Well, why didn’t anyone say before. It’s perfectly OK, then . . . :-)
Chris
On 20 Apr 2014, at 19:02, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ah, but it was Sandra Bollox.
> On Apr 20, 2014 11:57 AM, "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I couldn't. If I'm watching a film and the basis of it is bollox I will
>> watch no longer.
>>
>> It was bad enough to watch Tom Cruise in Top Gun talking on the radio with
>> his mask hanging away from his face, or to listen to the delectable lady
>> wondering at the fantastic "negative g dive", but I couldn't watch that
>> film in which some supposed pilot is doing impossible things with a B747.
>>
>> Mind you, my students used to watch Top Gun or Reach for the Sky any time
>> the weather was bad, so I started to get used to the bollox in the former.
>> And my daughter-in-law knows every bit of the dialogue of the former, so
>> it's normally counter-productive (and churlish) to whinge about the
>> impossibility of this or that manoeuvre.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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