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[seepage]

Also red, yellow and blue are famously the primary colours, yet computer screens equally famously use red, green and blue palettes. What's up with that, besides the difference between additive and subtractive colour models, eh?

Red + green = yellow. What???

And printers use cyan, magenta and yellow.

[touchingcloth]

It's fucking MENTAL.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Sidney Lumet has made some excellent films, some of my favourites, but I didn't know who he was until I watched a vid on youtube about the making of Dog Day Afternoon and looked him up.

[touchingcloth]

poo's a dad:

Kids got em. Interested for two mins tops. Recycling. Bye world.

Bye world indeed.

Assuming he didn't kidnap them, which is quite the assumption.

[Dex Sawash]

Madrid isn't in Portugal

[touchingcloth]

Madrid isn't in Portugal

Por favor, it's close enough.

[Dusty Substance]

Bunny And The Bull (2009 British comedy) isn't the same film Vincent Gallo's 2003 The Brown Bunny.

[touchingcloth]

Footballers can only move between teams during specific times of the year.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Footballers can only move between teams during specific times of the year.

Well presumably they sign a contract for x number of seasons, so they can only move at the end of a season?

[touchingcloth]

Well presumably they sign a contract for x number of seasons, so they can only move at the end of a season?

I think it's different in football, and FIFA rules mean that a club and player couldn't agree terms to break a contract and move clubs mid-season, unlike, say, F1, where mid-season swaps are allowed.

[touchingcloth]

When I see backwards flags on sleeves on TV this is apparently deliberate rather than costume departments not knowing that they're doing. The "correct" way to display a US flag on a right sleeve is with the stars on the right, as if the person wearing the uniform is carrying the flag on a pole with it streaming behind them.

[Paul Calf]

I think it's different in football, and FIFA rules mean that a club and player couldn't agree terms to break a contract and move clubs mid-season, unlike, say, F1, where mid-season swaps are allowed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_window

[touchingcloth]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_window

Yeah, that article is what I based the post on, should've posted a link myself. It sounds like it only came into effect in the early 00s, which excuses me for not remembering it from my childhood and adolescence.

[dissolute ocelot]

I never knew that food critic Jay Rayner was agony aunt Claire Rayner's son. The clues are there. And yet he's so nasty and she was so nice.

[touchingcloth]

Is Jay Rayner nasty? I quite like him.

[Icehaven]

He's alright, wouldn't say he was nasty. He sticks the boot into restaurants he doesn't like but to be fair that's his job, and the ones he usually bashes the most are typically vastly overpriced style over substance places serving worse food than you'd get in a Spoons, so they deserve it. Since restaurants reopened both he and the other Guardian/Observer food critic only did positive reviews for ages as they didn't want to kick anyone while they were down, but he finally cracked a few weeks ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/aug/15/the-polo-lounge-at-the-dorchester-hotel-dismal-food-at-eye-popping-prices-restaurant-review

[touchingcloth]

I haven't read him for ages, but yeah in my memory he used to give glowing reviews to tiny down-home places, and wanky ponce places got drubbings. A great bunch of lads, but with a shite Dogtanian-tier moustache.

[Jockice]

I never knew that food critic Jay Rayner was agony aunt Claire Rayner's son. The clues are there. And yet he's so nasty and she was so nice.

I'm not into food full stop, but Grace Dent liked a tweet of mine yesterday. We lived in the same area of Carlisle when we were young* and her autobiography mentions something very specific - a model toadstool in the Methodist church hall if you must know - that I remember from my time there so I mentioned it in the tweet. I'm quite proud that we share that memory.

On the other hand I also heard yesterday that Mary Berry called a former colleague of mine a cunt when she tried to speak to her. The thing is (and this came second hand from another ex-workmate) it wasn't press intrusion or anything, as Berry was apparently promoting an event, presumably being paid for doing so and the organisers had told this journo it would be okay to do a short interview. Who'd have thought it eh? Not that I've ever watched anything with her in but isn't she meant to be a sweet old lady?

(*She's eight years younger than me. My folks moved away with me when I was ten, so I doubt if we've ever met. Although I still have family there - albeit in a different part of the city - so it is vaguely possible we've walked past each other or something.)

[touchingcloth]

I'd be delighted to see footage of Mary Berry calling someone a cunt, ideally as she hands over a slice of Victoria sponge and says "get your chops round that, cunt", or somehow related to a disaster with a Bundt cake.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I'd be even more delighted if the subject of her ire was Paul Hollywood.

I wonder if it was like this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tpJkPRHW1Q

[studpuppet]

I never knew that food critic Jay Rayner was agony aunt Claire Rayner's son. The clues are there. And yet he's so nasty and she was so nice.

On the plus side, despite being Claire Rayner's son he got expelled from my brother's school for smoking dope. I remember national newspaper headlines at the time about 'AGONY AUNT'S DRUG ADDICT SON'.

[Jockice]

I'd be even more delighted if the subject of her ire was Paul Hollywood.

I wonder if it was like this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tpJkPRHW1Q

He was mentioned in the same conversation. Apparently he's not bad to interview, although he's obviously in love with himself. Although not to the same extent as Alexander Armstrong. In love with himself that is, not in love with Paul Hollywood.

[touchingcloth]

He was mentioned in the same conversation. Apparently he's not bad to interview, although he's obviously in love with himself. Although not to the same extent as Alexander Armstrong. In love with himself that is, not in love with Paul Hollywood.

I won't link because the only results I can see on Google are from shitty tabloids, but there was a story a few years back where had told his much younger ex-girlfriend to "fuck off on the horse you rose in on". Love to see him try that on Berry only for her to drop a c-bomb on him. Bake Off could certainly do with dropping the compost-tier soggy-bottoms-bants for something a bit more x-rated.

[Greg Torso]

Why do racehorses get their obituaries published on Wikipedia?
Is it because they are technically sportspeople?

so why don't greyhounds then or blind dogs or parrots that help old women to conceive?

[Greg Torso]

I don't know man

[Paul Calf]

Glitch begone.

[Johnboy]

Up the Junction by Squeeze

"me and the girl from Clapham.."

Clapham Junction - Up the Junction.      ffs.

[Replies From View]

Bunny And The Bull (2009 British comedy) isn't the same film Vincent Gallo's 2003 The Brown Bunny.

Racism has made you blend these two

[Replies From View]

Why do racehorses get their obituaries published on Wikipedia?
Is it because they are technically sportspeople?

so why don't greyhounds then or blind dogs or parrots that help old women to conceive?

Very importantly why does nobody grieve for anyone who has worked in a tuck shop

[Small Man Big Horse]

Not sure if this is obvious or not, but I only discovered today that dolphin's can drown, and have to come up for air every 8 to 10 minutes or they'll die. Also, they remain conscious when sleeping: https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-do-dolphins-sleep/