Shaun of the Dead...

[wulfstan]

Anyone seen this yet? I've got tickets for it tonight and can't wait. I was wondering what your views were on it.

www.romzom.com

[gaz]

I'm hoping to go sometime this week but I'm working until Tuesday now.

Wuflstan - You're a Warwickshire kid? I thought I was the only one.. :D

[wulfstan]

Yeah, I'm in Leamington Spa.
You?

[gaz]

Bedworth.

I used to work in Leamington Spa - A place caled Geotechnical Instrumentation on (I think) Queensway, it was up the road from a pair of pubs called the Tiller Pin and The Moorings.

[wulfstan]

omg, I work at Warwickshire College as a Registry Officer and i have to update the attendance etc of Geotech Instruments employees, and in another quirk of fate, the college has just moved to a new site just down the road from the Tiller Pin and The Moorings! I was in the Moorings a few weeks back!

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ah an english moment ;)

[Gringo]

Stafford!

[Beowulf]

southumberderbyshireville!


j.k. kidding I love you guys...and your towns

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southumberderbyshireville!


j.k. kidding I love you guys...and your towns

no "-villes" here that's french.

[Gringo]

Well my surname has a 'ville' at the end of it.

Did anyone watch Spaced when it was on?

[gaz]

omg, I work at Warwickshire College as a Registry Officer and i have to update the attendance etc of Geotech Instruments employees, and in another quirk of fate, the college has just moved to a new site just down the road from the Tiller Pin and The Moorings! I was in the Moorings a few weeks back!

I worked there for a year as a work placement frm Coventry University, it's not a bad place, they're world beaters in the stuff they make (I've actually worked on pieces of equipment which have "SEAL delivery team, Hawaii" as the return address), it was just staffed with a pretty high proportion of idiots when I was there (Particularly in management positions).
I don't know anything about Warwickshire college, before university I attended North Warwickshire and Hinckley college in Nuneaton (A bigger ****hole you'd be hard pressed to find).

I never really did much drinking in Leamington, I just remember Benjamin Satchwells, the Jug and Jester (Is that right?), some vodka bar and the ****tiest night club known to man (Which I don't remember the name of... I want to say "Rios"?), but you have to bearin mind this was about three years ago.

Gringo, Stafford's OK, but Warwick high school football rules!!!!
Sorry, had a Bill and Ted moment there... :lol:

Beowolf, for future reference, if you ever want to make up an English towns name then put "chester", "cester" or "caster" on the end of it, we've got loads of towns named that, it all comes from Roman days when "caster" meant camp, meaning there as a Roman town there.

[memphiz]

im from north kilttown :D

[gaz]

Was there really any point in rehashing Beowolfs joke just by changing the name and therefore making it far less funny?

No, didn't think so.

[memphiz]

Was there really any point in rehashing Beowolfs joke just by changing the name and therefore making it far less funny?

No, didn't think so.
mr. pirate doesnt watch the simpsons, does he

[gaz]

Yes he does.

Do you actually think you're as funny as the Simpsons and can get away with a crap joke like that?

Because you can't.

[memphiz]

well i did and theres nothing you can do about it

now go clean that sand out of your ******

[gaz]

I live in the middle of England, the only place around here you can find sand is on a golf course or a builders site, I've made a clear choice not to frequent either.

Now, in regards to my "******".

I don't have one.

But at least I've seen one, in fact, I've even touched a few and done other things to them as well.

[memphiz]

wow your full of useless information :D

[gaz]

wow your full of useless information :D

Yes I am.

That's why I fit in here.

On a side note here's some more information for you.

The fictional town of North Kilttown is in Scotland.

Wulfstan and I are from England.

Trust me, there's a difference, if you want an example then ask Argyll which part of England he's from.

[memphiz]

http://www.TheForumz.com/images/icon_page/006.gif

[gaz]

I consider myself to be an intelligent person yet that smiley means absolutely piss all to me.

[Haiw]

1st smiley farts, 2nd smiley faints due to 1st smiley's fart.

Yeah, it's a gift.

[memphiz]

ok then

[gaz]

1st smiley farts, 2nd smiley faints due to 1st smiley's fart.

Yeah, it's a gift.

Really?

I thought the first one was making the second faint via telepathy or something.

Shows what I know.

[Haiw]

Yeah well...what does an English pirate know about smileys eyh?

[memphiz]

hey it could be telepathy hes useing, and hes concentrating so hard his faces goes red and sweat evaporates from his face....but Haiws right

[gaz]

Yeah well...what does an English pirate know about smileys eyh?

Not nearly enough it would seem.

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Well my surname has a 'ville' at the end of it.


you are a gringo then :P

type spaced in the search thingy, I'm sure there was a thread on it a couple of months ago.

[wulfstan]

Hey guys, I Shaun of the Dead last night, and it rocks, feature length, and like a 'Who's who of British comedy'. If you liked Spaced, you'll love it. It has half the cast of The Office, Little Britain, as well as some high calibre British actors. Well worth it.

