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Everything Else / Re: The Church European dates May/June

« Last post by Guillaume on January 17, 2026, 08:32:13 AM »

Where to start? They're a very prolific bunch with a huge back catalogue.

A new The Church album next month:

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-church/lacuna/

The band is actually touring Australia and soon the States for a career singles retrospective, but unfortunately no dates (at least for the moment) in Europa and especially France!! I would live to see them live! Maybe one day..

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Everything Else / Re: Your Top 5 Of Anything... anything at all... ;o)

« Last post by Master Ray on January 16, 2026, 11:17:54 PM »

The worst things about getting old

1-- memory loss
2--arthritis
3-- weight gain
4-- regret
5-- can't remember No. 5

1 - Memory loss, agree on that one.. I think.   

2 - The way I can't handle booze the way I used to, it just goes straight to my head to the point where I'm pissed as a fart after four pints and needing the loo every 20 minutes...

3 - The way I struggle with all standing gigs after 90 minutes, yet if I get a seated ticket my back and dodgy knee are playing up within the hour...

4 - Dealing with young people.  Just in general.    

5 - Sadly, the number of people from my past, those about my age or younger, who are struggling with serious health problems or even dying.  The Grim Reaper is now bowling in our alley and he isn't going away...

As for arthritis, I'm glad I don't suffer from that yet but every time I get a bit of creakiness or pain in my limbs I do worry a bit... and regret?  I've actually given up on that one.  No point. It's all done and dusted for good or bad.  I was always the sort of person who felt bad about things they did, no matter how small. I never ruined anyone's life and I'll bet that the things I used to feel guilty about are barely remembered by the people in question.  I've just let it go... or perhaps I just don't remember the really bad things I did (see point 1)...   

Anyway, hope you're well (or as well as can be expected), me old mate!

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Everything Else / Re: Your Top 5 Of Anything... anything at all... ;o)

« Last post by Shush on January 15, 2026, 10:30:57 PM »

The worst things about getting old

1-- memory loss
2--arthritis
3-- weight gain
4-- regret
5-- can't remember No. 5

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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Shush on January 15, 2026, 10:08:41 PM »

American Psycho, very good; I've watched it several times. FMJ, a superb film. My favourite of the "Nam" films the Americans made in the 80s when they finally came to terms with having lost that war, and it's OK to make films about it. Remember watching it with my Dad in the late 80s, feeling quite embarrassed by some of Lee Emery's comments, "the best part of you rolled down,,,," Did you know all the scenes where the sniper is hiding in the building were filmed in London's docklands? It was cheaper to build Hanoi in London than to take all the actors and film crew to Hanoi. Shook Lee Emery's hand once and told him I admired his work. Still do.

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Everything Else / Re: What pisses you off..? ;o)

« Last post by Winterwulf on January 15, 2026, 08:32:45 PM »

Thanks - I know my performance in the promotion interview wasn't me at my best, and I have been given feedback but I do think there other factors in play. I went for it because a colleague was also going for it, but didn't want to make the jump alone, so to speak so I agreed to put myself forward too. The way it works with my particular role in my employer is that you get moved out of your team if promoted, which means backfilling and I've a strong suspicion there's only budget for one new employee, not two. Like I said, I'm considering what's best for me now, staying where I am and doing what I do well without going over and above, or trying for something new which is where seeing if I can mess with the "AI" agents now used to sift CVs comes in.I'm not intending anything malicious, just seeing if I can get them to recommend me for interview though if it does work, the implications are serious - black hat hackers will also be trying the same approaches, but they'll be trying to do damage, gain system access and  steal data, and who's going to take the blame, the companies using these half-baked tools or the companies selling them?

On a more positive note, I'm in the state of mind I found after coming out of serious depression about ten years back - I'm not falling, I'm flying...

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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Master Ray on January 15, 2026, 07:43:38 PM »

Having a clear out of a load of DVD's a nieghbour gave to me when he moved out before i give them to a charity shop(if they still take them ?)..so far have watched
American Psycho    o.k
Snatched               o.k
The Game             shite
I am currently watching Full Metal Jacket    great ,haven't seen it for years......think i will keep it.

I have to say that I utterly love American Psycho... but it might have something to do with how familiar I am with the original novel.  Now that book is, without a doubt, one of the most disturbing, shocking books ever written (seriously, some of the chapters are so mind-blowingly horrific that I don't dare to describe them here    )... so I just love the way they turned the story into a somewhat black comedy where the lead character is something of a dumb idiot (with more than a little Alan Partridge about him  ) and Christian Bale puts in one of the best performances I've ever seen.

Now excuse me, I have to return some videotapes.   

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Everything Else / Re: I Love The World for Hopeless Causes

« Last post by cthulhu on January 15, 2026, 06:11:04 PM »

(poisoned=_vergifted)

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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by cthulhu on January 15, 2026, 06:04:13 PM »

Well, maybe i shouldn't have translated shite as shit in my german mind..there could be an important detail in the difference, that i'm missing But i really wondered, if you meant the same movie. But the bulk of movies you've got started pretty well i would say and Full Metal Jacket in there...

Now i'm off to the second episode of UFO by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson from 1970. (S.H.A.D.O.  Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation; I just love that stuff!) And that's also why i love the bluray format. When they were producing for television in those times the mostly shot on film and the television resolution and standards were technically very inferior to the source. And this 70s series just looks so gorgeous, the colours, the sharpness of the images, the music...just beautiful.
I've already seen Gerry Andersons Space:1999 on bluray, what a blast for me and now it's UFO time..

Here is a cool summary of UFO:
UFO: The Sci Fi Series the 1970s Wasn’t Ready For!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU0Hb2wBthY&t=132s

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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Ghosttrain on January 15, 2026, 04:32:51 PM »

O.k will retract my comment of shite maybe a little too harsh,really enjoyed the first three quarters of the film,but found the last part became tiresome (imho) of course......horses for courses as they say...

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Everything Else / Re: I Love The World for Hopeless Causes

« Last post by cthulhu on January 15, 2026, 03:14:38 PM »

Old, poisoned and still skint

Look how easily it happened
You skip a beat and seven years goes by
I know I’m playing a game I’m bound to lose but I’m not beaten yet
The past it is a barren place of men condemned by their own hand
That the wreckage of my body will obey my will is still worth a bet
And all those faded possibilities
I know I’m playing a game I’m bound to lose but I’m not beaten yet
I saw which was the winning side but still I joined the other

And I'm in love with every strange unfolding day

They still believe that they can hold the reins
But then they've got no sense of history
I can hear in the far-off distance
That on the far horizon
The sound of the men making ready to come
I can hear them saddling horses
They’re saddling up the horsemen
I need more time
We looked into the crystal and we felt the Fear
I need more time
but it's already here, it's already too late
I need more time To make good on the promises I made to the world
We're learning to love the things that we hate
When the world was moving slower

Wake me in a thousand years