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ilduclo · 11.17.2019, 11:49 AM

really great series of short docu's on Netflick, "Flavorful Origins". Obscure Chinese cuisine, from growing or harvesting the food to some minor recipes, not a cooking show, per se, just a homage to old school Chinese cookery, eg 3o year old preserved radish, seaweed use, marinated crab, etc. Really high production values, great cinematography, just a great length of only like 10 minutes for each episode. Highest recco's..

Mandarin Orange recipe I've GOT TO DO:

_tunic_ · 11.26.2019, 03:56 PM

I bought myself some DVD boxsets and they arrived today:
- Fawlty Towers (2 seasons)
- Absolutely Fabulous (5 seasons)
- Blackadder (4 seasons)

And I ordered the fully restored 50th anniversary Monty Phython Flying Circus boxset
And also the Monty Python Absolutely Everything boxset. Which I'll perhaps return after I received it, because it might be a bit superfluous. But I might as well keep it. It's a bit weird there are several different kinds of these boxsets, some with 12, some with 13 and some with 14 discs. Not sure what exactly the differences are. I think I'm getting the one with 13 discs.

_tunic_ · 11.26.2019, 05:03 PM

Bloody fucking hell
My home stereo system suddenly decided that it no longer wants to recognize any DVD's. CD's and Bluray's are still fine, but no more DVD's, even those that used to work.

Just when I wanted to start watching some Blackadder

Guess it needs a replacement, it's already 10 years old perhaps

!@#$%! · 11.26.2019, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

Bloody fucking hell
My home stereo system suddenly decided that it no longer wants to recognize any DVD's. CD's and Bluray's are still fine, but no more DVD's, even those that used to work.

Just when I wanted to start watching some Blackadder

Guess it needs a replacement, it's already 10 years old perhaps

i know dvd and br use a different laser. not sure about cd... but if it's the laser.. maybe it just needs a cleaning? i used to buy those fake dvds with a brush that would clean the laser lens.

if you already did that then yeah BURN BURN BURN IT

i haven't used physical media in ages. maybe look for online options? don't know... i think black adder here is on amazon... or maybe it was netflix.

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yep, it's free on prime video. same as father ted hahahahahaaaaaa. fucking father ted...

ilduclo · 11.26.2019, 06:25 PM

plug yer laptop in with a hdmi cable

tw2113 · 11.26.2019, 08:29 PM

MMMMmmmmm Blackadder

ilduclo · 11.26.2019, 11:37 PM

there's a documentary on Black Adder, was it included in the set? I've been trying to get ahold of a copy for a while!!

_tunic_ · 11.27.2019, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

there's a documentary on Black Adder, was it included in the set? I've been trying to get ahold of a copy for a while!!

I don't know!! I can't watch the DVD's!!!

But the cover doesn't mention any documentary. Mine has 4 DVD's, and has only the 4 seasons without extras. There are also boxes with more DVD's for instance here is mentioned that the ultimate collection has that documentary. Damn, should have searched a bit better, I only checked the boxes that were on sale, the 6 disc version is only costing a couple Euros more even though it's not on sale ... Perhaps I could return it even though I already removed the shrink wrapping.

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

plug yer laptop in with a hdmi cable

I don't have a laptop. I did try once to connect the desktop PC with a very long HDMI cable, but that didn't work well, perhaps for DVD's but I still couldn't play some other media. Especially flac files, I've got loads of them, but never managed to get them played from the PC to the home cinema set. So this has been an annoyance for as long as I've had that home cinema set plus that it doesn't have a headphone socket, which is stupid because I love listening to music on headphones. And also connection through Wifi didn't work well.

So I've decided to get me a new system. It's Black Friday week(end), so I should be able to get a good deal somewhere. For the geeks, this is a Sony BDV-E780w and like I said, it's possibly already 10 years old, so it's about time for a replacement.

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i haven't used physical media in ages. maybe look for online options? don't know... i think black adder here is on amazon... or maybe it was netflix.

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yep, it's free on prime video. same as father ted hahahahahaaaaaa. fucking father ted...

I try to stay away from paid online streaming services. I've got HBO now, but that's only because it comes free with the cable package. I'm still old-fashioned, I like physical media. Besides, there's a lot of fuzz about Amazon right now, so that's another reason for not paying for streaming via Amazon. Instead I bought these boxsets from the Amazon site

No not really, I used the Dutch competitor, but I did order some other stuff (CD's that the Dutch site didn't have) recently from the German Amazon.de site which currently still serves as the homebase for the Netherlands.

