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Post by Dougs on Oct 29, 2024 14:25:08 GMT
Very handy for use abroad. Feel free to use code PMNQU7 if you sign up!
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Post by zisssou on Oct 29, 2024 14:26:31 GMT
Unfortunately I'm stuck in the UK until I sort my passport out  which means going to the embassy in London. Yeah I have it pretty good living here. Edit: I'll sign up anyway! |
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Post by Dougs on Oct 29, 2024 14:29:08 GMT
We appreciate you making a life here. Most of us are somewhat baffled when you could be anywhere across the EU27 but still.
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Post by dmukgr on Oct 29, 2024 14:33:06 GMT
Yeah, I’m amazed anyone stayed post brexit
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Post by zisssou on Oct 29, 2024 14:52:29 GMT
Suppose you don't understand until you lived over there. Dark, cold and short days in the winter. Everything closes at the weekend. Too expensive to eat out. No real takeaways other than pizza and kebabs. No pubs in the UK sense. Basically everything is bloody expensive.
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Post by wunty on Oct 29, 2024 15:15:37 GMT
Suppose you don't understand until you lived over there. Dark, cold and short days in the winter. Everything closes at the weekend. Too expensive to eat out. No real takeaways other than pizza and kebabs. No pubs in the UK sense. Basically everything is bloody expensive. Where's there out of curiosity? |
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Post by harrypalmer on Oct 29, 2024 15:35:34 GMT
Gotta be France. In which case I concur.
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Post by zisssou on Oct 29, 2024 15:36:20 GMT
Suppose you don't understand until you lived over there. Dark, cold and short days in the winter. Everything closes at the weekend. Too expensive to eat out. No real takeaways other than pizza and kebabs. No pubs in the UK sense. Basically everything is bloody expensive. Where's there out of curiosity? Denmark. Nice to visit. Not a fan of living there. |
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Post by harrypalmer on Oct 29, 2024 15:39:09 GMT
That makes more sense! Missed the bit about short dark cold days! And France isn't expensive. I maintain that everything is closed when you need it and there are no pubs or takeaways though.
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Post by cubby on Oct 29, 2024 15:40:11 GMT
I bet the pastries are nice though.
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Post by zisssou on Oct 29, 2024 15:42:14 GMT
I bet the pastries are nice though. Yeah! there's bakeries in every town. Not like Greggs, but proper bakeries. You can get a massive Danish pastry the size of your head. |
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Post by cubby on Oct 29, 2024 15:43:34 GMT
Omigod, shall we do a The Holiday style swap?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 29, 2024 15:44:21 GMT
Where's there out of curiosity? Denmark. Nice to visit. Not a fan of living there. I find that interesting as someone who's lived abroad in for many years, I have the same feelings about England and many people who I've met who have also lived abroad are definitely not fans of their home country. I wonder what that's about? |
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Post by zisssou on Oct 29, 2024 15:53:11 GMT
Denmark. Nice to visit. Not a fan of living there. I find that interesting as someone who's lived abroad in for many years, I have the same feelings about England and many people who I've met who have also lived abroad are definitely not fans of their home country. I wonder what that's about? Suppose it is some of the mundane things you don't think about. Like you fancy a last minute Tesco shop on a Sunday, but when I lived over there, it was pretty much all shut apart from petrol station food. Also if you can't be bothered to cook, then a pub lunch does not exist. There are fancy restaurants and that is it. And from a social perspective, they are very insular. You really have to have been brought up in Denmark to have a close circle of friends. My brother lives over there still, and a lot of socialising involves going round each others houses and getting pissed. |
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Post by wunty on Oct 29, 2024 15:53:34 GMT
Do you know what, I attended a lecture from a man based in Copenhagen (relocated from Lonbdon) last night as part of a course I'm doing and it got me thinking that it must be nice there. I looked on a map and embarrassingly I don't think I've ever bothered to look that closely before. I genuinely didn't know Denmark was that shape, with the wee island thing, and how Copenhagen was literally on the otherside of a huge bridge from Malmo in Sweden.
