Well son I was mainly storing sausages up my bum to avoid the oncoming sausage famine. Plus I liked the sensation.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 21:18, Reply)
So... It's the French causing all this then - they don't even have decent sausages
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 17:13, Reply)
Careful buying into the 'the French' arguments. French politics is a very broad church, with a wide range of opinions to cherry pick from.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 17:43, Reply)
it had chunks of pig cheek skin in it, replete with whiskers. Cant say it was in my top 10
(, Thu 10 Jun 2021, 0:37, Reply)
Try selling him ze dog treats as a delicacy...
(, Thu 10 Jun 2021, 22:48, Reply)
If Northern Ireland wasn’t part of the UK.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 20:55, Reply)
Hoping it doesn't turn out to be a bit rubbish.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 11:26, Reply)
I thought they did well, got the characterisation and pacing down, and sat well with the teleplay, plus it's all just bloody bonkers which is an appropriate tone.
Good Omens was terrific too and cast superbly.
I'd say it bodes well, and a graphic novel serial must be a bit more straightforward to adapt than a novel, surely? Like, the storyboarding is all done for you..
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 12:29, Reply)
it looked like the cast had a lot of fun making it and it was very faithful to the book. If they'd not stuck so rigidly to the dialogue in the book it *could* have been better (what works well on the page of a book is less effective on the screen) but given Pratchett's death I think they made the right call. A very good tribute to the man.
American Gods is fucking mental and as much as I admire it, I can't really be bothered with it. It's just too bloody much - everyone chewing the sets every second of every scene. I may go back to it if things get too boring around here.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 13:22, Reply)
but it's definitely going to be shit.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 13:53, Reply)
I'd assumed they were going to try and shoehorn the whole thing into one big CGI mess.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 23:50, Reply)
whether a netflix show is great or not isn't entirely down to netflix. we wouldn't assume the same of every bbc production either.
i've certainly disliked a handful of netflix-produced shows, but of those that interest me, i've really enjoyed many more.
i'm keeping my fingers crossed they do gaiman's material a service.
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is one of the best things about it (and also why it seemed unfilmable).
(, Thu 10 Jun 2021, 11:39, Reply)
and there's absolutely no way Netflix or anyone else could convert that good stuff to the screen without turning it to shit. Even the DCAU panel-for-panel reconstructions of the comics are shite compared to the source material.
(, Thu 10 Jun 2021, 13:36, Reply)
so that's already a thumbs-up from me.
It should be a Twitter rule : Never tell a best-selling author that they're wrong about their own work.
(, Thu 10 Jun 2021, 9:55, Reply)
Brings back memories of the one time I tried stop motion and was totally fucking cheating within about half an hour.
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I would have watched Friends more if it was like this.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 7:30, Reply)
Lots of feeding, a freeze frame of the foecal sac being removed (to keep the nest clean), a lot of nervous peeking and then...
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 16:27, Reply)
I'm sure this'll find some fans here.
Buttlympics: Explosive Diarrhea Pole Vaulting is a hilariously crude pole-vaulting game where butts with explosive diarrhea attempt to jump as high as possible.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 16:13, Reply)
Silent films used to be accompanied by a small orchestra playing music, with each film having a specific score. Here I've tried to meet that requirement with a suitable pop music soundtrack.
I've been making pop music soundtracks for all sorts of films during lockdown. Die Hard got a Christmas soundtrack, War Games got an 80s soundtrack, Logan's Run got a 50s/60s soundtrack, and right now I'm working an anti-war soundtrack for 1964's Fail Safe. Here are some clips on Twitter if it's the first you've heard of any of it: twitter.com/bloggerheads/status/1390299122691756035
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 15:50, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=44OBqP3POKc
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eu.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/maywood/2019/09/24/rabid-raccoon-attacked-people-maywood-nj-euthanized/2432588001/
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 17:39, Reply)
Worse than Max Bygraves.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 14:46, Reply)
the project was crowdfunded and I'm pleased to say I chipped in a couple of quid to get it made. Lovely little film. She was quite the character.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 8:14, Reply)
I'm an old punk and for some reason XRay Spex slipped past me. I've been really enjoying finding out about, and listening to, her work and life.
I'll be watching this
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 8:33, Reply)
I'm not a punk and even I've heard of X-Ray Spex. Germfree Adolescents was a top album.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 20:48, Reply)
and particularly Priti Patel, are complete cunts.
Worst thing is I nearly deleted this comment out of fear of it effecting my wife's citizenship application, but as it's my comment and not her's and the application is in perfect order I'll happily take the cunts on any day (though to be fair this is based on a deep knowledge of how to cause government departments trouble they want to avoid, and an excellent list of connections to assist in this process)
The rest of you though, are probably fucked.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 10:19, Reply)
Round my way you often see Immigration Enforcement vans on the road. They’re inevitably driven by absolute bullies.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 12:11, Reply)
Are these the cunts pushing English pensioners to move to France and Spain?
Sending them over here, eating our cheese and upsetting the real estate?
Bastards.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 21:05, Reply)
He's a bit mental.
He claimed to have invented free energy, then wanted to take his amazing, world-changing invention to India because he was annoyed about the paperwork regarding his mail-order bride, ie dodging tax means you don't have payslips.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 22:49, Reply)
I was feeling a little bit guilty that maybe he had done himself a mischief and that my views of his videos had in a small way contributed by encouraging him.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 12:14, Reply)
that someone who makes videos would know better than to wear a high contrast, small patterned shirt on video.
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and a rubbish character being badly performed at that.
