Posts by Gromit

After looking at the recently locked "spam" filled thread, I´m presuming thats a big bye-bye to Mr Perp. Some kids, I just don´t get ´em.

lol. too true. I absolutely love Peter Kay, but in all honesty all he´s done is walked into his local and written down everything happening around him. Genius really - northerners have a good ability to laugh at themselves, so they see the humour when its pointed out to them...and southerners can´t believe its true so take it as an extremity of real life, topped with the fact that they love to laugh at northerners. I can´t believe it took so long for someone to come up with the idea. So simple yet so good. You´ve just reminded me of another great live show as well - The Fast Show Live - now that was awesome. They toured twice, once just as they were peaking and again when they´d gone off the boil a little. I saw them the first time and it was absolutely blinding.

Ya know, I always thought The Moomins were Czech...as it turns out, you´re correct in saying that the author was finnish, but the production I was thinking of was German/Polish. Very eastern european looking it was. <A href=´http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Moomins%20Intro.htm´ Target=_Blank>Moomin Facts</a> The only other aussie programme that I can think of is that one with the gang of kids who lived in a big fort and rode around on quads - lucky buggers - can´t remember the name, but it was a bit like The Red Hand Gang on a beach. ...Heidi wasn´t australian??!! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>the BBC tried Czech and Polish cartoons <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> aah so true. remember The Moomins on ITV? Lordy, that used to freak me out. As for the programme you described, it does ring a bell, but for some reason the only name that springs to mind is &quot;Heidi&quot; <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

lol. me neither <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> @esky - I don´t remember that one, refresh my memory <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

lol. i love that you got to use that phrase <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I too got to see Mr Titter Ye Not Howard before he passed on. He was absolutely hilarious and incredibly endearing to boot. I remember one holiday as a kid, in Torquay, my parents took me to see Cannon &amp; Ball - who I thought were hilarious at the time. But I had a similar &quot;mum&quot; experience to Taw, where she wanted to get up and leave during the support act. Apparently she had no time for vulgarities <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Unfortunately we didn´t leave and nowadays I am forced to admit that I saw Michael Barrymore &quot;before he was big&quot; <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I also saw Norman Wisdom that year - who instantly became one of my all-time top 5 entertainers. Love him.

hmmm yes, I think the word you were looking for was ignoramuses... ...and I´m sorry, but I haven´t read that book.

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>that thing about the big family in Victorian Times <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> now, are you confusing &quot;How we used to live&quot; with &quot;The Sullivans&quot;? The former was the programme that followed the victorian family through a period of about 50 years, ending up at the end of world war 2....but I´m pretty sure that was british...the later was the soap-type programme that followed rainbow at 12.30 and followed a family through world war 2...but even though aussie, I´m pretty sure it wasn´t pre-war. Or are you talking about something else?

They don´t make virus´ like they used to. Back in the early 90s/late 80s, viruses were still annoying as hell but with a &quot;more interesting&quot; twist. They showed the personality of the coder rather than just being plain vindictive/evil. I think my favourite was the one with the pacman that ate everything on the screen, that was a corker. He just would go from left to right, up and down the screen eating everything into a black nothingness. A restart cured it temporarily.

I was gutted when they stopped making Black Books. I loved that series. I´ve never seen Dylan Moran live though - whats his act like? A similar character to BB?

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>the news that Google may include the ability for Java to run in email clients and chat services, would that actually be a good idea? <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> thats a good question - would the ability to run Java potentially have an increased security risk? Also, can someone please tell me the advantage to having Java run inside an email client?

well. thats swayed me <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

I too am a massive Izzard fan....I adore Glorious...but I do feel that he peaked a little after that. Glorious though was truly amazing. Huddadada. I saw Lee Evans last year in &quot;The Producers&quot; in the west end and he just blew me away. I´ve seen his stand up on tv before, but its not until he´s right in front of you that you realise just how much energy the man puts into his act. The guy is amazing. And a completely different style, yet mind-blowingly original and intelligent, Bill Bailey is amazing live. I think he´s probably my favourite out of the lot - its between him and Peter Kay for me. I actually cried with laughter so much that I pulled a muscle in my side last time I saw Peter Kay. His comedy is infectious. Oh. And danger could be my middle name. But its John. And don´t call me Shirley.

