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Steve May

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  1. 15 hours ago, Bleep1673 said:

     

    I was furious.

    No point being furious if something goes wrong on your recce run.    That’s why you do a recce run - because it doesn’t matter when it goes wrong.    
     

    Sounds to me like your preparations have done their job.  
     

    Good luck on Thursday.  

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  2. I while back I heard this song that I found oddly moving for reasons I couldn’t put my finger on.  It was had a bit of an early 90s feel with a voiceover about a girl listening to very loud house music.

    I heard it a few times and never found out what it was.   But it’s been bouncing round my head ever since.  

    This morning Mary Anne Hobbs played it and I grabbed the title.   It’s Beulah Loves Dancing by Planningtorock.

  3. On 23/09/2019 at 21:34, John Drake said:

    I know this is young folks' music and old farts like me shouldn't be listening to it because it'll destroy the artist's street cred n' all that, but I absolutely love this song! Heard it purely by accident t'other day and it stuck in my head from the first listen. To add insult to injury, I discovered there was a whole album's worth by this Sam Fender chap and it's fantastic. Sorry kids!

     

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    I recently heard a song by someone called Billie Eilish and I’d never heard of her but I thought it was terrific.    Great video too.

    Apparently she’s incredibly famous  and has been for some time.    It all passed me by. 

    Sorry kids. 

  4. 3 hours ago, Chrispmartha said:

    Have you seen either Dark Place or Toast of London? Toast of London is Berry at his best IMO

    Didn’t think much to Toast of London.  

    I think Matt Berry’s standard character isn’t strong enough to carry a whole show.    As a supporting role, it can work.

    Dark Place was quite good but a long time since I’ve seen it. 

  5. Last night, we started on What we do in the shadows.

    It was okay, but I saw the film a few weeks ago and that was much better.   I’m still chuckling at Rhys Darby saying “Werewolves, not swearwolves” 

    With the exception of The IT Crowd, Matt Berry never quite seems to be as good as he should be.  

  6. On 05/06/2019 at 19:26, Bob8 said:

    Many years ago, I lived in a working class suburb of Copenhagen

    I shall be on my way to Copenhagen later today.

    Typical business trip: get up at 4.30am, fly to somewhere, get a taxi to a site on an industrial estate, spend all day indoors in a room with no windows, get a taxi to a hotel, eat a room service burger while working until 1am,  sleep, get taxi to industrial estate at 8am, spend all day indoors in a room with no windows, get taxi to airport, fly home.  

    Arrive at home to be asked “Was Berlin/Copenhagen/Brussels/Wherever nice?”    

    Answer “I don’t know”

     

  7. My barber has retired.   He was great.  £3.50 for a five minute buzz cut.  No chat, all done while the sandwich shop next door makes my lunch, and if there’s a queue it’s short and there’s a three year old copy of Top Gear magazine for me to read.

    This is a disaster  

    So I need a new one.   This is a big decision in a man’s life  

    Every one I look into wants to lift at least fifteen quid off me, wants me to book in advance or waffles on about wet shaves or hairstyles I simply don’t have enough hair to stand a chance with  

    No, I don’t care about “a cutting edge approach to modern barbering”.    I don’t want to choose between three “master barbers” all wearing stupid waistcoats and beards like hipster idiots.   I don’t want “an award winning coffee while I wait” because I don’t want to wait.

    I just want a quick haircut for a fiver, in and out in under ten minutes. 

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  8. On 11/06/2019 at 19:59, graveyard johnny said:

    the guardian has the least number of sales daily/weekly and monthly compared to all the rest, its left wing bog roll with agendas that are as see through as a window with no glass, I wouldn't worry too much.

    “As see through as a window with no glass”

    That seems a very odd comment.

    I don’t think the Guardian makes any attempt whatsoever to hide its agenda and never has.

    You’ll no doubt be shocked to discover the Telegraph supports the Tories...

    Anyway, David Squires’ football cartoons are quite brilliant and if you don’t read them on account of the Graun’s editorial line the loss is entirely yours.

     

     

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  9. It’s often said that you can judge the decline in insects by the number of squashed ones on your windscreen.    And it’s been a long time since I’ve had a really grim windscreen.

    I set out the other day and the M6 was shut so I had to drive from Wiltshire to Yorkshire on back roads trying to avoid even the traffic diverting away onto A roads.   Downside, it took about eight hours.   Upside, the windscreen was utterly grim with dead insects, which cheered me up considerably.

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  10. On 05/06/2019 at 23:06, GUBRATS said:

    Not seen any bats this year , worrying really , used to love watching them flying round me when walking the dog , assume I was disturbing the ' midges ' they feed on , just been watching two youngish ' sonics ' dancing round on the patio , very funny 

    Will be building some hoghouses this week , might make a few Bat houses as well , see if we can encourage some locally 

    Plenty of bats out in my garden again this year.  

    I don’t know where they come from, so can’t count.  But I haven’t noticed fewer than last year. 

  11. On 26/05/2019 at 23:53, Steve May said:

    Just watched the first three episodes of Chernobyl on Now TV.   Absolutely superb.

    I’m sure there has been artistic license applied for dramatic effect, but even so, what a story.

    Watched the last episode just now.  

    Staggeringly good.   

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  12. On 02/06/2019 at 10:40, Oxford said:

    I don't linger in nor long for, the past and the last thing I'd want would be a remake but I would love programmes like this to be made now

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    I love The Beiderbecke trilogy.   Medium sized Trevor Chaplin is a hero of mine.  

     

  13. 7 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

    There is an accompanying podcast which explains the artistic changes, and there are probably less than you might think!

    I didn’t know there was a podcast. I’ll look it up.  Thanks  

    Last night the 90 seconds on the roof scene was excruciatingly tense.

    I remember reading once that young Soviet Army conscripts were given a choice between a few minutes working at the reactor site  or a tour in Afghanistan.  

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  14. 7 hours ago, Phil said:

    Come on!!! We’ve got to hear this 

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    It’s one for the pub. 

    It’s so fantastic that no one believes it.  

    At my wedding, my best man - who I’ve known for only twenty five years - actually went and asked my mum and each of my sisters if it was true.    They all assured him it was.   I’m not sure he believed them.

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