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Reply | Film 2025
at 23:16 8 Sep 2025
a few other good films I've seen recently, all of which I'd recommend if you like to watch something a little different from the mainstream....
The Surfer
Dream Scenario
Arcadian
(all 3 of those feature Nicolas Cage doing Nicolas Cage things, I am into that so if you are too then get on those)
All My Friends Are Dead
Sisu
Corner Office
Fried Barry
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Reply | Film 2025
at 23:10 8 Sep 2025
Trainspotting 2 was indeed an absolute pile of shıte. Not totally Danny Boyle's fault though because the source material (Porno) is a million miles from being as good as Trainspotting book.
I'm still waiting for them to make a film of my favourite Irvine Welsh book Marabou Stork Nightmares, but I'm not sure that'll ever happen!!
Got to say I really liked 28 Years Later. It was definitely not what I expected, a very different tone / mood from the previous two. But I thought it was really interesting, and it made some interesting points. I thought Ralph Fiennes was great. I enjoyed the unexpected parallels with Apocalypse Now in the later parts of the film and the ending / setup for The Bone Temple sequel was bonkers. |
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Reply | Favourite Motorway Junction?
at 14:59 7 Sep 2025
Not sure I have a favourite but I have a couple of least favourites....
The junction where the M25 meets the M3, it always stinks of sewage round there.
In fact the whole section of the M25 going anti-clockwise from there to the A3 junction is rubbish. The road surface is really bumpy and there seems to be a higher proportion of bad drivers around there.
I also don't like the roundabout at junction 6 of the M62, it's really confusing. |
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Reply | How come highly skilled players play cr*p when they have an England shirt on !!!
at 12:04 7 Sep 2025
Dan Burn playing in an England shirt, that's a big part of the problem. Hugely over-rated player. Just a big lump who wouldn't particularly stand out in the Championship.
And talking of over-rated Newcastle players who are nowhere near good enough to be in the England team, bloody Anthony Gordon with his fücking dreadul hair.
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Reply | Rating for this Summers Transfer Window
at 23:34 1 Sep 2025
Fúcking transfer window does my head in.
All this craͤp about this club's "had a good transfer window" and that club's "not had a good window" What a load of big sweaty fúcking bølløcks that is!!
Usually having "a good transfer window" means they've bought loads of players and given those fúcking Sky Sports waͤnkers something to waffle on and get unnecessarily excited over.
Surely if you've had to ship out a load of players (mostly for far less than you paid for them) and bring in a load more (most of whom will end up leaving at a loss as well), then that means you've been badly mismanaging your club and your recruitment has been shíte. I'm not talking about QPR here, I mean more yer Nottingham Forest a couple of seasons ago or fúcking Che**** every fúcking season.
All the chat around Forest when they brought in a truckload of players on expensive wages was about how they'd had a good transfer window, but not many of those players are still in their matchday squad so they must've wasted something like 100 million on fees and wages. And going into the pockets of waͤnker agents just like when Hughes & that top, top cúnt Redknapp were at our club. Every fúcking year people are making supposedly funny comments about Peter Odemwingie being spotted in the car park, hardy fúcking ha, what an amusing tale for Arry to tell on some cúnt's podcast. Stop laughing you melty face waͤnker, that's the ruination of the club I love & that you never gave a fúcking monkey's about that you're laughing at there.
Look at Liverpool last season when Slot came in, they didn't bring in anyone at all last summer. All the so-called experts saying they'd "not had a good window" and then they won the Premier League with about 4 months to go!! Just goes to show what all those ex-players know about anything, the square root of fúck all.
In short, no I'm not going to rate this summer's transfer window because I don't know if these players are going to be any good or not. The only way to know if this has been a good transfer window will be at the end of this season, or in the case of many of these signings who are still teenagers, in a few years time when they either have or haven't become first team regulars.
Sorry about all the swearing, but not having a go at any of you by the way. You're all QPR so therefore you're all lovely people. I just think the transfer window and all the bullshít hype that goes with it is one of the worst things about football these days. |
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Reply | Taylor Richards gone…thank god.
at 21:10 1 Sep 2025
I suspect none of us will ever find out the real story with Taylor Richards, but clearly there's been some major off-the-pitch issues.
