@slimfern posted:Does this apply to both Debit and Credit cards?
Yes, it applies to debit as well as credit cards.
Doesn't apply to regular subscription payments.
Also not to some low risk payments. I don't know if something like paying car tax via a card would come under that heading as that process included entering a code shown on the reminder form sent to drivers .
night EL slim Velvet
Good morning everyone it's a cloudy morning with rain later.
Enjoy your day everyone 
@slimfern possible films on Talking Pictures in the next week:
Wednesday 3.05 in the morning "He Walked by Night" (1948) semi-documentary gritty police procedural drama about a cop killer, breakthrough role for Richard Basehart, best known for the tv series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
Wednesday 15.55 "Dragonwyck" (1948) period drama/thriller with Gene Tierney, Walter Huston and Vincent Price. Dragonwyck is the name of the mansion.
Friday 8.45 in the morning "The Ghost Camera" (1933) Leads are Henry Kendall and Ida Lupino (one of her earliest films) Mystery thriller with a touch of comedy, It's a rather creaky film but is of interest as it's a very early film (his second) of John Mills.
Saturday 8.20 "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" (1930) First of their shorts with "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Films to avoid:
Monday "Fear and Desire" (1953) war film, notable only because it was Stanley Kubrick's feature film debut. Too arty and unpleasant to be worth watching.
Thursday "Double X" (1992) Crime drama notable only as it has Norman Wisdom in. Never seen it and is considered to be a dreadful film.
@El Loro posted:@slimfern possible films on Talking Pictures in the next week:
Wednesday 3.05 in the morning "He Walked by Night" (1948) semi-documentary gritty police procedural drama about a cop killer, breakthrough role for Richard Basehart, best known for the tv series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
Wednesday 15.55 "Dragonwyck" (1948) period drama/thriller with Gene Tierney, Walter Huston and Vincent Price. Dragonwyck is the name of the mansion.
Friday 8.45 in the morning "The Ghost Camera" (1933) Leads are Henry Kendall and Ida Lupino (one of her earliest films) Mystery thriller with a touch of comedy, It's a rather creaky film but is of interest as it's a very early film (his second) of John Mills.
Saturday 8.20 "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" (1930) First of their shorts with "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Films to avoid:
Monday "Fear and Desire" (1953) war film, notable only because it was Stanley Kubrick's feature film debut. Too arty and unpleasant to be worth watching.
Thursday "Double X" (1992) Crime drama notable only as it has Norman Wisdom in. Never seen it and is considered to be a dreadful film.
Cheers El
You'll have to give me a minute or two to wiki that lot 
@slimfern posted:Cheers El
You'll have to give me a minute or two to wiki that lot
If you decide to watch "Dragonwyck" on the Talking Pictures channel you may notice that there's one scene where a word said by Vincent Price to the maid which has been silenced. That's because the word is said in a derogatory way and is now considered as highly offensive when used that way.
You're a cool dude El
I don't think you're much older than me but you'll always have my respect.
Easy 
@velvet donkey posted:You're a cool dude El
I don't think you're much older than me but you'll always have my respect.
Easy
Thanks Velvet
No worries boss 
@slimfern posted:'He walked the night' is free to watch on you tube...so might give that a go instead of 3 in the morning on tv
I vaguely remember watching 'Voyage to the bottom of the sea'.
'The Ghost Camera' is on you tube too
There was the 1961 film which had Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine in. Then Irwin Allen spun that off to the tv series though with a different cast.
@El Loro posted:If you decide to watch "Dragonwyck" on the Talking Pictures channel you may notice that there's one scene where a word said by Vincent Price to the maid which has been silenced. That's because the word is said in a derogatory way and is now considered as highly offensive when used that way.
I don't much like the sound of this one El...Nicholas (Vincent Price) sounds like a horrid individual
Think I'd much prefer to watch the Laurel & Hardy film
@El Loro posted:There was the 1961 film which had Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine in. Then Irwin Allen spun that off to the tv series though with a different cast.
Pretty sure it was the film and not the series I watched...and possibly only watched it because my brother had it on.
@El Loro posted:
Films to avoid:
Monday "Fear and Desire" (1953) war film, notable only because it was Stanley Kubrick's feature film debut. Too arty and unpleasant to be worth watching.
Thursday "Double X" (1992) Crime drama notable only as it has Norman Wisdom in. Never seen it and is considered to be a dreadful film.
