Nah. It’s got to be Mike Bassett
No. Both wrong. This is it.
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Finally got around to it last night and it was a terrible disappointment. My main thought is that it doesnt really make any sense, but I concede that might have been its goal on first viewing and so justifies a second. I just dont know it was good enough to go through another 2 and a half hours of that just to see that, yeah, it really doesnt make much sense.
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Just watched Black Widow. If you like Marvel movies, you’ll enjoy it, if you don’t then you probably won’t.
And that’s about as much as you need to say about all new Marvel movies at this point.
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When I was quite young I can still remember watching the film ZULU on TV with my dad… At the end of the film he asked me a question which I couldn’t answer but went on to puzzle me for years, because he said if I had paid attention whilst watching it instead of ‘messing about’, as he so eloquently phrased it, I would know the answer…! He had asked me for the name of the first Zulu warrior that had been shot by the British soldiers defending the garrison.
No DVD’s, VHS or Google in those days, so it was years before the film was played again on TV… Not to be deterred, and being a bit older by now, watched it, pen in hand, in case the sub-titles of the Zulu language would make it difficult to pronounce… Sat through the whole film glued to to the screen paying so much attention it brought a humdinger of a headache on…
Anyway, NOTHING.! Not even a clue to what the Zulu warriors name might have been…
Having prepared for this second viewing for over a week since it was listed in the Radio Times of the day, my determination, anticipation and vigour disappeared in an instant…
Told Dad I still didn’t have an answer for him, and as usual he quietly laughed and chuckled. I asked kids I played out with if they knew, I asked their parents, kids in school, teachers… everyone I came into contact with… but alas, everyone said they had no idea…!
He did actually tell me the answer years later, but also said he was amazed at the diligence shown by one so young…!
Gonna leave this puzzle open, in case anyone else wants to attempt the same mental gymnastics I was put through…!
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I decided I am now officially old on Friday. I watched what was a pretty terrible film called Billionaire’s Boys Club a based on real events 80s ponzi scheme. Mainly it just wasn’t very good. But the real issue was all I could see was “kids” running around pretending to be adults and I couldn’t take them seriously. The worst part is one of the leads was already in his late 20s at the time of filming.
I watched American Animals on sunday night though…another dramatization of a real life crime and that was really amusing in a good way.
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From memory, in the first engagement at Rorke’s Drift, Lieutenant Bromhead can be distinctly heard ordering the men to fire at a specific Zulu warrior. Will that suffice as the answer? 
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And I thought the whole point of the story was their names were never mentioned because they were not treated as real characters
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Nah they’ve already fired several volleys before he gives that order.
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Was his name Will?
As in “Fire at Will”? 
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Boooooo!!! Get off the stage!!!
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As true as the story is…
I will still just get my coat! :0))
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Maybe we should start a thread of dads stories from the past…
The confusion I had with mine, certainly when I was a youngster, I never knew when he was being serious or pulling my leg and winding me up…!
Remember him collecting me from junior school once when I was no more than 7years old… walking home we came across two dogs ‘rutting’ in the middle of the road on the cobblestones… and by ‘rutting’, I mean this bigger dog was really going for it good style… Looking up at my dad I asked what it was they were doing… Oh Er, Ermm they are dancing lad, dancing, that’s what they are doing"
Jeeez, he only nearly got me expelled from school at the following Friday nights junior disco didn’t he when I attempted the same dance with the girls in my class… Dads eh! :0)
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You didn’t…
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When my son was about eight years old we lived in a Close. All the kid’s of the Close all ages up to the fifteen year old girl next door played together on our fronts together. The usual games, Allio, British Bulldog, Rounders, Hide and seek etc. I knew he was safe playing there as there was no traffic. I’d go out and check on him and sometimes join in the games.
One evening I went out to check on him and the girl next door was a red as a tomato. I asked if she was OK and she said that my lad had just said to her “Gaynor, come and see this dog giving this other dog a piggy back”. The poor girl was mortified.
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It wasn’t so much my attempt at rutting that got me told off by the teacher/s… it was more because I had my tongue hanging out to the side of my mouth and my eyes were rolling to the back of my head just like the dog I saw… would have flattened my ears as well, if knew how to do that…!
Tried to copy it exactly…
It lived with me for years… Was about 16 before I could get a date with anyone because of it…! :0)
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Watched this again last night… Brilliant 9/10 
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