My first reaction on hearing that Piers Morgan had walked out of his job was to suggest we put the hat round and have a collection for the poor chap. I'm sure he must be short of a bob or two and every little helps. You don't know the relief it is to read that he's going to be OK employment wise. ;)
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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My first rereaction on hearing that Piers Morgan had walked out of his job today was to suggest we put the hat round and have a collection for the poor chap. I'm sure he must be short of a bob or two and every little helps. You don't know the relief it is to read that he's going to be OK employment wise. ;)
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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My first reaction on hearing that Piers Morgan had walked out of his job was to suggest that we put the hat round and have a collection for the poor chap. I'm sure he must be short of a bob or two and every little helps. You don't know the relief it is to read that he's going to be OK employment-wise. ;)
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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Yes. Lady Rose, you have hit it on the nail. It was stunning to think he never even mentioned to Meghan she would need to courtsy to the Queen. How dense is that? To be fair to her, it does sound as if she had no appreciation of Harry's previous difficulties either. Perhaps the two of them, despite being intelligent and capable, are too insular and a little dense because of it. I found the protocol detail quite astonishing and can only imagine how restricting it must have felt. Still, I dont think the pair are handling the situation well at all. Either you want a quiet life or you dont and this is not quiet.
Yes, and interestingly my avatar from MI6 Community showed up here as soon as the site changed over to the new software. I think it must be because both forums use the same Vanilla software and that avatar was therefore my placeholder. As I have a different username over there I changed my avatar here back to the one I've had for years. It also hopefully helps to avoid confusion between the two Bond forum memberships.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
My sympathies were with Harry and Meghan mostly because, well, I think they came up against the British State. It's the courtiers that do it, but there's the sense that Wills and Kate were prepared to throw them under the bus to the media, almost like they were there to draw fire. The media seemed to be going for the pair because they wouldn't go for the heirs, they wanted that story to run for the next century. The whole 'Ah, Kate made her cry so let's instead say it was Meghan who did it' is typical of the petty counterclaim stuff you get from State operatives. You just want out from that sort of thing, it's toxic, it's a gilded cage.
I just listened to a podcast where the Harry and Meghan interview was discussed. Was that interview the ultimate clash between Hollywood and Buckingham palace? Between a culture of duty to the institution keeping quiet about private life on one hand, and a very individualistic culture where sharing your private life is almost the core of the culture.
I still haven't seen most of the interview, but I understand Megan and Opera Winfrey gasped in horror when Meghan shared that she had to curtsey to the queen.
The podcast also mentioned something a Norwegian-Pakistan wrote in a newspaper. He compared the royal family with the clan system in Pakistan. In the clans the family is the most important institution that requiers a lot of loyalty and the person marrying into a clan must conform. I imagine the clan system in Pakistan is often medieval in nature and the roots of royalty in Europe are also medieval, so I found the comparison relevant.
This will probably come across wrong but American just don't get the idea of a Royal Family. It is an anathema to them
Europe has had RF's for over a thousand of years. The first King of England was in the 9th century so it's not something to just shrug off.
Take the incident that Meghan made Kate cry. Meghan now claims that that is not true and it was the other way around. She cannot understand why it was never corrected by the palace. What Meghan doesn't get is that the palace would [i]never[/i] correct something they would regard as so trivial and insignificant. The RF never explains itself especially in regards to the internal goings on with family members. Even the people of the UK would not have expected the Palace to comment on that but Meghan has obviously felt seriously aggrieved and all these small things have led to much bigger problems.
Yes, the royal family's refusal to comment on most things is a part of it. In modern culture we comment on everything in public and displaying our emotions in public is seen as natural and a right. The royals rarely do this, and quite rightly. If they started doing this they will become common celebrities. I don't think Opera or Meghan understands this. I'm not saying one view is wrong and the other is right, I'm just sying they're different.
I just watched a talk show where actress, model, TV presenter and fashion designer Jenny Skavlan revealed she screen tested for a Bond girl in London "many years ago". The host asked if she screentested with Pierce Brosnan, and she replied "no, no". Skavlan was seventeen when DAD was released and she did her first role as an adult in 2008, so we can assume she screentested for one of Craig's Bonds and simply said "no" to be nice to the host. She also called her English "strange". I don't recall ever hearing her speak English, but let's believe her and assume she has an accent. It's likely she screentested for SPECTRE. EON was looking for a Scandinavian actress before they cast Lea Seydoux. Jenny Skavlan was 28-29 at the time and she had done some popular Norwegian movies. I believe it was said eight Scandinavian actresses screentested for the role in London. In that case we probably know of two of them: Synnøve Macody Lund and Jenny Skavlan.
She is no great character actress, having been in comedies, several horror and horror/comedies and two car racing movies. But she is really funny and strikingly beautiful.
Google her name on Google Images and enjoy your evening 😁
Actually she speaks English and does action in the short film "Justice is served", so if anyone is interested (you never know) you can google "Jenny Skavlan" + "Justice is served".
