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They should make the weekend Friday and Saturday, Sundays are rubbish, Nobody ever goes out on Sundays.

Except this Sunday  :)

Nah all you cunts should be made to work this Sunday. You've got Monday off, isn't that enough?

I'm pissed off that I've got to go to this fucking christening. I want to have a fun Sunday.

There better be post drinking and a telly to watch the Snooker. Annoying that I'll be in Sheffield with the possibility of not being able to watch the Snooker.

Fuck you lot, Im shagging all day

Shame Ben, I was going to buy you pints on Sunday

All of us? Fucking hell Fred. That could be a record.  You should get the Channel 5 documentary team in.

Ive got a 4 gig mem card in my video phone if thats any use

It's not the size, it's what you do with it that counts  :oops:

Don't say stuff like that Si. You might push me over the edge into madness.



Grainy footage would probably go down well on the amateur circuit.

whats the plan sunday, I expect its all on facebook....but I dont really use the bloody thing?

Thats what all blokes with stubby pencil dicks say

 :wink:  8)

Talking from experience?

I'l use this one instead then :D.
Someone make my mind up for me.
Saturday - Swindon or a beer festival?

yeppers

beer festival definately dave

 I'm impressed, at my peak around mid 20's I think I managed 5 times, in an afternoon evening session.  I've subsequently had to accept that it wont happen again..... :(

Dave?

if not raining, go to lawns, drink and play games n shizzle.

if its raining - go to the pub

later - back to mine for

a) no rain, drinks and bbq

b) rain, drinks no food.

Im going through a phase of calling everyone Dave

Even Jenna's goldfish is called Dave

dont get a complex about it
 :mrgreen:

have you tried over 50s singles nights?

:D
Okey dokey.
Beer festival will probably win.

game eh!

do we want/need a cricket set?

good idea deev, i'm bringing a rounders bat as well  :D

You bastards, I get to spend the morning pretending to believe in god in front of a priest or vicar or something. Hopefully they'll be an opportunity for much drinking in the afternoon. There better be. How can I be responsible for my nephews moral upbringing without several Guinnesses and a few bottles of wine in me?

Oh and fags. Someone there better shout me smokes or I'll go mad.

it's your own fault for having a nephew, you'll have to live with your mistakes.

   

    Do you know where they happen....I've got a mate who'd be interested :--

    In my 30's I was down to 3, now I'm down to 2.  Its only natural.

so by age 80 you might just be hitting manogamy?

 I've no idea....but hopefully I'll be around to tell you.

i hope i'm not around to hear tales of octagenarian menage a trois'

  Rock and roll....live hard, die young.

i'd rather live long and die 'hard'

Live now, Die Later.

Is it better to burn out than to fade away? I imagine fading away could be quite enjoyable. As long as there's expensive wine served in pint glasses involved.

 What in a sweaty old vest?  Global warming I spose....going to be miserable for you young buggers.

Live and Let Die

 Have we ever had a favourite Bond film thread?

the one with cristopher walken.

view to a kill.

had to check, can never remember which is which.

must have done, goldfinger is the answer mind....

 You may need to be a bit more specific.

Goldfinger
From Russia with Love
You Only Live Twice
Live and Let Die
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

That's my top 5 (probably, it could do with some more thought) if nobody can be bothered to start one.

i was, just after that.

Or Bond Theme tunes.

View To A Kill would be my favourite Bond theme tune and probably one of my fave Bond films.

Goldfinger
GoldenEye
The Man with the Golden Gun
Live and Let Die
Dr. No

I do like that one, but listening to Duran Duran makes me feel dirty. For some reason they make me think of Thatcher.

 This appears to be the closest...

  http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13748&start=0

I haven't seen Doore for time. I'm going to give him a ring and abuse him lots. Tomorrow anyway. I can't be arsed to find a phone at the moment.

odd that, only last saturday in a pub I was asked to name all 21 films, like that thread.....

Also, got asked with theme songs Shirley Bassy sung as someone thought she did GoldenEye but it was obviously Tina Turner

Bond Nerd  :oops:

Goldfinger, Diamonds are forever and errr... Thunderball?

Live and Let Die obviously!!!

2/3

Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever and Moonraker

 For Your Eyes Only......Craig's sister Sheena.

Best Bond Theme Tunes:

Goldfinger
The Spy Who Loved Me (Nobody does it Better)
Live and Let Die
On her Majesties Secret Service
Not sure about 5th place, maybe the one Garbage did, Tomorrow Never Dies? Good tune.

Garbage did The World is not Enough....

Sheryl Crow did Tomorrow Never Dies.

The world is not enough was what I was thinking of. Shit film, good tune.

We have far too much in common DV. A fairly in depth knowledge of Mario and Bond so far.

I know....

....The World is not Enough was where Bond got a bit too unrealistic. GoldenEye was probably the last one I actually enjoyed.

Tomorrow Never Dies is ok, The World is not Enough and Die Another Day were pretty poor, esp Die Another Day.....Casino Royale wasnt much better.

....and hopefully tomorrow I've got the box set with all 21 James Bond films being delivered!

Yay.

I like tomorrow never dies, especially with the thinly veiled R. Murdochness. The remote control car + crazy mobile thing, wasn't that unrealistic. Unlike Die Another Day which is better forgotten.

