BillyShears

On 1/22/2017 at 11:22, villa4europe said:

Anyone watched frontier yet?

will start a new one tonight, it'll be that, quarry or Goliath I think

On episode 4 of Frontier. I like it enough, it reminds me of Turn, which I really liked. Frontier jumps around a lot and the characters lack depth, but it's early days yet. If you started Quarry you won't be disappointed.

Just read 'If This Is A Man' by Primo Levi. All about his experience in Auschwitz, he tells it in a very balanced and enlightening way. He eventually committed suicide, but wrote 'The Drowned And The Saved' shortly before he died. I'm half-way through this, and really, I'm not surprised he killed himself. As much as I read about the Nazi plan and the Death Camps, I still can't fathom what the **** went on, and how humans can treat other humans like this. If anyone can recommend some good, well informed reading, I'd be much obliged.

1 hour ago, jim said:

Has anybody watched Black Sails? I watched the first episode the other day but can't decide if it is worth sticking with?

Stick with it definitely. Season 1 is hard work tbh, and I felt like giving up many times, but season 2 is just brilliant. Season 3 stays with that quality, and season 4 is out this month I believe. 

You look across the room at your wife and start thinking which one of us is going to die first? Morbid, but very real. Cheerful bastard me.

I spent 2 weeks with the Tipi People in South Wales in 1979. The free state of Albion, a couple of free festivals. Hated by locals and the Police. I think there is still a Tipi Valley somewhere in South Wales?

About to start episode 7 of Quarry. Excellent stuff so far. Indebted to this thread yet again.

Henry Heimlich, 96. Not from choking I might add.

3 hours ago, Seat68 said:

My wife who does building surveying of schools says that dyslexic kids find it easier to read comic sans. Unsure if its true and how she would know. 

It looks more like handwriting (according to the small amount of dyslexic work I did a long time ago). The letter 'a' is a good example, who writes an a like that?  The letter 'g' looks like a number 8 in some fonts. Also it has good separation between r and n so they don't look like m when they are together. 

Anyone watched 'the Staircase'?

Second season of Z Nation is fulfilling all the promise of the first; cliched, corny, bizarre, stupid and cringeworthy, yet highly watchable with an excellent soundtrack.

Got really bad hayfever when I first moved to Texas 2 years ago. I heard that one way of combatting it is to eat local honey. So I did. Hayfever gone. It's got to be locally produced honey so you get all the local flower/plant stuff in it. Worth a try if you haven't already tried it.

Just almost at the end of a book called The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, all about a couple of comic book authors when it all began. Great read,even Mooney might get something out of it as it is a 'real' book. I'm not into comics but I did read Spiderman religiously as a young teenager. TAAOK&C really is a good read.

1 minute ago, AVFC_Hitz said:

Does he know where he is?

He wouldn't say. 

I was in a band with Richey Manic's cousin. 

I was once friends with Micky Dolenz's sister, I gave her a painting. I mean I literally gave her a painting, of a sail boat. I was in the middle of giving the painting to someone else and she walked in saying "Oh, is that for me?!! Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! Embarrassing situation. I was too weak to say "Actually Coco, no it's not for you. Just because you are Mickey Dolenz's sister doesn't mean you can just walk in here and take a gift I was giving to someone else". Regrettably lame of me and completely destroyed my friendship with the other person.

Kimbo Slice. Only 42 yrs old.

Winner by a long margin.

I get 1 hour paid leave for every 36 hrs I work. This is in the USA. 

Colin Vearncombe has passed away following a car accident a few days ago.

Succinct and readable. The NHS is over, has been for a while. There is no stopping these people, they have so much bloody power. The thing that most upsets me through all of this is the poor care given to the old people who lived through WWII. Their home, the country they fought for, has betrayed them.

My son bought me John Fante's - 'The Brotherhood Of The Grape' for Xmas. Hadn't read any Fante/Bukowski/Carver/Saunders for a while. Fante is a true master. Son also bought me the complete works of Raymond Carver - really can't wait to get into it. Had a few lean months reading-wise but now I am well and truly sorted for a bit.

It's a man is what it is.

40 minutes ago, troon_villan said:

Looking after?

I'm out here Nursing in an ER.

West Texan I am looking after: "Who is your President in England?"

Me: "David Cameron."

West Texan: "Oh, you don't have the same President as us then?"

Me: "No ma'am."

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