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[DoctorStrangelove]

I was rather disappointed just now.

My cold shower wasn't.


Where's the fun in mortifying the flesh if it isn't?

What next?

Hair shirts that aren't hairy or shirty?

Some feckwhit is setting off fireworks.

Is it November already?

[BR14]

I was rather disappointed just now.

My cold shower wasn't.


Where's the fun in mortifying the flesh if it isn't?

What next?

Hair shirts that aren't hairy or shirty?

Some feckwhit is setting off fireworks.

Is it November already?

you could slap yourself with a wet haddock, - might make you feel better?

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

And another old musician friend has gone. **** it! two months from diagnosis to death - probably lucky though, really, - better than tulip like alzheimers and MND etc etc.
but i'm Still pissed off
so there
bollox

bugrit bugrit bugrit - millenium hand and SHRIMP

Bugger <- manly

[NickFitz]

I can start watching it now I know it's all available

And so it came to pass. Just E1 for now.

After that, I brought the M:I rewatch up to date with Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015). Absolutely brilliant stuff, and one can only hope the forthcoming one advances the state of the art over this one as much as this one did over the preceding one

And to round off, a short film I love and haven't watched in a few years: La cabina (1972). I'm still making do with aged VHS rips of this grabbed off YouTube; it's about time they rescanned the negative and released it in 4K. But even with poor-ish video quality, it's one of the most unsettling films ever made

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Had all the upstairs windows open overnight, so the rooms are now at a rather more reasonably 24 deg C.

Downstairs it's 22 deg C.

Well there we are.

The Saturday morning shop done & dusted.

Phew wot a scorcher.

Tis the sun wot doz it.

Pollen count high.

Temperature high.

Bit breezy now and again.

Neath hot.

Found another bootleg dvd in a charity emporium.

Stainless steel lawn edger purchased from Wilko.

Hayfever currently working overtime <cough> <wheeze> <sneeze>

The DS attempt at scouse dug out of freezer.

Builders in next door doing sommat or other, I care not wot.

Currently watching "Anzio" with Robert Mitchum.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062673/

No mention of Roger Waters' dad yet.

Bob Mitchum and Peter Falk have reached Rome.

Kesselring is not best pleased.

[barrydidit]

And to round off, a short film I love and haven't watched in a few years: La cabina (1972). I'm still making do with aged VHS rips of this grabbed off YouTube; it's about time they rescanned the negative and released it in 4K. But even with poor-ish video quality, it's one of the most unsettling films ever made

Goodnight all

+1 la cabina

Fecking hot here, but the show must go on. Paint stripping to be precise. It's that or ripping out the fireplace (not the surround, the loose tulipty infil which was added as an after thought by some 70's chunt) which I just can't face today.

Looking forward to beer o'clock.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Far too hot again

[DoctorStrangelove]

Today's 2nd feature following the picking of the raspberries for the elderly neighbour next door, is "The Fourth Protocol" by Freddie Forsythe, starring Michael Caine & Pierce (before Bond) Brosnan.

It's rather good, though I don't think I'd like to carry a polonium disk around with me in a tin of tobacco.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093044/

I particularly like the bit on the tube with the 2 NF* chaps.

*Not NickFitz by the way.


I rather enjoyed that once I'd stopped worrying about the initiator. (which is explained in the featurette).

Tea was the remaining kipper (Manx style, Morrisons, reduced) followed by a further portion of stewed raspberries and custard.

It was all very nice, especially since I'd managed not to overcook the kipper this time.


The Fourth Protocol is about the USSR attempting to destroy NATO.

Of course it was so much simpler, in what passes for reality, to get a Russian sleeper like POTUS Trump to do it from the White House.

Simples.


This evening's final epic was "The Pelican Brief" with Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts.

The gleam from the combined sets of teeth was blinding.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107798/?ref_=nv_sr_1

It was a bit wordy but ok in its way.

Again an object lesson for a POTUS with half a brain of the results of obstruction of justice.


I was thinking of watching "The Prestige" since Michael Caine is in it, but decided to have a bit of a change.

The Pelican Brief dvd is a flipper, I don't think I've seen one of those before though I've got a couple that are 4:3 on one side and 16:9 on the other.

The flipper dvd has one half of the film on one side & the other half on the other.

I assume that dual layer disks hadn't been invented back then.


Just ventured into the B*****t forum.

I feel dirty now.

TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

Off to the Chinese