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  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744
    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    AndyJS said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    Are you a Star Wars fan?
    That or his car has broken down and he's waiting for the AA on a busy night.
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108

    And the Scottish government did have responsibility: since the abolition of tolls, they were directly funding the bridge. And they reduced that funding. If they wanted to be absolved of most of the responsibility, they should either not have removed tolls, or kept the direct grant at the same level as tolls per vehicle using the bridge. They did not.

    So what you are really saying is that it is David Cameron's fault (or at least the coalition). They were the ones funding the Scottish Government. And they reduced that funding.
  • richardDoddrichardDodd Posts: 5,472
    Just watched "The Big Short"...amazing...
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    Thanks to the choice of title, now rather than the annual joke "May the Fourth be with you", now I can say "The Fourth Awakens" one morning a month.
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    I'm seeing it at 8pm on Thursday, I figured I could avoid spoilers for less than 24 hours, but I will have to stay off PB that day just to be sure
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108
    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    Is it real IMAX, which uses 70mm stock run through sideways, and the picture quality is unbelievably good, or is it 4k digital, known as LIEMAX?
    No, it's true IMAX at the Glasgow Science Centre (run by Cineworld). 70mm stock and in 3d which should be awesome on IMAX.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    I see that Leicester are well on the way to seeing off another team of relegation strugglers tonight.
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    Are you sure there are only two doing this? It would seem strange.
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    It's the projection system that matters more. This cinema is presumably in an urban area? I doubt somewhere in Shipley or Burnley would judge it a good investment.

    An IMAX 3D movie ticket here is $18 which is ludicrous.
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    edited 2015 14
    Dair said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    Is it real IMAX, which uses 70mm stock run through sideways, and the picture quality is unbelievably good, or is it 4k digital, known as LIEMAX?
    No, it's true IMAX at the Glasgow Science Centre (run by Cineworld). 70mm stock and in 3d which should be awesome on IMAX.
    It should indeed. Sounds like the perfect place to really appreciate The Life of Pi
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 125,144
    Unlike Ed though George Osborne can claim to have turned round the economy, he also only has to beat Corbyn or another likely left of centre candidate, had Ed faced Bill Cash even he may have won
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744
    Dair said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    Are you sure there are only two doing this? It would seem strange.
    Yes.

    Cineworld Sheffield and Leicester Square Empire are the only ones doing the proper 3D IMAX.

    http://bit.ly/1UqkhJS
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 44,246
    Dair said:

    And the Scottish government did have responsibility: since the abolition of tolls, they were directly funding the bridge. And they reduced that funding. If they wanted to be absolved of most of the responsibility, they should either not have removed tolls, or kept the direct grant at the same level as tolls per vehicle using the bridge. They did not.

    So what you are really saying is that it is David Cameron's fault (or at least the coalition). They were the ones funding the Scottish Government. And they reduced that funding.
    No.

    I find the mental contortions you are going through to absolve the SNP from responsibility to be quite funny. It seems the saying: "the buck stops here" has no resonance within Scottish nationalist circles ...
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    If it is recent, isn't it far more likely to be digital and not 70mm film?

    I'm absolutely certain the GSC IMAX is film only (it's kind of the point of it being attached to the Science Centre) and it's been there for over a decade now.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    @AndyCooke713: @fleetstreetfox Here's a Star Wars spoiler for you... https://t.co/zSonfUNuD1
  • HaroldOHaroldO Posts: 1,185

    Dair said:

    And the Scottish government did have responsibility: since the abolition of tolls, they were directly funding the bridge. And they reduced that funding. If they wanted to be absolved of most of the responsibility, they should either not have removed tolls, or kept the direct grant at the same level as tolls per vehicle using the bridge. They did not.

    So what you are really saying is that it is David Cameron's fault (or at least the coalition). They were the ones funding the Scottish Government. And they reduced that funding.
    No.

    I find the mental contortions you are going through to absolve the SNP from responsibility to be quite funny. It seems the saying: "the buck stops here" has no resonance within Scottish nationalist circles ...
    I blame the tax payers, I mean they fund the government and the government fund the Scottish government and they reduced the funding.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,548
    Tim_B said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Tim_B said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Jesus: what is it with men and Star Wars?! Most of my team have been talking about nothing else for days.................!!

