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Ted Max

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  1. Tony Rabbit. BT Business operates as an MVNO using Vodafone's network. So if you are getting good coverage then it's thanks to Vodafone. BT itself doesn't "beam" anything.
  2. In the bleak latter part of the year Unseasonal Siberian winds made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Adverse weather conditions had fallen, adverse weather conditions on adverse weather conditions, Adverse weather conditions on adverse weather conditions, In the bleak latter part of the year, Long ago.
  3. Ted Max

    Gove

    "You're a fishmonger you say, Mr Gove? We've got just the bairn for ye." (Sorry)
  4. Ted Max

    Wireless

    First off, what does the laptop show when you click on the Airport icon in the row of icons top right (the airport icon is the wedge-shaped icon of curved waves) Is there a list of WiFi networks there - one of them being your own router's name?
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    Gove

    http://joanmcalpine.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8346160e669e20133f4f7101f970b-800wi
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    Gove

    I'm emphatically not interested in his background. How's the "let's all wait for caring olf IDS, Centre for Social Justice" thing working out? I hear bus tickets from Merthyr to Cardiff are a snip, and the roads they drive down are going to be sparkling clean.
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    Gove

    Oh yes. Undoubtedly. They can f*ck off too (and have done so).
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    Gove

    Michael Gove... It's got nothing to do with how he looks and talks, the exes fiddling, or even the awarding of the uncontested 500k contract to the 25 yr old former adviser. It's not the curious approach to reducing the "tyranny" of targets and tests by, er, increasing targets and introducing more tests. Or to increasing schools' "freedom" by expanding central control. It's the fact that he has the gall to pretend that what he is about is extending the education he benefited from ? diverse, classically-driven, expansive and explorative - to all, when all the evidence he himself is providing proves the exact opposite. It's the fact that he thinks that if he blows piercing blasts on the dog whistle of squaddies in schools, a return to discipline and "Free" schools, then we won't notice the the ideologically-bound fostering of a private sector land grab in education provision and its damaging fetishisation of the production of multiply tested, targeted and lobotimised drones that were once called children. He may be looking us in the eye but he's pissing on our shoes, and he thinks that we think that he's giving us a foot bath...
  9. Stewed with puy lentils. Or braised with red cabbage. Some good bread. Cider. Elgar. Your favourite wool socks. Some old photo albums. Tears of gratitude and remembrance. A walk to the pub for last orders.
  10. Notoriously shy.
  11. He was lucky to be allowed in. http://dulwichonview.org.uk/2010/10/19/get-off-my-land/ (Features the notoriously shy SteveO)
  12. Duck was popular, but a glance outside at the usually well stocked lake of wild fowl, seemed unusually empty of any bird, I had Scampi Arf.
  13. Readh the Wanchai Ferry post, Ted! Readh my post about the Wanchai Ferry post, Jeremy! Up there ^
  14. Adds some kind of emoticon to above post. Makes it clear he knows Hal did no such thing. Goes back to peeling chick peas.
  15. Is this Hal the cookery expert the same Hal the cookery expert who extolled Wanchai Ferry recipe kits and the little-known fusion bistro Wagamama? I think we should be told...
  16. There is plenty of poetry about and influenced by WWII but I think there's lots of reasons why WWI has become, in the UK public's mind, the poets' war. First, there was the deliberate effort by the WWI poets (most of them) to deal with the conditions, scale, scope and pointlessness of much of the war - both for themselves but also to cry out on a public basis. (Similarly, in terms of highlighting the cause, see the Spanish Civil War) There's a view that WWII, as a just cause, did not require such conciousness raising (it was also a civilian war in the UK in the way WWI was not). Also, if you were a poet in WWII, how did you respond in an artistic sense to what were already known as the War Poets, and to the Spanish war poets? Then there's the effect of the mass media. Although there was a rabidly patriotic print press in the UK, WW1 was fought without mass radio, film, TV and the internet to tell the story. This means the written word is much more dominant in the artistic response to the war, and also meant an alternative commentary to the official story was lacking. Finally there's perhaps something in the scale of its impact on British consciousness - twice as many deaths as the Second World War and the first time the country had experience such scale of loss - that impacted on the artistic response. Quite simply there was a need to understand what had happened through an alternative telling of the war. It was the poets that provided this narrative of brave lads undermined by idiotic commanders, and that is the story of the war that has become the truth for most of the public, which in turn has reinforced the poetry as the primary artistic response to the war.
  17. HonaB, don't die soon or anything. You are my favourite "part" of ED.
  18. But I'm usually watching the BabeStation, to be honest.
  19. BBC4 can usually be relied upon for a gently-paced film on post-war architecture in coastal towns, or the story of the escalator and its impact upon suburban sexual habits, or perhaps even, if we are being treated, a social history of the motorway junction. These should usually feature some recently discovered archive footage of a minor 40s poet extemporising on the miracle of "the electric", still images of empty shopping precincts, and inerviews with two racy-looking sisters of a certain age about tea dances next to the J20 (northbound) on the M1.
  20. If anyone wants to ask the OP on the "chopping down trees" thread if they are also putting up reindeer (and possibly even singing songs of joy and peace) then please be my guest.
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    House Swap

    The other thing that happens is that both families are mistaken, in a series of misunderstandings, as the real occupants of the houses they have swapped. So much so that they assume each others' lives, to much comic effect. Both families love their new lives so much that in an unlikely series of events, they agree not to swap back. This happy state of affairs is only broken by an unforseen tragedy in the third act (father of one family sleeps with cleaner/ child of other family dies whilst impersonating child of other family in football game etc) and everyone comes to their senses and agrees to go back to their old lives - but just that little bit changed (for the better, having learnt some valuable lessons). You can see this on Channel 5 weekdays, about 1:30pm I think. If you want the w*anking into the silverware scene, though, you need to get the director's cut version on DVD.
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    House Swap

    I think what's usual practice is to hook up hidden IP CCTV cameras and then log-in in to view the feed from your holiday house. That way you can monitor your visitors at all times to make sure they are not masturbating into the cutlery drawer.
  23. Ted Max

    X Factor

    Nikki Chapman and Dr Fox. Nasty Nigel. So long, long ago.
  24. Unbelievable.
  25. I'm pleased to know that creepy flogger and hire'em-and-fire'em hard man SteveT seems to draw the line at a manager demanding sexual favours from staff. The old softie.
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