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by DaveE
Thu Dec 18, 2025 11:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Movie Thread
Replies: 2499
Views: 913243

Re: The Movie Thread


Knives out 3 absolutely outstanding ensemble knocks out another very entertaining whodunnit.

A touch too long but it'd be hard to pick what to cut.

Josh Brolin absolutely rips into the hellfire priest role.

Four unexpected phantoms out of five.


I was a bit meh about this one, it just didn't ...
by DaveE
Wed Dec 17, 2025 11:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers)
Replies: 4
Views: 122

Re: Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers)

Yeah I loved Buck Rogers too
by DaveE
Mon Dec 15, 2025 1:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: FAO Gavster - Chocolate Orange!
Replies: 27
Views: 1218

Re: FAO Gavster - Chocolate Orange!

I guess that if it's not longer labelled as chocolate, it doesn't have to contain any cocoa at all now?
by DaveE
Sat Dec 06, 2025 11:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Music Thread
Replies: 344
Views: 1440173

Re: The Music Thread

I've been reading Dilla Time recently, all about James Yancey (who later became known as J Dilla)

An incredibly influential hip-hip producer and sometimes rapper

I've been aware of and listening to his music, and music of people he worked with for years now, but it's been really nice to see the ...
by DaveE
Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Weather Thread.
Replies: 1490
Views: 265217

Re: The Weather Thread.

Blue skies and 30°C (again!) today...

I know, I know, worst "I'm in the Seychelles" post, ever 😂
by DaveE
Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:22 am
Forum: General
Topic: Randomness
Replies: 9955
Views: 1968787

Re: Randomness

Pow-waaah....
by DaveE
Sat Nov 15, 2025 1:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Randomness
Replies: 9955
Views: 1968787

Re: Randomness


I think there's more confusion there; it sounded to me like he'd pressed the SOS/EMERGENCY button - rather than he dialled 999 himself - probably thinking it's like the concierge service that some manus. have. The line may have been bad enough his end to miss a couple of things the call handler ...
by DaveE
Fri Nov 07, 2025 12:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Elon Musk/Tesla
Replies: 536
Views: 129966

Re: Elon Musk/Tesla

You'd think Musk had stuffed the board with fan-boy sycophants or something...

Musk awarded $1tn pay package/plan on the same day OpenAI was asking Trump to underwrite their debt/loans to the tune of $1.4tn

WTF kind of mental time are we living in?!

Because it’s hard to grasp the scale of these ...
by DaveE
Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Music Thread
Replies: 344
Views: 1440173

Re: The Music Thread

Gavster I've never really been into them either - some of their early stuff is more approachable and actually listenable, but they're one of 'those' bands who I kind of feel compelled to experience. Getting early access to a gig I could walk to and home from felt like the best/easiest opportunity ...
by DaveE
Thu Nov 06, 2025 5:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Music Thread
Replies: 344
Views: 1440173

Re: The Music Thread

We went to see Autechre at a club in Brighton last night

I have mixed feelings

It kind of made me think of taking a sauna, or a really deep tissue massage - they're nice when they stop

And while they're happening you're thinking "why did I pay for this?!"

It was quite an unpleasant experience ...
by DaveE
Mon Nov 03, 2025 6:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Movie Thread
Replies: 2499
Views: 913243

Re: The Movie Thread

House of Dynamite

This is a new Kathryn Bigalow film on Netflix that starts with an ICDM being detected and heading towards the US, but without any systems having spotted where it was launched from.

There's 20 mins until it lands, but what to do, given the US doesn't know who fired it - and ...
by DaveE
Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: Randomness
Replies: 9955
Views: 1968787

Re: Randomness

I've been watching quite a lot of the Australian Supercar highlights on YouTube recently

Some amazing racing, great looking/sounding cars, interesting tracks etc

The last 10 laps of this year's Bathurst 1000 were immense

by DaveE
Mon Oct 27, 2025 4:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Watches Thread
Replies: 2048
Views: 882563

Re: The Watches Thread

It's funny, my Uncle (who used to work on a metal-working machine) always wore his watch with the face on the underside of his wrist

I'd totally forgotten that was a thing until I saw that video preview image above

I can still remember the way he'd roll his hand out (rather than in) to check the ...
by DaveE
Mon Oct 27, 2025 1:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Watches Thread
Replies: 2048
Views: 882563

Re: The Watches Thread

Funnily enough, I was reading about the Ollee watch mod recently

You can also easily mod the internal to take a way longer lasting CR2032 battery too
by DaveE
Fri Oct 24, 2025 9:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: Dave Ball
Replies: 3
Views: 169

Re: Dave Ball

Sad news - only 66 - but he's lead a life though

A legend, and highly influential

I can remember seeing Soft Cell on Top of the Pops in the early 80s and being fascinated by them

The look - leather, biker jackets, but on thin, clearly not tough men. I knew somehow they were 'different ...
by DaveE
Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: Swearing/blasphemy
Replies: 14
Views: 490

Re: Swearing/blasphemy

One of my favourite uses of the word shit (from Running Scared)

by DaveE
Fri Oct 10, 2025 12:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Trump
Replies: 3171
Views: 520724

Re: Trump


it’s bad isn’t it, that you almost in a way don’t want them to end the war in Gaza because Trump has been part of the solution…. i said almost!


I wouldn't go that far, but I do agree that on Gaza, he does deserve credit (if things do improve there)

The problem with Trump and the Nobel Prize ...
by DaveE
Tue Oct 07, 2025 5:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Trump
Replies: 3171
Views: 520724

Re: Trump

I still think the best way to understand quite how mental Trump is is to read his speeches word for word to yourself

I don't know if he's ever finished a sentence?

Gets half way through a sentence then veers off onto something else
by DaveE
Tue Oct 07, 2025 5:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Trump
Replies: 3171
Views: 520724

Re: Trump


WTF 😂

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/ufc/trump-birthday-white-house-ufc-fight-b2840214.html


Well, what's the point in building a gold-lined ball room if you don't use it to make money?

Apparently McGregor's terms were a purse of $100m and 100 of Trump's $100,000 gold visa things (for ...
by DaveE
Mon Oct 06, 2025 6:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: FTAO of Coffee Whankhorz
Replies: 76
Views: 4461

Re: FTAO of Coffee Whankhorz

Thanks Simon 🙏