wazzap24

22 minutes ago, sne said:

Imagine John McGinn in shorts like that  

Don’t normally pay attention to shorts, it’s all about the shirts for me, but the new West Ham shorts are amazing. Great fit. 

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

Difficult to say. It changes.

Glad I’ve got a semi though.

I got one of those earlier, looking at a photo of Alisha Lehmann and Jacynta Galabadaarachchi in the new West Ham kit. 

What’s everyone’s favourite gear? 
 

love a bit of 3rd me. 

15 hours ago, Xela said:

Just like Lost. 

You'd have a cracking episode, ended on a real cliffhanger. Next weeks episode would be about something else completely

X-Files started this trend. 

My significant other works for a local authority in the Bham area. 

6 schools and a nursery have called in so far today with suspected cases, one secondary school has been closed down with immediate effect. 

Buckle up. 

People shouldn’t be getting into negative equity situations at the moment, the used market is in a right bubble. 

We are selling cars to traders who so are desperate for stock, they are and paying well over CAP averages and buying blind.

PCP sucks sweaty ass. 

43 minutes ago, Xela said:

Thoughts and prayers.

It was rubbish. 
 

Obligatory throbbers with no masks and just a huge volume of people in general. It’s a proper hell hole these days. 

Had to go to the Fort Shopping Centre today to get footy boots for the boy.

Absolutely rammed, like Saturday before Xmas rammed. Queuing to get in the car park, queues for a lot of the shops, people everywhere. Never seen the s***hole so busy.
 

Be interesting to see the next set of economic data for the retail sectors. 

1 hour ago, Follyfoot said:

Probably due to my age I prefer one episode a week for the duration so you can look forward to the next one and maybe watch the previous one again to see if you missed anything. No sure I like the 'got to have have it now instantly' culture but I qualify for a ballpoint pen with my no medical life insurance policy so my view is probably not very relevant 

I’m with you.

constantly watching about 6/7 different shows and I watch one episode a week of each. Makes the good stuff last 

13 hours ago, mikeyp102 said:

Finally god round to The Witcher. Knowing nothing of the character/game or book beforehand. 
It was weird to start off with, took me a while to work out we were on different timelines and they didn’t help by having the characters not age. 
Grew into itself the more it went on and when the timelines were closer together. 
Will probably watch season 2, when it’s out. But then I wouldn’t be overly upset if cancelled 

13 hours ago, mikeyp102 said:

Looking forward to this, but I need a recap have amazon done one do you know?

There’s a half decent one at the start of S2. 

11 minutes ago, Xela said:

How about couriers? A lot of van hire businesses I deal with don't allow courier businesses to rent from them for the same reasons. They'll be started 100 times a day! 

Yeah we do them on exception, LCV’s so bit different - usually taken over 5 years so they get written down to 50p and a bag of crisps. 

I work for a leasing company and we aren’t allowed to touch driving schools, because according to our asset valuation/remarketing  teams, they are basically a bag of nails once the instructor is done with the car. 
 

It’s one of them, it could be absolutely fine and you get a few years of trouble free motoring out of it, but equally with that kind of mileage on it, if you get a major failure it’s likely to cost a fortune and you’ll be looking at paying 50%+ of the value to get it back on the road. The other issue is, with a car having covered that amount of mileage, major repairs tend to lead to other issues and it can be a right nightmare when that happens. 
 

I’d ask if they can send you photos of the service history, but also ask if they have the full repair history too (warranty items, major repairs, brake changes, clutch replacement MOT history, etc etc) 

On 26/08/2020 at 22:07, darrenm said:

So, Tenet

  Hide contents

 

For Nolan films, I'm always a bit conflicted. He's done some huge films and they're usually a good watch. Dunkirk was great, Inception OK, Interstellar pretty good, Batmans good and bad, The Prestige amazing. Some of them really suffer from the same problems which are:

The action sequences never flow properly. The Dark Knight trilogy is worst for this. Stuff happens that doesn't make sense. People do things they wouldn't do. The physics don't work.

