death tribble Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 The ship that blocked the canal is in Britain unloading. It's first stop apparently https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-58085950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, death tribble said: What do you o if you are German and bored ? well you might collect things and it might end up with you getting a 250k Euro fine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58077039 How do he get it in the first place ? I'd be far more concerned about the anti-aircraft cannon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 21 hours ago, unclevlad said: Effective if likely unintentional pun, to be sure. A quick glance at Florida battery law...it looks like it's misdemeanor charges, but I wouldn't be surprised if prosecutors try to elevate. But there will likely be other moves...he won't be flying Frontier any time soon, for example. EDIT: Cygnia, they're on paid leave while the incident is investigated. This is pretty much standard. I don't expect they'll be disciplined; certainly they shouldn't be, from what the stories describe. Duct-taping his mouth shut *might* be considered excessive, but if the moron was being as disruptive (even bound) as described, I think it's a prudent move. Forcibly restraining him was completely justified; his actions endanger the flight. If he was behaving that badly, half a dozen passengers will have taken video of the incident. So you'll probably have multiple angles of the incident at the least if not complete audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 The thing with the plane guy reminds me of a CSI episode where a guy tried to open a plane door in flight and the passengers beat him to death. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 hour ago, csyphrett said: The thing with the plane guy reminds me of a CSI episode where a guy tried to open a plane door in flight and the passengers beat him to death. CES So was Poirot on the flight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 13 minutes ago, unclevlad said: So was Poirot on the flight? No but they all did it. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 52 minutes ago, csyphrett said: No but they all did it. CES Of course. Murder on the Orient Express. Not a bad movie, but a good example of the failure of the studio system. Casting was big-name but NOT necessarily well-chosen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 21 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Of course. Murder on the Orient Express. Not a bad movie, but a good example of the failure of the studio system. Casting was big-name but NOT necessarily well-chosen. I thought that Albert Finney did fine as Hercule Poirot, and the cast was really good, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Finney's performance is not that well regarded. David Suchet is the consummate Poirot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 14 minutes ago, Ternaugh said: I thought that Albert Finney did fine as Hercule Poirot, and the cast was really good, too. Finney was OK, but I wasn't fond of Anthony Perkins, Sean Connery, or Richard Widmark particularly. Martin Balsam didn't fit right as Bianchi. Don't recall if any of the ladies cast were a real issue; I do recall that the Countess Dragomirov role came off a bit forced to me, but...I read the book a long time ago. Caught the movie last year. To me it just felt like the actors were, too often, being their screen selves...not their characters. YMMV. It was well received at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 I did like Branaugh's version. Apparently, his Poroit's mustache was more like the one in Christie's books than Suchet's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Slow sports day, or final proof that ESPN has totally lost it? ESPN 2 is currently showing a cherry pit spitting competition. I kid you not. EDIT: and they followed it up with Marble Racing. OK, well, this one's described as a spoof/parody of Olympic events, but still... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Cygnia said: I did like Branaugh's version. Apparently, his Poroit's mustache was more like the one in Christie's books than Suchet's. I must admit, I kept on thinking “the Mustache and his trusty sidekick “ whenever they would enter a scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 12 hours ago, Cygnia said: This jerk's sadly from Ohio... Like many "Florida" Men. The state has an idiot magnet under it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 6 hours ago, death tribble said: Finney's performance is not that well regarded. David Suchet is the consummate Poirot. May we all agree that it doesn't take many little gray cells to recognize Suchet's brilliance? He inhabited Poirot, after JEeemy Brett was such a good Sherlock Holmes that he might have actually been Sherlock Holmes transported forward in time. The Joan Hickson Miss Marple series from the same period was just as superbly acted by the lead. Hickson captured the physical and mental characteristics of the spinster lady with the keen powers of observation and the knowledge to come of having "plumbed the depths of human depravity". Did Agatha Christie ever give Jane Marple a real backstory? Tjack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 The problem with some of it is writers trying to make it more relevant by changing things such as having two lesbians as killers instead of a husband and wife in one Miss Marple story; in John Malkovich's Poirot he was a priest not a police inspector and also a bit of a fraud; Geraldine McEwan's Marple was put into stories that were not Marple ones and then they were not that good. The Body in the Library was one of the altered stories with lesbian killers instead of husband and wife. Nemesis has nuns instead of the three sisters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 Yeah, that version of the "ABC Murders" (not to mention "The Pale Horse", both on Amazon), the changes seemed to be wangst for wangst's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 Valentino Rossi is retiring at end of this year https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/58097548 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 The Washington football team bans fans turning up in American Indian garb https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58099157 wcw43921 and Cygnia 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 Hopefully the Guardians will do the same here in Cleveland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 14 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said: May we all agree that it doesn't take many little gray cells to recognize Suchet's brilliance? He inhabited Poirot, after JEeemy Brett was such a good Sherlock Holmes that he might have actually been Sherlock Holmes transported forward in time. The Joan Hickson Miss Marple series from the same period was just as superbly acted by the lead. Hickson captured the physical and mental characteristics of the spinster lady with the keen powers of observation and the knowledge to come of having "plumbed the depths of human depravity". Did Agatha Christie ever give Jane Marple a real backstory? I don't think so. Apparently she lived her whole life in St Mary's Mead, watching people be ugly to each other CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 Romance Writers Of America Was Doing Better With Race — Until A Recent Award Choice pinecone and archer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 I can't force myself to read a romance, so I am the opposite of the demographic for whom that story is relevant ... but even I read those bits of the story and get creeped out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 I don't get creeped out, I get disgusted. Only part of it is the genocide; an equal part is the suggestion that it was divinely justified. I try to avoid the genre but there's a LOT of it that tries to slide under the radar masquerading as sci fi, urban fantasy, and superhero genres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 When I was a teen I read half of my step-moms "romance" book, out of curiosity. "Porn without pictures" was what I describe it as. Not for me, but everybody is a person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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