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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 21, 2022 19:08:33 GMT
I'm actually reading This Storm by James Ellroy. I got about half way through it in October then stopped for reasons I don't fully understand, as I was enjoying it. Maybe I don't want it to end. Maybe I'm a bone idle bastard. On the other hand, I have read a lot of emails recently.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 21, 2022 19:09:07 GMT
Maybe Alice Roberts just enjoys life. I can see why you might dislike that. Exactly. No need for it. |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Dec 21, 2022 19:13:34 GMT
So who's going to tell crank bin night was last night?
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 21, 2022 19:24:30 GMT
I cannot find a comfortable position; my back is aching like crazy. I am trying to work out when to take my paracetamol. Too early and I won't get to sleep and too late means continued pain, and it's bloody difficult to avoid the extreme edge. Poor old fucker.
I have gone without morphine for 6 weeks now ...
Later...
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Post by Felice Landry on Dec 21, 2022 19:57:05 GMT
I have watched none of the top 50 films of 2022 I've seen 2 and will watch a third on Friday. |
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Post by Faceless on Dec 21, 2022 20:12:11 GMT
I have seen 5 of the top 50 telly progs. I am most up to date
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Post by Felice Landry on Dec 21, 2022 20:25:05 GMT
I have seen 5 of the top 50 telly progs. I am most up to date 1 |
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Post by muffrat on Dec 21, 2022 20:26:35 GMT
Wordle 550 4/6
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Post by muffrat on Dec 21, 2022 20:37:35 GMT
Delighted to note the number of Pratchett nerds in the 'box. I got the Amiga down from the loft last week, it was shitly packaged away but undamaged - the thinner front wedgy end was cushioned with four paperbacks, opened in the middle, softly munching down on the front of the unit like crappy pac-men. Two of them were 'Truckers' and 'Wings', the first and last of TP's trilogy of nome books (not discworld) - I'm thrilled to report youngest kid is reading the first one now. One of the other two was the first volume of Stephen fry's autobiography which I'm.chugging through now, forgot how good it was after dutifully ploughing through all the others in the years since
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Post by MrTiddles on Dec 21, 2022 21:12:49 GMT
No Xmas jukebox this year?
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Post by muffrat on Dec 21, 2022 21:25:07 GMT
Work done til 2nd Jan!! Finished a conversational English class an hour or two ago with a new group of four Argentinian students - two Talmudic scholars and a Rabbi, and a young female professional polo instructor. They got on like a fucking house on fire, it was brilliant. The lesson schedule was supposed to be about 'promoting and defending your opinions' - we spent 90 minutes talking about the sitcom 'Cheers' (which everyone loved to be fair) - and the Die Hard movie franchise, which the young polo player evangelised with surprising zeal in the face of some absolutely forensic semitic cross examination
I love these conversational classes, there's an firm that deals solely with them that I'd love to have a word with (though they pay a lot less than my current agent) - but this definitely didn't feel like work tonight
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 21, 2022 21:35:28 GMT
Work done til 2nd Jan!! Finished a conversational English class an hour or two ago with a new group of four Argentinian students - two Talmudic scholars and a Rabbi, and a young female professional polo instructor. They got on like a fucking house on fire, it was brilliant. The lesson schedule was supposed to be about 'promoting and defending your opinions' - we spent 90 minutes talking about the sitcom 'Cheers' (which everyone loved to be fair) - and the Die Hard movie franchise, which the young polo player evangelised with surprising zeal in the face of some absolutely forensic semitic cross examination I love these conversational classes, there's an firm that deals solely with them that I'd love to have a word with (though they pay a lot less than my current agent) - but this definitely didn't feel like work tonight What is the latest Rabbinical thinking on Die Hard? Definitely not a Christmas movie? |
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Post by Shenguin on Dec 21, 2022 21:48:33 GMT
Work done til 2nd Jan!! Finished a conversational English class an hour or two ago with a new group of four Argentinian students - two Talmudic scholars and a Rabbi, and a young female professional polo instructor. They got on like a fucking house on fire, it was brilliant. The lesson schedule was supposed to be about 'promoting and defending your opinions' - we spent 90 minutes talking about the sitcom 'Cheers' (which everyone loved to be fair) - and the Die Hard movie franchise, which the young polo player evangelised with surprising zeal in the face of some absolutely forensic semitic cross examination I love these conversational classes, there's an firm that deals solely with them that I'd love to have a word with (though they pay a lot less than my current agent) - but this definitely didn't feel like work tonight I think your English writing on this blog is quite good, by the way. Keep up the lessons and hard effort, and I'm sure you'll be writing as learnedly as Kane soon. |
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Post by amipal on Dec 21, 2022 21:57:30 GMT
muffratHad the A500 seen in further action?
