Michael Hall
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Pensions actuary. All kinds of theatre in spare time. Empire Done in 60 Seconds competition finalist 6x. Current CODA Chairman.
Joined March 2009
@EmmaSzewczak I should dress up as the Building Industry in the Upper Swansea Valley and Its Economic and Social Ramifications, C. 1750-1975, in honour of my mother's book.
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@joetidy I can remember reading about local authorities sending out letters to 104 year olds a few years ago, telling their "parents" that they were expected to start school that year.
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@fesshole Not clear if the fesser ended up with actual guy or old Tinder match guy, or they are all in a throuple.
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@rjones1907 @MarinaHyde He was made an honorary Vice-Admiral on his 55th birthday, and was expecting to be made an honorary Admiral on his 60th, but the other stuff got in the way. I read the Daily Mail website, so you didn't have to.
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@matosman I think the interchange between the Piccadilly Line and Victoria Line at Green Park is longer.
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@MikeMacRaeMike Whoa. Lou Bega was 24 years old when Mambo Number 5 came out! He sounded much older.
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@hansmollman I think I can remember an episode of That's Life 30 ish years ago where they reported this happened in France. Some British tourists parked their car in a quiet side street, which turned out to be where a senior minister lived, and they came back to find the doors blown off.
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@flemingsean @fcampbellhowes There's some corner of a foreign lounge.That is forever England.
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@GSGB01 @Lewisrendell1 @UKLabour Achtung! Here is another photo of today's protest. (5000 tractors just out of sight).
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@hwallop "The arrival which brought everlasting midwinter" makes it sound like the mother has just given birth to the White Witch in Narnia.
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@HLThompson93 Is there one of Paddington leading Captain Tom's daughter's spa into the afterlife?.
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@LiamKWalker @GeorgeABrowning @Conservatives They had longer skirts and more cumbersome cameras then.
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@i_zzzzzz The one time I actually spoke to someone about turning their phone off was when I saw A Monster Calls. I was absolutely blubbering at how moving that film was, but a guy a few rows in front of me was still turning phone on every few minutes. I actually went and said, with a.
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@exitthelemming Adding a positive number, you walk forward the number of steps. Subtracting a positive number, you walk backwards the number of steps. Subtracting a negative number, you turn round then walk backwards. So it's the same as walking forwards. You can physically walk on a lawn.
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@sarajmichels @quakerraina St Maud might be the only film I've ever seen where a woman vomits but isn't pregnant. Oh, maybe The Exorcist.
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@xAlexTHFC Maria Sharapova won the women's title at Wimbledon at 17. Olga Korbut won three gymnastics gold medals at the Olympics when she was 17.
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@RichardJMurphy Would he not want to minimise the coverage for his security detail, so staying put in a secure area, giving his bodyguards more of a chance for a Christmas with their families? I think I recall Johnson didn't do that.
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@YeOldeMMRF @chrisjallan @chrislepkowski 38 years ago, the song was raising money to feed people in Ethiopia. Now it's raising money to feed people in our own country. Doesn't feel like progress.
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@hunleyeric Please note, this is in the US rather than the UK, where copyright law is different. In general in the UK, works become out of copyright the calendar year 70 years after the author's death. e.g. Hemingway won't be out of copyright in the UK until 1 January 2032.
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@BritishComedy "Make room for new comedy shows"? If they wanted to make room for new comedy shows, could they not show Bargain Hunt fewer than five times a week?.
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@Livvyrach @kingstonwrites Ah yes, aren't the words for humid and gay either the same or v similar in German?. And the words for bus stop and bra are similar too!.
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@SailorSammy93 We'd never heard of Erin Brockovich, John Nash or James J Braddock, but they were still the subject of successful films.
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@ChrisRugaber Americans should learn the glory of custard made fresh with vanilla pods, and see what they're putting trade barriers in front of.
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@DrJamesJBailey @JonnElledge He didn't fight at Waterloo, but he has raised Money, Money, Money for the NHS.
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@BrianAhanotu @Gabrielle_AQ Loving it. A lovely emotional core with the story of Assane's father; watching with my mother, and chuckling in admiration every time he escapes from a scrape using his wits.
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@BritishComedy I should have researched more before tweeting. Bargain Hunt is on BBC One seven times a week.
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@fesshole When I lost a lot of weight in 2019, some people didn't want to mention it in case I was ill. It's all come back on now, though. With interest.
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@the_traitors_ If there's another "dig people out of a coffin" challenge, I am hoping the other contestants will be surprised when these three leap out.
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@austyntatious_ @callmesaowwhy Diane Morgan is also wonderful (as is the rest of the cast) in the sitcom Motherland - I strongly recommend you look that up.
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@SimShady99 @DiscussingFilm The Queen's Diamond Jubilee in front of Buckingham Palace?. "Some rally" - lol! 🤣.
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@brae_22 @sarajmichels @quakerraina Oh I did see that in the cinema several years ago. Enjoyed it a lot, particularly the "making a speech at the same time" scene. I'm not actively looking for films where women vomit, by the way.
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@LittleCharlesTV He is one of the best actors around, and his Hamlet was heartbreaking (in particular act 1 scene 2).
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@ask_aubry Don't cook for someone unless you are willing to ask your guest for any dietary needs and work around them.
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@SJTimes13 Am seeing it at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Sunday, with the score played live by an orchestra, along with someone who has never seen the film before.
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@TheFilmUpdates @exitthelemming When you're having a lie-in on your day off, but the delivery driver needs a signature.
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@saoulidisg @DiscussingFilm And Henry V didn't talk in iambic pentameter, but artistic licence prevailed.
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@yonceeffect @Jolly_Blaziken Like Death Becomes Her?. Essentially a new telling of the underlying Faust story.
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@fesshole Should give the room to this woman:.
I've been married to my hubby for 10 years, for 6 months I've been having an affair, I don't fancy the person I'm cheating with and the sex is terrible but quick, I like the time away in country hotels where I can relax and read or go walk with no distractions form hubby or kids.
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@DiscussingFilm We know the actors, but do we actually know all the characters?. Vanessa Kirby might be playing Princess Margaret, Sebastian Stan might be playing Donald Trump, and Ian McKellen might be playing Gandalf.
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@Pastor_Shots @hanleiarey We will always have his music. It's just that one day we will be without _new_ John Williams music.
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@MAA_Gunner @doroszewicz1 Needs a fronted adverbial. "Carefully, I got on the camel. In the corner were some flowers.".
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@DharmikDeeksha I cannot begin to understand just how meaningful personifications of Krishna are to people of the Hindu faith. But I find this painting, even though it's a bit of a cliché as an image, very beautiful in real life at the National Gallery in London.
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@mrbeats1690008 @RockyLotito It will have been 25 years since I was in the chorus of The Mikado at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, so I might send Manny a couple of pictures if I can find them.
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