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Post by bargemast on Nov 3, 2016 12:57:47 GMT
You mean you missed Rick, Vivian, Neil and Mike? One of the best TV series ever. I wonder if it's available on DVD. Brought my kids up on too, I had put some episodes to VHS. "More bloody students." "Oh shut up and put some clothes on!" Yes, it starts to sound like I've really missed something.
Looked for more information, and found that it was on TV in France too, starting in '85, but only on "Canal +", which is an encrypted channel that I can't see.
The title in french was "Les Branchés Débranchés" which translates like : "The Connected Disconnected"
On the list of actors playing, I recognised a few names : Timothy Spall, Hugh Laurie, Robbie Coltrane, David Mc Callum, and an actress that I appreciate very much, Emma Thompson.
Peter.
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 3, 2016 15:17:14 GMT
I don't know about those actors you mention! There are clips on Youtube, like this one! Mike ended up married to an American on Absolutely Fabulous, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmonson went on to make this wacky movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0202381/ And Neil made a song:
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Post by bargemast on Nov 3, 2016 18:53:17 GMT
I don't know about those actors you mention! There are clips on Youtube, like this one! Mike ended up married to an American on Absolutely Fabulous, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmonson went on to make this wacky movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0202381/ And Neil made a song: Thanks for the videos, they gave me an idea about their story, if I ever have a better wifi-signal, maybe when I'm visiting somewhere, as I only have my smartphone for tethering, and it took 11 minutes to see the 2min video, a bit frustrating (to say the least).
The names of the actors were on the list : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Branch%C3%A9s_d%C3%A9branch%C3%A9s
They may have been part of some of their shows, which I don't know, as until the videos you posted I'd never seen or heard about this show.
I have a list that's getting longer by the day of stuff I want to watch as soon as I have the possibility somewhere to use a powerful wifi-signal.
Thanks,
Peter.
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 3, 2016 19:14:57 GMT
Off to the library with you, for a dose of ADSL!
Seriously, is Britain the country with the shittiest telephone signals? Even out here in the potato fields, with wolves and bears and lynxes lurking in the forest, there's always a full signal. 5 million happy Finns, 60 million frustrated Brits.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 3, 2016 21:10:31 GMT
Off to the library with you, for a dose of ADSL! Seriously, is Britain the country with the shittiest telephone signals? Even out here in the potato fields, with wolves and bears and lynxes lurking in the forest, there's always a full signal. 5 million happy Finns, 60 million frustrated Brits. I guess I made the wrong choice in '79 by moving to France, should have gone to Finnland instead,
In the late 60's I had a lovely Finnish girlfriend, sadly enough only for 1 weekend, her name was Rita and we met in Kobenhavn, it could have lasted longer, but I was in the Nato during the cold war, and had to be present on the monday-morning.
The trip to Kobenhavn was already something I wasn't allowed to have done, but never regretted that wonderful weekend.
Saying that, I don't think that I could have made a living in Finnland as a bargee, or is there inland shipping there too ?
All the MC.Do's have a fairly good and free wifi-signal here, but the rare times I go there, there always seem to be training sessions for the World Screaming Compétitions by children, their parents look very proud because they are sure that their child(ren) can scream even louder than all the others together.
Needless to say that I avoid these places as the pest, I don't eat their crap anyway.
Peter.
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Post by thebfg on Nov 3, 2016 21:17:17 GMT
Off to the library with you, for a dose of ADSL! Seriously, is Britain the country with the shittiest telephone signals? Even out here in the potato fields, with wolves and bears and lynxes lurking in the forest, there's always a full signal. 5 million happy Finns, 60 million frustrated Brits. I guess I made the wrong choice in '79 by moving to France, should have gone to Finnland instead,
In the late 60's I had a lovely Finnish girlfriend, sadly enough only for 1 weekend, her name was Rita and we met in Kobenhavn, it could have lasted longer, but I was in the Nato during the cold war, and had to be present on the monday-morning.
The trip to Kobenhavn was already something I wasn't allowed to have done, but never regretted that wonderful weekend.
Saying that, I don't think that I could have made a living in Finnland as a bargee, or is there inland shipping there too ?
All the MC.Do's have a fairly good and free wifi-signal here, but the rare times I go there, there always seem to be training sessions for the World Screaming Compétitions by children, their parents look very proud because they are sure that their child(ren) can scream even louder than all the others together.
Needless to say that I avoid these places as the pest, I don't eat their crap anyway.
Peter.
I just sit out side and use it.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 3, 2016 22:23:04 GMT
I just sit out side and use it. If you can sit outside (Mc.Do ?) and still have a good enough signal, you're very Lucky, as here outside is about half as strong as Inside, and on top of that, outside is smokers territory, and I'm a non-smoker, and I seem to be a smoke magnet, wherever I sit, even up-Wind the smoke will get to me.
A couple of years ago they opened a 6am which was a good time to work quietly, but since about 2 years they only open at 10am.
Peter.
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Post by Jim on Nov 7, 2016 20:10:21 GMT
You need a friend who has BT wifi. Borrow his login... Oops no that's norty... When he is on the boat with you, next to a house with BT wifi, he can sign in to the "public" wifi.
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Post by canaldweller on Nov 7, 2016 21:33:07 GMT
VICAR: What-ho. ah, I-I'm the vicar. VYVYAN: Well you'd better be, or else you'd look a might girlie in that dress. VICAR: [pokes Vyv in the eye] (I think I got it from watching The Young Ones) Hi naughtyfox, I feel a little bit better now, but as I'd never seen or even heard of that "The Young Ones", I didn't hear any bells ringing.
The only thing I remember of a completely different "The Young Ones" is of the early '60s of a Cliff Richard song and movie, both very peaceful.
I hope that I'll meet you at some stage in person, if that happens, just to make me feel a bit safer, please show me your hands from a couple of meters distance, so I can see that your not holding a K & A Anti-vandal key, or a pair of Fiskars, and everything will be fine.
Myself I will be unarmed as usual.
Peter.
The Young Ones also sang the Young Ones with Cliff Richards in the late 80s, think.
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