Posts by Stewart
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It was the Martha Longhurst part that did it for me.
(old bloke with a long memory...)PB gets nothing but abuse in our house, and neither of us are beneficiaries.
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Saw this with Darling Beloved on Sunday and really loved it.
Haven't seen the 2 Cars 1 Night so didn't have anything to compare it with and be disappointed in that comparison.I found most of the characterisation muy simpatico and well rendered. The story, I felt, wasn't meant to be too deep, just a celebration of youth in the day. An extended vignette if you like.
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It's not religion per se that gets my goat (topical, eh?) but organised religion. That's where the problems arise.
I feel that religious conviction should come from within, rather than being impsed from without.
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Nah, its economics innit? Prossies would have a much more steady and taxable income stream than writers & other artists. No point going to the expense of publishng a tax-guide if it only results in a tiny dribble of tax revenue.
<resists the urge to wrangle the word 'spurt' in there somehow...>
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@Islander, tbh I hadn't seen the video of that when I posted it. I was aware of the song & linked to the 1st example I found in YouTube. Sadly, Jamaica seems to have become stuck with its "blam blam kulcha" since that track raised early concerns.
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I always wondered if Blam Blam Blam got their name from this one...
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Does the Green lobby have a Monkey Wrench Gang plan to thwart the rape & pillage of our protected biosphere?
If this gets pushed through I can see civil unrest on a scale not seen since the Boks Tour protests of 81. -
I trust I am not alone in seeing the impetus for flag-changing as essentially being a branding issue, facilitating the tourism industry and casting kudos upon the incumbent Misiter of Tourism, Mr John (Aw shucks) Key.
Our flag brand is not suffciently differentiated from Australia's (and I suspect that in their own bland ways John Key is barely distinguishable on the world stage from Kevin Rudd) so we all need to be re-branded.
Or is it just me...?
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I have realised why I don't like Julie Bindel (amongst others) - it is the humourlessness. OK, as well as the self-righteous gobshitery...
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I gave up reading Julie Bindel a while back after only a couple of her 'comment' columns in the Grauniad. She came across as one of those people who are so certain of their own views that they hold all the facts and anything said contrary to their own 'wisdom' is obviously wrong and, dammit, patronising and threatening to them.
Haven't got much time for Julie Burchill's smug witterings, either. I seem to have failed to notice her crackling prose.
I saw some of that exchange between the 2 sainted Julies and was confounded as to what their point was. "All men are shits" seemed to just about cover it but even I know that's not the case. Gender and sexual orientation are part of the great mix that comprises we humans and there's good and bad across the board. I have no time for such self-righteous absolutists. (I've got no time for plenty of stuff I would enjoy, never mind that crap.)Yamis, thanks for the reversal of the power imbalance. Made me smile.