Daniel Craig is reprising his Bond role for UKs comic relief, he is once again teaming up with Comedian Catherine Tait for a sketch featuring Bond being interrogated by the foul mouthed Gran ! BBC1 tomorrow evening.
ooh I hope this circulates online and I get a chance to see it. I liked Craig's SNL skits, from a year ago now (!)
he may now have done more non-canonical Bond appearances outside the films than any previous Bond. These should all be compiled one day, either officially by EON, or as a fanmade bootleg if EON cant/wont do it.
Do you mean Catherine Tate (sp) from Doctor Who? her season was my favourite of the 21st century Doctor Who's , she should have a good comic rapport with the grim glowering Craig
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If it's anything like the last one he did I'm sure it'll be hilarious. 🙄
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Yes that's her, she did a comic relief sketch before with DC where they were dating and she ditched him for being too needy 🤣 this one sees her as one of her best known characters the foul mouthed Gran
My great grandparents bought the stove back in 1910. It gives off plenty of heat. Usually it's the only heat source in the house and I often stop feeding more firewood into it about nine PM, residual heat is enough for the rest of the evening. It's quite a contraption!
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Ah, I see. I thought it would be a good age. That's great that it still works. Things were certainly built to last in those days, unlike today's disposable culture. Yes, it certainly is quite a contraption! I've never seen anything like it. I have a Rayburn Royal Range dating from about the 1960s in my house along with the central heating. It certainly gives out plenty of heat too it burns peat, coal or logs depending on what solid fuel you care to use. It usually needs a little coal to get it started and then it can burn peats the rest of the day or night. It looks virtually the same as this one except our range has two separate hotplates instead of one:
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Yes, it is indeed. It's a bit more modern looking but still a fair age itself by now. My family bought it almost like new in the 1980s and we've used it ever since. However, as long as they both provide a good source of heat, that's all that really matters!
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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I feel a new Imaginary Conversation coming on, where Denise Richards wonders what Piers Brosnan will do, now he's quit his TV show.
My first reaction on hearing that Piers Morgan had walked out of his job was to suggest we put the hat round and have a collection for the poor chap. I'm sure he must be short of a bob or two and every little helps. You don't know the relief it is to read that he's going to be OK employment wise. ;)
My first rereaction on hearing that Piers Morgan had walked out of his job today was to suggest we put the hat round and have a collection for the poor chap. I'm sure he must be short of a bob or two and every little helps. You don't know the relief it is to read that he's going to be OK employment wise. ;)
My first reaction on hearing that Piers Morgan had walked out of his job was to suggest that we put the hat round and have a collection for the poor chap. I'm sure he must be short of a bob or two and every little helps. You don't know the relief it is to read that he's going to be OK employment-wise. ;)
That'd be about Dr Christmas Jones's level.
Yes. Lady Rose, you have hit it on the nail. It was stunning to think he never even mentioned to Meghan she would need to courtsy to the Queen. How dense is that? To be fair to her, it does sound as if she had no appreciation of Harry's previous difficulties either. Perhaps the two of them, despite being intelligent and capable, are too insular and a little dense because of it. I found the protocol detail quite astonishing and can only imagine how restricting it must have felt. Still, I dont think the pair are handling the situation well at all. Either you want a quiet life or you dont and this is not quiet.
I was going to reply to this yesterday and then got called away. I now find I can't delete it. Anyone have any clues?
We've all had to haven't we ? I certainly did, as we all just got random default pics 🤷
Yes, and interestingly my avatar from MI6 Community showed up here as soon as the site changed over to the new software. I think it must be because both forums use the same Vanilla software and that avatar was therefore my placeholder. As I have a different username over there I changed my avatar here back to the one I've had for years. It also hopefully helps to avoid confusion between the two Bond forum memberships.
My sympathies were with Harry and Meghan mostly because, well, I think they came up against the British State. It's the courtiers that do it, but there's the sense that Wills and Kate were prepared to throw them under the bus to the media, almost like they were there to draw fire. The media seemed to be going for the pair because they wouldn't go for the heirs, they wanted that story to run for the next century. The whole 'Ah, Kate made her cry so let's instead say it was Meghan who did it' is typical of the petty counterclaim stuff you get from State operatives. You just want out from that sort of thing, it's toxic, it's a gilded cage.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I just listened to a podcast where the Harry and Meghan interview was discussed. Was that interview the ultimate clash between Hollywood and Buckingham palace? Between a culture of duty to the institution keeping quiet about private life on one hand, and a very individualistic culture where sharing your private life is almost the core of the culture.
I still haven't seen most of the interview, but I understand Megan and Opera Winfrey gasped in horror when Meghan shared that she had to curtsey to the queen.
