Watcha Watchin?

[perrykneeham]

More of a listen than a watch, but quite interesting.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p09dj358?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

There's an undertow of professional score-evening, which is quite fun, but it's generally quite good. The first couple, about yardies and other thuggish criminal scum is quite unusual too, not least because it concerns Birmingham rather that the saaaafeast.

There are the usual BBC howlers when trying to make these violent oafs seem like jolly Jamaican ragamuffin. I laughed out load while walking on the beach earlier: "the Birmingham riots were sparked when a local man was issued a parking ticket and resisted arrest ...."

Do we arrest people for parking offenses? Maybe they nicked him for murder but he pled down to multiple bus lane infractions.

[voice]

Watched a few things during the cold snap.

Railwaymen an Indian film centered around the Union Carbide Gas leak that killed 16000 people, quite good

Detective Forst, Polish crime drama that was quite good till the last episode where it all fell apart leading to a very sh*t ambiguous ending

Bank of Dave, feel good film about the setting up of a community bank in Burnley, not too bad, but the cliche northern working classness was forced and over done.

[moggyonspeed]

Binge-watched all four episodes of Mr Bates vs The Post Office with Mrs Mogg the other night.

It is unbelievable that such greed, such deceit and such down-right nastiness should have been perpetrated by the UK Post Office on those sub-Postmasters all those years ago. Recognising that we, as taxpayers, are all on the hook for this, I still hope that the government (as owners of the Post Office) will pay up the millions it should by way of compensation and restitution.

[mids]

Did you, like me, come away placing the blame firmly on the EU and realise that justice only started to be done after Brexit?

[flatandy]

Jan 19, 2024 5:37:43 GMT voice said:

Bank of Dave, feel good film about the setting up of a community bank in Burnley, not too bad, but the cliche northern working classness was forced and over done.

Ha! I watched that on the plane home yesterday. It was a nice enough story, but it was absolutely riddled with Northern Cliche, including "Rich Londoner Doesn't Understand T'Accent" and "They're All Nice People With Great Community".

But I think the worst thing was that the half-baked love story felt like it was straight out of a terrible hallmark movie.

Also on the plane I watched Blackberry, which was decent by the standards of the current trend of "movie/drama about famous tech property thing". But nobody will have missed out of they don't see it.

And also You Hurt My Feelings, which was actually pretty good. I probably should have hated it, as the main characters are a shrink and an author and they're neurotic and annoying, but it worked for me.

Three return flights to blighty in a month means I was definitely dredging the bottom of the barrel of available movies.

[Repat Van]

Jan 19, 2024 13:17:21 GMT flatandy said:

Jan 19, 2024 5:37:43 GMT voice said:

Bank of Dave, feel good film about the setting up of a community bank in Burnley, not too bad, but the cliche northern working classness was forced and over done.

Ha! I watched that on the plane home yesterday. It was a nice enough story, but it was absolutely riddled with Northern Cliche, including "Rich Londoner Doesn't Understand T'Accent" and "They're All Nice People With Great Community".

But I think the worst thing was that the half-baked love story felt like it was straight out of a terrible hallmark movie.

Also on the plane I watched Blackberry, which was decent by the standards of the current trend of "movie/drama about famous tech property thing". But nobody will have missed out of they don't see it.

And also You Hurt My Feelings, which was actually pretty good. I probably should have hated it, as the main characters are a shrink and an author and they're neurotic and annoying, but it worked for me.

Three return flights to blighty in a month means I was definitely dredging the bottom of the barrel of available movies.

I have never heard of any of those films.

[flatandy]

Yes, but you've never heard of Star Wars or Gone With The Wind or Citizen Kane or Silent Running or Quatermass and The Pit.

[moggyonspeed]

Jan 19, 2024 11:57:00 GMT mids said:

Did you, like me, come away placing the blame firmly on the EU and realise that justice only started to be done after Brexit?

Did you, like me, then Google how your European "friends" have managed the introduction of new technology in their postal services, only to realise that neither France, nor Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece et al have ever faced a man-made problem of this magnitude? The UK had sovereignty to cock things up big style and, guess wot - they did.

[mids]

Do you, like me, understand that the Post Office and our postal service (i.e. the Royal Mail) are separate entities?

[moggyonspeed]

... and when exactly did you stop beating your wife?

[Repat Van]

Jan 19, 2024 13:50:27 GMT flatandy said:

Yes, but you've never heard of Star Wars or Gone With The Wind or Citizen Kane or Silent Running or Quatermass and The Pit.

Lies.

[perrykneeham]

Jan 19, 2024 14:21:34 GMT moggyonspeed said:

Jan 19, 2024 11:57:00 GMT mids said:

Did you, like me, come away placing the blame firmly on the EU and realise that justice only started to be done after Brexit?

Did you, like me, then Google how your European "friends" have managed the introduction of new technology in their postal services, only to realise that neither France, nor Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece et al have ever faced a man-made problem of this magnitude? The UK had sovereignty to cock things up big style and, guess wot - they did.

Labeur.

[perrykneeham]

I'm sure his Mum loves him, but this bloke makes my skin crawl.

www.bbc.co.uk/articles/c842vv40kzwo

[mids]

Never heard of him. Does he talk about anything other than "Wah, I'm a victim"?

[perrykneeham]

He ruined Bad Education.

[perrykneeham]

Peterloo.

Reet dogshit.

[mids]

A BBC/Guardian production?

[flatandy]

Mike Leigh is so f**k**g dreary

[mids]

True but he does do some good stuff.

[perrykneeham]

I listened to This Cultural Life on the radio last night. They were featuring Boy George, who always comes across as quite sensible, not least because he doesn't speak like a fairy.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2ydgZ0vjVSz9xQmXLm32KCl/boy-george-nine-things-we-learned-from-his-this-cultural-life-interview

It was worth a listen and I thought there was some interesting content. It's funny that he feels that he no longer has to apologise for his crime. Nice try, old son, but if that had been a lass and not a rent boy, you'd never appear in public again.