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@JamilCoury @keithdunn "wish you were here!"

@keithdunn Looks lovely

Current view at the fire tower. Photo credit: Ashley Harris #BM100

@MSPTrooper21 @DecolonialFeIIa Agreed (Even though I'm totally on the Ukrainians side). The compromises were very reasonable win-wins!

@DecolonialFeIIa The IOC met with him multiple times. He refused any and all compromise. He knew the rules and the consequences for breaking them.

Choosing to disqualify the Ukrainian athlete is more political than his actual helmet

@MichaelLCrick They got this right waaaaaay back in the first series of Sherlock: text floating in the air, big enough to see. We DON'T CARE about the phone - show us the MESSAGE!!!

I don't think I can bear another two hours of The Night Manager. The big problem, for people like me with less than perfect eyesight, is small lettering on subtitles - & their brevity on screen. It's far worse when they show Iphones with text messages in tiny, unreadable print.

@DohaScot @Jo_Caulfield Yes, exactly 👍

@Jo_Caulfield 👇

If you do not give me a Peace prize, I will declare war. 🤦‍♀️

Stop this 8 seconds in, you have a new Wes Anderson movie intro.

@randombitsofwow @anylaurie16 Yup. I think it's standard on fire marshall courses now. Grim ☹️

@anylaurie16 Have you seen videos from The Station nightclub fire in RI from over 20 years ago? People did the same thing- the stage was ON FIRE and people stood there until fire alarms went off.

They saw the ceiling on fire and didn’t run for their lives holy shit.

@Noirchick1 Show me a better-looking movie scene on a tennis court.

Audrey Hepburn speaking of this stunning dress in "Sabrina" (1954).... wasn't she pure magic??

@erinmhk @grok this woman in a warm sweater

please stop using Grok to alter my photos. use your imagination like god intended.

@caesarXVth @Mr_Considerate Excellent. Here's an idea: "Le ChatGPT: draw me the Anquteil family tree, s'il vous plait!"

@Mr_Considerate Better look at personal life of french sportsmen

RIP Brigitte Bardot.

@SketchesbyBoze There was a good BBC serialisation of it earlier this year. Bit long, but vv good.

Apparently influencers on tiktok have gotten thousands of people to read The Count of Monte Cristo, a 1,300-page nineteenth-century novel, so I haven’t entirely given up hope on this sad old world yet.

I really think reading is about to make a comeback. The Odyssey is coming to theaters, A Wrinkle in Time has become a surprise bestseller, kids are borrowing more books from libraries in the wake of phone bans. Everyone is sick of endless slop. People are hungry for books.

@chris_hawkins @BBC6Music Stop calling me Eve!

Goooood morning! Are you with us for Christmas Eve, eve? @BBC6Music

@ChartUpdate @anon_opin ... and I think the radio people started it first. It's crazy at the BBC - they already HAVE telly channels! 🤦‍♂️

@anon_opin We live in a world where every radio station is obsessed with pretending it is a TV channel. Same thing.

They should stop filming podcasts, the whole point is it's supposed to be an audio media, too many are unlistenable now because they have to describe what's going on for the audio listeners.

@Brunswick_Cow @henrymoeranBBC 😆 Does that LOOK like a "bad loser" to you??

@henrymoeranBBC Poms are the worst losers, get so butt hurt and try to play the moral higher ground when they get whacked, Cummins back for test 3 lol good luck you will need it

Credit to Ben Stokes and England here. Best way of responding to some friendly locals! #BBCCricket

@AndyJBall @nedboulting Id quite like to hear Rob do cricket. Not for a whole match, I suspect 5 mins would be plenty. (And to hear him pronounce Labuschagne ). Think I'll mainly stick to TMS for now ...

@nedboulting You'll be joining Rob Hatch on comms soon ;)

@RayKump @BladeoftheS This is a funnier bait post than the OP. Touché !

@BladeoftheS Pulp Fiction is his worst film.

Quentin Tarantino made one good film, Pulp Fiction, 31 years ago. And that was only because he had John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis carrying him. Can we stop pretending that he knows anything about good films?

@longgonedaddy @Noirchick1 Rocky never made me want to get in the ring - so I guess that's 1-0 to Breaking Away!

@faffing @Noirchick1 I'm not a cyclist, but that movie made me want to be one. Purists may hate it for technical reasons, but are missing the movie's magic. Doubt any boxers watch Rocky for fighting and training tips.

What film is a favorite of yours that no one else seems to have heard of?

@longgonedaddy @Noirchick1 Breaking Away has a cult following amongst cyclists as a terrible terrible movie 😆 I should probably rewatch it some time ...

@Noirchick1 Two movies that were critical faves and not very popular were The Rocketeer that mixes Howard Hughes aviation, Hollywood, the Hindenberg, and superheroes, AND Breaking Away, one of the best ever coming of age movies. Set in a Midwest college town with townies as main characters.

@ithacarising @simonharley I say!

I just finished reading the entire series of books, back to back. What a satisfying laugh out loud guilty pleasure. It's a sublime combination of scholarly exactitude and howling immorality that George MacDonald Fraser lavishes upon his magnificent bounder Harry Flashman, a cad so gloriously unrepentant that he makes the average Regency rake look like a choirboy with a headache. Fraser’s genius is to crown his glorious anti-hero with medals and maidens while keeping the reader in no doubt that the man's a complete shit. The only illusions that get the lash are ours, about valour, honour, and the whole damned Empire. No way this ever gets made today. Every frame of Flashman’s lechery, racial epithets, and triumphant poltroonery would detonate a Twitter storm of such thermonuclear intensity that even the sturdiest producer would reach for the smelling salts. If the BBC dared touch it, the ensuing culture-war apocalypse would make the Satanic Verses fatwa look like a polite disagreement over the scones at afternoon tea. You'll know that Britain has finally grown comfortable in its own historical skin, neither flagellating itself nor pretending the empire was run by choirboys, the day the BBC screens a scrupulously unapologetic, full-bore Flashman series (complete with every politically incorrect snort, shag and racial epithet Fraser put there). And the nation, instead of erupting in collective hysteria, merely pours itself a stiff gin, settles back and laughs until the tears come. At which point we may confidently declare that proportion, perspective, and a functioning British sense of humour have been officially restored to these battered islands.

If the BBC made a faithful adaptation (lightly censored) of the Flashman books, with Dominic West, they could probably increase the licence fee to £400 a year. Change my mind.

@allanholloway @bariweiss @TheFP I just checked: R4 alone has 90mins today. Then look at the Podcasts. Then 4Extra. Then the weekend schedules...

@bariweiss @TheFP He'd struggle for that opportunity nowadays given the dearth of drama on BBC Radio. If it would only slash its news output and increase its drama output the BBC could broadcast as much fiction as it liked and no one would complain.

Amazing anecdote from David Mamet about Tom Stoppard in @TheFP: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?" "No," Tom said, "BBC Radio." thefp.com/p/david-mamet-…

@Noirchick1 You have to include the ending of Blackadder in this discussion.

What is the most moving film you have ever seen about war?