Happy Face

09/10 52 points from 25 games 16/17 52 points from 25 games I'm not pissing my pants just yet.

Watched the first 2 the day. Nowt else like it on telly. Like Cheers if it was filmed as a stage play without the laugh track and with much more overt racism, sexism, homophobia, f'ing, blinding and cunting. Not as many laughs as you'd expect from a show written, directed by and starring Louis CK, but the hour long episodes have enough laughs interspersed throughout the more story, character based approach than his last effort.

NUFC to Score 0 - sammynb, Monkeys Fist, TheGingerQuiff 1 - Kevin Carr's Gloves, wykikitoon, Holden McGroin 2 - Ant, acrossthepond, Dougle, Kitman, Dr Gloom, MiddleAgeCool, @yourservice, Happy Face 3 - StoneColdStephenIreland, Howay, The Fish, Rayvin, aimaad22, Tom 4+ - ewerk, OTF, scoobos, zicomartin NUFC to Concede 0 - StoneColdStephenIreland, Howay, The Fish, Rayvin, ewerk, Dougle, Kevin Carr's Gloves, wykikitoon, Tom 1 - Ant, acrossthepond, aimaad22, OTF, Kitman, Dr Gloom, MiddleAgeCool, scoobos, Happy Face 2 - @yourservice, Holden McGroin, zicomartin 3 - sammynb 4+ - Monkeys Fist, TheGingerQuiff

Anyone watched Horace and Pete yet?

Two bairns under 3. I see whatever I can whenever I can and a fraction of what I would have previously.

Just discovered letterboxd. Added and rated most of the films I watched in 2016. Here they are, from best to worst...

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Aye, your chest hair gave me a semi

Could someone start the Blackburn thread with a public poll please. The pattern of us losing when I do threads and winning when we don't is even clearer than foul mouthed thread titles.

Total Poster 20 ewerk 18 Anorthernsoul 18 Kevin Carr's Gloves 17 Happy Face 16 Ant 16 OTF 16 Tom 15 acrossthepond 15 The Fish 15 wykikitoon 14 Dougle 14 Howay 14 scoobos 14 strawb 13 StoneColdStephenIreland 12 @yourservice 12 MiddleAgeCool 12 Rayvin 11 barnabox 11 David Kelly 11 ohhh_yeah 10 Andrew 10 ChezGiven 10 Dr Gloom 10 Monkeys Fist 9 rogerbarton 9 TheGingerQuiff 9 ToonMarshy 9 zico martin 8 Holden McGroin 8 Jintsay 7 Kitman 7 Renton 7 tooner 6 McFaul 5 Christmas Tree 5 gpirlo68 5 jonasjuice 5 sammynb 5 SpartaFC 5 trophyshy 3 247 3 Ausman 2 aimaad22 2 vimalraja 1 AJack 1 angrysteve 1 arc89 1 Bryn5 1 Geordie1973 1 holycrosser 1 JonGoodwyn 1 Monroe Transfer 1 PaddockLad 1 The Mighty Hog

NUFC to score 0 - sammynb 1 - Kevin Carr's Gloves, MiddleAgeCool, Holden McGroin, Ant, OTF, The Fish, Anorthernsoul 2 - aimaad22, wykikitoon, Rayvin, Dr Gloom, strawb, Jintsay, ewerk, StoneColdStephenIreland, ohhh_yeah, Happy Face, @yourservice, zico martin, ToonMarshy 3 - Howay, Andrew, Tom, Kitman, scoobos 4+ - Dougle NUFC to Concede 0 - aimaad22, wykikitoon, Rayvin, strawb, Kevin Carr's Gloves, Howay, Andrew, ewerk, StoneColdStephenIreland, Dougle, Tom, OTF, Kitman, Anorthernsoul, Happy Face 1 - Dr Gloom, Holden McGroin, Jintsay, Ant, ohhh_yeah, The Fish, scoobos, @yourservice, zico martin 2 - MiddleAgeCool, ToonMarshy 3 - sammynb 4+ -

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Barry Fry their manager?

The Guardian (and it's liberal disseminators) hammered over fake news... https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/

The kindle version is only £1.99 on Amazon at the moment.

Doesn't seem to have been mentioned on here so hoying up the trailer and recommending to all. Even if you have no more than a passing interest in the Beach Boys. For the fans there's the story of recording Pet Sounds and Wilson's descent into drugs and madness. The more emotional and dramatic story to interest everyone else comes decades later with Eugene Landy using and abusing his position as Wilson's doctor for his own benefit while others try to get Wilson out from his clutches.

Rogue One

Kick Ass 2 - I loved Kick Ass, but this was horrific, like chalk and cheese. Not sure how the writer director got the job based on his lack of previous success but it sorely misses the input of Vaughn and Goldman. More gross-out comedy than super hero, the gross is just rank and I can't imagine laughing even when I was 13.

Braun s9 was supposed to be the best one when I did my investigations a year or 2 back. Mine has been champion. There's teenage girls get more stubble than me like, so I'm no authority.

I couldn't remember who said this so looked it up. You (and Chez) are getting docked points. I put it on thinking reasonable people had liked it. 30 minutes in and even the wife hasn't laughed yet. Edit: David Kelly (as always) spot on about how awful it is.

I'd hate us to buy half a dozen £10m players when we need just a few £20m+

In the absence of having a funny comment on a topic i invariably link to Stewart Lee's funny comments instead but I recently read Stewart Lee's book that transcribes his top gear routine and comments on it in the footnotes. Both the routine and the commentary are very funny and very accurately skewer the show. He's especially harsh on the hamster (not a real hamster) wishing an horrific death on him. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LSNIoSezUEcC&q=Top+gear#v=onepage&q=Hamster&f=false Both well worth a look.

Santa and admiral akbar died?

You can carry a load of journeymen if they have the endeavour to work hard and support the main men. Kante, Mahrez and Vardy carried Leicester to the title with the likes of Simpson ever-present. The loss of Shelvey has hit like either of those going missing from that squad. Just buying a few pure quality players will be enough to buoy the existing squad in the Premier league iyam. Colback will never carry the weight of running the show from the centre of the park for a Premier League (or championship?) team and at 21 Hayden isn't there yet. I'm not even sure if Shelvey has it in him like he has in the second tier (or Gayle tbh) , but I still think we'll cut it with a few quality signings down the spine.