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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.150.132.249
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 12:43 pm:   

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/friday-april-29%2c-2011%3a-a-time-to- clean-the-fridge-201104283761/

With thanx to mr Bestwick
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.5.55.240
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 01:25 pm:   

Me, I'm working.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.150.132.249
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 02:41 pm:   

just watched a couple of episodes of Dexter season 5 online. I'm not sure if it's as great as season 4 but it's certainly pushing all the right buttons for me still.

Episode 6 features a scene where dexter's carefully constructed life is literally within an inch of falling down around him. Nailbiting tension followed by one of the funniest moments they've ever featured. Absolute genius!

Episodes one and two were absolutely great. The way they dealt with the fallout from the last series was heartbreaking and it actually made me cry a few times...

I can't say any more without giving spoilers
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.150.132.249
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 02:42 pm:   

Now I'm off to the Trafford centre
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Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker)
Username: Stephen_theaker

Registered: 12-2009
Posted From: 92.232.184.206
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 02:46 pm:   

Also working. I like freelancing but I seem to remember enjoying holidays too...
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer

Registered: 08-2009
Posted From: 90.195.182.194
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 03:01 pm:   

You know what?
I'm gonna clean the damned fridge.
Just as soon as my pay-day hangover wears off.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 03:08 pm:   

Doing a spot of writing, then a bit of hoovering. Later, I need to brave London though, as I'm going up to the BFI for Kim Newman in conversation with Mark Kermode. It's the launch of the new edition of Nightmare Movies, with a showing of Let's Scare Jessica to Death afterwards.

Hopefully all this bullshit will have calmed down by the time I head up.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 05:24 pm:   

Matthew - pay-day hangover (:

John - as much as I admire, and love listening to Kermode and Newman, even when I disagree with them I like listening to what they have to say, I'm still not so sure I would chance the horror of London today. The streets will be awash of thee inflicted.

Good luck, mate.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.24.131
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 05:54 pm:   

Editing a half-completed novel in the hope that I can finish the fucker.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 08:49 pm:   

Well, between 11am and 1pm was a great time to go shopping - ASDA was almost deserted. Then, hubby's been watching the snooker on telly (World Championships, which he loves as he's an amateur player and referee) and I've been chasing my new cats around the house. Only now had a chance to sit down at the computer. And then I got tempted by a PS Publishing special offer so I've just bought a couple of signed Postscripts.

So, all in all, it's been a good day.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.165.36.129
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 09:02 pm:   

There seems to be an accepted thing with Horror writers etc that it is not a done thing to have watched the wedding today. Or to admit to it. i watched it. Loved the music. And the phenomenon itself was interesting.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.176.183.221
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 11:06 pm:   

I wish them well but have no interest in watching any of it.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.165.36.129
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 - 11:15 pm:   

I was brought up in a very working class background in the Fifties and I was steeped in a respect for the Royalty. I lost that respect since then in my middle years of rebellion. But I have regained a new view of the whole situation that is more a respect for the ordinary people who respect the Royalty. And I think William and Kate almost have a new simple, unselfconscious image in themselves (separate from their privileged backgrounds) to help enhance some new transcendence and it came through today...possibly. Worth thinking about and giving the benefit of the doubt.
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.209.108.218
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 12:15 am:   

I watched it, Des, just because it's quite a historic thing. I wanted my kids (5 and 8) to remember watching it when they're older. I have quite nice memories of the Jubilee in '77 and Charles & Di's wedding. It does seem, however, that society has changed somewhat since then. Perhaps it's just that I'm older now.
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer

Registered: 08-2009
Posted From: 90.195.182.194
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 01:51 am:   

Steve, they talked about the changes in society during the coverage, and how less deferential we are now, but there's an innocence about a wedding that still appeals.

We had it on while pottering about. The flyover was the best bit. The Lancaster Bomber is still king.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.24.131
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 08:56 am:   

Personally, I found it abhorrent that all those people stood all day in London waving flags while so much of what that flag has stood for down the years is being systematically dismantled. It's nothing to do with the William and Kate, really. It's to do with what it is to be a citizen of this country and things that are happening which, I suspect, very few of those flag-waving folk are truly aware of*.

Cameron was in the abbey.

*If that sounds patronising, it sounds patronising.

Mind you, Kate Middleton is quite tasty. :-)

And it was a truly surreal vision to see the Middleton family standing on that balcony. Not half as surreal as it must feel to them. Imagine looking left and seeing the Queen. Like, the Queen. Sure beats a reception in the local club.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.40.254.36
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 09:18 am:   

Good job 'we're all in it together', as the PM keeps reminding us.

