Kids are so stupid nowadays, including my own.

[DanielSan]

CaptainSlow said:

Ferris was on tv a few weeks ago...I rewatched for the first time in 30 years....it was pretty crap and hasn't lasted well.

I've never got the fuss about that film, it took me 2 attempts to watch it as I turned it off the first time it was so crap, finished it the second time and just felt like I'd wasted the time. Absolute dog st of a film.

Usual Suspects on the other hand, is a genuine classic.

[toastyhamster]

DanielSan said:

CaptainSlow said:

Ferris was on tv a few weeks ago...I rewatched for the first time in 30 years....it was pretty crap and hasn't lasted well.

I've never got the fuss about that film, it took me 2 attempts to watch it as I turned it off the first time it was so crap, finished it the second time and just felt like I'd wasted the time. Absolute dog st of a film.

Usual Suspects on the other hand, is a genuine classic.

I still really enjoy watching it, the part with the phone calls to the head master cracks me up every time.

To reply to the other poster on the Alien special effects, they enjoyed Flash Gordon so I don't think Alien will phase them much.

[AlexC1981]

can't remember said:

They used to show it quite frequently in it's full form on the BBC. These days not so much.

Strange really because as a child it shone a light on racism that as a good, white, middle class kid I had never experienced. Taught me a valuable lesson then and it's still got a strong message today.

By coincidence I only saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. I was going though a bit of a Gene Wilder extravaganza because I remembered how much I liked him in Young Frankenstein. I watched Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and Silver Streak. All firsts for me, though I had seen bits of The Producers.

I don't know if it was because it was the 70s or because it was Gene Wilder, but he certainly starred in some unusual films.

[DIW35]

AlexC1981 said:

By coincidence I only saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. I was going though a bit of a Gene Wilder extravaganza because I remembered how much I liked him in Young Frankenstein. I watched Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and Silver Streak. All firsts for me, though I had seen bits of The Producers.

I don't know if it was because it was the 70s or because it was Gene Wilder, but he certainly starred in some unusual films.

If you've been bingeing on Gene Wilder films, you should try See no Evil, Hear no Evil. Fairly typical of the sort of film you would expect to see Gene Wilder in, and has some amusing moments.

[apotek]

Anyone remember Alfalfa from `Our Gang`

[boyse7en]

Robbo 27 said:

Some friends paid for their daughter to have driving lessons, after seven lessons the instructor told the parents that she was one of the very few drivers that were not ready for driving a car. The mother, a doctor, thought she knew better and ushered her daughter into the car amd said, let us see how bad a driver you are, take me down the hill into the village.

They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.

'Why didn't you brake'?

'I did but the pedal was too stiff'

'Wasn't the engine working'

'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'


She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.

Hang on...a trained and qualified driver didn't notice the car she was teaching someone in didn't have the engine running?
And you think the daughter has problems??

[HustleRussell]

Pit Pony said:

Gandahar said:

I was talking to my 18 year old daughter today who is probably better classed as a young adult, as Ben Elton would say, and we had this pithy conversation:-

Her " I don't want to go to the BBQ because I will have to wear a mask"

Me " If you wore a black mask you can put a Z on the front and look like Zorro"

Her "Who's Zorro ? "




I could have expected that if I had said Jimmy Tarbuck, Lennie Godber or Lee out of Peters and Lee, but Zorro? Does she not know her Saturday morning TV Mexican history for godsake? Obviously not.

It seems to me that the generation classes now have to be re-done as -->

BABY BOOMERS
GENERATION X
MILLENIALS / SNOWFLAKES
GENERATION DUMBNUTZ

They know feck all apart from social media.

Hopefully we can put them all on a Hitchhikers style ark and send them off to another planet before it is too late.

I'll be waving at the quay with my hankie, filmed in black and whit,e and shouting "Watch out for interplanetary methane icebergs "

Bon Voyage.

The answer from you should have been to pull up YouTube and make her sit through an episode.

Of course, Gandahar would probably need some help from his 18 year old daughter to successfully negotiate the YouTube.

[BigMon]

boyse7en said:

Robbo 27 said:

Some friends paid for their daughter to have driving lessons, after seven lessons the instructor told the parents that she was one of the very few drivers that were not ready for driving a car. The mother, a doctor, thought she knew better and ushered her daughter into the car amd said, let us see how bad a driver you are, take me down the hill into the village.

