Winterishere

@thedevilinme (5194)

Northampton, England

Joined myLot 9 years ago

Freelance writer and filmmaker from England.I write for my local paper in Northampton on cricket, and for national magazines,and love film and TV.

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Winterishere's Discussions

My top ten comedies #5 -Only Fools and Horses

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 10 May

This one is absolutely loved in England and many peoples favourites here. It was lucky to achieve that as the first season didn't really get much traction with viewers and nearly never continued. In the 1980s times were tough and...

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My Top 10 comedies # 6 - Rising Damp

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 6 May

Britain's best sitcoms were in the 1970s because they could be quite risky and a little bit offensive. Some took their views on things like sexuality, race and women a bit too dark but others got it bang on, Rising Damp one of...

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Hantavirus is not a risk

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 5 May

The Covid virus fatality rate in the early days of the crisis was exposed neatly by the cruise ship outbreak on the Diamond Princess. There were 712 confirmed cases in the 3127 people on the quarantined boat, 97% of those people...

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Top 10 comedies # 7 - Cheers

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 30 Apr

My favourite American sitcom of the 1980s has to be Cheers, the sitcom about the disparate bunch of drinkers in the Boston bar of the same name. The troops were led by Sam Malone ( Ted Danson), the handsome washed up Boston Red...

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Bankers!

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 28 Apr

In the early 1990s the banks did a dirty deal in the U.K, and beyond. They were laundering lot of money illegally across the network and regulators had their hands tied or simply not doing enough for geopolitical reasons to deal...

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Falkland Islands?

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 25 Apr

So Trump and Denmark have been helping Argentina to re-arm. We know Trump loves to start wars so one of the countries involved and the ones in and around those wars need American arms to survive. It's a tried and tested sales...

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Top 10 comedy shows #8 DADS ARMY

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 23 Apr

Dads Army is a very British situation comedy and may not transfer well to foreign audiences , especially with subtitles but to us it's the perfect 1970s sitcom. It's a little bit offensive in places as everything was in the 1970s...

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The sense of British fair play appears over.

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 16 Apr

Britain once prided itself on being honest and polite...that famous sense of fair play chaps! Well things have changed. The country is increasingly ethnic and they dont play by the rules sometimes. The current news story is new...

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'You are gambling with WW3'

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 15 Apr

Remember that quote when Trump lectured Zelenski in The WHite House a year or so ago? Well Trump is doing the same now. The Straits of Hormuz were open in January. Iran's nuclear program was limited. Israel not that bothered about...

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Top10 comedies # 9 :The Office ( 2001)

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 14 Apr

When I first watched The Office I rang my brother up to say you have to see this show, it's something different, it's something special,it's very funny and smart and bang on. It reinvigorated my faith in British comedy. British...

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Melania plays her Trump card?

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 10 Apr

So this caught a few people on the hop. Trump's misses held a press conference to say she knew nothing about Epstein's crimes, had no sort of relationship with him and did not consider herself a friend of him back then. One email...

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My top 10 sitcoms - #1Blackadder

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 9 Apr

If ever a show showcased smart, silly and joyous British comedy, post Monty Python, its this series. It had four seasons, each set in a century of British history. The first one was based around the end of the feudal...

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Cheers Trump!

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 8 Apr

As expected, Trump has declared the war over after blowing up loads of Iranian stuff. Before the war the Straits of Hormuz were open. Now they are closed. Before the war Iran had enriched uranium. After the war they still have...

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We are going back to the Moon

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 31 Mar

So America are going back to the Moon tomorrow even though half of Americans think they haven't even been yet. Whilst the Earth spins at a mind boggling 1000 mph plus the Moon can only manage 10 mph. One rotation is 27.3 days....

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One Battle After Another ( 2025)

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 29 Mar

So the Oscar winner has arrived on streaming services in the UK so I gave it a go. It stars Leo Dicaprio in the lead and like his last Oscar chasing movies ( lets face it, he only does Oscar chasing movies now) , Killers of the...

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Jurrassic Park

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 24 Mar

Jurassic Park! Brilliant concept for a movie, great cast and special-effects and fantastic soundtrack. Probably the last great cinema experience action sci-fi movie until Marvel poured a truck load of CGI over cinema and ruined...

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Time on our hands - is now on our phones...

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 23 Mar

I haven't worn a wristwatch for 15-years. We no longer have time on our hands. Now it's our phones. We have to carry our phones so know need for a watch, right? They made the choice for us, right? For some reason the big names in...

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Antivaxers are back

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 22 Mar

So we have unusual Meningitis B outbreak here in England, the more serious bacterial one. One person has managed to infect 30 people. It was known as the kissing disease and 1-in-10 of us have the bacteria in our throats at anyone...

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Stick your selfie stick up your bottom

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 20 Mar

Yep, the internet has been swamped with A.I guff and influencers. The UK has 689,000 of these influencer people , including 31,000 celebrities. An influencer is classed as someone who has over 1000 followers on their social media...

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Trump is a cretin.

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5194) • Northampton, England 19 Mar

So the good news is the U.K has moved away from fossil fuels of late and we only take 1% of our natural gas from Qatar. The Net Zero policy got a lot of stick but this months its proven to be very helpful as we go with wind,...

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