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2 hours ago, Big'Olympic_Hero'Pete said:

Offer to accept payments in installments, seems his way of doing things now.

First you get the bread. Then the next month he sends the butter. The month after that you get the first slice of ham.

Surely a 1PW "insider"should be anybody other than the fucking owner?

Let's say everyone now has been paid (or is getting £8.26 for the next 24 months), how long ago was the show?

28 minutes ago, gmoney said:

I'm seeing reports on twitter that Purple Aki has died, but I won't believe it until I see it on a reputable website. 

It's a gag that someone managed to get viral. The Scouse elements of my household were straight on the trail.

1 hour ago, Big'Olympic_Hero'Pete said:

Even more so with the commentators refusing to call the matches on TV too with just a graphic of 'we couldn't give a shit about Punk' during his matches.

Just use a soundboard and piece together bits of pre-recorded commentary, so it sounds like a game of Smackdown! Just Bring It!

He was old, he was in failing health, and yet it still caught me by surprise, such is the idea that Funk was immortal. 

There's not much I can add which hasn't already been said, or isn't blindingly obvious. He knew his craft, and knew how to straddle that line between what was real and what wasn't perfectly. When he was taking a beating, he looked like he was really taking a beating. When he was fighting back, he looked like he was really fighting back. 

1 hour ago, hallicks said:

Can’t remember where I heard it, but apparently the director would make Shatner repeat his scenes over and over to the point where he was all Shatnered out. 

That's the bit where he tricks Khan into granting them remote access to the Reliant's controls. Shatner kept hamming it up, and they felt it made it seem obvious that Kirk was tricking them.

Finished off the Indiana Jones trilogy with the boy. I hadn't seen Last Crusade in a good few years, and it's not aged as well as the other two. The films have always been a bit hokey, but this is just a bit too silly in places. Considering Henry wasn't the go-getting adventurer Indy was, he's just far too casual about the danger around him, and his constant little quips make him a bit Jar Jar Binks. I still do like his delivery of "Our situation has not improved" though when they're in the burning room.

My favourite moment from watching it this time - which shows what an absolute nerd I am - was when he passes an painting of the Ark on the catacomb walls, and they sneak a bit of the Raiders soundtrack into it.

Also, purely because YouTube played me a clip and it got me curious, I watched The Wrath of Khan for the first time in 20+ years. This was far better than I remember it, and has aged pretty well.

For a start, it looks gorgeous. The sets, the models, the colourful nebulas and spacey stuff. Secondly, I'm an absolute sucker for a James Horner soundtrack, with it's rock shattering deep horns, and frantic sounding strings, and this sounds like it could be used to bridge Krull and Aliens into one massive suite.

Chekov's still a bit shit, and Sulu and Uhura don't get much to do, but Shatner's actually pretty good and doesn't over-Shatner it, particularly in his scenes with Spock, and Scotty does a good job considering he's mostly rehashing the same lines he gets every episode.

"Animation error".... yeah, right. Just another example of yellow washing history.

4 hours ago, air_raid said:

Plus the “first draft” version of Smithers.

 

Was the first draft of Smithers not the black one?

5 hours ago, Tommy! said:

Former US president and one time neighbor of the Simpsons George Bush Snr was one of 9 airmen shot down during a bombing raid and was the only one to survive, the other 8 were captured, tortured and killed with half the bodies then being eaten.

Not sure I can top that one, but here goes....

During the war, Bristol lost almost 90,000 buildings to bombing by the Germans. The rubble from these buildings was shipped to New York, and forms the base of the land that Waterside Plaza is now built on.

Due to me selflessly including my family in UKFF lore (usually because they want to know what I'm laughing at (and assuming it's about someone's pooing habits)), we can no longer pass a McColl's or a Benson For Beds without my girlfriend pointing them out.

17 hours ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

The drugs and the booze have done a number but she went for some cheap "facial reconstruction plastic surgery" in Portugal earlier this year. She went from ageing very badly to this, thinking the surgery would fix things.

She's had a number of surgeries over the last 15 or so years, and much like anyone that's constantly getting their face messed around with, it's a series of diminishing returns.

Didn't she injure her face in a car crash at some point as well?

She was stood behind me at a supermarket in Ibiza in 2015. She'd crossed the road in front of us a few minutes before and my missus pointed her out. I thought she was just joking about a random woman that happened to look a trifle rough, but once in the queue I realised it actually was her.  Without any make up on, she didn't look good, but still better than she looks now.

The Sun keeps doing these features on her, and the pictures they use (which they'll describe as if her looking "stunning") really show her at her worst, as if it's some kind of joke at her expense.

23 hours ago, wordsfromlee said:

I just looked it up and the hottest ever recorded temperature there was 46 degrees. The hottest recorded temperature ever on Earth is 56. It's only ever tipped over 54 a handful of times.

