BS: Television

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 11 Feb 16 - 06:33 PM

THIS is something a bit more genuine..for Television...she's musically hot!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 11 Feb 16 - 05:59 PM

Hillary is a fan of coronation street!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 06:26 PM

"Yesterday I learned that jimi Hendrix was a fan of coronation street !"

Well, he did do alot of drugs.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 10 Feb 16 - 03:26 PM

Yesterday I learned that jimi Hendrix was a fan of coronation street !

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Feb 16 - 05:00 PM

keberoxu: "By the way, is Armando Ianucci really all that?"

Who knows?...but Ludovico Einaudi IS!!!
Enjoy a bunch of them!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Feb 16 - 01:31 PM

By the way, is Armando Ianucci really all that?

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 09 Feb 16 - 01:21 PM

Well, over here, soap operas were big for daytime 'entertainment'...but they've evolved....now it's political pundits spouting about polls that are designed to steer the elections!!
.....but it's still has the 'allure and suspense' of a soap opera!!
Frankly, re-runs of 'Black Adder' are far more entertaining!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: MikeL2
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 10:01 AM

Hi

Yesterday here we had a terrible day for weather. No chance of me and "her indoors" getting outdoors.....so

We watched TV. We watched Bournemouth V Arsenal, then change channel to watch Ireland V Wales in the 6 Nations Rugby Union,

Back to sky to watch Chelsea v Manchester United.

Our sport appetite satisfied we watched Countryfile. Ummmm could smell the fresh air. Then over to watch Vera solve a very delicate and intricate case.

Not fodder to create dinner party conversations perhaps.

We both enjoyed it and it certainly created comments and discussion between us.

Now what's on tonight ??? Weather forecast looks interesting.....lol

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 Feb 16 - 01:52 AM

Embarrass me???

GfS

P.S. Don't flatter yourself, OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 11:55 PM

Today is the day of the big game in America - the Superbowl, where the two top football teams play for the championship.

And all America is buzzing about the most interesting part - the commercials, especially the Budweiser Clydesdale commercial. One woman told a reporter, "I have my kleenex ready."

It's worth going on YouTube to watch them. Your grandkids will like them, too.

Good imagery, good story, not loud and one minute long. That's my kind of television.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Feb 16 - 12:20 PM

Woof Woof back atcha. You are a good sport. I apologize if I embarrassed you.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 06 Feb 16 - 02:11 PM

keberoxu, How about this??..She's 15, lives 'off the grid', in the Colorado mountains

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Feb 16 - 01:21 PM

woof woof, I have gone barking mad.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 16 - 12:53 PM

I'm old enough to remember television without music videos. Life without music videos, rather. If the television is on, and those videos turn up, it's time to change the channel. The music videos only work for me if the music stands by itself. And a lot of times, the video seems to be the main deal, and the music is little more than a video soundtrack.

I guess music videos have shifted a lot of units in the music business, though, so the almighty dollar has the last word.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Kampervan
Date: 06 Feb 16 - 06:15 AM

Thank goodness for 'Benidorm'

One of the few highights on British TV at the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Feb 16 - 05:23 AM

I completely agree with you on the point of politicians and their corporate puppet masters and have always said so. As I said earlier, it is not necessarily the content of what you post but the way it is presented. If you cannot get support for what is a good idea then either it is not a good idea, you are asking the wrong people or you are not putting it across well enough. Ask yourself which it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 Feb 16 - 07:51 PM

Dave: "It is not so much what you say as how you go about it that rubs people up the wrong way. Reflect on how you talk to people on here and you may have your own profound realisation :-)"

I do. It seems that no matter how or what I've posted, certain people on here, for one reason or another are geared to be confrontational... no matter how much good will and truth you throw out there. I believe that is because there is a predisposed disposition of some sort of political nonsensical toxins they have 'ingested'. When they do listen to the 'news', they don't listen to actually LEARN something, but rather reconfirm some notion that was sold to them, whether that notion is true or not...maybe by a 'friend', or whomever, and instead of incorporating something wider that could be useful to gain a greater perspective.
I could give you an example, but if anyone wants to 'follow up' on it I strongly suggest using another thread, because we don't want or need to divert this thread.
Here is ONE example: One the matter of homosexuality, I, and correctly so, disagreed with it being 'genetic', but DID point out that those who felt they were that way from birth, that it came from the formation of the nervous system, from a woman who had emotional issues with her mate, who impregnated her, and being as they share the same body, while forming, set up the receptors, and synapses to respond differently than those who did not. For that, I was labelled a 'homophobic'...and matter of fact, it was YOU who posted an article, completely supporting my position on that, saying, '..that there were OTHER(than genetic) factors' that cause the homosexual orientation. ...How is THAT homophobic????...........(like I said a forehand, we don't need to debate that here, on this thread..so let's not).

