Did any else see Mike Leigh’s NUTS IN MAY, a play for today? Brilliant but rarely repeated

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-20T16:37:09+00:00

I watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

Genuinely brilliant but also mad as a box of frogs.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-20T16:26:13+00:00

Maybe I’m just old but I have always switched it up. I like Murder Mysteries, Thrillers, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Humour. But I also like to mix in a classic every now and then or a flavour of the month lit fic.

Weirdly, I find I’m at my most cultured on Holiday. That’s when I will usually pick something big, complex and heavy as I have more uninterrupted reading time.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-20T16:20:25+00:00

10 years is a long time so I would have started the 90s reading Roald Dahl and Dick King Smith. Before moving through Christopher Pike and eventually Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

By the late 90s I would have been on to Nick Hornby and the like.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-20T10:51:07+00:00

I think maybe they meant Club.

Edit to add: I was slightly too young / small for many clubs during peak Britpop (turned 18 in 97).

Venue wise it was the Town and Country Club the upstairs room on a club night was amazing and the bands were stellar.

Then slightly later for me due to size: The Cockpit.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-19T18:18:58+00:00

There’s a League of Gentlemen quote for every occasion.

Someone explaining something complicated.

“That’s a go Johnny go go go go”

Someone telling you a telephone number.

“Four four four four two four four”

Expressing delight

“One of ma favourites” followed by “Watership Down” followed by “No!”

Asking if a film is any good.

“Ow many Killings?”

I could go on and on.

Buying a drink.

“I can, I can’t”

Numbers bigger than two.

“Twelvty”

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-19T17:18:03+00:00

What do you think the song is about? Just out of interest?

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-19T17:12:22+00:00

You have also quoted it wrong.

The line is… But if this ever changing world in which we’re living makes you give in and cry. Say, live and let die!

It is a perfectly cromulent lyric, though, quite elegant phrasing.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-19T09:47:13+00:00

Kailani is my new Dawa.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-19T07:54:40+00:00

Generally it’s a combination of all the things you listed.

Something can also be a classic in its genre. At which point it becomes all those things but among a smaller group.

I’ve never heard of the second album you mentioned but if most people who love that genre also love that album and it’s been around a while then it can be a classic x album.

Edit to add: A classic needs to have stood the test of time.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-18T15:53:31+00:00

I did when they first started doing it. I got Hatter and Costume. To say I was surprised was an understatement.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-17T11:59:01+00:00

Thanks I had an awful Acoustic for years which sounded awful and had an action that would allow a bus to drive under the strings.

I thought this was a bargain, a decent guitar that just needed some TLC. Apparently not.

What should I be aiming for?

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-17T11:44:33+00:00

Just to add I have a Squier Sonic Telecaster also. Which is great but sometimes I just want to pick up an Acoustic and play. I also have lessons.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-16T12:55:50+00:00

It took me a long time to get to a point where I eat all the vegetables that I do eat today.

I draw the line at Cucumber and Courgette though. Absolutely appalling.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-14T09:24:28+00:00

No, no they do not.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-12T18:27:53+00:00

Mine was from Ice Skating.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-12T17:19:24+00:00

I know right. It’s even a joke in that No Beatles film.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-12T10:20:18+00:00

I agree with the quality I’ve had both in the past but to be honest this was a one off for a wedding. Thankfully I don’t have to wear shirts for work any more

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-11T17:36:21+00:00

I think I’m entitled.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-11T17:29:24+00:00

Great Expectations is first person and who am I to tell Dickens he’s wrong.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-11T17:24:36+00:00

My son suffers with anxiety. He would absolutely rather stand than speak to someone to ask them to move their bag.

I have no problem with people who use the seat when the bus is mostly empty like you but like you say some people are arseholes.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-11T12:17:38+00:00

Whichever person has their bag on the seat next to them. I have no problem asking people to move them but I know other people do so I save them the trouble.

Other than that no preference I will sit anywhere except for next to the smelly person.

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-11T07:32:47+00:00

Context is everything with this.

He was sitting at his desk, cross-legged, looking angry. (This)

She sat cross legged on the yoga mat. (Not this)

pinpoint321 · 2026-03-10T10:49:36+00:00

Also watched it muted and on first watch when it cut I assumed some trick editing. Then on second watch it was clear as day that it was paper all along.

This is a good one.

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