It looks good, glad Q is finally back and that looks like an infinitely better villain than Dominic Green! But it still looks to be taking itself a little too seriously for my liking, what do you think?
JediM
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and everyone dies.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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What Bond-like films do you enjoy? I've always liked the Alistair MacLean potboilers, PUPPET ON A CHAIN & WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL. Both are great entertainment. On the evidence of WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL perhaps Anthony Hopkins should have auditioned for the Bond role whilst PUPPET ON A CHAIN has a speedboat chase that eclipses the one in LIVE & LET DIE on every level. I've always rather enjoyed FIREFOX, too.
I'm afraid I think he just borrowed it from a journalist Thunderpussy, to take a snap of the huge mob of them trying to get one of him!
Here is the snap that Usain Bolt took of the photographers. The man ringed is Jimmy Wixtrom of Scandinavian newspaper Aftonbladet. Guess who Bolt borrowed the camera from?
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London has hosted the Olympics, and shortly the paralympics. But Bristol is currently hosting the RoboWorld Cup. Twenty six teams from around the world are competing in a range of games, including football, basketball and weightlifting. The robots have smashed a few world records along the way.
So come on Random Chat, let us know what you thought?! I shan't reveal any plot points but it is worth throwing up the spoiler warning over the whole post, but I'll put any proper spoilers behind spoiler covers.
I was delighted, I feel like we have FINALLY returned to the Bond mould. I now understand where they were going with CR and QoS but I still don't like them one bit! Whereas in Casino Royale I was ready to leave half an hour before it ended, last night I was worried that it was going to end half an hour before it did, and could probably have sat happily for another half hour had the story necessitated it!
Whereas Dominic Green was bland and uninteresting, and had a tediously un-maniacal evil plot, this villain was mysterious, intimidating and powerful, yet still strangely charming and alluring, but overall insane and possessing of a suitably grotesque deformity!
For me there was just the right mix of action, plus talky talky, plus humour, plus glamourous locations, plus gritty sweat blood and tears.
I am disappointed that it looks like we won't be seeing any more whacky Q branch gadgetry "We don't really go in for that anymore" and in fact, on that subject I thought they needn't have put that line in the film, just "were you expecting an exploding pen?" would have been much funnier on its own. I'm also a little unsure about the new Q... he reminds me of the annoying one from the IT crowd (just a British sitcom), which is not really a good thing! And I don't particularly go in for the whole cyber-hacky-hacky stuff, but then I guess that's just what modern action thrillers are like isn't it?
Although it started off in slightly unglamorous locations I thought the movie went to some of the best locations we have seen in the recent Bond era (even including the Brosnan films) and I thought Craig's tux (by Tom Ford) was perfectly crafted to his figure, and ideal for the character and the scene (in fact I started a thread all about his tux in the memorabilia forum)! My one complaint, well two, about Craig is that he is getting a little old, you can see the lines all over his face now, and it doesn't have the same handsome charm that Brosnan/Dalton and Connery did. His general look, I feel, is also not quite right. When you see him walking in silhouette he does that awful George Bush strut with his arms out, his general physique and the short haircut make him look a little like a football hooligan in my eyes.
I would have liked to hear more of the JB theme through the movie, but I guess we'll get that next time? And (major spoiler)...
I am really excited about the way they have rebooted things, with Fiennes as a really classic looking M who could well be with the series for years, possibly even over the next 2 Bonds! And Moneypenny in the classic office... really really loved that last scene!
But enough of me... what do you guys think?!?!
JediM
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and everyone dies.
eve being moneypenny etc, but i seem to be in the minority of people who saw it coming. i don't mind her as moneypenny, i think it works rather well, and i love that the reboot is now complete, with the return to the more traditional M and moneypenny layout.
As for Q;
I don't like the whole computer geek thing. yes, i know Q's merlinian (new phrase? lol) role to bond's arthur is meant to be set two poles apart, but i think Q should be a hardware guy as well as a PC nerd. i didn't mind the character, just hope it evolves into a more boothroyd type guy in the future
...just hope it evolves into a more boothroyd type guy in the future
Yes, it would be lovely to see the character grow and develop a relationship with many different Bonds as Llewelyn did. Maybe we shall even see Fiennes, Harris and Wishaw all staying on for years to come...
...I for one would love to see that, and think it would lend the series a great stability which it has, perhaps, lacked lately (twice being put on indefinite hold in 30 years). I can't wait to see it again!
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and everyone dies.
