mjmooney

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is a prime number...it is also a palindrome.

It's called 'Belphegor's prime.'

'Belphegor' refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell (due to the '666' in the middle & the 13 zeroes on either side).

1 hour ago, delboy54 said:

You are right about David Jason, you get the impression that he really enjoyed himself. I think he did other characters as well, such as the weasels...

He did Chief Weasel and Billy Rabbit. 

I've got the box set, too. 

Very nice, Chief, very nice... 

48 minutes ago, meregreen said:

No nation ever became stronger by breaking itself asunder. I’ve never subscribed to this tub thumping, flag waving nationalism.Be it Scotland , England or Wales. I have always regarded myself as British, except when it comes to football of course

This for me, too. And as much European as British. 

Balkanisation is not the way forward. 

50 minutes ago, delboy54 said:

Wind in the Willows narrated by David Jason 

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No narration on TWITW. David Jason voiced Mr Toad (his finest role, imho). 

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2 minutes ago, Chindie said:

It's an exceptionally good series so certainly worth keeping an eye out for introductory offers on Disney+ and binging it.

I signed up to Disney+ on a cheapo introductory offer, watched Shogun, and then cancelled. £3.99 well spent. 

Actually one slight criticism of Ripley, would be Scott's performance (which of course may have been under instruction from the director) - his demeanour varied from bland to shifty to downright reptilian. Whereas you would expect a successful con artist to be able to disarm people by being a lot more charming and persuasive. 

Up the Arse. 

41 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

VT merit award if you know any of these oddballs

Well I know one of them (unless it's a very good impersonator). 

5 hours ago, tonyh29 said:

We have one generic group called old clearings in the woods for sharing jokes , boobies and stuff but I like to be organised so every specific  event gets its own thread , so if arranging a gig , add the people we think might be interested , then remove the ones that say no , delete group few days after gig has ended so you don’t end up with 608 of them. 

We had a VT meetup one for the Wembley playoff final. 

6 hours ago, hogso said:

20 week scan yesterday - it's a boy! 

If Villa win tonight, I'm insisting on the name being the last Villa goal scorer

Although, you guys probably don't know my surname is Kent. My actual first choice, therefore, is obviously Clark. 

Nielsen Kent. 

TalkTV goes off air today. Onto the new heights of YouTube, where the live channel currently has 450 viewers…Redundant staff are gathering at a local watering hole tonight to “say goodbye to the home of common sense” and “cry because it happened“. “Dress code: Grieving, but still f*ckable”…
A sceptical TalkTV insider: “These people have burned a s**t tonne of money and humiliated themselves. How on earth can they hold a party.” Sometimes it’s the only way. 

1 hour ago, tinker said:

Ripley was OK but, spoiler alert

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Why didn't anyone look at a photo for a missing person, it got ridiculous. 

 

Yeah, there were some ridiculous scenes.

His utterly unconvincing 'disguise', and the fact that he made no attempt to try and change his (very distinctive) way of speaking. Then again, maybe the Italian plod really were that dim. 

 

But it was all about the cinematography for me. Fantastic homage to Hitchcock and Fellini (plus that one 'blink and you'll miss it' nod to Spielberg). 

42 minutes ago, sidcow said:

My version of this has had a few names down the years but the current, longest serving name is "The Snowflakes Group" in my honour for picking them up on various un PC jokes and comments. I've nearly left it a few times. 

We keep warning one of the members of "The Lads", that he's skating on thin ice with some of the stuff he posts from his workplace. Doesn't bother us at all, but his employers would be aghast. 

16 minutes ago, tinker said:

If you like Shogun, try Marco Polo on netflix.

Gave up on that after a couple of episodes. 

Then again, I didn't think Shogun was THAT good. I enjoyed it, a solid 8/10, but 'best thing on TV atm'? Nah. Mrs M even said she preferred the Chamberlain version. (I wouldn't go that far). 

Ripley, on the other hand - masterpiece. 