Frankly, I'm tired of political parties (BOTH) using lies and disinformation to get everyone emotionally stirred up, to ram another anti-social agenda, down our throats, while not giving a tinker's damn, whether it's true or not. The same is true with financial issues, taxation, foreign policies, (alleged WMD's as a reason to invade Iraq, with an unfunded war, only to bilk the public with astronomical fees, to service the effort, lying to the public about healthcare, while funneling masses of money to insurance corporations for them to profit, and the list goes on and on, 'alternative fuel sources was another.
Sure, we need a reformed healthcare system, sure, we need alternative fuel sources, but we get lied to and bilked and screwed...but the politicians, in bed with their corporate buddies, don't give a flying fuck. It's not been a history of our political systems representing the will of the people, but rather, FORCING the people to adopt fallacious 'remedies' for things that weren't a problem in the first place...other than solving one bit of corruption, with another bit of corruption!!

When you look objectively at it all, YES, it is time to reflect...reflect on what makes us all susceptible to buying into their horseshit, and really how far that is away, from those moments of PEACE, which can also be found, within us all.

As for me, I have not decided on ANY candidate, nor party to support, so I have no axe to grind about any of them, EXCEPT the ones who are fragrantly LYING through their teeth, and deceiving people, who for the most part, are caring people.

Anyway, post is long enough. We can always turn on our T.V.'s and listen to them lie about everything, till we're all so confused, we don't know who's coming and going.

Meanwhile, we can measure, and define the angst, and compose musical portraits that the inner soul of mankind can can identify with, and benefit from.....and do so, HONESTLY!!

GfS

Gfs

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 16 - 01:37 PM

Guest from Sanity has done something of note, to be sure.
This thread was begun by Good Soldier Schweik whose tendency, whether you approve or disapprove, is to sink his teeth in and hang on, AND on, AND on, with terrier tenacity. We have seen him do it in thread upon thread.
Now Good Soldier Schweik has dusted off his hands and walked away from his very own thread, leaving somebody else to play Mudcat Terrier. I doubted that I would ever see the day, but here it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Feb 16 - 06:06 AM

I don't read his posts.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Feb 16 - 03:46 AM

Thanks GfS. I do reflect very often, meditate regularly (on the last walk was by a flowing stream with nothing but the sound of running water and birdsong. Lovely) and I very rarely, if ever, watch the news. Especially news of anything political. So, to be honest, you are teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. As we seem to be in agreement may I make a suggestion? It is not so much what you say as how you go about it that rubs people up the wrong way. Reflect on how you talk to people on here and you may have your own profound realisation :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 Feb 16 - 02:20 AM

Dave the Gnome: "There comes a time when everyone must realise that kicking shit only creates a stink and gets your shoes dirty. I have reached that moment and decided to stop doing it."

OK....Now on your next walk in the woods, stop, sit down and think..and REFLECT.
I guarantee you that in what might be a moment of deeper thought, and introspection, will be more profound to you, than watching the 'news' covering the political campaigns...Compare those two moments.
That's all.

All the best to you, and Regards!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 16 - 07:49 PM

I like Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin in Once Upon A Time. Especially when Carlyle is Full-On Rumple, with contact lenses, black fingernails, green face makeup, Commedia dell'Arte body language, and imitating .... who did he say? His six-year-old son's sing-songy voice. (His son who will turn ten years old this year)

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Feb 16 - 02:57 AM

Don't flatter yourself with your delusions.........it's even unbecoming!

Is that even English?

