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Posted: 10/13/2019 4:36:58 PM EDT
Question: How the bloody fook do they smoke and drink all day and still walk around without dying like flies?
Especially Arthur. Add Tokyo on top of the tobacco and booze. Lard Tunderin' Jaysus! |
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I wondered the same thing. If I drank as much as they do, I'd be on my knees. And even when I smoked I never smoked as much as Thomas Shelby does. My lungs hurt just watching him!
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How the fooking hell did they have a Sten gun in 1929
Fuck racketeering, arms patents are they way to go |
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So aside from too much booze, smoking and guns, is it worth watching
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Smoking like a chimney is probably healthier than breathing the air around Birmingham during that time period....
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Wish I could go to work and drink like that
I’m on season 2 right now. Excellent show. |
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STEN? That was a Lewis Gun and a Lanchester SMG when he shot it out with Mafia guys? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How the fooking hell did they have a Sten gun in 1929 Fuck racketeering, arms patents are they way to go That was a Lewis Gun and a Lanchester SMG when he shot it out with Mafia guys? My wife loves it when I interupt a movie/series to point out gun errors! |
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Question: How the bloody fook do they smoke and drink all day and still walk around without dying like flies? Especially Arthur. Add Tokyo on top of the tobacco and booze. Lard Tunderin' Jaysus! View Quote |
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Just finished watching season five. Started out a little shaky but ended strong. Great series.
In their chosen profession the odds of dying a natural death aren't great...so nothing exceeds like excess. |
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Very well done show. Each episode is movie quality. I do watch with subtitles.
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The playlist on Spotify that has the entire soundtrack of all episodes is amazing.
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The Lanchester still wasn't made until 1941. ETA: looks like a Steyr MP34 to me. https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article12946555.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/260417peakyblinders2.jpg View Quote |
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I like the show, but I’m growing tired of the “slow motion fashion walks”
You know, when they parade in slow motion with the tailored Armani, and fireballs explode from the alleys. |
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PB is my all time favorite series and they really need to get me another season ready.
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Modern rock music, slow motion walk shoulder to shoulder.
This is apparently how everyone traveled back in the 20's. I liked the show but they're doing way too much cliche shit now. |
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I don't care how many slow walks they do as long as Arthur still gets to go batshit berzerk on someone now and again.
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There are side effects to that much alcohol, coke and nicotine consumption.
You'll notice it every time there are three or more Peakies walking together down the street....the hard guitar fires up and they all walk in slow motion. That usually happens right after they juice up and one of them says: "Dun't mess with the Peaky....Fookin......Blinders!" |
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I like the show, but I’m growing tired of the “slow motion fashion walks” You know, when they parade in slow motion with the tailored Armani, and fireballs explode from the alleys. View Quote Failed To Load Title |
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Question: How the bloody fook do they smoke and drink all day and still walk around without dying like flies? Especially Arthur. Add Tokyo on top of the tobacco and booze. Lard Tunderin' Jaysus! View Quote My grandfather and grandmother smoked around 80 unfiltered woodbines a day. Both died in their 60s though. |
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Modern rock music, slow motion walk shoulder to shoulder. This is apparently how everyone traveled back in the 20's. I liked the show but they're doing way too much cliche shit now. View Quote |
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If you are smoking, drinking, and tooting it up all day everyday you build up a tolerance.
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Great show. Though someone told me they weren't renewed for another season.
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Tolerance. Gets built up.
And although there’s some cocaine use in the show, other snorting is snuff (powdered tobacco for those that don’t know it). |
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Just started ep 3 of the 5th season on Netflix, really meh so far....all other seasons have been fantastic.
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@HellifIknow
Cannot speak for the drinking & smoking of THAT era, but the 1980s when I was working in heavy industry after leaving school saw me go out to socialise, of an evening. Wednesday I'd be at work for 7am. I'd have left the nightclub about 2.30am then got home about 3am, later if I'd had to walk the hour back. Everyone seemed to be a smoker - 40 a day was average - I never smoked, luckily. Drinking - most folk did this on weekend nights off. For some they also added Thursday night. Friday night was to drink with your mates, Saturday the same, unless you were dating/married in which case you took the other half out on the town. Sunday was for a quiet drink before facing another week. Everyone seemed to drink at the same speed, as the "pub crawl" was the thing to do - start at one pub & work the circuit having a beer in each. Some streets had several dozen pubs, so not much time wasted walking; oh, the speed, it was a pint every 10 minutes (6 pints an hour) of UK strength beer. I knew people who would not think they'd had a good night out unless they'd had close to 20 pints ...and the odd Friday we would all nip out to a local pub to have three or four quiet pints & a sandwich during the lunch-hour break. THAT was very common & widespread in a lot of the UK in general until quite recently. I seem to recall a saying, what the Americans consider a drink problem, us Brits call lunch! Anyway - with regard to the TV series. It's a load of Brummie bollox. Gave up on it in Series 1 |
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Question: How the bloody fook do they smoke and drink all day and still walk around without dying like flies? Especially Arthur. Add Tokyo on top of the tobacco and booze. Lard Tunderin' Jaysus! View Quote |
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Great show. Though someone told me they weren't renewed for another season. View Quote PB season 6 details |
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When you didn't plan on living much past 50 you could abuse yourself pretty badly.
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When you didn't plan on living much past 50 you could abuse yourself pretty badly. View Quote Failed To Load Title |
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I doubt many had a long lifespan in those days anyway but after surviving the Somme they probably figured every day was just a bonus anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsQLtmuzYA View Quote |
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Quoted: I doubt many had a long lifespan in those days anyway but after surviving the Somme they probably figured every day was just a bonus anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsQLtmuzYA View Quote And for those of you that say "you build up a tolerance", tell that to your lungs and brain when they get cancer, your heart and legs when your arteries are clogged up solid, and your liver when it's in stage 4 cirrhosis. FFS, hard to believe anyone over the age of 18 is fucking stupid enough to believe that you can develop a tolerance to heavy smoking, drinking and drug use. That's weapons grade stupid. Just because you can function daily doesn't mean you're not dying young. |
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great show.
this season wasn't as great but it will probably make punk rock popular again for another 15 minutes. |
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The Somme was piss easy compared to Passchendaele - or so I was told by a relative who was at both, as well as Gallipoli & a few other shows View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I doubt many had a long lifespan in those days anyway but after surviving the Somme they probably figured every day was just a bonus anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsQLtmuzYA |
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My Dad was a WWII vet and my Brother was a Vietnam War vet. Both smoked like a bonfire and drank like a fish. Dad made it to 66, my Brother made it to 58. And for those of you that say "you build up a tolerance", tell that to your lungs and brain when they get cancer, your heart and legs when your arteries are clogged up solid, and your liver when it's in stage 4 cirrhosis. FFS, hard to believe anyone over the age of 18 is fucking stupid enough to believe that you can develop a tolerance to heavy smoking, drinking and drug use. That's weapons grade stupid. Just because you can function daily doesn't mean you're not dying young. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted: I doubt many had a long lifespan in those days anyway but after surviving the Somme they probably figured every day was just a bonus anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsQLtmuzYA And for those of you that say "you build up a tolerance", tell that to your lungs and brain when they get cancer, your heart and legs when your arteries are clogged up solid, and your liver when it's in stage 4 cirrhosis. FFS, hard to believe anyone over the age of 18 is fucking stupid enough to believe that you can develop a tolerance to heavy smoking, drinking and drug use. That's weapons grade stupid. Just because you can function daily doesn't mean you're not dying young. |
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