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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 22, 2016 20:48:29 GMT
Switch to ITV. Grab a couple of cans of Special Brew, a slice of last night's pizza, put your feet up and you'll pee yourself laughing at their daytime comedy lineup. Stuff like Jeremy Kyle and This Morning. Some of us with more avant garde taste (that is anyone outside the common as muck B 'n B*) tune in for classics such as "Quincy" *Basingstoke and Bracknell |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 20:52:53 GMT
I don't watch that much television, but abut with my breakfast after the school run and around the last hour of the day in bed. But when I do watch it, it needs to be something at least reasonable.
Can't watch soap operas, Kyle, dumb-arse game shows, BBC News, (strangely BBC World News is ok), US SitComs, (except Modern Family) and absolutely anything involving being in jungles, locked in houses or trying to be models.
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 22, 2016 21:00:14 GMT
If you have a need to watch TV, then UK TV is still the best in the world, by a considerable margin. Less betterer than it was however.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 21:03:51 GMT
Lots less betterer.
Also, US TV can be made much betterer than usual by excluding the adverts, but then it doesn't last as long.
Chilean TV cannot be made betterer. It is beyond bettererment. I can't even be made a bit more acceptabler.
Most programs are presented by the Chuckle Brothers Latin cousins, or shouty women in tight tops.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 22, 2016 21:06:58 GMT
Hofmeister zero ...well, if it makes you feel better, I was probably but yards away from you when Galatea went through Midgham.......
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 22, 2016 21:09:50 GMT
OK, Mr. Tyred, if you are compelled to watch television, what do you watch from choice? ...really, very, very little. I try to catch University Challenge, but not often in real time, and nowadays, not much else unless I happen to sit down whilst someone else is watching. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 21:13:23 GMT
...well, if it makes you feel better, I was probably but yards away from you when Galatea went through Midgham....... Trains? |
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 22, 2016 21:16:24 GMT
...well, if it makes you feel better, I was probably but yards away from you when Galatea went through Midgham....... As it 'appens, tomorrow morning its the maiden voyage (after its heavy overhaul) of LMS Princess Class 4-6-2 no 46201 Princess Elizabeth through Midgham. (10:56am) I shan't be there, I hope to be filming it at Crofton, with the beam engine house in the background. |
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 22, 2016 21:17:59 GMT
...well, if it makes you feel better, I was probably but yards away from you when Galatea went through Midgham....... Trains? Yer, this event - |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 21:22:19 GMT
Not knocking it, but I don't really get the train thing. I used to quite like messing with them at Quainton, but watching them running doesn't really do it for me.
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 22, 2016 21:37:40 GMT
Not knocking it, but I don't really get the train thing. I used to quite like messing with them at Quainton, but watching them running doesn't really do it for me. Each to his own. I more or less steadfastly refuse to film them on preserved railways, 25mph max with 4 coaches is like watching a leopard pacing backwards and forwards around a cage in the zoo. 50, 60, 75 (or one memorable moment 93mph) or starting on a gradient with a 450 ton / 630 feet load is however a little bit special. |
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 22, 2016 21:42:31 GMT
And I got you off your BBC high horse.
HA!
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Post by Humph on Aug 22, 2016 21:46:05 GMT
Welcome T&E ! Have to say, no wonder you ended up with bad knees if you make a habit of standing around in slippery places with one of them tied to an ice pick. 😰
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 22, 2016 21:51:43 GMT
...I'll have you know that it's a cunningly-shaped hip-flask with an intravenous feed.........
(and it's an ice-axe - an ice-pick is something you sedentary types that need wheels are much more familiar with....)
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Post by Rob on Aug 22, 2016 21:54:47 GMT
A colleague likes to climb/walk in some remote places like the Himalayas (when they had the avalanche too) and the Andes. I've seen some wonderful images of where he's been.
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