    I'm not a fan myself, but my theory is it's the light sabers - they put batteries in their underpants and just hope :D
    Oh my God! What an image.


    No need to worry - I'm sure they're Duracell coppertop. D cells would look more impressive to the observer ;)
    Oh no, please no. Any female observer - well this one anyway - would be putting her clothes on and getting the hell out of there as fast as her "F*ck me" shoes would permit. :)

    If this Star Wars nonsense continues (I have put a post up in response to Mr Palmer, who is no doubt having his dinner rather than responding, and which I consider quite a good post) I may - whatever the delightful Mr Llama may say - take myself back to Paris with my gorgeous companion.......

  • I see that Leicester are well on the way to seeing off another team of relegation strugglers tonight.

    It has to end. One day soon, we're going to wake up and find out it was all a pleasant dream.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744
    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    It's the projection system that matters more. This cinema is presumably in an urban area? I doubt somewhere in Shipley or Burnley would judge it a good investment.

    An IMAX 3D movie ticket here is $18 which is ludicrous.
    I only have to pay £6.30 for my IMAX tickets
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    Dair said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    Are you sure there are only two doing this? It would seem strange.
    Yes.

    Cineworld Sheffield and Leicester Square Empire are the only ones doing the proper 3D IMAX.

    http://bit.ly/1UqkhJS
    When I lived in London in the late 60s to mid 70s, the Empire Leicester Square was my favorite cinema. I got to attend the premiere of "On Her Majesty's Service" there
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 125,144
    NBC/WSJ US General Election

    Rubio – 48%
    Clinton – 45%

    Carson – 47%
    Clinton – 46%

    Clinton – 48%
    Cruz – 45%

    Clinton – 50%
    Trump – 40%
    http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/nbc-poll-clinton-would-trounce-trump-lose-rubio-carson-n478676
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    Cyclefree said:

    Tim_B said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Tim_B said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Jesus: what is it with men and Star Wars?! Most of my team have been talking about nothing else for days.................!!

    I'm not a fan myself, but my theory is it's the light sabers - they put batteries in their underpants and just hope :D
    Oh my God! What an image.


    No need to worry - I'm sure they're Duracell coppertop. D cells would look more impressive to the observer ;)
    Oh no, please no. Any female observer - well this one anyway - would be putting her clothes on and getting the hell out of there as fast as her "F*ck me" shoes would permit. :)

    If this Star Wars nonsense continues (I have put a post up in response to Mr Palmer, who is no doubt having his dinner rather than responding, and which I consider quite a good post) I may - whatever the delightful Mr Llama may say - take myself back to Paris with my gorgeous companion.......

    This just in (so to speak) - I think it'll be showing in Paris too. Just look for Guerre D'Etoiles.
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    It's the projection system that matters more. This cinema is presumably in an urban area? I doubt somewhere in Shipley or Burnley would judge it a good investment.

    An IMAX 3D movie ticket here is $18 which is ludicrous.
    I only have to pay £6.30 for my IMAX tickets
    That must be a special rate - I doubt anything in the UK costs retail as little as 6.30ukp
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108

    Dair said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    Are you sure there are only two doing this? It would seem strange.
    Yes.

    Cineworld Sheffield and Leicester Square Empire are the only ones doing the proper 3D IMAX.

    http://bit.ly/1UqkhJS
    I'm finding contradictory results on google searches, some say it ditched 70mm at GSC and some say it's still using 70mm
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744
    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    It's the projection system that matters more. This cinema is presumably in an urban area? I doubt somewhere in Shipley or Burnley would judge it a good investment.

    An IMAX 3D movie ticket here is $18 which is ludicrous.
    I only have to pay £6.30 for my IMAX tickets
    That must be a special rate - I doubt anything in the UK costs retail as little as 6.30ukp
    I pay £20 a month to see as many films as I want to.

    There's a £6.30 uplift for IMAX films and £4.50 for 4DX films
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
    If she knows then hell yes :D They'd even bring sliced raw potatoes to eat
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    It's the projection system that matters more. This cinema is presumably in an urban area? I doubt somewhere in Shipley or Burnley would judge it a good investment.

