Didn't know whether to go in the TV thread or the Rant one, so decided to come into the pub instead ) )
Most nights at 5pm, I watch 'The Chase' ... tonights show left me livid. One guy gets £9000 and then the other three losers take minus offers!!! What's the point of going on a show just to totally wimp out ... and they won the final Chase, or at least the £9000 guy did ... he'd have been better on his own! )
Make that a large red .... :v
Thunderbird 2East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
(TB2 puts a huge glass - Double the size of a brandy snifter - on Lady R's table. The bottle accompanying looks like it's for launching the HMS Queen Elizabeth)
One I ordered for your private stock M'Lady. Its called "Red Alert"
This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
I too regularly watch The Chase, I despise anyone who takes a minus offer ! X-( after all if you
can't win your own round, how are you going to be any help to the team.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Customer: Got any rubber plants?
Assistant: (Confused) Rubber plants???
Customer: Yes, rubber plants.
Assistant: (Dazed) This is a music shop.
Customer: Yes, I know. Rubber plants, he's one of Led Zeppelin....
I just finished watching the final episode of Star Trek TNG. The quality of the episodes goes up and down, but I enjoyed it. I have ordered the first season of DS9..... was that a mistake?
Anyway, I'm ordering a Coke Zero with ice to celebrate. Make it so!
I never could get into DS9- I've tried, but it just doesn't grab me the way the other series do. Some individual episodes I've enjoyed ("Our Man Bashir" obviously one of them), though.
Customer: Got any rubber plants?
Assistant: (Confused) Rubber plants???
Customer: Yes, rubber plants.
Assistant: (Dazed) This is a music shop.
Customer: Yes, I know. Rubber plants, he's one of Led Zeppelin....
Also a true story (apparently) but it works better spoken out loud.
In an exclusive coffee shop:
Customer: How much is a slice of that gattox (gateaux)
Assistant: Do you mean gatto?
Customer: How much is a slice of that gatto?
Assistant £ 4.99 a slice
Customer: Bollo to that.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Me to audience: I'd like to sing Elvis's great cake song.
Audience: ???? ?:)
Me: (Sings) "As the snow flies, on a cold and grey Chicago morn, another little baby child is born..."
Thunderbird 2East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
One Coke Zero. 24.
Deep Space Nine is Star Trek's novel as a series, like Babylon 5 or it's narrative successor Battllestar Galactica (2004). Its not all happy and bright like TOS, its not neat and tidy like TNG. It asks difficult questions and the chaeacters are not saints. If you stick with it though, it becomes the most rounded, and certainly the best written of all the Trek series overall. Though season's 1 and 2 can be a bit slow in places.
Characters to watch carefully over time - Commander Sisko, Major Kira, Odo, Quark, Dr Bashir, and later on reoccuring characters Garak, General Martok and Vedek Winn!
Welcome to the planet Bajor. We hope you enjoy your stay!
Right, I have a bottle count to do. 8-)
This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
Deep Space Nine is Star Trek's novel as a series, like Babylon 5 or it's narrative successor Battllestar Galactica (2004). Its not all happy and bright like TOS, its not neat and tidy like TNG. It asks difficult questions and the chaeacters are not saints. If you stick with it though, it becomes the most rounded, and certainly the best written of all the Trek series overall. Though season's 1 and 2 can be a bit slow in places.
Characters to watch carefully over time - Commander Sisko, Major Kira, Odo, Quark, Dr Bashir, and later on reoccuring characters Garak, General Martok and Vedek Winn!
Welcome to the planet Bajor. We hope you enjoy your stay!
You know far more about it than I do, TB2! Are you looking forward to the new series "Discovery"?
Me to audience: I'd like to sing Elvis's great cake song.
Audience: ???? ?:)
Me: (Sings) "As the snow flies, on a cold and grey Chicago morn, another little baby child is born..."
It took me a few minutes to work out it's the next line in the song... ) ) )
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
You know far more about it than I do, TB2! Are you looking forward to the new series "Discovery"?
I'm incredibly ambivilant to tell the truth. I love TOS through to VGR, and there are some good stories in ENT. But since the film Nemesis, the quality of Trek has gone down the pan. Esp the Abrahms films. I still haven't seen Beyond, I was so annoyed at the trite nonsense of Into Darkness. - Even the film titles are meaningless!
Re Discovery, I'll give it a go, but whether I like it or hate it, it will be completely divorced from any form of exisitng Trek for me, because stylistically and narratively its very different. I consider the fact its yet another bloddy prequel a serious point against it too. We will see.
This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
I basically agree, and haven't seen Beyond yet either.
I'm not knocking DS9, there is something there that I'm not getting. VGR was very much hit & miss, and ENT was cut short so never realised its true potential.
I'm happy to give the new series a go, but am dreading the prospect of seeing the same stories we've seen before with a new cast & setting.
You know far more about it than I do, TB2! Are you looking forward to the new series "Discovery"?
