Originally posted by Conchis
View Post
Recommended Television Programmes
Collapse
X
-
There are good things about membership of the EU. For the UK, ( and many other countries) having the Euro really isn’t / wouldn’t be one of them.
And incidentally, my humble credit card seems to work fine in the Eurozone, and my local post office does a good deal on currency.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by teamsaint View PostThere are good things about membership of the EU. For the UK, ( and many other countries) having the Euro really isn’t / wouldn’t be one of them.
And incidentally, my humble credit card seems to work fine in the Eurozone, and my local post office does a good deal on currency.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Conchis View PostCharges on non-UK currency. And the exchange rate has been generally lousy for the last three years.
But we have thrashed this all out before.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by teamsaint View PostThere are good things about membership of the EU. For the UK, ( and many other countries) having the Euro really isn’t / wouldn’t be one of them.
And incidentally, my humble credit card seems to work fine in the Eurozone, and my local post office does a good deal on currency.
It's a pain to have to have accounts in multiple currencies
and some countries in the Eurozone find it hard to pay people who don't have a bank account in €
Given the very tight margins on touring musicians we need all the help we can get....
Comment
-
-
Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by Conchis View PostI would love to be in the Euro. All that faff about having to get 'new currency' when I cross the channel.
Comment
-
Not what I have seen recently, but a programme coming on BBC1 at 9pm this evening:
The Murder of Jill Dando
I have a very particular interest in this story, having had what I can only describe as a partial premonition that something very wrong was afoot for Jill before her murder. It is one of the very small number of instances I have experienced throughout my life that suggest that there may be something to the notion of ESP.
Jill had been one of the presenters of the BBC TV Holiday programme - always cheery, seemingly uncomplicated: one of those slightly flipperty-gibberty characters who can sometimes seem annoying for their perennial sunny dispositions but one also wishes there were more of to make up for so much neurosis and hostility in the world. A week or so before the murder took place, Jill was featured on the front page of Radio Times, dressed in black leather, Emma Peel-style, sporting a machine gun, if my memory serves me right. I remember at first glancing at the picture, and just thinking how stupid and inappropriate the image was to the person depicted wearing it, and tut-tuttingly put the mag down to go off and do whatever I had intended doing next. Then something seemed to draw me back to that picture; I stared hard at it, and a feeling came over me that there was something very wrong about it, though I could not think quite what. I had had such feelings before, as I expect have others, and never given further thought to them. Indeed, in this instance I put them to the back of my mind and just went about my business. When the news of the murder came - as I remember it was very soon after that particular edition of Radio Times - A very strong chill came over me, since when I've thought that if only I had taken the original feeling more seriously, I would have done my utmost to contact Jill, or the BBC, to warn her, even if this would have been deemed mad at the time. But we don't give much credence to hunches - especially ill-defined ones; particularly those that seem to lie outside the realm of rationality.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostNot what I have seen recently, but a programme coming on BBC1 at 9pm this evening:
The Murder of Jill Dando
I have a very particular interest in this story, having had what I can only describe as a partial premonition that something very wrong was afoot for Jill before her murder. It is one of the very small number of instances I have experienced throughout my life that suggest that there may be something to the notion of ESP.
Jill had been one of the presenters of the BBC TV Holiday programme - always cheery, seemingly uncomplicated: one of those slightly flipperty-gibberty characters who can sometimes seem annoying for their perennial sunny dispositions but one also wishes there were more of to make up for so much neurosis and hostility in the world. A week or so before the murder took place, Jill was featured on the front page of Radio Times, dressed in black leather, Emma Peel-style, sporting a machine gun, if my memory serves me right. I remember at first glancing at the picture, and just thinking how stupid and inappropriate the image was to the person depicted wearing it, and tut-tuttingly put the mag down to go off and do whatever I had intended doing next. Then something seemed to draw me back to that picture; I stared hard at it, and a feeling came over me that there was something very wrong about it, though I could not think quite what. I had had such feelings before, as I expect have others, and never given further thought to them. Indeed, in this instance I put them to the back of my mind and just went about my business. When the news of the murder came - as I remember it was very soon after that particular edition of Radio Times - A very strong chill came over me, since when I've thought that if only I had taken the original feeling more seriously, I would have done my utmost to contact Jill, or the BBC, to warn her, even if this would have been deemed mad at the time. But we don't give much credence to hunches - especially ill-defined ones; particularly those that seem to lie outside the realm of rationality.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostBut we don't give much credence to hunches - especially ill-defined ones; particularly those that seem to lie outside the realm of rationality.