    An IMAX 3D movie ticket here is $18 which is ludicrous.
    I only have to pay £6.30 for my IMAX tickets
    That must be a special rate - I doubt anything in the UK costs retail as little as 6.30ukp
    I pay £20 a month to see as many films as I want to.

    There's a £6.30 uplift for IMAX films and £4.50 for 4DX films
    OK - that makes sense. Any 3d surcharge?
  • nigel4englandnigel4england Posts: 4,800

    I see that Leicester are well on the way to seeing off another team of relegation strugglers tonight.

    It has to end. One day soon, we're going to wake up and find out it was all a pleasant dream.
    Well it won't end tonight that's for sure
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744
    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    It's the projection system that matters more. This cinema is presumably in an urban area? I doubt somewhere in Shipley or Burnley would judge it a good investment.

    An IMAX 3D movie ticket here is $18 which is ludicrous.
    I only have to pay £6.30 for my IMAX tickets
    That must be a special rate - I doubt anything in the UK costs retail as little as 6.30ukp
    I pay £20 a month to see as many films as I want to.

    There's a £6.30 uplift for IMAX films and £4.50 for 4DX films
    OK - that makes sense. Any 3d surcharge?
    Nope, all 3D films are free.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,548
    Tim_B said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Tim_B said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Tim_B said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Jesus: what is it with men and Star Wars?! Most of my team have been talking about nothing else for days.................!!

    I'm not a fan myself, but my theory is it's the light sabers - they put batteries in their underpants and just hope :D
    Oh my God! What an image.


    No need to worry - I'm sure they're Duracell coppertop. D cells would look more impressive to the observer ;)
    Oh no, please no. Any female observer - well this one anyway - would be putting her clothes on and getting the hell out of there as fast as her "F*ck me" shoes would permit. :)

    If this Star Wars nonsense continues (I have put a post up in response to Mr Palmer, who is no doubt having his dinner rather than responding, and which I consider quite a good post) I may - whatever the delightful Mr Llama may say - take myself back to Paris with my gorgeous companion.......

    This just in (so to speak) - I think it'll be showing in Paris too. Just look for Guerre D'Etoiles.
    :(
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    I'm watching it at one of the only two IMAX cinemas in the UK that will be showing the proper 3D IMAX print.

    I'm unbelievably smug about that.

    Then I see the 4DX version at 7.30am
    You can get 3D on 4k digital too......

    Real IMAX is dying out, as the prints are so expensive and degrade quickly, and the projector is a piece of work.
    My local cinema just recently spent lots of money upgrading their IMAX screen. Is a piece of beauty.
    It's the projection system that matters more. This cinema is presumably in an urban area? I doubt somewhere in Shipley or Burnley would judge it a good investment.

    An IMAX 3D movie ticket here is $18 which is ludicrous.
    I only have to pay £6.30 for my IMAX tickets
    That must be a special rate - I doubt anything in the UK costs retail as little as 6.30ukp
    I pay £20 a month to see as many films as I want to.

    There's a £6.30 uplift for IMAX films and £4.50 for 4DX films
    OK - that makes sense. Any 3d surcharge?
    Nope, all 3D films are free.
    With the monthly 20gbp presumably. That's a good deal.

    Here retail it's something like movie$10, liemax $4, 3d $4. The chains have various clubs, membership offers etc. When I grew up in England all the cinemas were lovely converted theaters. Here they are all white sterile cubes and I love movies but generally hate going to the cinema.
  • Scrapheap_as_wasScrapheap_as_was Posts: 10,069
    what was the worst result - losing at home to the geordies or only getting 1 point off chelsea.
  • Hertsmere_PubgoerHertsmere_Pubgoer Posts: 3,476

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
    Too tame?
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
    Too tame?
    The Lannister twins are too tame for Norfolk.
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    As you do...
    Hundreds of asylum-seekers entering Norway were discovered to have images of ‘executions’ and ‘severed heads’ on their mobile phones.

