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Sorry, you are of course right! I’ve never seen the rubbish film and was thinking it was Russel Crowe ... brain fart
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He's not that bad really
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Double brain fart, I definitely wasn’t referring to Crowe who is OK as as an actor. Don't think much of Mel Gibson thoughHe's not that bad really
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Don't think much of Mel Gibson though
Good as Mad Max but not much cop* since.
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I liked the Mad Max films, Braveheart was good as a ( non) history lesson.Don't think much of Mel Gibson though
That's about it though.
Russel Crowe is OK, his "Robin hood" is an alternate take on the "legend"
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I still say we need aGood as Mad Max but not much cop* since.
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Actually the first one was good in its time, but they just tried to milk it from there and it went down hill IMO
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I though the first 2 were excellent but the 3rd not so much for me.
I though Fury Road was very good actually but I watched it as if it was a standalone movie rather than part of the Mad Max series.
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I'd forgotten that one, yes I too thought it was pretty good. And I agree it works well as a stand alone
Joe Pesci's character started to annoy me TBH.
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And I was referring to Lethal weapon when I quoted your "not much cop"I was talking about Mad Max!
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Thunderdome appealed to me most, thanks to Tina Turner's unexpectedly good performance.I was talking about Mad Max!
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And I was referring to Lethal weapon when I quoted your "not much cop"
Yeah because he was a cop in Mad Max!
Wasn't much of a fan if I'm honest.
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That was the only good thing....
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Go and watch "Braveheart"
An Aussie playing a Scot is enlightening
(actually its not a bad film)
An Aussie playing a Scot ? Lol..I appreciate some dramas and films are fact-based..with a twist and that twist is unfortunately too often misrepresented fact .I never watch tv dramas-definitely not soaps..shudder the thought. Having said that some are very good ,I‘ve been told. Most are heavy on emotion so I only watch documentaries. If there’s no potential to learn something I avoid them. I see no point if someone who actually experienced what is being portrayed can say it wasn’t really like that or worse, some aspects never happened. The problem,as I see it, is that too many think it’s all fact. Well, there it is in black and white from BYU in his reply to you, a few posts up.
’ It’s a great film as long as you’re not a historian’..Others have mentioned this aspect too. I read the tv listings which include a taster of the storyline of eg..a series so when I read ..” Mary is having trouble convincing Peter to..’ ..Aaaagh..Lol. As an American would say “ I could care less.” I’ve heard that expression first hand and if someone can explain the logic of that I’d really appreciate it..
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There you have your answer, in boldAs an American would say “ I could care less.” I’ve heard that expression first hand and if someone can explain the logic of that I’d really appreciate it..
Martyn..with the best will in the world I don’t have the detailed knowledge to discuss this with you. I get the feeling you’re well-versed on the subject. I just picked up on what Bob had said and wanted to know more. I will go back to the subject over the coming days as the limited amount I read about it all was fascinating. A major part of the history of Scotland and England which, I suspect, few know about. They will know more about Nicola Sturgeon than James V1/ James 1.. Wallace & Co...
I am interested in military history, yes, but mainly in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the two Anglo-Boer Wars.
FWIW, I'm South African on my mother's side and lived in SA for most of my adult life; but the thread caught my attention because my father was a Scot, and I was born and brought up in Stirling. I lived close to where the historians think the Battle of Bannockburn - which is far better known than Stirling Bridge - was fought, and I know a bit of Scottish history, but I'm not any sort of expert!
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I understand it perfectly, as I expect you do really
. I would have a small bet that it’s origin is Yiddish or German. Never forget that “Germans”* are the biggest ethnic group in the US and were it not for WW1 et seq US would likely be a German speaking nation.* Many arriving before there was a ‘Germany’.
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I understand it perfectly, as I expect you do really
* Many arriving before there was a ‘Germany’.
I really don't think it's anything to do with the German or Yiddish language,Richard. It's just a different angle on our version. I did a Google to see if there was an answer. Should have done that in the first place, maybe..lol.
Btw. You've added, in the bold print (quote) the word 'cannot' to what I said. I wrote.."As an American would say..I could care less.'
If you scroll down a bit to the post by Bryan Kautzman..ironically.. he gives a good answer which is claiming it's based on sarcasm.
Why do some Americans say “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less”?
Answer (1 of 260): Fortunately, we don’t see it much in writing, except in novels where the author wants his character to sound colloquial. It probably arose in speech as — oddly — an emphasis. “I couldn’t care less,” through overuse, became too casual and common, so people started saying “I cou...
I lived in Germany and they say..Es konnte mich (It couldn't. to me) nicht weniger (not less) interessieren (interest) Ie. It coudn't interest me less. That is different to 'I could care less' There's an umlaut over the O in konnte but my iMac won't put one over an O. ..only a U .I get an O with a diagonal line through it as if it were a Scandinavian language.
No idea what it is in Yiddish.
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You need an iPad for those umlauts: ”o” held down offers õ ø ō œ ò ô ö and ó .
on a Msc it seems very tortuous : “On a Mac, you simply hold the OPTION (or alt) key down while pressing the letter u. (You must HOLD the option key, not simply press it once.) Then release and press the letter you want the umlaut over (a, o or u). A total of two keystrokes: option-u, then a = ä. To type ß, hold option and press s.”
Inlike the ”simply” above.
.on a Msc it seems very tortuous : “On a Mac, you simply hold the OPTION (or alt) key down while pressing the letter u. (You must HOLD the option key, not simply press it once.) Then release and press the letter you want the umlaut over (a, o or u). A total of two keystrokes: option-u, then a = ä. To type ß, hold option and press s.”
