Couple of quizzes to keep you entertained. There are no real rules; I will post the answers after a suitable period of time. Discussion is permitted.
Cwiz 1: Prisons
1. In which novel did Edmond Nantes escape from the Chateau d’If?
2. In which prison was the Marquis de Sade incarcerated?
3. Which South African prison was named after the Afrikaans word for seal?
4. Which Cavalier poet wrote, “Stone walls do not a prison make”?
5. Which US prison took its name from pelicans?
6. Who wrote
I never saw a man who looked,
With such a wistful eye,
Upon that little tent of blue,
Which prisoners call the sky.
7. Tartarus was a dungeon in Greek myth; for whom was it built?
8. Frank Darabont directed which prison movie?
9. Which isolated UK prison opened in 1809 to house Napoleonic War prisoners?
10. In 1952, the Kray twins were held in which historic prison?
This cwiz is courtesy of ProfessorPineapple
Cwiz 2: Scrambled Plays
1. Forgoing toadwit
2. Meth cab
3. Née in lewd farmyards
4. Limp agony
5. Anal seas fathomed
6. Sex up or die
7. A Leo knocking bar
8. See earthling games
9. I scorn hero
10. Sole had soul
Ovally Balls 
Arm update: The lad has a full cast on but is off at the polyclinic now for a new x-ray and new cast fitting.
He was in fair spirits when we went to collect him on Friday, made better by Saturday being his name day. He got far too many presents and sweets for his own good.
The cause of the accident has annoyed me a lot. He was with a few other kids on one of those big inflated trampolines. There was also one dad, a hefty sized fellow. This father did a big leap and catapulted my lad into the air and he landed on the arm and snap.
It was a bit stupid by this guy to be on there in the first place but he didn’t intend to break a little kid’s arm. What’s pissed me off is he scarpered and didn’t even check that my lad was ok.
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My eldest broke 2 bones in his wrist trying to stop a shot (playing football) – small enough fractures. Cast comes of in 2 weeks…should actually come off next week but we’re away for a few days, so had to put it off.
He’s not overly pleased to be going on holiday with a cast on… it was a bit unfortunate in that training sessions has just started when he had to drop out again
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Ouch. Best wishes to young trisk.
Doctor’s report was everything was ok and come back in a fortnight for a check-up.
We’re away for 10 days from next Sunday. A trip organised with military precision around the various swimming pools and swimmable lakes of Moravia. Now we have to go for walks in the mountains, much to my chagrin.
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Mate of mine broke the same wrist at our first rugby training sessions two years running in high school, effectively meaning he only started playing the sport in our 3rd season. He wasn’t much good anyway.
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What’s pissed me off is he scarpered and didn’t even check that my lad was ok.
Probably time to contact some fairly traceable people on the Internet for some payback.
*polishes favourite knuckle duster*
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You’ll be happy to know the UK is building links with Europe once more:
The construction phase of the Viking Link Interconnector project, a high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between the UK and Denmark has commenced with Siemens Energy Ltd mobilizing to the site to start the construction of the first stage of works, a 2.4 km long access road for the Bicker Fen converter station site.
Siemens Energy was appointed to construct the UK and Denmark converter stations on both ends of the interconnector link. UK work started in July to build a new access road to the site. The permanent road will take nine months to complete and will enable access for the major construction equipment to the Converter Station and for operational vehicles to access the site once the Converter station is completed in 2023.
Viking Link project is a joint venture between National Grid Ventures, part of National Grid, and the Danish electricity system owner and operator, Energinet. The 1.4 GW high voltage electricity interconnector will be the longest in the world when completed, stretching 765 km subsea and onshore connecting from Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire, UK and Revsing in South Jutland, Denmark to enable clean energy to be shared.
Once completed by the end of 2023, the EUR2 billion (US$2.3 billion) subsea electricity cable will have the capacity to be able to supply renewable energy to power one and a half million UK homes. By 2030, 90% of electricity imported via National Grid’s interconnectors will be from zero-carbon sources.
From IPP Journal. Not sure the folk of Lincolnshire will be too happy with an umbilical chord to the EU, mind.
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It’s Lincolnshire, Deebee. They will be chuffed to fuck at all the copper they can cut out of cables, and all the earthmoving equipment that can be spirited away on bank holiday weekends.
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Sbt – you say that but it would have been worse going to Kent.
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Happy now?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/27/exeter-chiefs-to-discuss-dropping-native-american-badge-and-mascot
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I would argue that Exeter never actually needed them in the first place.
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All change for November internationals…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/53552277
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Yay! Rugby!
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As long as they don’t call themselves the Cotton Pickin’ Necessary Evils, Sladey.