And then the sound. I don't know if this is limited to me but I have a really hard time hearing the dialogue in Nolan films. Whether it's in the cinema, home, IMAX, anything. The dialogue is just a boomy midrange buzz and I struggle to pick many words out.

Tenet suffers massively from both of the above. And the science just doesn't work. I took the family for £50 at IMAX and I feel I've wasted every penny. I genuinely wanted to get up and leave halfway through because it just didn't make the slightest bit of sense. It's basically the Backwards Red Dwarf episode with Inception style fighting and Dark Knight Rises truck ambushes.

And it's not just that it was poor, it was really uncomfortable because you're constantly trying to establish the ground rules. You're trying to work out the base in that world to establish your suspension of disbelief and you never can. Random, completely arbitrary items and scenes are running backwards. Perhaps there's a huge design behind all of it which makes everything make sense but when watching you have no idea why.

The final act was an utter mess of the standard disjointed action sequences but with some people going forwards in time and some people going backwards through time doing some other random stuff while you sit there shrugging asking what the hell is meant to be happening.

Going back to the science. Time travel is always going to be risky but this plain doesn't make sense. And it's obvious that it doesn't right at the very beginning. If you've ever watched the Red Dwarf Backwards episode and laughed off the impossibilities of all of it, then Nolan has just made a film about it and it's just as ridiculous.

Perhaps I'll watch a few YouTube explainers and some of it will make sense. Some of it already does but lots of it *can't* because it's plain nonsensical.

WTF

 

 

Weirdly, I agree with pretty much every word you’ve written, but I actually still (kind of) enjoyed the film. 
 

I do need someone to explain it to me though! 
 

Agree on the sound too, there were a few scenes where I barely caught a word of what was being said. 

1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said:

Wtf they do a triple whopper now?!  Sounds filthy, I want it.

I have to say, it was pretty awesome. 
 

Double Entry. 
 

The WiFi/phone signal is so bad I can’t even paste a Kenneth Williams gif. 

Just now, Genie said:

Sorry mate.

At least the pub is open, possibly. 

Nope. Closed 

I’ve taken solace in a triple whopper from the onsite Burger King.

7 minutes ago, Genie said:

Bad times.

We went to the Haven site at Burnham on Sea for my lads birthday weekend (7-10 Aug) and had a really great weekend. Weather was beautiful and we all had a brilliant time. 

On 23/07/2020 at 11:37, wazzap24 said:

My Mrs has just booked 3 days on a Haven site somewhere. 
 

FML. 

Just arrived for my *highly anticipated* bank holiday break. 
 

The photo doesn’t quite capture the bleakness of the 50mph winds and lashing rain. 

Security on the front gate were welcoming though. 

I enjoyed the first couple of episodes of Lovecraft Country!

It does have the potential to go a bit Pete Tong, but good stuff so far. 

54 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

On both

With a league of their own try and start with the road trips where corden is missing for the majority of it

It’s gone a bit stale now but it was a genuinely funny show for a long time, proper laugh out loud stuff. 

I don’t get the hate for Corden to be honest, he come across as pretty inoffensive and seems like an ok bloke to me? The show is better when he hosts. 

It’s not hit the heights since Jack Whitehall left. Another marmite type that a lot of people hate, but Flintoff, Redknapp, Whitehall and Corden was peak ALOTO. 

4 hours ago, mikeyp102 said:

Anyone know a good recap video for The Boys s1?

I’m guessing Amazon will have one when they launch S2? It’s just trailers available at the moment, but they’ve done it before with other shows. 

S2 of Umbrella Academy was fecking awesome. What a show! 

On 17/08/2020 at 11:21, sne said:

Yeah that one was pretty good, trippy. 

I really like the Carpenter/Clive Barker inspired low budget horror flick The Void that has a very Lovecraftian vibe to it. It doesn't have a high rating on IMDB but it's very much my type of thing.

As for Lovecraft Country, if you watched HBO's Watchmen series last year this will be a very familiar experience.

I’m sold!