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Yes, yes - exactly so, Mr Ben, exactly so. I went to Worral Thompson's pub once. It was full of pictures of himself and the food was shit. That's EXACTLY my experience of Tarantino (post-Pulp Fiction).

My big problem with Tarantino is that he's the worst actor I've ever seen, but he insists on putting himself in everything he makes, and with his horrible face. His face is permanently distorted into a gargoyle study of smugness and contempt. And I can't bear to look at it, or hear his whiny whine. I'm sure it's just over-compensation for never getting the girl way back when, but still, it's unpleasant and I would rather it didn't happen. Oh, and his films since Pulp Fiction just aren't very good. Inglourious Basterds promised much in the beautiful opening, but then descended into bobbins. There are so many films that do funny and violent so much better than Tarantino these days - the revered In Bruges, Burn After Reading, hell, even Pineapple Express. Still though, I'll go and watch it, and just shut my eyes when he comes on screen.

Ridgley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I feel that the riots > that happen in summer 2010 will be nothing compare > to what will happen if they keep eroding the > people. I fear that they won't. (sourdough) bread and circuses.

He sounded brattish and twattish. If it's a question he's been asked many times before, then it shouldn't have come as a surprise, and shouldn't warrant such an unfathomable response. The oddly juvenile trash talk ("I'm shutting your butt down") was embarrassing - who the hell talks like that, let alone someone who's famed for awesome dialogue? Anyway, I think he's a massive knobber, and overrated to boot. And his face makes me want to punch it. At least Hitchcock had the good grace not to try his hand at acting in his cameos.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- The Gruniad picks it up for a bit > of hysterical Tory-bashing. Pots and kettles, Loz, pots and kettles? I heard it on the BBC.

Oh *Bob*, you've gone and lowered the tone. On a Celebrity Big Brother thread...

Sleepy is good. Although not so good when you're the one that's sleepy, and walking across the Rye and the joggers are coming at you like a scene from 28 Days Later. Time Out has Peckham as the place to be for 2013. Do it!

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely Frankie Dettori is the only genuine > household name. 19 million people watched Gillian Taylforth as Cathie. Probably a few more than watch horse racing.

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bit too melancholy for me. Much prefer his rockier > stuff. Apparently the album will be rockier. Good news all round.

Thank god! Shoreditch is hideous of an evening these days, and no one I know who lives there goes out there at night. Leaving the boyfriend's house in the morning, I regularly have to step over a pile of blow-ins' vomit - it's more like Lordship Lane than Peckham - hurrah that Peckham is unlikely to go the same way.

I done seen a comely wench wearin er skirts above er knee, shameless as an ore of babylon, she were. I do think it eralds the end of all things and the dominion of beelzebub, and all will be new-fangled metal and pooters, and what-they-call "fashions" and fornication, mark me.

David A Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It?ll be like a Grandaddy concert on a West Bank > settlement. Poetry.

Quids, you know me too well, utterly busted! (ooh, I've just remembered you were in my dream last night sporting a most peculiar haircut - you were taking the piss as I recall - did the mockery come to me by osmosis I'm now wondering...) Nah, a few mates said they didn't hold with it. Had never bothered with sniping myself, but then found myself in need yesterday and googled it, saw something on wiki and something somewhere else that I can't remember, and found myself thinking "Lawks! Here I am not eating foie gras to the detriment of my own taste buds and all that caper, but maybe I'm a wrong'un after all..." Am pleased to learn that I'm only as much of a wrong'un as I already ever did think. Edited to tell Quids I dreamt about him

Yes, I can't really see a problem with them - it's just that a few people mentioned to me that they thought them unethical, and I've seen that online too, as though it's somehow cheating and I wondered if I was missing something. Do you use any particular sites Lowlander?

Does anyone ever use any auction sniper sites? Do they work? Would you recommend? Is it desperately unethical? To be honest, I don't much care about that last question in this particular instance - am January-poor and in the front row for Jerry Sadowitz when the auction ends, so would rather be a bit sneaky than incur the unholy scottish wrath. Obviously, when I am selling something, I will frown upon any such underhand behaviour that diddles me out of an extra twenty quid.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can zombies swim? They don't need to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSN2s8FY8Q

Are there any places he particularly liked to go?

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And can you eat them? > > Chillaxed Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > What are manimals? I'll say! http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vNSYyANnrCQ/UFn2mGhnX5I/AAAAAAAABCA/QbRdI_8WwX8/s1600/Manimal.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.zakiscorner.com/2012/09/manimal-movie-seriously.html&h=162&w=136&sz=1&tbnid=WGvw0DSehN4Z-M:&tbnh=162&tbnw=136&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmanimal%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=manimal&usg=__93RrFECvkx-MtUukOwP28sTWwUE=&docid=G3IhPdxlF2_wRM&itg=1&sa=X&ei=EGnVUMSqLqjI0AWpiID4Bw&ved=0CJ4BEPwdMAo And yeah, Quorn's horrid. Missing meat? Try a mushroom.

Hmm, as a whiny definitely-liberal flesh eater, I'd have no problem with people eating cat or dog. I make no hierarchical distinction between animals on the menu, taste distinction perhaps, but then I've never (knowingly) tried cat or dog.

lane lover Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Also like the Gowlett for a no-frills pub with > great pizza. No frills? NO FRILLS? What about the Remi Rough DJ booth? What about Smoked in Peckham? http://www.smokedinpeckham.blogspot.co.uk/ What about my insanely good tunes at Lucky 7s? WHAT ABOUT ELVIS? I have a sore finger; I may be high on cold and pain medicines.

Lowlander, while I hate a hypocritical vegetarian as much as the next man (probably more), some of those links are old. Is the Quorn free range situation still the same as 8 years ago? According to Wikipedia, "by 2004 all Quorn products sold in the UK were produced without battery eggs, earning the Vegetarian Society's seal of approval". The people in glass houses point is valid, and preachy preachers would do well to check that their own house is in order before flecking my face with psychotic spittle. But. But, but, but - on this, I think we're all pretty much living in glass houses. We would all probably do well to think a bit more about where we're getting our stuff, and not turn a blind eye to Bangladeshi factory workers burned alive because we've seen the cutest little boots in Primark and they're only ?15, or would buy outdoor-reared pork but we've just blown the budget on snowballs and eggnog so settle for battery sausage. It shouldn't be a case of you sort your shit out then I'll think about mine. It's Christmas, maybe we can all be a little shit-sorty and make the world a nicer place for our fellow manimals.

Or just representative of society at any time. It's big news now because it's famous people, and coming all at once, which makes it easy to forget the daily horror stories we read (or skip over) of more mundane, less glamorous people involved.

dulwichtoo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well maybe because after all these years there is > no physical evidence and post Savile some ageing > rich playboys maybe seen as ATM's by some who may > have had consensual sex way back. At 8 years old? Consensual, really?

*applauds Martha* the-e-dealer, if you're really going to insist on tedious pedantry, You might WANT to Think aboUt putting your own BAT-shit crazy House in Order first. (That's just a little education for you.)

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > At least try and spell buses right. > > I still think there's similarities considering "there's similarities"? Let he who is without sin smash the first greenhouse and all that...