They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.

'Why didn't you brake'?

'I did but the pedal was too stiff'

'Wasn't the engine working'

'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'


She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.

Hang on...a trained and qualified driver didn't notice the car she was teaching someone in didn't have the engine running?
And you think the daughter has problems??

Glad it wasn't just me. Who the hell lets someone drive their car by just letting it roll down the hill without the engine running?

[croyde]

Due to Corona virus we have no live guests on the news, it's all done on Skype/Zoom.

Cue ages trying to get the interviewee to frame themselves properly in shot.

Left a bit, right a bit, up a bit.......

I shout out 'Its like the bloody Golden Shot, Bernie! the bolt!'

In a room full of 30 to 40 year olds only one guy got it.

I am nearly 60

[Parkette]

boyse7en said:

Hang on...a trained and qualified driver didn't notice the car she was teaching someone in didn't have the engine running?
And you think the daughter has problems??

I cannot hear my car engine when its running, a 740 BMW, in fact the tyre noise is more than the engine noise.

I don't think that Robbo said that the mother was teaching either.

You need to read what was said.

[HustleRussell]

BigMon said:

boyse7en said:

Robbo 27 said:

Some friends paid for their daughter to have driving lessons, after seven lessons the instructor told the parents that she was one of the very few drivers that were not ready for driving a car. The mother, a doctor, thought she knew better and ushered her daughter into the car amd said, let us see how bad a driver you are, take me down the hill into the village.

They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.

'Why didn't you brake'?

'I did but the pedal was too stiff'

'Wasn't the engine working'

'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'


She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.

Hang on...a trained and qualified driver didn't notice the car she was teaching someone in didn't have the engine running?
And you think the daughter has problems??

Glad it wasn't just me. Who the hell lets someone drive their car by just letting it roll down the hill without the engine running?

They must have a downhill driveway leading onto a downhill road. Must be pretty steep for the car to have accelerated in such a way that neither the driver nor passenger noticed that it wasn't powered. The driveway and onto and down the road must be a straight line as if there was any kind of obstruction to vision or maneuver to complete the lack of drive, power assisted brakes and power assisted steering would've surely been evident. Must've been an old car with no power steering or else the same driver who couldn't push the brake because it was too hard would've surely noticed that they could barely turn the steering wheel. Also old enough that the dash isn't lit up with a load of warning lights and 'press clutch / brake to start' messages with the key in the accessory position (or else steering lock).

[Robbo 27]

HustleRussell said:

They must have a downhill driveway leading onto a downhill road. Must be pretty steep for the car to have accelerated in such a way that neither the driver nor passenger noticed that it wasn't powered. The driveway and onto and down the road must be a straight line as if there was any kind of obstruction to vision or maneuver to complete the lack of drive, power assisted brakes and power assisted steering would've surely been evident. Must've been an old car with no power steering or else the same driver who couldn't push the brake because it was too hard would've surely noticed that they could barely turn the steering wheel. Also old enough that the dash isn't lit up with a load of warning lights and 'press clutch / brake to start' messages with the key in the accessory position (or else steering lock).

Not sure what I am supposed to say, I know the mother, a 45 year old doctor, daughter is under 5 foot and an academnic, by which I mean not much street sense.

I dont know what car it was in, I dont know how far the car went before the impact, it is a straight road into the village. All I heard was that she took the handbrake off and the car rolled forwards.

[Pothole]

DanielSan said:

CaptainSlow said:

Ferris was on tv a few weeks ago...I rewatched for the first time in 30 years....it was pretty crap and hasn't lasted well.

I've never got the fuss about that film, it took me 2 attempts to watch it as I turned it off the first time it was so crap, finished it the second time and just felt like I'd wasted the time. Absolute dog st of a film.

Usual Suspects on the other hand, is a genuine classic.

I dunno why everyone goes on about apples, it took me two attempts to eat one as I spat it out the first time it was so sour, managed to finish one the second time but felt a bit off. Absolute dog st of a fruit. Oranges on the other hand, genuinely delicious...

[White Stiletto]

apotek said:

Anyone remember Alfalfa from `Our Gang`

Was she the one who didn't like onions?

