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Quatermass And The Pit almost 70 years ago (May 1957) writer Nigel Kneale pitched an outline to the BBC it combined ancient folk law, sci-fi, ancient aliens, the supernatural and horror in modern-day (1950s) London: During a major building project, site excavations uncover ancient humanoid remains archaeologists and anthropologists estimate they could be up to 5 million years old this is impossible - it totally undermines established evidence of early humans And Britain is rebuilding hell-for-leather after the massive destruction during WWII so the government is determined to continue the building work But the scientists are equally determined to stop the work and find out what these remains mean Pretty soon they’ll wish they hadn’t… This 1950s show predates colour TV in Britain but the image and audio is pretty good. It scores 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and ranks in the top 100 best ever British TV shows It can be watched for free on the fawesome.tv enterainment app

yesterday outside Buckingham Palace the King’s Guard played a tribute to Dolly - a global treasure

yes, good point I should have read the synopsis it’s a difficult thing for me

those controls aren’t in place here

this isn’t Shakespeare - it is targeted at teens and young adults, likely watching alone with a ‘happy ending’?

it is a romantic story key plot point - death by suicide

sorry, I’m not into romanticising suicide validating suicide especially given the target audience - teens and young adults who are already in a high risk group

but aren’t these images in this thread (and other threads) “links”? When members press the “Other Media” button the popup window says “Insert image from URL“ for example the image in this post from 28 February 2023 is from the source URL if you ‘click’ on the image the link to the source is displayed: https:// cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0481/4058/3069/files/ezgif-3-c8dbaeeed9eb_480x480.gif “Insert image from URL” is the only ‘instruction/information that members see when they post in a thread using the “Other Media” button so how should @Bill W or anyone else verify “that someone else didn't originally steal that photo and post it on (Wikipedia)”? do posters need to retain verification records of posted links? specifically, what records must be kept?

Chevrolet Corvair 1960-69 how an unusual American car that sold nearly 2 million, was attacked by campaign lawyer Ralph Nader as the most dangerous car on American roads, cost General Motors hundreds of $millions in lawsuits, and changed American law - making consumer protection for American car buyers probably the strongest in the world

time spent on things we enjoy is not time wasted

60 years on and Trekkie fandom just gets stronger

“choice” = analysis paralysis

didn’t Google promise to stop being evil?

thanks Myr - worked a treat! it’s an automatic reflex my fingers have ‘learned’ for every website - so they’re going on a training course NOT to do this for GayAuthors

is embedding Post Images pics in forum posts yet another victim of the infamous “Online Safety Act”? https://freespeechunion.org/archive/hamster-forum-and-local-residents-websites-shut-down-by-new-internet-laws (Note: the Hamster Forum is a notorious fetishistic hotbed of grotesquely animalistic behaviours featuring explicit high resolution images of what these disgusting furry creatures get up to when they think no-one’s looking… )

4 words …and 2,000 years of history

yes but… blame the Victorians, they loved putting things into straightjackets and corsets (especially people ) And give thanks to the French before they invaded England (1066) Old English was an inflected language, like old German (on which much of English was based - more invasions you see 😮) including infinitives, which were just one word (no “to”) which meant because the infinitive (in whichever form) was a single word it couldn’t be split! but the French changed all that, and infinitives became two words - which you CAN split Then, some time later… the Victorians (once they’d got everyone tied up in corsets or straitjackets ) decided that because Latin infinitives couldn’t be split then neither could English infinitives. If they’d based their argument on Old English there might have been some logic. But they didn’t. So there wasn’t And we’ve all been feeling guilty/censorious ever since But, hey, what kid would be roused +inspired by “To go boldly where no one has gone before” or “Boldly to go where no one has gone before”? TOS’s split Infinitive intro is one of the greatest lines in sci-if history!

exact same thing happened to a long running time travel show and - guess what - it stopped running… ☹️

Interestingly Star Trek TOS on Blu-ray (where the pilot +earliest episodes are now 60 years old!) is better picture quality than more recent Trek because it was all shot on 35mm film, while later series were all or partly on VT, and sound recording is better too because in them thar days skilled sound engineers ensured that dialogue was always clear (and actors were trained in diction and elocution)

the piano is a percussion instrument …so why not use it to make the rhythm backing track?🧐 Factoids #1 although (obviously) the instrument uses strings to produce the 88 tuned notes (on most pianos), in orchestral scores the piano is grouped with the percussion section because the keys are struck, it provides rhythmic emphasis, and it cannot sustain or swell a note like a bowed string instrument #2 some pianists have developed this feature of the piano, using the wooden case, fittings and mechanisms to create percussion effects during performance. Hungarian composer /maestro Peter Bence shows how he does this in his arrangement +recording of Michael Jackson’s ‘Human Nature’, using ‘looping & layering’ of the recorded percussion sounds in the mixer desk to create the rhythm backing track to his keyboard performance

🤣😂classic way to restart the ‘border wars’

oh you do, Krista everyone has an accent even if it’s just ‘posh’

rife across the UK I like the variety of accents, but many Scots defeat me (‘Double Dutch’ my grandma would scornfully declare ) the only thing that matters is diction - spoken English is incomprehensible without clearly enunciated consonants my ‘gaydar’ is constantly scanning people and flagging up ‘Gay!!’ according to the excellence (or not) of their diction and elocution

I’m not an author but I have thought about how I would use AI tools if I were, and that’s in the structure / planning of the story eg opening scene introducing the MC (or not), main story arc, engaging sub-plots, cast and so on We know that even “the greats” (composers too) have sometimes hit the proverbial brick wall and abandoned works because the structure was wrong and they couldn’t figure out how to fix it, or perhaps set it aside hoping future inspiration might find that elusive fix It’s how writers chose to use these AI tools that opens up the potential for them to inspire genuine creativity, not just to churn out derivative content based on soulless algorithms

looks like what my gran used to call “cough medicine”