There was a rather amusing Channel 4 News on Thursday night, in which Paul Heaton (singer with the Housemartins) pointed out a few unsavoury folk were invited to the wedding and that the Royal Family surely had them there as 'payback' for all the freebies they were given. He also rather archly pointed out it was the first wedding he'd paid for and hadn't been invited to.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.40.254.36
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 09:22 am:   

(Oh - I ate an Easter egg, dismantled and then transported a bed, did a bit of scribbling, and then watched a bit of the Welding (sic), noticed Catherine Middleton's sister was being given the chat by Prince Philip, understandably, given she looked better than her sister on the day. Then I took the dog up on the moor and threw a ball for her.)
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.24.131
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 09:30 am:   

Mark, ye mate Elton was there, too. Last I heard, he was bemoaning the fact that "he hadn't had an invite and didn't expect one, despite being the mother's favourite". Methinks he guilt-tripped his way to the abbey. :-)
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 10:45 am:   

Went up to Formby for the day with a friend and pottered along the beach and around the nature reserve. Didn't see any of the red squirrels, though. They were probably all in their dreys watching the bloody wedding.
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.116.55.204
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 11:02 am:   

Is that fershlugginer wedding nearly over? It's making me farshimmelt.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.24.131
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 11:28 am:   

You been at the native Stella, Hubert?
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.116.55.204
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 12:23 pm:   

Been re-reading a few old MAD magazines.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 12:35 pm:   

Oh, don't get me wrong when I said I didn't watch it. I wish Wills and Kate all the best. They seem to be a lovely couple, truly in love, which is great given the shambles that most royal marriages have become in recent times. It's just that I have no interest in watching hours and hours of pomp and ceremony on the TV. I saw the highlights on the news and even got a little lump in my throat - I am a bit of a romantic at heart.

Like Des says, I feel this could be a bit of a new era for royalty. Wills and Kate do give the impression of being more in touch with "ordinary" people than most royals. Or, at least, it *feels* as if they are.

I'm not anti-royalty in any way. In fact, being a bit of an old-fashioned traditionalist, I quite like the fact that we have a royal family here in Britain. I guess they're expensive, and you could certainly argue that we have more important things to spend taxpayer's money on, but I'd rather have the royal family than all the politicians put together!
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.24.30.179
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 03:02 pm:   

The media excitement around the whole thing reminded me strongly of the Ramsay Street wedding a generation ago. In fact, I suspect the happy couple were played by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue this time round also. The Royal Family has been assimilated into UK celebrity anti-culture to such an extent that Will&Kate are indistinguishable from Posh&Becks, Jordan&Peter and other showbiz couples with whom we apparently 'identify'.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.4.19.77
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 03:19 pm:   

Avoided it like the plague... successfully, so far.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.156.186.12
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 03:30 pm:   

apart from this thread
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.4.19.77
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 03:55 pm:   

Aaaarrrggghhh!!!!
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.165.36.129
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 04:49 pm:   

I think thre is a qualitative distinction between William and Kate - and those other couples. Of course, I may be proved wrong. Let's be positive - the ceremony yesterday may be the start of a sea-change for more things than just the Royalty. And I am no Royalist. Just a hopefully objective observer (someone who kept a scrapbook as a child of neatly cut-out pictures of Prince Charles' own simultaneous childhood during the 1950s.) Cameron looked so diminished yesterday and his wife so dowdy without a hat. They only invited Tory ministers so as to make them just a second-hand crowd behind the choir.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 05:11 pm:   

John - as much as I admire, and love listening to Kermode and Newman, even when I disagree with them I like listening to what they have to say, I'm still not so sure I would chance the horror of London today. The streets will be awash of thee inflicted.

Good luck, mate.


Thanks, Frank. But in the end it turned out not to be too bad at all. Instead of going via Victoria, I took the train to London Bridge, which was significantly quieter; and the route to the BFI skirted the edge of Zone 1, well away from the centre. All in all a fairly painless trip there and back.

The Q&A with Kim Newman was good. The new edition of Nightmare Movies is a weighty tome indeed. Really enjoyed the (pink-tinged) print of LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH as well. The film itself is a bit rough, but there are a lot of tricks in it which were later used by more famous horror films (the leaps from extremes of noise to extreme silence used in THE EXORCIST, for example, or the lone female protagonist on the lake while something creeps up out of the water a la FRIDAY THE 13TH), and the sound design was exemplary. Worth a watch.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 06:38 pm:   

Oh, yes, great film, John. Perhaps I shall dig out my copy once more.
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Mbfg (Mbfg)
Username: Mbfg

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 92.4.195.186
Posted on Monday, May 02, 2011 - 12:09 am:   

I watched the Royal Wedding and loved the sheer joy and exuberance of the occasion. Come on, it was about something happy and possitive for a change, not a war or a disaster or even a bloody football match so it was okay by me.

Cheers
Tel
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.158.58.60
Posted on Monday, May 02, 2011 - 01:35 am:   

It was two toffs, who have no interest at all in our lives, getting married. They wouldn't be interested if any of us got married. why should we be bothered?
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.24.131
Posted on Monday, May 02, 2011 - 09:09 am:   

Hmm, well, not sure your reasoning is sound there, man. I mean, are the writers of your beloved Dexter interested in you?
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.150.135.156
Posted on Monday, May 02, 2011 - 11:48 am:   

You mean old Jeff Lindsay? Course he is...

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