackpot twice this week...Name any Manchester Metrolink station and any tube station beginning in one of half a dozen or so letters.....but I wasn't on it !
I can confidently say that I haven't either heard of or seen any on Mark's list . There's not much I watch after 2100...I like Youtubo...load of unusual stuff.
Just ordered a Streesless on-line this morning......it'll be here on the 1st. My faux leather version is shedding it's skin after 10 yrs. Have to try and keep SWM off it ! I have the full set of free Maily Dail DVDs 'WW1 in colour' also 'The World at War', Pug.
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Another fan of pointless, quite enjoy pub quiz type shows. I'm not bad at the geography, history and sport questions. Pretty bad at the music questions and awful at anything to do with literature or writers.
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I like pub quiz / trivia stuff also.
Trouble is that I'm rubbish at Music & Sport questions, although reasonable at the others.
Speaking of Pointless, I was watching it a week or so ago and one of the questions was something like "Members of the Leicester City Premier League Winning Squad".
I had no expectation of me getting much further than Vardy, but they asked 100 people and there were 10 pointless answers!
Seems I'm not the only one.
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I don't much like Pointless, too much around celebs and films which I am hopeless at. Also sport. And quite slow moving.
Also not that keen on Alexander Armstrong but I like the other bloke.
15 to 1 is a crap quiz but I like it cos it moves along quickly. (I record it to watch over tea or something, as a filler - don't watch afternoon TV at all!!)
Also like Mastermind, University Challenge and of course Only Connect.
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They are to hand Ted ! Stressless is great.
Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 28 Oct 17 at 19:57
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