Bob The Badger

I didn't mention Short because he rated him, even when he was playing poorly and very few others did. He was on the fence iirc about Tommy. We may have got our money back, but none was worth what we paid and got paid. All 3 flattered to deceive.

TBF, his best was better than yours. Sadly, that's the best I've got.

He has dementia now and lives in (I think) Spain. His son took over the 3 Stage at Darley Bridge. Used to chat with him regularly in The Strand in Matlock. Always a dour so and so pouring scorn on my optimism. Then again, he said we'd overpaid for Kitson, Pembridge and Gabbiadini, so he was probably more on the case than me.

We finished True Detective last night and left a bit meh tbh. Mrs Badger was a bigger fan than me. I said in an earlier post that I just couldn't warm to Jodie Foster as an actor, but I'm now wondering if it's because she's just not very good. 6.5/10 for me and nothing like as good as Fargo. SPOILER COMING I thought the plotline of the lad killing his dad and then calmly mopping up blood and wrapping his body was all a bit silly. It's not like they even hated each other. He'd have been a total wreck. And whereas they were right to hate the scientists, to torture and murder them was a tad harsh when they always had a much greater good in mind. Plus, would a cop have just left it there? I dunno.

We finished Season 2 of Kin - excellent, and loved the ending. Two episodes of the somewhat disappointing True Detective to go, and then we'll probably check out Breathless. Mrs Badger went to drool over Martin Fry at the Hall for Cornwall last night and I watched the first episode of Loudermilk. I definitely laughed out loud a couple of times and may well go back to that.

Marks out of 10. Did you blub? I'm not hugely into love stories but Mrs Badger is and I'm considering suggesting it.

sweet as a very sweet nut that has been dipped in sugar and shoved up a bees arse!

I just got off a client call. How are we playing?

@NottsRam and @ketteringram we wondered if Darren's sister (I forget her name now) just couldn't be in it because that seemed weird. His girlfriend was just written out of the plotline so that didn't feel especially weird, more like real life. I thought the end of Season 3 was brilliant. I am enjoying Kin second season, but I miss the grittiness of Love/Hate. Having said that, I don't miss half the dialogue in Kin!

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

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.

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

He was still on Radio 2.

What a loss. I loved that guy growing up. Get the geese off. RIP.

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.

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.

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.

Why do you say that? I've never had one, but I can definitely understand why people would.

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

As we are seeing.

We have one too. It's a right nasty piece of work and keeps attacking the visiting birds in the summer. We call it Laurence.

Aspidistras can fly?