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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    You guys are going to love this clip of Lewis Collins "rescuing" Pamela Stephenson in an episode of The Professionals from 1977
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBMSK6Bz4tc
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,866
    And James Bond was an alcoholic rapist
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,932
    veronese68 said:

    elbowloh said:

    Don't you guys try and watch Benny Hill or It Ain't 'alf Hot Mum.

    Believe me I'm far from PC, it's still surprising that it was prime time telly given the way things are now.
    I've got a copy of Fletcher's Book of Rhyming Slang that was given to me when I was about 12. It has a page devoted to racist terms, this was considered acceptable to print in 1980.

    School pupils today are gobsmacked when I point out (using the most careful language) what was deemed acceptable (and in mainstream 'family entertainment') when I was their age. That they are amazed is a good indicator that things have moved in the right direction.
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    surrey_commuter said:

    And James Bond was an alcoholic rapist

    Indeed, he slaps Tatiana Romanova full on in From Russia with "Love"
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    elbowloh said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    And James Bond was an alcoholic rapist

    Indeed, he slaps Tatiana Romanova full on in From Russia with "Love"
    Even Mr Rass PolDARK was a rapist.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    elbowloh said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    And James Bond was an alcoholic rapist

    Indeed, he slaps Tatiana Romanova full on in From Russia with "Love"
    Apparently he wasn't averse to giving them a slap in real life if they answered back either.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/people-entertainment/2020/11/01/sean-connery-slap-women/
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,366
    Nobody's mentioned Jim Davidson.

    So here's this odd, different white boy... from Africa. I mean he had real life experiences, actually saw some things... in a school in Scotland and he's subject to 'ni66er lips, ni66er nostrils, did you live in a mud hut, why aren't you black, oh look at de black man' in true Jim Davidson style.
    There was no doubt they mimicked style of that Mr Davidson, no doubt whatsoever and I was on the receiving end.

    If I met him' 'cos according to Mr Davidson, 'it was just a bit of fun', I would sink my head into him, as they say here in Jockland.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,946
    veronese68 said:

    Easier to assemble and cheaper to machine as no thread to cut. Sell it as an advantage because bigger bearings and larger diameter spindle can be used.
    Poor quality control on tolerances cause problems


    What we call threaded bearings are just the shell, the actual bearing that they hold is press-fit into that shell :)


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,946
    shortfall said:

    You guys are going to love this clip of Lewis Collins "rescuing" Pamela Stephenson in an episode of The Professionals from 1977
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBMSK6Bz4tc

    Also the leggy pamela getting into the sun bed here...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGwTCigypnE&ab_channel=Cleops

    at about 5:30


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    My favourite clip of hers on Not The Nine O'clock News was the American Express sketch. Wubble, wubble, wubble.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,560
    shortfall said:

    My favourite clip of hers on Not The Nine O'clock News was the American Express sketch. Wubble, wubble, wubble.

    The 'I like trucking' song was quite good as well.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Billy is a lucky man is all i can say.
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  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,169
    Ah, fond memories of Pamela Stephenson. I remember when she was trying to transition from Brit to American TV by individually introducing her nipples to the rather more conservative American audience.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,932
    "Oh god, I left the baby on the bus!"
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,203
    Anybody who watches Eastenders. Does anybody on BR watch it?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,805
    focuszing723 said:

    Anybody who watches Eastenders. Does anybody on BR watch it?

    Not me, and nobody I know does either.
    Or they hide it if they do.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,932
    pblakeney said:

    focuszing723 said:

    Anybody who watches Eastenders. Does anybody on BR watch it?

    Not me, and nobody I know does either.
    Or they hide it if they do.

    I watched a few, but stopped sometime before the Angie & Dirty Den Christmas special.

    There, I've owned up.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    The mother in law watches it and insists on having it on whenever we are away with them at their caravan. I just read when it comes on. One of the benefits of Covid is I haven't seen it this year.

    From what I can tell every time there is a new hard case that everyone, including the previous hard case who is now OK, is scared of and a new rough family has moved in.

    Who knows who owns the pub these days, it seems to be someone different every time which is odd as it seems to be the only indepent boozer in the UK that is full every day both at lunchtime and in the evening so must be a real goldmine.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,366
    edited December 2020
    I've written the latest episode of Eastenders:

    (Who says what line is immaterial)

    Scene: Bloke walks into bar.

    "Ello darling"
    "Ere, woss your game?"
    "Leave it out"

    [Another person walks into bar]

    "Allo princess"
    "Allo darlink"
    "Ere wot yew playin' at?"
    "Aaaah, kam on, leave it out"

    [Yet another person walks into bar]

    "Ello gorgeous"
    "Not yew an' all"
    "Oh, I don't believe it"
    "Not now darlinck, leave it out"

    In the next episode, I shall re-introduce Wellard (stuffed) and Ricky and Bianca.

    Like Skegness, Eastenders is f*****g sh 1 t.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    Alec Baldwin and his missus pretending that she is from Spain.
    Que?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,805
    ballysmate said:

    Alec Baldwin and his missus pretending that she is from Spain.
    Que?

    Quite common in America.
    You'd be surprised by the amount of Irish in March.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,420
    My Dad threw my sister out once for watching Eastenders and transferred the contents of her bedroom to the front garden.

    He really didn’t like Eastenders.
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    pblakeney said:

    ballysmate said:

    Alec Baldwin and his missus pretending that she is from Spain.
    Que?

    Quite common in America.
    You'd be surprised by the amount of Irish in March.
    Bit different to supping a pint of Guinness on Paddy's day.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    seanoconn said:

    My Dad threw my sister out once for watching Eastenders and transferred the contents of her bedroom to the front garden.

    He really didn’t like Eastenders.

    If I had more bottle I would do that when my Mrs watches it.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,805
    ballysmate said:

    pblakeney said:

    ballysmate said:

    Alec Baldwin and his missus pretending that she is from Spain.
    Que?

    Quite common in America.
    You'd be surprised by the amount of Irish in March.
    Bit different to supping a pint of Guinness on Paddy's day.
    More they claim to be actually Irish. It may have been 6 generations ago but it still counts. Allegedly.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    It does seem that a lot of US citizens don't want to just be Americans. They're either Irish Americans, Scots American, African American, Italian Americans etc

    The anomolies are those big amorphous groups who don't even get to have "Americans" in their names, i.e. "Latinos" and "Asians"
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,805
    Man U having a mare of a season yet sit second in the league.
    I'm sure the die hard reds that disappeared 6 years ago will make a resurrection soon.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    Big shout out to the binmen, braved the snow and emptied both bins. Huzzah!!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,589
    I did wonder if they'd make it down my street today. I live in a cul-de-sac and the 50m section from my house to the main estate road / bus route is on a gradient of about 10% (makes it fun trying to set out on the bike and get clipped in!).

    The last two nights walking the dog I've struggled to get up the slope as the road doesn't get gritted and has been very wet then frozen over. If I walk normally my foot slips as I toe off, if I try to walk flat footed I don't get enough propulsion and start to slide back down again so I thought the bin lorry would struggle coming down especially as it has to turn a steep off-camber bend.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Can't quite understand why a bottle of shampoo would have directions on it. I really want to meet the person who needs directions on how to wash his / her hair.

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