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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by Falling Down on Today at 10:11:52 am »

Isn’t he Welsh?

(We enjoyed it too)

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 10:09:33 am »

Le Mans 66 (aka Ford vs. Ferrari). Apart from Bale's dodgy English accent and cliché comments about cups of tea etc. I found it generally good and quite amusing at times. Damon is good as Carroll Shelby.

The car scenes don't go too Fast and Furious with an endless gearbox and it is pretty amazing to see a GT40 moving quickly.

Son and I watched this on Prime, and both enjoyed it, good low maintenance, agree it's a shame they couldn't have used a British actor rather than have Bale struggling. I'm a sucker for films and series where they get all the contemporary details of the time just right, must be so hard to do.

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by Will Hunt on Today at 09:36:44 am »

So much of the writing is awful, even the starting point of an interplanetary empire that needs to rely on wheat from one small hamlet on a moon?!

But is it special space wheat that's made into space Weetabix, ingestion of which allows intergalactic navigation without the use of computers?

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by TobyD on Today at 09:20:50 am »

Rebel Moon Part Two, as pretty looking and as terrible as the first, but now also featuring a coal fired space ship?! The amount of yes people around Snyder that allow this tripe through must be astounding; but it's been top 5 on Netflix for a couple of weeks, so I'm sure he'll be getting the cash to make another one.

Popularity doesn't equal good; millions of people can be wrong.  Fortunately,  Netflix produces some really good movies as well. 

On a similar theme, I fail to see what anyone sees in Taylor Swift's music,  its just anodyne ear fluff.  (Apologies,  irrelevant to films.)

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 09:16:44 am »

Good footage of a great line. Surely one for the ground-up massive these days?

Needs a direct start too

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Changing the BMC

« Last post by shark on Today at 09:01:26 am »

UKC news item linking an article on the the BMC website published on Friday with linked papers on a delay in reporting year end figures, plans to split GB Climbing in two and a paper specifically rebutting my proposal to place GBClimbing in a separate subsidiary.

The proposal to effectively split GB Climbing into two parts can be categorised as the bits that UKSport are interested in (and funds) and those that don’t effectively creates a UK Sport outpost within the BMC which obviously works well for UKSport to the point where we might as well hand them the keys IMO.

I currently think we are reaching a tipping point. The direction of travel seems to be towards becoming “any other faceless, CEO led organisation” as one ukc poster puts it.

Membership concerns and interest and democracy no longer feel to me like they are a priority and more of an inconvenience.

Time for a subsidiary split off for recreational climbing?

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Peak Area meeting Wednesday 1st May

« Last post by shark on Today at 08:13:39 am »

Unfortunately? I’ll still be on Kalymnos. I hope that there will be a few questions raised as I think the organisation’s response to the proposed subsidiary resolution over the last few days has been appalling.

More info here: https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/thread/bmc_resolutions_submission-770331

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by dunnyg on Yesterday at 10:25:05 pm »

Looks ace, those moves look wild!

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music, art and culture / Re: Assisted Dying, UK Parliament

« Last post by stone on Yesterday at 09:44:48 pm »

I just googled and saw that Amy Proffitt also wrote something about this subject when the RCP was choosing what position to take: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/assisted-dying-why-rcp-should-be-opposed

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by Fiend on Yesterday at 09:23:50 pm »

Good footage of a great line. Surely one for the ground-up massive these days?