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« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2017, 09:28:13 AM »
The royal "we" floo?

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh, what are you on about?

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« Reply #26 on: May 02, 2017, 09:30:31 AM »
That's fine as long as you understand that they are ,more than any other bird, the embodiment of the spirit of the velociraptor.  I've watched seagulls versus pigeons and it is not for the squeamish.

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« Reply #27 on: May 02, 2017, 10:25:54 AM »
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We know what we like

Oh. The most compelling argument I've ever heard. Said nobody ever.
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floo

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« Reply #28 on: May 02, 2017, 10:39:44 AM »
Why are people so concerned about what my husband and I like to watch on TV, why should anyone else care? I have absolutely no interest in the viewing habits of other posters.

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« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2017, 11:13:57 AM »
Just banter floo,no harm meant.
I have mick taken out of me & so does husband about different things.
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« Reply #30 on: May 02, 2017, 12:32:44 PM »
Having been on this forum a lot longer than you, I suspect that the comments about TV viewing directed at me weren't banter, but no matter, it is like water off a duck's back by now! ;D

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« Reply #31 on: May 02, 2017, 12:45:19 PM »
Having been on this forum a lot longer than you, I suspect that the comments about TV viewing directed at me weren't banter, but no matter, it is like water off a duck's back by now! ;D

You are right it wasn't banter - just puzzlement at how you can say you have no interest in something if you don't know anything about it. I can understand that you might say I'm not watching a detective series because I don't like detective shows. (That will mean you miss out on some of the best acting and writing on UK TV at the moment, but based on your prejudice against them I can see that - I do the same with anything with David Jason in) - but the blanket 'I know what I like' just sounds like an unwillingness to explore other options in life. This attitude doesn't only apply to TV for some people. It applies to food, travel, music, etc.

It's an attitude I don't understand as it seems to me that it is the product of a mind that is closed to new experiences a risk averse mentality if you like.
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« Reply #32 on: May 02, 2017, 01:28:02 PM »
Having been on this forum a lot longer than you, I suspect that the comments about TV viewing directed at me weren't banter, but no matter, it is like water off a duck's back by now! ;D

Maybe floo, Trenvoyage agrees with you & has given a good explanation in above post .i definitely was joking when I said 'Is that the Royal We?'. It's up to you what you choose to watch or not but there's a wealth of good drama on TV with some splendid acting.
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floo

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« Reply #33 on: May 02, 2017, 01:55:20 PM »
You are right it wasn't banter - just puzzlement at how you can say you have no interest in something if you don't know anything about it. I can understand that you might say I'm not watching a detective series because I don't like detective shows. (That will mean you miss out on some of the best acting and writing on UK TV at the moment, but based on your prejudice against them I can see that - I do the same with anything with David Jason in) - but the blanket 'I know what I like' just sounds like an unwillingness to explore other options in life. This attitude doesn't only apply to TV for some people. It applies to food, travel, music, etc.

It's an attitude I don't understand as it seems to me that it is the product of a mind that is closed to new experiences a risk averse mentality if you like.

Look so what I see a lot of things differently to you and others, it isn't a problem for me. I dislike music, I never have liked it, people can't understand that either, including my husband, but it doesn't worry me in the slightest. I have always been different to many others, and it suits me to be so. No doubt that is why I hooked up with my husband because he was different to other boys, probably as I have said before because we now think he has Asperger's syndrome. Oh and before you ask, I did the test for the condition myself, but apparently I definitely haven't got it. As I mentioned before, my mother was always asking where she went wrong with me, as I didn't comply with her expectations, like wanting to dress in the pretty clothes she insisted on me wearing as a child, YUCK!!!! I didn't bother to attend the old bat's funeral, she would have probably sat up in her coffin and demanded to know why I was wearing trousers in church, a criminal offence in her eyes! ;D  ;D  ;D OK so I am weird, but I wouldn't be me if I was any other way.

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« Reply #34 on: May 02, 2017, 05:30:46 PM »
You don't seem weird, we're all different.

There's a programme (on TV ;D) tonight in which a man talks about his 11 year old son who is interested in washing machines. The boy must find it mesmerising to see things going round and round accompanied by gentle rhythmic sound.

Jeremy Corbyn likes manhole covers.

Takes all sorts.
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floo

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« Reply #35 on: May 02, 2017, 05:39:44 PM »
You don't seem weird, we're all different.

There's a programme (on TV ;D) tonight in which a man talks about his 11 year old son who is interested in washing machines. The boy must find it mesmerising to see things going round and round accompanied by gentle rhythmic sound.

Jeremy Corbyn likes manhole covers.

Takes all sorts.

I like wind turbines.

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« Reply #36 on: May 02, 2017, 05:53:33 PM »
Me too they're beautiful.
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« Reply #37 on: May 02, 2017, 09:25:50 PM »
Me too.  I see them when I'm driving across France. I think they look rather majestic.
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« Reply #38 on: May 02, 2017, 10:57:52 PM »
The do & they look as though they are sentinels, guarding us. Almost like people only with superpowers.
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« Reply #39 on: May 03, 2017, 04:32:06 AM »
I like wind turbines.
You would really like a documentary about them then!  :D
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« Reply #40 on: May 03, 2017, 08:18:17 AM »
You would really like a documentary about them then!  :D

I think I saw one a while back.

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« Reply #41 on: May 03, 2017, 04:15:19 PM »
That's what was said but people are clamouring for another series. In a way it's a good idea to end a series when it's at the top, which is what the producers did. I thought it was an excellent series. Can't believe you didn't see it floo! Nothing 'lowbrow' about it. Set in Dorset.

Except for a few scenes set in Clevedon cemetery next to the crematorium. Mostly involving the vicar.
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« Reply #42 on: May 03, 2017, 04:19:02 PM »
Very true (not one I've watched but know about it), and Oxford is certainly somewhere to avoid if you want to live!

Grantchester is all set to rival Oxford in the crime stakes. I thought it was all "is there honey still for tea" until Jeffrey Archer took up residence there. Maybe the fiction-writers thought they'd like to fill in a bit of dodgy background.
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« Reply #43 on: May 03, 2017, 04:23:11 PM »
Grantchester is all set to rival Oxford in the crime stakes. I thought it was all "is there honey still for tea" until Jeffrey Archer took up residence there.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/feature/a826279/most-dangerous-places-in-tv-fictional-towns/

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