I'm just glad we've got him off the payroll and I hope he can get himself sorted out. |
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Reply | Illias Chair.
at 16:00 28 Aug 2025
It would certainly get the wage bill down. |
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Reply | Books
at 18:56 27 Aug 2025
not heard of that one but I’ve had another book by Eliza Clark (Penance) on my “to read” list for ages.
I’ll add She’s Always Hungry & Body Parts to the list too, thanks. [Post edited 27 Aug 18:58]
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Thread | Leslie Cavendish : celebrity hairdresser & QPR fan
at 10:46 27 Aug 2025
I mentioned in the Books thread that I've recently read Stuart Maconie's book on the The Beatles.
One bit in there that gives us another name to add to the celebrity QPR fans list.
In 1966, Cavendish was cutting Jane Asher's hair she asked him if he might be free later that day to cut her boyfriend's hair.
Cavendish knew full well that her boyfriend was Paul McCartney, who along with his bandmates was just about the biggest name in the world at that time.
But Cavendish told Asher he couldn't do it because he was going to see QPR play Swindon.
“I made the appointment for 6pm so I could watch the match.”
Clearly a man who knows his priorities!!
https://www.thejc.com/life/meet-leslie-cavendish-the-barber-to-the-beatles-ep31t
https://www.beatleshairdresser.com
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Reply | Books
at 06:49 27 Aug 2025
Most of the fiction stuff I read is horror and sci fi.
I discovered the books of Grady Hendrix a few years ago and have just finished his book
We Sold Our Souls and it might be my favourite of his. It's the story of the fictional 90s rock band Dürt Würk and their great lost album Black Iron Mountain.
It's horror but not gory for the sake of it, and it's got a sense of humour.
for fans of classic 80s tongue-in-cheek horror films like The Evil Dead trilogy.
My other favourites of his are Horrorstor & The Southern Book Club's Guide To Vampire Slaying, The Final Girl Support Group.
other books in a similar vein....
Devil House by John Darnielle (singer / songwriter of the group The Mountain Goats bus also a spectacularly good writer)
A Mask Of Flies by Matthew Lyons
The Book Of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Some recent sci fi books I've loved....
The Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu) – mind-bending sci-fi packed full of genius ideas that I'm sure has been discussed on here before. Looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.
Walking On Glass (Iain Banks) – I’ve read nearly all of his books but never got round to this one until just recently. This one is certainly not a straightforward story but I still absolutely loved it.
The Dispatcher trilogy (John Scalzi) – Film noir with a sci fi edge. The 3 books in the trilogy are The Dispatcher, Murder By Other Means and Travel By Bullet.
Self Help (Ben H. Winters) – an audiobook about an audiobook. Brilliant narration by Wil Wheaton & Ron Perlman
I also read a lot of non fiction music books so here are some recent favourites....
Fingers Crossed (Miki Berenyi)
Rough Trade website selected it as their best book of 2022 saying this: “A revelatory and important statement on the sexism of the 90s music industry, growing up through parental neglect and the wild highs and lows of the Britpop years. The Lush star is a trailblazer and here to remind us that success means different things to different people and that perhaps the traditional definition ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
I bought this from Miki herself when she was doing a book signing at Bella Union in Brighton a while ago. It’s a truly remarkable read. Some musicians biographies can drag a bit when you’re reading about their early lives. You just want them to get to the bit where they start the band. That’s not the case here at all because Miki’s life before becoming a musician was already quite extraordinary. It’s an extremely honest and emotional book and highly recommended, regardless of whether you’re familiar with her music or not
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke (get the audiobook if you can)
The man has a way with words as we all know and his frequent tangents about films, breakfast cereal, fashion or whatever are equal parts fascinating and hilarious. As the tagline from the After Eight adverts quoted in the book several times puts it, listening to this was “Luxury, pure unashamed luxury”
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed The British Music Press & Other Misadventures by Ted Kessler (he's on this forum I believe)
I'm a massive Beatles & having read books about them by Hunter Davies, Mark Lewisohn & Ian McDonald' decades ago I really didn't think I'd ever need to read any more books about them. But I recently read 2 absolutely outstanding ones.....
1 2 3 4 by Craig Brown
With a little Help from Their Friends by Stuart Maconie.