I like (the new, proper bond film) Casino Royale, although I think they're starting to put pressure on Bond becoming a bit more emotional. It's been done with On her Majesties Secret Service, but I think it should have some fairly extreme events for Bond to show proper emotion, especially if it's going to effect his performance in his job.

Tomorrow Never Dies was a good film, but not as good as GoldenEye before it....but since then its been a bit crap.

Die Another Day in my opinion is by far the worst one, too over the top and un-realistic and in some cases even hard to follow!

I didnt like Casino Royale, I can see what angle they were going for 'Bond before he was Bond' or what 'made Bond Bond' but without the usual chases, gadgets etc it just doesnt feel like a Bond film. You know the catch phrases and wise cracks arent there, last of all I dont like Daniel Craig as James Bond, good actor yes....but James Bond isnt a bodybuilding, wax chested blonde man....he's dark and has a hairy chest!

Maybe thats just me, too much of a tradionalist but they do try to change Bond every now and again. In the Dalton films he's completley different, a bit edgier.....

I sort of see what you're getting at, but I think in some ways Craig has been playing much more of a classic bond, definitely compared to    Pierce Brosnan anyway.

It does make a bit of a random mix though. I don't really take much interest in the fact he's supposed to be just learning and stuff. I mean it's not as if the bond series has had that much continuity.

There are continuity errors all over the place, like there is with most long running things.

I think the only real thing is that Casino Royale is James Bonds first outing.....before Dr. No.....then its just an order.....

I mean in Dr. No he doesnt know Felix Lighter but he just introduced to him in Casino Royale....

I liked Pierce Brosnan as Bond, I just felt he got lumbered with some really crap films towards the end. Would have been bloody weird if he'd done Casino Royale though....

To be honest, I've only watched Casino Royale once were as I must have watched the others hundreds! and some of them do grow on me the more I watch them....be interesting to see what the new one is like.....but if you judge a book by its cover then the name alone makes it seem like its going to be a bit rubbish!

There's no point picking holes in the continuity because there isn't any. Felix Lighter is an ace character though. He's got a bond-girl-ish name but is a bloke. Makes you think that JB might swing both ways.

I like the fact that Bond Films don't have much of a hang-up about contradicting themselves, but will still throw in a previous film reference now and again, just for the fans sort of thing. I am weary that they might go a bit far with the new films and the whole series "reboot" thing. To be honest, as long as they're fun Bond style adventures, and they don't go to far and start just remaking the old films, it could be fun.

I'd like to see Blofeld appear, but isn't there legal issues about who actually invented the character? I remember reading up on it several years ago, it was probably before Casino Royale came out.

I know what you mean, the films are usually a good couple of years apart and unlike say Star Wars they arent supposed to exactly follow on one after another....and most people dont treat them as such.....most take them one at a time.....and most of them, if not all of them are very enjoyable.

I dont think i'd watch the flims if they ever did re-make the older ones, I still like the older ones much better than most of the newer ones by a long way.

No idea on the Blofeld issues, but didnt he get killed in For Your Eyes Only....

I think that Blofeld got killed a couple of times, wasn't there a whole double, look-a-like thing in Diamonds are Forever?

The old films are still the best. They have that ace "Bond will always win" factor about him. He's a bit like Doctor Who.

Right then my sexy internet friends. I think it's probably about time I called it a night and went to bed.

Gone are they days where I am able to stay up into the early hours. Those days disappeared when I used to indulge in the pre bedtime ritual of smoking. Now it's knowing I have to get up to go to my £9 p/h job  :(

In Diamonds are Forever, there are two people who have had surgery to look some one else.....Bond Kills one of them but I think the other gets away in the end and somewhere between there and For Your Eyes only ends up with a bald head again and in a wheel chair!

At least (depending where you go) you're earning quicker than you can drink.

I used to quite often finish working at my dad's place for £6.50 an hour, only to go and spend £9-12 an hour in The Vic.

That's the thing about bond continuity though isn't it? Reference it but don't let it stop you making a good film. Thinking back at a random one, doesn't OHMSS get referenced in Live and let die? He signs into the hotel and the receptionist says his wife has already signed in, or something. I think he makes a comment about his wife being dead anyway.

On a side note, that "We've got all the time in the world" line, is heavily foreshadowed throughout On her MSS, yet it gets the tears for me everytime. It's the one time where you actually see Bond emotionally vunerable, and despite the lack of chemistry between them throughout the rest of the film, that last seen works brilliantly, probably because she doesn't say anything.

Top soundtrack too. The proppelerheads did a mint remix.

the having a wife that was killed gets mentioned in a few, in license to kill after they catch the spanish dude Bond and Lighter go back for Lighters wedding and the wife of Felix mentions something about wanted Bond to catch the flowers and be next to get married, he just turns and walks off.

Then I think lighter tells her, he was married once.

It crops up in a few....

Not seen OHMSS alot, because its one of the few films ITV never seen to repeat, they show all the connery, moore and brosnon once but they never seem to show the Dalton two or Lazenbys one effort!

OHMSS is a weird one. George Lazenwashisname doesn't do a bad job as bond. The problem is that there's absolutely no connection between him and wasshername. It could have been the best one, but it lost out with the coldness between the actors. The ending is still brilliant though.

Like I said, must be years since I last watched it. Dont remember too much about it.

Still when my DVDs arrive, I can go through them all!