# So, who wants to help ... to instaurate the cellar? **URL:** \ **Category:** Not The Archers\ **Created:** [31 August 2020 10:50 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871 "2020-08-31T10:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 105
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 20:14 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2083 "2020-10-21T20:14:40Z")
Blimey. I thought I was cinematically challenged, as it were. Respect. ---
**Author:** ![ThatFunnyMummy](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/thatfunnymummy/32/8722_2.png) [@ThatFunnyMummy](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/ThatFunnyMummy)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 20:17 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2084 "2020-10-21T20:17:28Z")
The way I see it, the time you spend watching either could be spent either talking to someone or - far better(!) - reading a book. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 20:22 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2085 "2020-10-21T20:22:18Z")
That seems to assume that literature is intrinsically superior to cinema as a medium. Either is of course vastly preferable to talking to (most) people. Yep, Gus is being misanthropic again. And present company is excepted, naturally. ---
**Author:** ![ThatFunnyMummy](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/thatfunnymummy/32/8722_2.png) [@ThatFunnyMummy](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/ThatFunnyMummy)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 20:27 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2086 "2020-10-21T20:27:19Z")
> [@Gus](#): > > That seems to assume that literature is intrinsically superior to cinema as a medium. Not really, it’s just that the pictures are better. And if you assume that I saw it that way then you might also assume that I only read the kind of books that get called ‘literature’. Nope, I read an awful lot of junk, and why not? > [@Gus](#): > > Gus is being misanthropic again Nowt wrong with that. In fact one of the problems with cinemas is that they are far too people-y for my tastes, ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 20:29 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2087 "2020-10-21T20:29:35Z")
> [@ThatFunnyMummy](#): > > you might also assume that I only read the kind of books that get called ‘literature’. Strewth, no! You seem far too good an egg for that ;- ) ---
**Author:** ![soobee](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/soobee/32/43_2.png) [@soobee](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/soobee)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 21:21 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2088 "2020-10-21T21:21:42Z")
Time for me to go to bed. Best dreams, Cellarites. Soo xx ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 21:28 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2089 "2020-10-21T21:28:01Z")
Let’s face it, “bored male American college professor gets his mojo back by sleeping with a student” _is a genre_. Claiming it’s not genre because it’s “mainstream” is missing the point. Or as Tom Gauld put it, “you’re all just jealous of my jetpack”. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 21:33 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2090 "2020-10-21T21:33:27Z")
Don’t look at me, Sparrer: ‘tragically trodden on at an after-party’ sounds about the size of it. ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 21:43 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2091 "2020-10-21T21:43:03Z")
Other readers of good honest rubbish are welcome to join me in safety under the table. That’s also where the gin ended up, by strange coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 21:52 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2092 "2020-10-21T21:52:09Z")
I am slightly surprised that you have any left, Dunnock… 😉. Don’t worry Soo Yours is in The Cupboard Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 22:07 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2093 "2020-10-21T22:07:58Z")
> [@HedgeSparrow](#): > > Tom Gauld How do you pronounce that? Like Gould, or Gowled or Galled (wincity)? ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 22:28 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2094 "2020-10-21T22:28:41Z")
I’ve never had to, but I would guess the last of those. Orf to me nest. ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 07:45 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2095 "2020-10-22T07:45:38Z")
[yawnity] Tseep. # yardarm Things to do… ---
**Author:** ![3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/3wells/32/1521_2.png) [@3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/3Wells)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 11:16 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2096 "2020-10-22T11:16:51Z")
I scored a night of sleep and a good shower and a high fibre breakfast with extra tea I like fantasy reading matter terry at the moment Soon to re read Tom Holt as they are on my Kindle I also like Star Trek So budge up and let me near the Gin wee birdie I would hate the gin to get lonely ---
**Author:** ![ThatFunnyMummy](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/thatfunnymummy/32/8722_2.png) [@ThatFunnyMummy](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/ThatFunnyMummy)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 11:20 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2097 "2020-10-22T11:20:11Z")
There are times when I find myself almost charmed by the (seemingly) illogical behaviour of all things computerish. Almost as though devices have personalities, somewhat awkward ones, usually. I wonder why, for example, Chrome has suddenly taken to offering to translate every single webpage I visit into French, when I have never actually accessed a page in French, or asked it to translate anything into French, in the past. I reckon either my Chromebook is just showing off or it has decided I need to practice my French - if the latter, it is probably right. Not that I’m bothered by this strange behaviour, it will have to try harder than that if it wants to really annoy me. And it probably will. ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 11:59 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2098 "2020-10-22T11:59:57Z")
DuckDuckGo has phases of assuming I am Russian or some sort of Slav, and presenting me with search results in Cyrillic. I don’t know the Cyrillic alphabet, dear DDG. No, really; not even one letter of it. ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 12:08 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2099 "2020-10-22T12:08:51Z")
I have heard a Russian complaining at length: “We could have had easy access to the entire canon of Greek writing, just at the cost of learning a new language. Or all of English and French and German and Latin! But no, no, Cyril has a _better_ idea…” ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 12:23 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2100 "2020-10-22T12:23:09Z")
> [@HedgeSparrow](#): > > I have heard a Russian complaining at length Yeah, they do that quite a lot… Though to be fair, much Dostoevsky is not as long as it _feels_. ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 20:39 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2101 "2020-10-22T20:39:24Z")
Dustbin night, as Carinthia will know. Also the rowan tree is looking fine: ![IMG_20201022_203850](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/uploads/default/original/2X/3/31077acd9496c977b84f08ad2073995580bb0a84.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![soobee](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/soobee/32/43_2.png) [@soobee](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/soobee)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 20:55 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871/2102 "2020-10-22T20:55:39Z")
Dostoevsky was my escape from inflicted Austen, as a teenager. Looking back, I realise that I was a bit odd and am now trying to w#rk out when I became normal. Erm… I am very glad that Twellsy had a suitably chemically induced sleep. The last rose from our Alnwick-inspired _Just Joey_: ![20201022_115534](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9147c5e5063580a8cbb382c815b4f3fdc2d0c6c2.jpeg) I shared this first with Carinthia, as she was with us when we discovered this beauty. Soo xx [Previous page](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871.md?page=104) [Next page](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-instaurate-the-cellar/2871.md?page=106)