Inlike the ”simply” above
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A little further down you link a ”Professor of English“ notes inter alia: “http://blog.dictionary.com/could... where <I could care less> is described as originally a sarcastic Yiddishism, as I have long suspected”I really don't think it's anything to do with the German or Yiddish language,Richard. It's just a different angle on our version. I did a Google to see if there was an answer. Should have done that in the first place, maybe..lol.
Btw. You've added, in the bold print (quote) the word 'cannot' to what I said. I wrote.."As an American would say..I could care less.'
If you scroll down a bit to the post by Bryan Kautzman..ironically.. he gives a good answer which is claiming it's based on sarcasm.
Why do some Americans say “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less”?
Answer (1 of 260): Fortunately, we don’t see it much in writing, except in novels where the author wants his character to sound colloquial. It probably arose in speech as — oddly — an emphasis. “I couldn’t care less,” through overuse, became too casual and common, so people started saying “I cou...www.quora.com
I lived in Germany and they say..Es konnte mich (It couldn't. to me) nicht weniger (not less) interessieren (interest) Ie. It coudn't interest me less. That is different to 'I could care less' There's an umlaut over the O in konnte but my iMac won't put one over an O. ..only a U .I get an O with a diagonal line through it as if it were a Scandinavian language.
No idea what it is in Yiddish.
Off to watch the rest of Seville v Man-U
(My bold)
. It just has a New York sound to me .
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A little further down you link a ”Professor of English“ notes inter alia: “http://blog.dictionary.com/could... where <I could care less> is described as originally a sarcastic Yiddishism, as I have long suspected”
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I’ll go with that, Richard..Yiddish source via New York’s Jewish community. Glad to have got it sorted at last.
Man-U lost....out of the Champions League despite a shed load more scoring opportunities than Seville. Good game, though. That means we have no teams in either the Euro competition nor the Champions League. Pretty poor,really.
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I could care less
. These things don’t bother me providing the meaning is conveyed. Another site expresses what I felt:”Etymologists suggest that “I could care less” emerged as a sarcastic variant employing Yiddish humor. They point to the different intonations used in saying “I couldn’t care less” versus “I could care less.” The latter mirrors the intonation of the sarcastic Yiddish-English phrase “I should be so lucky!” where the verb is stressed.”
Caring About Whether You Couldn’t Care Less | Dictionary.com
When you want to colloquially express that you don’t care at all about something, you might say “I couldn’t care less.” This phrase first popped up in British English at the turn of the 20th century and is still popular today. In the 1960s, a controversial American variant of this phase entered...
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Though why I’m spending time on this when I could care less I know not
.Regarding Man-U (is that a University? ) , no one could care less than I, which is apparently the older expression
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No but as a comedian pointed out some years ago, Man United and Man City would be great names for gay clubs!
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Why do people think they can get away with this ?
Will we ever be rid of this da.. Virus ? Not if folk think they are above all guidlines
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Will we ever be rid of this da.. Virus ? Not if folk think they are above all guidlines
Coronavirus: Blackburn wedding party of 100 broken up by police
Police say the gathering at Waheed's Buffet and Banqueting Hall was a "clear breach" of restrictions.
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Why do people think they can get away with this ?
Will we ever be rid of this da.. Virus ? Not if folk think they are above all guidlines
Coronavirus: Blackburn wedding party of 100 broken up by police
Police say the gathering at Waheed's Buffet and Banqueting Hall was a "clear breach" of restrictions.
Public name & shame the individuals concerned, prosecute them if they have broken the law, hit them hard, make examples of them. Close down the businesses hosting the events, suspend their licences.....
Unless of course you are going for a drive to Barnard Castle to test your eyesight....
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The war on driving for sight testing is continuing
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Dominic Cummings urged to release data to disprove claim of second lockdown trip
Ex-regional chief prosecutor calls on PM’s chief aide to reveal mobile phone and vehicle tracking information
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Typical Hollywood - why let the truth get in the way of a good story? :banghead:
U571 was another good film that they ruined by not telling the true story.
If they told the true story, how the British and Canadians won the Battle of the Atlantic with little US involvement; it would shatter the myth that the US got everything right and the British got it all wrong, that Hollywood has built up for many years.
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Gotta say I've not heard that one.
"outreach" or "reaching out" and starting a sentence with "So" p*** me off though.
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So, tell us why.
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I suppose ‘uptick’ is quite a creative use of the the language though. Without researching it, I guess it refers to a graph of something going from decrease to increase plus the association of ‘tick’ with correctness.
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I am with you on "So...."
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Although that isn't quite so bad, the one that really gets me is when someone is being interviewed,
and they start their response with "so..."
That and a certain radio 2 presenter that is supposed to be well educated, shortens words ( or cuts them in half ) that have no business being shortened.
What ever happened to the Queens English on the BBC ?
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I don’t have a problem with it, despite that fact that I grew up hearing “Zo, Tommy, for you zee war is ofer“ many times ... or it seems I didAlthough that isn't quite so bad, the one that really gets me is when someone is being interviewed,
and they start their response with "so..."
That and a certain radio 2 presenter that is supposed to be well educated, shortens words ( or cuts them in half ) that have no business being shortened.
What ever happened to the Queens English on the BBC ?
. Or maybe that’s why I don’t have a problem with it .I thought your name was Richard, not TommyI don’t have a problem with it, despite that fact that I grew up hearing “Zo, Tommy, for you zee war is ofer“ many times ... or it seems I did