Eggy face admitted.

I checked with the missus, 'cos I was certain we were told it hit 57 last week, but she says it was 47. She does remember being given a figure of 52 on the previous holiday though. I don't know if there's inaccuracies in their recordings, because it supposedly hit 45 yesterday in Sharm and it was definitely not the hottest day here.

Something else I discovered last night is that some restaurant toilets have the bidet / bum-gun combo, but nothing to dry yourself with afterwards, so make sure you have paper and / or wipes with you, so you don't have to stand bent over with your shorts round your ankles, pointing your arse at the fan and praying that nobody walks in.

26 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said:

I'm presuming it's a typo

Nope. 

52 degrees in Sharm is "stay in the shade or the pool because it's fucking hot" kind of hot. It's hot, but because of the lower humidity and some air movement from the sea, it's bearable so long as you're not baking yourself in direct sunlight.

The 41 degrees in Cairo was worse than the 52 in Sharm because it's so suffocating, and it's just impossible to get yourself dry. Our guide deliberately made the pyramids our first stop because it was still (by comparison) cool.

The idea that it could have been 16 degrees hotter than the hottest I've ever experienced is frightening. 

And the melody he wanted it to be based on was Winter, by Tori Amos.

On 7/31/2023 at 9:05 AM, Nostalgia Nonce said:

All is not lost. Look! 

Bum gun!

UPDATE: I hadn't realised, but there's also an integrated bidet, as the tap is on the left side and not easily spotted. You have to go steady with it though, as a half turn of the tap takes it from ineffective tickle to feeling like that water tentacle from The Abyss is trying to violate you.

On 8/9/2023 at 12:04 AM, SaitoRyo said:

Finally going on a proper family holiday together. To Egypt next week, for a week. It was a last-minute package deal and now hurriedly sorting out all the other bollocks.

Anyone been to the country and know the situation with visas? I know you need one, but conflicting information regarding whether you need to get them in advance or can just sort it upon arrival. 

I would like to err on the side of caution and get it in advance, but the visa website is a little confusing and I'm having trouble figuring out how I'm supposed to get visas for myself and my kids (one of which will need to use their British passport as her Czech one expires just before the six-month limit they have there). 

Any help would be appreciated, cheers! Perhaps from you, @Nostalgia Nonce?

We got ours in advance, because we know from previous Egyptian holidays in 2013/14 that it's a country where things can change very quickly, however there were people getting them at the airport when they arrived. I don't if it's the same now, but you used to get charged more doing it at the airport.

The only issue we had with the visa s is that every PDF had the same file name, so it was awkward keeping track of which ones we'd already downloaded and printed.

When you get there, you'll need to fill in a Landing Card. We got offered one pretty much as soon as we walked into the airport. Get one at the earliest opportunity, because the counter further in was carnage with people arguing over whether they needed one or not in a dozen languages.

Tipping is preferred in US dollars, so get yourself a stash of $1 bills.

The other thing to bare in mind is the heat. This is the third time I've been, and temperatures hit 52 degrees  in Sharm when I was there in 2014, however Sharm heat and Cairo heat are different beasts due to the humidity.

On Monday we went to Cairo and it was 41 degrees, and it was insanely hot. Far hotter than previous trips, and comparable to a sauna with how we all had sweat just pouring off us. The previous week, they'd had temperatures of 57 degrees, and so had cancelled a lot of touristy stuff, especially those involving horses and camels.

We paid an extra £30 for a private tour guide, and it was well worth it.

I only knew of Pee Wee Herman through one of the kids in (Kurt Russell / Goldie Hawn comedy) Overboard does impressions of him, and then the subsequent arrest, for which the only reference I had at the time for that kind of theatre was An American Werewolf in London.

I also thought he was the worst thing in Flight of The Navigator.

Sorry, went a little bit Lance Storm there.

A real shame about Adrian Street as there's been a resurgence of interest in him lately and he's been doing interviews.

On 8/2/2023 at 9:55 PM, LaGoosh said:

Hate this fucking guy.

So basically, he's been knocking one out to Carol Vorderman.

All is not lost. Look! 

Bum gun!

It's 2:25, I've just got home from a gig, and about to eat a pizza. At 5am I have to get up so that we can fly to Egypt.

It's a good job I still have the sleeping requirements of a teenager.

This morning, I had the dreaded thing happen. The phone ringing during work, and the caller display showing that it was school. He'd only been there just over an hour.

I answered, and was asked if I could go in on Monday morning. It turns out he's being presented with the Headmaster's Award of Excellence and they want me in for the presentation. Considering he has issues with focus and concentration, and there were a few incidents where one of the more boisterous kids discovered that he's very easy to convince into doing something naughty, I'm over The Moon about it. 

No, it's Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.

Pugh and Pugh were twins.

4 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

On today's episode of things that should be satire, but are actually depressingly real....