The Silencer & Black Garter

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    The numbers are new to me, but by now we know all polls can be trusted! :D
    Tonight is Sankthans (Saint John's night) , a strange left over from Catholosism from the Middle Ages.
    We gather and burn bonfires.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I hope you have marshmallows too :)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    Near Ålesund they build a bonfire at least 130 feet tall every year :D
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    You should see some of the bonfires over here on
    The eleventh night ( 11th July ) some are huge.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    It's nice that we keep some of the better things from the Catholics and disregard the bad stuff, like inqusition and pedophilia. :)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,734Chief of Staff
    I'll be happily raising a glass tonight for the good health of
    Lady Barbel -{ )

    Thank you, TP, she's feeling a bit better now.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,734Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    I suggestion everyone who isn't watching football meet up here. We'll drink to the health of the Bride of Barbel. !

    Thanks N24, and I'm one of the 60% who isn't watching.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    You should see some of the bonfires over here on
    The eleventh night ( 11th July ) some are huge.

    Anything you can do, we can do better! :D

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    This video of the building of the Ålesund bonfire is well worth watching. Because this was the tallest bonfire (in the voice of Jeremy clarkson:)... in the world ... at 47 meters or 154 feet, the youth who buildt it chiskened out and sometimes used safety harness that year.

    Video:https://www.nrk.no/mr/se-den-spektakulaere-videoen-om-byggingen-av-norges-storste-st.-hans-bal-1.12985143


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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    But you build them in sensible safe places ! ...... ours are
    Built in the middle of houses, and built up areas :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    These bonfires are in fact the only high-rise buildings we have. We only let them stand there for a couple of days or hours, then we burn them down. :v
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    On Qi, they said that Norway had given a mountain Finland. Which is a nice gift.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    I think it was only a suggestion, but Finland really needs something to break up all the endless pine forrest. It's a part of the Taiga, so it en s somewhere in Siberia.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Caught a couple of trailers today .
    The first purge -{ looks interesting, I love the Purge movies.
    The Equaliser 2. Denzel Washington, is Back and completely
    Badass ! -{
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  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    I wonder why they bothered using the Equaliser name on the Denzel movie. It was a pretty decent action thriller but seemed hardly at all like the TV series.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I think the first film was to set up the character. At the end
    We do see him starting to help individuals, who need help.
    At least they didn't make it a gross out comedy, like most
    Remakes these days. ;)
    Having an actor of Denzel's talent also raises the quality of
    The film, as with Liam Neeson in Taken.
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  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    Yes, the well of 70s TV series to remake has surely run dry now - CHiPs was rubbish in the 70s and hadn't aged well. Terrible old shows like that and Baywatch could only be done as gross-out comedies.

    Thank goodness the Six Million Dollar Man movie never happened, they were threatening to do that with Jim Carrey at one point. Also The Persuaders - the series was fine as it was and didn't need Hugh Grant and George Clooney (much as I don't mind either actor) to desecrate my childhood memories.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :))
    I remember reading about the Six million dollar man movie and
    Had high hopes, until I learned who was connected with it. :#
    It's such a great idea, I'm sure it will be made at some point. The
    Only question is will it be any good or not. :D
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,785MI6 Agent
    Not really....

    Dr Who the movie, Lost In Space, The Saint, The Avengers, (not Marvel) Thunderbirds, CHIPs, The Dukes Of Hazard, Fantastic 4 (twice) Charlies Angels, Get Smart, The Man From Uncle, Batman v Superman and Ghostbusters.

    Need I say any more?!

    Ah, time to take the Cat for a walk. Come on Holly!
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I hath oft said I'd love to see a tv version of the Avengers by
    Mark Gatiss, very much playing up the surreal aspect of the
    Original show.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,734Chief of Staff
    If that were to be done, then Gatiss and Stephen Moffat are the guys for the job. I'd love to see them work on a Bond adaptation.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    {[] Gatiss knows his Bond and has slipped in a few references
    that only a fan would know , like flight 007, the flight of the
    Dead , in to Sherlock.
    I even suggested it to him on his Facebook page :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,734Chief of Staff
    Oh, well done! {[] Let's hope that MGW & BB take the hint.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    On the pub quiz questions ........

    Which Bond Villain ( actor ) attended the last
    public execution in Paris?
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,734Chief of Staff
    I think that has to be Christopher Lee, given the many remarkable things in his life.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    {[] Yes
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,630Chief of Staff
    {[] Gatiss knows his Bond and has slipped in a few references
    that only a fan would know , like flight 007, the flight of the
    Dead , in to Sherlock.
    I even suggested it to him on his Facebook page :))

    There are also a number of Bond references in The League of Gentlemen which he co-wrote -{
    YNWA 97
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    The weather is shockingly fine at home, but the neighbour is spreading manure on the fields around me. Lovely! :D
    So I evacuated to SABS. A Coke Zero, please.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    My wife being a Farmer's daughter, on trips back to the
    Family farm. I too have had that overpowering scent of
    The countryside. ........ mostly it smells of cow poo ! ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,263MI6 Agent
    At this time of the year it does :#
    I spent some time in Bergen a couple of weeks ago. It struck me how noisy it was. Or rather.... how quiet it is here. Birds, the neighbour's cat, a tractor in the distance spraying cowshit.....
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,734Chief of Staff
    My wife being a Farmer's daughter

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EUrKOTshIM The Beach Boys (the real Beach Boys, not Gidea Park) from way back, when they really were boys.
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