What are you watching right now?

[Janx Spirit 11,159]

"The Love Box in Your Living Room" is hilarious: 

 

 "Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse tell the true story of Britain’s political and social evolution over the last century through the life of the BBC"

 

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Taking inspiration from documentary maker Adam Curtis, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse tell the true story of Britain’s political and social evolution over the last century through the life of the BBC. By turning complete fictions into a staggering array of hard facts, they reveal details about the BBC that have been buried for decades

 

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dk9y/the-love-box-in-your-living-room

 

You need a UK IP address/VPN + postcode to access the BBC iPlayer.

 

[john g. 37,775]

Europe's only private army! Interesting tale!

[Chelski 1,481]

Anyone who's a Blur fan will understand how this came to be, and the meaning of the song.

 

 

10 years apart from being in the studio, but it's hand in glove.

 

 

[john g. 37,775]

10 countries people regret moving to!

Superficial but amusing enough to fit in with your coffee break!

[john g. 37,775]

Why does Belgium exist?

https://youtu.be/6eGEX_LTqhQ

A funny illustrated short documentary!

[john g. 37,775]

The slums of East London in Victorian times. My dad's origins and my Glaswegian grandfather's.  I'm amazed my dad was so mild-mannered. He used to pick up horse shit to resell. 

I use  Hundebeutel to pick up dog shit but not to make money...

 

 

[john_b 3,385]

The third and final season of the BBC series Happy Valley is compulsive viewing. Makes any generic Tatort look lame by comparison.

 

 

[almafreya 60]

1 hour ago, john_b said:

The third and final season of the BBC series Happy Valley is compulsive viewing. Makes any generic Tatort look lame by comparison.

 

 

 

This is on my list. Do you watch this on iPlayer using a VPN?

[john_b 3,385]

1 hour ago, almafreya said:

 

This is on my list. Do you watch this on iPlayer using a VPN?

 

Sent you a PM

[john g. 37,775]

A vlogger walking around a rough part of Rio:

https://youtu.be/rqECETAcnEM

[john g. 37,775]

I've moved on to this vlogger: black man  in Pakistan!

https://youtu.be/fgLlvhGs2ss

[snowingagain 5,357]

13 minutes ago, john g. said:

I've moved on to this vlogger: black man  in Pakistan!

https://youtu.be/fgLlvhGs2ss

Sorry I find him painful.  Imagine me going around filming everyone and going on how they had net never met a Wandsworth girlbefore.   And shouting hello and filming everyone.  Perhaps I am missing something.  Is that how you were when you were travelling John?  

[john g. 37,775]

29 minutes ago, snowingagain said:

Sorry I find him painful.  Imagine me going around filming everyone and going on how they had net never met a Wandsworth girlbefore.   And shouting hello and filming everyone.  Perhaps I am missing something.  Is that how you were when you were travelling John?  

I didn't have any technology! I had a camera but usually little money to get the photos developed!

There was no social media as such and no internet. I was always really friendly and chatty and sometimes ended up in places like in my previous post about the bloke in the Brazillian slum with gunshots.

 

The Pakistan surrounding him scrnes: pure Indonesia as well. Like when you sit on a beach and loads of people form a circle and sit down and look at you. Yep!  Once, I remember the Australian Smbassador to Infonesia telling me he managed to get privacy on the beach by telling people sitting around him and staring that he was reading a book about Communism😂. 

And the Brazil vlog earlier- brought back mrmories. My first wife's dad came from Zona Norte ( the slum in that vlog).

 

And I remember taking a oicture of an old lady in Paraguay selling fruit and laughing after this young gringo had spontaneously asked her to marry him. " Quieres casarte conmigo?"😂

PS: I'm almost scared to answer you as there are those on here who think ( rightly?) I'm a pain in the arse.. ( you and your effing stories.). Yep.

They are probably envious because they never slept free on the floor of a fire station in Ushuaia. 😂 ( Mind you, it was cold!) and the coffee was lousy!

 

To cut a long story short, this young guy from East London is fine, I reckon. Just living in the modern world! Blimey, he even had money for a taxi! 😂

But I think I immediately identified with the bloke in the slum in Rio travel-wise. I enjoyed the children's behaviour and the beautiful language of Brazilian Portuguese.

PS: I really miss Aunadasi on here, the lovely Guyanese traveller of exactly my generation. How she fled from a Colombisn gaol etc❤️❤️

[snowingagain 5,357]

What I mean is the shouting thing.  Did you really shout in people's faces like that?  In India and Pakistan?  For real?  Possibly South America is different? I mean in a country where that sort of communication is normal, maybe.   Would you attempt this on a Saturday night in Newcastle or Glasgow, if you were fond of your front teeth? 

[john g. 37,775]

9 minutes ago, snowingagain said:

What I mean is the shouting thing.  Did you really shout in people's faces like that?  In India and Pakistan?  For real?  Possibly South America is different? I mean in a country where that sort of communication is normal, maybe.   Would you attempt this on a Saturday night in Newcastle or Glasgow, if you were fond of your front teeth? 

Parts of South America or Latin America in general are like that. And no offence taken by me or them. The loudest people ever? Possibky the Dominican Republic.

But now we have mass tourism etc. YouTube. Twitter etc.

I wouldn't say much in the UK. " who you staring at, mate?"😂

Blimey, I even reneber getting on a train from Frnchurch Street to Basildon and saying good evening to a lone woman in a carriage and she saud " do we know each other?"😂

 

PS: please excuse any typos. Too kazy to hold the magnifying glass!

[snowingagain 5,357]

46 minutes ago, john g. said:

Parts of South America or Latin America in general are like that. And no offence taken by me or them. The loudest people ever? Possibky the Dominican Republic.

But now we have mass tourism etc. YouTube. Twitter etc.

I wouldn't say much in the UK. " who you staring at, mate?"😂

Blimey, I even reneber getting on a train from Frnchurch Street to Basildon and saying good evening to a lone woman in a carriage and she saud " do we know each other?"😂

 

PS: please excuse any typos. Too kazy to hold the magnifying glass!

Sure I think S America is possibly different to Pakistan, India.  And of course everything has changed since we were there, so people are more used it outlandish stuff. Still found the guy obnoxious though.  And saying hello to people in trains in the south is not as fraught as many insist.  Or perhaps I was the south London girl everyone thought was mad.  Whatever.  What is Greece like?

[john g. 37,775]

24 minutes ago, snowingagain said:

Sure I think S America is possibly different to Pakistan, India.  And of course everything has changed since we were there, so people are more used it outlandish stuff. Still found the guy obnoxious though.  And saying hello to people in trains in the south is not as fraught as many insist.  Or perhaps I was the south London girl everyone thought was mad.  Whatever.  What is Greece like?

I didn't find the guy obnoxious. 25 years old and hapoy that people were helpful. He didn't expect crowds milling around him. That is ( parte of Asia ). Japanese are more discreet. ( In my experience ). I have never been to Pakistan or India.

Greece: you can chat to anyone. Shitty with dogs😰 but chatty and no one is shocked if you greet warmly. And hang around . 
But nosey- oh yeah!

 

 

 

And this stereotype is TRUE!

 

[Chelski 1,481]

 

Very intricate song to play live, but they nail it.

[Anna66 2,691]

 

On Paramount +. We marathoned it in 2 days as it was so good. One of the best I have seen in a long time. Looking forward to season/series 2!

[john g. 37,775]

Only the passage of time..

https://youtu.be/_ZFCacAzmLY