    The revelation comes amid heightened fears that ISIS is exploiting the migrant crisis to smuggle fighters into Europe, following last month’s attacks in Paris.

    Police admitted that the ‘explosion’ of refugees crossing into the country over the summer and in recent months meant that security checks were less thorough than required, and weren’t checking the background of those entering the country.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3359901/Hundreds-migrants-arriving-Norway-mobile-phones-containing-images-executions-severed-heads-dead-children-police-reveal.html#ixzz3uKfRO35a

  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
    Too tame?
    Back to the future is more their thing.

    And I'll stop with my lazy stereotyping of Norfolk people.
  • Hertsmere_PubgoerHertsmere_Pubgoer Posts: 3,476
    Crowd Scores is a great app. Can't think where I saw it plugged.....
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
    Too tame?
    Back to the future is more their thing.

    And I'll stop with my lazy stereotyping of Norfolk people.
    or Deliverance.

    "Squeal like a pig"

    "Like a pig?"

    "Yes, I'd like a pig" ;)
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    TGOHF said:

    Dair said:

    Dair said:


    No, the point is that a number of DIFFERENT decisions were made.

    The decisions the SNP got to make, they made correctly. The decisions FETA got to make, they made correctly.

    The decisions Labour got to make. They have chosen... poorly.

    Oh I see. The fact that this bridge has suddenly had to be closed because it is in a dangerous state is the result of people making correct decisions. Forgive me, I am not used to the Scottish way of doing things
    While in Scotland, we prefer a thrifty SNP government, who tries to get value out of every penny they spend (hence spending the same on the NHS as 8 years ago with significantly improved outcomes).

    In England the main road into the capital city is still open.

    M8 seems okay?
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669

    As you do...

    Hundreds of asylum-seekers entering Norway were discovered to have images of ‘executions’ and ‘severed heads’ on their mobile phones.

    The revelation comes amid heightened fears that ISIS is exploiting the migrant crisis to smuggle fighters into Europe, following last month’s attacks in Paris.

    Police admitted that the ‘explosion’ of refugees crossing into the country over the summer and in recent months meant that security checks were less thorough than required, and weren’t checking the background of those entering the country.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3359901/Hundreds-migrants-arriving-Norway-mobile-phones-containing-images-executions-severed-heads-dead-children-police-reveal.html#ixzz3uKfRO35a

    Why are they all going to Norway? Can't be that famous Norwegian charisma, second only to the Belgian charisma.

    Must be benefits.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,882

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
    Too tame?
    The Lannister twins are too tame for Norfolk.
    The Borgias (1981 series) is more representative of life in rural Norfolk.
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108
    Tim_B said:


    Nope, all 3D films are free.

    With the monthly 20gbp presumably. That's a good deal.

    Here retail it's something like movie$10, liemax $4, 3d $4. The chains have various clubs, membership offers etc. When I grew up in England all the cinemas were lovely converted theaters. Here they are all white sterile cubes and I love movies but generally hate going to the cinema.
    I remember back in 2003 when Cineworld first came out with their "all inclusive membership" (they were called something else then, I wa binging 4 or 5 films a week.

    They'd just built a vertical cinema block in Glasgow, with 18 screens, was fantastic. Think it's still the tallest purpose built cinema complex in the world.
  • Plato_SaysPlato_Says Posts: 11,822
    edited 2015 14
    IIRC the Swedes have decided they don't want so many anymore - so guessing Norway is the next best option. Germany's a long walk. And Merkel's cold chilly on them too.
    Tim_B said:

    As you do...

    Hundreds of asylum-seekers entering Norway were discovered to have images of ‘executions’ and ‘severed heads’ on their mobile phones.

    The revelation comes amid heightened fears that ISIS is exploiting the migrant crisis to smuggle fighters into Europe, following last month’s attacks in Paris.

    Police admitted that the ‘explosion’ of refugees crossing into the country over the summer and in recent months meant that security checks were less thorough than required, and weren’t checking the background of those entering the country.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3359901/Hundreds-migrants-arriving-Norway-mobile-phones-containing-images-executions-severed-heads-dead-children-police-reveal.html#ixzz3uKfRO35a

    Why are they all going to Norway? Can't be that famous Norwegian charisma, second only to the Belgian charisma.