I'm also a massive Bruce Springsteen nerd and have read a load of books about him. Recently I've read these ones that stood out....
Born in the USA: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition by Jim Cullen
Deliver Is From Nowhere by Warren Zanes |
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Thread | resting players for Cup games
at 12:31 13 Aug 2025
Yes I admit I wasn't there last night but over the years, I've been at various Cup games home & away where we've fielded a weakened team. It's frustrating but nearly every club does it.
But last night felt like a very extreme example of that, can't think of any previous Cup game where there were so many names on the teamsheet and bench that I'd never even heard of.
I've been looking at the club's website to see which players are listed as first team and which are in the development squad.
Last night's starting XI included:
3 First Team players (Nardi, Vale, Burrell)
4 Development Squad players (Smith, Bennie, Kolli, Pearman)
2 Under-18 players (Sutton, Putman)
2 players who aren't listed in any squad on the club website (Wilkie, Dixon-Bonner)
The 9 players on the bench:
0 First Team players
6 Development Squad players (Salamon, Tuck, Talla, Dillon, Leahy, McCann)
1 Under-18 players (Tarbotton)
2 players who aren't listed in any squad on the club website (Brunson, Trujillo)
Loads of these players weren't even given a squad number when they were announced a mere 5 days ago.
I think I can just about accept that it might've been ok to start with that XI but not having anyone at all from the first team squad on the bench seems like shooting yourself in the foot.
When Plymouth got it back to 2-1, wouldn't it have been better to bring on a couple of the more experienced heads Cook, Dunne, Field, Chair to shore things up / steady the ship?
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Reply | OASIS
at 12:25 5 Jul 2025
My brother-in-law was at Cardiff last night, sent me a few photos and videos. He was miles away from the stage but it still looked pretty good. Crowd on their feet even in the faraway seats.
At Glastonbury in 1994, I went to see Pulp on the NME Stage (I think it's now called the Other Stage)
Oasis were the next band on (or they might have been on just before, details are a hazy!)
They played their single Shakermaker which had come out the preceding Monday.
They were already being hyped as the best new band around, I thought they were ok but I was more taken with some other newish bands I saw that weekend (still can't believe neither Tindersticks or Little Axe are playing stadiums!!)
Anyway the following year both Pulp & Oasis were headlining as has been well documented & I saw them both and they were both fantastic. Oasis had really improved as musicians since the year before. (Alan White on drums a million times better than the previous bloke)
The year after that I went to Knebworth but I thought it was awful. Sound was terrible and the place was full of scallies & ne'er do wells.
Dreadzone and the Manic Street Preachers were good though.
My eldest is 15 and would've loved to have gone to see them on this tour, and I was up for taking him but we both changed our mind after seeing the prices.
To anyone on here that's going, have a brilliant time! |
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Reply | Black Uhuru
at 19:07 1 Jul 2025
Black Uhuru one of the highlights of the various sets from Glastonbury I've been watching on catchup.
Also really enjoyed Goat, Kae Tempest, Ezra Collective, Beth Gibbons |
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Reply | Glastonbury 2025
at 10:44 28 Jun 2025
Didn't watch Alanis because the Mrs and me are going to see her in Lytham next Friday.
Last time I saw her was at Shepherds Bush Empire 29 years ago!!
So far I've not seen that much of the footage, but I thought English Teacher were really good.
First time I went in was before the TV cameras turned up (and ruined it!)
In later years, if you know where to look I can be spotted in some of the footage that gets re-shown now and again.
Here's me wearing the hoops.
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Reply | First fixture of the season
at 22:12 25 Jun 2025
First game will be home to Bristol City.
Nailed on certainty!
Put a monkey on it!
Monster monster!
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Reply | Old sayings that are either still very apt today or just plain daft
at 00:17 12 Jun 2025
I'm not sure it's a common saying but "Brian Moore's head look exactly like London Planetarium" is a lyric from Dickie Davies Eyes by Half Man Half Biscuit. That's where the Gillingham fanzine got its name from. Brian Moore was a Gills fan.
Every line of that song is great by the way, I especially love the opening line....
"Mention the Lord of the Rings one more time and I'll more than likely kill you."
and this bit a few lines later....
"Is this a wok that you've shoved down my throat or are you just pleased to see me?" |
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