Bob The Badger

Hey @Jourdan and @SK47, I'm looking to go with the missus too. Only an hour or so from St Austell.

20 minutes ago, ketteringram said:

Second season of Kin on BBC iPlayer on 13th February I think. For the few of us who haven't already seen it 

Splendid news. And for the people in here (maybe just you and me @ketteringram ) who are upstanding, decent, respectable and honest citizens who don't brazenly and outrageously steal their TV from the poor, impoverished and defenceless TV stations, and haven't seen it already, here is the trailer.

Finally finished Love/Hate last night - utterly outstanding with a great ending.

Choice now of the latest Fargo or True Detective or Mr Bates v The Post Office.

What order would you lot have those three in if you've seen them all?

1 hour ago, maxjam said:

 

Not sure whether to post this here, in the AI thread, or start a new thread called 'Scary S@%$ coming our way in an AI election year'

13 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

I thought the same about Jaz saying that but I guess he just didn’t think of it at the time rather being particularly thick. I’m not sure Mollie was thick either. I guess, in the heat of the moment, the thought didn’t occur to her either at the time. I surprised myself and quite enjoyed Traitor although I did tend to only half pay attention the first half of each show.

I was joking with the thick comment; I'm pretty sure they'd have been under incredible mental pressure. 

Having said that, Jas suspected Harry for ages (and I think, Andrew) and kept keeping quiet at the round table. Apparently, the normal round tables could go on for 2 or 3 hours, so he had plenty of time and time to think about options before it all started.

Maybe not thick, but. he played the game poorly. And poor Mollie was just smitten by Harry. The worst thing you can do in that kind of situation is to follow your emotions. 

Guys, I think I need help.

I went straight from the end of The Traitors into the US version.

I may not come back from this.

Speaking of The Traitors, how thick were Mollie and Jaz?

All Jaz had to say at the end was, 'If I were a traitor, I'd have voted for the end of the game because I was guaranteed at least half the pot and, in all likelihood, all of it'?

Plank. 

2 hours ago, ketteringram said:

I enjoyed Kin, but I've only seen the first season. It tried too hard to be mean and moody sort of thing. The conversations were slow, with all those pauses. I've never met anyone who speaks like that. 

I'm half way through season two of Love/Hate, and for me, it's way better than Kin. More natural, better pacing, better characters etc. 

Season 3 of Love/Hate is brilliant, better than the first two. And 4 maintained that. Just started the final one last night.

I found some of the moody shots/scenes a bit irritating with Kin too. Especially the ones with Clare Dunne staring off into space. Having said that not enough to taint it, and I still thought it was brilliant.

On 21/01/2024 at 16:04, davenportram said:

That Packets team is scary good for their age/experience. Experience would have got them over the line against the 49ers. 
 

im looking forward to next season

The same could be said for the Rams other than Stafford.

Duck the 9ers though, I've always thought of them like I do Leeds, and the fact that they part own Leeds only cements that.

Go Chiefs!

On 25/01/2024 at 12:49, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Another one, @Carl Sagan. I can’t figure out whether this is real or not. We’re going to be dealing with that question all the time from now on.

 

I'm fairly sure that's legit because it's been reported on, in terms of what he said.

He's talking from an autocue and staying on message. 

37 minutes ago, ilkleyram said:

Serious/not being critical question: so why didn’t you give the task to a more junior member of staff?

 I’m old enough to remember computers first coming into the workplace. The chat then was the same as now - we’ll all be redundant/on the beach. What has happened is that jobs have changed and the workplace has changed and skills required have changed in many places but the overall number of jobs have not. Might not the same happen with AI? 

Almost certainly not.

@DarkFruitsRam7 asked about the music industry, and it would be easy to say people said that about cassette taping and then CD burning. And then they said it about synthesisers and computers in general and also about streaming and illegal file sharing.

This is an entirely different animal because it's going to replace the kind of jobs that replaced the ones lost in manufacturing, as well as some left in manufacturing.

This is not remotely like anything we have ever seen before.

Google released this a couple of years ago. Still brand new, but the potential is obvious if not 100% clear.

In my industry (marketing), AI will/is running a sword through designers, photographers, copywriters, branders and web designers.

On 22/01/2024 at 23:20, Normanton Lad said:

I use ChatGPT instead of reading non-fiction books. ChatGPT allows you to cut through the waffle. Yesterday I asked ChatGPT to summarize a book about False Memory. I then asked various questions about the author's conclusions, e.g. "What examples does Dr Julia Shaw give in her book The Memory Illusion to suggest that memory is fallible." In 10 minutes I had the answers I needed. ChatGPT is a tremendous time saver.

Yeah, but did you really have the answers you wanted?

How can we be sure?

