Comments on: Ten important questions after watching the trailer for that new England documentary ‘The Edge’

By: Edwardian

Edwardian — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 16:42:16 +0000

In reply to Edwardian. Chapeau

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 08:04:16 +0000

OK, Daddy-O, that’s a fruity riposte. Hope to ketchup with you when the county cricket season starts – Worcestershire perhaps – a thought for a gentleman’s relish.

By: Robb

Robb — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:28:10 +0000

Ok it bugs me more than I care to admit that you numbered questions 1-9 but not 10. The last question feels like it should be a bonus question, but it’s not. Just number 10. I hereby request an 11th question so that I may feel the satisfaction of receiving a bonus question.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:33:17 +0000

In reply to Balladeer. A little from Column A, a little from Column B.

By: Ged

Ged — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:14:32 +0000

In other news – last week’s “Ged Ladd & Co” seasonal party ended up with a brawl…in the Guildhall.

https://www.zyen.com/news/now-zyen-blog/zyens-seasonal-party-ends-with-a-brawl-in-the-guildhall/

Is it a Stokesian-dystopian tale or a case of the raving Trotts?

By: Edwardian

Edwardian — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:52:37 +0000

In reply to Ged. And there was I thinking you were a sauce of knowledge.

By: Balladeer

Balladeer — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:53:14 +0000

Is that Mohammed Shami quote the final word of the e-mail, or on existence? It’s hard to tell.

By: Ged

Ged — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:11:02 +0000

I’m still smarting at Thesmudge’s reference to The Ketchup Song a few days ago…

…stuck in my head two nights in a row…

https://youtu.be/AMT698ArSfQ

Why should I suffer alone?

By: Edwardian

Edwardian — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:44:09 +0000

I enjoyed that very much, KC, thank you. Marvellous stuff.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:40:22 +0000

I hate documentaries. If they’re not telling you that the planet will end soon, they’re explaining how a volcano on Santorini caused the pyramids to be built by Nazis. I mean, it turns out that even David Attenborough uses actors in gorilla suits or parrot suits or whatever. When I was doing O-Levels, you could actually watch a documentary to revise. Try that now and your answers will appear on a T-shirt.

But the main reason I hate documentaries is that they might as well all start with the following announcement:

The maker of this documentary would like it to be known that he/she didn’t realise you could get an Oscar for documentary film making, but now that he/she does realise that, it is essentially what this documentary is all about.

So, from a medium that is supposed to be informative, what we get instead is artistic-to-the-point-of-absurdity, melancholy, and with a false air of investigative journalism. Those Dutch angles – yeh, whatever. That lingering shot – designed to suggest the interviewee was caught in an unguarded moment, but actually take-thirty-four. Hanging scenes, where a camera focusses on the reaction of a player entirely out of context – ooh, so KP’s laughter must have been aimed at Cook then, the mean bastard.

I’d rather stick to the truth about that team, which is that they couldn’t cope by themselves once the aliens had returned to Atlantis. On a shark.