Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

I'm so suggestible!

Now I fancy a coffee and a bacon sarnie, even though I won't eat pork products due to being almost (but not quite yet) a vegetarian and having given up pork some time ago, due to pigs being quite intelligent.

I could have a rare coffee, though, and raid the fridge for a bacon sarnie substitute!

DS doesn't eat mammals, although he does eat both fish and poultry. He said bacon was the hardest thing to give up.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

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Monty Python.

Medieval times. A knight going through the woods on a non-existant horse is stopped by an attacking knight.

Attacker chops off arms/legs and the one losing them keeps declaring "tis but a flesh wound".

chris_m wrote: »

Personally I preferred "It's only a flesh wound"

That's what I intended/meant. Did I get it wrong?
I'm not good at recalling details of anything in film.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Monty Python.

Medieval times. A knight going through the woods on a non-existant horse is stopped by an attacking knight.

Attacker chops off arms/legs and the one losing them keeps declaring "tis but a flesh wound".



That's what I intended/meant. Did I get it wrong?
I'm not good at recalling details of anything in film.

Ah! That makes a bit more sense than a shrubbery!

chris_m

chris_m wrote: »

Hehe, we are the knights who say "Ni"
Personally I preferred "It's only a flesh wound" and "I f*rt in your general direction"

PasturesNew wrote: »

Monty Python.

Medieval times. A knight going through the woods on a non-existant horse is stopped by an attacking knight.
Attacker chops off arms/legs and the one losing them keeps declaring "tis but a flesh wound".

That's what I intended/meant. Did I get it wrong?
I'm not good at recalling details of anything in film.

That was The Black Knight, earlier in the film then the Knights Who Say Ni..
He was defending the "bridge", a plank over a small stream. After Arthur had chopped off all his arms/legs, and his body IIRC, the battle was declared a draw

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

on a non-existant horse

I'd forgotten about that detail - weren't each of them followed by their servants, banging coconut shells together to simulate the (non-existent) hooves?

ivyleaf

Percy I'm so very sorry to hear your news. I'm very glad though that you have your little boy to help you through it xx

ukmaggie45

Dear Percy, so very very sorry to hear your devastating news. I can't even begin to imagine how awful you must be feeling. I'm speechless really, just very sad for you and your family. Maggie

Pyxis

Just heard on the news that there have been three other major high-rise fires in the last few years, in France, Melbourne and Dubai, and all involving fire spreading via the cladding.

The Grenfell Tower one appears to have been the worst, though.



Talking of cladding, has anyone else noticed a fashion for cladding existing houses in a sort of shiplap? I don't know what it's made of, although it looks like painted wood, or why it's used; is it cosmetic, or does it serve an insulatory function? If the latter, it is only applied to the first floor, and on houses with cavity walls, so I'm not sure how effective it would be.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

To be honest, I've never "sat and watched a Monty Python ... anything". I've just seen lots of clips over the years.

I had to watch the telly my dad/mum chose to watch ... and didn't have my own telly until I was about 30.

I just googled it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(Monty_Python)
1975. There's no way dad would've watched it, it's too "complex and bizarre" for him to have become interested as he'd have "not seen the point" of it.

Mum/dad were probably watching Benny Hill or Coronation Street.

Ah, but then it wasn't on the telly for some years.

So I missed it all ....

I grew up in that era. Comedy was very predictable and series like Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python were a breath of fresh air. A bit like like the Goons or Spike Milligan's Q series.

Not just funny but bizarre as well, and somehow that made it even funnier. A difficult feat to pull off. Not much like that going on now.

vivatifosi

Percy, what an awful few weeks you have had. I am so sorry to hear of your loss.