The Gold, Sunday eve

[Evoluzione]

At 9, looks promising.....

[vixen1700]

Did a day on this last year as a 'council estate drunk', and was a great laugh.

Yeah looking forward to this, it looks good.

[Muzzer79]

Not 10 minutes in I’m seeing a Granada, allegedly in 1983, which wasn’t manufactured until mid to late 80s and my teeth are itching

[DoctorX]

Muzzer79 said:

Not 10 minutes in I’m seeing a Granada, allegedly in 1983, which wasn’t manufactured until mid to late 80s and my teeth are itching

Beat me to it

[soxboy]

DoctorX said:

Muzzer79 said:

Not 10 minutes in I’m seeing a Granada, allegedly in 1983, which wasn’t manufactured until mid to late 80s and my teeth are itching

Beat me to it

It’s not just a Granada, it’s a Scorpio, so unlikely Flying Squad issue.

Also Rover 200, facelifted Escort mk4, I’m sure there’ll be plenty more that I can point out and see the disappointed look on my wife’s face.

[vixen1700]

A Mini 30.

[soxboy]

Still enjoyable though

[Coxey]

The Gangster podcast is worth a listen the one about John Palmer…

[vixen1700]

Spoke to tbe car bloke on the day as he did a great job with a Cortina MK3, Fiesta Mk1 and Viva E Coupe (when did you last see one of those?)

Pet hate of mine though is wrong cars in films.


Other than that, enjoying it. Just about to watch episode 2.

[NorthEast]

Speech is very muffled, missed a few words.

[TX1]

NorthEast said:

Speech is very muffled, missed a few words.

Same here both of us where asking each other what was said.

[Halmyre]

vixen1700 said:

A Mini 30.

Spotted that.

The dummy gold bars look to be way too light. A real one weighs about 28 pounds, you wouldn't be waving it around like a jumbo bar of Toblerone.

[Doofus]

Coxey said:

The Gangster podcast is worth a listen the one about John Palmer…

He was a properly nasty piece of work.

[Genuine Barn Find]

DoctorX said:

Beat me to it

I pointed out to my wife that the earliest the Granda could have appeared was 84’

i am glad there are people on here who care

[Genuine Barn Find]

Doofus said:

He was a properly nasty piece of work.

Along with Kenneth Noye, who found infamy a few years later..

[Evoluzione]

Halmyre said:

The dummy gold bars look to be way too light. A real one weighs about 28 pounds, you wouldn't be waving it around like a jumbo bar of Toblerone.

Or 13 kg for those of us under the age of 60
I noticed that too, the smelter (?) brought one home in a skimpy little plastic bag he was swinging around.

NorthEast said:

Speech is very muffled, missed a few words.

I find i'm doubting myself more and more these days as I know my hearing isn't what it was. We have to watch everything through the recorder so I can play it back to get what some people are saying. But i'm really not sure, it seems ridiculous that the Beeb are putting out such problematic TV, but is the same at the Cinema. The volume levels are all over the place so I have to sit there with the remote turning it up and down throughout certain programs.

The volume is low for the speech, they mumble, but then wound right up for the 'other parts'. Note the inverted commas as I can't call it music, to denote tension they play this horrible piercing noise really loud. It's like Tinnitus at 120Db, it almost hurts and has me turning it right down.
How in this day and age can they not realise they're doing it? This why I wonder if it's just an age related thing or something else, i've always had problems separating speech from background noise.

It had big boots to fill after what's her name mumbled her way through Happy Valley for the last few weeks, in comparison it's not as easy to watch, you have to seriously give it 100% to understand who the heck they're talking about some of the time. It's ok TV, but not great so far.

[Muzzer79]

Evoluzione said:

Halmyre said:

The dummy gold bars look to be way too light. A real one weighs about 28 pounds, you wouldn't be waving it around like a jumbo bar of Toblerone.

Or 13 kg for those of us under the age of 60
I noticed that too, the smelter (?) brought one home in a skimpy little plastic bag he was swinging around.

I don't think he had the gold bar in the carrier bag, as he opened it to show his girlfriend/wife what was inside.

Entertaining programme though, even if they do (currently) portray Noye as some kind of working class hero, which he most definitely wasn't.

[CooperD]

Quite enjoyed the first episode. Can't get used to Hugh Bonneville playing a working class detective. Still seems to be a hangover from Downton Abbey in my eyes.

[youngsyr]

Is this based on true events then? The blurb made it sound like fiction?

[surveyor]

youngsyr said:

Is this based on true events then? The blurb made it sound like fiction?

It literally said at the start.

Based on real events, with drama and fiction in-between.