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[DoctorStrangelove]

To follow, 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), which is pretty silly with a number of plot holes. Lots of cars though, if that's your thing.

You got 1 hour 30 minutes farther into that than I did then.

I think it'll be "The Admirable Creighton" some time this evening.

Morning.

Grey.

Warmer.

Daylight.

15.6 in the living room, 11 deg in the laundry room with a min of 4.6 (which I suspect wasn't overnight).

Dry, though it looks a bit damp out there.

An extra 2.5 hours in bed though I'm not sure it did me a lot of good.

It's Saturday so naturally enough I woke at 05:25 in time to listen to some of the shipping forecast as is only right & proper.

This week's lurgie appears to be starting with a sore throat of some sort.

Fecking endless.

That's buses for you.

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Very gloomy grey day out

A little rain earlier, but it's gone now and it's fairly mild at around 8°C according to whatever online service the phone consults to tell me what it's like outside.

[vetran]

It's been many years since I've seen that; I'll have to track it down

This evening's double feature started with The Intent (2016), concerning a London gang (the modern kind made up of young black men, not the Krays kind) getting into armed robbery in a big way. It wasn't too bad, but the preposterous representation of the police's activities ruined it for me. Without giving too much away, I believe that if the police recover from somebody's home a vital piece of evidence that could carry fingerprints, DNA, and gunshot residue, they carefully seal it in an evidence bag for forensic analysis. They definitely don't walk into an interview room holding it in their bare hands, then hand it to the suspect so he can get his fingerprints all over it in the presence of his solicitor, before finally grabbing it again as they walk out, thereby mucking up even those prints; though as they've already destroyed any evidentiary value it might have, why not, eh?

To follow, 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), which is pretty silly with a number of plot holes. Lots of cars though, if that's your thing.

Goodnight all

unfortunately they have done similar.

Stephen Lawrence trial: Questions over evidence bags - BBC News

[DoctorStrangelove]

Feeling a bit better now I've done sommat constructive.

Since The Cat wasn't intelligent enough to use the hole I left in the shed, but some other miscreant was, and was taking the opportunity to piss over everything, said hole is now no more.

So wherever said Cat is now sleeping, it ain't in my shed.

Half heartedly cleaned up the 1930s/40s type cupboards in said shed, in the vain hope they might be saleable.

It looks unlikely to me but who can tell these days.

'Tis getting dark now, so it's almost time for tea.

Tea/dinner was some more of that rather peculiar casserole thing I made during the Xmas break.

It was ok in a mediocre sort of way.

Tonight's first feature was "Sink the Bismarck(1960)" with Kenneth More and Dana Wynter et al.

There were a lot of als in this one.

Esmond Knight for one.

Sink the Bismarck! (1960) - IMDb

B&W & Cinemascope. A curious combination.

It was rather gripping in its way and one couldn't help but feel sorry for all those poor bloody sailormen on both sides.

The obviously Septic trailer for the above features some oiks singing about sinking said ship.

Feck me, you really couldn't make it up.

2nd feature is "Northwest Frontier(1959)" with Kenneth More illustrating exactly why it's a fecking bad idea to rile the natives.

North West Frontier (1959) - IMDb

Well that was good honest value.

With a shedload of extras getting their 72 raisins.

Which proves something or other but I'm not quite sure what.

Set in 1905.

During the Golden Age.

Before the waste of blood & spoil that killed the Empire.

[WTFH]

Anyone else spot that the warehouse used in the shoot-out in Luther was the same warehouse where the girl was being held captive in Silent Witness?

[NickFitz]

Much thrashing about with virtual machines running copies of the forum today, which allowed me to finally work out precisely how to export various bits from the fixed version and then import them into the unfixed

And once that was done I betook myself to the Chinese for dinner, which was very nice as usual

[NickFitz]

From the Department of the Needlessly Complicated: "Here’s where it gets tricky. Fast & Furious 6 has a post-credit sequence that gives away the ending to Tokyo Drift. If you want to appreciate Han’s story arc fully, you need to turn off Fast & Furious 6 as soon as the credits start… turn on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and enjoy the rest of Han’s story. Then watch the post-credit scene from Fast and Furious 6."

[vetran]

Fish & chips brought home by our eldest from her evening job. Next week our middle one starts at the same shop. Our youngest volunteered if they paid her in sweets.

Washed down by Polish Mocne which is rather nice. I suppose named after Danny Dyer & Jamie Oliver's speech patterns.

[DoctorStrangelove]

From the Department of the Needlessly Complicated: "Here’s where it gets tricky. Fast & Furious 6 has a post-credit sequence that gives away the ending to Tokyo Drift. If you want to appreciate Han’s story arc fully, you need to turn off Fast & Furious 6 as soon as the credits start… turn on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and enjoy the rest of Han’s story. Then watch the post-credit scene from Fast and Furious 6."

Bugger.

I haven't got Furious 6.