A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[citoyen]

“All Saints Nursery School is…”

https://x.com/johnfinnemore/status/1700075507272819038?s=46

Fellow Finnemore fans (ie Tim H) will be able to predict the responses to this tweet.

[spesh]

The Whamageddon game isn't supposed to start until December, right?

Just checking, because guess what next door has inexplicably asked Alexa to play...

It's bad enough when mince pies and lebkuchen have appeared in Lidl when we're still weeks away from Halloween, for Cthulhu's sake!

[Mr Larrington]

Bandcamp lays off half its staff after buyout by Songtradr 

Those nice chaps from Psychic Lemon, they say:

Please download any purchases you've made (check out the Batchcamp extension for Chrome if you have a lot)

[Wowbagger]

https://x.com/jamesahogg2/status/1716560932132847956?s=46&t=5CkODWeCu62Yttwfwell5Q

Video in Twitter featuring Stanley Unwin interviewing Peter Hawkins, better known as the voice of Bill and Ben.

[Ham]

Something I learned, courtesy of grandson, that there is a thing called the Gummy Bear Song. I am reluctant to call it music, and if you search it out you really only have yourself to blame, you have been warned. In a world that brought you the crazy frog and others, this plumbs new depths. However, Spotiface followed it up as is its wont, with a track that it thought to be similar, "Dumb Ways To Die" by Tangerine Kitty. This is surely worth a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

[Basil]

I was listening to The Newsagents podcast this evening when one of the adverts that I normally skip (+15 +15 etc) through was in Welsh.
Blimey.  They're getting too bloody clever now.

[Kim]

However, Spotiface followed it up as is its wont, with a track that it thought to be similar, "Dumb Ways To Die" by Tangerine Kitty. This is surely worth a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

I remember being shown that by a CrinklyCub, back in the days when CrinklyCubs were a lot more compact than they are now.

As safety earworms go, it's a veritable classic, right up there with Shake Hands With Danger.

[andrewc]

I've just been watching some vintage BBC dystopia from 1977  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_(TV_series)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pik_15yXw-s      Much concern with "Ilegals",  but these are trying to flee the country & it's oppressive left wing, trade union dominated regime...   

[Tim Hall]

I've just been watching some vintage BBC dystopia from 1977  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_(TV_series)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pik_15yXw-s      Much concern with "Ilegals",  but these are trying to flee the country & it's oppressive left wing, trade union dominated regime...   

Mended your link (the final bracket had got dropped)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_(TV_series)

I remember that one. A shadowy controller in a car with flip up,  rather than wind down, windows. Renault something maybe. 

[andrewc]

A Citroen 2CV ! 

[T42]

Yup, the car with the most elbow room.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The clothing is definitely 1977 – as is the acting! There must be one word to express 'nostalgia for past visions of the future'...

[spesh]

The clothing is definitely 1977 – as is the acting! There must be one word to express 'nostalgia for past visions of the future'...

Not sure about nostalgia - which, like the future, isn't what it used to be - but there is "paleo-futurism", which is the exploration of past visions of the future (usually to see how amusingly/depressingly wrong they were).

Matt Novak's Paleofuture blog is mainly America-centric, but gives an idea of what paleofuturism is about: https://paleofuture.com

One of the classics of the futurism genre found in the children's reference section of libraries in the late 1970s and early 1980s, The Usborne Book of the Future, has recently been re-published:

https://usborne.com/gb/book-of-the-future-9781803709543

[Cudzoziemiec]

Paleofuturism rings a bell actually. Somebody, presumably you, linked to it in the, erm, past. Great site!

[Kim]

There's also 'retrofuturism'

[Cudzoziemiec]

Retrofuturism can by some definitions include cosplay versions of the future as imagined in the past, eg steampunk.
https://theretrofuturist.com/what-is-retrofuturism/

If this goes too far, it could lead to imagination of how retrofuturism might be in the future; a sort of prefigurative retrofuturism.

[citoyen]

I loved Space 1999 as a kid. Haven't seen it for a long time though. Suspect it won't have aged well.

[drossall]

Space 1999 still shows up on Freeview channels

[Feanor]

They seemed to have an infinite supply of those Eagle craft: at least one crashed on every episode!

[andrewc]

There is a link between 1990 & Space 1999.  Clifton Jones played Henry Tasker, PCD Deputy Controller in the first and David Kano, Alpha's senior computer expert in the second.

[Ham]

Maybe this is more POBI, I dunno. I'm guilty of a long standing admiration for Patax, and one of their vocalists is "Mucha Pepper"

She's released a track that I think is worth listening to, for the music and the unusually inclusive group, but all the more so for the sentiment

Sorry it's in Spanish, but there are (Spanish) subtitles that gave me a chance to understand, I had to hit the pause button several times to be honest. The song is about how AI is taking over, and IN (Natural Intelligence) is falling by the wayside.

"We're giving up the planet to a fucking robot"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMWyTua3qwM

[Steph]

Collectors of discarded Beeb stuff fear arrest if they give it back
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-but-owner-is-reluctant-to-hand-them-to-bbc/ar-AA1jL0F5

[Mr Larrington]

Good news for music fans: sausage-obsessed grifters Ladbaby are not releasing a Christmas single this year

[Ham]

OK Google, play some chanson.

      Sure, here is Sean Paul

NO stop

OK Google play some French chanson

      Sure, here is Camille Saint Saens

Just fucking stop 

[Pingu]

You're lucky you didn't get Manhattan Transfer, thobut.