sayjann

Sorry, wrong movie... she's still worth a look though.

not a film but a musical.

read a comic book version of les miserables before i was a teenager and i read the book at a young age.

i was entranced by the book and class it among 2 of the best novels written.

i have seen the stage show many times and never fail to cry at the story and the songs sung.

went to london this week and saw it again and was spellbound as usual.

watched a tv programme about the show last night and just sat on my bed with tears in my eyes as they told the story............brilliant.

Agreed, in the looks department they are definitely a class above the average Scots lass.

This explains the large number of cheerful Scotsmen to be found in places like Pattaya and Angeles city.

agreed,i've definately seen worse.....

sorry mr.munchmaster if the truth hurts

No not a myth. The Hawes Inn, dating from the 17th century, features in Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped.

had a feeling it was R.L.Stevenson and i seem to remember much memrobilia in the pub.

i liked it there and a nice place for a pint in the evening..

Sayjann, the Forth Bridge is the rail bridge whereas the one you drive over is called the Forth Road Bridge (which may have to be replaced).

 

The Queensferry Inn you refer to is I suspect The Hawes Inn which is the furthest away white building in the picture below. Had a few pints in there myself.

 

yes i know the rail bridge is the FORTH bridge,but you know what i mean about my comments.

the pub i'm thinking of is probably the one you posted the photo of but i've never seen it from that view and it was normally dark when we got there.

it's many years since i've been there but i have a vague memory of it being associated to a scottish writer.

maybe RLS? and some of the writers most famous works were partly written there?.

or maybe a myth?.

The Forth Bridge (rail bridge) is my favourite structure in the world but every time I've been home for the past ten years it's been covered in scaffolding and protective sheeting, like this

 

 

thus making taking pics of it fairly pointless, but now it's all over it will look like this again

 

 

so I'll be paying it a visit in the summer.

 

 

Forth Bridge painting completed

 

 

The painting of the Forth Bridge has finally been completed and the structure is now scaffold-free for the first time in a decade.

 

The repair and repainting project to paint the rail bridge took 10 years and cost £130m.

 

It has been claimed it will not now need another paint job for at least 25 years. New techniques and products have been are behind the project's success.

 

A 400-strong team applied a triple layer of new glass flake epoxy paint.

 

It creates a chemical bond to provide a virtually impenetrable layer to protect the bridge's steel work from the weather.

 

The project, delivered by Network Rail and main contractor Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering, involved encasing the bridge in up to 4,000 tonnes of scaffolding, painting over 230,000sqm of steel and all 6.5 million rivets in the structure.

 

Over the life of the project more than 1,500 people worked on the structure, with up to 400 people a day on the bridge at the height of the refurbishment works.

 

A 400-strong team applied a triple layer of new glass flake epoxy paint David Simpson, Network Rail route managing director for Scotland, said: "The completion of this refurbishment will safeguard the future of one of the country's most famous landmarks.

 

 

"Repainting the bridge has long been considered one of the world's never-ending tasks, and the refurbishment programme we have just completed has been one of the biggest engineering challenges Network Rail has faced.

 

"Our staff and contractors can take real pride in their achievements on this project, not least in the fact that through their efforts this amazing structure will remain free of major maintenance work for at least two decades."

 

The bridge, which was built between 1883 and 1890, is 1.5 miles long.

 

The track is about 150ft (45m) above the water level and the bridge reaches 330ft (100m) at the tops of the towers.

 

The steel structure contains more than 6.5 million rivets.

i like the forth bridge.

have driven over it many times and crossed on the train bridge a couple of times.

i've always liked the scenary around the firth of forth and have spent a few balmy nights out in the queensferry inn?.

Every young person should hear this story. Older folks can really be such inspirations to our youth!

thanks julian....i

Kansas City Bomber...

I missed this, I used to do serious rollerskating for a while as well.

Not a bad movie with Raquel Welch in her prime.

plan 9 from outer space..

claimed to be the worst film ever released and while i think it's up there,it is so wonderful.

ed wood was a genius is my eyes.

totally off his head in his film making days/personnal life but his films are great viewing for cringe value.

the tim burton/johnny depp film is so wonderful as well.

Not really a film but I just downloaded the HBO series "Game of Thrones".

Sort of a "Lord Of The Rings" with tits and bums... and very nice tits and bums at that.

I've got the first four books they were based on as well in eBook format but I'll read them later so as not to spoil the film.

bought the series on DVD while in LOS.

got it more for my mum as we have to pay for it in the UK.

watched the 1st 2 episodes and found it confusing,too many characters and i just lost track of the story.

Watched the original Star Wars trilogy last week. The first one is 34 years old and still a great watch.

 

bought the whole series of films in thailand recently.

know the original films from years ago but decided to see the whole series from begging to end.

bummer as the the 2nd film stops with 10 minutes to go..........

but found out the end of the film on the web.

but will watch the entire series from where i left off and hopefully enjoy after many decades.

 

just watched 'dirty harry'.

very dated but a great film.

the 2 monologues of 'this is a magnum 44,the most powerful handgun in the world/have i fired 5 or 6 shots/do you feel lucky punk' is iconic.

just seen this news.

when i was growing up he seemed to be on tv all the time.

certainly a colourful character and led an interesting life.

despite his tv persona he raised many millions of £ for charity with his fundraising and was well received by many people of note.

at my age now i would not be keen on watching him but as a child he was fun.