!@#$%! · 11.27.2019, 05:42 PM

^^ oh, i don’t have amazon music, only prime video, which comes free with the 2-day shipping

you guys got black friday too? hahaha. plague does travel...

[eta: i still have a refurbished br player i bought for $30 on amazon, years ago. it’s in my boondocks house waiting for the alpacalypse.]

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anyway, im re-hooked on the sopranos all over again (yes they’re free on prime video right now for some reason), just started the final season.

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eta: except for too many dream/alternate reality episodes, which... come on already this is not twin peaks

_tunic_ · 12.04.2019, 02:48 PM

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you guys got black friday too? hahaha. plague does travel...

Yep we get all the good stuff from your country. Sales and fast food. Until now we've been able to stay away from the Thanksgiving turkeys. But especially in my city there's a US original fastfood restaurant on every corner.

Some stores were complaining about Black Friday because it's too close before Sinterklaas (5 December) and Christmas. So they were proposing to reschedule Black Friday to earlier in the year.

Anyway, I subscribed to Netflix to watch The Irishman. So if anyone has any suggestions, fire away. Especially if there's a good science fiction alien comedy series or film.

!@#$%! · 12.04.2019, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by _tunic_

Yep we get all the good stuff from your country. Sales and fast food. Until now we've been able to stay away from the Thanksgiving turkeys. But especially in my city there's a US original fastfood restaurant on every corner.

Some stores were complaining about Black Friday because it's too close before Sinterklaas (5 December) and Christmas. So they were proposing to reschedule Black Friday to earlier in the year.

Anyway, I subscribed to Netflix to watch The Irishman. So if anyone has any suggestions, fire away. Especially if there's a good science fiction alien comedy series or film.

black peter friday: is it racist?

anyway, netflix

the... what’s the name with the junkie lady from orange... natasha.... lyonne? RUSSIAN DOLL! very good.

i started watching santa clarita diet but forgot, the guy from justified was in it and was funny (sheriff bullock from deadwood)

never seen narcos but apparently it was traumatizing for many

house of cards was brilliant till they shitcanned kevin spacey

orange is the new black can be good in seasons but also depressing (‘merica! jails!)

CHAPELLE IS A MUST

GLOW was great too

oh, holy shit, the best show ever is BOJACK HORSEMAN

none of these are science fiction. trying to think of one. black mirror? never saw it so i am not sure.

Rob Instigator · 12.04.2019, 04:40 PM

Black Mirror is overrated, mass brainwashing disguised as edgy avant-garde television. It is Twilight Zone without humanity.

!@#$%! · 12.04.2019, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Black Mirror is overrated, mass brainwashing disguised as edgy avant-garde television. It is Twilight Zone without humanity.

glad i dodged that bullet

aside from that—didn’t you like peaky blinders? or am i thinking of the wrong person?

ilduclo · 12.05.2019, 02:18 PM

before you splurge on a new dvd player, check out your refurb shop, if you have one, I got a 2005 era Marantz with like 0 wear on it for 10$, it's been working great for 4 years.

ilduclo · 12.05.2019, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Black Mirror is overrated, mass brainwashing disguised as edgy avant-garde television. It is Twilight Zone without humanity.

yeah, a couple of the episodes were really repulsive in Season 1, the one about the pig and the one with Mike Smiley where the criminals were killed over and over again. Extra crappy stuff. I stopped watching. Charlie Booker was a great snarky comedian, not so much as a dystopian writer

!@#$%! · 12.06.2019, 06:25 PM

caught last night the first episode of CARNIVAL ROW

nice cast, peculiar settings, there’s some promise in the story—i’m slightly intrigued, yeah.

!@#$%! · 12.08.2019, 10:49 AM

^^really enjoyed first season of that and yeah i binged. good story (about refugees, indentured servitude, racism, etc), and the girl is pretty.

(also: titties)

rené echeverría who had a hand in ds9 is one of the creators, and it shows—the borg queen is in this hahahahah

h8kurdt · 12.08.2019, 10:51 AM

I keep seeing the trailers before watching anything on prime. Annoying thing is when it plays there's a sound on it that sounds like someone rapidly knocking on my front door.

Since then I'm boycotting the program. I need to be more confused than I already am.

!@#$%! · 12.08.2019, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

I keep seeing the trailers before watching anything on prime. Annoying thing is when it plays there's a sound on it that sounds like someone rapidly knocking on my front door.

