Bob The Badger

1899 on Netflix.

A ship on its way from England to New York recieves a radio signal with just coordinates that it believes is from its sister ship that went missing with over 1400 passengers and crew aboard 4 months earlier.

The passengers basically all say duck 'em keep going to New York, but the moody German captain stars into space a lot and decides to go anyway.

They find it and it's deserted except for a child.

Then it all starts to get very weird with cans of worms being opened only to find out that the worms inside have eaten more cans of worms.

All the passengers are hiding murky secrets and it has a distinctly Lost (the TV series) feel to it. Lost at Sea would have been a good name.

I'm almost 4 episodes in and I have no clue what to make of it. If Mrs BAdger said let's leave it, I'd be fine with that, but happy to stick through some more.

I like that everybody speaks their native tongue and subtitles are used and it's atmospheric for sure, but I'm having to use a tad more headspace than I'd like.

My guess is it will garner a loyal viewing as per Lost but will leave come people cold. I quite enjoyed the first season of Lost and then gradually lost interest when I realised there was never going to be a solution and never even made it to the end of the second season.

4 minutes ago, ramit said:

i just checked on Netflix, it is still there.  Perhaps you have a different version of Netflix than is offered in Iceland, hopefully someone better in the know can explain this apparent omission.

Each country has different offerings. Some movies will be in multiple regions but a lot are sold or rights granted by territory in exactly the same way as terrestrial TV. 

On 18/11/2022 at 01:50, Eddie said:

All Quiet on the Western Front 

The 2022 version, directed by Edward Berger.

A man's uniform was worth more than the person wearing it.

A sickening, harrowing and utterly spellbinding view of trench warfare. A slightly more graphic version even than the 1930 one directed by Lewis Milestone (which in itself was probably the most graphic depiction of warfare that had ever been made up to that time).

Watched most of it last night (still have the last 20 minutes to get through).

And yeah, ditto asper @Crewtonand @Chester40. Very good but not sure I'm a happier person for watching it.

Paul Goddard/10

On 27/11/2022 at 12:15, Stive Pesley said:

Yep  - as the article says, it's akin to the unregulated markets prior to the 1920s crash. It's all just unregulated speculation now. No good will come of it. The idea of it being a replacement currency has long since been forgotten

I'd like to hear a counter argument.

It's easy and intellectually lazy to offer analogy's like the South Sea Bubble.

The two have very few similarities. The South Sea Company was trading in its own stock whereas millions of people are buying things with BTC - like drugs for example ?

But seriously, buying crypto is gambling on a paradigm shift driven by massive advances in technology never seen before.

So many experts were happy to say 'told you so' when the dot com crash happened. How did that turn out? 

I've said a few times in here that I have no clue what crypto will the one that breaks through, or even if it exists yet, but I personally have zero doubt that crypto is coming in the same way as cash is going.

1 minute ago, Mick Brolly said:

Who the hell was the co commentator never heard so much s**** in my life 

Have you get @RoyMac5on block? ?

815 Rams fans. Good work chaos and chapettes. 

Yeees!

Sibleys da man.  If only he had some support on this board. 

1 minute ago, DavesaRam said:

Is that because a fork has 4 prongs instead of one?

If it only had one prong it wouldn't be a fork, it would be a spike and I'm hardly likely to plunge  a spike into my eyeball. I'm not stupid. 

Fabulous second half. I was stabbing my self in the eye with a fork to stay awake in the first half. 

That's a keeper worldie 

Outstanding goalkeeping!

1 minute ago, Anag Ram said:

Yeah, all over his SETI.

 

Draylon wipes clean. 

1 minute ago, DRBee said:

But the awful team selection  has changed as well.....Poor choices made by Warne & management team.

Or alternatively, astute adjustments by Warne & management team. 

@Carl Sagan after Sibley's goal 

Clever Didzy. Bad luck. 

4 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Watched a bit of Canada v Croatia at half time, thought the Sky box was stuck on x2 . Different Sport completely.

I thought that watching England against South Africa yesterday. It seemed like an entirely different sport. 

I was soooo bored before they scored. 

Now I'm bored and depressed. 

1 minute ago, sage said:

I've just been told that that is the first header we've conceded this season. That can't be true, surely 

It is and stop calling me Shirley. 

Just now, Carl Sagan said:

Currently a blood break as Wildsmith has cut his arm.

Currently a blood break as Derbys back line have some put in. 

To the naked eye Cashin does not look 6 feet tall. Weird. 

Cashin largely at fault methinks. 

12 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

The last Brazil side I can remember being really decent got beat By France in 1986.

The team that lost to Italy 3-2 in 82 was incredible. Best game of football I have ever seen.

2 hours ago, ariotofmyown said:

Haha should have been plus, not including!

I didn't mean that.

Eire (including that spelling which isn't true to Gaelic) is the name the British imposed on the Irish when they (the Irish) wanted to call it Ireland. 

TBH, I always want Ireland to do well too. 

30 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

This is something that’s been bugging me a lot recently. And I thought some of the nerds on here might be able to help shed some light.

In the early 2000s I had a Nokia 7110, 3G didn't exist, and I could quite happily make phone calls, send messages and surf the wap to find out a phone number or a simple google search. 

Then 3G came along, the best thing since sliced bread. I could watch videos and all sorts, on my newly minted iPhone 3G. 

Then 4G and now 5G came along, and my village hasn't caught up yet. All we can get, if we're lucky, is 3G, and sometimes only 2G (and often nothing at all). Shouldn't be a problem though, i only want to make a phone call, or do a simple google search, I'm not to worried about watching a video right now. 

But since the advent of 4 and 5G, it seems that 2G and 3G are less than useless.

So it seems that, as we go forward, we also go backwards. For those living in central London with access to a 5G network, they're living their best life. For those of us in the sticks who were quite happily getting by with 3G, waiting a few extra seconds for a video to download, we now can't even make a simple phone call. It's like being back in the 90s! I feel like we need to start installing pay phones again.

when I asked a guy in the phone, he did his best to explain that it's no conspiracy, and I'm not going insane, it's an out there in the open fact that 3G has to be turned off as they introduce more 4G and 5G. Although I still don’t really get why.

In fact now I've got my 5G enabled iPhone 14, when I'm lucky enough to get 4G, it's also rubbish. I've been told to turn 5G off on my phone to improve the 4G. Which makes this fancy 5G enabled iPhone 14 completely pointless. 

Anyway, the point for discussion is, am I going insane? Should I just be understanding that this is the price of progress, and eventually we'll have nationwide 5G coverage, and this transition art period will seem like a bad dream? Or is it the world that has gone nuts, where introducing a new technology takes us back a decade or two?

Yep, it's the same here in west Cornwall.

I can get 4G if I go into Truro or St Austell, but it's 3G here if I'm lucky. And I went from 1 GB fibre optic internet in the US to 35 Megs here that freezes a lot when I'm on calls with multiple streams. 

But it's all going to be ok, because I heard a Tory say they were levelling up broadband and 5G. Phew.

On 25/11/2022 at 14:15, ariotofmyown said:

After England, I always want the other home nations to do well, including Eire.

Yikes! Do you know the history behind it being called Eire?