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You should record that Thauma, so it can piped through the tannoy at empty stadiums.
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Evenin’ Iksy. Sunburned yet?
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Evening BB. No not yet. I stay out of the blazing sun, and when I do venture out it is with 30 to 50 protection suncream on the mush, and long sleeves because I’ve got dodgy skin on my arms. Too many years sunburning without care in the good old seventies and eighties.
Broadstairs in 1976 was a peak of late adolescent ignorance. Sunburning myself to a crisp with the ladz on the beach during the day, then disco-dancing like a sad lobster in a jumper in the evening. My skin shed like a snake then, and the consequences still trouble me and my doctors now.
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Same families, Craigs. Stuff will end up in Kent. Likewise, if your garden shed gets emptied, it will be repurposed in Lincolnshire.
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I like hot summers though, much better than all those wet and miserable ones in the Valleys.
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Anyway my manners. How are you doing, my old midge?
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Back at work after being off the last two weeks. Did manage to get a change of scene last week, going up to Aberfeldy. We’ve been gradually getting ourselves back into ‘circulation’ after the lockdown, even just occasionally going out for a coffee felt like a big deal at first.
Didn’t help with going back today that the weather was typically Glaswegian – it pished down all day. We’ll find out on Thursday exactly what the arrangements will be for the kids coming back in a couple of weeks time. At the moment the pupils don’t need to be socially distanced from each other (and that would have been nigh on impossible to police anyway), but staff still have to be two metres away from them. I’m at the stage now where I’d be quite happy to be two miles away from them.
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Hmmm, I quite like the southern hemisphere teams coming up in the winter.
I know Fiji is in the southern hemisphere but you know what I mean.
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Just back from picking up Tichtlet the younger from Bristol, where she has spent lockdown.
We walked over the Clifton Suspension Bridge, it’s pretty high up there. I used to be good with heights but something about the exposure had the adrenalin running up and down the backs of the legs – yes it was adrenalin.
I really like Bristol
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That’s more than a bit shit, TomP. When it happened to my daughter it was just an accident on a friend’s trampoline. The parents, who are friends of ours, were really upset and could not have been more helpful – I was without the car so they took me and Tichtlet II up to the hospital, they went and got us food and drinks, took us back home, and they were embarrassingly apologetic for a long time afterwards.
That didn’t mean a jot when I sued them, mind
(that’s a joke btw, they are good people.)
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when it came to playing Mark Zuckerberg in a film, they cast Jesse Eisenberg, who also played Lex Luthor. And I don’t know if you’ve seen The Social Network or Batman v Superman, but without wanting to cast aspersions on Eisenberg’s versatility as an actor – those performances are identical.
If an actor plays you, and then plays a villainous character, it’s not necessarily a reflection on your morality. But it is if they don’t have to moderate their performance between roles.
One of the worst bits of reasoning I’ve seen in the Graun for a long time.
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That is spectacularly bad, Craigs.
Facebook hasn’t exactly been fighting the good fight, mind.
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BTW, I watched several films over the weekend – in order of preference 1. BlacKkKlansman – excellent.
2. The Equalizer 2 – predicable but fun. 3. Mission Impossible #whatever, the most recent one. predictable but not much fun.
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The only film I saw over the weekend was The Rock playing Danny DeVito in Jumanji: The Next Level. Total nonsense of course, but great fun. You could tell the actors had great fun making it. Even Jack Black was bearable.
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We’ve watched a lot of films, BB. I usually sign up for a month of Now tv films at Christmas and they gave me a really good deal when I cancelled which carried on well into lockdown. Similarly my daughter had a student deal on Amazon Prime and we had Netflix. I was useful when we were only allowed out for an hour a day.
I can barely remember what ones we watched now, but there was a lot of them, I like Robert Ludlum novels and I liked Matt Damon as Bourne so I re-watched those ones. The Girl in The Spider Web was okay, Once Upon a time in Hollywood is classic Tarantino, he really needs a great editor, but the ending is quite something.
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It, not I
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Sad news about Denise Johnson. She’s on this:
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We have Netflix and Prime (which may well come in handy once the 6N disappears from Cooncil Telly), so I’ve watched a few things throughout the lockdown. Although my first option is usually to put music on, rather than the TV, unless there’s footie on. Also find that there appears to be a lot of very similar stuff available on both platforms, so trying to find something unusual or not just sci-fi/fantasy/superhero type stuff can be difficult. I did watch the Ocean’s films though which again were just lightweight enjoyable fluff.
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There’re bits of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that I really like and it’s quite luxuriant in parts but that ending made me feel very uncomfortable.
We saw it in a cinema when it came out and most of the audience were in stitches.