[TheDukeofBork]

Robbo 27 said:

Not sure what I am supposed to say, I know the mother, a 45 year old doctor, daughter is under 5 foot and an academnic, by which I mean not much street sense.

I dont know what car it was in, I dont know how far the car went before the impact, it is a straight road into the village. All I heard was that she took the handbrake off and the car rolled forwards.

Perhaps it's because her mother was only 15 when she was born and must have neglected her as she pursued her medical studies (you said earlier that the daughter is now 30).

[Taita]

HustleRussell said:

BigMon said:

boyse7en said:

Robbo 27 said:

Some friends paid for their daughter to have driving lessons, after seven lessons the instructor told the parents that she was one of the very few drivers that were not ready for driving a car. The mother, a doctor, thought she knew better and ushered her daughter into the car amd said, let us see how bad a driver you are, take me down the hill into the village.

They crashed into a wall at the bottom of the hill.

'Why didn't you brake'?

'I did but the pedal was too stiff'

'Wasn't the engine working'

'You didn't tell me to start it, the instructor always tells me to start the engine, I thought that you must know some special way'


She is now 30 and still doesn't drive. This is a girl who has been to Oxford university and came out with an MA in English Lit.

Hang on...a trained and qualified driver didn't notice the car she was teaching someone in didn't have the engine running?
And you think the daughter has problems??

Glad it wasn't just me. Who the hell lets someone drive their car by just letting it roll down the hill without the engine running?

They must have a downhill driveway leading onto a downhill road. Must be pretty steep for the car to have accelerated in such a way that neither the driver nor passenger noticed that it wasn't powered. The driveway and onto and down the road must be a straight line as if there was any kind of obstruction to vision or maneuver to complete the lack of drive, power assisted brakes and power assisted steering would've surely been evident. Must've been an old car with no power steering or else the same driver who couldn't push the brake because it was too hard would've surely noticed that they could barely turn the steering wheel. Also old enough that the dash isn't lit up with a load of warning lights and 'press clutch / brake to start' messages with the key in the accessory position (or else steering lock).

Distinct sound of adenoids......

[StuntmanMike]

Gandahar said:

I was talking to my 18 year old daughter today who is probably better classed as a young adult, as Ben Elton would say, and we had this pithy conversation:-

Her " I don't want to go to the BBQ because I will have to wear a mask"

Me " If you wore a black mask you can put a Z on the front and look like Zorro"

Her "Who's Zorro ? "




I could have expected that if I had said Jimmy Tarbuck, Lennie Godber or Lee out of Peters and Lee, but Zorro? Does she not know her Saturday morning TV Mexican history for godsake? Obviously not.

It seems to me that the generation classes now have to be re-done as -->

BABY BOOMERS
GENERATION X
MILLENIALS / SNOWFLAKES
GENERATION DUMBNUTZ

They know feck all apart from social media.

Hopefully we can put them all on a Hitchhikers style ark and send them off to another planet before it is too late.

I'll be waving at the quay with my hankie, filmed in black and whit,e and shouting "Watch out for interplanetary methane icebergs "

Bon Voyage.

Just think O.P. She was your fastest swimmer.

[Robbo 27]

TheDukeofBork said:

Perhaps it's because her mother was only 15 when she was born and must have neglected her as she pursued her medical studies (you said earlier that the daughter is now 30).

Work it out for yourself dummy, How old was the girl at the time of the accident?

[Parkette]

TheDukeofBork said:

Perhaps it's because her mother was only 15 when she was born and must have neglected her as she pursued her medical studies (you said earlier that the daughter is now 30).

Stupid comment. Try working through the options first.

[Marlin45]

toastyhamster said:

lost in espace said:

My 16 year old daughter had no idea what Ferris Bueller's Day Off was. And they like really mainstream music, I thought every kid wanted to rebel!

That's just terrible parenting , my kids definitely know who Ferris Bueller is and it's one of their favourite films that gets rewatched. I introduced them to Guest House Paradiso this week (it's on Netflix). Also, GroundHog Day, Goonies, GhostBusters etc. Not got to Alien yet though.

Introduced my 8 year old daughter to Guest House Paradiso on Sunday. Apparently it's 'Not appropriate' .....after seeing Eddie going into the Italian actresses room with just a chefs hat on his cock ;o

Edited by Marlin45 on Tuesday 9th June 11:01