Things that don't deserve their own thread

[inactionman]

There is also footage from a ground service vehicle that captured the landing and rollover. Basically, as soon as the wheels were on the deck the port wing is lifting and it just goes straight over, sheering off the starboard wing as it goes. Incredibly lucky that everyone walked away. Just mind blowing.

Looks like he came in waaaay too fast and hard, collapsing the rear right wheel strut first and then the plane just flips over. Bloody terrifying.

Yep. Big old bump into the tarmac. Horrible, but happily amazing all are safe.

[Guy Smiley]

I work underground so I’m coming from a space of what the fuck when it comes to flying but to my untrained eye, it looks like they’ve been hit with wind shear just above ground… pause it and you can see the port wing lifting. From there it hits pretty hard. So yup, investigation over folks. Ah done sorted that one out for y’all.

[Blackmac]

Possibly does deserve a thread, because I just have to say that as a species we are fucked !!!

Watching the live footage from the latest airline crash, & todays is in Toronto, & there's one fucking cunt wandering around with a hoodie, & a bloody big backpack .... because who's first priority in a crash landing, where the plane flips over on it's back, isn't to retrieve your fucking backpack & make sure it's safe while you clamber out the plane .......

Wasn't there a guy live streaming after getting out?

Probably the Cnut who filmed the lad with the backpack.

Was there not a runway fire in Asia a few years ago and all the women were filmed sliding down the chute with their designer bags.

[Slick]

Possibly does deserve a thread, because I just have to say that as a species we are fucked !!!

Watching the live footage from the latest airline crash, & todays is in Toronto, & there's one fucking cunt wandering around with a hoodie, & a bloody big backpack .... because who's first priority in a crash landing, where the plane flips over on it's back, isn't to retrieve your fucking backpack & make sure it's safe while you clamber out the plane .......

Wasn't there a guy live streaming after getting out?

Probably the Cnut who filmed the lad with the backpack.

Was there not a runway fire in Asia a few years ago and all the women were filmed sliding down the chute with their designer bags.

Totally off topic, but do you know a guy called Bryan Rodgers?

[tabascoboy]

Possibly does deserve a thread but...

RIP

The Jam drummer Rick Buckler dies aged 69

Rick Buckler, former drummer in The Jam, has died at the age of 69, his ex-bandmates have confirmed on social media.

The Jam rose to fame in the punk and new wave era of the late 1970s and are credited with inspiring a revival in mod fashion and music.

The band were led by singer and guitarist Paul Weller, who posted on X that he was "shocked and saddened" by Buckler's death.

Bass player Bruce Foxton said he was "devastated".

In a statement, his family described him as a "loving husband, father and grandfather" who was "devoted to many" and will be "greatly missed".

The statement added that he "passed away peacefully on Monday evening in Woking after a short illness with family by his side".

[inactionman]

Possibly does deserve a thread but...

RIP

The Jam drummer Rick Buckler dies aged 69

Rick Buckler, former drummer in The Jam, has died at the age of 69, his ex-bandmates have confirmed on social media.

The Jam rose to fame in the punk and new wave era of the late 1970s and are credited with inspiring a revival in mod fashion and music.

The band were led by singer and guitarist Paul Weller, who posted on X that he was "shocked and saddened" by Buckler's death.

Bass player Bruce Foxton said he was "devastated".

In a statement, his family described him as a "loving husband, father and grandfather" who was "devoted to many" and will be "greatly missed".

The statement added that he "passed away peacefully on Monday evening in Woking after a short illness with family by his side".

Very sorry to hear. I love the Jam, I play something of theirs most weeks, some amazing tunes and a real energy to them.

[Sinkers]

Very sad. A big part of the soundtrack to my teens and the music still holds its own today.

[Gumboot]

Very sad. A big part of the soundtrack to my teens and the music still holds its own today.

Same. Very sad news.