I must admit now though, goofus. You have beat me. You win. There comes a time when everyone must realise that kicking shit only creates a stink and gets your shoes dirty. I have reached that moment and decided to stop doing it. Good luck down there.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 04 Feb 16 - 12:17 AM

.. google the colloquial term 'panty soup'



Steve Martin - He's that old yank banjo player who used to be an intermittently funny comedian...???

"The Jerk" would have been one of his better moments... how long ago was that.....?????

As for being hip.. nah I've never been one for consciously quoting screen comedy highlights...

Had enough of dismal dullards doing that, growing up in the Nation that sired Monty Python and The Young Ones...

How many times can you sit in a pub listening to drunks performing the entire "Parrot" & "Argument" sketches.....😫



Btw... I do realise my limitations as a consistently creative writer.

Which is a self awareness a few of mudcat's more persistently prolific keyboard bashers would be well advised to come to terms with and accept gracefully....

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 11:42 PM

Dave the Gnutt: "Nice to see you trying to emulate my 'can do better' though. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Although flattery from an idiot is not really anything to shout about. You are still not really getting the hang of this insult game are you? If anyone, apart from you, could understand what making panties into soup actually meant I suspect it may be mildly humourous but as it is, nah."

Don't flatter yourself with your delusions.........it's even unbecoming!


'Guest': ""Panties Soup" a recent short lived American Netflix sitcom concerning 2 aging 'working girls'
a pre op transgender retired construction worker, and a hetero sexual dragqueen, sharing an apartment next door to an extremist evangelical church.
Many a comical moment was promised around the washing machine and back yard clothes line.
I'm not surprised gfs referenced it as he is displaying a very keen knowledge of current trends in US TV."


Sorry, you're not as hip as you think you are.....the line was used in the 1979, Steve Martin comedy, 'The Jerk', when Steve says that to the father of the girl he was pursuing.

As usual, TV is a bit behind times.
You're just a little slow, and trying too hard to be politically hip.....but reality has it a different way.

....(and I'm being 'polite')

Stay tuned to our next exciting episode......


Next.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 03:15 PM

The British mini series of War and Peace ain't bad either.

😎

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Lighter
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 02:15 PM

Regardless of anything else on this thread, everybody with access should be watching the current 12-hour American miniseries of "War and Peace."

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 11:03 AM

Hi Dave

We had a guy in our club who had no "clacker".

He didn't eat the glass but was very useful in that silly game called The Boat Race was inevitably played at some point during " drinks after the match".

It was ( and still is) a game of two teams all of whom hold a full pint of beer. The aim is to drink the beer a quickly as you can. The next player cannot start until the previous player finishes.

This player we had could down his pint almost as quick as quick as the eye could see. It was like pouring down a drain. When he played we rarely if ever lost.
"
Those were the days my friend..........."

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 10:32 AM

...and I knew a lad who's party piece was to down a pint in one and then eat the glass - Apart from the base! He had, as we used to say, no 'clack'. Dunno if he went on to become a circus performer or ended his days in A&E :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 10:24 AM

Aye - I think Ms Blethyn is a fine actress but it is just something about Vera that I cannot get into. My Geordie mate reckons her accent is not right but that should not bother me, being a Manc! Maybe I should try again.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 09:51 AM

HI Dave

I read your earlier post and I have the same kind of choices as to when you watch and what you watch on TV.

One exception is that I like Vera. Watched it on Sunday night and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think Brenda Blethyn is a great actress. Especially as I read today because she is now 69 years old she is unable to perform her old party trick. I quote " Brenda Blethyn , 69 said she used to be able to balance a pint of beer on her head and pick up a scarf on the floor without spilling a drop".

Surely any man could like a lady who could do that??

At our rugby club we had a guy who used to stand on his head and drink a pint of beer without spilling it. It had to be one of the old dimpled pots.

In that fine Play Mr Banglestein's Boys it showed a guy biting a pint pot and chewing the piece around in his mouth.

This was written by Colin Welland who played local rugby union and was better known in the 60's TV Police Drama Z Cars.

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 09:29 AM

yeah Dave - that was me - couldn't decide if it was worth associating it with the well respected "punkfolkrocker" corporate brand name...???

