Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 289246 times)

geraldc · « **Reply #2150 on:** 15 July, 2022, 12:15:24 am »

My daughter's school adapted Mamma Mia for their school play. Over 300 primary school kids learning and performing Abba. Through this I discovered Abba's work in Spanish. Abba Gold is Abba Oro. This could help my attempt at Spanish learning.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2151 on:** 28 July, 2022, 01:14:05 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/the-guardian-thursday-quiz-general-knowledge-topical-news-trivia-66-kate-bush

I got 11/15. I expect Rogerzilla to get 15.

Basil · « **Reply #2152 on:** 28 July, 2022, 01:37:53 pm »

7. With absolutely no luck at all with the guesses.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2153 on:** 28 July, 2022, 02:36:59 pm »

10 though at least three were guesses. And as the answer actually points out, the Lake Tahoe question is Wrong.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #2154 on:** 31 July, 2022, 09:31:53 pm »

About to watch “A Candle for the Devil”, billed as “Demented spinsters carve up guests at a Spanish roadhouse”.

Looking forward to seriously grim 70s rubbish.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #2155 on:** 31 July, 2022, 09:38:07 pm »

No, I can’t do it. Bad overdubbed Spanish mostly, one death in the first 2 minutes, grim religious overtones.

citoyen · « **Reply #2156 on:** 01 August, 2022, 10:02:17 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 28 July, 2022, 01:14:05 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/the-guardian-thursday-quiz-general-knowledge-topical-news-trivia-66-kate-bush

I got 11/15. I expect Rogerzilla to get 15.

11/15 here as well. But only one of the questions actually requires any knowledge of Kate Bush, so it's a bit of a swizz.

L CC · « **Reply #2157 on:** 01 August, 2022, 10:55:58 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 01 August, 2022, 10:02:17 am

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 28 July, 2022, 01:14:05 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/the-guardian-thursday-quiz-general-knowledge-topical-news-trivia-66-kate-bush

I got 11/15. I expect Rogerzilla to get 15.

11/15 here as well. But only one of the questions actually requires any knowledge of Kate Bush, so it's a bit of a swizz.

A pitiful 5- but one of those was the Kate Q so I'm claiming victory.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2158 on:** 19 August, 2022, 03:44:00 pm »

Boogie on down with heads of state!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/world-leaders-dancefloor-videos-sanna-marin

Boris shows them how to cut it. No, not that one.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2159 on:** 19 August, 2022, 04:18:53 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 August, 2022, 03:44:00 pm

Boogie on down with heads of state!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/world-leaders-dancefloor-videos-sanna-marin

Boris shows them how to cut it. No, not that one.

Only Sanna Marin and Obama are any good and look like they are actually enjoying themselves (I'm discounting Zelenskiy since he was in showbiz originally).
Ursula von der Leyen though looks like she's restraining herself from busting out some serious moves in the Angela Merkel video.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2160 on:** 19 August, 2022, 05:02:08 pm »

Obama's is somewhat different as it's clearly staged. The bloke on the other side of Merkel is clearly enjoying himself, although you can't call it dancing.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2161 on:** 20 August, 2022, 04:20:21 pm »

I've been doing a bit of reminiscing and this chap cropped up. He and I lived under the same roof with 9 other chaps in the 1972-73 academic year. Jack was studying for his B. Ed. at the time, I was in my first year.

Given that he's a reasonably prominent Liverpool folk singer, I wondered if AndrewC was familiar with his work.

andrewc · « **Reply #2162 on:** 20 August, 2022, 04:41:42 pm »

Sorry Peter, I've never heard of him.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2163 on:** 01 September, 2022, 11:48:20 am »

New "anti-woke" V&A trustee.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/31/government-appoints-anti-woke-activist-as-va-trustee

rafletcher · « **Reply #2164 on:** 24 September, 2022, 02:21:22 pm »

Nurse Rached has died…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63019250

Ham · « **Reply #2165 on:** 27 September, 2022, 10:41:41 am »

Well, here's a turn up for the books. I'm going to a gig, first time since forever. Patax are in London, so I felt I had to. They're at the Tabernacle and I've got my ticket and I'm being asked to book a seat. Do I book on the ground floor to be at the front, or the gallery where visibility is betterer? Bearing in mind that Patax combine jazz, funk, rap and flamenco would that be better? Anyone know the venue? Not a huge number of tickets sold yet, by all accounts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaPW6tthHSA for an example of what I might hear and see (ff to 3:30 for flamenco)

ETA of the 17 seats shown as booked, 6 are th front row of the gallery the rest are on the ground floor.

TheLurker · « **Reply #2166 on:** 30 September, 2022, 07:03:58 am »

B B B Bluebottle's Half Hour?

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/29/bbc-to-broadcast-lost-episode-of-hancocks-half-hour

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2167 on:** 05 October, 2022, 05:56:51 pm »

Velma from Scooby-Doo is now a lesbian. I'm confused by a few things in this: it's never occurred to me to particularly read any of the characters as gay or straight; I've never seen Velma and Shaggy as anything approaching a couple; and I don't recall any character called Marcie Fleach. Obviously I haven't seen the new movie, I don't think I've seen the 2002 movie either (google tells me it was live action, in which case it was crap) and probably most of the Scooby-Doo i've seen has been the cartoons from the 1960s and 70s dubbed into Polish (just because; and yes, the song works very well in Polish). Anyway, zoinks! and all that.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2022/oct/05/scooby-doos-velma-has-finally-come-out-as-a-lesbian-my-dream-has-come-true

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2168 on:** 05 October, 2022, 06:00:23 pm »

I had the misfortune to see the 2002 Scooby-Doo film and “crap” doesn’t even begin to describe the sheer mind-buggering awfulness of it.

spesh · « **Reply #2169 on:** 05 October, 2022, 06:06:32 pm »

The Scooby-Doo franchise went downhill when they introduced Scooby's intensingly annoying nephew Scrappy* in 1979.

* The "S" is silent, BTW...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2170 on:** 05 October, 2022, 07:07:36 pm »

My Dear Wife has been watching murder mysteries on Youtube. A few minutes ago she mentioned "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and I, with a wonderful juxtaposition of superannuated brain cells, replied "That's the only Beatrix Potter book I ever read!", for some reason getting one 3- followed by 2-syllable author's name confused with another. A slightly surreal conversation then ensued in which Janet definitely had the last word with the final sentence Mr. McGregor ever heard:

"My name is Peter Rabbit and you killed my father! Prepare to die!"

Kim · « **Reply #2171 on:** 05 October, 2022, 07:53:54 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 05 October, 2022, 05:56:51 pm

Velma from Scooby-Doo is now a lesbian.

I'm confused; was she ever not?

(Spesh is right about Scrappy.)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2172 on:** 06 October, 2022, 06:26:54 pm »

Since 2002 apparently. Probably as a result of being paired off with Shaggy. It would be interesting (would it? no probably not) to hear what (checks Wikipedia) Joe Ruby and Ken Spears thought.

Kim · « **Reply #2173 on:** 06 October, 2022, 06:32:43 pm »

The awkward relationship with Shaggy is a classic coming-out story arc.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2174 on:** 06 October, 2022, 08:41:03 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 05 October, 2022, 07:53:54 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 05 October, 2022, 05:56:51 pm
Velma from Scooby-Doo is now a lesbian.

I'm confused; was she ever not?

Not in 1969 I don’t think.