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Last night I went into a casino for the first time in my life. :007) If I felt cool in any way it really should have ended there.
I went down the stairs and for some time couldn't find the entrance before a door man came round and pointed me the right way. After filling in a form to become a member I was given my membership card and entered. It wasn't busy, which on reflection is reasonable for a Wednesday evening. I decided just to watch for a bit, so I wouldn't look like I didn't know what I was doing when and if I sat down to play.
A woman asked if I would like a drink. I did, but um-ed and ah-ed because although I knew exactly what drink I wanted to order in a casino, but felt like I might sound like a bit of an idiot asking for it, especially as Skyfall was playing in the cinema several floors above us (little did I know that would be the least of my worries). Eventually I summed up the courage and asked. I didn't know if I should have had ice but they had asked so I said yes. A woman behind the bar heard my order, she smiled, nodded and winked and I didn't feel such an idiot. It was placed in front of me on the bar and I paid. All I had to do was pick it up and sip. -{
What I instead did was pick it up, bring it towards my mouth and spill a good glug of it on my shoe. I managed to take an actual sip, then placed it back on the bar and got a tissue out, subtly trying to wipe my shoe. I picked it back up and casually as I could walked over to watch the blackjack table.
I changed £30 for chips that night and played blackjack and roulette. I'd played blackjack, knew the rules, and won on a few hands. I lost every time on roulette. I decided I can't ever again play a game which is left entirely down to chance - at least there's a judgement call to make with blackjack. I left just after 1am without most the money I'd walked in with. I'd kept playing in the hope of getting back up to at least half the money I'd had, but it wasn't gong well and I decided to cut my losses. I was knackered and if I wasn't disappointed enough, I overheard that the very drunk guy I'd watched playing poker when I first arrived was £80 up. I'd have played poker, but I wasn't all that sure how to play 3 card poker.
Frankly I was rather downhearted as I made my way home and realised that gambling is possibly not my thing. It is a cool Bondian skill that I do not appear to possess. A tiny part of me is holding onto the hope that 'practice makes perfect' )
Also, though I thoroughly enjoyed my vodka martini, it has given me a slight hangover. That or it doesn't mix well after lager. Either way - not cool.
I got through most of that before remembering your female FLG. What the hell is a gal doing in a casino, she should only be looking on admiringly as some bloke makes his winnings, ready to hop into bed with him at the end of his game. Look at OHMSS when Tracey is at the game table... or Elecktra making the wrong call on the cards with TWINE.
Women... know your place! )
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
Roger Moore 1927-2017
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I was certainly in the minority! There were a few other women there but apart from one they were all loaded foreigners, chucking money around like anything. The one other English lady was on the arm of her rather dapper young man, making occasional suggestions, most of which he overruled - which really does fit into your ideas far too well )
Well, it occurred to me recently as I get past 40 that I don't really know any of the chart records any more. I mean, if I hear a song I may recognise it but have no idea at all who did it or where it got in the charts.
As if on cue, one of the music channels did the top 20 sellers of the decade so far so I swotted up - that's how it is when you get older, you no longer absorb this stuff naturally.
Frankly, a lot of the artists it's no wonder I couldn't name them. A lot of club songs are done by names like Someone Ft (featuring) Someone Else. Titanium for instance, is okay, but also it's possibly the video that makes it memorable, a kind of mini movie for the new attention deficit generation for whom everything is a click away. And in that sense the old idea of having a band can be a drawback, as you have to fit them all into the video, which is restricting. Artists are now of the Facebook generation, where everyone knows everyone else, or seems to, whereas bands seem a bit restricted, the idea of a cool but self-enclosed unit no longer that appealing. Coldplay is the exception, but even that is really just Chris Martin and his backing band. The Wanted is another, but it's like they're school kids so naturally have a limited choice of friends at that age.
As it got into the Top 10 some names popped up repeatedly. I had no idea Rihanna was such a consistent big seller, or Bruno Mars. Thing is, I have no idea what these two are like as personalities, they just never seem to give interviews or opinions on anything at all. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing really, I mean the whole idea that pop stars are your mates sharing their views is a bit bogus anyhow and at least this way music is sold more on merit than anything else, well, arguably. Oh, they had one X-Factor bloke winner in there too, but they glammed up the video with loads of shots of him being embraced by Cheryl Cole, presumably his mentor on the show.