I look forward to Discovery. I hope they will be able to think even more outside the box in this one. Did you know Michelle Yeoh will play a starship Captain, but not of the Discovery?
Since the Easter is drawing near. Are there any Easter traditions (mostly non-religious) where you are from?
Here many go up in the mountains to live in cabins, ski, eat oranges, ski, get a tan and read crime novels.
People who stay at home also read and watch crime fiction. BTW: A new Harry Hole novel was just publised, titled "Thirst". The reviews are good as usual.
I saw Disney's Zootropolis on DVD tonight. It's about Judy Hopper who is the first rabbit police officer in the heavily predator-dominated ZPD. Former predators, that is. Mammals now live together in the City and animals don't eat each other anymore. Judy faces prejudices against rabbits in ZPD ("Don't call me cute! Only rabbits can call another rabbit cute.") instead she terms up with the shadows Mr Fox to solve crime. The movie is more action and humor-driven than Frozen, a movie much more aimed at little girls. If you are going to watch a movie with a tiny person (or you are in the mood for some light entertainment) this is an excellent movie
Some of the more alert members (more than me, that is) may have discovered that the above post is in the wrong thread. I don't know how to move it via my smartphones, so feel free to move it if you want to.
But while I'm on it - there is a logical flaw in Zootropolis: Who policed the buildt- to-size suburb Little Rodentia before Judy joined the police force? They couldn't even get through the gate!
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(stands in front of the bar. Looks at the bartender, the A. R. S. E., Coke Zeros behind them, back to the bartender etc.)
(sits down and looks content)
Didn't know whether to go in the TV thread or the Rant one, so decided to come into the pub instead
Most nights at 5pm, I watch 'The Chase' ... tonights show left me livid. One guy gets £9000 and then the other three losers take minus offers!!! What's the point of going on a show just to totally wimp out ... and they won the final Chase, or at least the £9000 guy did ... he'd have been better on his own!
Make that a large red .... :v
One I ordered for your private stock M'Lady. Its called "Red Alert"
Just leave me here with my anger and wine ...
can't win your own round, how are you going to be any help to the team.
Customer: Got any rubber plants?
Assistant: (Confused) Rubber plants???
Customer: Yes, rubber plants.
Assistant: (Dazed) This is a music shop.
Customer: Yes, I know. Rubber plants, he's one of Led Zeppelin....
Anyway, I'm ordering a Coke Zero with ice to celebrate. Make it so!
Also a true story (apparently) but it works better spoken out loud.
In an exclusive coffee shop:
Customer: How much is a slice of that gattox (gateaux)
Assistant: Do you mean gatto?
Customer: How much is a slice of that gatto?
Assistant £ 4.99 a slice
Customer: Bollo to that.
This one may not come across in print:
Me to audience: I'd like to sing Elvis's great cake song.
Audience: ???? ?:)
Me: (Sings) "As the snow flies, on a cold and grey Chicago morn, another little baby child is born..."
Deep Space Nine is Star Trek's novel as a series, like Babylon 5 or it's narrative successor Battllestar Galactica (2004). Its not all happy and bright like TOS, its not neat and tidy like TNG. It asks difficult questions and the chaeacters are not saints. If you stick with it though, it becomes the most rounded, and certainly the best written of all the Trek series overall. Though season's 1 and 2 can be a bit slow in places.
Characters to watch carefully over time - Commander Sisko, Major Kira, Odo, Quark, Dr Bashir, and later on reoccuring characters Garak, General Martok and Vedek Winn!
Welcome to the planet Bajor. We hope you enjoy your stay!
Right, I have a bottle count to do. 8-)
You know far more about it than I do, TB2! Are you looking forward to the new series "Discovery"?
It took me a few minutes to work out it's the next line in the song...
I'm incredibly ambivilant to tell the truth. I love TOS through to VGR, and there are some good stories in ENT. But since the film Nemesis, the quality of Trek has gone down the pan. Esp the Abrahms films. I still haven't seen Beyond, I was so annoyed at the trite nonsense of Into Darkness. - Even the film titles are meaningless!
Re Discovery, I'll give it a go, but whether I like it or hate it, it will be completely divorced from any form of exisitng Trek for me, because stylistically and narratively its very different. I consider the fact its yet another bloddy prequel a serious point against it too. We will see.
I'm not knocking DS9, there is something there that I'm not getting. VGR was very much hit & miss, and ENT was cut short so never realised its true potential.
I'm happy to give the new series a go, but am dreading the prospect of seeing the same stories we've seen before with a new cast & setting.
I look forward to Discovery. I hope they will be able to think even more outside the box in this one. Did you know Michelle Yeoh will play a starship Captain, but not of the Discovery?
Since the Easter is drawing near. Are there any Easter traditions (mostly non-religious) where you are from?
Here many go up in the mountains to live in cabins, ski, eat oranges, ski, get a tan and read crime novels.
People who stay at home also read and watch crime fiction. BTW: A new Harry Hole novel was just publised, titled "Thirst". The reviews are good as usual.