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#3061641 11-Apr-2023 19:39

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If, God forbid, Fawlty Towers was run by Americans, it would be into its 5th season, with John Cleese replaced by Tom Allen, and a spinoff where Manuel (played by Lee Mack) runs his own hotel.

And the only laughs it would get would be the laugh track.

Example: Whose Line is it Anyway?

Original UK series with Clive James was good. The US version with Drew Cary was cringey at best despite having most of the same cast.

Though I did catch one partial episode with whoever the latest female host is. That seemed better than anything that came out of Drew's mouth.

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#3061645 11-Apr-2023 19:55

I think the original series actually came from America in the 1950s. The others were all knock-offs. However, I could be wrong.

Edit: Sorry, I'm thinking of What's My Line. Pardon my dementia.

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#3061682 11-Apr-2023 23:02

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The BBC is not what it was.

There is a definite undercurrent of opinion in the UK that it has become rather more biased than it used to be and a lot of BTL comment about getting rid of the licence fee. Even government discussion about bias and the licence fee now.

Yes that’s right - but even so, it’s still very good IMO.

[Disclaimer: I am not a Brit - just a Kiwi who enjoys being in the UK from time to time].

Elon Musk has waded in I see.

"The BBC has today been using its various news platforms to protest against being described as ‘government funded’ by Twitter. It has instructed Twitter to remove this insult ‘as soon as possible’ and its journalistic contacts have found a direct link to Elon Musk himself who, we are told, is a ‘fan’ of the BBC. So perhaps a quiet word with the right person in power can overcome this little hiccup. Radio Four even had a ‘debate’ which just featured one interviewee: Mary Hockaday, a former BBC executive. ‘As a BBC journalist, I care about accuracy,’ she said, ‘the simple fact is that to describe on Twitter the BBC as “state-funded” or “government controlled” is simply inaccurate… Much, much better to describe the BBC as it is which is publicly-funded’. Of course, Twitter did not say ‘government controlled’ but ‘government funded’. Which, I’m afraid to say, the BBC undoubtedly is.

It generates three quarters of its money by the licence fee, a sum fixed by the government of the day. It is imposed like any government tax: that is, on pain of criminal sanction. Every working week almost 1,000 members of the public are prosecuted for non-payment of BBC dues, of whom more than two-thirds are women. If this number sounds high, that’s restrained compared to what it was a few years ago: figures below (compared with convictions for other crimes)."

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#3061699 12-Apr-2023 06:16

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We are replacing the last two ACs at my house.

We've had good weather, only getting into the high 20s, so we've gotten away with it, despite April normally being when it starts to get hot.

We should be running, Inshallah, tonight.

We finally got the last one running today. The feed from the board to the outdoor was damaged, thankfully it’s all running now.

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#3061728 12-Apr-2023 09:36

After a lifetime it is working

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3061923 12-Apr-2023 15:31

Was re-shelving some books today which included these three photography books, covering the three important areas in the field:

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#3062011 12-Apr-2023 20:15

Seeing Jeremy Renner up and about after a awful accident at the start of this year.

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#3062074 12-Apr-2023 22:30

Got an already cheap brand new Xiaomi TV Q2 50" for half price and activated the "Google TV-Basic mode" without any bloatware when setting it up. Now it is a normal TV with DVB reception, gets its HDMI sources from CoreELEC and secretly "phones" nowhere. 😄

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#3062081 12-Apr-2023 23:15

Some of the cool stuff they are using tech for in conservation efforts.

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#3063177 13-Apr-2023 11:41

networkn: Some of the cool stuff they are using tech for in conservation efforts.

Not conservation related, but on the topic off cool tech stuff. Adding a simple wifi chip and a decent app to a standard home appliance makes using that appliance so much more enjoyable. Just replaced our wall oven with one that has wifi. Being able to turn the oven on from your phone, set the mode, temperature and timer remotely and then receive a notification to you phone when the oven has finished its preheat and is ready to go.

Its silly, but fun and useful at the same time.

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#3063185 13-Apr-2023 11:50

Senecio: Adding a simple wifi chip and a decent app to a standard home appliance

with a flaky WiFi connection that takes half a day to configure and barely stays up for more than a day and the need to install a new app for each manufacturer with the app being thrown together by an intern three years ago and never updated

makes using that appliance so much more

annoying.

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#3063188 13-Apr-2023 12:09

There is a small river around the corner from our home and I managed to walk there and back this morning unaided. I know it will cost me this afternoon but I was determined to do this. The new treatment regime is certainly working.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3063205 13-Apr-2023 12:16

MikeB4:
There is a small river around the corner from our home and I managed to walk there and back this morning unaided. I know it will cost me this afternoon but I was determined to do this. The new treatment regime is certainly working.

Not sure what you've changed to but our neighbour recently switched to CBD oil after being on XR morphine for some time and it's been an amazing change for him, much better than the morphine. Unfortunately with our illogical cannabis regs the morphine, medical-grade heroin, is funded but the CBD oil, which isn't heroin, isn't, and the onerous licensing requirements make it very expensive.

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#3063207 13-Apr-2023 12:25

I've never seen "medical grade heroin" in NZ.

Morphine is morphine, heroin is diamorph which legal in UK but not here.

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#3063219 13-Apr-2023 12:53

neb:
MikeB4:

There is a small river around the corner from our home and I managed to walk there and back this morning unaided. I know it will cost me this afternoon but I was determined to do this. The new treatment regime is certainly working.

Not sure what you've changed to but our neighbour recently switched to CBD oil after being on XR morphine for some time and it's been an amazing change for him, much better than the morphine. Unfortunately with our illogical cannabis regs the morphine, medical-grade heroin, is funded but the CBD oil, which isn't heroin, isn't, and the onerous licensing requirements make it very expensive.

In the last month I have started a regime of a new Biologic, Chemo and pain relieve. So far the results have been excellent. I have managed to gain some weight which is a reversal of what was happening, fatigue levels dropping and slowly but surely becoming more mobile.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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