Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 286591 times)

Kim · « **Reply #1150 on:** 23 February, 2018, 04:33:58 pm »

Quote from: ian on 23 February, 2018, 02:57:03 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 23 February, 2018, 02:16:40 pm
Over there ^^^^ is an unopened 5-pack of TDK C-90s. I am awaiting an offer from the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame

Ah, happy days extracting a C120 from the Perpetually Hungry Amstrad and respooling it with a bic pen.

Those ones probably sounded better than Craig David, too.

ian · « **Reply #1151 on:** 23 February, 2018, 04:45:52 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 23 February, 2018, 04:32:40 pm

Quote from: citoyen on 23 February, 2018, 02:52:21 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 February, 2018, 12:19:17 am
the slow train from CHX to CBW

Is there any other kind of train from CHX to CBW?

The even slower freeze-your-arse-off-changing-at-Ashford train.

I once caught a train back from Dover that was so slow I arrived back in London in time for 1955.

citoyen · « **Reply #1152 on:** 24 February, 2018, 08:41:58 am »

Quote from: Kim on 23 February, 2018, 04:32:40 pm

Quote from: citoyen on 23 February, 2018, 02:52:21 pm
Quote from: Kim on 23 February, 2018, 12:19:17 am
the slow train from CHX to CBW

Is there any other kind of train from CHX to CBW?

The even slower freeze-your-arse-off-changing-at-Ashford train.

Ah! Yes, I know that one too.

Pingu · « **Reply #1153 on:** 24 February, 2018, 05:44:06 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 23 February, 2018, 02:16:40 pm

Over there ^^^^ is an unopened 5-pack of TDK C-90s. I am awaiting an offer from the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame

The death of music has merely been postponed.

Kim · « **Reply #1154 on:** 24 February, 2018, 05:48:38 pm »

On a related note, as if further evidence were needed that the music industry is from a strange parallel dimension, this appeared in my timeline earlier...

https://twitter.com/BrkmstrCylinder/status/967208607745040386

T42 · « **Reply #1155 on:** 02 March, 2018, 10:58:32 am »

Read this morning that the Beeb is going to serialize TP's stories about the Ankh-Morpork Watch.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1156 on:** 06 March, 2018, 11:56:15 pm »

I'm watching Smiley's People, having snaffled it from Iplayer some time ago. Looking at the cast list and then delving into wikipedia I learnt that Molly Meakin (head of Research, replaced Connie Sachs) is played by a woman called Lucy Fleming. Her uncle was Ian Fleming, author of ~~Chitty Chitty Bang Bang~~ the James Bond books and she (and her sister) still control Ian Fleming Publications. The link between the two contrasting types of spy, Bond and Smiley, tickled me.

(She also played Miranda, Justin Elliot's wife in The Archers.)

T42 · « **Reply #1157 on:** 07 March, 2018, 08:22:20 am »

Very much the definitive version. Gary Oldman's Tinker Tailor... was on a loser from the start.

clarion · « **Reply #1158 on:** 07 March, 2018, 09:17:26 am »

Quote from: Pingu on 24 February, 2018, 05:44:06 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 23 February, 2018, 02:16:40 pm
Over there ^^^^ is an unopened 5-pack of TDK C-90s. I am awaiting an offer from the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame

The death of music has merely been postponed.

Didn't Craig David kill music?

T42 · « **Reply #1159 on:** 07 March, 2018, 09:20:00 am »

Never heard of him, so probably not.

Kim · « **Reply #1160 on:** 07 March, 2018, 05:50:53 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 07 March, 2018, 09:20:00 am

Never heard of him, so probably not.

The above post refers: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=70466.msg2260174#msg2260174

T42 · « **Reply #1161 on:** 08 March, 2018, 09:16:11 am »

Ta. Yes, I did read some of that when you posted it but I've been out of the UK for so long that it had little meaning. As rough guide, I have heard of Simon Cowell but never experienced the direct feed; and from what I've heard I don't want to.

Kim · « **Reply #1162 on:** 08 March, 2018, 07:10:22 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 08 March, 2018, 09:16:11 am

Ta. Yes, I did read some of that when you posted it but I've been out of the UK for so long that it had little meaning. As rough guide, I have heard of Simon Cowell but never experienced the direct feed; and from what I've heard I don't want to.

That's my position on Simon Cowell too.

I basically lost the plot with popular music in the Craig David era, through a combination of shite radio reception and then living with a deaf person. I don't appear to have missed much.

T42 · « **Reply #1163 on:** 09 March, 2018, 09:37:21 am »

When we lived near Paris we could pick up R4 on long wave, but they slipped over the horizon when we moved here. Not that they ever carried much pop music. I was never that fond of it anyway, although I find myself liking the stuff from my youth more now than I did then. Maybe that's because back then there was the odd pearl amongst the crap, but nowadays the crap has gone and 25+ years of pearls are all that are left.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1164 on:** 09 March, 2018, 10:12:48 am »

You've never listened to 'Sounds of the 60s', have you...?

Legs · « **Reply #1165 on:** 09 March, 2018, 10:38:12 am »

Quote from: Torslanda on 09 March, 2018, 10:12:48 am

You've never listened to 'Sounds of the 60s', have you...?

SOTS reminds you about all the crap around the pearls, thobut...

Torslanda · « **Reply #1166 on:** 09 March, 2018, 10:47:20 am »

That was the point.

T42 · « **Reply #1167 on:** 09 March, 2018, 11:15:10 am »

Quote from: Torslanda on 09 March, 2018, 10:12:48 am

You've never listened to 'Sounds of the 60s', have you...?

I've never heard of it, either.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1168 on:** 09 March, 2018, 03:04:09 pm »

I totally failed to register the existence of series 17 of The Infinite Monkey Cage. This omission has now been rectified with a binge listen.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1169 on:** 09 March, 2018, 09:50:01 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 09 March, 2018, 11:15:10 am

Quote from: Torslanda on 09 March, 2018, 10:12:48 am
You've never listened to 'Sounds of the 60s', have you...?

I've never heard of it, either.

Was presented by Brian Matthew until last year. Now by Tony Blackburn

Pingu · « **Reply #1170 on:** 11 March, 2018, 09:55:15 pm »

Just watched Michael Moseley documentary on the brain talking about how children are affected emotionally during development and it seems to be Michael Jackson night on BBC4 $:-\$

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1171 on:** 12 March, 2018, 07:03:17 pm »

Dear the BBC

Please to not bugger up the sound on your news channel. TV's Katty Kay and Christian Fraser sound like they're at the opposite end of a drainpipe. That's the third time in a week.

Sort it out, u pandas!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1172 on:** 14 March, 2018, 03:55:18 pm »

Has anyone else spotted that Rick Astley is a reincarnation of Biff Tannen?

Biff Astley

Rick Tannen

Ham · « **Reply #1173 on:** 31 March, 2018, 10:08:28 pm »

Just discovered Maite Hontelé, a laydee who plays trumpet - IMO - almost as well as Miles (although in a different genre - Salsa). Given her gender and the somewhat esoteric genre of her choice I doubt she will become as well known.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1174 on:** 02 April, 2018, 10:52:56 pm »

On FB Jeff Lynne has announced that 'Dawes' are joining him on tour this Summer.

Apparently it's the name of a 'popular beat combo'.

Soooooo disappointed . . .