What has your "friend" been up to?
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Tyre Smoke said:
Much bangen und clatteren und blau smokenpuf.
Zehr gut! This reminds me of the Fast Show's "The Singing Ringing Binging Plinging Tinging Plinking Plonking Boinging Tree", which is on youtube, but the jokes in that only work if you were a child in the 1960s or early 70s and were traumatised by the black and white version of the surreal East German film "The Singing Ringing Tree". The whole blooming thing, in colour, is also on Youtube for anyone who wishes for some full on WTF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Ringing_...
I would have thought that Russian language skills would be super useful then and now. I increasingly find myself wishing that I knew some Russian because a lot of my work involves shenanigans emanating from there.
Those odd TV shows from the Ostblock were indeed strangely fascinating and linger in the memory. Also that German or Scandinavian Robinson Crusoe that seemed to have 987 episodes. Later in the 60s we got rather better French shows such as The Flashing Blade (1197 episodes and no obvious ending), and Belle and Sebastien. But flu days got better in the afternoons, because Ice Cold In Alex, In Which We Serve, Or Angels One Five would always be on, and also very odd films that have now almost vanished such as Bunny Lake is Missing and The Killing Of Sister George. Those two were age inappropriate! You can catch some of that stuff nowadays on the very fab Talking Pictures TV channel, but not the Euro-strangeness.
Those odd TV shows from the Ostblock were indeed strangely fascinating and linger in the memory. Also that German or Scandinavian Robinson Crusoe that seemed to have 987 episodes. Later in the 60s we got rather better French shows such as The Flashing Blade (1197 episodes and no obvious ending), and Belle and Sebastien. But flu days got better in the afternoons, because Ice Cold In Alex, In Which We Serve, Or Angels One Five would always be on, and also very odd films that have now almost vanished such as Bunny Lake is Missing and The Killing Of Sister George. Those two were age inappropriate! You can catch some of that stuff nowadays on the very fab Talking Pictures TV channel, but not the Euro-strangeness.
ElectricSoup said:
No need to apologise, my friend isn't even remotely perturbed by your friend's comments and thoughts. Tis what it is. It's an assumption a lot of people make. In fact my friend thought it would be the case that it would be a path to riches, and it's one of the reaosns he made the appalling decision to waste his only opportunity to gain a lucrative qualification for free (pre-tuiton fees, loans etc).
Such is life.
But was it a waste of time? Being able to read Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and so on in the original is pretty damn cool. Is any academic study a waste of time? I (and my friend) think not (and my friend adds that gong to university is awesome anyway, for reasons that some here who know his type may be able to guess at). Such is life.
john_1983 said:
My friend watched a little too much Deutschland 83 + 86 + 89 and has noted that this has resulted in a Trabant appearing on the driveway on Wednesday evening
He tells me has a real thing for Nina the pyscho Ost spy, and that he would very much like her to do spy things to him. He also very much likes the American agent woman in 86.
What he's going to do with the heap on his driveway that doesn't run properly, he's not saying at the moment.
Das ist echt cool! Tell more of your Trabby.He tells me has a real thing for Nina the pyscho Ost spy, and that he would very much like her to do spy things to him. He also very much likes the American agent woman in 86.
What he's going to do with the heap on his driveway that doesn't run properly, he's not saying at the moment.
PS: Just leave Lenora alone. My friend says he saw her first. It's the way that she does smoking that does it for him. That and the 1980s clobber.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 26th March 11:31
t in any language.If Bulgakova was a Soviet era shot-putter and not a gymnast, then there might be room for some debate about the terminal vowel, but not in her presence.
This reminds me of an old spoof thread here in GG that some took far too seriously. It was called "Best cupholders?". Apart from those who took it seriously (ikr) the consensus was that the best cupholder in a car was a Soviet era Romanian gymnast. I do worry about motorists, sometimes.
This reminds me of an old spoof thread here in GG that some took far too seriously. It was called "Best cupholders?". Apart from those who took it seriously (ikr) the consensus was that the best cupholder in a car was a Soviet era Romanian gymnast. I do worry about motorists, sometimes.
Coffee is the best of all drugs. Alcohol is a great drug too, but alcohol has many more downsides than coffee has.
Watch this -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVE5iPMKLg
Watch this -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVE5iPMKLg
My friend likes women's shoes very much (although not to wear himself, as he does not have the ankles for that). He thinks that his true destiny may have been to be a designer of women's shoes, and he has wasted his life by not pursuing that destiny. He enjoys going shopping with women for shoes and clothes, and has been told by more than one woman that he has a good eye. Having said that, there are limits. He lived with a shoe-enthusiast woman in the late 80s, and took to calling the hall of their flat "Imelda Marcos Alley" because of the large number of shoes that were arranged along both sides of the quite long hall.
JeremyH5 said:
Breadvan72 said:
My friend is getting his hair cut next Tuesday, by Thanos.
My friend was triggered by this phrasing into a boyhood reverie of Heros the Spartan from the Eagle comic and the saying either of him or one of the baddies “By Mithras, you die!”.As a result my friend has now found that a book of the whole series was researched and published in 2013 and thanks your friend for the memory. Book now out of print. His search is on!
More on the comics and magazines of youth. Speed and Power was absorbed by Look and Learn as early as 1975, and the merged mag staggered on until 1982, having been in existence since 1962, in which year coincidentally my friend and I were born. It was one of those optimistic products of the uncertain Post War - a period in which quite a few here and their friends grew up . A bit like Ladybird Books, but with a bit less embedded Imperialism.
Whilst for some of us and our friends the current North Korean style enforced mourning for someone that some of us may regard as an unappealing person of little worth or consequence is annoying, it's reminded me and my friend of the whole "New Elizabethan Age" ideas of the 50s and 60s. Nigel Molesworth is one of the avatars of that whole thing, and this piece below on his New Elizabethan aspects is quite fun. Mrs Molesworth is rather younger and more sparky than I had previously imagined her. I will not say what my friend say about Mrs Molesworth, because I indulge him far too much as it is.
If you get Molesworth, you'll get this. If you don't get Molesworth, you should, but it may be too late, because you have to get him from the age of around ten or eleven, and then he stays with you for life. I recently asked my sixteen year old daughter if she thought that she'd still be quoting Molesworth when she is fifty eight, and she replied "I hope so".
https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2015/10/molesworth-...
Whilst for some of us and our friends the current North Korean style enforced mourning for someone that some of us may regard as an unappealing person of little worth or consequence is annoying, it's reminded me and my friend of the whole "New Elizabethan Age" ideas of the 50s and 60s. Nigel Molesworth is one of the avatars of that whole thing, and this piece below on his New Elizabethan aspects is quite fun. Mrs Molesworth is rather younger and more sparky than I had previously imagined her. I will not say what my friend say about Mrs Molesworth, because I indulge him far too much as it is.
If you get Molesworth, you'll get this. If you don't get Molesworth, you should, but it may be too late, because you have to get him from the age of around ten or eleven, and then he stays with you for life. I recently asked my sixteen year old daughter if she thought that she'd still be quoting Molesworth when she is fifty eight, and she replied "I hope so".
https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2015/10/molesworth-...
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 11th April 06:39
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