The Gold, Sunday eve

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Evoluzione

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10,345 posts

242 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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At 9, looks promising.....

vixen1700

22,668 posts

269 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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Did a day on this last year as a 'council estate drunk', and was a great laugh. hehe

Yeah looking forward to this, it looks good. smile

Muzzer79

9,806 posts

186 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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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 hehe

DoctorX

7,240 posts

166 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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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 hehe
Beat me to it hehe

soxboy

6,060 posts

218 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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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 hehe
Beat me to it hehe
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

22,668 posts

269 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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A Mini 30. frown

soxboy

6,060 posts

218 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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Still enjoyable though

Coxey

407 posts

106 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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The Gangster podcast is worth a listen the one about John Palmer…

vixen1700

22,668 posts

269 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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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. frown


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

NorthEast

313 posts

236 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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Speech is very muffled, missed a few words.

TX1

2,348 posts

182 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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NorthEast said:
Speech is very muffled, missed a few words.
Same here both of us where asking each other what was said.

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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vixen1700 said:
A Mini 30. frown
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

25,732 posts

172 months

Sunday 12th February 2023
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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

5,782 posts

214 months

Monday 13th February 2023
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DoctorX said:
Beat me to it hehe
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

5,782 posts

214 months

Monday 13th February 2023
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Doofus said:
He was a properly nasty piece of work.
Along with Kenneth Noye, who found infamy a few years later..

Evoluzione

Original Poster:

10,345 posts

242 months

Monday 13th February 2023
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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 biggrin
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

9,806 posts

186 months

Monday 13th February 2023
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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 biggrin
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

2,851 posts

176 months

Monday 13th February 2023
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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

14,742 posts

191 months

Monday 13th February 2023
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Is this based on true events then? The blurb made it sound like fiction?

surveyor

17,767 posts

183 months

Monday 13th February 2023
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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.