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Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven

Good luck to anyone explaining that in less than 4 pages. Will give it a shot though.

Blackadder was a very very funny comedy that ran for circa 6 seasons. The premise was that the central character, Edmund Blackadder, was a desendent of the family, and each season was based in a particular historical period. The last, and best. one was WW1.

Captain Blackadder was shrewd, but based on the front line, and to try to get out of being there, he pretended to be mad, (it will all go away), by sticking knitting needles up his nose.

It was a pastiche on Catch 22.

edit. That really really does not give it any justice at all does it!!! Soz about me.
Thanks for sharing with me the short version of Blackadder. While it may not do justice to the show, this summary is shorter than four pages, so something got it give ;)

After looking at some clips of the show I got memories of my parents watching it when I was a child. Although it was in Spanish, I bet the humour is completely different when translated into another language though.
 
All good here, thank you! Been a bit of a manic few weeks with birthday celebrations and all that stuff. Had some friends round the weekend just gone that I hadn’t seen in a while so that was another heavy one.

Having 4 weeks off the booze now and going to hit training harder so I can have another jump in progress before it’s time for the missus’s birthday and then Easter/Grand National weekend.

Signed up for Tough Mudder 10k (Google it…) in September so got a LOT of work to put in if I’m going to get through it in one piece.
Yay for birthday celebration and gatherings with family and friends. It is nice having that normalcy back in our lives after being disrupted for so long by Covid. I sure hope we are really entering the endemic stages of this disease and things continue opening up.

OMG I googled Tough Muddler and it really sounds tough. You must have some serious resilience and endurance for such challenge. Good luck getting ready for it and keep us updated on how things are going with your training.

Which reminds me to ask @anjelikaferrett how everything is going with yours? I’m going back to the gym tomorrow morning after 10 days off so my foot could heal. But I’m eager to get back again tomorrow early morning.
 
I would put a clip of the scene up but you'd need to watch it in context of the series. It is one of the great British sitcoms and if you can get on to our sense of humour a must watch.

Here is a still of the scene.

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I watched a clip on YouTube and it is indeed very good British humour, like other sitcoms with Rowan Atkinson. Mr. Bean was one I grew up watching in Colombia.

Btw, now I finally understand the sarcasm behind your avatar ?
 
Hey friends, I have not being able to go to sleep yet. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a sad day for the pursuit of world peace which we so badly needs. It makes me sad to think that many innocent people could die in the coming days just because of the ego of a man that wishes to conquer lands and rebuild an empire. I pray this doesn’t become a bigger world conflict ???
 

Hi Sassy, I'm positive in my outlook but unfortunately still testing positive now joined by Mrs LT on that front so we're consoling each other at the moment and concentrating on getting better, slight improvement again so we're moving in the right direction and refound my voice.
That "consoling " has me worried for a man of your age !
 
Good luck to anyone explaining that in less than 4 pages. Will give it a shot though.

Blackadder was a very very funny comedy that ran for circa 6 seasons. The premise was that the central character, Edmund Blackadder, was a desendent of the family, and each season was based in a particular historical period. The last, and best. one was WW1.

Captain Blackadder was shrewd, but based on the front line, and to try to get out of being there, he pretended to be mad, (it will all go away), by sticking knitting needles up his nose.

It was a pastiche on Catch 22.

edit. That really really does not give it any justice at all does it!!! Soz about me.
The problem for Sassy is that it has so many references to British history and politics and might go over her head ,she will still think it is funny though .
 
Hey friends, I have not being able to go to sleep yet. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a sad day for the pursuit of world peace which we so badly needs. It makes me sad to think that many innocent people could die in the coming days just because of the ego of a man that wishes to conquer lands and rebuild an empire. I pray this doesn’t become a bigger world conflict ???
Spot on Sassy.
The World stands on the edge of a precipice and it looks like that madman Putin is going to push us over the edge.
Clearly commonsense and diplomacy will have no effect upon him . I fear that sanctions , even proper sanctions with real teeth will not affect him.
There is only one thing that a narcissistic bully like him will understand.
My God I fear for the World right now.
 

Morning everyone.

I hope that you are all well and that @larbert toffee and Mrs L T are making a good recovery from covid.

We wake to terrible , terrible news from Ukraine. We can pray that this ends quickly and with minimal bloodhed but I don't think that those prayers will be answered.

Chucking it down here so my distraction from events in Eastern Europe will have to come from the gym rather than the garden.

I hope that you all have a good day.
 
Morning T, hope you have a nice day ahead of you mate.

I have woken to a snowfall and a strong pot of tea.
Morning mate, I'll be walking the dog and the rest of the time just trying to be comfortable. Might do a bit of gaming.

Hope you have some good plans or has snow scuppered that?

Is there anywhere I can get the Blackadder series to watch, I don't have sky? I always loved Hugh Laurie's charcter the Prince I used to howl at that.
 
Morning everyone.

I hope that you are all well and that @larbert toffee and Mrs L T are making a good recovery from covid.

We wake to terrible , terrible news from Ukraine. We can pray that this ends quickly and with minimal bloodhed but I don't think that those prayers will be answered.

Chucking it down here so my distraction from events in Eastern Europe will have to come from the gym rather than the garden.

I hope that you all have a good day.
It’s very stressful to think of those poor people in Ukraine and how little help will be given to them.

Definitely a day for distraction.
 

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