mockney piers

Actually, do any mainstream films get made without a 'twist' anymore? It seems to be part of the rules of modern cinema that you have one. The missus and i watched taking lives the other night. The first twenty or thirty minutes were a nicely paced build up of an intriguing premise. Then everything got very muddy and confused and it culminated in probably the most ludicrously desperate rentatwist denouement I think I've ever seen. It was a late film and for some reason we stuck with it and felt betrayed by its rubbishness in the full knowledge we'd both be shattered the next day. My thinking was it was once a good film, and it got it's test screenings and everyone went 'but where's the twist?' and the rewriters were brought in and then the rerewriters (cue Monty python style dragging the sketch out)....rererererewriters were brought in to rework the muddy mess and then someone chucked some money at it and somehow they finished something better left on the cutting room floor. Sadly this sums up far too much output today. I blame the Usual Suspects by the way. Average film with an intereting cast and good rapport, but basically a poor thriller beefed up by a cop out rentatwist that set the whole horrible ball rolling. Bah humbug etc. Don't even get me started on that shag sack Shaymalan. Ooh the aliens are vulnerable to water...and baseball bats, and are naked for some reason even though they have faster than light technology.....etc....

Bumping is not allowed I'm afraid. See "- The bumping up of messages to the top of the list with "bump" or similar vague messages is not allowed, messages/threads doing this maybe deleted without warning as it's not fair on other users. " in the terms of use.

Can you attempt to post the exact phrasing on this thread. Does the same thing happen? If so can you email admin [email protected] the text? There was a previous issue whereby anything with the text 'cialis' ie 'specialist' etc had the same behaviour that you describe. It was the automatic forum screening software prevented the text from being posted. Perhaps there is a similar thing going on.

or cry, your choice

The Eye (not Japs)

How can appreciation fo music be objectively measured? Myth my arse, how do you measure the quality of DAC? Sounds like circular logic to me, like all those data migration validation scripts i've ever written, all they do is validate my data migration scripts.

I don't know, I studied this pretty closely. Scaring the soviets seems weak. It was mentioned at Potsdam and Stalin nodded and said something on the lines of 'make good uses of it' whilst frankly knowing that they already had most of the intelligence they needed to make one within a few years. Punishing the Japanese feels plausible to me, a bit like our civilian bombing of the Germans. When i saw sidiq khan saying 'you voted the warmongers, you are all targets', my heart was repulsed, my head said 'ohh, bomber harris'. Ultimately i think it was simply strategic; the soviets were ploughing through Asia, and China was at risk - stop the war quick. It was all about china, but in the end it didn't matter, they backed the wrong horse in that arena.

Cameron said he was, and I quote, 'the heir to Blair'. That alone scares me shitless. Yes, we drew the line in the sand. Yes we decided to fight, in a very, very large part thanks to Churchill, a bad politician, a damn good leader in a pinch, when much of the cabinet wanted to find terms, and believe me, we could have found terms. We had the navy meaning Germany would be continental, not global. Hitler even respected the empire and wanted an anglo-saxon alliance. That we didn't fall into temptation when the cost of difficult choices was as awful as it indeed it became was truly our finest hour. Junior partner. Without question. Just look at the leadership during the war, Monty got sidelined, Winny got heard by Roosevelt but he (winny, not the dead guy) was almost surplus to requirements at Potsdam. Then look at the aftermath. The end of the war played out well thanks to Stimpson, the peace played out badly because neither Truman nor the peple he trusted had the foggiest idea about the world beyond their borders. Greece, eerrrrr...trojans? Err no, a rather nasty civil war...ahhhh, the russsians...errrr....no...no really, no....oh dear there seems to be a cold war...too late....

And EDKiwi, Pearl Harbour opened a war with Japan. Germany's declaration of war was stupid but would not have guaranteed that the US took part in a European war. With the largest ethnic grouping in the US being German, plus many others like the Irish with little sympathy for Britain, war with Germany was always a hard sell, but something Roosevelt was long comitted to trying to get the US to do for long term strategic interests. He was a wise one that fella, much cleverer than Truman who made a bit of a pigs ear of everything.

Agreed re poland quids, a line had been crossed that we knew we finally had to stand up to. I don't think losing empire was a moral decision but a consequence of bankruptcy and the emergence of strong self determination movements from colonies who had sacrificed greatly for the mother country. We actually spent most of the war trying to protect our strategic interests first and foremost, defeating Germany was secondary to that. The French record was thrice as shameful, we even had to fight them in 1942! It was of course the Russians what won it, and the Americans who kept western Europe liberal and democratic, we quite simply could not have opened up a second front (well third really, but Italy was just a meatgrinder, and we'd never have got past the alps, Italy and Austria lost well over a million men in the first war scrapping over that 1 to 1 scale map of Blackadder fame). That's not to belittle our contribution and huge sacrifice in anyway (as an aside mind, Brendan's right, the scale of civilian bombings were to put it mildly morally questionable), but the reality is we were most definitely the junior partners.

A bit of a weird thing to come out with, certainly wont play well with the Daily Mail readership, plus a bit arse licky isn't it. Another lapdog in the making? Still, apart from the year, he's not actually wrong is he.

I have ripped all my CDs at max sampling rates. They still sound like listening to dead people, but better than the awful awful quality of purchase mp3s, and I do have a very nice pair of Bose to warm up my coffee, but it is still very much bad coffee. I guess one day it will improve (not the iPhone battery though, ooh nooooo), though i'm struggling to see how you can compress without losing quality. For starters no one has managed to convert to digital without losing a little something along the way, but I tried waking along with a valve amplifier and turntable strapped to me; not only did my back give out after twenty yards, the wow and flutter was a bitch!!

My favourite line in the reviews was ?We can make bad coffee warm but it?s still bad coffee,?

Wild beasts is a huge hit with the mocklet. So going with that. Aren't villagers Irish? Does that count?

It's all about the gaudi isn't it. Gaudi Park and sagrada familia are musts. The ramblas more of an enjoyable inevitability, but keep your valuables safe!! Whatever you do don't go to a corrida, they don't know what they're doing up there.

Yes, whoops, sorry. Nice innit, plus no high score for you to beat everyone with!!!!!!!!

Osmote for the iPad/PC. Haven't played anything quite so beautifully thought out and weirdly hypnotically cathartic since Zen Bound. ?2.99 mind, gone are those iPhone days of 59p i guess :(

...nation awaits announcements from Lampard, Gerrard and Terry with expectant hope?

Oh the irony

I always like 'cocking' in lieu of its usual f led pal, there's something unexpected about it that has much more of a jarring effect on the listener, whereas I think we all just filter out 'fuck' these days.

The new School of Seven Bells album. They seem to have moved away from the sound that was so hard to pin down in their debut and are wearing their influences a little self-consciously, but then touching points of Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins are happily fizzing my bung-holes, so thumbs up (just up, not up anything in particular after that last metaphor) from me.

Dentici?n gigirl. El pobrecito no duerme. Joder :(

Weirdly co?o isn't especially rude at least nothing like it's equivalent here, as mentioned on the other thread gigirl! There's a Spanish rude and dismissive way of saying goodbye: ?hasta los huevos! A pun between 'laters' and 'you bollix'

Mongrels.