High up was a strange song I sort of knew, sung by a young Bono lookalike in the video where he is stood naked and pasty and he seems to get painted in different colours, then, as per usual, a naked painted woman with an attractive brunette bob gets to sing a late verse in it. A very good video, no idea what the song was, no chorus lept out at you. A massive seller.
Number one was Adele with Someone Like You, sitting in the Back to Black misery seat vacated by the late Amy Winehouse. Though as Amy was stick thin and Adele a fat lass, it's no wonder she doesn't find the chair wedged to her arse when she gets up. Anyway, it as just so godawful miserable and depressing I had to switch it off within a minute, jeeez.
But overall, not too bad, some of that stuff. I liked some geeky comedy dance duo with songs like Shuffle and some sort of I'm Too Sexy knock off, though again, can't remember what they were called.
I checked out of the rock/pop scene about seven years ago. Adele was just a name to me until recently, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga remain names. Maybe it was an age thing but I found myself enjoying the music less and less. Those X Factor type songs, singers and groups that were seemingly ever more prominent just did not appeal to me.
I stopped listening to the rock/pop stations on the radio at home and was not exposed to any of them at work. I mainly listen to talk radio stations now but if I am in the mood for music radio I will usually listen to a station that plays ambient music for relaxation. Having said all that, I am not completely out of touch. I do on rare occasions watch or listen to recent/current hits on You Tube. For example, just the other day, I'd heard so much about Psy's Gangnam Style, what with the 800 million plus views on You Tube, that I had to find out what all the fuss was about.
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Remembered this today.
A neighbour's Brother Died in America. Shortly after I took a small package from
a delivery driver as my Neighbour was out. I joked with my wife that due to its
size and weight I wouldn't be suprised if it was his Bro's Ashes.
Turned out I was right. He'd been cremated and the ashes sent Home, My wife
was slightly "Freaked out " on hearing this, To her having a dead person sent through
the post "Just wasn't respectful ". )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
FelixLeiter ♀Staffordshire or a pubPosts: 1,286MI6 Agent
That cheered me up )
I'm having a bit of a stress about finding somewhere to live for next (university) year. I'm currently living with 3 of the people I lived with in halls last year, but they are all going on a placement year so I need to find somewhere else for next September. I don't have any other close friends I could live with. It seems it might be a bit too early to try and find one spare bedroom in a house somewhere.
Although I was initially adamant that I wanted to live in a house again, I'm considering a bed sit or self-contained flat. I've found living in a house with people is a lot different to halls. We now have a much smaller kitchen/dining area and all share a bathroom. The walls are way too thin and I'm rather fed up of having to hear other people's music/singing/clarinet/guitar every day. All this from people I already liked and got on with! I do slightly dread the idea of living with strangers who could be far far worse.
I've got a while though and hopefully it might be easier to find somewhere in the new year.
good luck finding a place! maybe ask around people you know from classes? not exactly the same, but one of my best pals lives with a co-worker. He says is a good living arrangement.
I was lucky enough to have a friend who also wanted to find an apartment. I know how hard it can be.
The walls are way too thin and I'm rather fed up of having to hear other people's music/singing/clarinet/guitar every day.
See, the young female's restraint in her selection of activities!
You have to pick a room adjoining a hallway, kitchen or bathroom (but not a lounge or another bedroom), and maybe so the loo isn't in the bathroom but somewhere else.
The walls are way too thin and I'm rather fed up of having to hear other people's music/singing/clarinet/guitar every day.
See, the young female's restraint in her selection of activities!
my initial thoughts when i read felix's comment there was 'christ, does she live in a nunnery?'
this sounds like bliss compared with what i had to put up with. living next door to the university slut might sound like a dream come true, but trust me, at 5am its hardly anywhere near the case.
and be glad ya don't live with an oversexed very vocal gay bloke.
this sounds like bliss compared with what i had to put up with. living next door to the university slut might sound like a dream come true, but trust me, at 5am its hardly anywhere near the case.
Well, why didn't you call it a day and go back to your room?
this sounds like bliss compared with what i had to put up with. living next door to the university slut might sound like a dream come true, but trust me, at 5am its hardly anywhere near the case.
Well, why didn't you call it a day and go back to your room?
Cos there was an oversexed very vocal gay bloke in there
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It looks good, glad Q is finally back and that looks like an infinitely better villain than Dominic Green! But it still looks to be taking itself a little too seriously for my liking, what do you think?
JediM
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Nice to know I have something in common with the guy.
