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Some bugger has signed up my personal and work e-mail addresses to receive every bloody one of FoxNews' alerts and newsletters. Got inboxes full of that drivel, and they have to be unsubscribed individually.

Did Ken Niemand turn up this time?

spotted today in Manchester. What's he gone and done now?

Fans of Schwarzenegger's 80s and 90s output have probably already seen these, but just in case here are Arnie's greatest movies as musicals:

Predator
Conan
Commando
Total Recall
Terminator 2

[Cat Burglar]

If you want cartoon fun on Netflix, I've just had three goes through Charlie Brooker's new interactive cartoon/game, Cat Burglar. It's a (brilliantly executed) Tex Avery style cat v dog battle with rapid fire quiz questions that pop up - get them right and the cat wins, get them wrong or take too long and he is flattened by the anvil or electrocuted. Barring a few link-scenes, there are hundreds of permutations. The gags and set-pieces are authentically insane and very funny.

More here:https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/21/charlie-brooker-interview-black-mirror-cat-burglar

[F is For family]

Funny how Netflix seems to squirt out a dozen original cartoons a year but F is For family is the only good one out of the bunch and i've never seen anyone talking about it. Five seasons, didn't outlive its welcome at all. Great show.

Your mouth is full of wrong! Archer, Big Mouth, Final Space, South Park and Bojack Horseman are fantastic. I gave up on F is for Family after a few episodes - just seemed like a boring outdated family sitcom. F is for Fuckingshite more like

Not sure it is moving as Netflix do seem to retire content - not sure why don't understand how the model for this type of thing works - but was disappointed to see they had removed the Twin Peaks series - though do they just license materials in some cases???

Decided to re-watch the Hunger Games movies recently - Netflix has the first three of four films, but bafflingly, not the last one. What's that all about? - it's not even a standalone film, it's the second half of a 2-part finale.(Fortunately it's free to watch if you have Amazon Prime)

Round Manchester they seem to have themed events - a few years ago there was a Vietnamese street-food festival with several food trucks, and last year we had Wing Fest (yes, it's a chicken wing festival)

I love festival food - on day one, most people are scanning the programme and deciding which bands they'll see on which stages, I'm walking round thinking ' Rotisserie chicken? I'll be having that. Goan fish curry? yes please. Burritos? Add them to the schedule"

 

I'm assuming that everyone knows that the largest religious group in the world is 'lapsed catholic'?

Is this true? I would have thought Muslim countries with large populations where your neighbours may kill you for perceived blasphemy would swing the demographics

NB: as a member of that group and having read the bible cover to cover, there is no biblical basis to purgatory.  The old testament (Jews) did not believe in an afterlife, or at least there is no real reference to it.  Limited reference to be sure e.g. Sheol.

It is only in the New Testament that it starts to come up and even then only in a handful of places.

NBB: the Catholic Bible is not the same as the King James / Non-conformist Bible.  There are several books in both the Old and New Testament that do not appear in other Bibles.

Mind you, this is from someone who still holds to the Pascal gambit so who am I to speak?

I went to a catholic primary school where my impressionable mind accepted so much bullshit* and then a protestant secondary school where people had never heard of purgatory, guardian angels, intercessions by saints etc. I investigated the source material, as I was being taught to do, and realised that none of this was in the actual bible, and the socio/political reasons why the church had made all this shit up over the centuries.

I'm now off to google the Pascal gambit.

*We had this massive painting in the year 4 classroom of a child getting close to the edge of a cliff and a HUGE guardian angel shielding him with his wing. We were told that we all had an individual GA who was watching us 24/7. They told us of a child who'd been granted a vision of his GA and saw it as a presence filling his entire bedroom, and another who talked to his GA using CB slang (it was big at the time, but wait what? We're supposed to talk to them?). I think this was supposed to be comforting, but it scared the shit out of me. We were told that EVERY catholic altar contained a sliver of the True Cross and that not going to mass on Sunday was a mortal sin that would condemn you to hell. I once got the cane (lead-filled bamboo) for "disrespecting" a set of cheap plastic rosary beads. Not surprising that I joined that big demographic.

The Loin and the Eagle has a lovely feel to it

That's a different publication entirely

It's just anti-catholic slander to say that those babies will go to Hell or Purgatory.

Unbaptized infants go to Limbo, a featureless grey plain where they wander until Judgment Day lamenting their separation from God. He's not a monster you know.

One-word gaffe invalidates thousands of US baptisms

TL;DR - the man doing the magic ceremony to indoctrinate thousands of babies into a belief system they have no knowledge of said the wrong magic words, so the magic didn't work, and now they're not proper humans.

It's okay, the Pope's 10th level he can just cast "infallible bull" and reverse the spell, especially if he has enough dead medieval wizard bones.

Darn, still waiting for the Hicklenton Nemesis to come back - I liked it so much I bought a spare, but both are threadbare now.

At least something that I can also "attend"

Was just thinking the opposite. Social bloody media *Gen X grumbling*

Duncan Jones is developing an indie film at the moment with Zack Stentz.

'Secret mission', 'military' ... sounds more like Sniper Elite.

I'm sure I read a while back that Jones was working on a Rogue Trooper movie.