Consider them avoided El 
@slimfern posted:I don't much like the sound of this one El...Nicholas (Vincent Price) sounds like a horrid individual
Think I'd much prefer to watch the Laurel & Hardy film
The Laurel & Hardy film and "The Ghost Camera" are more enjoyable than the other two films I mentioned
Nicholas is a horrible individual in "Dragonwyck". At least Gene Tierney and the director made up for it the following year with another period film and vastly more enjoyable - "The Ghost and Mrs Muir"
@El Loro posted:The Laurel & Hardy film and "The Ghost Camera" are more enjoyable than the other two films I mentioned
Nicholas is a horrible individual in "Dragonwyck". At least Gene Tierney and the director made up for it the following year with another period film and vastly more enjoyable - "The Ghost and Mrs Muir"
Oh I really enjoyed that one
@slimfern posted:Consider them avoided El
I didn't think that Stanley Kubrick film would have any appeal to you at all. Only appeal would be to those who wanted to be able to say that they had seen every one of his films.
I only mentioned the Norman Wisdom film as we had talked about him a few days ago. Definitely one to avoid, it's a low quality gangster film, not a comedy film. Radio Times review of this includes "Even in the darkest days of the low-budget crime drama, few films plumbed the depths reached by this atrocity".
@El Loro posted:I didn't think that Stanley Kubrick film would have any appeal to you at all. Only appeal would be to those who wanted to be able to say that they had seen every one of his films.
I only mentioned the Norman Wisdom film as we had talked about him a few days ago. Definitely one to avoid, it's a low quality gangster film, not a comedy film. Radio Times review of this includes "Even in the darkest days of the low-budget crime drama, few films plumbed the depths reached by this atrocity".
Well you've been recommending films to me for a while now and have been more or less right every time
@slimfern posted:Well you've been recommending films to me for a while now and have been more or less right every time
Thanks
The Talking P:ictures tv channel shows a lot of old films which I never mention such as the "Old Mother Riley" films. Very popular films from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s. Low budget British comedies featuring Arthur Lucan as an Irish washerwoman/charwoman. I've never seen one and doubt if I would find them watchable. The modern equivalent is obvious and I don't watch those either.
night EL slim velvet
Good morning everyone it looks like we're in for a sunny day today.
Enjoy your day everyone
Photos on the BBC site of last night's Northern Lights seen in Scotland:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...nds-islands-60736323
@El Loro posted:Photos on the BBC site of last night's Northern Lights seen in Scotland:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...nds-islands-60736323
Some stunning pictures there El
I think I would consider myself lucky to have such a view
Good morning everyone it's another sunny day to come although it clouds over later in the afternoon.
Enjoy your day everyone
@El Loro posted:Cheltenham not playing this evening although many of the teams in League One are. Next match on Saturday at home to AFC Wimbledon who are in the relegation zone.
It's possible that there's no football match this evening at Cheltenham as it's the first day of the horse racing at Cheltenham racecourse (until Friday with the Gold Cup). I don't watch the horse racing at all as I've said before.
Back in April 2020 I mentioned a dreadful film made in 1960:
https://www.gagajoyjoy.com/top...7#625915813526055537
and commented that Elizabeth Taylor featured in it in an uncredited role.
Besides a couple of uncredited roles when she was a child, she did have other uncredited roles in:
"Quo Vadis" (1951)
"Calloway went Thataway" (1951) (a comedy western)
"Beckett" (1964)
and "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969) which was on television today.
@El Loro posted:Back in April 2020 I mentioned a dreadful film made in 1960:
https://www.gagajoyjoy.com/top...7#625915813526055537
and commented that Elizabeth Taylor featured in it in an uncredited role.
Besides a couple of uncredited roles when she was a child, she did have other uncredited roles in:
"Quo Vadis" (1951)
"Calloway went Thataway" (1951) (a comedy western)
"Beckett" (1964)
and "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969) which was on television today.
Was Elizabeth Taylor a good actress?
She was very beautiful
@slimfern posted:Was Elizabeth Taylor a good actress?
She was very beautiful
Never seen it as it's about a middle aged couple verbally tearing each other and their two guests to pieces during a drunken night but "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) is the strongest evidence that Elizabeth Taylor could be an outstanding actress - she got the best actress Oscar for that.
Based on the play of that name, title is not related to Virginia Woolf but a play on the Disney song "Who's Afraid of the big bad wolf" in their "Three Little Pigs" (1933).
@El Loro posted:Never seen it as it's about a middle aged couple verbally tearing each other and their two guests to pieces during a drunken night but "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) is the strongest evidence that Elizabeth Taylor could be an outstanding actress - she got the best actress Oscar for that.
Based on the play of that name, title is not related to Virginia Woolf but a play on the Disney song "Who's Afraid of the big bad wolf" in their "Three Little Pigs" (1933).
I distinctly remember not liking her in that film....good acting, horrible character 
Also got the impression from Liz Taylor that her characters were never too far from her own.
Good morning everyone it's foggy at the moment although that's not in the forecast which is for a cloudy day and a little chilly. Mind you the forecast yesterday was sunshine and instead it was overcast all day.
Enjoy your day everyone
