Futtocks
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Poupelle of Chimney Town (2020) aka Eiga Entotsumachi no Puperu
Imaginative, vivid and full of action. Although the drawing style of the human characters isn’t my favourite, it grew on me quickly enough.A factory town is covered by chimney smoke, and as the townspeople haven’t see the sky in centuries, they no longer believe that stars exist. A chimney sweep and a friendly monster named Poupelle decide to prove that stars are real.
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Gilson Lavis, drummer and member of Squeeze.
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3 hours ago, Father Gascoigne said:
Definitely the weakest, yeah. Though from an esoteric/symbolic point of view it has a lot going for it, making repeat viewings more interesting for me personally as there's plenty there to unpack.
I really liked Hot Fuzz as a teen first time I saw it. After watching it again a few years back, I liked it a lot less. Unlike Shaun of the Dead, which I think is the best of the lot by far, once you know the core mystery in Hot Fuzz, it loses its edge on repeat viewings. There are certainly scenes that remain funny on repeat viewings, but I realised on that second viewing that the plot and mystery relating to the town did much of the legwork the first time around.
I went the other way, initially preferring SotD, but being won round by the cast, the characters and the technical strengths of HF, especially the editing.
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A pupil told me he was awarded the Leslie Nielsen badge at school.
I asked “what's that?”
He said “it's a big building with lots of children, but that's not important right now.”
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Goodbye, Don Glees!, aka Gubbai, Don Gurîzu! (2021)
Three teenage boys reunite after a time apart and set out to prove that they did not cause the forest fire they are blamed for.
They get lost in the woods and discover more about each other's lives while they were separated. It does deliver quite a hard emotional kick in the guts as the story unfolds. -
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Former US vice president Dick Cheney, aged 84.
Ex-Grateful Dead singer Donna Godchaux, aged 78. She was also a session singer at Muscle Shoals and was on Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds, Percy Sledge’s When a Man loves a Woman and songs with Neil Diamond, Boz Scaggs and Cher.
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The password to the recently-looted Louvre Museum's surveillance system was, and has been for over a decade... "louvre".
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Diane Ladd, award-winning actress and mother of Laura Dern.
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Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. With tracks from the likes of Ken Nordine, Bill Frisell, Los Lobos, Tom Waits, Yma Sumac, Garth Hudson, Aaron Neville, Sinead O'Connor, Harry Nilsson, Herb Alpert, Sun Ra and many more.
YouTube Playlist:
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Five years after a dream was first shared between rugby league legend Rob Burrow and his consultant, Dr Agam Jung, that dream has become a reality. Today marks the official opening of The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease at Seacroft Hospital - a beacon of hope, compassion, and innovation for everyone affected by MND.
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This (and a few other threads) is all bog-standard "the day after losing to the best team in the world by not very much" flailing about.
Are England Football forums like this when they don't win a major trophy in the way that they routinely haven't since before I was born?
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That was a shocking missed tackle count from Tonga. All that individual skill, power and pace isn't going to compenssate for wasteful sloppiness.
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Just now, graveyard johnny said:
HOW MUCH!
And, if the pub is in the South and doesn't have the sparkler on, "CALL THAT A HEAD?"
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A flat roof and mass brawls in the car park after every meat raffle.
Sticky carpet in an eye-mangling Seventies pattern.
A tiny gnarled old bloke who can top every single one of everyone else's anecdotes, but only if you stand him a pint. All right, a half. All right, he'll tell you anyway.
Next door to a betting shop.
A short stagger from the kebab emporium.
A bloke called Darrell with a round-heeled girlfriend, a short fuse and a glass jaw.
A 100% total absence of the unconvincing class warriors who always wang on about "the death of the proper boozer" in the comments section of every review of a gastropub. They wouldn't go within the mile of this place.
A pool shark who monopolises the table all night, ensuring nobody else can actually just have a fun game.
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Entertainment ain't what it used to be...
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Munster takes advantage of the slippery surface - that looks like a try to me.
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Oledski on now, if I heard the announcer right.
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Jiffy has given Nawaqanitawase more different pronunciations than his surname has syllables.
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From Stuart Goodwin's live log on the Guardian website: "Morgan Knowles spills the ball when under little pressure (he says, eating biscuits at a keyboard while these fellas have massively built rivals in their peripheral vision)."
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1 minute ago, The Rocket said:
Just wait til it`s 5 to go and it`s still 4-4.
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All things Radio
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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Pirate broadcasting shenanigans on the high seas, with the story of Radio North Sea International.
Attempted hijackings, a bomb, jamming, political campaigning and a character called Spangles Muldoon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_North_Sea_International
An interesting read.