    Must be benefits.

  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,753
    edited 2015 14
    Those Mahrez and Vardy bets looking better than the Chelsea lost cash lol.
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108

    You can always ignore Star Wars. I have since 1977.

    I would have thought a film where a sister kisses her brother would be popular with people from Norfolk

    :lol:
    Too tame?
    Back to the future is more their thing.

    And I'll stop with my lazy stereotyping of Norfolk people.
    But it never gets old.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaGUJAwTaY
  • MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382

    Crowd Scores is a great app. Can't think where I saw it plugged.....
    Crowdscores is the brainchild of my son Robert who manages to technical side of PB.
  • Pulpstar said:

    Those Mayhrez and Vardy bets looking better than the Chelsea lost cash lol.

    At this rate, Leicester will be nailed on for SPOTY team of the year next year!
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,753

    Pulpstar said:

    Those Mayhrez and Vardy bets looking better than the Chelsea lost cash lol.

    At this rate, Leicester will be nailed on for SPOTY team of the year next year!
    I have no idea how Vardy didn't get into the SPOTY shortlist tbh.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Norfolk people don't mind being underestimated. We know we're the cleverest people in the world.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,161

    Crowd Scores is a great app. Can't think where I saw it plugged.....
    I was listening to the Chelsea game on digital radio. Crowdscores told me of the Leicester goal about a minute before the radio :lol:

    We also cover Dagenham and Redbridge games live.

    And no adverts.

    What's not to like?
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670

    I see that Leicester are well on the way to seeing off another team of relegation strugglers tonight.

    My Mahrez as captain pick feels good after I left him on the bench last week.
  • flightpath01flightpath01 Posts: 4,903
    RobD said:

    Dair said:

    MikeL said:

    Very strong turnout of Con Peers today - 201 - not quite as high as on Tax Credits (215) or Individual Voter Registration (208) - but 201 is still exceptionally high.

    FOR VOTES AT 16:
    Crossbench - 10
    Labour - 136
    Lib Dems - 89
    Other - 11
    TOTAL - 246

    AGAINST VOTES AT 16:
    Bishops - 1
    Conservative - 201
    Crossbench - 54
    Labour - 1
    Other - 6
    TOTAL - 263

    Main Parties turnout:
    Con = 201 out of 251 = 80%
    Labour = 136 out of 213 = 64%
    Lib Dems = 89 out of 111= 80%

    So exceptional turnout by Lib Dems as well - as they are very keen on votes at 16. But Lab Peers didn't make any special effort - 64% is only marginally above what might be expected on a "routine" day.

    But note Con still needed to win the Crossbenchers by a big margin - which they did.

    http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/lords/lords-divisions/

    Nothing as pathetic as seeing adult citizens denied the vote by unelected peers. The UK's pitiful pretence at democracy continues to be undermined.
    They aren't adult citizens.
    He is without a doubt bonkers.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    Dair said:


    They'd just built a vertical cinema block in Glasgow, with 18 screens, was fantastic. Think it's still the tallest purpose built cinema complex in the world.

    Just in Europe.
  • Hertsmere_PubgoerHertsmere_Pubgoer Posts: 3,476

    Crowd Scores is a great app. Can't think where I saw it plugged.....
    Crowdscores is the brainchild of my son Robert who manages to technical side of PB.
    Indeed, I was joking when I said i couldn't remember where it was first plugged to me. A number of my fellow locals swear by it after I encouraged them to download it.
    All credit to Smithson Junior for creating such a great app.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,161
    Chelsea get one back
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,276
    haha v funny: 2-0 and you're walking home (M1 southbound problems)

    Edit: oops maybe too early...
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,161

    Crowd Scores is a great app. Can't think where I saw it plugged.....
    Crowdscores is the brainchild of my son Robert who manages to technical side of PB.
    Indeed, I was joking when I said i couldn't remember where it was first plugged to me. A number of my fellow locals swear by it after I encouraged them to download it.
    All credit to Smithson Junior for creating such a great app.
    Thank you :lol:
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744
    TOPPING said:

    haha v funny: 2-0 and you're walking home (M1 southbound problems)

    Edit: oops maybe too early...

