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Post by jolovespiggies on May 31, 2017 8:26:52 GMT
I would highly recommend them if you get the chance Piggles love, they are both really good, quality dramas. No, I wouldn't let a child see Alien either. I was 21 when I first saw it and it scared me. Ha ha Bean hunni, I have seen "Sharknado," it was so bad it was embarrassing but at the same time good fun.
Hugs Jo xxx
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Post by 3piggles on May 31, 2017 21:20:02 GMT
Sharknado was the first of a series of cult films that were so awful, they got a following like that Rocky Horror Show, or whatever that movie is called. One of the NACAR drivers even had a cameo in the third movie, I think, saying "Oh, hell no!" as the shark fell out of the sky to top of him. Of all the totaly ludacrous premises for syfy horror films, that one takes the biggest leap I haven't seen Jaws in a really long time, but I have actually seen Jaws. The Shark from the movie was docked in Vineyard Haven, Marthas Vineyard, for a while. Kind of cool to see it bobbing by the dock We thought Vera had finished, but it had been moved to a different night. We watched it last night. Question for the UKers, why do people say Me instead of My? Me dad, not my dad? We always figured it was a lower class, less education situation. Is that the case, or is a regional thing? She's definitely in a specific region, close to Scotland, etc.
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Post by Bean on Jun 1, 2017 7:48:43 GMT
Yes it's regional, we do it in Yorkshire - it gets written (informally) as mi'mum. I think the best one is mi'sen which means myself - so someone sharing out cakes might say 'I'm keeping one back for mi'sen'!
No idea on origination, as it's done in various areas, but the poshos never ever do it, so it's definitely class related!
Maybe Sharknado would have amused me more if I'd not been so tired - the special effects were certainly comically awful!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 1, 2017 8:37:39 GMT
Veras are back on here Piggles but they keep showing the same episodes over and ver again. There must have been so many more made. "Me" instead of "my" is common in some parts of the country but is also used quite widely cross the UK. It isn't strictly correct, "My" being the right word in this case. I love it when people say "Mi-sen" Bean hunny, they used to do it a lot in "All Creatures Great and Small."
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 1, 2017 17:02:41 GMT
We loved All Creatures Great and Small, but didn't understand those comments, so we missed what was happening. We got the gist of it from the rest of the show. I think there's a lot more local dialect in Vera, so we often end up looking at each other to see if the other understood it. We really like the show, and we get the majority of it. We just sometimes miss enough to not have a clue why that person was the killer. We have regional dialects here, too, and I'm sure they are just as confusing to outsiders. We had though saying Me instead of My was totally a class thing, lack of education, and lack of any support to change, because everyone around them said it. Then we heard people from different areas of the British Isles, all the same class, some saying it and some not saying it. That's when we began to wonder if it had more to do with location that with education or how a person was raised. Good to know
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Post by Bean on Jun 2, 2017 8:00:23 GMT
It's funny as there are things I'll say when I'm with other Yorkshire folk, but so many of my friends around where I live are from elsewhere in the UK and around the world. I never intend not to say certain phrases, but they don't just pop out like they do when I'm with other locals. I'm sure going away to university and realising most people wouldn't know what I was going on about might have played a part in that process!
But I always have to tune into other accents, so can empathise with missing stuff on tv programmes because you didn't get what they said! My husband is better at it so can usually fill me in.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 2, 2017 9:20:44 GMT
Another funny one in All Creatures Great and Small Piggles love was "Are you vitnary" when James first started visiting as opposed to Siegfried. It always used to make me smile. I can understand how Vera could be hard to understand, the Geordie accent is lovely but can be hard to understand as are some Scottish accents. Oh Bean love, I can understand that. If you are with others in your area you are going to speak to them as they do to you. I am glad hubby is a good translator if you get stuck. Is anyone watching "Paula?" It is good but creepy.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 2, 2017 20:27:31 GMT
Haven't seen Paula on our offerings. I did google Vera, and there are new episodes in 2017, so you might be getting the new ones. I also went away to school, starting in high school, so was exposed to lots of accents from around the country and around the world. Whenever I was back with my mother, though, my Boston accent came out in spades! Since she's been gone, starting with them moving to CA in 2000, I haven't been around anyone with a strong enough Boston accent to get me started. I generally tune in to accents really well, but if dialect and colloquialisms are also involved, I get lost. I must say that the setting for Vera is extremely depressing. It's always dark or dreary, even though it's on the coast, and the urban areas remind me of the row houses in mining areas, plain, endless and dreary. It seems to be such a sad area? I don't know where The Coroner is supposed to be located, but it's also on the coast, and seems to be sunny all the time. They had one episode where a ship sank off the coast, and the residents were all raiding the containers that washed up on shore. They said it wasn't stealing, it was salvage, and the people in that area had been "salvaging" for centuries. In the end, they had to give it all back, but it was funny watching the lone police officer trying to stop all of the townspeople from walking off with everything
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Post by Bean on Jun 3, 2017 7:35:19 GMT
Oh gawd, Paula! Fella was out the other night and I felt like watching something, and found it on iPlayer - I knew it wasn't his sort of thing, so got stuck in, but went round and checked all the doors and windows before I went to sleep haha! It was pretty creepy.
