Documentaries
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@Machpants also a refusal to listen to advice from the junta who needed a successful war to remain in power just as much as Maggie did. The last but one Arg Ambassador to the UK told Galtieri that if he invaded the evening papers would be "all leave cancelled as troops recalled to barracks", that there would be an emergency session of parliament resulting in a naval task force being sent to the Sth Atlantic to retake the islands. Exactly as it played out.
David Owens said the Argies had planned something similar in 1978 but that the Labour government had very publically sent a nuclear sub to patrol the Falklands which scared the Argies off.
I was living in London. It was pretty hard not to get swept up in the jingoism - until the body count started rising. Remarkable (last?) force projection by UK. I remember Canadian Defence Minister saying if the task force had steamed up to the St Lawrence there wouldn't have been a thing Canada could do to stop it.
Won the Tories the next election and staved off the planned defence cuts.
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Dunno if it has been mentioned but 'McLaren'.
Available on Stan.
Watched on plane today.
Life of Bruce McLaren. Racing car driver and founder of the McLaren race car team.
Really liked it.
He the all round nice guy stereotical Kiwi laconic bloke who became the champion driver then created the McLaren race car team with a bunch of other Kiwis and number 8 wire.
Expect there were embellishments but if it was half true (the Le Mans story was different to 'Ford v Ferrari'
) it was awesome.Taken ... shall we say succumbed... too young.
Great Kiwi story. Not just him, but the team.
Well worth a watch.
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A Perfect Neighbour
Doco about a neighbour ( referred to by all around her as "Karen" ) who got sick of what she viewed as harassment by those living around her and ended up shooting one of them.
Filmed pretty much entirely from Police bodycam footage, pretty interesting.
I think we've all had annoying neighbours at one point in our lives, luckily generally nothing to this extreme. Fascinating seeing the Police piece together what happened and the subsequent charges ( including the Florida "stand your ground" defence )
Definitely worth a watch.
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My Father the BTK Killer
First off, how come I'd never heard of him before ? Names like Dahmer, Bundy, Gein etc are very familiar, why not this guy ? convicted of 10 murders, a few more suspected as well......
Really interesting doco, I can't imagine the bravery his daughter showed in telling her side of the story. Having a father as a convicted serial killer would fuck up a lot of people for life. Just a classic "oh he seemed like a normal enough guy".
Unbelievable that he had a wife and kids and hid it all from them like he did.
Very interesting and eye opening.
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@MN5 said in Documentaries:
A Perfect Neighbour
Doco about a neighbour ( referred to by all around her as "Karen" ) who got sick of what she viewed as harassment by those living around her and ended up shooting one of them.
Filmed pretty much entirely from Police bodycam footage, pretty interesting.
I think we've all had annoying neighbours at one point in our lives, luckily generally nothing to this extreme. Fascinating seeing the Police piece together what happened and the subsequent charges ( including the Florida "stand your ground" defence )
Definitely worth a watch.
I watched this. Glad she was found guilty.
I have an 81 year old neighbor who is frighteningly similar to the woman in this story who shot her neighbor. He lives alone in a million dollar home and has no friends. Extremely territorial and reclusive.
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@W32 said in Documentaries:
@MN5 said in Documentaries:
A Perfect Neighbour
Doco about a neighbour ( referred to by all around her as "Karen" ) who got sick of what she viewed as harassment by those living around her and ended up shooting one of them.
Filmed pretty much entirely from Police bodycam footage, pretty interesting.
I think we've all had annoying neighbours at one point in our lives, luckily generally nothing to this extreme. Fascinating seeing the Police piece together what happened and the subsequent charges ( including the Florida "stand your ground" defence )
Definitely worth a watch.
I watched this. Glad she was found guilty.
I have an 81 year old neighbor who is frighteningly similar to the woman in this story who shot her neighbor. He lives alone in a million dollar home and has no friends. Extremely territorial and reclusive.
Worrying.Don’t leave your tablet near his house
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@MN5 said in Documentaries:
@W32 said in Documentaries:
@MN5 said in Documentaries:
A Perfect Neighbour
Doco about a neighbour ( referred to by all around her as "Karen" ) who got sick of what she viewed as harassment by those living around her and ended up shooting one of them.
Filmed pretty much entirely from Police bodycam footage, pretty interesting.
I think we've all had annoying neighbours at one point in our lives, luckily generally nothing to this extreme. Fascinating seeing the Police piece together what happened and the subsequent charges ( including the Florida "stand your ground" defence )
Definitely worth a watch.
I watched this. Glad she was found guilty.
I have an 81 year old neighbor who is frighteningly similar to the woman in this story who shot her neighbor. He lives alone in a million dollar home and has no friends. Extremely territorial and reclusive.
Worrying.Don’t leave your tablet near his house
lol. He once told me that he was “going to get physical with me”
I was 57 at the time in fairly good shape. I’m 6’3” 235 lbs. He’s about 5’2” 140 lbs. And 80 years old. -
On this note, I've lived on and off in the same apartment building in China for about 5 years in total time. In that time I've about one week of complaints (ameliorated by putting a giant rubber mat under my desk chair). Recently I have had some psycho who just complains about everything. Might be a xenophobe, literally called the police on me because I was making too much noise by getting ice out of my freezer etc.
The other night, he put in about the 30th noise complaint when I was watching a movie in bed with headphones. It was time to do some heavy metal singing.
Danzig
Moterhead
Fuck that piece of shit
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@Tim said in Documentaries:
On this note, I've lived on and off in the same apartment building in China for about 5 years in total time. In that time I've about one week of complaints (ameliorated by putting a giant rubber mat under my desk chair). Recently I have had some psycho who just complains about everything. Might be a xenophobe, literally called the police on me because I was making too much noise by getting ice out of my freezer etc.
The other night, he put in about the 30th noise complaint when I was watching a movie in bed with headphones. It was time to do some heavy metal singing.
Danzig
Moterhead
Fuck that piece of shit
The thing is it’s hard to know when the idiot will do something REALLY stupid. My wife is convinced this clown is going to come through the front door and mow us down. Every once in a while I think she might be right. It’s such a drag knowing the dickhead is just over there.
