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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on September 10, 2007, 01:20:22 PM
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Like many parents, I fear for The Boy watching crap on TV - violent, instant gratification, foul mouthed (I saw the Simpsons "Movie" eeek:) low aspirations, "I wanna be a celebrity" idiocy. It is pernicious, degrading and, in particular, the BBC ought to know better. I recall Val Singleton, John Noakes and Christopher Trace doing Blue Peter. They looked like idiots in those jumpers, but we knew no better.
Watch it now, and all you get is some acting school chavs (reported in the papers to be shagging Abbie Titmuss and also taking drugs) doing "cool" PC stuff. OK. I am sure that Noakesy and Shep had a dodgy relationship, but it wasn't stuffed down our throats. The rest is American cartoons.
Well, I have just found him enthralled by some old B&W Norman Wisdom film with slapstick and compassion in it. He also gets out M. Hulot's Holiday (fab film) and rolls around. Gentle humour.
The BBC could save money be digging out all the tapes of Blue Peter c. 1964 (see also: Raymond Baxter) and sacking the current presenters. And Spiderman should be made illegal. And the Simpsons (till after 10.00 p.m.)
All kids should be compelled to collect milk bottle tops (if we stil have those) or used stamps
Signed
Mr Increasingly getting like a retired Colonel Nick
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Well said that man. lol:
Your Saga Deluxe membership is in the post.
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Like many parents, I fear for The Boy watching crap on TV - violent, instant gratification, foul mouthed (I saw the Simpsons "Movie" eeek:low aspirations, "I wanna be a celebrity" idiocy. It is pernicious, degrading and, in particular, the BBC ought to know better. I recall Val SIngleton, John NOakes and Christopher Trace doing Blue Peter.
Watch it now, and all you get is some acting school chavs (reported in the papers to be shagging Abbie Titmuss and also taking drugs) doing "cool" PC stuff. OK. I am sure that Noakesy and Shep had a dodgy relationship, but it wasn't stuffed down our throats. The rest is American cartoons.
Well, I have just found him enthralled by some old B&W Norman Wisdom film with slapstick and compassion in it. He also gets out M. Hulot's Holiday (fab film) and rolls around. Gentle humour.
The BBC could save money be digging out all the tapes of Blue Peter c. 1964 (see also: Raymond Baxter) and sacking the current presenters. And Spiderman should be made illegal. And the Simpsons (till after 10.00 p.m.)
All kids should be compelled to collect milk bottle tops (if we stil have those) or used stamps
Signed
Mr Increasingly getting like a retired Colonel Nick
And "Mon Oncle" is worth a shout too. Jacques Tati was a genius.
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Quite right. He would love that. May go and get it later!! Great joke with the garden and the underwater irrigation IIRC!
He occasonally uses the M. Hulot tennis move to fox his opponents. Since they don't watch 50 year old French films he often wins!
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How?
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Quite right. He would love that. May go and get it later!! Great joke with the garden and the underwater irrigation IIRC!
He occasonally uses the M. Hulot tennis move to fox his opponents. Since they don't watch 50 year old French films he often wins!
And IIRC, there was a secretary in a pencil skirt whose little running steps were a sight to behold cloud9:
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How?
Clearly you have not seen this film! YOu also play tennis. (doubtful)
Get a copy!
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How?
Clearly you have not seen this film! YOu also play tennis. (doubtful)
Get a copy!
No... noooo: How?
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If you are not familiar with M. Hulot, Mr Barman, watch this! I can't yet find the tennis bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imejpHjmhh8&mode=related&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imejpHjmhh8&mode=related&search=)
He is my, er, soul mate!
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How?
Clearly you have not seen this film! YOu also play tennis. (doubtful)
Get a copy!
No... noooo: How?
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'scuse me, 'scuse me, sorry, 'scuse me....................... This is where we came in and I want to get out before they play "The Queen"
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Back to Hulot, please!!
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Quite right. He would love that. May go and get it later!! Great joke with the garden and the underwater irrigation IIRC!
He occasonally uses the M. Hulot tennis move to fox his opponents. Since they don't watch 50 year old French films he often wins!
And IIRC, there was a secretary in a pencil skirt whose little running steps were a sight to behold cloud9:
I will be checking that out. I assume she was French. Even better. Memoreis of Yvette "I must have sex for my religion" at IBM. Long story. SHe was nuts. But lovely eyes:
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Back to Hulot, please!!
