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[DoctorStrangelove]

Entertainment: considering how knackered I am, it had better be sommat with a bit of go in it or it'll be which is never a good thing before bed time.

"Predator (1987)" with that Arnie chap.

"Predator 2 (1990)" with that Danny Glover chap, in some ways a more inneresting film than the first, and set in 1997.

I started watching the first with the commentary but it was so dry & the commenter seemed so bored with it (think the voice over in the original version of "Blade Runner") that I turned it off.

Found a French documentary about Clint Eastwood on BBC Alba which was inneresting in having subtitles for the French guys waffling on, and subtitles for the bits in Gaelic.

Quite surreal in its way but there you go.

The French loved all his stuff after "Bird" since that gained their approval and made him an auteur, whatever the feck that is.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Don't eat my Geoffrey Boycatt. He might still be in the freezer [emoji1787]

Ah.

"Rittle Tiger".



Which reminds me I have to go shopping tomorrow morning since I haven't defrosted any meat.

Plus I have to buy cat food for the quarantined lot next door.

[ladymuck]

I enjoyed the Predator films but, I have to say, the AvP films were very enjoyable.

[WTFH]

Still going live...

[vetran]

Still going downhill...

FTFY!

[WTFH]

FTFY!

I wish. Then I’d be skiing.

Nearly done for the day. Can’t wait to see the (notably absent) PM’s face when I submit my timesheet.

[NickFitz]

I wish. Then I’d be skiing.

Nearly done for the day. Can’t wait to see the (notably absent) PM’s face when I submit my timesheet.

One time at a pub I used to work at, the newly-promoted manager asked us to all pitch in working through the night after closing to give the place an exceptionally deep clean, so we did. As the newly-promoted assistant manager, I'd been there since early afternoon (we didn't open on lunchtimes in the week). The following week, the woman who processed the timesheets for the owners at their restaurant over the road phoned over to the pub saying she assumed there was a mistake on the timesheets, and I very much enjoyed assuring her that no, there was no mistake, I had in fact worked from one in the afternoon until eleven the following morning with only a couple of half-hour breaks, and was surprised the owners hadn't told her they'd approved this in advance

[NickFitz]

Tonight's movie premiere was Official Secrets (2019), which I thought was very good. It's not easy to make an exciting scene from lawyers sitting around a table discussing whether to seek disclosure of government documents, but this film achieved that, and more

Rewatches rather than premieres after that, starting with Flightplan (2005), which may play fast and loose with all known principles of the economics of airliner architecture but is nonetheless a pretty good thriller

And finally, as the good doctor had reminded me of it by watching it the other night, Phone Booth (2002). The last time I watched this I must have been in one of my moods as I was a bit put out by some aspects of the cinematography, but this time I didn't give a tulip about any of that and enjoyed it all the more

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning all if all there be

Dry.

Grey. Very very grey.

White sky. Dark white at that.

Sunless.

Warmer at 18.7 deg in here.

1020 mBar on the barometer with an unvarying 70% RH.

Failed to return to sleep so it was up like a lark at 07:15 ish.

[WTFH]

Morning all