Good morning everyone 
Cloudy here at present, forecast to become a fairly sunny day,
I hope everyone has a good day 
night EL slim velvet
A very short clip of James Earl Jones reading Shakespeare's sonnet 55:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8jfJBS6ds
https://www.gloucestershireliv...A#Echobox=1725526837
How is it that a child can be excluded from school because of the colour of their hair! 
@El Loro posted:A very short clip of James Earl Jones reading Shakespeare's sonnet 55:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8jfJBS6ds
If nothing else, he will be known by his very distinct voice 
@slimfern posted:https://www.gloucestershireliv...A#Echobox=1725526837
How is it that a child can be excluded from school because of the colour of their hair!
Very odd decision 
By the way, although your link is on my local news site, the school is in Blackpool.
@slimfern posted:https://www.gloucestershireliv...A#Echobox=1725526837
How is it that a child can be excluded from school because of the colour of their hair!
agree slim but schools are quite strict these days - the school i work in has a no mobile phone policy - none to be seen as yet this term
@slimfern posted:https://www.gloucestershireliv...A#Echobox=1725526837
How is it that a child can be excluded from school because of the colour of their hair!
agree slim may be she is a bit young to have two tone hair in primary in school terms- think schools are trying to be more strict post covid
night EL slim
There's another girl who was suspended from school for the way her hair looks (in Milton Keynes):
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk...ay-she-looks-4770521
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:agree slim but schools are quite strict these days - the school i work in has a no mobile phone policy - none to be seen as yet this term
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:agree slim
@El Loro posted:There's another girl who was suspended from school for the way her hair looks (in Milton Keynes):
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk...ay-she-looks-4770521
I agree that primary school age is a little young to be messing about with hair colourants etc, but is it really bad enough to be excluding them...I would have thought that having a confident pupil willing to learn would be more important, and we all know that a major part of confidence is in the way we look.
I'm amazed at some of the things my grand-daughter (aged 14) has to contend with these days, school is so very different to when I was a teenager 
@El Loro posted:I see that the BBFC has reclassified a 1927 film called "The Ring" with a 12 certificate mainly due to racist language. It's about boxing and the only reason for mentioning it is because it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Not being a supporter of boxing, (personally, I'd see it banned given the chance), 18 would be my choice of classification for it tbh....however, I think it wouldn't be realistic to think that most under 12's wouldn't be interested in such a film as this anyways 
@slimfern posted:Not being a supporter of boxing, (personally, I'd see it banned given the chance), 18 would be my choice of classification for it tbh....however, I think it wouldn't be realistic to think that most under 12's wouldn't be interested in such a film as this anyways
It's not a film I would watch anyway
@slimfern posted:I agree that primary school age is a little young to be messing about with hair colourants etc, but is it really bad enough to be excluding them...I would have thought that having a confident pupil willing to learn would be more important, and we all know that a major part of confidence is in the way we look.
I'm amazed at some of the things my grand-daughter (aged 14) has to contend with these days, school is so very different to when I was a teenager
tbh agree slim - its not an exclusion issue - and same here school is so different now to when I was in school as well
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Clear blue skies here at present, quite chilly outside, may gat a few showers later.
I hope everyone has a good day
I think my hopes of an Indian summer are well and truly out of the window El 
Overcast with a chilly wind here atm...
Keep warm folks..
@slimfern posted:I think my hopes of an Indian summer are well and truly out of the window El
Overcast with a chilly wind here atm...
Keep warm folks..
I had seen that the chances of an Indian summer were low but didn't want to dash your hopes when you mentioned that Slim The weather does get warmer than it is at present but not really warm.
Slim, I see that the BBFC has certified another very old Hitchcock film today for "home entertainment". So may be there will be others. This one is "Juno and the Paycock" (1929) based on Sean O'Casey's play. Not a typical Hitchcock film, he was friends with O'Casey which is why he wanted to make the film. Hitchcock's first film made as a sound film ("Blackmail" was made as a silent film with the sound then added). Low budget, not good quality sound or film.
Little snippet of it on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfsoiSkospA
And you might recognise the man sitting down who doesn't say anything during that snippet. It's John Laurie making his film debut (many British films and also Pte. James Frazer in "Dad's Army").
@El Loro posted:Slim, I see that the BBFC has certified another very old Hitchcock film today for "home entertainment". So may be there will be others. This one is "Juno and the Paycock" (1929) based on Sean O'Casey's play. Not a typical Hitchcock film, he was friends with O'Casey which is why he wanted to make the film. Hitchcock's first film made as a sound film ("Blackmail" was made as a silent film with the sound then added). Low budget, not good quality sound or film.
Little snippet of it on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfsoiSkospA
And you might recognise the man sitting down who doesn't say anything during that snippet. It's John Laurie making his film debut (many British films and also Pte. James Frazer in "Dad's Army").
Recognise him for that
night EL slim
A link to an 11 minute animated clip on Youtube which was posted a couple of days ago. It's a sombre piece but highly artistic.
The music is the adagietto movement from Mahler's fifth symphony. That is associated with the film "Death in Venice".
There is no dialogue but the storyline is influenced by Daphne Du Maurier's story "Don't Look Now" which was made into a film. Couple's young daughter dies, couple go to Venice, as he's an architect working on a church, wife meets two sisters who warn her of danger there, wife returns home, husband stays there, has visions of someone in red, that is revealed to be a woman with a knife. Not shown but implied is that she murders the husband.
Other than the storyline is dark, the clip would be U certificate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN-GE7-tbBM
@El Loro posted:A link to an 11 minute animated clip on Youtube which was posted a couple of days ago. It's a sombre piece but highly artistic.
The music is the adagietto movement from Mahler's fifth symphony. That is associated with the film "Death in Venice".
There is no dialogue but the storyline is influenced by Daphne Du Maurier's story "Don't Look Now" which was made into a film. Couple's young daughter dies, couple go to Venice, as he's an architect working on a church, wife meets two sisters who warn her of danger there, wife returns home, husband stays there, has visions of someone in red, that is revealed to be a woman with a knife. Not shown but implied is that she murders the husband.
Other than the storyline is dark, the clip would be U certificate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN-GE7-tbBM
I watched that film with Donald Pleasence & Julie Christie....was quite scary ...for me 
@slimfern posted:I watched that film with Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie....was quite scary ...for me
I saw that film at the cinema years ago and not one of my favourite films 
The Youtube clip I posted isn't scary and the characters shown in it don't look like the actors in the film. It's quite possible that if I hadn't mentioned the film you wouldn't have realised it.
I would class it as supernatural 
Still well acted