Quote from: pxr5 on May 12, 2024, 03:59:34 PMGhostbusters: Frozen Empire  Wow, how could they mess up such a solid movie franchise? Well they did - massively. Extremely disappointing all round. The old guard were there, but mostly unused and the new team were insipid and dull. Awful really 3/10

Oh dear - disappointing to hear this as its predecessor was very good.

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on May 11, 2024, 11:36:14 PM

Quote from: Slim on May 11, 2024, 11:49:45 AMIn other news - I must say I find it distasteful that Israel have been allowed to take part, in the present circumstances. Classic Israeli selfish disregard for other people of course, considering the trouble they've caused. Hopefully the crowd will make their feelings known.

Being as Israel isn't in Yurp, they should just feck right off anyway.
Have the Crims been sent packing this year

I was unaware until recently that the entry criterion is countries in the European broadcast area.

Couldn't be arsed with it this year, especially as the U.K. entry is atrociously bad.

Yes, that's sort of how I saw it, but without any colourful hues.

Quote from: David L on May 11, 2024, 09:23:36 AMGary Davies (?)

He presented the show 114 times from 1983-1991, third only to Tony Blackburn (147) and erm, someone who presented it 261 times.

Yes, apparently so; hopefully this time I'll see the sort of display that seemingly almost everyone but me witnessed last night.

Slightly annoyed seeing all the spectacular pictures taken barely two miles from my village of last night's Aurora Borealis.

From the field I viewed it from I could see only a silver, ghostly glow emanating from Bootes - none of the other colours of the spectrum. 

Maybe I'll have more luck tonight.

TOTP 1996 on BBC Four x 2

The first one of these was actually rather annoying, as it was presented by Alan Davies, who to this day I've never found particularly clever or funny.  And, frankly, he comes across as a proper irritating bell3end in this - instead of disarmingly linking the performing acts with a professional presenter's patter, with the odd amusing bon mot, here he basically tries to cram in "edgy", pseudo-intellectual piss-takes of the performers and the programme, as if it is all beneath his towering wit.

It's tiresome, tedious and back-fires spectacularly - unsurprisingly, this was his first and last show.

Compare this with Lulu, who presents the following show (which also features one of my favourite bands, The Saw Doctors) - infectiously vivacious, bigging up every band she introduces and beaming throughout; in other words, showing a damn sight more taste, class and judgement than Davies.

As for the music: the usual combination of some songs that - rightly or wrongly - became established classics, some deeper cuts that deserved to be established classics and plenty of utter bilge that should never have been heard by any human ears in the first place.

Marvellous.

If this thread is anything to go by, between us we're averaging about one uncanny coincidence a month since the thread started - and a few of those are from way back.

It seems it would actually be weirder if we had nothing to report.   

Seeing clickbait/rage-bait headlines today reporting that AstraZeneca has withdrawn its Covid vaccine after admitting it caused serious adverse outcomes, up to and including death.

Of course, the told-you-sos who clearly haven't read accompanying articles will mistake correlation for causation and remain wilfully oblivious to the fact that the vaccine has been withdrawn for the simple reason it has been superseded in demand by more effective alternatives, not because it came with a tiny chance of being dangerous.

It's ironic that the crowd who persistently banged on about very low Covid mortality rates is the same as the one hysterically super-squeamish about the exponentially smaller likelihood of vaccine harms.

BBC News reports that Madonna has performed a gig in Rio de Janeiro, apparently attended by over 1 million people, describing her as "The Queen of Pop".

Nah. That's Lady Gaga nowadays isn't it?

Besides, the gig was free, which the ever-vigilantly accurate BBC somehow forgot to mention.

Quote from: David L on May 05, 2024, 09:11:58 PM

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 05, 2024, 06:44:39 PMPleasant today, mostly sunny spells.  Nice May Day weekend weather.

Started nice and sunny, reminded us of summer. Normal service resumed at 5:30pm. More rain.

Bugger. Looks like we've dropped lucky as we've had zero rain for a few days now - just in time for our annual village Scarecrow Weekend!  Which has been exceptionally good this year, I have to say.

Pleasant today, mostly sunny spells.  Nice May Day weekend weather.

Keeping the food theme, we'll be treated to a sumptuous meal today from the little un's Cypriot grandma as it's Greek Easter - and it's nice to celebrate the resurrection of Zeus.

FM - Old Habits Die Hard

Got a signed copy of the CD; how exciting.

Quote from: David L on May 02, 2024, 06:49:54 PM

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 02, 2024, 06:21:56 PMBBC News reporting on urang utans' apparent ability to self-medicate by saying "it shows how closely humans are related to the great apes".

Er...humans ARE great apes. 🤦🏻�♂️

Did they not find any urang utrans?   

Clumsy fingers/proof-read fail.