Jump to content

Bob The Badger

Member
  • Posts

    4,447
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Bob The Badger

  1. 3 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

    Been watching One Day on Netflix. Love story around the relationship between a Northern lass looking for love and commitment and a posh boy who wants to have his cake and eat it.

    The one day is the 15th July across a number of years. I started half watching it, thinking it was just another romcom but it definitely is a level above that.

    Episodes are short and there’s a real depth to the writing. Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall (White Lotus) are great in the lead roles. 

    Might be getting soft in my old age, but I’m really looking forward to seeing how it pans out!
     

    This was highly recommended on the Nihal Arthanayake show. Can't stand him, but I like the movie section.

  2. Finished the latest Fargo last night.

    It was good, but I really think it was too long. If that had been made over here it would be 6 episodes and IMHO, better.

    Well worth watching, but not as strong as the first couple.

    Watched the first episode of the new Kin. I loved the first season and really enjoyed the first one last night, but it underlined how much better Love/Hate is.

    But I think that's a reflection of my total love affair with the latter because I'm still really looking forward to the rest of Kin.

    As per others, also looking forward to CYE. The first one was the usual high standard with a lovely dig at the US voting system. 

  3. 2 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

    Hence the song 'Panic' by the Smiths - Wright played some syrupy Wham song right after a news flash about Chernobyl.

    Maybe not 100% accurate if Wiki is to believed:

    A story circulated as the basis for the song holds that Marr and Morrissey were listening to BBC Radio 1 when a news report announced the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Straight afterwards, BBC disc jockey Steve Wright played the song "I'm Your Man" by pop duo Wham![6] "I remember actually saying, 'What the f*** has this got to do with people's lives?'" Marr recalled. "We hear about Chernobyl, then, seconds later, we're expected to jump around to 'I'm Your Man'". While Marr subsequently stated that the account was exaggerated, he commented that it was a likely influence on Morrissey's lyrics.[2] The band later commissioned a T-shirt featuring Wright's portrait and the phrase "Hang the DJ!"[7]

    "The anecdote might well be true," writes Tony Fletcher in A Light That Never Goes Out, his biography of the Smiths, but he states that "I'm Your Man" had been off the UK pop charts for several months by the time of the Chernobyl disaster and that "Morrissey hardly needed further provocation to attack Wright, whose highly ranked afternoon show treated all popular music as secondary to his madcap party format". (The antagonism was apparently mutual; former Smiths manager Scott Piering says that at a 1985 meeting, Wright and his producer both made clear that they disliked the band's music.)[8] Moreover, the song itself makes no mention of the radio

  4. 2 hours ago, Crewton said:

    Some people (and I'm sure there are a few who post on here) believe that the conspiracy theories that he promotes have at least some credibility, some believe in them passionately, but I have yet to find hard evidence that supports any of them, and some have been repeatedly debunked forensically over the years. The article below has a fairly comprehensive list of those theories, which you might find helpful :-

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/10/10/rfk-jr-launches-independent-2024-run-here-are-all-the-conspiracies-he-promotes-from-vaccines-to-mass-shootings/?sh=71568b5d3cef

    Sorry, I should have been clearer, I just meant the Blackrock malarkey. Whether they do own all those companies and all have invested in Ukraine since the war started. Shouldn't be too difficult to research for some journo.

  5. On 11/02/2024 at 10:47, Crewton said:

    Robert F Kennedy 😂

     I have American friends who think he's a nutjob. I no longer follow US politics closely, but I'd love somebody independent to break that down. Is he lying, is he grossly exaggerating or is what he's saying largely true? I for one, have no clue.

  6. 1 hour ago, Stive Pesley said:

    We're enjoying S5 of Fargo anyway, particularly the way that they have upped the ante and include multiple "baddies" (the sheriff, the hitman and the mother-in-law). Gives the story a wider dimension for sure

    I did read a review that said it had gone down badly with the anti-woke brigade in the US because it had a strong female lead and made the men all look like morons. For me that's one of the things I like about it! That's life lads 😂

    Yeah, we started it last night and went through 2 episodes. Really enjoying it, way better that the latest TD IMHO and that of Mrs Badger.

    We missed season 4 through some quirk of us moving back here, but it seems we were lucky.

    I did begrudgingly pay £2.99 to Amazon to go ad free, but we'll cancel that when we have it finished in a week or so. I just cannot stomach ads now.

  7. 2 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

    Anyone who ever considered subscribing to a doorbell in the first place deserves everything that they get. Sorry but!

    Why do you say that?

    I've never had one, but I can definitely understand why people would.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

    I was never too bothered, but got one (Doorbell/Cam) as a present.

    I rarely use the contact/intercom thing to be fair, but it's sometimes handy to see who's there (*When we're out).

