One of the reasons he felt like a friend was the way he encouraged and laughed at ribbing by his listener (sic). As he pointed out, friends don't tell you that they "love the show", they tell you you're an idiot. I'll miss him greatly. Vin
It's not just mental though. Maybe he is very nearly as good as they are, but just can't be good enough when it matters, although he has of course beaten both of them in finals.
Nothing wrong with being 2nd best tennis player in the world. He will win titles and probably beat Djokovic on his way to some of them.
What a disastrous January. I see that Frank Finlay went as well, but "Our Tel" ............ That's just too much .................... A TOG no longer
Announced this evening that actor Frank Finlay died yesterday. Not the most well known these days, but he was in a lot of things in the 1960-80's. 2016 takes its toll again: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12132970/Damn-fine-actor-Frank-Finlay-dies-aged-89.html
Woman suing Nestle after getting Kit Kats that were only chocolate....I think she is being humorous. She should be grateful....I got a Kit Kat that was only chocolate...absolutely delicious.
My sister and I had the occasionally (very) and would be excited and gloat to the one who didn't have it. We considered it a treat, not an opportunity to sue for the severe mental torment of not getting any biscuit. Different times.
I remember getting a Club biscuit (with raisins) once which was just chocolate and raisins. One of the greatest days of my life.
http://www.techspot.com/news/63664-watch-video-dutch-police-training-eagles-take-down.html Dutch police training eagles to bring down drones...the advantage is that they carry the drone away from crowds, so less chance of injury due to falling debris.
Excellent!! Now all they need to do is to set bears or something on the prats that fly them in the wrong places!!
Watched The Revenant this evening. It was pretty much all that Archers said it was. As an overall experience it was hugely impressive. I can't that it was enjoyable to watch, and neither can I say I was held 100% by it. The acting, although of a high standard from the leads, was uneven. The cinematography, although visually stunning much of the time, was actually technically poor on the odd occasion. For example, there were moments where the character of Glass [De Caprio] reflected on his prior life, which was framed by a wide angled lens with an edge filter which elongated and distorted the images off the centre, That was fine, but then in certain situations the wide angle lens was used in the real world [without filter] which elongated the images and distorted the perspective. That detracted from the experience rather than enhanced it, for me. Other camera use was superb. Really long takes where the camera got up on a horse alongside the protagonist and ran with him, for example. One started to wonder how this was done it was so visually stunning. The sound one or twice got a little phased, as the major volume shifted from one speaker over to another [this was listened to on stereo which should be an easy format] and also the character of the sound would change, for example, a speaking voice would start to mumble after being absolutely clear. The music soundtrack itself was very impressive. But tbh, I'm carping a wee bit. De Caprio and Hardy carry the film very well. De Caprio has the more interesting role, but Hardy executes his better. There was a good 5 mins where I was trying to identify him and I couldn't, he was so buried in his part that he'd gone native. De Caprio is always good. Indeed he's usually the best actor in any film he's in [and that comes from someone who always thought his face eminently punchable], but not this time. Tom Hardy is so real in his character he's stopped acting, as far as I can see. So an impressive experience. If you want fun though it isn't here. Oh, I forgot. The Bear. Wow.
Donald Trump fails to win the Republican nomination from Iowa. He came 2nd by 3%. Ted Cruz wins. Seemed very flat afterwards, in his speech. Here it is.
Meanwhile in the Democratic vote... Quite incredible considering that Clinton is bankrolled by very wealthy investors and the average donation received by Sanders is $27.
So less than 25% of the, arguably smaller party, may be those Yankees ain't so daft.. after all. (re Trump)
