Il y a un certain type de comédie britannique que je ne supporte pas : les sitcoms où les acteurs font des grimaces, surjouent exagérement, sont dégoutants et font des blagues scatologiques (surprenant de la part d'un type qui est né en Rabelaisie et qui aime bien en faire, justement, des blagues scato!) Le genre de comédies qu'affectionnait le regrétté Rik Mayal, acteur anglais mort hier à l'âge de 56 ans. Je ne doute pas que Rick Mayal était un grand acteur, simplement aucun des sitcoms dans lesquels je l'ai vu jouer (Bottom, The Young Ones, The New Stateman) ne m'a fait vraiment rire. En plus je n'aime pas du tout le rendu de la vidéo dans laquelle ces sitcoms sont tournés, c'est trop éclairé, le son est désagréable, les couleurs sont métalliques et criardes. Je ne sais pas comment les Anglais se débrouillent pour produire des vidéos aussi laides, il ne me semble pas que les sitcoms américains soient filmés pareils.
Mon aversion ne s'étend pas à toutes les comédies britanniques pour autant : j'aime beaucoup Fawlty Towers par exemple, ou Blackadder. Mais j'ai detesté Absolutely Fabulous ou Mr Bean, Father Ted et les comédies de Rik Mayal en général.
mardi 10 juin 2014
Supercell
Severe thunderstorms yesterday and this past night hit Ile-de-France, but we got almost nothing in Paris. On Sunday I took a lovely photo of a supercell just in the Northwest of my flat, but yesterday it was night when the supercell appeared. Beside, I think it was too close to me and to my East to be photographed. We had a bit of hail Sunday night, but not much. It hailed some monsters in the East of Paris last night.
Look at that lovely supercell just in front of my windows! And not a drop of rain, no wind, no hail at the place where I was. Supercells are highly local thunderstorms. They can be deadly.They are the stuff from where the tornadoes are born. I'm proud of this snapshot, taken with my iPhone.
I spent parts of the day listening to Orly Approach on LiveATC.net. Landing was disturbed by thunderstorms and they had to change the configuration in the middle of the afternoon after an Air France aircraft had to go around two times on runway 26 and 24. They switched to runway 06 and the Air France flight landed safely. The pilot complained of severe rear drafts when landing on 26, prompting the go around. An Easy arriving from Nice decided to divert to Brussel without even trying to land.
Interestingly I listened in to the arrival of a COTAM Unité at Villacoublay. COTAM Unité is any aircraft where the President of the Republic is in, it can be an A300 or a Falcon, most likely a Falcon in this case.
Look at that lovely supercell just in front of my windows! And not a drop of rain, no wind, no hail at the place where I was. Supercells are highly local thunderstorms. They can be deadly.They are the stuff from where the tornadoes are born. I'm proud of this snapshot, taken with my iPhone.
I spent parts of the day listening to Orly Approach on LiveATC.net. Landing was disturbed by thunderstorms and they had to change the configuration in the middle of the afternoon after an Air France aircraft had to go around two times on runway 26 and 24. They switched to runway 06 and the Air France flight landed safely. The pilot complained of severe rear drafts when landing on 26, prompting the go around. An Easy arriving from Nice decided to divert to Brussel without even trying to land.
Interestingly I listened in to the arrival of a COTAM Unité at Villacoublay. COTAM Unité is any aircraft where the President of the Republic is in, it can be an A300 or a Falcon, most likely a Falcon in this case.
vendredi 6 juin 2014
Rainbow Queen
Je reposte cette image à l'occasion de la visite de Her Majesty The Queen à Paris.
Welcome here, Madam.
Welcome here, Madam.
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