    I've since added a camera (only) to the rear garden, which covers 90% of the garden, plus the all important access to the shed.**
    I've turned off the phone notifications for the latter, as it goes off when sheets/towels/large pants are a-blowing in the breeze!  

     

    *I have never used the mobile app thingy to check and/or answer, when we're in.  I just walk through "The Great Hall to the door, and open it... a bit like a human being!... Unlike a friend who will literally sit on his sofa and talk to the caller via the doorcam!  Idle Bugger!

     

    **There is absolutely no need to keep a permanent eye on my shed, of course, as there is absolutely nothing of value in there.  But it's such a lovely looking shed.  Etc... 
    full

    I once considered getting a second shed and made the mistake of telling my friends.

  9. Finally got around to Mr Bates versus the Post Office.

    My sister said it was brilliant and would work as a standalone drama

    I disagree. The only thing that made it interesting was the fact it actually happened, and Alan Bates is still fighting.

    I think if I hadn't known the story, I'd have loved it, but it was just okay to me.

    Watching True Detective (I hadn't realised it was being drip fed so had a shock last night when we caught up).

    It's pretty good, but I really don't like Jodie Foster as an actor; I just cannot warm up to her. The same goes for the other cop working with her, she scares me.

    I find it really hard to love something when I dislike the characters and they have no screen charm/charisma. For example, Nidge in Love/Hate was a lunatic, but his character was charismatic and super complex. The same went for Ginny in Gomorrah and Sully in Top Boy.

    Jodie Foster is a great actor, but I don't find her at all compelling like say, Kate Winslett is.

  10. 2 hours ago, NottsRam said:

    I know its had a few mentions before but for anyone who likes gangland crime drama, Love/Hate is a must.  I liked Kin but this is just wow, and 5 seasons to watch.

    My favourite series since Top Boy, probably better than Kin. Hence, I've flogged that dead horse down to the bare bones and then eaten the bones.

  11. 1 hour ago, David said:

    Saying that, I know, but I don't know why this topic has descended into an NHS topic.

    Royalist or not, surely we can all understand why the King of the country would receive priority health care unlike our own friends and family?

    Having lost my sister in law recently to cancer, just 42 years old, I am not sat here without experience of watching someone die having been through the NHS system, months of appointments, misdiagnosis before they realised it was cancer and then left cancer cells in her kidney which spread to the rest of her body.

    She wasn't royalty, she wasn't the Queen of the country, her death whilst making front page news of the local paper, was not a national story. She was just a regular person that unfortunately due to mistakes lost her life, as many have and will continue to do so.

    King Charles, for the record I am no royalist, never watched a wedding, ceremony, couldn't even tell you the full words to the national anthem. He's the King, it's blindly obvious why his health would take priority, avoiding the regular process which all starts being on hold at 8am trying to get a doctors appointment.

    He's the King, figurehead of the country. He's probably never had to load a dishwasher, wash his own clothes or hoover his own living room.

    Do I believe anyone should be born into that position, no, but the hierarchy in this country exists and it is what it is.

    The state of the NHS is another topic in itself, which in fairness due to our political rules on this forum probably can't take place as we ultimately know why all the difficulties exist and with a growing population, will only get worse.

    The King of the country has got cancer though, that's the big story here. 

    I wish him well and catching it early means the treatment will work. 

    100% agree.

    When some on the left were up in arms because Trump got preferential treatment when he got covid, I was like wtf, he's the President?

    Whereas my heart says everybody should be treated equally, my brain says that the sheer fact that he signs off on laws in our country and is head of State means we really should throw as many resources at it as possible.

    And I'm not at all in favour of a monarchy, but we have to be sensible.

    I actually quite like Charles and hope he makes a speedy recovery. 

  12. 19 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

    This one dropped off the front page pretty quick eh?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-68167593

    Mrs Badger is a Doctor of Nursing and has spent 25 years working in oncology, mainly colorectal and head and neck and she gets really frustrated by stories like this. Not this specific one, as I don't know if she has seen it, but as her best friend died of ocular melanoma, I will share it with her - but in general.

    There was a story not that long ago about a person who had been offered a treatment and declined it. Then a few months later he decided to take it but the doctors determined it  was no longer suitable and wouldn’t work

    The local news story was all about somebody being denied treatment by the NHS and had to raise money to go to Germany to get it. There was outrage because all they reported was doctors saying it wasn't suitable, not that he'd been urged to take it months earlier.

    He got his treatment and died anyway.

    And there have been others that she wasn’t personally involved in when she has been incredulous because important elements were left out.

    Sooooo, I have no clue about this guy, but I’m leery of blaming anybody. Once cancer hits your liver, it’s really difficult to eradicate.

    And FWIW, she thinks it's quite possible Charles has rectal cancer as that would show up on prostate testing. Of course, she cannot be sure as I doubt anybody can outside of his medical team.

×
×
  • Create New...