( as well as being a fantastic athlete)
Photo : Stefano Rellandini / Reuters
Here is the snap that Usain Bolt took of the photographers. The man ringed is Jimmy Wixtrom of Scandinavian newspaper Aftonbladet. Guess who Bolt borrowed the camera from?
Video + Article.
Robots compete in their own 'Olympics' games
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19359372
So come on Random Chat, let us know what you thought?! I shan't reveal any plot points but it is worth throwing up the spoiler warning over the whole post, but I'll put any proper spoilers behind spoiler covers.
I was delighted, I feel like we have FINALLY returned to the Bond mould. I now understand where they were going with CR and QoS but I still don't like them one bit! Whereas in Casino Royale I was ready to leave half an hour before it ended, last night I was worried that it was going to end half an hour before it did, and could probably have sat happily for another half hour had the story necessitated it!
Whereas Dominic Green was bland and uninteresting, and had a tediously un-maniacal evil plot, this villain was mysterious, intimidating and powerful, yet still strangely charming and alluring, but overall insane and possessing of a suitably grotesque deformity!
For me there was just the right mix of action, plus talky talky, plus humour, plus glamourous locations, plus gritty sweat blood and tears.
Although it started off in slightly unglamorous locations I thought the movie went to some of the best locations we have seen in the recent Bond era (even including the Brosnan films) and I thought Craig's tux (by Tom Ford) was perfectly crafted to his figure, and ideal for the character and the scene (in fact I started a thread all about his tux in the memorabilia forum)! My one complaint, well two, about Craig is that he is getting a little old, you can see the lines all over his face now, and it doesn't have the same handsome charm that Brosnan/Dalton and Connery did. His general look, I feel, is also not quite right. When you see him walking in silhouette he does that awful George Bush strut with his arms out, his general physique and the short haircut make him look a little like a football hooligan in my eyes.
I would have liked to hear more of the JB theme through the movie, but I guess we'll get that next time? And (major spoiler)...
But enough of me... what do you guys think?!?!
JediM
As for Q;
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saw Skyfall at the midnight premier here last night.
brilliance.
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http://youtu.be/7cdDYXjJFeg
World War Z. Looks like a lot of CGI ( we all know how good that is ) But might be fun.
In my world you can't beat a Zombie Movie.
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Think I must live in your world too then, TB
I went down the stairs and for some time couldn't find the entrance before a door man came round and pointed me the right way. After filling in a form to become a member I was given my membership card and entered. It wasn't busy, which on reflection is reasonable for a Wednesday evening. I decided just to watch for a bit, so I wouldn't look like I didn't know what I was doing when and if I sat down to play.
A woman asked if I would like a drink. I did, but um-ed and ah-ed because although I knew exactly what drink I wanted to order in a casino, but felt like I might sound like a bit of an idiot asking for it, especially as Skyfall was playing in the cinema several floors above us (little did I know that would be the least of my worries). Eventually I summed up the courage and asked. I didn't know if I should have had ice but they had asked so I said yes. A woman behind the bar heard my order, she smiled, nodded and winked and I didn't feel such an idiot. It was placed in front of me on the bar and I paid. All I had to do was pick it up and sip. -{
What I instead did was pick it up, bring it towards my mouth and spill a good glug of it on my shoe. I managed to take an actual sip, then placed it back on the bar and got a tissue out, subtly trying to wipe my shoe. I picked it back up and casually as I could walked over to watch the blackjack table.
I changed £30 for chips that night and played blackjack and roulette. I'd played blackjack, knew the rules, and won on a few hands. I lost every time on roulette. I decided I can't ever again play a game which is left entirely down to chance - at least there's a judgement call to make with blackjack. I left just after 1am without most the money I'd walked in with. I'd kept playing in the hope of getting back up to at least half the money I'd had, but it wasn't gong well and I decided to cut my losses. I was knackered and if I wasn't disappointed enough, I overheard that the very drunk guy I'd watched playing poker when I first arrived was £80 up. I'd have played poker, but I wasn't all that sure how to play 3 card poker.
Frankly I was rather downhearted as I made my way home and realised that gambling is possibly not my thing. It is a cool Bondian skill that I do not appear to possess. A tiny part of me is holding onto the hope that 'practice makes perfect'
Also, though I thoroughly enjoyed my vodka martini, it has given me a slight hangover. That or it doesn't mix well after lager. Either way - not cool.
