The wind of change

Well folks that time has come again in which a little clearout is needed. The need for space is prevailing in my head and I am finaly parting with a portion of my video collection.
I have worked out that I have approximatley 150 films on video and have decided to get rid of all the pre-recorded ones basicly because I have no where to put them.
So for the past week or so I have been sorting them out ready for sale on ebay, this has meant that I have un-earthed a few films that I havn't watched for a while.
Some are great like the origonal Dominon tank police and Grosse pointe blank while others are a little dated like Twister.
This brings me to the main point of my post, before they go under the gavel next week I thought I would offer them out to you my reading public. So if any of you out there want to purcase any of said collection, maybe for your self or for a film nutty loved one, please contact me for a full list, I will of course also take exchanges for things that I am after to add to my collection.
Just a thought.
- posted by J @ 19:26

 

Okay.....

This is getting silly, Where the hell is the video remote.
- posted by J @ 21:56

 

Sci-fi shenanagens.

Well I have just managed to finish watching a series that was recomended to me by a friend.
It is called The last train, basicly the story goes like this;
A train is travelling to shefield and while in a tunnel it "crashes" and a canister of gas carried by a passenger goes off and freezes everyone in the carrage, they wake up x number of years later (im not going to tell you how many as it is a large part of the story) and the world is no longer as it was so they set off in search of people.
This series was filmed in the 90s in typical BBC style, thats to say the filming has been done in a very tv way, however the sets are actualy quite good and look like someone has thought about it.
The plot is good but has a few of holes and as a story is fairly belevable, if it had carried on for more than the 6 episodes It would have got very dull very quickly.
The interesting thing is that most of the cast seem to have gone on to do other things and not get lost in tv oblivion like so many. So overall I would give it a 7/10 and say if you see it kicking around it's worth a look.
- posted by J @ 07:31

 
Americano.
No I'm not talking about the coffee, I am talking about the use of Americanisms in the English language. Now personally I have never been a language snob and feel that the English language has altered and evolved so many time that is impossible to be so, but I do have a small issue with the alteration of language for know apparent reason.

I was sat this morning watching Sunday morning kids TV with poppy and as usual there was lots of stuff going on that may tired brain could not fathom, but I suddenly heard something that made my ears prick up. The presenters were mucking about with a wand pretending to be a Wizard and all of a sudden the guys trousers disappeared (don't ask me it was 6.30am) and the other presenter said:

"Jamie, Your pants have disappeared"

I'm sorry did I hear that right?

Jamie: "Ahh my pants are gone" runs off.

This is kids TV hang on (brain now fully awake and finger on speed dial ready to complain about perversion on kids TV) what the hell is going on?

Jamie: "Phew that was close"

OHHHHH Trousers. So lets get the record straight.

The Oxford English dictionary:

Pants, plural noun 1, Brit. underpants or knickers. - ORIGIN abbreviation of PANTALOONS.
Trousers, plural noun an outer garment covering the body from the waist to the ankles, with a separate part for each leg. - ORIGIN from Irish trius and Scottish Gaelic triubhas; related to TREWS.

Yes I know in America pants means trousers but I don't live in America so leave it alone the word trousers is perfectly good thank you.
And can some one tell me how to switch the Word spell checker (every spell checker come to that) so that it does not keep insisting I spell colour without a u, I like my u and I'm not going to change it, so stop bloody asking.
Oh and one other thing in the UK we use Petrol, in the states you use Gasoline (basically a watered down version of the petrol here in the UK and Europe).

Ahh that feels better I can go back to watching Friends now.
- posted by J @ 21:49

 
Okayyyy
Saw this in the shop near work, Any one got any ideas?

100 Samples to the best.
- posted by J @ 17:40