    They had the best chant earlier

    "You're going down with Villa"
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,753
    LAWRO'S PREDICTION

    Chelsea are not often underdogs but their form makes them that on Monday, and I don't think their manager Jose Mourinho will mind.

    It is in Mourinho's DNA to go away to teams and make things difficult for the opposition, and I think they will leave with a point.
  • Hertsmere_PubgoerHertsmere_Pubgoer Posts: 3,476
    rcs1000 said:

    Crowd Scores is a great app. Can't think where I saw it plugged.....
    Crowdscores is the brainchild of my son Robert who manages to technical side of PB.
    Indeed, I was joking when I said i couldn't remember where it was first plugged to me. A number of my fellow locals swear by it after I encouraged them to download it.
    All credit to Smithson Junior for creating such a great app.
    Thank you :lol:
    You're welcome. It's a seriously cracking app, and doesn't have the insane number of updates that too many Android apps seem to have.
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    Dair said:

    Tim_B said:


    Nope, all 3D films are free.

    With the monthly 20gbp presumably. That's a good deal.

    Here retail it's something like movie$10, liemax $4, 3d $4. The chains have various clubs, membership offers etc. When I grew up in England all the cinemas were lovely converted theaters. Here they are all white sterile cubes and I love movies but generally hate going to the cinema.
    I remember back in 2003 when Cineworld first came out with their "all inclusive membership" (they were called something else then, I wa binging 4 or 5 films a week.

    They'd just built a vertical cinema block in Glasgow, with 18 screens, was fantastic. Think it's still the tallest purpose built cinema complex in the world.
    I have my $12 a month Netflix membership. They send me 3 dvd movies at a time, and when I send them back 3 more arrive 2 days later. I have a nice big 4k HD and a 7.1 sound system. I get both better sound and better picture than at the cinema. DVDs come with extras like 'making of' etc. I just have to wait 3-6 months after release.

    I'm not a streaming fan. I have amazon prime TV for that.

    Once in a while I'll go watch a movie at the cinema. I go friday lunchtime. I saw Spectre with 4 other people on opening day. That evening you would have needed a shoehorn to get in.

    Purpose built - I live near the largest mall south of DC and east of Dallas. They have a 21 screen multiplex with an 'IMAX'. It's not purpose built - it's part of the mall.

    My wife is from Glasgow. When we went up there in the late 70s there was something called the "Clydeside Expressway". It had a 45mph limit, traffic lights and a fire station on it. It was hilarious.

    I imagine it has changed greatly since then. It was a sad place and down on its luck.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,753
    "Oh Down with the Villa" trololol
  • blackburn63blackburn63 Posts: 4,492
    Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Those Mayhrez and Vardy bets looking better than the Chelsea lost cash lol.

    At this rate, Leicester will be nailed on for SPOTY team of the year next year!
    I have no idea how Vardy didn't get into the SPOTY shortlist tbh.
    Criminal record? Look at the Fury furore

  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,744

    New Thread New Thread

  • LukeInLondonLukeInLondon Posts: 30
    Good evening all!

    I agree with Mike and Guido. Osborne definitely comes across as a bit weird, although more in a John Redwood way than an Ed Miliband way. The Tories will always win against a Corbyn led Labour party, but post-Corbyn Labour would be much more competitive with George as Tory leader. I could also see them getting rid of Corbyn faster as Osborne could easily become a Thatcher-style hate figure for the left, making them more intent on knocking him out of power.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,418
    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    Tim_B said:

    Dair said:

    I will have seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3 times before 9:30am Thursday.

    I have tickets to the 00:05, 03:30 and 07:30 showings

    I recall watching Phaton Menace twice in a day when it came out.

