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unapologetic pedant

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unapologetic pedant last won the day on May 19 2021

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  1. You've put the puzzled emoji on a post of mine on the previous page. I can't work out what you're puzzled by.
  2. @Sports Prophet What is the point of emoji graffiti? Can only guess which part you have a problem with.
  3. Afraid I can't make head nor tail of the whole caboodle. First saw repeat episodes some time in the 80s shown last thing at night. A relative told me she had seen the original run. Consternation was the principal takeaway. She'd kept watching till the end though. I also saw an entertaining spoof on The Tube. Jools Holland as the protagonist. Got chased and barged over by the balloon. Fry and Laurie were involved. Some dispute whether the Prisoner and Danger Man were one and the same. That character had a very dull yet oddly piquant name.
  4. Did we ever find out what motivated the big bouncy beach stalker? This balloon had a vendetta. Patrick should have lured it onto a large sharp object. Something like the lightening rod another Patrick was impaled by in The Omen. Gruesome, but effective.
  5. Should be a comfortable win for the home team. Best scenario for women's international RL is France closing the gap on England. Alternative is the French falling back to the pack with Greece, Serbia, Wales, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands. Would mean more competitive games overall, but leave England bereft of genuine NH challenges.
  6. Bring back the Cheshire Cup. Could be your year.
  7. I had a R3 spell in the late 90s when I was trying, with limited success, to acquire a taste for Jazz. Included the request programme with the (for an American) disappointingly-named Geoffrey Smith. The reference to the place of drama on a station ostensibly devoted to music brings to mind the carping, usually aired on Feedback, whenever Radio 4 broadcast music documentaries. Complainants were essentially highlighting duplication across the network. The schedules of R1 and R2 were replete with comparable features. In contrast to the plainly infantile but hard-to-suppress sense of deflation when a respected obscurity went mainstream, I felt mildly triumphant when music I'm a fan of got the R4 treatment. John Peel often remarked that records first played on his show always sounded better when he heard them on Daytime R1. The satisfaction is possibly akin to that derived from seeing an unsung hero receive an honour from the State. My favourite R4 music doc was about Judee Sill. In it, Andy Partridge said something along the lines of "Everybody else liked Joni Mitchell and Carole King, but I preferred Judee Sill". Same here.
  8. Have to take your word for that. I've given up looking at the super-duper new TV ratings data. Incoherent, indecipherable, deficient, deceptive. And that's being extremely generous. Reach?
  9. The way the Leagues club is shaping, Shark Park could end up a bit like Wilderspool. Just remind me. What was the equivalent view at your old gaff?
  10. BTW, highly contentious whether aggravate is a synonym of exasperate.
  11. Money Box is ruddy infuriating. The reply to almost every caller is "on the one hand this, on the other hand that".
  12. Not at all. Simply congratulating the victor. I know my place.
  13. I'll have to revisit Instant Sunshine. Perhaps their oeuvre was jaundiced by the "interlude" status. Seemed a tacit invitation to put the kettle on. Like a drum solo.
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