I did roll my eyes a bit when she slept with the policeman, despite saying she never usually fell into bed with people (except the previous two we'd seen that she couldn't deny) and seeing what trouble that sort of behaviour had got her into! And I'm not quite sure about the whole previous life and her giving other people a window into another world? But I quite enjoyed it! Last part next week.
I'm looking forward to the next installment of The Handmaid's Tale too - it's showing on Channel 4. I really enjoyed the book by Margaret Atwood, and it looks like a good adaptation.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 3, 2017 13:38:17 GMT
The Coroner is based down here Piggles love in Cornwall, or it maybe Devon. Definitely one of the two. That happened here quite a lot in days gone by. Locals would guide a ship so it automatically wrecked and then it would be plundered.
Yes Paula is weird Bean love. I agree, she is rather a "jumpy into beddy" girl isn't she but I think she said that that was the only time she can visit her alternative life and feel happy? I am interested in what the ending will be. Who is that little girl who keeps appearing with the wounded mouth too? This is a good one.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Jun 4, 2017 7:37:13 GMT
I know, you could well imagine it's something from his past looking at how he lives (we don't know why he has two partners with kids living together, and locking each other in cupboards isn't a good sign of a healthy relationship!) or if his relationship with Paula has opened up a portal to an alternate life or something?! I hope it all makes sense by the end!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 4, 2017 14:27:18 GMT
I am very much looking forward to the end to Paula Bean love, I hope it is good and not a weak explanation. I thought of portals too but she only goes back when she is making love - we shall see.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Jun 5, 2017 8:59:04 GMT
In which case wouldn't she have been putting herself about all over the place to get to the other world? Because when she slept with the psycho killer, she said it was the first time she's ever had a one night stand - or does she say that to all the boys?! She doesn't seem the kind to care what people think about her, so I'd be surprised if she did pretend she didn't sleep around if she did.
Good characters though!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 5, 2017 22:09:58 GMT
I'm having a great chuckle of the Jumpy into beddy girl, Jo Especially for one who apparently claims not to do that, lol! I'm glad it's keeping you both entertained I've been watching the episodes of Lethal Weapon that we recorded. We had so many, and hubby's never going to get around to watching them, so I'm getting them off the recorder.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 6, 2017 8:37:18 GMT
You are right Bean love, it is all such a mystery and I hope it has a good conclusion which is explained. So many of these things leave you up in the air not knowing what has happened and that really annoys me.
Yes it is very entertaining Piggles love, it may come to you soon. I just love Lethal Weapon. I love the characters and there is quite a lot of humour in it too which I really like. They are like two naughty little boys or one at least who always gets the other into trouble, it reminds me of school lol!
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 6, 2017 20:48:06 GMT
I like the characters in Lethal Weapon, too. US police work isn't anything like that. That type of grandstanding and risk taking would be stopped ASAP, as it would raise the insurance rates for the department to a point they couldn't afford. Just like all the risk taking Danny does in Blue Bloods, while the commissioner is saying who much the police adhere to police and procedure. But it's fun to watch.
I remember reading a book about the people who wrecked ships to steal the cargo. Daphne DuMaurier book, I think, and I think the people were called wreckers, but I read it probably 40 years ago, so hard to remember.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 7, 2017 8:41:21 GMT
I know it wouldn't really be allowed to happen Piggles love but it is such a good laugh. I love Danny in Blue Bloods too, he is always so grumpy Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Jun 9, 2017 8:29:23 GMT
Oooh the last episode of Paula gave me the willies - I'm not sure it answered everything I was wondering about, but was very spooky and menacing (that bit where Mac was looking in the cupboard under the stairs was stressful!). Compelling viewing! I had some very odd dreams last night though...
I don't know whether, despite all his crimes, to feel extremely sorry for James getting cemented into an underground coffin, given the reason he was unhinged was because he was shut in a cupboard for a week as a kid? And why did he have two partners?! And why did Paula kill her brother when the medics seemed to be saying he was brain dead anyway, and only being kept alive artificially - I thought they were putting forward the suggestion that it be switched off, which would have been a bit gentler than smothering his poor burnt face (and don't they have heart rate monitors/ alarms there?!)!
Paula's not one to mess with though, that's for sure! She was remarkably sophisticated in both taking James down and setting up that concrete coffin for him...
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Post by jolovespiggies on Jun 9, 2017 8:47:02 GMT
I didn't get it at all Bean love but hated the buried alive bit. It is one of my worse fears so did nothing for my already fragile emotional state. I think there maybe another series but as this one didn't come to any satisfactory conclusion and the ending was so horrific, I may give it a miss if it returns.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Jun 9, 2017 8:51:16 GMT
Aww sorry it upset you Jo - it was pretty horrible, I think a lot of people will have had bad dreams last night. I assumed she'd buried his body, so it was awful to realise what she'd really done.
I'm also reading the latest Cormoran Strike novel (the detective series J K Rowling is writing under the name Robert Galbraith) and there's lots of violence in that, so I think I need to feed my psyche with something more positive and constructive next!
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