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Time Or Dimensional Slips

Paul_Exeter said:
Some tv shows such as 'The Good Life' have stood the test of time and are still funny but also allow yourself to be transported back to mid-1970s fashion and cars (which I can just remember). 'Pie in the Sky' is a good example of a 1990s tv show that is still watchable in its own right (well I find it charming) and, like 'Lovejoy', catches that moment when computing and mobile phones were just beginning to 'infiltrate' into our everyday lives. I still have time for 'Lovejoy', it reminds me of trips back home in the 1990s, but do feel the humour has become decidedly dated now eg when old Tinker hams up it. The last series is unmentionable, a classic example of squeezing the last egg out of the golden goose.
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Loved 'Lovejoy' but the last season and Christmas special jumped the shark.
I'm quite suprised didn't USA didn't do a version of 'Lovejoy' and called it 'Shaghappy"
 
Paul_Exeter said:
Some tv shows such as 'The Good Life' have stood the test of time and are still funny but also allow yourself to be transported back to mid-1970s fashion and cars (which I can just remember). 'Pie in the Sky' is a good example of a 1990s tv show that is still watchable in its own right (well I find it charming) and, like 'Lovejoy', catches that moment when computing and mobile phones were just beginning to 'infiltrate' into our everyday lives. I still have time for 'Lovejoy', it reminds me of trips back home in the 1990s, but do feel the humour has become decidedly dated now eg when old Tinker hams up it. The last series is unmentionable, a classic example of squeezing the last egg out of the golden goose.
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Used to watch Lovejoy because that's what one did when at home with a family of small kids.

What struck me was how ugly Ian McShane was. :chuckle:
Men seemed to get away with being plug in a way women couldn't.
 
escargot said:
a thing or two to say here.
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For those missing it, there were long playing records! I spotted this bit of landfill-vinyl in a bargain-bucket somewhere, just last week!

I have also seen CDs. That LP set is especially lovely, as we get to see the culprits with their old chestnuts and kitted-out like The Good Old Days twerps!

Nice to have the visual hatred, though it is bound to be less sensational than the dismal dirges they warbled. :evillaugh:
 
So much chaff and not enough wheat I'm afraid it does not help that the subject is in vouge at the moment and lots of people just making things up for whatever reason
 
escargot said:
Used to watch Lovejoy because that's what one did when at home with a family of small kids.

What struck me was how ugly Ian McShane was. :chuckle:
Men seemed to get away with being plug in a way women couldn't.
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He had a kind of greasy, sub-David Essex kind of 'bad boy' allure. Apparently. I could never see it myself.
 
JamesWhitehead said:
For those missing it, there were long playing records! I spotted this bit of landfill-vinyl in a bargain-bucket somewhere, just last week!

I have also seen CDs. That LP set is especially lovely, as we get to see the culprits with their old chestnuts and kitted-out like The Good Old Days twerps!

Nice to have the visual hatred, though it is bound to be less sensational than the dismal dirges they warbled. :evillaugh:
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Ah, the Good Old Days get-up. That'll be the Good Old Days of diphtheria, pressgangs, rickets and public hangings. All of which would improve the singing performance of these tune-torturers NO end.
 
catseye said:
He had a kind of greasy, sub-David Essex kind of 'bad boy' allure. Apparently. I could never see it myself.
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While I do love the bad boys meself and have been partial to the odd actual greaser, they do have to look at least barely human.
 
Mythopoeika said:
And yet the ladies luuurrved him.
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Yep, Emmanuelle herself even married him...

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Floyd said:
https://bigthink.com/the-well/the-second-arrow-of-time/

Doesn't selecting for purpose just mean evolution though?
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The two 'arrows of time' mentioned in that article are Entropy, which always points towards increasing chaos and randomness, and self-organising phenomena such as evolution and life, which can temporarily reverse entropy to some extent and make things complex again. Some self-organising phenomena are not associated with life - for instance the growth of crystals and snowflakes can introduce order to chaos, at least on a temporary basis. Some people call this process Negentropy, and it seems to be the principle that allows biology and intelligent behaviour to emerge in the universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negentropy
or just self-organisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization

Unfortunately, negentropy or self-organisation is always subordinate to and smaller in effect than entropy; you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.

Oh, and it has nothing to do with timeslips, as far as I can see.
 
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Paul_Exeter said:
Eight-year-old boys sent down Cornish tin mines to invariably get crushed or gassed...
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Not sure why you quoted me, all I was doing was making a generalised comment.
 
eburacum said:
The two 'arrows of time' mentioned in that article are Entropy, which always points towards increasing chaos and randomness, and self-organising phenomena such as evolution and life, which can temporarily reverse entropy to some extent and make things complex again. Some self-organising phenomena are not associated with life - for instance the growth of crystals and snowflakes can introduce order to chaos, at least on a temporary basis. S
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Like doing housework.
 
Mythopoeika said:
I wish people would not write fake stories and pass them off as real.
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Its a pitfall of modern Fortean Studies lots of people can spin a good yarn once it gets out in the wild it's passed off as the truth I mean look at the Liverpool Bold Street tales, a timeslip story is hard to verify I know so a large pinch of salt is required but as a minimum I would expect there to be names and some witnesses (not to the time slip) and some proper historical background checks
 
MorningAngel said:
This was from a ‘Real ghost stories’ book I bought on Amazon. Sounds like fiction from the very beginning. I was really disappointed.
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That seems to be written in 'magazine story' style, probably, as with magazine 'True Stories', to ensure an even style throughout. Which means that the story wasn't written by the person to whom it happened, but a third party. Doesn't necessarily mean it's not true, just that it's been written up to make it readable and catchy.
 
catseye said:
That seems to be written in 'magazine story' style, probably, as with magazine 'True Stories', to ensure an even style throughout. Which means that the story wasn't written by the person to whom it happened, but a third party. Doesn't necessarily mean it's not true, just that it's been written up to make it readable and catchy.
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Too much detail for me to believe any of it’s true.

‘“Wow, you do love me, Lucas,” she grinned, squeezing my arm as we got out. “Pretty water,” she said, referring to the broad lake with its pebbled bank yards from the house.’

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‘Behind it, a girl with hoop earrings, cropped pink hair and glossy lips to match smiled vaguely in our direction.’

:roll:
 
I'm beginning to second-guess* myself now, and think that the only reason that I'm detecting supposedly 'writerly' aspects of these stories' styles is because I'm so used to reading and, occasionally, writing stories myself.


* Or whatever the correct expression is.
 
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