    I'll probably only watch it once at the IMAX just outside my door, still trying to decide between 3am 6am or 10am, will decide based on how I feel on Wednesday.
    Is it real IMAX, which uses 70mm stock run through sideways, and the picture quality is unbelievably good, or is it 4k digital, known as LIEMAX?
    No, it's true IMAX at the Glasgow Science Centre (run by Cineworld). 70mm stock and in 3d which should be awesome on IMAX.
    It should indeed. Sounds like the perfect place to really appreciate The Life of Pi
    Whereas the Wigan Odeon would be the perfect place to appreciate the life of pie.
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108
    Tim_B said:


    I have my $12 a month Netflix membership. They send me 3 dvd movies at a time, and when I send them back 3 more arrive 2 days later. I have a nice big 4k HD and a 7.1 sound system. I get both better sound and better picture than at the cinema. DVDs come with extras like 'making of' etc. I just have to wait 3-6 months after release.

    I'm not a streaming fan. I have amazon prime TV for that.

    Once in a while I'll go watch a movie at the cinema. I go friday lunchtime. I saw Spectre with 4 other people on opening day. That evening you would have needed a shoehorn to get in.

    Purpose built - I live near the largest mall south of DC and east of Dallas. They have a 21 screen multiplex with an 'IMAX'. It's not purpose built - it's part of the mall.

    My wife is from Glasgow. When we went up there in the late 70s there was something called the "Clydeside Expressway". It had a 45mph limit, traffic lights and a fire station on it. It was hilarious.

    I imagine it has changed greatly since then. It was a sad place and down on its luck.

    Glasgow in the 60s, 70s and 80s would have put many third world cities to shame. The Loyalists gutted the heart of the city and then left it like that - a rubble strewn wasteland - for the best part of 20 years while building defective tower blocks that destroyed people's lives.

    The Clydeside Expressway is a 5 mile Freeway with no interruptions to traffic flow. It merges into Dumbarton Road which is a typical 4 lane city street and has traffic lights, fire stations, etc..
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,598
    Cyclefree said:

    @NickPalmer:

    http://noramulready.com/2015/11/17/islamism-the-left-and-a-plea-to-labour-mps/

    This sums up my views pretty well.

    When Labour rediscovers its moral compass it will find a listener in me. If it does.

    I am not hopeful.

    Well, I agree up to a point - sympathy for underdogs should not slide into sympathy for evil. But your earlier post suggests you were in thoroughly disaffected mode long before any Islamist issue arose? That doesn't mean we shouldn't listen to your views anyway - but not, I suggest, in realistic hope that we will thereby gain your support? If even ID cards put you off in such dramatic fashion that you never wished to hear from Labour again until they had totally reconsidered this and many other things, well...

    On Star Wars, however, you are very sound. I've tried to see the original movie twice. Don't get it at all.
  • watford30watford30 Posts: 3,474
    edited 2015 14
    Dair said:

    Tim_B said:


    I have my $12 a month Netflix membership. They send me 3 dvd movies at a time, and when I send them back 3 more arrive 2 days later. I have a nice big 4k HD and a 7.1 sound system. I get both better sound and better picture than at the cinema. DVDs come with extras like 'making of' etc. I just have to wait 3-6 months after release.

    I'm not a streaming fan. I have amazon prime TV for that.

    Once in a while I'll go watch a movie at the cinema. I go friday lunchtime. I saw Spectre with 4 other people on opening day. That evening you would have needed a shoehorn to get in.

    Purpose built - I live near the largest mall south of DC and east of Dallas. They have a 21 screen multiplex with an 'IMAX'. It's not purpose built - it's part of the mall.

    My wife is from Glasgow. When we went up there in the late 70s there was something called the "Clydeside Expressway". It had a 45mph limit, traffic lights and a fire station on it. It was hilarious.

    I imagine it has changed greatly since then. It was a sad place and down on its luck.

    Glasgow in the 60s, 70s and 80s would have put many third world cities to shame. The Loyalists gutted the heart of the city and then left it like that - a rubble strewn wasteland - for the best part of 20 years while building defective tower blocks that destroyed people's lives.

    The Clydeside Expressway is a 5 mile Freeway with no interruptions to traffic flow. It merges into Dumbarton Road which is a typical 4 lane city street and has traffic lights, fire stations, etc..
    'The Loyalists'.

