Marka Ragnos Posted August 12 VT Supporter Share Posted August 12 (edited) Do you draw curtains open or draw curtains closed -- or both? Also ... Do you prefer toward or towards? @fruitvilla Edited August 13 by Marka Ragnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 (edited) 4 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said: Do you draw curtains open or draw curtains closed -- or both? Both ... depending whether the curtains have been drawn. 4 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said: Do you prefer toward or towards? I lean toward towards. My spellings etc tend to be British, but after 37 years in North America I do get confused. This might help Quote We’ve been at the centre of some sulphurous rancour, but we’re not going to take offence or harbour any grievances. The catalogue of their ill-informed certainties won’t colour this organisation’s programme. Edited August 13 by fruitvilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 13 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13 Drawing the curtains are closing them to me. Not saying I'm right, that's just how I've always interpreted it. If you asked me to draw the curtains and they were already closed I'd be confused 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 26 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: If you asked me to draw the curtains I'd do this... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 13 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13 I sense a Tommy Cooper joke coming on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 13 Moderator Share Posted August 13 34 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: I'd do this... Just like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 13 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13 10 minutes ago, BOF said: Just like that. Not that one... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 13 Moderator Share Posted August 13 2 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Not that one... I'm happy with my choice. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 13 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13 Spoon jar jar spoon? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted August 13 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13 (edited) Do you ever have doubled nostalgias? It's when you're just as nostalgic for something old or a throwback that was already in itself nostalgic or a throwback. It's easy to discover these doubled nostalgias in music, but they're all over the place. Example, I feel real nostalgia for the now sort of faded early 2000s revival of early 80s synth pop. I remember both periods well, and my nostalgias are completely doubled in that I feel it for both things in special ways. But it's with place, too. I feel nostalgia about recent trips to LA where I got that "So. California Feeling" -- but that's a doubled nostalgia for my early childhood experiences in California, which I feel in a very different way, and the older informs the newer one and vice versa. Edited August 13 by Marka Ragnos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Before he got into acting Harvey Keital was a court reporter in New York for over 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 Tango's famous 90s slogan, 'You know when you've been Tango'd', was performed by legendary jazz poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 2 hours ago, Chindie said: Tango's famous 90s slogan, 'You know when you've been Tango'd', was performed by legendary jazz poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron. And his dad played for Celtic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 Just now, mjmooney said: And his dad played for Celtic. And he was black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 4 hours ago, Chindie said: Tango's famous 90s slogan, 'You know when you've been Tango'd', was performed by legendary jazz poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron. Was it televised? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 2 minutes ago, Nor-Cal Villan said: Was it televised? It was, unlike the revolution. For a while anyway. That ad actually got banned in the end because kids started slapping each other in playgrounds. They did a series of these (increasingly bizarre but none as good as this one) but each ended with Scott-Heron's line 'You know when you've been Tango'd'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 The kiss version of the advert was a reasonable replacement, equally ridiculous, in keeping with the shock of being “Tango’d” and little boys aren’t as likely to try and replicate it on each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 Around about the same time (?) there was a Babycham advert, which was a parody of doom metal/post apocalyptic imagery. Somebody asks for a Babycham, and it looks like they're going to get lynched, when a massive Mister T-style black dude says: "HEY! ....I'll have a Babycham!" - and everybody relaxes. That wasn't a GSH voiceover, was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 48 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Around about the same time (?) there was a Babycham advert, which was a parody of doom metal/post apocalyptic imagery. Somebody asks for a Babycham, and it looks like they're going to get lynched, when a massive Mister T-style black dude says: "HEY! ....I'll have a Babycham!" - and everybody relaxes. That wasn't a GSH voiceover, was it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 (edited) 34 minutes ago, Designer1 said: Yep. But I've obviously conflated two different ads in my memory. What was the doom metal thing I was thinking of? Edited August 14 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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