Not in the least bit interesting to post but I've typed it now.
Huh.
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Post by Vortex on Oct 29, 2024 16:02:27 GMT
Do you know what, I attended a lecture from a man based in Copenhagen (relocated from Lonbdon) last night as part of a course I'm doing and it got me thinking that it must be nice there. I looked on a map and embarrassingly I don't think I've ever bothered to look that closely before. I genuinely didn't know Denmark was that shape, with the wee island thing, and how Copenhagen was literally on the otherside of a huge bridge from Malmo in Sweden. Not in the least bit interesting to post but I've typed it now. Huh. It's only an hour's flight from aberdeen wunty, so you could probably row there in no time!! It is a really nice place to visit. We went and I thought it'd be nice to viisit once and I'd never go back, but may well do some day. Higher taxes mean working infrastructure, who knew?  We also got lucky and got a lovely week in summer when we visited about 10 years ago, not sure I could now when it's probably even more cold & driech than here! |
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Post by zisssou on Oct 29, 2024 16:02:48 GMT
Do you know what, I attended a lecture from a man based in Copenhagen (relocated from Lonbdon) last night as part of a course I'm doing and it got me thinking that it must be nice there. I looked on a map and embarrassingly I don't think I've ever bothered to look that closely before. I genuinely didn't know Denmark was that shape, with the wee island thing, and how Copenhagen was literally on the otherside of a huge bridge from Malmo in Sweden. Not in the least bit interesting to post but I've typed it now. Huh. If you lived on Zealand (Copenhagen), you have to pay a toll to get over to Sweden and Jutland (other side of Denmark). Kind of stuck really! |
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Post by wunty on Oct 29, 2024 16:06:56 GMT
Do you know what, I attended a lecture from a man based in Copenhagen (relocated from Lonbdon) last night as part of a course I'm doing and it got me thinking that it must be nice there. I looked on a map and embarrassingly I don't think I've ever bothered to look that closely before. I genuinely didn't know Denmark was that shape, with the wee island thing, and how Copenhagen was literally on the otherside of a huge bridge from Malmo in Sweden. Not in the least bit interesting to post but I've typed it now. Huh. It's only an hour's flight from aberdeen wunty, so you could probably row there in no time!! It is a really nice place to visit. We went and I thought it'd be nice to viisit once and I'd never go back, but may well do some day. Higher taxes mean working infrastructure, who knew? We also got lucky and got a lovely week in summer when we visited about 10 years ago, not sure I could now when it's probably even more cold & driech than here! Talking of rowing, there was a bit of talk about attending a rowing event in Amsterdam next year. If the club builds up a bit of momentum and we start looking to enter more stuff in Europe, I may well get the chance to go over that way (I know Amsterdam isn't Denmark but what I mean is all those countries... It would be great to have an excuse to visit).
As it is a few of us are aiming for Spain next Autumn. Spain doesn't really appeal but it's a start.