The podcast also mentioned something a Norwegian-Pakistan wrote in a newspaper. He compared the royal family with the clan system in Pakistan. In the clans the family is the most important institution that requiers a lot of loyalty and the person marrying into a clan must conform. I imagine the clan system in Pakistan is often medieval in nature and the roots of royalty in Europe are also medieval, so I found the comparison relevant.
That sounds about right @Number24.
This will probably come across wrong but American just don't get the idea of a Royal Family. It is an anathema to them
Europe has had RF's for over a thousand of years. The first King of England was in the 9th century so it's not something to just shrug off.
Take the incident that Meghan made Kate cry. Meghan now claims that that is not true and it was the other way around. She cannot understand why it was never corrected by the palace. What Meghan doesn't get is that the palace would [i]never[/i] correct something they would regard as so trivial and insignificant. The RF never explains itself especially in regards to the internal goings on with family members. Even the people of the UK would not have expected the Palace to comment on that but Meghan has obviously felt seriously aggrieved and all these small things have led to much bigger problems.
Yes, the royal family's refusal to comment on most things is a part of it. In modern culture we comment on everything in public and displaying our emotions in public is seen as natural and a right. The royals rarely do this, and quite rightly. If they started doing this they will become common celebrities. I don't think Opera or Meghan understands this. I'm not saying one view is wrong and the other is right, I'm just sying they're different.
I just watched a talk show where actress, model, TV presenter and fashion designer Jenny Skavlan revealed she screen tested for a Bond girl in London "many years ago". The host asked if she screentested with Pierce Brosnan, and she replied "no, no". Skavlan was seventeen when DAD was released and she did her first role as an adult in 2008, so we can assume she screentested for one of Craig's Bonds and simply said "no" to be nice to the host. She also called her English "strange". I don't recall ever hearing her speak English, but let's believe her and assume she has an accent. It's likely she screentested for SPECTRE. EON was looking for a Scandinavian actress before they cast Lea Seydoux. Jenny Skavlan was 28-29 at the time and she had done some popular Norwegian movies. I believe it was said eight Scandinavian actresses screentested for the role in London. In that case we probably know of two of them: Synnøve Macody Lund and Jenny Skavlan.
She is no great character actress, having been in comedies, several horror and horror/comedies and two car racing movies. But she is really funny and strikingly beautiful.
Google her name on Google Images and enjoy your evening 😁
Actually she speaks English and does action in the short film "Justice is served", so if anyone is interested (you never know) you can google "Jenny Skavlan" + "Justice is served".
Daniel Craig is reprising his Bond role for UKs comic relief, he is once again teaming up with Comedian Catherine Tait for a sketch featuring Bond being interrogated by the foul mouthed Gran ! BBC1 tomorrow evening.
ooh I hope this circulates online and I get a chance to see it. I liked Craig's SNL skits, from a year ago now (!)
he may now have done more non-canonical Bond appearances outside the films than any previous Bond. These should all be compiled one day, either officially by EON, or as a fanmade bootleg if EON cant/wont do it.
Do you mean Catherine Tate (sp) from Doctor Who? her season was my favourite of the 21st century Doctor Who's , she should have a good comic rapport with the grim glowering Craig
If it's anything like the last one he did I'm sure it'll be hilarious. 🙄
Yes that's her, she did a comic relief sketch before with DC where they were dating and she ditched him for being too needy 🤣 this one sees her as one of her best known characters the foul mouthed Gran
Here you go-
James Bond vs Nan Starring Catherine Tate | Comic Relief: Red Nose Day 2021 - YouTube
😂😂😂
Woah things have really changed around here Q
Can anyone help Rintoul16 get a copy of his audiobooks before he hijacks every thread in this site, please? 😁
The state of the art heating system in my house. It's highly effective and quite small, just a few inches more than six feet high. 😄
I'm guessing it's some sort of stove? Looks like it would emit plenty of heat anyway!
My great grandparents bought the stove back in 1910. It gives off plenty of heat. Usually it's the only heat source in the house and I often stop feeding more firewood into it about nine PM, residual heat is enough for the rest of the evening. It's quite a contraption!
Ah, I see. I thought it would be a good age. That's great that it still works. Things were certainly built to last in those days, unlike today's disposable culture. Yes, it certainly is quite a contraption! I've never seen anything like it. I have a Rayburn Royal Range dating from about the 1960s in my house along with the central heating. It certainly gives out plenty of heat too it burns peat, coal or logs depending on what solid fuel you care to use. It usually needs a little coal to get it started and then it can burn peats the rest of the day or night. It looks virtually the same as this one except our range has two separate hotplates instead of one:
That's very different from my heating device, mot no less noteworthy. 😃
Yes, it is indeed. It's a bit more modern looking but still a fair age itself by now. My family bought it almost like new in the 1980s and we've used it ever since. However, as long as they both provide a good source of heat, that's all that really matters!
Now that the Coronavirus thread has been closed, how about Barbel reopens the Not-so-short-lived Political thread?! You know it makes sense.
Roger Moore 1927-2017