The Goggle Box Thread

[Quirkafleeg]

LMFAO The avatar.

 

[Tredman]

Does Quirk get this one?

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Does Quirk get this one?

Pass me the tissues.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Does Quirk get this one?

BTW nobody ever touches Miner Willy..

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Have you looked into Airband?

Yes, that is what I use but the landline broadband is still connected and charged for if I want a landline phone! £36 a month (including calls admittedly plus £32 per month to Airband. Airband is 'quite' good at circa 20MB when it works but has several days each month when it doesn't. Always transmitter issues at Petton. It's incredible thought versus the landline!

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Where abouts in this fine County are you?

Near Loppington/Burlton. There was a Burlton Wolf on the Mix but no connection and I'm not aware that I know them.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Can you get 4 or 5G? Can get an unlimited data sim from 3 and put in a router.

Had one from EE prior to Airband but 4G is patchy at best (upstairs bedroom it's okay but downstairs only 3G). We are genuinely only 10 miles north of Shrewsbury but seemingly in a black spot for most things.
New fibre cabinet at Burlton but a copper line from there which is actually slower than when we had copper from the exchange [was about 0.3MB then). Apparently the speeds drop of quicker on a fibre to copper line than on copper all the way. Latency is I think what I was told and the engineer showed me graph. We are circa 9k from the exchange and 4k from the cabinet as it zigzags between rural properties.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Openreach really should be actively dealing with speeds like that. Unfortunately you can't speak to them, only your ISP can, and it's a lottery whether anything actually gets sorted.

I was getting similar <1MBps speeds in my old house about 5-6 years ago, Plusnet did get in touch with Openreach and after sorting out some dodgy ancient wiring from the telegraph pole it was all sorted. Kudos to them. But equally you can end up in an infinite loop of the problem being passed very slowly from one to the other and nothing happens.

There seem to be lots of schemes and promises about improving rural broadband or making the internet accessible to all. All I see are new estates in villages with existing super fast fibre getting upgraded to incredibly fast fibre. Hundreds of meg to several hundred meg etc., etc. Those with little or no connection get nothing.
I realise it's not cost effective to run fibre to my house so why promise something that there is no prospect of delivering on.

 

[wanderer89]

Yes, that is what I use but the landline broadband is still connected and charged for if I want a landline phone! £36 a month (including calls admittedly plus £32 per month to Airband. Airband is 'quite' good at circa 20MB when it works but has several days each month when it doesn't. Always transmitter issues at Petton. It's incredible thought versus the landline!

I didn’t realise it was so expensive! Always heard good reviews about them from speaking to people.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Sorry if that was misleading, the Airband cost alone is £32pm. The other cost is the phone which is separate to Airband.

 

[sycophantia]

Better on BBC is fucking woeful - avoid at all costs. How the directors of Spooks (which was consistently brilliant) have come up with this utter shite is really quite impressive.

I quite like it.

 

[Lupo]

We enjoyed Better too. Saw last week that Andrew Buchan who played the crim Col McHugh has dumped his real life wife Amy Nuttall for his Better co-star Leila Farzad

 

[Lupo]

After binge watching HV a couple of weeks ago everything since has been a bit flat I agree!

 

[Hereford Wolf]

The premise of it is fine and could be very good, but some of the acting and general plot development is so wooden.

You're tailing a suspect who pulls into a petrol station? I know, I'll follow him, park right next to him in the forecourt and then sit in the car and stare directly at him. Righto. Top, top work detective.

It's not in the same ballpark as that David Tennant/Stanley Tucci abomination last year, but it's not far off it. Perhaps I'm being overly harsh as it's followed on from Happy Valley but jeez.

It always surprises me when they see a suspect and shout “Oy…STOP” and the suspect ( now pre warned) runs away very quickly!

 

[sycophantia]

Artforms are all about opinion I guess, personally I think its better than Gold, which has been getting a lot of love. Think the acting is OK and the plot runs along nicely. If you're after realism it's never gunna appeal.

 

[Lupo]

Finished The Gold last night. Apparently Kenneth Noye is 'over the moon' with his depiction as a cheeky chappy rather than a vicious, ruthless gangster

 

[Johnny75]

Finished The Gold last night. Apparently Kenneth Noye is 'over the moon' with his depiction as a cheeky chappy rather than a vicious, ruthless gangster

I bet he is. It's the only thing that's irked me about the show.

The rest of the cast are brilliant.

 

[Tony Towner]

Yep, said earlier on the thread that made me feel uneasy after episode 1.

 

[AndyWolves]

I've just started watching the Get Shorty series on More4. Seems alright so far

 

[Lupo]

Started watching Deadline last night. Not bad, bit silly but I was drawn by the female lead being Charlie Murphy (Ann from Happy Valley) who I have kind of got to like since HV!