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Post by wunty on Oct 29, 2024 16:07:33 GMT
Do you know what, I attended a lecture from a man based in Copenhagen (relocated from Lonbdon) last night as part of a course I'm doing and it got me thinking that it must be nice there. I looked on a map and embarrassingly I don't think I've ever bothered to look that closely before. I genuinely didn't know Denmark was that shape, with the wee island thing, and how Copenhagen was literally on the otherside of a huge bridge from Malmo in Sweden. Not in the least bit interesting to post but I've typed it now. Huh. If you lived on Zealand (Copenhagen), you have to pay a toll to get over to Sweden and Jutland (other side of Denmark). Kind of stuck really! Genuinely didn't even know that was Zealand. I need to start actually paying more attention to, well, the world. |
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Post by askew on Oct 29, 2024 16:08:26 GMT
Really frustrated by this still. Just cut the scene ffs. The import is a good £40-50 isn’t it? £28 including postage from FNAC. What’s the cut scene? The mouse in fluid? |
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Post by askew on Oct 29, 2024 16:09:56 GMT
If you lived on Zealand (Copenhagen), you have to pay a toll to get over to Sweden and Jutland (other side of Denmark). Kind of stuck really! Genuinely didn't even know that was Zealand. I need to start actually paying more attention to, well, the world. Ye olde Zealand. |
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Post by zisssou on Oct 29, 2024 16:10:39 GMT
If you lived on Zealand (Copenhagen), you have to pay a toll to get over to Sweden and Jutland (other side of Denmark). Kind of stuck really! Genuinely didn't even know that was Zealand. I need to start actually paying more attention to, well, the world. Don't worry. Literally everyone in the UK thinks I'm Dutch |
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 29, 2024 17:08:17 GMT
£28 including postage from FNAC. What’s the cut scene? The mouse in fluid? Yeah the rat scene is edited to make sure you never see it fully immersed. 5 rats were used, all survived, including the one that had a cardiac arrest that apparently Cameron CPRed and then kept as a pet.
It's weird, the film hasn't been re-examined by the BBFC in decades, they're a lot more flexible these days so it's quite possible they'd just give it an okay, it would just need Fox to bother to resubmit it.
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Post by monkman5000 on Oct 29, 2024 18:20:59 GMT
Do you know what, I attended a lecture from a man based in Copenhagen (relocated from Lonbdon) last night as part of a course I'm doing and it got me thinking that it must be nice there. I looked on a map and embarrassingly I don't think I've ever bothered to look that closely before. I genuinely didn't know Denmark was that shape, with the wee island thing, and how Copenhagen was literally on the otherside of a huge bridge from Malmo in Sweden. Not in the least bit interesting to post but I've typed it now. Huh. There's a very good Nordic noir-ish TV series set around that bridge called, sensibly, The Bridge. Mmm Saga Noren |
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Post by brokenkey on Oct 29, 2024 22:10:24 GMT
Juror #2. 6/10
If Movie Pitches doesn't summarise this as 12 Angry Men meets No Way Out then I don't know what.
It's not as good as either of those two though, the jury members are cliched, the lead prosecutor is a lazy politician with a heart of gold.
Yeah, it's more of a 5.
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Post by dmukgr on Oct 30, 2024 7:24:15 GMT
This is such a rambly thread. I watched the substance last night which I enjoyed but thought the ending let it down. Now I’d like to go and see what everyone else thought of it but you cannot easily find the reviews amongst everything else in here.
Now I’m out of work I should really write a parser to extract and sort all the reviews out, but my python skills aren’t that great really.
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Post by rawshark on Oct 30, 2024 8:43:57 GMT
Ramble thread, let’s have a ramble thread… I loved the ending personally, mostly because it invoked early Peter Jackson films but can understand why people might have felt differently. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 30, 2024 9:03:49 GMT
This is such a rambly thread. I watched the substance last night which I enjoyed but thought the ending let it down. Now I’d like to go and see what everyone else thought of it but you cannot easily find the reviews amongst everything else in here. Now I’m out of work I should really write a parser to extract and sort all the reviews out, but my python skills aren’t that great really. Don't worry, you can always use the search to find... oh, nevermind. |
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Post by rawshark on Oct 30, 2024 9:45:42 GMT
A bigger question I had about the final act of The Substance other than the obvious… Taking Monstro out of the equation… What kind of weird porny New Year’s Eve special was this??? It’s not the Hootenanny, that’s for sure. |
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Post by wunty on Oct 30, 2024 9:56:36 GMT
This is such a rambly thread. I watched the substance last night which I enjoyed but thought the ending let it down. Now I’d like to go and see what everyone else thought of it but you cannot easily find the reviews amongst everything else in here. Now I’m out of work I should really write a parser to extract and sort all the reviews out, but my python skills aren’t that great really. We're old. We get distracted and ramble. |
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which means going to the embassy in London. Yeah I have it pretty good living here.
