Today I learned...

[BomberPat]

That was fucking dreadful. The car chase felt about ten minutes long by the one minute mark, just the least dynamic editing/directing imaginable, and then they just hammer you over the head with the joke at the end in case you're the thickest person alive and didn't get the reference.

[Devon Malcolm]

The best non-Bond Lazenby film is The Man from Hong Kong. Quality action film. He plays the main villiain and is rocking this look.

[Just Some Guy]

That looks like a still from a British 1970s sex comedy rather than a quality action film.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

4 minutes ago, Just Some Guy said:

That looks like a still from a British 1970s sex comedy rather than a quality action film.

You get quality action in both. 

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

On 10/23/2024 at 10:42 AM, BomberPat said:

 then they just hammer you over the head with the joke at the end in case you're the thickest person alive and didn't get the reference.

The writers are now based in Connecticut for a weekly episodic sports entertainment broadcast....

[Dr. Alan Grant]

Lazenby has a look of a young Dennis Hopper there.

[davertfnewman]

7 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

The best non-Bond Lazenby film is The Man from Hong Kong. Quality action film. He plays the main villiain and is rocking this look.

 

[Carbomb]

TIL, following the discussion of Ali Dia and looking up his article on Wiki, that there were a number of con-men footballers, the worst of which appears to have been a Brazilian "footballer" called Carlos Kaiser, who signed with loads of clubs, including Flamengo (twice), Vasco da Gama, and Fluminense, but feigned injury to never ever have to play:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)

EDIT: There was one instance when the owner at the club he was at at the time insisted on seeing him played in a match, at which point he deliberately got into a fight with supporters at the touchline and got himself sent off.

Amazing.

EDIT2: The rabbit-hole deepens! There was a Yugoslav player called Zivko Lukic - he was PSG's first ever foreign player, and he conned his way on to the team. This is superb.

Edited October 30, 2024 by Carbomb

[SuperBacon]

3 hours ago, Carbomb said:

TIL, following the discussion of Ali Dia and looking up his article on Wiki, that there were a number of con-men footballers, the worst of which appears to have been a Brazilian "footballer" called Carlos Kaiser, who signed with loads of clubs, including Flamengo (twice), Vasco da Gama, and Fluminense, but feigned injury to never ever have to play

The documentary Kaiser! is absolutely fantastic, as is the book of the same name.

[Chest Rockwell]

I was all ready to tell you to keep it in the football thread but after reading the wiki that is a pretty amazing and impressive ruse!

[Carbomb]

...that brown French mustard, the one that Colman's used to do, was never actually French, and was invented by Colman's as an attempt to make a "classy" mustard to put on steak. Pretty much exclusive to the UK. They stopped making it (seems the EU ordered them to), but supermarkets still have their own versions.

[SuperBacon]

Daz would downvote that big time if he could.

[Carbomb]

1 minute ago, SuperBacon said:

Daz would downvote that big time if he could.

Nah, he has no truck with any kind of moisture

[Surf Digby]

Today I learned about the existence of The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, or the "Daddy Long Legs" as it was known locally. 

A tram/train/boat/thing on 23 foot high legs than ran on twin rails set 18 feet apart. I had to go and research it properly, because I wasn't convinced the picture that showed up on Facebook wasn't just some AI creation from a steampunk enthusiast. But no, the thing was real, and it was absolutely bonkers. What's really cool though, is because the rails were so wide, the remains can be clearly seen on Google Maps. 

I feel the need for a south coast road trip next year.

[Cousin Jim Bob]

14 hours ago, Surf Digby said:

Today I learned about the existence of The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, or the "Daddy Long Legs" as it was known locally. 

A tram/train/boat/thing on 23 foot high legs than ran on twin rails set 18 feet apart. I had to go and research it properly, because I wasn't convinced the picture that showed up on Facebook wasn't just some AI creation from a steampunk enthusiast. But no, the thing was real, and it was absolutely bonkers. What's really cool though, is because the rails were so wide, the remains can be clearly seen on Google Maps. 

I feel the need for a south coast road trip next year.

 

The guy who built that Magnus Volk sounds like an extraordinary inventor and engineer. He was building electric cars in the 1880's!