You know it was the first of April a few days ago right?

'A Private Function', maybe?

>>24782
That's exactly the one, thank you! Looks like my memory of the poster was somewhat off. Looks like Michael Palin is the only connection to Monty Python.

Synopsis:
In a small town in Northern England in 1947, the citizens endure continuing food rationing. Some local businessmen want to hold a party to celebrate the royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and illegally decide to raise a pig for that occasion. However, the pig is stolen by Gilbert Chilvers, who was encouraged to do so by his wife Joyce. Meanwhile, the local food inspector is determined to stop activities circumventing the food rationing.

I wonder why something like that would have been removed from the social media website? You could talk about how a royal appointment during a national crisis inspires a conspiracy among the people but it seems somewhat of a stretch .. surely?

>>24781
Thanks for pointing it out - I hadn't considered that.

>>24781
Should every day be treated like April Fool's Day?

When you go on a news website on the first of April you're always trying to work out which one is the joke article, so you spend more time critically evaluating the rest to see if they're legit.

>>24653
The narrative now, of course, is that Amazon believe saying something quite nasty about a member of the royal family in a newspaper is sackable, while decking people that work for you is excusable. Though given how Amazon treats its employees we shouldn't be surprised.

>Jeremy Clarkson has not been cancelled as the host of television quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, according to ITV.

>The channel also insisted that the hit programme had not been axed and it was contractually committed to another series which has already been recorded.

https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-clarkson-not-cancelled-as-host-of-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-itv-12823180

THEY'VE BLOODY UNCANCELLED CLARKSON

>>24726
He's also got another season of his farm show despite the best efforts of his local council. I, for one, look forward to seeing women being paraded naked in the streets or whatever it was we were angry about last month.

>>24726
That's what having David Cameron's personal phone number does for you.

Although, you'd think he would be able to intercede with the council. But perhaps that's his plan. Make them look incompetent and then run as a councillor.

>>24731
It'll be more to do with ratings. The new series of Clarkson's Farm broke the viewing record for Prime.

>>24581
That's probably why it's alright then.

>>24581
Yeah I've always said Rogue One is a War Film that just happens to be set in the star wars universe

>>24580
>>24581
Rogue One is not a good film. Pointless, miserable, uninteresting and visually unimpressive as well. I got nothing out of watching it. I don't need to see Vader "properly fucking people up" to know what a bad guy he is, especially in a film where he appears for all of 30 seconds moments before the credits roll. There hasn't been a good Star Wars film since Return of the Jedi.

>>24584
Well I liked it.

>>24584
>he appears for all of 30 seconds moments before the credits roll

Blatant setup for "Rogue Two" innit.

>>24555
>there's no cultural nook or cranny left that corporations can't stick their fingers in to pervert and corrupt
I look forward to the Disney+ production of The Story Of The Eye.

Not that Bataille is an obscure nook or cranny, any more than Tolkein's back catalogue is. It's not like they're messing with the lore of, I don't know, Cyclonopedia. I'm struggling to think of things that are both genuinely obscure and that you'd' have heard of, to understand the reference.

>>24557

>Are you going to spend the rest of your life pretending to enjoy Ed Sheeran's music and caring about Meghan Markle just to fit in with an "imaginary demographic of idiots"?

Of course not, but the broader point I left out in my tipsy rambling is that once upon a time, it was still possible to enjoy "mainstream" media without it being a guaranteed steaming pile of donkey shit. There's films like, I don't know, Terminator or Alien or whatever that absolutely everyone has seen and has a shared cultural reference point to, and they were still great works of art in their own right. You can't say the same about Marvel's Guardians of the She-Hulk: Revenge of the Silver Surfer 3 or whatever it is now.

I think the refuge in obscure media for people of superior taste is just admitting defeat, and while at the end of the day it's not the biggest issue in the world, I don't think it's illegitimate to care about it. What changed that people just started accepting this slop? What changed that prevented creators being able to make something popular without it being horse manure? Can we ever go back? Not when everyone is so apathetic as that we can't, anyway.

>>24562

You might enjoy Mark Kermode's book The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex, which is about precisely that question.

It is the age of the remakes. There are no more stories to tell.

>>24446
A thread died for this.

Archive.org do scrape youtube but it's very hit and miss (and nearly impossible to find anything without the page URL). If you know the video ID you can grab it directly from
https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<video-id>
if they've archived it.

>>24005
They're filming it in Aldershot.

>>24005
It's a prequel on a failing streaming service with a new cast and little written material to work with. This time rather than trying to imitate GOT they just bought the rights. And Westeros is now a multicultural utopia.

Yeah, nah.

>>24007
Racist.

>>24005
Hopefully there will be more tits in this.

>>24005
Dreams don't make people kings, dragons do
Ask any Targaryen and they'll tell you it's true

I have mild hopes for this. Whilst I'm generally opposed to going back to worlds and settings for what could be more of the same (hello, Star Wars), Benioff and Weiss did such an embarrassing rush job on the final two series of GoT (hello, Star Wars) that a do-over seems worthwhile. It's not like remaking The Exorcist, which is insane and I hope everyone working on that gets stomach ulcers, it's like throwing away the charcoal'd dinner you left too long in the oven while browsing photos of Carol Vorderman and starting again because you don't want to eat worthless crap.

Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik are the showrunners and I've never heard of them before. They do have certain credits between them that make me nervous, such as Condal writing the Rampage film and Sapochnik directing Repo Men; that's "Men" not "Man". This isn't promising, but most importantly they aren't mates with JJ Abrams who I think may actually be an Xenomorph Queen like creature who spawns shitty screenwriters and film makers by the dozen. Paddy Considine's in it at too, you can't mess Considine up, although it does give me pause that they're aping the GoT formula and he'll be Ned Stark 2.0. That's probably paranoia, mind.

Overall I'll say my primary sources of, fairly limited, positivity regarding the show is that basically every human being on Earth understood GoT better than the two men helming the production, and HBO are well aware this new series has a reputation hole to climb out of, lest it end up becoming the biggest human folly since the Tower of Babel.

>>24005

It looks like a bloody fan film. How embarrassing.

>>23972

I was born in 1989 and I am 32.

>>23973
That doesn't change the fact that Thin Blue Line came out 16 years ago in 1995.

There's been multiple affairs at my place, even affairs that break up relationships, to then become relationships, which break up because of affairs. Real soap opera level drama.

Again though it's not an office environment, and I suspect the banality of being confined to a desk staring at the same spread sheets all day every day has a lot to answer for. Gossip spreads faster when half the place are fucking menopausal Stasi officers; the office environment was a petrol soaked tinder box for the spark of #metoo and all that to fall on.

>>23973
22, might want to check your maths there.

>>23977
Come on now lad.

>>23909
I found my own account on such a website recently as I was reminded of a screenname I used to use a decade or so ago. The offending website doesn't have an option to delete your account, claiming "security reasons", so I just had to change the screenname, change the contact email address to a temporary, and sign out. It upsets me that some morsel of my adolescent internet presence still remains.

>>23909
>I found a forum once which had posts from 1999

I have some posts from 1991. Luckily nothing too embarrassing and I discovered the idea of anonymity soon after.

This is ultra-niche, but finishing.com is still the resource for professional metal platers. The site dates back to 1995, but the earliest posts are carried over from the BBS, which was founded in 1989. The only way to attach an image to a post is to e-mail it to Ted, who hand-codes the whole site.

https://www.finishing.com/letters/

>>23916
I love everything about that.

>>23916

That's fucking fantastic.

>>23853
I'm sure I've seen almost exactly the same post before, but why would CS shill themselves here?

>>23856
Because gs it a hotbed of intelligent discussion.

>>23883
It do be.

>It's a business model that works for me

This is the worst attempt at pretending to be a real human I've ever seen.

On the offchance you're somehow not a bot, I just have to assume any service advertised exclusively by youtubers and podcasts is not very good at all.

>>23856
>>23885
I assure you that I am in fact a human being. I enjoy the consumption of bananas and eggs.

I don't really do telly, but there's loads of gentle stuff on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqGdc98mQIY
They're building a drum. The auto-generated subtitles are ok, but it's mostly some with passion for their craft doing their thing.

>>34326

Time spent enjoyably is never time wasted.

>>23814

Not sure how that post number got inserted there, but it was meant for >>23811 - fuckin waste of time.

>>23788

Even so what we have inflicted is grossly disproportionate retribution.

This is like if some ragtag group of 20th century terrorists bombed a building, and in response we launched an all out invasion of their home country, deposing their leaders and occupying their lands for over a decade.

With all the advancements we have made as a civilisation since then, it looks obvious to us now that such an act is barbaric.

>>23792
I'm not sure how them being very good at working our trajectories means they can force something to travel at over 100,000 the speed of light.

>>23794
Wormholes.

>>23795
Don't drag them into this, I'm on to you.

>>23796
The bugs have been sending their spores all over the universe so they will have come into contact with species other than humans and, at some point, drunk their brains to gain all of their knowledge.

Once they took over the worm planet they learned how to master wormholes.

Scottish Mad Max.

I watched Waiting (2005) this weekend. It has a lot of big seppo comedy types and is a mist see for any of you who have ever worked in hospitality.

Operation: Endgame is fucking fantastic if you're looking for a shit, but entertaining film. Without giving too much away, it's a secret underground base in which the US controls everything that goes on in the world via two teams, one which makes chaos and the other which swoops in to save the day to preserve the idea that America is on top of things. The project gets cut, hilarity ensues.

It also has a few of my all-time favourite movie murders. Highly recommend just for that.

I think Ghosts of Mars is in this category. A deliberately shit film. Ice T, Jason Statham. I don't think they realised it was meant to be shit, Ice T complained about it afterwards, I guess he didn't notice how all the sets looked like they were porn-film quality.

>>23761
Of course, Mr Carpenter, it was supposed to be awful, sure.