Posts by giovanni tiso
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I couldn't help questioning the use of seeing Hamlet in Russian to teach us the richness of the play, couldn't they find a silent version or something?
There are plenty of those of course, but what's the difference between a silent version and a version in a language you don't speak? Except with sound you could at least enjoy the music of the words and the rather splendid soundtrack. It isn't the best Hamlet I've seen - that would be Olivier's, if you subtracted Olivier's own uber-narcissistic acting - but it beats the crap out of, let's say, Notting Hill.
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Isn't she gorgeous? And thankfully it's not down to clean living either.
I'm going to have to disagree, the bikini picture seems kind of creepy to me. There's no way a sixty-three year old human person looks like that without some serious restorative work.
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Ditto Mrs Williams and Easterbrook. Although... member since Nov 2006, Posts: 1, it might be a Halley comet-like wait until the next time he shows up.
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It seems to happen every year!
I think they just reprint the story, it's like with the reruns of It's a Wonderful Life.
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By the way, if you want to make Christmas special for Bob, in mid-December just arrange for your "uncle" to make it look like your house was broken into, then tell your local freebie community paper that all your Christmas presents were stolen and your Christmas will be ruined unless local businesses like the Warehouse and the $2 Shop don't give you heaps of replacement tat. Then it will be proper Christmas after all!
If the Simpsons have taught us nothing else, is that those scams tend to backfire.
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Er, yeah, I'm imagining it. When can I open my eyes?
Yes, while Dinah is busy pushing ninety in comfortable wealth, I would have been dead and poor for thirty years to uphold the family tradition. Yay!
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Didn't the guy who did all those voiceovers just die? How will they introduce his replacement? 'In a world without that guy who did the voiceovers... only one man could take his place...'
Heh yourself. I think it was slimy Ben Elton who did a pretty good piece about voiceover man at the dairy: "I'm the man who wants a bag of carrots and a packet of crisps..." - done in the voice of course.
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Re the Robocalls - SO SO annoying. I struggle to see how even a crazy person would be convinced to vote for someone on the basis of a robo call. Especially with the voice that's used - it's like an action movie trailer.
He was a man who played by own rules. A maverick. A hero. And now he had less than two weeks to destroy his enemy and save the world. John McCain is... "Screwed." Only in theatres.
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And perhaps that useless classics major isn't so useless in this respect: You're reminded that you live in an age where pregnancy being lethal to both woman and child isn't just accepted as a fact of life any more. Assuming cholera, plague, indifferent (if not actually nonexistent) sanitation and the general unpacific nature of the world didn't knock you off first.
Craig: we all know that if you had lived in Greek or Roman antiquity you'd have been a troublesome stoic political philosopher, hence your most likely cause of early death would have been suicide mandated by the sitting emperor or ruling faction.
Sigh. I just turned 34 and have started to panic about turning 40 already. It's going to be a long six years.
That's just mean.
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It was as if I'd never existed until I entered the US, and leaving it meant that I would cease to exist again. I was heading off to the Inferior, non-USA Area of the Globe.
It wasn't so much the case ten years ago, but now whenever it transpires with somebody back home that I live in New Zealand the response is invariably a variation on "you lucky bastard". I happen to concur...