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Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie)
Username: Steven_pirie

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.133.62.151
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 10:03 pm:   

I can't quite remember who put me on to The Mighty Boosh a while back, but thanks for doing so - I love it. I've just finished series one, and asked for series two for my birthday on Tuesday.

It's deliciously daft...
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.161.253.183
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 10:49 pm:   

And stop at the end of two. Season three is for trendy muso folk only.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.83
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 11:06 pm:   

Bollocks - series 3 is the best yet. The show is marvellous, and gets better (and darker and dafter) with every series. The Milky Joe episode is possibly the finest half hour of TV comedy I have ever seen.

So much good stuff: the Mod Foxes, Black Frost, Old Greg ("hold me"), the Crack Fox, Milky Joe, grey leg-face man, the slow mover, the trombone leg joke... pure genius.

I'm off to see the Boosh live in Newcastle later this year...I have my Bob Fossil too-tight safari shirt and pant combo all ready.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 11:06 pm:   

Nah, series 3 is class.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.83
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 11:07 pm:   

"Neil Armstrong..walkin' on my face".
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 11:08 pm:   

"That's easy...when you are the moon."
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.83
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 11:11 pm:   

my picture
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.159.156.247
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 11:52 pm:   

Season three is for trendy muso folk only.

That'll be why I love it then! :-)
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.161.253.183
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 12:08 am:   

Steven; these guys are crazy.
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Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 11:40 am:   

Why am I the only one who thinks Hamilton Cork is terrifyingly brilliant?
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Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 11:42 am:   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/mightyboosh/images/series1/ep6/ep6_9.jpg
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.152.40.207
Posted on Friday, April 19, 2019 - 08:02 am:   

I saw them in Newcastle. I must have been in the audience with Zed. I really didn't enjoy it. It felt thin. But then I don't really get stadium shows.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 87.198.244.252
Posted on Saturday, April 20, 2019 - 08:55 pm:   

An 11 year gap between posts. Is that a record?
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.190.206.179
Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2019 - 12:01 pm:   

I just watched Ginger Snaps again, and it came out 2002. I remember talking about it here, or rather the previous form of the board.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.190.206.179
Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2019 - 12:03 pm:   

Different thing though.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.28.95
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 12:38 am:   

Eleven years. Shit.
I am old. I don't like it. A man we knew left his family when they were very young and his sons are doing better without him than mine are with me here.
The single comment "Hmm" has sent me on a downward spiral today. It's like wearing X ray specs that reveal the problems with everything.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 89.19.67.136
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 12:57 am:   

I just watched REALITY BITES after 25 years. Everyone smokes and complains about how the previous generation ruined the world on them.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.28.95
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 01:13 am:   

Hi Proto!
I bought a cd of Bob Dylan's greatest hits today and suddenly that Times they are a Changin'hit me like a slap in the face. It used to e nostalgic for a time when times WERE changing, but now the words almost have a terror to them.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.72.146
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 02:45 pm:   

Yes, the post-war mindset must have craved some normality and stability. That lasted a couple of decades before the wheel turned, so I suspect we may see a slightly more socially conservative time ahead possibly. (Ha! A prediction. What a fool I am.)
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.31.221
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 04:01 pm:   

In a cafe yesterday at this place we were staying the manageress and we were talking of school meals and she shocked me by saying calmly "it sounds bad the tories are not paying for school meals but really the schools are closed so why should they, and they are putting more money into foodbanks to balance it". I have never heard calm before in discussiom about politics, or more facts being referred to. Where i live it would have been much more shrill.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 06:54 am:   

You know what's been a recent tonic for me, against all the melancholia of aging, and "changing times," and etc.? Watching Youtube review videos of - I kid you not - old games/D&D modules!

You have these guys who do these very thoughtful, detailed, elaborate reviews of 80's-era classic Dungeons & Dragons modules; also, games from all periods. As an example: I had my mind really blown recently when - okay, I'm going to wax super-duper-geek on you, but there was this book published back then called Fantasy Wargaming. I remember at the time buying it, reading it - well, trying to: it was awful, terribly written and a horrible game system - no one could run it, no one did. I naturally thought it forgotten to the mists of time... and here's this guy on Youtube actually reviewing it! He hated it, too, but hated it with gentleness and love. And man, he went into the weeds about the authors, the publishing history, etc.

So, here, I find these comforting signs of a better world that's there right now, just these videos of old games being reviewed. Why? I don't think it's nostalgia - I am wholly anti-nostalgia, I think nostalgia is in fact a cab-ride to unhappiness. Rather, I think it's the fact that what is "old" - these particular games - is not old at all, as these video-makers reveal: it's perennially new, enjoyed, loved, and fresh. There is a world out there that is indeed, always green - always bringing new joys to new generations, and old generations, too! (The two guys I've watched do these videos are in their 50's!) Isolation, too, can foment melancholia: the fact that these are games played by groups, and not a solitary activity, helps. This is another "tonic" factor at play.

We all must find the right tonics. You never know where you'll stumble across one!

Anyway, felt compelled to contribute this here. And know that, when it comes to the RCMB, like Jesus, I'm often gone - but always with you!
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.29.159
Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 12:42 pm:   

You should share links.
I have several games but am the only person in my house who likes them, so my experience of them is largely getting them out and looking at them. My wife is pretty much like Debby off Big Bang, as interested as she would be playing it.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.75.28
Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 03:31 pm:   

That's great, Craig. I'm rediscovering that '80s/'90s era Star Trek and it's performing a similar function - I'm against nostalgia too unless it's very used judiciously, almost medically, to induce an previous mindset we had (and then put away). So this isn't nostalgia, it's a reminder of what we can achieve, of the higher benchmarks we can set for ourselves. The biggest TV show in the world back then was a bunch of nice people mostly talking, and mostly talking about peace.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.25.112
Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 11:58 pm:   

My son, who has never seen TNG, has been watching them over my shoulder (I have started watching them again, too) and decided we need more tv like it, it shows the world as it could and should be, not IS.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Friday, October 30, 2020 - 12:18 am:   

I read this and was floored - uncanny! Proto, I haven't watched the old Star Trek NG for years and years, like, decades... but literally, this last Sunday, my roommate brought up a particular episode, and we sat down and watched it! First time in forever! Another bizarre coincidence! Quite good, and made me miss this show. The episode was the one about "Falad in gabrar was something," blanking, the language-barrier one. Great episode! Great series!
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.29.152.249
Posted on Friday, October 30, 2020 - 12:42 am:   

The show has a tarot like ability to be always relevant to your current circumstances whenever you watch it.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.129.74.253
Posted on Friday, October 30, 2020 - 11:24 am:   

Ah, that would be Darmok and Gilad at Tanagra. That's "Darmok".

They review it 47:40 into this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs13fJuP0F4

Perhaps it's not a coincidence and it's just something that our group unconscious needs right now.

You're right, Tony. I was thinking that these little stories, when well constructed and written, function like myths and won't be tarnished by time.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.30.167
Posted on Friday, January 08, 2021 - 02:10 am:   

The latest Trek was very thought provoking. Two planets, one impoverished, sick, relying on its healthy and wealthy twin for an ongoing "cure" that was in fact the cause of their problems. It felt almost TOO relevant. I think it showed me how the world really works.

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