    You're such a helm.
  • ThreeQuidderThreeQuidder Posts: 6,133
    rcs1000 said:

    Crowd Scores is a great app. Can't think where I saw it plugged.....
    I was listening to the Chelsea game on digital radio. Crowdscores told me of the Leicester goal about a minute before the radio :lol:

    We also cover Dagenham and Redbridge games live.

    And no adverts.

    What's not to like?
    It appears to be football only.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,756
    TGOHF said:

    Dair said:

    TGOHF said:

    Dair said:


    The Liberal councillor who was chair of FETA said that no work was required at the time.

    So you are admitting catastrophically slack oversight by the FM's office of this critical transport quango ?
    The SNP Scottish Government has done everything right.
    Yet the bridge is closed and remains closed for the longest time in it's history - all on the SNP's watch - despite repeated warnings from engineers that faults needed fixed.

    SNP - can't be trusted with critical infrastructure.

    LOL, should they have shut it when it was not broken then
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,756
    Dair said:

    And the Scottish government did have responsibility: since the abolition of tolls, they were directly funding the bridge. And they reduced that funding. If they wanted to be absolved of most of the responsibility, they should either not have removed tolls, or kept the direct grant at the same level as tolls per vehicle using the bridge. They did not.

    So what you are really saying is that it is David Cameron's fault (or at least the coalition). They were the ones funding the Scottish Government. And they reduced that funding.
    Pointless arguing with him , he is all knowing
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,756
    Dair said:

    Tim_B said:


    I have my $12 a month Netflix membership. They send me 3 dvd movies at a time, and when I send them back 3 more arrive 2 days later. I have a nice big 4k HD and a 7.1 sound system. I get both better sound and better picture than at the cinema. DVDs come with extras like 'making of' etc. I just have to wait 3-6 months after release.

    I'm not a streaming fan. I have amazon prime TV for that.

    Once in a while I'll go watch a movie at the cinema. I go friday lunchtime. I saw Spectre with 4 other people on opening day. That evening you would have needed a shoehorn to get in.

    Purpose built - I live near the largest mall south of DC and east of Dallas. They have a 21 screen multiplex with an 'IMAX'. It's not purpose built - it's part of the mall.

    My wife is from Glasgow. When we went up there in the late 70s there was something called the "Clydeside Expressway". It had a 45mph limit, traffic lights and a fire station on it. It was hilarious.

    I imagine it has changed greatly since then. It was a sad place and down on its luck.

    Glasgow in the 60s, 70s and 80s would have put many third world cities to shame. The Loyalists gutted the heart of the city and then left it like that - a rubble strewn wasteland - for the best part of 20 years while building defective tower blocks that destroyed people's lives.

    The Clydeside Expressway is a 5 mile Freeway with no interruptions to traffic flow. It merges into Dumbarton Road which is a typical 4 lane city street and has traffic lights, fire stations, etc..
    TIMB is your typical fanny that emigrates to America and then slags UK. Guy is an absolute dumpling, ate too many squirrel brains I reckon.
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108
    malcolmg said:

    Dair said:

    And the Scottish government did have responsibility: since the abolition of tolls, they were directly funding the bridge. And they reduced that funding. If they wanted to be absolved of most of the responsibility, they should either not have removed tolls, or kept the direct grant at the same level as tolls per vehicle using the bridge. They did not.

    So what you are really saying is that it is David Cameron's fault (or at least the coalition). They were the ones funding the Scottish Government. And they reduced that funding.
    Pointless arguing with him , he is all knowing
    To be honest, he is all ignoring.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 44,246
    Dair said:

    malcolmg said:

    Dair said:

    And the Scottish government did have responsibility: since the abolition of tolls, they were directly funding the bridge. And they reduced that funding. If they wanted to be absolved of most of the responsibility, they should either not have removed tolls, or kept the direct grant at the same level as tolls per vehicle using the bridge. They did not.

    So what you are really saying is that it is David Cameron's fault (or at least the coalition). They were the ones funding the Scottish Government. And they reduced that funding.
    Pointless arguing with him , he is all knowing
    To be honest, he is all ignoring.
    I know this is late to the thread, but come on. Your defence of the SNP of this is as facile as it is expected.

    And I'm not sure you should be talking about the honesty of other posters.
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