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Eurovision~!

55 minutes ago, waters44 said:

How does it work? There’s another three sheds dotted around that have power so there’s a lot of electric cable on and around the property.

It transmits a network signal down electrical cable alongside the electricity.  One end plugs in near your router and a cable goes into that.  Another powerline adapter plugs in at the other end and devices in that location can connect via that. 

However, there are limitations based on how everything is wired up  (from the electrical side).  I'd definitely recommend getting them from somewhere that does easy returns in case you hit a hiccup.

55 minutes ago, waters44 said:

And would that then effect the quality of the internet in the house?

Only in the sense that you'll be adding additional devices to your network so if you're caning massive downloads simultaneously on every device you'll probably notice.

1 hour ago, Fog Dude said:

The host city isn't called "Malmo"

Sorted.

27 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

@johnnyboyis there anything this year that matches the bizarness of a song about Edgar Allan Poe.

POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE POE. 

You can't catch lightning in a bottle twice.

21 minutes ago, The Gaffer said:

The competition this year is sponsored by an Israeli company.

As it has been for every contest this decade since Rotterdam (the once that happened).

On 5/4/2024 at 8:30 PM, Donald J Trump said:

I'd also bring back the NFL Europe. I used to watch the Claymores pretty regularly but outside of them winning the World Bowl that one time nobody really cared. I think things have changed in the 20 years since Claymores bit the dust and there's much more of an appetite for it now.

You've been partially beaten to that.  The European League of Football resurrected a lot of the NFL Europe names to use so Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire etc are actually running as teams now.

https://europeanleague.football/

18 minutes ago, Harry Wiseau said:

I haven't seen the rehearsal footage yet but no doubt it'll outrage the right people.

If I were to describe it in two words they would be "full" and "on."

Just now, SuperBacon said:

That is absolutely dreadful. I love it.

Treat yourself to the orchestral version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdQIqY8ZV4

Just a quick reminder that it's Eurovision week.

Semi Final 1 is tomorrow on BBC One at 8pm

You can get your semi-scorecards from the Beeb here.

For the first time the Big 5 (+host) will perform during the semis rather than just being shown as a video snippet, even though they're already guaranteed a spot in the final.

Watch out for Windows95man (now with a blurred out logo, hence the Rules Applied Version tag on this).

20 minutes ago, waters44 said:

What are the options re internet? Is it a case of running cable direct from the router down to the shed. It’s about 140ft from the router so any sort of wireless is out of the question. Or is there another way? 

1) A long network cable, ideally armoured so animals don't gnaw through it.

2) Powerline adapters that can run network signals down mains wiring (saves doing a run each for power and networking)

3) A wireless point-to-point bridge.  (This would be pretty expensive and wildly over-engineered for a shed)

I went to a fun little place in London today.  It's an old church in Mayfair that has become a food court.  Nowhere near Hammersmith, sorry Bacon.

https://secretldn.com/mercato-mayfair-italian-food-hall/

44 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

 

2 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Not what you wanna be

Stop right now!  Thank you very much.

Happy Birthday Dev.

34 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

One of them's got Goldberg in it, hasn't it? How have I not seen it yet.

Goldberg is in Return, which JCVD also returned for.  II and III were retconned out of existence, as well they should have been, by The Return.  The Return itself was ignored when they started off again with Retaliation.  So if you're keeping track of this, in a six film series you have 3 films retconned out of existence.  The Return was perfectly fine, certainly infinitely better than II and III, but...

II and III are direct sequels of Universal Soldier.

II and III are ignored by The Return, which itself is a direct sequel of Universal Soldier.

Retaliation, and subsequently Day of Reckoning, are a new line of sequels spawning from the original Universal Soldier thereby ignoring both The Return branch and the shitty cable movie II and III branch of sequels.

<Jesus Fucking Christ.gif>

Edit: II and III, if you fancy torturing yourself, are available to watch free on Plex.