RIP

[Blackmac]

Struggling to give zero fucks about the couple detained in Iran. The sort of twats that won't walk down their local high street after dark because it is too dangerous but will totally ignore all advice to go motor biking across Iran.

[Sandstorm]

Struggling to give zero fucks about the couple detained in Iran. The sort of twats that won't walk down their local high street after dark because it is too dangerous but will totally ignore all advice to go motor biking across Iran.

100%. FCO advised them not to enter Iran. Their friends begged them not go. They were warned not to film inside Iran and post on social media.

They ignored all of the above. Fuck ‘em.

[fishfoodie]

HP's descent from Industry leading innovator, & a genuinely "Great place to Work", is almost complete.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use online and other digital support channels by setting a minimum 15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get answers to troublesome queries.

The wait time was added on Tuesday, February 18, according to internal communications seen by The Register, and impacts retail patrons in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy, though we anticipate more countries could be added.

"We want to inform you of a change in the NL IVR (natural language IVR) in some countries and languages for Consumer Print and Consumer PC customers in EMEA, effective today," HP says in the memo.

IVR, for the uninitiated, is Interactive Voice Response; a phone menu system, basically. The missive continues:

At the beginning of a call to telephone support, a message will be played stating: "We are experiencing longer waiting times and we apologize for the inconvenience. The next available representative will be with you in about 15 minutes.

"To quickly resolve your issue, please visit our website support.hp.com to check out other support options or find helpful articles and assistant to get a guided help by visiting virtualagent.hpcloud.hp.com."

Those who want to continue to hold are told to "please stay on the line."

On the fifth, tenth, and thirteenth minute, the recorded message will tell HP customers it is "experiencing longer waiting times and we apologize for the inconvenience," and again remind them they may switch to alternatives.
....

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/ ... 5_minutes/

The only thing HP has innovated in the last couple of decades, is every shittier Customer support, & new ways to make their employees lives miserable; imagine being the actual human on the support side when the poor pissed off customer finally gets thru !

[Biffer]

Amazon are taking creative control of James Bond.

They’re bound to do the whole ‘Universe’ thing with spin offs and tv series. Will probably end up in the same creative hole that Star Wars and Marvel are in.

[inactionman]

Amazon are taking creative control of James Bond.

They’re bound to do the whole ‘Universe’ thing with spin offs and tv series. Will probably end up in the same creative hole that Star Wars and Marvel are in.

Don't click spoiler if you give a shit but haven't seen the last Bond film

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Is he dead or not then?

[Biffer]

Amazon are taking creative control of James Bond.

They’re bound to do the whole ‘Universe’ thing with spin offs and tv series. Will probably end up in the same creative hole that Star Wars and Marvel are in.

Don't click spoiler if you give a shit but haven't seen the last Bond film

Spoiler

Show

Is he dead or not then?

He's a time lord. He regenerates.

[sockwithaticket]

Amazon are taking creative control of James Bond.

They’re bound to do the whole ‘Universe’ thing with spin offs and tv series. Will probably end up in the same creative hole that Star Wars and Marvel are in.

It's funny because the last 'The Rest Is Entertainment' episode had a whole chunk about Bond and how Amazon's desire to monetise through spin offs was rubbing up against the Broccolis control of the franchise. it was cast very much as an intractable status quo.

I wonder how much cash had to be fronted up to get the Broccolis step aside.

[sockwithaticket]

Amazon are taking creative control of James Bond.

They’re bound to do the whole ‘Universe’ thing with spin offs and tv series. Will probably end up in the same creative hole that Star Wars and Marvel are in.

Don't click spoiler if you give a shit but haven't seen the last Bond film

Spoiler

Show

Is he dead or not then?

Spoiler

Show

Dead. Because I'm not sure even Amazon are willing to splurge the amount of money it would take to persuade 56 year old Daniel Craig to put himself through the time commitment and rigours of shooting another Bond flick. Even if they do somehow clear that hurdle, the man's not going to be able to do it for much longer even with all the dieticians, personal trainers and clever camera angles in the world. Re-casting is necessary.