To learn that he's real, and that it's not an act, and that he actually married someone (even if he did choose them from a catalogue), is all quite troubling.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 14:33, Reply)
He comes across to me as brash and laddish, so what; he's clearly an intelligent and hardworking engineer who is very committed to his wife.
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'What the fuck is this shit?'
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*I use the word in the broadest possible sense.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 14:09, Reply)
...or maybe that was the name of the volcano
(, Mon 7 Jun 2021, 19:14, Reply)
"that this was unique, that it stood out in comparison to other recent eruptions. It resembles the big shield volcanoes”
grapevine.is/mag/feature/2021/06/04/the-message-in-the-magma-the-geldingadalir-eruption-site-is-growing-what-have-we-learned/
I'm certain it's this admiration for me that you repeatedly reference it, and not because you're toxic little dweeb jealous at your betters
(, Mon 7 Jun 2021, 23:33, Reply)
Certainly not jealous of your linguistic abilities.
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I read the whole thing and I didn't see any hint that anyone was shitting themselves over it. Quite a lot of excitement, but no fear.
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sorry if it's a bit beyond you, but there's only so much I can dumb it down
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 0:47, Reply)
and the tiresome Prufock cycle is almost complete.
1) attempts to troll me compelled by hatred
2) retreats to grammatical pedantry in attempt to save face. What was it last week? I left a full stop off my comment. That was a great save...
3) trolling somehow becomes even more nakedly humourless, a feat in itself, and insulting, often regurgitated trolling catchphrases I haven't seen since the 90s
which only leaves us with your last ditch stand
4) calling me mad or insane
and so it goes...
and there you have it. never any argument over ideas, like whether my predictions about the icelandic volcano had merit, you're not really capable of that. even your brief attempt to defend the spectator made me feel like I was arguing with some distressed inarticulate teen rather than an adult.It's just a tedious cycle you'll try again next week, but I guess any attention is good attention, when you have so little else going by way of personality or substance
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 14:23, Reply)
You can say that’s sane if you like, but it ain’t.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 0:22, Reply)
if the spectator run a poor review of coogan, and I point out that it's in line with the attack pieces they've been running on coogan since he gave evidence at leveson, and indicative of the falling standards of their writing (and I provided a few links to illustrate my point), then that's relevant. It's just your mind being unable to switch gears, prufock, possibly hampered by how personally invested in the spectator you are. you thought people would just pile in like the spectator readers' comments, but found yourself in an argument about the mag itself and were unable to articulate anything other than "please don't talk about this" and call me mental. it's about as satisfying as our other exchanges, but like above, still you persist.
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and "shitting themselves" are prufocks words, not my own. my original post referenced early research and how geologists were worried that it could develop into a major and continual hazard. if you recall how recent eruptions have disrupted european aviation, the possibility of it developing into a regularly erupting shield volcano that sends ash clouds 8 km up into the troposphere seemed like a reasonable concern. So far it seems to be following that development path, as the above article confirms, but there's still a lot of unknowns.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 0:44, Reply)
"the possibility of it developing into a regularly erupting shield volcano that sends ash clouds 8 km up into the troposphere"
That would seem scary, if that's what shield volcanoes do. They don't. You're thinking of cinder cone volcanoes.
Shield volcanoes just sit there like fat lumps oozing their contents out onto the surface (insert "your mum" joke here). They're about the most benign volcanoes you'll ever see. Mauna Kea is a classic shield volcano, and hasn't released an eruption column in forever. The worst that does is force the occasional road to be rebuilt somewhere else.
Source: My geology degree.
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 16:52, Reply)
as unlike the mixed partial melting of the majority of other icelandic volcanoes, this one seem to be sourced from down at the mantle boundary, possibly as an old pathway that hadn't been used for 14,000 year was reopened by a recent earthquake. So when you have varying mg mafic minerals, as stated, you have varying viscosities, and hence varying sorts of eruptions. The one characteristic of these deep sourced volcanoes is that they tend to be long lasting and bring up lots of rock, some erupting for thousands of years, so in this context I think they were talking about shield volcanoes in terms of prominence, as they are some of the largest volcanoes on earth. shield is more of a morphological descriptor, some are quite pyroclastic, or have suffered cone collapse. And even volcanoes like mauna kea and loa are in what's called their post shield phase, they had substantial large pyroclastic eruptions in their earlier phases, with large ash deposits like the pahala ash layers showing they blew their tops as good as the next volcano
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 0:09, Reply)
That's really bloody impressive. Are we allowed to fly to Iceland yet?
(, Mon 7 Jun 2021, 21:24, Reply)
really liking this
there's a few live feeds - this is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOEuf_4z_sM
has some sound. there's another live feed that show people going up to the cooled lava
(, Mon 7 Jun 2021, 21:42, Reply)
Fuck, I'm supposed to be working, but I'm stoned, and sitting here staring at a volcano webcam.
(, Mon 7 Jun 2021, 22:50, Reply)
knew a bloke who followed the tour for a while playing at being a deadhead. he was a masseuse and gave out free massages. given that he said it was only to pretty women I imagine it was just him being a sleazoid rather than motivated by some hippy shit
(, Mon 7 Jun 2021, 16:15, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wioh5qUj7fM
(, Mon 7 Jun 2021, 17:09, Reply)
Sadly, being a non swimmer, i spotted him very quickly. Quite worrying viewing. Fair play to the lifeguards though. Very quick response
(, Tue 8 Jun 2021, 19:17, Reply)
Pushing people aside in a panic, right in front of the camera?
Yeah
(, Wed 9 Jun 2021, 5:49, Reply)
He also mentions an Aussie classic film The Castle. Worth a watch if you can find it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki-Aw9PZFIQ
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