23 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Universal Soldier / Universal Soldier: Regeneration / Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

So for those of you who don't know the chronology of this series, the latter two titles are direct sequels to the first film, both made by John Hyams who recently made the excellent Alone and Sick. His dad, the also great Peter Hyams, was director of photography on them! Anyway, the first one is obviously great but these two are genuinely superb, too. Especially the last one, which is about as weird and risk-taking a DTV action sequel as I've ever seen. I expected nothing and got loads from them both. 

Complete the set and "treat" yourself to Universal Soldier II and Universal Soldier III starring Burt Reynolds from the late 90s.  Straight to video sequels with none of the leading actors of the original film.  Two of the worst films I've ever had the misfortune to watch.  The budget must have been in the pounds.

Edit: Both films should have 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a positive review of Regeneration has been attributed to III in error.

Happy Curry Day!

Vintage Trisha.

11 minutes ago, CharlesTuckerTheThird said:

...even if a lot of the "fans" are angrily sharting themselves to death over it being "woke", whatever the hell that means nowadays.

Made by a gay woman in this instance.

Phantom Menace 25th anniversary re-release at the cinema went onsale today for the May 4th weekend.

7 hours ago, SaitoRyo said:

8mm

...

Anyway, I really liked.  It's got a great Nic Cage central performance, an engrossing plot and is very well made. Mad to think mainstream studios were greenlighting stuff like this at such expense at the time, but I'm glad they did.

Saw this in the cinema back in the day as 90s Cage was some quality Cage.  It stayed with me to the point that I couldn't look at anything saucier than the Freeman's catalogue for a few weeks.

2 hours ago, Kane said:

Well Greonging is a Master Mason. Possibly in the know of some things that will happen.

*Stonecutter.

2 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I think Pro Ev 3 is the pinnacle (Collina on the cover!) but by the time we were playing on the PS2, with tournaments every Friday night. Great days.

Pro Evo 3 took 3 long years to come out from the PS2's release so for a fair while the PS1 release of Pro Evo 2 was the best football game on the PS2.

On 2/17/2024 at 8:00 PM, westlondonmist said:

Honestly, who the fuck is paying for this?

I probably would pay £25-30 at a theatre type venue.  When it said O2 on the poster I assumed it was the Indigo as a lot of acts will bill that as "playing the O2" but it is actually in the main arena with floor seats at £90.  You're not Beyonce lads.

9 hours ago, waters44 said:

Past Lives is now on Netflix. I’ve heard it’s alright 

Just have the tissues handy (for tears, not wanking).

On 2/6/2024 at 10:09 PM, MVP RULZ said:

Kansas City Chiefs (AFC) VS San Francisco 49ers (NFC)

- QB: Mahomes (KC)

- RB: CMC (49ers)

- WR: Samuel (49ers)

- TE: Kelce (KC)

- K: Butker (KC)

- DST: 49ers

- Pick the result: KC 27 - 49ers 31

- Winning Margin: 14

- 1st team to score any points: KC

- 1st team to score Touchdown: KC

- Player to score 1st Touchdown: Aiyuk 49ers

- Total Number of Touchdowns scored: 7

- Total Number of Interceptions made: 2

- Will the game go to Overtime: No

- MVP: CMC

- Time and quarter of 1st Touchdown: 1Q 11:26

- Total Rushing yards: 49ers - 222

- Total Passing Yards: KC - 333

- Total net yards: 888

Advantage at the end of each quarter

- 1st quarter (Chiefs, 49ers, Tie) - 49ers

- 2nd quarter (Chiefs, 49ers, Tie) - Tie

- 3rd quarter (Chiefs, 49ers, Tie) - KC

- 4th quarter (Chiefs, 49ers, Tie) - 49ers

I took my old dad to see a Rolling Stones tribute act who sounded really good.  During the interval they changed outfits to illustrate the passage of time.  "Mick" came out in a jumpsuit which appeared to have a Sunday roast sized chicken, complete with giblets, down the front.  It was needlessly distracting.