[Sandstorm]

Next Bond will be Trans.

[sockwithaticket]

Nah, the billionaires and various big business are tripping over themsleves to disavow 'DEI'.That means no trans anything, let alone Bond.

[Uncle fester]

Bond was dead the day The Bourne Identity was released. They just haven't realized it yet.

[Biffer]

Bond was dead the day The Bourne Identity was released. They just haven't realized it yet.

Five Bourne films including Bourne identity since 2002 total box office $1.6 billion.

Five Bond films since 2002 total box office $3.7 billion.

The highest grossing Bourne movie took less at the Box Office than Daniel Craig's worst performing film.

[Uncle fester]

Bond was dead the day The Bourne Identity was released. They just haven't realized it yet.

Five Bourne films including Bourne identity since 2002 total box office $1.6 billion.

Five Bond films since 2002 total box office $3.7 billion.

The highest grossing Bourne movie took less at the Box Office than Daniel Craig's worst performing film.

First up, want to compare budgets while you're at it? Identity was made on a shoestring budget.

Second, success when has box office been a measure of anything other than folks going to see it? Marvel filums are awesome hmm?
Top 50 here. How many of them would you actually sit down to watch?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_h ... prov=sfla1

Also my point was about The Bourne Identity, not the entire franchise. The day of a government spy intriguing and killing foreign bad guys to keep us all safe is more than a little twee in this day and age. No amount of Daniel Craig blue steeling his way through expensive cars and suits is going to improve that.

[sockwithaticket]

Bond was dead the day The Bourne Identity was released. They just haven't realized it yet.

Five Bourne films including Bourne identity since 2002 total box office $1.6 billion.

Five Bond films since 2002 total box office $3.7 billion.

The highest grossing Bourne movie took less at the Box Office than Daniel Craig's worst performing film.

First up, want to compare budgets while you're at it? Identity was made on a shoestring budget.

Second, success when has box office been a measure of anything other than folks going to see it? Marvel filums are awesome hmm?
Top 50 here. How many of them would you actually sit down to watch?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_h ... prov=sfla1

Also my point was about The Bourne Identity, not the entire franchise. The day of a government spy intriguing and killing foreign bad guys to keep us all safe is more than a little twee in this day and age. No amount of Daniel Craig blue steeling his way through expensive cars and suits is going to improve that.

It's not the sole driver of success, but, fundamentally, it's the film business and the bean counters typically have their say over what gets greenlit. Flops don't get sequels or prompt similar fare, they can kill careers on both sides of the camera. The inverse is true too, a hit can make someone and start off new trends in what production companies and investors will fund. The financials have long been a measure of success for anything other than deliberately esoteric non-commercial fare. Critics regularly discuss box office performance, likely and actual, because it's important.

Another way to look at ticket sales/box office is that the number of people seeing a filmmeasures the appetite for the film in question and creating things that people want to go see is kind of the point of most films that get a cinematic release. The Brutalist probably doesn't have quite the same ambitions of audience and box office gross as the new Captain America flick, but the creators and financiers still want as many people as possible to buy a ticket and for the film to make money.

No, the take says nothing about the artistic merits of a film, but I'd saythat concerns whether or not a film is good, not whether it's successful.

[Biffer]

Bond was dead the day The Bourne Identity was released. They just haven't realized it yet.

Five Bourne films including Bourne identity since 2002 total box office $1.6 billion.

Five Bond films since 2002 total box office $3.7 billion.

The highest grossing Bourne movie took less at the Box Office than Daniel Craig's worst performing film.

First up, want to compare budgets while you're at it? Identity was made on a shoestring budget.

Second, success when has box office been a measure of anything other than folks going to see it? Marvel filums are awesome hmm?
Top 50 here. How many of them would you actually sit down to watch?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_h ... prov=sfla1

Also my point was about The Bourne Identity, not the entire franchise. The day of a government spy intriguing and killing foreign bad guys to keep us all safe is more than a little twee in this day and age. No amount of Daniel Craig blue steeling his way through expensive cars and suits is going to improve that.