A partial list: 

IT Crowd - never seen it 
Community - never heard of it 
Always Sunny - never seen it 
Peep Show - never seen it 
The Office (UK) - actively dislike 
The Office (US) - never seen it 
Spaced - never heard of it 
Father Ted - love it 
Only Fools and Horses - actively dislike
Fawlty Towers - liked it at the time 
Seinfeld - indifferent 
Parcs and Rec - indifferent 
Hi De Hi - actively dislike 
Are You Being Served? - actively dislike 
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum - actively dislike
Goodnight Sweetheart - actively dislike
Dear John - never heard of it 
Blackadder - pretty good 
Porridge - actively dislike
Dad's Army - liked it at the time 
Bottom - actively dislike
Red Dwarf - actively dislike
Black Books - never seen it 
Yes Minister - actively dislike
Hancock's Half Hour - indifferent 
Lenin of the Rovers - never seen it 
Operation Good Guys - never heard of it 
Welcome To Our Village Please Invade Carefully - never heard of it 
The Young Ones - liked it at the time
Brooklyn 99 - never heard of it 
The Good Place - never heard of it 
Phoenix Nights - never seen it 
The Grimleys - liked it at the time
Scrubs - indifferent
Toast of London - never seen it 
GM Darkplace - never seen it 
Ghosts - never seen it 
The League of Gentlemen - actively dislike
Green Wing - never seen it 
15 Storeys High - never heard of it 
Malcolm in the Middle - never seen it 
Extras - never seen it
I'm Alan Partridge - excellent
The Thick of It - never seen it
The Royle Family - indifferent 
How I Met Your Mother - never seen it 
Catterick - never heard of it 
Sorry! - actively dislike 
Soap - liked it at the time 
Sergeant Bilko - liked it at the time 
Miranda - indifferent 
Vicar of Dibley - indifferent 
Curb Your Enthusiasm - never seen it 
Nathan Barley - never heard of it 
Coupling - Never heard of it 
Rising Damp - actively dislike
Reggie Perrin - actively dislike
Inbetweeners - never seen it 
Big Bang Theory - never seen it 
Detectorists - indifferent 
Early Doors - never seen it 
Not Going Out - indifferent 
The Good Life - indifferent 
Motherland - never seen it 
Happy Days - indifferent 

From my childhod, there were loads that my parents loved, e.g. The Army Game, Bootsy and Snudge, The Rag Trade, Hugh and I, Terry and June, Man About the House, Me Mammy, Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Green Acres, Bewitched, etc.  I pretty much hated them all. 

Same thing goes for standup comedy - with a VERY few exceptions, I just have no interest. 

I think I like humour, but I'm somehow not really into 'comedy'. 

Our family one is called 'ACME'. It's the initials of me, the missus and our two daughters.  SFW. 

The one for the group of friends with whom we have regular holidays is called 'Seven Go Mad on Sanatogen'.  SFW. 

The beer and football mates one is called (with crushing unoriginality) 'The Lads'.  Definitely NSFW. 

Of course, W is not an issue anymore. 

1 hour ago, CarryOnVilla said:

People who send screenshots of the photo in their photo album… why screenshot it when it’s already in your photo album?!?!? Just send me the original image!!!

Not sure what circumstances you're referring to, but I usually do it with photos for VT, because the original is too big for the site. I used to compress and/or crop them, but I found that an easier quick-and-dirty way is to use a screenshot, as it's lower resolution. 

30 minutes ago, choffer said:

We were in disbelief.

As a forgotten one-off, Mel Smith's "Colin's Sandwich" was criminally underrated. 

This thread is paradoxically easy for me, as sitcoms are a genre that I have very little interest in, so the ones I genuinely like are in (low) single figures. 

Of the programmes listed in this thread so far, the vast majority are ones I've either never watched, am totally indifferent to, or actively dislike. 

I remembered another one - The Likely Lads (and, better still, Whatever Happened to...). Men Behaving Badly was a poor shadow. 

4 minutes ago, avfc456 said:

in the end he left us due to a personal issue that only Smith and one other knew about but he would not disclose, not because of the original reason given

OK, whose wife was it this time? 

9 hours ago, bickster said:

Burn her, burn her!

Burn anyone who uses the word 'curated' in any context other than museums and art galleries. 

Not really a big sitcom fan, but... 

Father Ted 

Cheers 

Frasier 

That's about it. 

It's this new long hairstyle. One gust of wind and it ties itself in knots. During the colder weather I wore my warm beanie hat, but it's too warm now. So I had to get something to wear outside. Not ideal, but it does the job. I'm past caring. 

On 11/10/2023 at 22:47, mjmooney said:

Now of course, I AM an old man, and I'll wear a hat if necessary for weather protection - a panama/fedora style if it's a VERY hot and sunny day, and a warm beanie style if it gets really cold. But it's never for image reasons. And certainly no baseball hats.

I have bought a baseball hat.