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Studio Ghibli on Film4
Eugene's LairEugene's Lair
El Loro Yes, Ponyo's real name is Brunnhilde, one of the Valkyries, who in the Wagner opera "Die Walküre" falls in love with a human and the music during the storm sequence is influenced by the famous "Ride of the Valkyries" theme from that opera. [ more ]
Eugene's Lair Yes: I saw "Ponyo" in the cinema, and the storm is indeed terrific (apparently Miyazaki drew all the sea an wave shots himself). I probably need to see it again, though, as I don't think I picked up on all the Wagnerian references first time round... [ more ]
El Loro Eugene, I'm sure it's the 2010 release of Kiki I saw. Film 4 has shown quite a number of the Ghibli Studio films before often at holiday seasons such as Christmas. If you haven't seen Ponyo before, the storm sequence is quite something. [ more ]
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Why am I coming up as Geordi when I logged in?
GeordiGeordi
El Loro Lori, my PM to Syd is a way of finding out the email addresses for both Syd and Geordi rather than just the one currently logged in to [ more ]
Lori Or you could go look at your profile page: Click on the "Update your profile" link there, and you'll see your email address. [ more ]
El Loro I've sent a PM to Syd/Geordi with a way for you to be able to find out which email address is attached to which account. [ more ]
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Countries and States Quiz
Dame_Ann_AverageDame_Ann_Average
Eugene's Lair Re: Countries and States Quiz [ more ]
Dame_Ann_Average @Eugine's Lair...your list is exactly the same as mine ...we can go ahead and submit the answers methinks [ more ]
Eugene's Lair Coming to this late as I've been away over the weekend. Difficulties with initially looking at these on a mobile phone (not least WRT the loss of scale on pictures such as #3 ) gave me some problems too. Here's my list: I know many of them have already been identified, but I found it easier to just go through them all. Hopefully my numbering works this time... Switzerland Papua New Guinea Vatican City Canada Germany Spain Ukraine (Note that Crimea is greyed-out!) Monaco India Philippines... [ more ]
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Kevin Anderson and John Isner - one of the great Wimbledon matches
El LoroEl Loro
El Loro https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/44823525 Watch the clip at the start of the article for an astonishing piece of tennis which is quite something. If the final with Anderson and ? is as good, forget watching the World Cup final, watch the Wimbledon final instead. [ more ]
Saint Djockie vs Nadal right now !!!!! Djockie winning [ more ]
Saint Isner does look ridiculously tall - lanky [ more ]
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Manchester under threat!
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy ThingExtremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing In Scotland we say K'-hoon - or very close. It's hard to describe a sound with accuracy. There's a half pronounced vowel sound after the initial 'K' sound, Sort of a cross between 'i' as in if and a as in hat. El Loro's 2nd link on pronunciation is how we say it, [ more ]
El Loro There's a BBC article on various names which people haven't been able to pronounce them correctly, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44630061 Although most of the names do indicate how they should be said, one of them isn't. That's Colquhoun. I wonder how people here would say that. Here's some attempts on the "How to pronouce" site. https://www.howtopronounce.com/colquhoun/ And here's how I think it should be pronounced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IkOnEKISU [ more ]
Baz Horrendous ....and the weather over next few days won’t help it any [ more ]
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Get you VHS players out - tapes are on their way back.
Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesEnthusiastic Contrafibularities
Saint I meant the general view - nostalgic, happy times [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities Some of those titles are starting to appear on blu-ray, mostly released by niche labels. [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities Me too. I have a JVC S-VHS recorder/player. The reason being is that I still have some tapes never released on DVD or Blu-ray. [ more ]
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Coffee shops
Cold SweatCold Sweat
Syd A Cappuccino should be sipped when I say so.........(Even if the Italians frown on me) [ more ]
Sprout I may be more for them if I knew they all paid their proper taxes [ more ]
Cold Sweat I managed to do a pub and a Costa heading home this evening! I was a bit sniffy about them until around Jan/Feb this year I had a 50 minute wait on the concourse at Inverness railway station so rather than freeze I took the plunge with a mug of cappuccino within the confines of a warm Costa café. [ more ]
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Animal themed Quiz ....TIA :)
Dame_Ann_AverageDame_Ann_Average
Dame_Ann_Average Eugine we had Vizsla, Velvet gave us it early on here are the answers Puppies photos 1 Chihuahua 2 Old English Bulldog 3 Black Labrador 4 Dalmation 5 Blue French Bulldog 6 Hungarian Vizsla 7 Miniature Dachshound 8 Standard Poodle Books with dogs 9 Call of the Wild/ Buck 10 Hooch 11 Old Yello 12 Snoopy Cats 13 Mr Bigglesworth 14 Nala 15 Thomas 16 Tom 17 Night at the museum 18 Wind In the Willows 19 Watership Down 20 Winnie The Pooh 21 water for Elephants 22 Just so Stories 23 Gorillas in the... [ more ]
Saint Nothing better than a dog with a light brown nose [ more ]
Eugene's Lair I apologise in advance, Damme, as I think this is going to be another of those "after the horse has bolted" jobs: I've just had a bit of a brainwave, and I think #6 is a Vizsla. It was the snout that was bothering me: all the other breeds we were looking at such as Ridgebacks have dark snouts, not light ones. [ more ]
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Betting Shops
SaintSaint
Baz We’ve got a couple , but I’ve never been in one in my life [ more ]
Eugene's Lair I'm old enough to remember when - by law - you weren't allowed to see into a bookies from the street outside. It gave them a fairly seedy image. IMO, by trying so hard to get rid of that image, a lot of bookies instead now feel rather clinical. As I've said above though, they can get quite lively when there's a major race or other sports results coming in. The thing about "zero atmosphere" is that in the old days, many of those who regularly frequented bookies tended to retire to the local... [ more ]
Eugene's Lair A bookies? I thought most towns had several nowadays. My town centre certainly has loads - so many in fact that I've lost count. [I've just done a quick Google Maps search, it says there are 9 in the town centre area (which sounds about right), and another 5 within about half a mile of the town centre. In the centre, there are 3 William Hills within about 500 yards of each other, and a triangle of 3 Ladbrokes no more than about 300 yards from each other! ] Of course, it's the Fixed Odds... [ more ]
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