If Max, Joe, or any admin care to use their media contacts to pitch the show to US cable & networks,
I'd be more than happy to split the proceeds with mudcat...... 😜

I'd might even watch it myself, as long as that dick from "Friends" aint in it...

Could I suggest Mel Gibson as the transgender construction worker....????

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 09:10 AM

Shame there is no like button on Mudcat!

I would love to see it :-)

Thanks Guest.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 08:46 AM

"Panties Soup" a recent short lived American Netflix sitcom concerning 2 aging 'working girls'
a pre op transgender retired construction worker, and a hetero sexual dragqueen, sharing an apartment next door to an extremist evangelical church.

Many a comical moment was promised around the washing machine and back yard clothes line.

I'm not surprised gfs referenced it as he is displaying a very keen knowledge of current trends in US TV.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 04:41 AM

Nah - I don't have a posse. I see that one of your fans has joined in though. Birds of a feather I suppose.

Nice to see you trying to emulate my 'can do better' though. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Although flattery from an idiot is not really anything to shout about. You are still not really getting the hang of this insult game are you? If anyone, apart from you, could understand what making panties into soup actually meant I suspect it may be mildly humourous but as it is, nah.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 04:03 AM

Yeah!!..I mean if you're going to watch THIS screen, instead of watching your favorite 'super hero' on that 'other' screen, ya' gotta be a little more stimulating...you know, like Jessica Jones! hey....have you ever thought of using her panties to make soup???

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 03:02 AM

Dave , that's neither funny nor witty, get a grip.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 03:01 AM

Come on, man, you can do better than that. I thought more of your posse would have ridden in by now.

"Go Rinnie!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 02:47 AM

Nah, you have still not got it, goofus. I find your feeble efforts quite endearing in some ways. Sort of like like little children trying to emulate their parents.

"Oh, look dear. Little goofus is trying to be clever. Bless him."

You are really too old for it to work though. Just stick to rocking on the front porch and drooling from the corner of your mouth.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 02:11 AM

Well there! We heard from another avid television fan from the 'Walking Dead' genre. You and Dave the Gnutt, should have your own debates...like, could Superman ever become a vampire??
What next?...Did Dobie Gillis ever make out with Mrs. Beaver Cleaver??

Jez!

Next.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 16 - 12:43 AM

though thinking about it, what do I know..
If the network can keep on renewing Vampire Diaries years after it was any good,
even this feud could go on and on for at least 7 seasons, and god knows how many dreadful sequels.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 16 - 07:33 PM

As mudcat feuds go, this one's a bit shite.
Season one was much better scripted and acted.
I have serious doubts this feud will be renewed for another series.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 02 Feb 16 - 06:38 PM

Dave the Gnutt: "Oh, sorry, forgot who I was talking to..."

Perhaps watching too many brain-dead, children's shows have caused dementia to set it.
Perhaps you should seek professional help.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Feb 16 - 04:08 PM

Ah, got it! I think you are actualy trying to be cleverly insulting. Sorry, failed on both counts. If you want to insult someone, go for it and if you want to be clever, read a book. Oh, sorry, forgot who I was talking to...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 02 Feb 16 - 03:52 PM

Dave the Gnutt: "The huge difference in the type of fantasy I indulge in and the type that you peddle is that I know mine is made up."

I can tell by your political blatherings.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Feb 16 - 02:26 PM

otherwise I wouldn't have bothered you

Oh please, please, pretty please. I would be more than happy if you were to bother me with anything again. As to which I like best. Mmmm. Not sure, they are all pretty good. The huge difference in the type of fantasy I indulge in and the type that you peddle is that I know mine is made up. You seem to believe yours.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 01 Feb 16 - 05:28 PM

Jessica Jones!?!?!...So who do you like better, Jessica Jones, Batman, Spiderman, Superman? the X-Men? or Gilligan's Island???

I didn't know you had such 'depth'...otherwise I wouldn't have bothered you, by asking you to 'reflect'!!

Never mind.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Feb 16 - 05:30 AM

Don't. You're gonna get Jim telling us that joke again... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 01 Feb 16 - 04:47 AM

On Occasion I have been mistaken for God, a few times when I have walked into a bar I have heard "Oh god, it's him.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 10:06 PM

Women have occasionally said so.




(Mostly when I've been asleep, but hey...)