Basically, you liked the Bourne Identity then.

[Tichtheid]

Is it wrong to say I've watched and mostly enjoyed around 40 of that top 50 box office grossing list?

I'm a huge fan of Cold War stuff and I like Ludlum as a writer - The Osterman Weekend gave me chills when I was in my teens and I've enjoyed everything I've read of his, I think, it's been a while, same with most of the other writers in that genre. I thought the film adaptation of the Bourne books was very good, though not consistent with the novel, and the casting of Matt Damon was perfect.

James Bond is a different thing entirely.

[Tichtheid]

Whilst I'm on this thread and it's not something that keeps me up at night - but is there a way to watch the videos on Facebook without them stopping at the end of the adverts? As I say it's not a big deal and I've only made a cursory search for a solution, but I like the music ones that come up on my feed and after I get an advert for wooly jersey or or socks or some such (my algorithm tells more than I'd like about me) the video just stops.

[Yeeb]

Struggling to give zero fucks about the couple detained in Iran. The sort of twats that won't walk down their local high street after dark because it is too dangerous but will totally ignore all advice to go motor biking across Iran.

100%. FCO advised them not to enter Iran. Their friends begged them not go. They were warned not to film inside Iran and post on social media.

They ignored all of the above. Fuck ‘em.

She is a life coach, so Iran is doing us a favour really. Not sure her doctorate in psychology is helping her in jail now, not with that blonde hair.

[sockwithaticket]

Is it wrong to say I've watched and mostly enjoyed around 40 of that top 50 box office grossing list?

I'm a huge fan of Cold War stuff and I like Ludlum as a writer - The Osterman Weekend gave me chills when I was in my teens and I've enjoyed everything I've read of his, I think, it's been a while, same with most of the other writers in that genre. I thought the film adaptation of the Bourne books was very good, though not consistent with the novel, and the casting of Matt Damon was perfect.

James Bond is a different thing entirely.

I've seen 26 and mostly enjoyed those. There's nothing wrong with it at all a lot of the films on that list are both critically and commercially successful, if one could be bothered to dive into user scores on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic I suspect they fare well there too. It's perfectly possible to make artistically moribund blockbusters (Transformers films), but also to do the opposite (Dark Knight Rises, Lord Of The Rings). Less commercial films can be interminably dull or pretentious as often as they're wildly creative or incisive windows into humanity.


That 50 isn't inflation adjusted and the top 10 that is lower down on the page differs quite substantially. It'd be interesting to see a full 50 inflation adjusted list.

[Biffer]

Is it wrong to say I've watched and mostly enjoyed around 40 of that top 50 box office grossing list?

I'm a huge fan of Cold War stuff and I like Ludlum as a writer - The Osterman Weekend gave me chills when I was in my teens and I've enjoyed everything I've read of his, I think, it's been a while, same with most of the other writers in that genre. I thought the film adaptation of the Bourne books was very good, though not consistent with the novel, and the casting of Matt Damon was perfect.

James Bond is a different thing entirely.

I've seen 26 and mostly enjoyed those. There's nothing wrong with it at all a lot of the films on that list are both critically and commercially successful, if one could be bothered to dive into user scores on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic I suspect they fare well there too. It's perfectly possible to make artistically moribund blockbusters (Transformers films), but also to do the opposite (Dark Knight Rises, Lord Of The Rings). Less commercial films can be interminably dull or pretentious as often as they're wildly creative or incisive windows into humanity.


That 50 isn't inflation adjusted and the top 10 that is lower down on the page differs quite substantially. It'd be interesting to see a full 50 inflation adjusted list.

I've watched about 33 and enjoyed them.

But I like Indy cinema too - gave money to the Filmhouse in Edinburgh to get it reopened and looking forward to that happening later this year.

