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absolutely love Ron Swanson latest episode seen was the dinner party for justin in season 2 where he is the hostile witness. "I intend on answering everyone of their questions with a question."

rfeally getting into Parks and Recreation now. Just watched the first episode of Burn Notice - great fun, and even featured Bruce Campbell for bonus.

I liked The Road when I saw it, worth watching, although it is grim. Saw Prometheus tonight for the first time since seeing it at the cinema and actually I think it improved on 2nd viewing, I think I may have been hyper-critical at the time. Still assume that a few missing scenes were unwisely edited out of the final film, but it was good fun. Up next: got Apocalypse Now Redux ( whatever that last word means ). Never seen it before, but always wanted to for a while, so looking forward to it, at 3hours long, looks like it's a bit of an epic.

yeah, I've been in Wales for about 7-8 years now, and whilst I've met one or two nationalists, most people really don't care - to the degree of wanting political seperation anyway. They obviously vbalue their own cultural and historical distinction fron England, and some are very keen to maintain the welsh language etc. The most active supporters of welsh independence, aside from the small plaid cymru lot, tend to be overseas students from countries that have a history of being colonised. They don't understand why wales aren't more passionate about it, mind.

Oh that would be tasty. Both in the same car will solve that debate. Surprising though. in other news - what a snorefest yesterday. Damn you tilke! First race ive stopped watching half way through due to total inevitability.

at the highest point been so far from a skydiver. this feed is ridiculous. slight sense of the heebiejeebies this.

chrisp - i think that's part of the reasoning the nobel panel gave. And it is a reminder of where Europe has come from, which is pretty timely amid those voices demanding disintegration of the project. ( not that I don't think there are flaws worth correcting, but that's another thread I suppose ) but our capacity for destruction is unending.

comparison talk is always a slippery slope but at the same point, I always think the greater risk is trying to lock away the holocaust permanently into an event that was somehow an aberation in time and space. Sadly it is just one part of humanity. A gross tragedy of the highest order for sure, but it should never be isolated from the 'narrative' of humanity. It gave rise to the idea that 'everything is possible' and influenced sadistic dictatorships across the world, from the the use of concentration camps to the horror of torture and when you look at the gulag's, dr ewen cameron and the ciafunded electroshock torture in the 50's the bloody revolutions in south america easter europe, asia, algeria and even may I say the attitude to torture now - I'm looking at Guantanamo here and it's influences lie in the evil of the concentrationary regime and the holocaust. And on a theoretical point, were the technologies of death available to prrevious regimes, they would have been used then, but it was a tragic confluence of events of the rise of nation-building, first world war, economic depression and ideogical fervour that combined with a willing people. And as for "only" concentrationay camps not being death camps ( and being careful at any hierachising of suffering here ) I recommend reading Robert Antelme's The Human Race ( l'espece humaine) or Primo Levi's If This is Man ( amongst others ) for recording the way the whole system was thoroughly ndesigned to bring about death in the most agonising way, from heavy labour to the dehumanising conditions that sought to make the detainees themselves view themselves as less than human, than death on legs. It is one of the powerful conlusions evoked by Antelme that he insists upon the fragile 'irreducibility' of mankind in the camps. However much the Nazi's tried the resistance of those who lived was in revealing the ultimate failure of the regime to seperate the commanders from the prisoners as different species. It is a remarkable read. Another shocking film, which can only be recommended with the caution of distressing imagery is Night and Fog. It's on youtube - a 30 min French film with english subtitles that flicks between shots on location ( in 1950s) with images of photographs taken at liberation - and it includes a clandestine photo taken by a member of the sonderkommando those sadly dealt the responsibility of 'working' with the gas chambers / ovens. It is so depressing, but so many of the individual factors that allowed this evil to take place are thoroughly human ones. Going off the testimonies of films like 'Come and See' and 'A Woman in Berlin' it is sadly more than possible. In some cases, German soldiers retreating from Russian villages would pick a child up by it's legs swinging it round and smacking it's head against a wall to kill it.

england were so boring, so poor and only scored a few because the amateurs were bloody knackered. No guile, no invention, and so limited. Moldova managed 4 past them and we got just one more, should have been 8 or 9. The side lacks ruthlessness and class. terrible game. walker was abysmal in particular.

i enjoyed this weeks. It's not canned laughter btw. It is shot in front of an audience, and it's no worse than the old episodes. I actually enjoyed the Dave to Dave chat myself. Good fun. the computer woman was a little weak, but otherwise, I'm happy so far.

yeah, it's my favourite of his so far. Got Vertigo and Rear Window to come in the next few days I think. First thing I'd seen James Mason in too - albeit with an Ezzie Izzard impression of his voice in my head going into it :/

Just watched North by NorthWest as part of my getting into Hitchcock phase. Great fun. but 50#s dialogue does make me laugh at times. Cary Grant just casually going from officeman to actionman without much worry at all seemed rather typical. Good fun though. Though the line "That wasn't sporting. Using real bullets!" at the end cracks me up. Different eras and all that.

Yeah, that's what I do, bung it in the packaging, and post it at the post-office. Doesn't have to be recorded delivery unless they've asked for it I think, im not sure, the P&P with Amazon probably covers it though. and cheers Mike, will definitely give you a PM at some point, google street view is an excellent plan!

I liked him early on in the season, shows good pace, but thought he was just a little unlucky early days with the incidents. It seems perhaps more of a problem for him. not a popular guy in the paddock atm I imagine. gutted for alonso yesterday, such bad luck. will be a smidge irritated if he doesn't win the title now. reckon he's undisputably the best driver out there atm, and he's worthy of a another title. Hope 5 races to go means there's time for the pendulum to swing back again. Vettel must be due some bad luck at some point this season.

to all leeds dwelling folk: which bits are nice to live in? I may very well be moving there - albeit not for another 10-11 months, so I'm trying to get an idea of it ahead of time. I'd pop up to visit in person but atm a train fare from cardiff would I suspect be rather daunting, will do that later on. would be looking for reasonably close to the University ( not leeds met ) but not in student village areas if possible and would be looking for somewhere I could plonk myself down in for a good few years ( at least 3 ) - having spent the last 9 years moving every year more or less:/) also: how does someone survive having their stomach removed? that news story about the poor lass with the cocktail with liquid nitrogen, unsettles me. I've read they just re connect two tubes, so i know technically how, but it's still amazing, that you can live normally enough, having lost a stomach. Always sounded like it would have been a rather fatal detachement. Science and surgeons ftw.

Just watched the Red Dwarf episode. So relieved and what a pleasant surprise. It was good fun. A little creaky, reflective of the aging of the cast but otherwise it was old school red dwarf, keeping it simple. Promising stuff \o/

woah, that's quite a change. Probably good but will take a b it of time to adapt I suspect. Anyway, good work limpid, have a break!

he had an easy out with rio, having not played in a few squads before, and it would have been mad to have given racistface the captaincy with the trial going on, in fact I suspect he would have been told explicitly not to. by coward, he's really never going to select someone who isn't being talked about by the press. He'll pick players the media are happy to have in the squad.

for all his strengths it eems roy is largelya coward when it comes to selection. So **** afraid of the top 4 clubs and decides to pick the same old dross even when they're injured. Wellbeck and Carroll in the squad a is a complete joke. Thank **** Terry quit.

We played well for 60% of the wba game without him so in relatively unconcerned but it stillwill be tough.

glaston - stephen ireland's the only absentee I can think of.

Was going to say, strong spurs side that. I fancy us for a point on Sunday.

may lose, but at least we'll try and score this time. 4-2 Spurs. Could be a good match.

ouch!

was it bad?