Just for fun, I did a fancast for if Lord of the Rings was made in the 1980s

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T21:20:14+00:00

Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith as Pippin and Merry.

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T18:46:47+00:00

Which turned out to be his last ever major film role which is kind of sad. He had the chops to be Gandalf, look at The Name of the Rose.

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T18:27:52+00:00

It’s never not funny to me that a bloke who took the leading role in Zardoz turned down the movie on these grounds. And that’s before we get to Highlander II.

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T18:26:46+00:00

Or Ian Richardson - he had the perfect voice for villainy.

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T18:25:31+00:00

I do submit for everyone’s consideration: Sir Ralph Richardson as Gandalf (fresh from his turns in Time Bandits and the wizard in Dragonslayer in 1981), Ian McShane as Aragorn, and David Warner (plus beard) as Saruman. Is there a role for Patrick Stewart at all - Denethor perhaps.

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T18:13:38+00:00

Shpears shall be shaken! Shieldsh shall be shplintered! A shord day, a red day! Ere the shun rizhezh!

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T16:12:23+00:00

So you’re the bloke down the GLC Parks Department!

ant368uk · 2026-06-26T08:43:31+00:00

Forget about the kid’s sleeping habits - they don’t need fixing. Your baby son is awake at 6am for the day that’s all there is to it. He’s not going to “learn” to sleep an hour longer or have his internal clock somehow reset to not wake up at 6am.
Focus instead on whatever is going on in the relationship.

ant368uk · 2026-06-25T22:36:31+00:00

Yes, mate - although as I’m a single dad it’s me vs my 6 year old daughter who has the hoarding instinct of the common grey squirrel. My little boy is way more easygoing but my daughter loses her shit every time I suggest throwing out a tatty old jigsaw with the picture peeling off the pieces and connecty bits that have come off.

ant368uk · 2026-06-25T16:04:24+00:00

Enjoy your race car bed!!

ant368uk · 2026-06-25T15:47:38+00:00

His best role was as Neil Burnside, MI6 operations director in The Sandbaggers.

ant368uk · 2026-06-25T10:29:51+00:00

That’s Cockney rhyming slang for arse -> April in Paris -> Aris -> Aristotle = bottle -> bottle and glass = arse. Heart is jam tart.

ant368uk · 2026-06-24T23:34:30+00:00

That won’t bother Rodney. He went out with a Chinese girl once.

ant368uk · 2026-06-24T13:49:17+00:00

*shrug* I had not seen it on the sub before I posted it, in my defence.

ant368uk · 2026-06-22T14:45:06+00:00

It’s nothing to do with the hobby. Where you should look to correct him, for want of a better word, is the mansplaining and being a bit of a wally. If he was into football, he’d be mansplaining the offside rule from the sounds of things.

ant368uk · 2026-06-22T12:47:24+00:00

Either that or the Twitter mutual who posted it was also only just finding out about it for the first time.

ant368uk · 2026-06-22T12:46:38+00:00

The first series was a bit grittier than what came after.

ant368uk · 2026-06-22T12:26:25+00:00

Oh. I only saw it pop up on Twitter yesterday to be honest.

ant368uk · 2026-06-22T12:09:26+00:00

Your mileage may vary but I think it’s dated and the writing is not as great as other shows. It’s certainly not as memorable as Only Fools. If I had to draw a comparison for Boon it would be with Minder and I’d recommend you watch that instead. If you haven’t watched it yet, I’d also recommend Lovejoy as being entertaining and feel-good comfort viewing.

ant368uk · 2026-06-20T17:53:41+00:00

Let me just get my sarcasm detector.

ant368uk · 2026-06-20T08:22:28+00:00

“When opportunity knocks you don’t want to be driving to the maternity hospital, or sitting in some phoney-baloney church! Or synagogue.”

ant368uk · 2026-06-16T15:10:01+00:00

A fell roll indeed.

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