13 hours ago, hales300k said:

Ah class Bob , glad you got into it ! Nidge could`ve made it in politics [or football] in an alternative life , he`s completely amoral , up there with Tony Soprano and Stringer Bell , the character of Pauley who comes over from Spain is based on Daniel Kinahan , who`s in the news plenty , not for very wholesome reasons ! 

Nidge is one of those characters that you love and hate at the same time (maybe that's why they called it that because nothing else makes sense). H'e very charismatic in an unconventional kinda way.

I've never paid for ITVX before, but we started just to watch this and are happy to have done so. I thought, for reasons you will understand, Season 4 would drop off, but it really hasn't.

10 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

They also posted about a guy who stuffed a load of Cadbury's creme eggs up his bum, but in this case, I do agree that it's a point worth making 😋

I've just been to Tesco and will report back. I'm not convinced it will be as good as Love/Hate, but I'm an open-minded badger.

Jeez, the final episode of Season 3 of Love/Hate is mind-blowing!

I know @NottsRam is on this, but has anybody else watched this?

If not, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is definitely up there with Kin, and I'm so glad I was recommended it by @hales300k

7 minutes ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

I get people like him for being nice but it does my head in hes too nice its like hes being fake sometimes you have to have abit aggression to be a football manager and he doesnt its why refs are crap all the time, you get someone like warnock and it changes 

I listened to the podcast he was on when he was Rotherham's manager, and I don't think it's fake at all. I thought he came across as a really genuine person. Could be wrong of course.

3 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said:

I don't need to read the post- no.

(But having read the thread, also no. Criticism yes, personal digs, no.)

I probably didn't pick my words very well tbf, but I didn't necessarily mean abuse at home personally, but being attacked for results. 

1 hour ago, SSD said:

He doesn't deserve to be called a charlatan or gym teacher, that's very harsh. We can't argue that he is very successful at this level of football. With this budget and calibre of players, we should be a top 3 team in this league comfortably regardless of manager. And we are challenging for promotion based on our position and points.

I'm not sure why I can't warm to Warne though. Is it because I have been used to watching a certain style of football for years and now we have gone back to good old fashioned "hit it wide and cross it"? I don't think he is maximising the best out of the squad and financial resources at his disposal. There is a sense when I watch the team we are winning purely because we have better players, nothing that Warne is doing tactically to win us matches. It feels like the bare minimum to win and a number of supporters don't want bare minimum. We should be dominating and the team are not doing it regularly. The league is there for the taking and we keep missing opportunities. 

The weird thing is, I think he's a likeable bloke (maybe I'm wrong), but he gets less leeway because of the style he adopts.

The reality is that if you play an ugly style and win, you can get away with it. But if you play one and lose you get less sympathy from fans.

If you look at Warne's record, it's actually not that bad.

Last season we came within a kippers dick of making the playoffs after what was possibly the most turbulent time in the club's history.

And last night, we could have gone top, and yet half the board would be happy to see the guy fired.

Does anybody ever remember that level of vitriol and animosity toward a manager who didn't have us struggling? And struggling badly.

Other than possibly Dave Mackay for a short period and entirely other reasons, I cannot remember anything like it.

For some while, I just thought it was Derby fans being entitled, but after conversations with @Eatonram, it seems like we're pretty bad every game and winning in spite of ourselves rather than because of ourselves.

I have to admit that I rarely get to see Derby play these days, so I base a lot of my opinions either on highlights or on what I read. As such, I accept that 90% of posters on this forum are better informed than me.

So, does he deserve all this piling on, or should we be sticking by him?

13 hours ago, NottsRam said:

Just about to start love/hate after some good reports. Need something after finishing the excellent Kin. 

You'll like it. I think the third season may be the best to date.

22 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

Had a peep mate and it seems you still have to pay to watch it! Blimey.

It's on Amazon (Paramount), but I'd just grab a torrent, if I were you. Otherwise grab their intro offer and try and nail it in a week, but there's quite a lot of it. 5 or 6 series I reckon.

I can't be arsed with torrents tbf, as we never run out of anything to watch.

After another two seasons of Love/Hate we still have Fargo, True Detective and The Bear to go at just off the top of my head as well as the new season of CYE. I shall save it in IMDB though, so thanks.
 

4 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

I liked Kin, the second series more than the first, but I agree with your appraisal. All very subjective though, as we all like different things. I think my top 5 in the crime genre would be True Detective #1, The Wire, The Sopranos, Gomorra and Oz, though I'd probably say something quite different on another day. 

Agree with all those other than Oz, which, like @Wolfie20, I've not seen - what's it on? I'd also agree with him that I'd add Spiral.

I'm loving Love/Hate. Season 2 dipped a bit, but Season 3 has really picked up the pace. It's very much like Kin, and not just because it's set in Ireland.

I'd also add Fauda, utterly brilliant. And also Kaliphate, the Swedish thing.