Out with Barbie, in with the Meg

[JDP]

Picking up a few tips ready for the the next big trip.

 

[Malc]

Dear me no!

[JDP]

8 hours ago, Malc said:

Dear me no!

Has to be the most terrible movie ever, with a grand total of 3 people in the cinema on its second evening of showing. On the up side, I supported the local cinema and tried to keep an English actor off the dole line but I don't hold much hope for him!!!!!!

I now have a worst movie to compare other bad movies against.

[JonC]

39 minutes ago, JDP said:

Has to be the most terrible movie ever, with a grand total of 3 people in the cinema on its second evening of showing. On the up side, I supported the local cinema and tried to keep an English actor off the dole line but I don't hold much hope for him!!!!!!

I now have a worst movie to compare other bad movies against.

Looks like an old school cinema which is good. Does it have a guy playing the Organ?

We have an independent cinema in Burnham On Crouch that only costs about £5 ($300 Dingo dollars) which makes it less painful. A family trip to the big Odeon or cineworld can be an expensive affair. 

[Saintly Fish]

Sounds perfect to me!!

[JDP]

9 hours ago, JonC said:

Looks like an old school cinema which is good. Does it have a guy playing the Organ?

We have an independent cinema in Burnham On Crouch that only costs about £5 ($300 Dingo dollars) which makes it less painful. A family trip to the big Odeon or cineworld can be an expensive affair. 

Yes old style cinema which does have an old organ as well as historic projectors etc on display. I'd forgotten how cheap watching movies are in the UK compared to here. Its around $25 each to watch a movie here which is around 12-13 quid old money. Its far cheaper to wait a few weeks and pay to watch them from the comfort of your home but there's still something special about heading to the movies with the Mrs like the older generation used to do and of course it helps keep a few young people employed.

On another note, I worked on a job 4 hrs drive away today pulling scaffolding down from a house in the pouring rain and I did not like it one bit. Trying to figure out why my bum cheeks ache from taking down scaffold. 

[JonC]

2 hours ago, JDP said:

Yes old style cinema which does have an old organ as well as historic projectors etc on display. I'd forgotten how cheap watching movies are in the UK compared to here. Its around $25 each to watch a movie here which is around 12-13 quid old money. Its far cheaper to wait a few weeks and pay to watch them from the comfort of your home but there's still something special about heading to the movies with the Mrs like the older generation used to do and of course it helps keep a few young people employed.

On another note, I worked on a job 4 hrs drive away today pulling scaffolding down from a house in the pouring rain and I did not like it one bit. Trying to figure out why my bum cheeks ache from taking down scaffold. 

This morning I have struck a cantilever drop scaffold on Oxford street, great fun 

[suzook12]

3 hours ago, JDP said:

On another note, I worked on a job 4 hrs drive away today pulling scaffolding down from a house in the pouring rain and I did not like it one bit. Trying to figure out why my bum cheeks ache from taking down scaffold. 

I believe you are meant to face the pole when doing the firemans slide, not face outwards..... Tho you could wrap it with andrex first.....

🤣

[Malc]

20 hours ago, JDP said:

I now have a worst movie to compare other bad movies against.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0046977/

 

Beats everything hands down. 

[Saintly Fish]

2 hours ago, Malc said:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0046977/

 

Beats everything hands down. 

Looks amazing... is that the porno version??

[Malc]

10 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Looks amazing... is that the porno version??

I think that there was an attempt to "jazz" it up by having scantily clad ladies and weird dances and rituals but Jupiter's (?) moon was surprisingly like the home counties the special effects weren't and there was more ham than a deli counter. 

[JDP]

14 hours ago, JonC said:

This morning I have struck a cantilever drop scaffold on Oxford street, great fun 

Holy crap you can keep that, my back and bum cheeks are aching from one day of it with a max of 4m height. When I was brick laying in the city everything was crane lifted and we weren't meant to work on the outside of the scaffold. I was laying bricks from the outside on the scaffold when the high winds caused the crane to catch and pull the section I was on away from the building 34 stories high. Luckily nothing fell to the busy street bellow but Ive been no good with heights ever since.

[suzook12]

On 8/24/2023 at 1:01 AM, JDP said:

Holy crap you can keep that, my back and bum cheeks are aching from one day of it with a max of 4m height. When I was brick laying in the city everything was crane lifted and we weren't meant to work on the outside of the scaffold. I was laying bricks from the outside on the scaffold when the high winds caused the crane to catch and pull the section I was on away from the building 34 stories high. Luckily nothing fell to the busy street bellow but Ive been no good with heights ever since.

Screw that!!

I had a mate working as a roofer, he was up on the roof of the old maltings that were being converted to flats. He slipped, from the ridge to right off the edge, just managing to grab the scaffolding before plummeting to the ground..... As he was dangling there, foreman pokes his head out of the window and say "aint fecking tea break yet, get ta arse back up there"!!

He went back up, sat on the ridge for rest of the day til it was time to go down, never went back on a roof after that.

[Odyssey]

Local cinema is £3 a ticket…. It’s £10 for 2 tickets, big popcorn, big drink….