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Ive discovered the joy of charity shops as a source of clothes/ gifts. So cheap and simple and all in one store! Will go to other stores as and when they're closing and have 90% off sales!

Cheers Designer, shall plonk it on the list to see

blimey. Just watched The Wave - another superb German film, my initial criticism was that one week seemed like an implausibly short timescale for the transformation, until I read this real life account upon which I presume the film is based: http://libcom.org/history/the-third-wave-1967-account-ron-jones madness.

"big club syndrome" well at least they have respect for us edit: these smilies are rubbish.

oh fair enough, I confess to not knowing very much about the sport. I suppose it probably is for the best then.

it doesn't matter really, they're all in cahoots with corporations and big business anyway, so either one makes **** all difference. in some romney would be a more honest choice " we're **** repellent and we don't care". America will get what it deserves* * though that's applicable to us and every other democracy too tbf, the ability of pr bullshit to convince poor people to screw themselves over in the voting booth is a true victory for the strategists.

i know they say they won't re-award the victories retrospectively but you'd think some of those chaps might fancy claiming victory - especially escartin and azevedo - they're now double Tour winners, morally and technically!

First two were decent enough; unfortunately the latest one seemed pretty poor though

double bill yesterday The Third Man - 7/10 - really enjoyed it, soundtrack was a little bizarre, but good plot, not too long, some particularly well shot scenes in post-war Vienna looked really impressive. Not sure I understand why it's been thought of as such a amazing classic, but maybe that's just general hype doing it's usual OTT thing. Apocalypse Now Redux - 8/10 loved it - haven't seen the original and I do want to I think because I reckon I was able to work out where the extra material came in, in this one, the scene with the french colonials dragged on far too long and disrupted the flow of the film a bit, and the scenes involving the playbunnies felt like an additional extra, but aside, I thought it was terrific, though I do want to read Heart of Darkness ( is there a film version of that too? ) which apparently this is based on. Bit odd to claim Marlon Brando 'stars' in the film really, though. He's in about 5 scenes and is basically a bulky man being weird. I like Brando, but hmm. Also, it was quite fun to see some of these lines that have been parodied or quoted in their original context too.

in fairness, if you're a batter, you sit around most of the time and then occasionally come up and have a swing and possibly go for a a ring of jogs once every while, and if you're a fielder, you're either standing on a mat or doddling about in the field unless the ball comes your way in which case you may need to sprint for all of 5 seconds. It requires limited athleticism, and doesn't have the physical demand on the body that football, nfl etc do.

I really hate Mon for selling him

Dalton. Goldeneye. And skyfall by the sounds of thr leak. Looking forward to it

Bloody hell mate. Best of luck! And to your mum too stevo ofc.

Ok this not seeing the last page is beginning to piss me off. When i clicked on the thread it gave me the pill photo.

As for zak yeah id test that blue pills ability and take it when i was 85. alternatively thr black one and win a few lotteries to sort out future plans that way.

Thats the canadian mounty show right? If so, that was cracking.

Such a rubbish match. Carrick rooney defoe and even jimmy were all useless

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.