[Tichtheid]

But I like Indy cinema too - gave money to the Filmhouse in Edinburgh to get it reopened and looking forward to that happening later this year.

That's good news.

I've been to the Cameo a few times since being back, but they are part of the Picturehouse franchise and like their cousins in Brighton they show a lot of mainstream stuff.

[Margin__Walker]

Struggling to give zero fucks about the couple detained in Iran. The sort of twats that won't walk down their local high street after dark because it is too dangerous but will totally ignore all advice to go motor biking across Iran.

100%. FCO advised them not to enter Iran. Their friends begged them not go. They were warned not to film inside Iran and post on social media.

They ignored all of the above. Fuck ‘em.

I find the level of self delusion mind blowing.

The advice on travel to Iran could not be any clearer. Even down to the very real risk (verging on probability with this level of brazenness) of being held hostage on espionage charges. It seems they thought being cool people who just wanted to experience the culture would shield them from that.

No doubt it will drag on for a while and the UK it will eventually cost the UK something to release them.

[Niegs]

That's some research project to be involved with.

https://www.timescolonist.com/life/uvic ... x-10249748

[Uncle fester]

That's some research project to be involved with.

https://www.timescolonist.com/life/uvic ... x-10249748

Misunderstood the headline and thought it was referring to Victorian time period and thinking to myself "I knew they were warped".

[Niegs]

That's some research project to be involved with.

https://www.timescolonist.com/life/uvic ... x-10249748

Misunderstood the headline and thought it was referring to Victorian time period and thinking to myself "I knew they were warped".

I've heard there was a lot of rumpy-pumpy but they just didn't talk about it in press/literature. I've not listened, but hear this advertised a bunch on History Hit. https://shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-sheets

[Gumboot]

Sounds like Frank's on the way out so we might soon be in for a real life Conclave.

My money's on the fat old white guy.

[Guy Smiley]

Took me a second.
White smoke, white smoke!!!

[Uncle fester]

That's some research project to be involved with.

https://www.timescolonist.com/life/uvic ... x-10249748

Misunderstood the headline and thought it was referring to Victorian time period and thinking to myself "I knew they were warped".

I've heard there was a lot of rumpy-pumpy but they just didn't talk about it in press/literature. I've not listened, but hear this advertised a bunch on History Hit. https://shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-sheets

The victorians were majorly into their perve.
For science of course.

[mat the expat]

Is it wrong to say I've watched and mostly enjoyed around 40 of that top 50 box office grossing list?

I'm a huge fan of Cold War stuff and I like Ludlum as a writer - The Osterman Weekend gave me chills when I was in my teens and I've enjoyed everything I've read of his

Top movie - every film needs more Rutger Hauer!

[inactionman]

Well, what a shitty weekend.

Just had the two worst phone calls of my entire life.

My dad on the phone to say my younger brother's chemo is being ended and he's being moved onto palliative care, followed by my desperately weak younger brother on the phone crying his eyes out and apologising he won't be there for my kids or to look after my dad.

Trying to book flights to get down there and find out my daughter's just got norovirus.

Driving down today to isolate in hotel for 48 hours, no idea if he'll last that long.

If there is a God, he has got some fucking explaining to do.

[Biffer]

Well, what a shitty weekend.

Just had the two worst phone calls of my entire life.

My dad on the phone to say my younger brother's chemo is being ended and he's being moved onto palliative care, followed by my desperately weak younger brother on the phone crying his eyes out and apologising he won't be there for my kids or to look after my dad.

Trying to book flights to get down there and find out my daughter's just got norovirus.

Driving down today to isolate in hotel for 48 hours, no idea if he'll last that long.

If there is a God, he has got some fucking explaining to do.

That’s awful. Sorry to hear that.

[Oxbow]

I had norovirus on Friday, it's fucking awful for a day but in my case it eased off after that. As for the rest, not much I can say other than you have my sympathies