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 21, 2022 22:09:19 GMT
Evenin'
I've just returned from 2 (TWO) shops and now have all our Xmas grub and boozes. It was eerily quiet. I'm sure last year it was bedlam. Maybe everyone is dead.
One more day at work then done til 3rd Jan. I've been bullied into a Mario Kart tournament on the switch tomorrow night with the younglings. I don't think I've played it since 2019. I'm sure they've been practicing, the sharp reflex little turds. Oh well. We shall see.
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Post by Destry on Dec 21, 2022 22:16:06 GMT
No Xmas jukebox this year? Done. |
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 21, 2022 22:47:04 GMT
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Post by muffrat on Dec 22, 2022 0:18:20 GMT
Work done til 2nd Jan!! Finished a conversational English class an hour or two ago with a new group of four Argentinian students - two Talmudic scholars and a Rabbi, and a young female professional polo instructor. They got on like a fucking house on fire, it was brilliant. The lesson schedule was supposed to be about 'promoting and defending your opinions' - we spent 90 minutes talking about the sitcom 'Cheers' (which everyone loved to be fair) - and the Die Hard movie franchise, which the young polo player evangelised with surprising zeal in the face of some absolutely forensic semitic cross examination I love these conversational classes, there's an firm that deals solely with them that I'd love to have a word with (though they pay a lot less than my current agent) - but this definitely didn't feel like work tonight What is the latest Rabbinical thinking on Die Hard? Definitely not a Christmas movie? There was a bit of contempt towards the way the films use terrorist tropes to set up the action before the American saviour comes in to kick ass, but (I think) most of the bad feeling came from Bruce Willis refusing to visit Israel to promote a couple of movies over the years, that got mentioned a fair bit. The oldest lad, the rabbi (still 10yrs younger than me I reckon) was genuinely quite fond of the guns 'n bullets bits of the films to be fair. We're definitely not allowed to discuss religion, although a lot of the discussion was pretty parallel |
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Post by muffrat on Dec 22, 2022 0:36:46 GMT
muffrat Had the A500 seen in further action? It was the first time I'd used it for, ooh, 6 years? Just pleased it still turned on to be honest. In the box there was only the TV modulator, half a dozen disks, my 'technosound' sampler cartridge and a crappy joystick - so I had a mess around with turrican 2 and shadow of the beast 2 over a couple of days before packing it up a bit more carefully and putting it away. Theres another big box up there with hundreds (?) of disks, the original manuals, and (crucially) a mouse and the workbench disk that needs to be found before I can have a proper mess about with it, I'll keep you posted. |
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Post by Shenguin on Dec 22, 2022 0:39:50 GMT
What is the latest Rabbinical thinking on Die Hard? Definitely not a Christmas movie? There was a bit of contempt towards the way the films use terrorist tropes to set up the action before the American saviour comes in to kick ass, but (I think) most of the bad feeling came from Bruce Willis refusing to visit Israel to promote a couple of movies over the years, that got mentioned a fair bit. The oldest lad, the rabbi (still 10yrs younger than me I reckon) was genuinely quite fond of the guns 'n bullets bits of the films to be fair. We're definitely not allowed to discuss religion, although a lot of the discussion was pretty parallel Did you ask them why they thought someone might have refused to visit a state with a racist constitution, a racist political system, a racist judiciary, and which openly commits murder, terrorism, and torture? Oh, wait, Bruce already lives in America. There's not really a witty punchline to this #satire. Perhaps I'll think of one before term starts in January. |
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Post by muffrat on Dec 22, 2022 1:07:30 GMT
There was a bit of contempt towards the way the films use terrorist tropes to set up the action before the American saviour comes in to kick ass, but (I think) most of the bad feeling came from Bruce Willis refusing to visit Israel to promote a couple of movies over the years, that got mentioned a fair bit. The oldest lad, the rabbi (still 10yrs younger than me I reckon) was genuinely quite fond of the guns 'n bullets bits of the films to be fair. We're definitely not allowed to discuss religion, although a lot of the discussion was pretty parallel Did you ask them why they thought someone might have refused to visit a state with a racist constitution, a racist political system, a racist judiciary, and which openly commits murder, terrorism, and torture? Oh, wait, Bruce already lives in America. There's not really a witty punchline to this #satire. Perhaps I'll think of one before term starts in January. BOOOM! Very good. If there's a wittier punchline to that then that you can keep it, that's good enough for me (though I am tired) So no, didn't ask that. These sessions are supposed to be free of politics, I already felt we were sailing close enough to the wind by allowing the chat to drift towards terrorists and guns, even in fiction I've certainly had to bite my tongue many times over issues larger than John McClane's stance on the Middle East. My bosses are Swiss and German, and they're not renowned for their tolerance and understanding of nuance |
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