Women... know your place!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I was certainly in the minority! There were a few other women there but apart from one they were all loaded foreigners, chucking money around like anything. The one other English lady was on the arm of her rather dapper young man, making occasional suggestions, most of which he overruled - which really does fit into your ideas far too well
As if on cue, one of the music channels did the top 20 sellers of the decade so far so I swotted up - that's how it is when you get older, you no longer absorb this stuff naturally.
Frankly, a lot of the artists it's no wonder I couldn't name them. A lot of club songs are done by names like Someone Ft (featuring) Someone Else. Titanium for instance, is okay, but also it's possibly the video that makes it memorable, a kind of mini movie for the new attention deficit generation for whom everything is a click away. And in that sense the old idea of having a band can be a drawback, as you have to fit them all into the video, which is restricting. Artists are now of the Facebook generation, where everyone knows everyone else, or seems to, whereas bands seem a bit restricted, the idea of a cool but self-enclosed unit no longer that appealing. Coldplay is the exception, but even that is really just Chris Martin and his backing band. The Wanted is another, but it's like they're school kids so naturally have a limited choice of friends at that age.
As it got into the Top 10 some names popped up repeatedly. I had no idea Rihanna was such a consistent big seller, or Bruno Mars. Thing is, I have no idea what these two are like as personalities, they just never seem to give interviews or opinions on anything at all. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing really, I mean the whole idea that pop stars are your mates sharing their views is a bit bogus anyhow and at least this way music is sold more on merit than anything else, well, arguably. Oh, they had one X-Factor bloke winner in there too, but they glammed up the video with loads of shots of him being embraced by Cheryl Cole, presumably his mentor on the show.
High up was a strange song I sort of knew, sung by a young Bono lookalike in the video where he is stood naked and pasty and he seems to get painted in different colours, then, as per usual, a naked painted woman with an attractive brunette bob gets to sing a late verse in it. A very good video, no idea what the song was, no chorus lept out at you. A massive seller.
Number one was Adele with Someone Like You, sitting in the Back to Black misery seat vacated by the late Amy Winehouse. Though as Amy was stick thin and Adele a fat lass, it's no wonder she doesn't find the chair wedged to her arse when she gets up. Anyway, it as just so godawful miserable and depressing I had to switch it off within a minute, jeeez.
But overall, not too bad, some of that stuff. I liked some geeky comedy dance duo with songs like Shuffle and some sort of I'm Too Sexy knock off, though again, can't remember what they were called.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I stopped listening to the rock/pop stations on the radio at home and was not exposed to any of them at work. I mainly listen to talk radio stations now but if I am in the mood for music radio I will usually listen to a station that plays ambient music for relaxation. Having said all that, I am not completely out of touch. I do on rare occasions watch or listen to recent/current hits on You Tube. For example, just the other day, I'd heard so much about Psy's Gangnam Style, what with the 800 million plus views on You Tube, that I had to find out what all the fuss was about.
A neighbour's Brother Died in America. Shortly after I took a small package from
a delivery driver as my Neighbour was out. I joked with my wife that due to its
size and weight I wouldn't be suprised if it was his Bro's Ashes.
Turned out I was right. He'd been cremated and the ashes sent Home, My wife
was slightly "Freaked out " on hearing this, To her having a dead person sent through
the post "Just wasn't respectful ".
I'm having a bit of a stress about finding somewhere to live for next (university) year.
Although I was initially adamant that I wanted to live in a house again, I'm considering a bed sit or self-contained flat. I've found living in a house with people is a lot different to halls. We now have a much smaller kitchen/dining area and all share a bathroom. The walls are way too thin and I'm rather fed up of having to hear other people's music/singing/clarinet/guitar every day. All this from people I already liked and got on with! I do slightly dread the idea of living with strangers who could be far far worse.
I've got a while though and hopefully it might be easier to find somewhere in the new year.
I was lucky enough to have a friend who also wanted to find an apartment. I know how hard it can be.
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See, the young female's restraint in her selection of activities!
You have to pick a room adjoining a hallway, kitchen or bathroom (but not a lounge or another bedroom), and maybe so the loo isn't in the bathroom but somewhere else.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
my initial thoughts when i read felix's comment there was 'christ, does she live in a nunnery?'
this sounds like bliss compared with what i had to put up with. living next door to the university slut might sound like a dream come true, but trust me, at 5am its hardly anywhere near the case.
and be glad ya don't live with an oversexed very vocal gay bloke.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org
Well, why didn't you call it a day and go back to your room?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Cos there was an oversexed very vocal gay bloke in there
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
www.cancerresearchuk.org