I know, crazy isn´t it <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> how time flies...

I recently bought a piece of Art from ebay. It arrived perfectly packaged as described with one major flaw - it wasn´t signed. The description clearly said &quot;signed by the artist&quot; and this wasn´t. So I complained and they said that if I paid for the postage to and from Japan (where the artist was), the artist would happily sign it. The painting cost me £140...the postage back and forth would cost me upwards of another £50. I feel ripped off so I complain to eBay, sit back and wait for a reply. Its been 3 weeks now...nothing...nada....zip....I swear that their customer service department have one email folder - &quot;Trash&quot;. They don´t care unless its costing them money. Which is another thing I hate about eBay. I´ve been buying from the site for over 5 years now, but I´ve never sold anything...until a couple of months ago. I won a pair of gold circle REM tickets in a competition, but the bomb went off in london 2 days before the gig so it was cancelled and rearranged for another date - which I couldn´t make. So I stuck the tickets on a last minute eBay auction and made £85 quid for them. Great! Or so I thought. The following month I get an invoice from eBay for over £8 for the sale! £8???!!! What a complete rip-off!! So eventually after a mini tantrum I calmed down, paid it and moved on. One month later - another identical invoice from eBay arrives in my inbox. I complain and yet again they don´t respond. It took me 3 weeks to resolve that issue, yet if the slimy little so-n-so´s just provided a phone number I could have solved it in under 3 minutes. Ridiculous.

I´m presuming that was a dig against me... I was going to a musical ff, for my wedding anniversary, you don´t take a lumbering great 35mm camera with you to a west end musical - for one, they´d never let you through the door. And somehow I don´t think that my wife would have been happy if I´d foregone our anniversary to stand and take photographs of D-List celebrities and ex Big Brother contestants....its hardly art now is it. Edited by - gromit on 10/7/2005 5:19:21 AM

You´re right - if it was written by anyone else I would probably not even give it a second glance. But I´ve found Wheedon´s later work to be exceptionally good, the last season of buffy was outstanding - very apocalyptic. But that is besides the point I suppose, you´re right, Wheedon´s work is mainly about style and &quot;action heros&quot;. I suppose thats why I like him, sometimes I crave for in-ya-face visual nonsense and he delivers. I like it in a similar way to how I enjoy John Woo or Michael Mann. That aside, Wheedon´s sense of humour is excellent and this often comes over in his scripts when allowed. On the subject of BG - I loved that series. Any news on season 2 yet? Will it be a UK release again? Is it already running in the US?

I´ve gotta admit, although I found firefly watchable, I didn´t feel the need to watch it compulsively and subsequently only saw a couple of episodes before it was axed. However saying that, I do love the scripts to Buffy and Angel. Joss Wheedon´s writing has just the right blend of comedy and action to keep the viewer interested - not to mention an uncanny &quot;finger on the pulse&quot; type of quality that attracts score upon score of cult viewers. That coupled with the fact that even some of the harshest critics are saying that its intelligent and original, I am extremely intregued by this film.

you have ebay issues? *dons crap austrian accent* please mister tawalkana, lie back and rest now ja? now, int ya own time, tell me abowt ya mutter.

I was in london´s west end on Tuesday night and accidentally stumbled onto Serenity´s celebrity premier. As shallow as this may be, the main girl was wandering around doing her press coverage and she is *hot*. Its getting rave reviews over here at the moment, which pleases me somewhat. I thought it would come out and just disappear with its cult following - but the critics are urging everyone to go see it, saying that its &quot;refreshing&quot;. I´m especially chuffed for Joss Wheedon - its about time he got some decent recognition as a writer.