 

RIP sir Jimmy.....

flamboyant as ever is our Jim.

his coffin will be laid on the bar in his favourite hostelry so that people can pay their respects.

followed by a funeral procession to his burial site.

and he will be buried upright with him facing the sea which he loved......

what he wished and a lovely send-off....

@ Steve - Ali used to go on about how "I hate my white blood. It is the blood of rapists." In fact, Ali's great grandfather was a poor Irish immigrant who settled in Kentucky a few years after the Civil War and MARRIED a freed slave. Ali was light skinned because he was 1/8th Irish. Nobody had raped anybody. That was pure BS. Also, he used to spout the Nation of Islam nonsense about Allah creating black people, and an evil scientist named Yacoob creating white folks, who would rule for 2,000 years - after which they would be destroyed. I remember older white folks ranting and raving about Ali, wishing every calamity you can think of on him. I can see black kids thinking he was cool, but he certainly pissed off the older generations.

never a boxing fan,but i grew up admiring his generation in the ring.

i remember as a 13/14 y.o. some of the highlights of my year was going to watch the big fights at a rich persons house.

they had a swimming pool and after a big meal we all sat down to watch the fights.

i remember the fights against Ali with fading memory but a great day out.

the house where we watched the fights had a mynah bird which would replicate the doorbell/telephone at various times but i remember it would imitate the ring of the ringside bell during the fights.

great memories.

Just watched White Elephant starring Kevin Bacon .

 

This movie is set in Bangkok ..a few shots outside Dollhouse and the entrance to Soi Cowboy early on in the movie....fast paced and lots of action ..

watched 'air america'last night.

i know a whimsical film featuring 2 of the bigger stars of the day(mel gibson and robert downey jr.) and i imagine people from that era will slag it off as crap and totally unrealistic.

but who knows if things shown in the film are sorta true?.

i treat it as a fun film to watch and just enjoy the fantasy,

little scenes of ladies dancing and a few language phrases i understood.

just a good way to spend a couple of hours and not think too much.

A gay 15 y.o. boy is bullied and is beaten up by a kid at school. The bully got a 3 day suspension. The mom wants criminarl assault charges brought up. Look at the video and decide if its typical HS bullying and a 3 day suspension is adequate or is it assault?

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/video-shows-bully-attacking-15-old-gay-student-184016355.html

it's assault and seems planned.

3 day suspension?,i'd string the barstard up......

i wonder if the police were called in or wether it was dealt in-house?

anyone who treated a relative of mine like that would soon be taught a lesson outside the law and then let the law prove anything without video evidence............

Jimmy Savile has now left this planet My link

just seen this news.

when i was growing up he seemed to be on tv all the time.

certainly a colourful character and led an interesting life.

despite his tv persona he raised many millions of £ for charity with his fundraising and was well received by many people of note.

at my age now i would not be keen on watching him but as a child he was fun.

RIP sir Jimmy.....

Probably Rammstein Feuer Frei (Fire at will, Literally Free Fire in English)

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gwQRsEzs8Q

i thought of rammstein immediately.........excellent group.

saw them live once and while awesome they certainly have a weirdness about them.

introduced to them in 2001 when many of their songs were played in a certain go-go i frequented.

funny to watch them trying to work out how to dance to some of their songs....

Some funny stuff in this movie... not a classic by any means but some cracking good humor at times...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRsMLuCP8a0&feature=related

just watched 'my cousin vinny' again for the upteempth time.

funny film and marisa tomei is fucking hilarious......

i watched Jaws recently and throughly enjoyed it again.

dated by modern standards but a shocker at the time.

i remember walking about 3 miles to the local cinema with a group of friends to see the film on the first day of release aged 15/16 and the audience jumping out of their skins at certain scenes.

always good to sit next to a lass as the first thing they grabbed was you and that warm feeling occured.....

They're rubbish BTW. Fecking murdering Amazing Grace so they are.

thai? men in skirts,where have i seen that before.........

I went back 2 pages to see if someone commented on it and didn't see it. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

I liked it. I liked the premise of how Caesar got his intelligence. the remake of the Planet of the Apes stunk. I was disappointed. The orginal was basically an allegory for the civil rights movment. At least that's what the professor in my film class said. lol.

i loved the original franchise(well the first 3 at least).

hopefully it will be showing on the plane to/from thailand when i go in a couple of weeks,seems a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.

otherwise i'm sure i'll it get on DVD whilst in thailand.

things are a lot easier these days with all the computer graphics which enable more spectacular scenes.

i've read the plotline and seen the trailers and it seems to me to be an amalgamation of at least 2 of the original films.

what is it with the age 27 and musicians?

janis joplin,brian jones,jimi hendrix,kurt cobain and now amy winehouse all dying at that age...

watched The Road Home again.

Zhang Ziyi stars in this film which has me in floods of tears everytime.

before that Hachi: a dog's tale with Richard Gere,based on a true story,again i was in tears.

first watched this while on a night shift with 5 other blokes and at the end we were all struggling to not show any tears.

'the big man' was certainly a legend within the music industry.

last saw the band in 2008 and he was certainly frail back then.

spent most of the concert sitting down and not getting involved as much as i had previously seen.

but when his party pieces were performed he was up and performing like a teenager.

i dont see the point of watching a film on a computer screen,isn't a big screen better?

a film with grandious special effects is much better suited to a BIG screen.

back to topic,just seen 'Changeling'

Clint Eastwood doesn't make many bad films and i was not disappointed.

is that the one about the young girl?,if so very enjoyable film.

just re-watched 'Black Sun',very harrowing film about 'the rape of Nanking'.