And as for the fictional English town, you could also put 'ham' or 'ton' on the end. Ham is an old Saxon word meaning farmstead, and a ton is Saxon distance measurement, like acres or something. /End lesson!

[wulfstan]

I never really did much drinking in Leamington, I just remember Benjamin Satchwells, the Jug and Jester (Is that right?), some vodka bar and the ****tiest night club known to man (Which I don't remember the name of... I want to say "Rios"?), but you have to bearin mind this was about three years ago.

Gringo, Stafford's OK, but Warwick high school football rules!!!!
Sorry, had a Bill and Ted moment there... :lol:

Beowolf, for future reference, if you ever want to make up an English towns name then put "chester", "cester" or "caster" on the end of it, we've got loads of towns named that, it all comes from Roman days when "caster" meant camp, meaning there as a Roman town there.[/quote]


Yes, it is Rios, it's a 2 minute walk from my place, and despite being here for 1.5 yrs i've never been there, altho a few weeks ago i came pretty close but decided against it as i was nearing the front of the queue. I go to Satchwells every friday after work, just your typical Wetherspoons oub, but the Jug and Jester is pretty good, open til 12 too!

[Gringo]

Well my surname has a 'ville' at the end of it.


you are a gringo then :P

type spaced in the search thingy, I'm sure there was a thread on it a couple of months ago.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Gringo&x=10&y=13

I saw a pic of the film and it had Tyres in from spaced as a Zombie. Has anyone else seen that?

[wulfstan]

Well my surname has a 'ville' at the end of it.


you are a gringo then :P

type spaced in the search thingy, I'm sure there was a thread on it a couple of months ago.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Gringo&x=10&y=13

I saw a pic of the film and it had Tyres in from spaced as a Zombie. Has anyone else seen that?

I knew it was him, i'd totally forgotten about it til you mentioned that.
Btw, what were the weapons the soldiers had at the end, sure as hell weren't SA80's?

[Beowulf]

southumberderbyshireville!

alright...thanks for the lessons so according to you guys...lose the ville

southumberderbyshire..throw in a chester, and a ton at the end....hmmm

south-umber-derby-chester-shire-ton

Woohoo, woot and I now know that ham is an old saxon word meaning farmstead, ton was a measurement, and caster means camp, and apparently Gaz is a really sensitive elderly british woman who recently took a vacation to the beach but does not live near one.

All other fictional british town have been owned. I will astound all with my random bits of knowledge. thanks wulfstan...cut: you're still a sarcastic wanker. :D

[wulfstan]

Very good, but forget the shire part, that's the name for a county!

[Beowulf]

doh!

[wulfstan]

and to be extra pedantic, it's Humber, not umber, as it's a river, as in South-Humber... :lol:

[ShadowNeo]

north kilttown

Och, I hail from North Kilttown too! rofl

Aberdeen actually. According to Homer Simpson Aberdeen rules. (Watch the episode where Mr Burns captures the loch ness monster).

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cut: you're still a sarcastic wanker. :D

I wouldn't have it any other way :D


if you really want to be the english towns connaisseur, there are viking names too, -thorpe for town (e.g. cleathorpe) and -by for village (e.g. selby)

[wulfstan]

And ever heard of Essex, Sussex and Wessex?

That means East Saxons, South Saxons and West Saxons.

<everday with me is like a day at school :lol: >

[gaz]

and apparently Gaz is a really sensitive elderly british woman who recently took a vacation to the beach but does not live near one.

Actually I'm not that old.

I'm not that sensitive either.

Now that I think about it I'm also not that womanly.

But you're right about the beach.

:D

[Rob_A]

Good film, I enjoyed it.

Weapons were HK G36C's from what I noticed.

[Gringo]

Good film, I enjoyed it.

Weapons were HK G36C's from what I noticed.

would they be using airsoft versions like they did in the Bill, where they used Classic Army Mp5s? rofl

[martinexsquaddie]

nah i think there were cheap and just borrowed them off the locals rofl

[Gringo]

nah i think there were cheap and just borrowed them off the locals rofl

like what they did with the zombies?

[Ian H]

I thought they were G-36K's, but hey. And they didn't sound like airsoft weapons. :rofl: at The Bill btw

Its a damn good film though regardless. Really funny, with a few film scene rip offs seamlessly included (Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix), a great cast and some brilliant cameos (Martin Freeman, Tamsin Grieg, Matt Lucas, Reece Shearsmith etc). Tyres was in it as a zombie, he ambled past in the background, as a sort of treat for Spaced fans.

So, I did, as you may have guessed, enjoy it immensly.

[Gringo]

Went to see it wednesday.
Very good.
Nick Frost as Ed was brilliant. I would've like to see a 'Mike' character from Spaced to be in the film. Would've been interested to see what he would've come up with to combat the zombies.
"Don't say that?!"
"say what?"
"that"
"What's 'that'"
"You know, the Zed word"
"oh, that"

I think they were G36Ks, with a **** load of flashlights and what not on the RIS.