Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 289257 times)

ian · « **Reply #2050 on:** 01 January, 2022, 07:31:59 pm »

Honestly, I'm happy for people to enjoy HHGTTG, it's just that I don't. Maybe I draw that lines with Mrs Brown's Boys, though I confess I only managed about 30 seconds on YouTube, and if that was – as the clip titled alleged – the best, I didn't want to think about what the worst might be.

There's a long list of things I don't like but everyone else does, so I'll accept that I'm the odd one.

mattc · « **Reply #2051 on:** 01 January, 2022, 07:39:00 pm »

In a new twist, a recent MBB stole a joke from H2G2 :O

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2052 on:** 06 January, 2022, 04:25:43 pm »

New Half Man Half Biscuit album due next month. Order now to ~~ensure~~ avoid disappointment, preferably from an independent supplier rather than a taxing-dodging billionaire.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2053 on:** 07 January, 2022, 06:35:34 pm »

I have just learned of the inevitable existence of Slimgirl Fat. No idea yet what she sounds like...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2054 on:** 07 January, 2022, 06:57:24 pm »

"Fairly boring" is the answer to my ears.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2055 on:** 13 January, 2022, 05:41:14 pm »

Quote from: Audible

From:
Audible.co.uk <donotreply@audible.co.uk>
To:
Lt. Col. Larrington(retd.) <redacted@his_isp.com>
Subject:
The new Charles Dickens audiobook is now available

Cor, it's been ages since old Chazzer released any new material!

(Reads more closely)

[...]

Great Expectations

More bloody repeats

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2056 on:** 14 January, 2022, 08:52:30 pm »

Crikey!

Quote

96-year-old pianist, and last surviving pupil of Rachmaninov, signs landmark record deal

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/rachmaninov/pianist-ruth-slenczynska-record-deal/?fbclid=IwAR1BEK096OLn82HP_dkADr-iuL4yEeBOIZa8bWQ_3_jHvLD55HyhGHCyxiM

andrewc · « **Reply #2057 on:** 14 January, 2022, 11:57:08 pm »

The last episode of "The Expanse". Better than I'd expected, they've wisely left a big part of the Laconia plot out for a possible sequel.

An amusing Easter Egg in the status board for the team assaulting the Ring mounted railguns .... some familiar names....

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2058 on:** 15 January, 2022, 03:05:00 am »

Something didn’t like the link to the image; let’s see iffen this works:

citoyen · « **Reply #2059 on:** 15 January, 2022, 04:01:51 pm »

Zen School of Motoring coming to the telly-

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/15/zen-school-of-motoring-tv-that-will-cleanse-your-spirit-like-meditation

spesh · « **Reply #2060 on:** 15 January, 2022, 04:56:28 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 15 January, 2022, 03:05:00 am

Something didn’t like the link to the image; let’s see iffen this works:

That's a bit of a shout-out-a-rama. Off the top of my head I can see:

Return of the Jedi (Ackbar, G)
Total Recall (Quaid, D)
Dune (Idaho, D)
Aliens (Ripley, Hudson, Hicks and Vasquez)
Stargate (O'Neil, J)
Mass Effect (Shephard, C)
Battlestar Galactica (Thrace, K)
The Terminator (Connor, S)
2001 (Bowman, D)
Blade Runner (Deckard, R)
Tron (Flynn, K)
Starship Troopers (Rico, J)
Star Trek (Riker, W)

It looks like the producers (never mind the source material's authors) love their shout-outs to other works, because there are quite few mentioned here:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ShoutOut/TheExpanse (click at your own risk, xkcd #609 may apply)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2061 on:** 16 January, 2022, 01:12:45 pm »

Possessed of an urge to revisit early episodes of “Shetland” and too idle to dig out the DVD from behind a Teetering Pile of Crap^TM I thought I would avail myself of [“a download of dubious provenance” - Ed. version.

It's dubbed into Russian. Badly. Bumskins

spesh · « **Reply #2062 on:** 16 January, 2022, 01:22:04 pm »

Kak skazat "that'll learn ya" po Russki, tovarisch?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2063 on:** 16 January, 2022, 01:41:52 pm »

That’s easy for you to say…

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2064 on:** 16 January, 2022, 06:17:29 pm »

Not on iPlayer?

cycleman · « **Reply #2065 on:** 16 January, 2022, 06:41:11 pm »

The focused tour on crazyguyonabike is Scottish Islands including shetlands if you are interested Mr l

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2066 on:** 16 January, 2022, 09:42:02 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 January, 2022, 06:17:29 pm

Not on iPlayer?

Only the most recent series. Series 2 dates from 2014.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2067 on:** 18 January, 2022, 10:02:41 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 January, 2022, 09:42:02 pm

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 January, 2022, 06:17:29 pm
Not on iPlayer?

Only the most recent series. Series 2 dates from 2014.

I've got Series 2 - Series 6 on my Tiny Computer. I can see if that will break my Dropbox iffen you want.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2068 on:** 18 January, 2022, 12:29:32 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 18 January, 2022, 10:02:41 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 January, 2022, 09:42:02 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 January, 2022, 06:17:29 pm
Not on iPlayer?

Only the most recent series. Series 2 dates from 2014.
I've got Series 2 - Series 6 on my Tiny Computer. I can see if that will break my Dropbox iffen you want.

Ta, Tim, but I've got it all sorted now and completed the watching of S2 last night. They didn’t 'arf butcher the story of “Blue Lightning”, to the extent that the title no longer made sense

andrewc · « **Reply #2069 on:** 19 January, 2022, 02:47:51 pm »

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/denis-villeneuve-set-direct-arthur-185736997.html

Rendevous With Rama incoming.

Kim · « **Reply #2070 on:** 19 January, 2022, 05:39:44 pm »

I really hope they don't screw that up...

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2071 on:** 19 January, 2022, 05:51:22 pm »

Hmm. One of my favourite books.

Want to bet that they sneak guns and fighting aliens into the film somehow?

drossall · « **Reply #2072 on:** 19 January, 2022, 06:39:16 pm »

I don't think I've ever read that one, so I took that as a personal recommendation and it's now on my Kobo app

Alongside quite a few others that I need to read

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2073 on:** 20 January, 2022, 10:45:44 am »

It isn't brilliant writing, just a decent 'hard sci fi' book that has truly interesting ideas about how enigmatic/different aliens and alien beings might be.

Pingu · « **Reply #2074 on:** 20 January, 2022, 11:17:27 am »

And 1950's social attitudes...