Since then I'm boycotting the program. I need to be more confused than I already am.

h8kurdt · 12.08.2019, 11:42 AM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMlthfXAluA

This is longer trailer but the knocking on it does my tree in. It's played before I watch something else on Amazon prime so many times I'm boycotting it without knowing anything about it.

11.17.2019, 11:49 AM	#2981
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,415	really great series of short docu's on Netflick, "Flavorful Origins". Obscure Chinese cuisine, from growing or harvesting the food to some minor recipes, not a cooking show, per se, just a homage to old school Chinese cookery, eg 3o year old preserved radish, seaweed use, marinated crab, etc. Really high production values, great cinematography, just a great length of only like 10 minutes for each episode. Highest recco's.. Mandarin Orange recipe I've GOT TO DO:
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11.26.2019, 03:56 PM	#2982
_tunic_ invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: I could live in eurHope Posts: 3,251	I bought myself some DVD boxsets and they arrived today: - Fawlty Towers (2 seasons) - Absolutely Fabulous (5 seasons) - Blackadder (4 seasons) And I ordered the fully restored 50th anniversary Monty Phython Flying Circus boxset And also the Monty Python Absolutely Everything boxset. Which I'll perhaps return after I received it, because it might be a bit superfluous. But I might as well keep it. It's a bit weird there are several different kinds of these boxsets, some with 12, some with 13 and some with 14 discs. Not sure what exactly the differences are. I think I'm getting the one with 13 discs. __________________ what comes first, the music or the words? .
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11.26.2019, 05:03 PM	#2983
_tunic_ invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: I could live in eurHope Posts: 3,251	Bloody fucking hell My home stereo system suddenly decided that it no longer wants to recognize any DVD's. CD's and Bluray's are still fine, but no more DVD's, even those that used to work. Just when I wanted to start watching some Blackadder Guess it needs a replacement, it's already 10 years old perhaps __________________ what comes first, the music or the words? .
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11.26.2019, 06:25 PM	#2985
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,415	plug yer laptop in with a hdmi cable
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11.26.2019, 08:29 PM	#2986
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 1,796	MMMMmmmmm Blackadder __________________ Shake shake
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11.26.2019, 11:37 PM	#2987
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,415	there's a documentary on Black Adder, was it included in the set? I've been trying to get ahold of a copy for a while!!
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11.27.2019, 05:42 PM	#2989
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,209	^^ oh, i don’t have amazon music, only prime video, which comes free with the 2-day shipping you guys got black friday too? hahaha. plague does travel... [eta: i still have a refurbished br player i bought for $30 on amazon, years ago. it’s in my boondocks house waiting for the alpacalypse.] — anyway, im re-hooked on the sopranos all over again (yes they’re free on prime video right now for some reason), just started the final season. — eta: except for too many dream/alternate reality episodes, which... come on already this is not twin peaks
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12.04.2019, 04:40 PM	#2992
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 28,508	Black Mirror is overrated, mass brainwashing disguised as edgy avant-garde television. It is Twilight Zone without humanity. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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12.05.2019, 02:18 PM	#2994
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,415	before you splurge on a new dvd player, check out your refurb shop, if you have one, I got a 2005 era Marantz with like 0 wear on it for 10$, it's been working great for 4 years.
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12.06.2019, 06:25 PM	#2996
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,209	caught last night the first episode of CARNIVAL ROW nice cast, peculiar settings, there’s some promise in the story—i’m slightly intrigued, yeah.
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12.08.2019, 10:49 AM	#2997
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,209	^^really enjoyed first season of that and yeah i binged. good story (about refugees, indentured servitude, racism, etc), and the girl is pretty. (also: titties) rené echeverría who had a hand in ds9 is one of the creators, and it shows—the borg queen is in this hahahahah
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12.08.2019, 10:51 AM	#2998
h8kurdt invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In Mulder's Basement room Posts: 5,256	I keep seeing the trailers before watching anything on prime. Annoying thing is when it plays there's a sound on it that sounds like someone rapidly knocking on my front door. Since then I'm boycotting the program. I need to be more confused than I already am. __________________ Down with this sort of thing.
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12.08.2019, 11:42 AM	#3000
h8kurdt invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In Mulder's Basement room Posts: 5,256	https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMlthfXAluA This is longer trailer but the knocking on it does my tree in. It's played before I watch something else on Amazon prime so many times I'm boycotting it without knowing anything about it. __________________ Down with this sort of thing.
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