Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Husband, carer, IT bod, plays & tries to write RPGs & Wargames RPG Titles include Chivalry & Sorcery C&S Essence Rocket Jocks Vis Imperium Victoriana Free Essence Core Straight to Video With Spell & Blaster Tales from an Ancient Empire Conrunner 2042
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Apparently so many briefing docs, it is breaking briefcases on the intelligence official being talked about!
Headline is "we share less". Subtext has some stuff about increased threats from Russia & China, but also weighing links to US intelligence (because US extremism)

Most of the article I can read is about the pressures on Dutch intelligence services from threats, nothing to do with the US
Carpenter film?

Hmm

I'll be the judge of that

Charles Cyphers? Checks out
The three mention that the character in "The Fog" only exists because John Carpenter thought Jamie Lee Curtis's career should have taken off after Halloween and did not

So he created this superfluous role for her
No, the chat is not over the movie. They watch it and then chat amongst themselves

They are planning a commentary for LoTR, but as I think they are wrong in LoTR, might not bother with that 🤣

Watched "The Fog" on Friday, again for me, first time for OH
Cool "The Thing from Another World"

WW2 sign in Hollywood

"In case of an air raid, go to RKO, they haven't had a hit in years"
Only issue I have with the folk doing the chat is they are relatively young, so they may not have some of the perspective on how these films hit at the time

Especially if your viewing was more small CRT late at night

Looking forward to "Prince of Darkness"

Gotta smoke?
It's tied to a channel/podcast we watch "Redshirt Cinema Club" doing John Carpenter movies this month

So far
Dark Star
Assault on Precinct 13
The Fog

Their chat about Halloween will be tomorrow

1/2
Awww cool, the driving of Michael Myers is called out by Donald Pleasance!

Love it!
OK, first time seeing Halloween

Assuming that is Michael Myers driving the nurse's car, he is doing it remarkably well for someone institutionalised since a pre-teen
People noting the lack of pro-Trump counter-protests yesterday

I wonder is that is because all the Proud Boys and other groups are the ones wearing the ICE uniforms
Sorry, no. Me finding out was a result of a conversation with an Italian chum who is a fan of haggis

He expressed an interest in haggis ice cream, so I searched
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Of course you would, you are a person of taste and discretion
Posting this link to a Viking wargame Kickstarter, not because I know anything about it, but because the ad I saw was screwed over by Meta AI, so that pissed me off and others might have missed it too

www.kickstarter.com/projects/541...

And a video
youtu.be/usEyKtlAsYo
BLADE WRATH - Fury of Vikings
From the creator of Fjord Serpents comes a mass skirmish miniature wargame of Viking conquest and domination. www.fjordserpents.com
www.kickstarter.com
A conversation learning to learning that this (ALT TEXT - HAGGIS AND MARMALADE ICE CREAM) existed

I also learned, yesterday, what the BSL sign for Scotland is, basically miming squeezing the bag of the pipes. Love it
Re last post. Opinions are opinions. You give yours and why you hold that opinion, I might disagree with you, but at least I have seen that you thought about it

But holding a position of "this is self-evident, I have felt no reason to reappraise it, and anyone who disagrees is stupid"

Nah
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The betting industry pleading poverty in the face of potential tax rises whilst also running wall-to-wall adverts on cable channels and YouTube really is piss-boiling hypocrisy.
This was special

Them: Easy take, person X was this kind of evil and those stupid folk who disagree with me are stupid

Me: Actually, I disagree with you, and these are the reasons and evidence for that

Them: I made up my mind at 13 and see no reason to engage with evidence, good day!
Fun interaction of the day. The future Henry V of England tried to barge past me, he was slightly surprised when, instead,this feeble old bloke shoved him back instead
I never thought about that, I guess it would work for that too

I need to look at images for inspiration
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Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.