Sorry, serial - but no need for ESP.
.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... and therein lies wisdom. We 'remember' things that seem significant, part of a pattern; all the millions of times we have 'hunches' that turn out to have no significance, we ignore/forget them. Basic statistics, but the human brain is badly wired to compute probability : our human psychology needs to find patterns and meaning even in things that don't have them, so we see what we wish to see.
Sorry, serial - but no need for ESP.
.
All playing into his intuitive perception....?
Watch the programme, and see what you think....
***
As for the much vaunted Line of Duty.... is it the passing years that makes me less tolerant of grittier & more realistic forms of onscreen violence, or was it actually very nasty indeed, more so than the previous series...?
Still full marks for back-references, variable & convoluted plot lines...Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 02-04-19, 14:49.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostNot what I have seen recently, but a programme coming on BBC1 at 9pm this evening:
The Murder of Jill Dando
I have a very particular interest in this story, having had what I can only describe as a partial premonition that something very wrong was afoot for Jill before her murder. It is one of the very small number of instances I have experienced throughout my life that suggest that there may be something to the notion of ESP.
Jill had been one of the presenters of the BBC TV Holiday programme - always cheery, seemingly uncomplicated: one of those slightly flipperty-gibberty characters who can sometimes seem annoying for their perennial sunny dispositions but one also wishes there were more of to make up for so much neurosis and hostility in the world. A week or so before the murder took place, Jill was featured on the front page of Radio Times, dressed in black leather, Emma Peel-style, sporting a machine gun, if my memory serves me right. I remember at first glancing at the picture, and just thinking how stupid and inappropriate the image was to the person depicted wearing it, and tut-tuttingly put the mag down to go off and do whatever I had intended doing next. Then something seemed to draw me back to that picture; I stared hard at it, and a feeling came over me that there was something very wrong about it, though I could not think quite what. I had had such feelings before, as I expect have others, and never given further thought to them. Indeed, in this instance I put them to the back of my mind and just went about my business. When the news of the murder came - as I remember it was very soon after that particular edition of Radio Times - A very strong chill came over me, since when I've thought that if only I had taken the original feeling more seriously, I would have done my utmost to contact Jill, or the BBC, to warn her, even if this would have been deemed mad at the time. But we don't give much credence to hunches - especially ill-defined ones; particularly those that seem to lie outside the realm of rationality.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... and therein lies wisdom. We 'remember' things that seem significant, part of a pattern; all the millions of times we have 'hunches' that turn out to have no significance, we ignore/forget them. Basic statistics, but the human brain is badly wired to compute probability : our human psychology needs to find patterns and meaning even in things that don't have them, so we see what we wish to see.
Sorry, serial - but no need for ESP.
.Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 02-04-19, 16:18.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostBut isn't SA's OP more about cultural phenomenology, sexual stereotype and (given the possible culprits of the Dando murder (or execution)) an evocation of the law of unintended consequence?
All playing into his intuitive perception....?
Watch the programme, and see what you think....
***
As for the much vaunted Line of Duty.... is it the passing years that makes me less tolerant of grittier & more realistic forms of onscreen violence, or was it actually very nasty indeed, more so than the previous series...?
Still full marks for back-references, variable & convoluted plot lines...
Comment
-
Comment