What are you watching tonight?

[Wandering Willy]

dealing with modern day piracy

Yesterday, my bezzie mate told me, and, bear in mind that this conversation was held on licensed premises, and as such veracity is beyond question , that a cruise boat ship that was threatened by Pirates used a 'weapon of sound'to fire them off. And, that these things are such that they can actually kill people.

Is that even remotely plausible?

Yes if the sound was anything by U2.

[thebish]

I am sure they used to have teams racing to assemble a canon - drag it over an obstacle course - then fire it (blanks)..maybe before your time?

Don't be silly. The Battle of Hastings wasn't before my time. Of couse they do. Hardly a weapon of mass destruction firing one blank shot at a dsiplay though is it? Certainly not worth writing protest poems about. I'll allow for jet lag clouding your judgement for a day or two.

ahh - I must have misunderstood - I thought you said there hardly any weapons in sight except the baton...

(The poem was by Hegley - not me - just to clarify... I am reminded of it every time someone says the word tattoo - chiefly because of the line "to you it may be taboo to poo-poo the tattoo but to me the tattoo is something to say tat-ta to" - which always makes me smile - his delivery is excellent. Obviously not you, though - serious stuff....)

[TANGODANCER]

I am sure they used to have teams racing to assemble a canon - drag it over an obstacle course - then fire it (blanks)..maybe before your time?

Don't be silly. The Battle of Hastings wasn't before my time. Of couse they do. Hardly a weapon of mass destruction firing one blank shot at a dsiplay though is it? Certainly not worth writing protest poems about. I'll allow for jet lag clouding your judgement for a day or two.

ahh - I must have misunderstood - I thought you said there hardly any weapons in sight except the baton...

(The poem was by Hegley - not me - just to clarify... I am reminded of it every time someone says the word tattoo - chiefly because of the line "to you it may be taboo to poo-poo the tattoo but to me the tattoo is something to say tat-ta to" - which always makes me smile - his delivery is excellent. Obviously not you, though - serious stuff....)

You misunderstand at will. It's one of your most charming features. Like I said. Welcome back.

[Bruce Rioja]

Summat on TV called Field of Blood.

They've only gone and used this for the theme music, the beauties!

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[TANGODANCER]

Dam. Missed Part I of Age of the Regency on BBC4. Hope I can pick it up as a repeat.

[Verbal]

It'll be on iplayer, Tango.

[David Lee's Hair]

Bank holiday weekend, so a fair few things watched...

Unthinkable - Samuel L, superb, Michael Sheen also superb... film alright, not really certain why it wasn't better...

Exorcismus - by the guys who did Rec, was shite though.

Trial and Retribution - Episodes 1-4, all good possibly my favourite Lynda La Plante

[Lofthouse Lower]

Skyline - shite

Battle Los Angeles - better

[2399]

I've lost Doctor Who - The Three Doctors


I hope my S1 dvd of I'm Alan Partridge arrives soon


This Friday I might try and finally watch with interest an AFL Game;
It's the top of the table clash of Collingwood - Geelong

There is also Australia - Thailand World Cup Qualifiers on

[TANGODANCER]

One I won't be watching: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (9-0'clock BBC2) Couldn't hack it again. One of the most disturbing and harrowing films I've ever seen. The stuff of nightmares.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Agreed.

Shocking stuff

[Verbal]

One I won't be watching: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (9-0'clock BBC2) Couldn't hack it again. One of the most disturbing and harrowing films I've ever seen. The stuff of nightmares.

Have you ever read the book, TD? Brilliant, tragic and quite disturbing and upsetting book...don't think I'd be able to stomach watching a film of it!

[TANGODANCER]

One I won't be watching: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (9-0'clock BBC2) Couldn't hack it again. One of the most disturbing and harrowing films I've ever seen. The stuff of nightmares.

Have you ever read the book, TD? Brilliant, tragic and quite disturbing and upsetting book...don't think I'd be able to stomach watching a film of it!

The reverse,Verbal: Saw the film couldn't even think of reading the book. One of those things you have to face up to as reality, but only once because the memory it leaves is so truly awful and disturbing .

[Lofthouse Lower]

Steady on

It's a sad film, but that's about it

[TANGODANCER]

Steady on
It's a sad film, but that's about it

That human beings could (and did) resort to that sort of crime isn't adequately described by "sad", at least not for me. But folk see things diffrently so...

[Lofthouse Lower]

I was referring to the death of the boy, not to the circumstances and certainly not to the holocaust as a whole.

[thebish]

One I won't be watching: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (9-0'clock BBC2) Couldn't hack it again. One of the most disturbing and harrowing films I've ever seen. The stuff of nightmares.

I've never seen it or read it - but i think I know what you are talking about...

I once read a book by Sebastian Faulks called "Charlotte Gray" - about the french resistance (essentially) in WW2

my missus read it - unaffected - my inlaws read it - no reaction....

I read it - and was devastated...

a sub-theme was the capture of two young boys (I think - one about 7yrs and one about 4yrs) - Jews - who had been hidden in various houses.

they ended up in a concentration camp - the 7yr old realised what it was - obv. the 4yr old didn't. The 7yr old tried to protect the 4yr old - and keep up a narrative about this NOT being about their imminent death...

the picture he painted of a 7yr old having to try to be the "adult" and emotionally and physically protect a 4yr old under such circumstances just tore me apart - probably simply because I had 2 boys of about that age at the time and I projected them into the story...

I had nightmares about it

yet - nobody else I have met and has read Charlotte Gray seems to have the faintest idea what I am on about!

I warned people not to read it - they did - and were totally unaffected!

[Lofthouse Lower]

it was a shit film

[2399]

Got the Athletics on from South Korea on SBS Two.

The stadium looks like the one from This is Football 2003

(It's my bestest game ever)

[TANGODANCER]

I had nightmares about it
I warned people not to read it - they did - and were totally unaffected!

Then don't let me be the one to tempt you into this. It affected me greatly.