Alastair Mabbott

@MallonRitchie @heraldscotland @ScotStreetPress @JennyBrownBooks My pleasure, Maggie. Hope it does really well.

Thanks to @almabbott for this lovely review in @heraldscotland of #WhiteRaven: heraldscotland.com/life_style/257… @ScotStreetPress @JennyBrownBooks

@AlanJParks You're very welcome, Alan. I hope it does well.

Very nice review in The Herald by @almabbott Thank you! heraldscotland.com/life_style/253…

RAINBOW: THE MISSING PIECES (Director David Lynch, 1989)

@rodstrother @EwenDCameron What an absolute fuckin' valve.

@almabbott @EwenDCameron Ohhhhh let them. Back in the 80s I introduced my American mate to 'wanker' and 'knob'. No big deal apart from him being a radio DJ who'd done national ads for Pizza Hut. He decided to do promos saying 'don't be a wanker, tune into JetFM 102' and 'rip your knob off'. I tried....

Mate….you talk some amount of pish You needed over £200 million worth of talent from the bench to beat a team with kids in it. The Rangers kids only played tonight because their school is closed tomorrow because of the weather Show a bit more respect ya fud #Rangers #ManUtd

@GrumpyOldRick How can you not want a tuner too? Have the complete experience!

can't seem to find a really nice hi-fi system with amp, CD player, cassette player , turntable and speakers....am I really that out of touch ?

@rodstrother @EwenDCameron I've just come out of a thread in which Americans are enthusing over the British usage of words like "weapon" and "spanner". They can't get enough of it.

@EwenDCameron Excellent use of the word 'fud'. Thanks

@StonebrakerS @BSmackemup @TheCinesthetic Depends which version they watched. I loved the original theatrical cut. But the Directors Cut DVD that came out years later added deleted scenes sexualising Mathilda that put me off watching any version of that film ever again.

@BSmackemup @TheCinesthetic Tell me you didn't actually watch the film without telling me you didn't actually watch the film.

What film has a terrible message when you actually think about it?

@LRoundels I watched the whole of this the other night, and if they went back and tweaked the character models and movements a bit I would definitely prefer to watch more of these to the 2D animations we've been getting for the last few years.

I wouldn't buy it but if they sort the movements and camerawork this CGI fan reconstruction is quite adequate and easy to follow. Derrick Sherwin got inspired for a whole episode off of this TARDIS scene. [The Wheel in Space]

@LPOTHC Considering I've never heard of "the bigeneration documents" until today, I'm kind of sceptical of the claim that their leak caused enough controversy for a show starring the hugely popular David Tennant to be axed.

One conspiracy theory I fully believe is that RTD 100% wanted to do a 14th Doctor spin-off after the 60th that got axed because of the overwhelmingly negative fan response to his return and bigeneration.

@KrynoidRoots In the absence of shows like Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, and British offerings like Out of the Unknown, I actually think Doctor Who's potential as a sort of backdoor SF anthology (albeit with continuing characters) is, if anything, under-utilised.

I don’t think the loosely strung season with mainly standalone episodes works anymore with Doctor Who. I think modern audiences have grown to appreciate a very interconnected season rather than Monster of the Week. I think flux was a step in the right direction for Doctor Who.

@tesssummers98 Because all our lives we've heard people claiming they had "flu" when all they had was a bad cold. The ones in hospital are those with actual flu.

I just heard that hospitals were full of people who have the flu. When I was a kid I'm sure people didn't even go to the doctors for the flu, they stayed in bed as, like a cold, there's no pills to cure flu. Am I imagining it?

@GuntherEagleman @bennyjohnson All these months later, you're still pretending to believe that this was a parody of the Last Supper rather than (as was made abundantly clear at the time) the feast of Dionysus? The numerous posts claiming you're a Russian troll may have a point.

@bennyjohnson Sweet vengeance. Don't mock our religion.

Macron's France made a mockery of Jesus Christ and The Last Supper this summer. Now the entire French Government is in total collapse. See how that works?

@HaYoMiDe_ Adapted from the short comic strip Jakov by Uno Moralez, which used to crop up online all the time (and maybe still does).

This scene is insane 🥶 x.com/emmydre_x1/sta…

@SimonFoxWriter Tell you what, though: the guy who mocked up that fake Greg Wallace tweet about Bovaer and got everyone believing it must be feeling unbearably smug right now.

I wonder what's REALLY going on right now? It must be something HUGE they're trying to hide from us. Why else would the Woke media be wittering endlessly about Gregg Wallace?

@Allison19801028 Approx 50 years on, here's what remains of my late mother's Poole set. I didn't take the cups and saucers, and the milk jug, sugar bowl, etc, were long gone, but I felt very sentimental about her kitchen stuff and took as much as I could for my own place.

@almabbott That's so cool that you noticed the Poole Pottery set in Callan! It's those little details that make watching old shows so special. Your mom would be delighted seeing that set featured. It's nice to feel that connection to the past through TV props

Being too young to watch it first time around, I've now finished "Callan" - and was thrilled to see the Poole Pottery twintone tea & coffee set make no fewer than three separate appearances in series 4. Kudos to the Thames TV props dept. My old mum would have been well chuffed.

@TheCinesthetic Should be seen in its original theatrical cut. The scenes added back in for the director's cut are very dodgy and left me with no desire to watch it again.

Japanese poster for Leon: The Professional

@dartheva_ It definitely makes a difference to me. I put off buying Bonfire of the Vanities, for instance, until I could find a copy with the definitive paperback cover instead of the movie tie-in.

@DevinHS13 Spectacular but saddening, because you're simultaneously realising that something you've given a lot of love to over the years has just peaked.

@daemonsmatt It's true. No one ever measured up to Jo Grant.

just like your “first doctor” do yall also get too attached to your first companion? because i love dimples and raven did not happen and i cannot stop dreading rose leaving me but amy is just amy you know? My heart clench whenever i think about manhattan. Is this common?

@AnaKrivolapova I woke yesterday morning from a dream that there was a newly-discovered branch of homo sapiens named "humana scarfaxis", and Googled it in the hope that my subconscious had hit on something interesting. No such word, sadly.

I had a strange dream where I learned a new system for recording numbers based these waves and dots. Has anyone seen this before? What did I dream about