We watched Once Upon a Time in The West about a week later to remind ourselves of what exactly Tarantino had nicked. It’s a much much better film, funnier and much better politics.
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We watched Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes last week. First time my missus had seen it. She really liked it. As did I, watching for the gazillionth time.
Also, Albert Finney in Gumshoe. It’s got some very dodgy racist comments in it – one of which I didn’t understand so checked what it was a reference to and was very shocked – but Finney’s very good and the cast is top drawer.
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Forgot to mention the best film of all that I’ve watched recently. Sean The Sheep in Farmageddon.
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Tom, the ending, or last big scene before the film actually ends of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood had several things that made me feel uneasy, for the same reason as The Hateful Eight.
I’m still not sure where I stand on it from an “artistic” and “political” point of view.
I don’t think it’s gratuitous, I think he means to make us examine our own thoughts on the matter. At least I hope that is the case, like he did with language, again I hope he means it that way and he is not just being given the benefit of the doubt by us all, from film fans to critics, and he is just laughing at everyone, all the way to the bank. I don’t think he is that bad.
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The “Bruce Lee” scene is very funny, though.
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BB, I will watch Farmageddon if and when I can
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There were a lot of things in the film I did like and I’m pleased he didn’t go with what actually happened.
I am pretty squeamish about this sort of thing and the (cartoonish) violence just isn’t for me. Plus, I know them dames were killers but the audience reaction to the Brad Pitt character’s violence sat uneasily with me.
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I just got around to watching The Shining for the first time this weekend.
Wasn’t as good as the book (which isn’t saying that much), but some interesting camera angles and noises.
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Sure, I can understand that people have different immediate reactions to it, maybe those reactions would change on reflection.
My favourite stand up is Jerry Sadowiz, he will get to your (one’s) own personal line and cross it at some point in his act, without asking, of course he is asking us why all the other stuff that was highly offensive to others was funny and this stuff, the stuff that offends you, isn’t.
I’d like to think Tarantino is asking that sort of question, but maybe I’m being too kind to him, I don’t know.
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Thaum, I tried to watch that once, but my wife really can’t stand that kind of film and we switched it off once they got to the hotel, iirc.
We didn’t even get as far as the woods in Blair Witch.
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Ticht – Facebook are the bad guys, but that was really dull.
I saw Game Night yesterday. So bad even Cat would be hard pressed to finish it.
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Game Night was one of the films we watched, Craigs, yep, that is a couple of hours we won’t get back.
I liked the lead actor in Ozark, I think that is the only reason we stayed with it.
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Recent film watching in no particular order.
Your Name – very good if you like Japanese animation a la Studio Ghibli. We had a dodgy downloaded subtitle track though, so a key plot point passed us by entirely.
Da 5 Bloods – watchable with good parts, but overall a very clunky old ride. Overrated imho.
Crawl – I like creature features, and it’s a good one that doesn’t outstay its welcome.
Re-watched Atom Egoyan’s The Captive, and it made a lot more sense 2nd time around because the flashback scenes were easier to spot so the overall story was less confusing. So I’m in a majority of one thinking it is a really good movie regardless of the critical panning it received. You have to see it at least twice though, at least at my age.
Some Netflix winners were Hostiles, Suffragette, Collette, Limehouse Golem (also on second viewing), Arrietty, I Lost my Body, I Tonya . Old mentions worth some fresh embiggening – Ravenous, The Invitation, Event Horizon.
Finally my ‘Comfort Blanket of Meh’ award goes to A Star is Born. As pleasantly easy-going as a jigsaw for 8-12 year olds.
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Ticht, next time you go to Bristol on a sunny day have a drink on the terrace of the Avon Gorge Hotel.
I had a great year living in Bristol but was lucky in that i lived fairly central and could get around easily on foot (plus like walking up and down hills). The music was good, there were a lot of drugs around and a fair number of good bookshops.
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One of the women on my course I was a bit in love with. She had a boyfriend, though. He was quite a nice guy and a face on the scene in the clubs. He always said he’d name his first daughter Lakota after one of the better places in town.
He was a Belgian bloke who was involved in, erm, pharmaceutical supplies. One week he was the featured clubber in the local listings magazine. A Bristolian friend who knew more about it than me made the point that the police should just read that feature if they were serious about nicking blokes pushing pills.
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TomP, I’m hoping Edinburgh and Bristol are drawn in the same pool for Europe next season and that it’s safe enough to go to the game at Ashton Gate. I would spend a long weekend in Bristol if that happens.
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Yeah, I know that feeling – it seems to have come on with me since I started wearing spectacles – probably that tiny interval between my brain seeing the real version and the image my spectacles present….
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Has this been discussed?
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/arid-40020224.html
Wales to play “home” games elsewhere?
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