I thought this was an 'Old ones are the best' thread? rubschin:
Start your own Hulot thread mate! point:
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If you are not familiar with M. Hulot, Mr Barman, watch this! I can't yet find the tennis bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imejpHjmhh8&mode=related&search=
He is my, er, soul mate!
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If you are not familiar with M. Hulot, Mr Barman, watch this! I can't yet find the tennis bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imejpHjmhh8&mode=related&search=
He is my, er, soul mate!
It?s in foreign? noooo:
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NO BARMAN
YOU USE THOSE TWO THINGS ON THE FRONT OF YOUR HEAD, NO, NOT NOSTRILS, HIGHER, EYES
Heavens!
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Back to Hulot, please!!
I thought this was an 'Old ones are the best' thread? rubschin:
Start your own Hulot thread mate! point:
Which Hulot thread evil:
There is another?
Yvette, you knew her too? eeek:
Possible I suppose.
HOw is Landlady?
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I see Hulot and raise you...
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I see Hulot and raise you...
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His brother was in the Army with my Dad.
The brother later taught me Geography.
The school I went to was the same one as Benny Hill had attended.
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That explains a lot!
Cleese, Mr Bean and Hill stole everything from Tati!
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That explains a lot!
evil:
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Shirley Boys School, Southampton.
My Grandad was one of the builders. He did the roof! Buggered if I'd have climbed up there.
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Shirley! point:
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WTF is this thread about? evil:
Anyway, I am off to effing Ellesmere Port again (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Ellesmere+Port&ll=53.296927,-2.917042&spn=0.046374,0.1157&t=k&z=13&om=1 (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Ellesmere+Port&ll=53.296927,-2.917042&spn=0.046374,0.1157&t=k&z=13&om=1))and checking out Mon Oncle at the same time (also Ackroyd's new book about the Thames, since Growler asks)
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Shirley! point:
Is a District of Southampton ~ evil:
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Wenchy is a cretin (he said that, he did) scared2:
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WTF is this thread about? evil:
Anyway, I am off to effing Ellesmere Port again (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Ellesmere+Port&ll=53.296927,-2.917042&spn=0.046374,0.1157&t=k&z=13&om=1 (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Ellesmere+Port&ll=53.296927,-2.917042&spn=0.046374,0.1157&t=k&z=13&om=1))and checking out Mon Oncle at the same time (also Ackroyd's new book about the Thames, since Growler asks)
Yes I read the review in Saturday's Times ~ quite fancy the book ~ if anyone is shopping for Christmas yet.
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Wenchy is a cretin (he said that, he did) scared2:
Mr Wench calls me a cultural wasteland. sad24:
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London: the Biog was fantastic!
Iain Sinclair has a different take on the whole thing though
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lights-Out-Territory-Iain-Sinclair/dp/0141014830/ref=pd_bowtega_3/202-4734817-8212608?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189437107&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lights-Out-Territory-Iain-Sinclair/dp/0141014830/ref=pd_bowtega_3/202-4734817-8212608?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189437107&sr=1-3)
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London: the Biog was fantastic!
Iain Sinclair has a different take on the whole thing though
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lights-Out-Territory-Iain-Sinclair/dp/0141014830/ref=pd_bowtega_3/202-4734817-8212608?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189437107&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lights-Out-Territory-Iain-Sinclair/dp/0141014830/ref=pd_bowtega_3/202-4734817-8212608?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189437107&sr=1-3)
So read this wenchy. Or Ackroyd better still.
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Wenchy is a cretin (he said that, he did) scared2:
and it was immediately removed.
So stop sh*t stirring evil:
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Wenchy is a cretin (he said that, he did) scared2:
and it was immediately removed.
So stop sh*t stirring evil:
I expect it from Nick, but from you Snoopy, truly I'm hurt. sad24:
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Wenchy is a cretin (he said that, he did) scared2:
and it was immediately removed.
So stop sh*t stirring evil:
I expect it from Nick, but from you Snoopy, truly I'm hurt. sad24:
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The dangers of the interweb eeek:
We fucked up in real life here. Tennis starts at 4. Left at 4.19. Half hour drive. What's the point? Banmg goes Mon Oncle.
Snoopy shrugs: happy100
Wenchy shrugs: happy100
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Shirley! point:
Stop calling me Shirley! cussing:
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When I were a lad, in France, we had a neighbour who used to play tennis just like Tati... brilliant. We called him Mon Oncle of course, such idiot style cloud9:
Trafic was good as well, if you've seen it. ;)
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Michael Moorcock gets a mention - thought I was the only person who read his books.