Brendan

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The 'Arrows' need only be the cherry on the > cake.. > > I suggest: an elderly motorcycle display team - > doing that pyramid formation thing; a thousand > Morris dancers; Beefeaters doing the Lambeth Walk > and donkey rides near the long jump pit. Beats Kylie on a giant flip-flop any day. Or was it a giant thong? :-S I can?t recall.

They are awesome to watch. I?ve seen them twice and would jump at the chance to see them again.

I get your point completely but it is not about what people from this country think of the military. It is about what the guests that are being invited here think about it. It wouldn?t be very good form to invite them here with a ?this is our country and if you don?t like it you can fuckoff? attitude. It just has to do with tact. You don?t go waving your willy in other people?s faces even if the fact that they are offended by it is just like sooo completely unreasonable.

I take my hat off to you Snorky sir.

All your arguments are valid Michael but not for this argument. This is not about what this nation thinks of itself and the atrocities that have been committed in its name (some of which aren?t all that long ago I might add) but about being polite to the guests you are playing host to for these games. All those things that the native Britons have so magnanimously come to terms with still run very close to the bone in some parts of the world. (I might just add I?m not trying to have a go at the British with this statement. I?m a white South African so christ knows I know what it is like to be guilty by association) Personally I like military displays of all sorts and religiously watch the Edinburgh Tattoo. I just don?t think that the military should have anything to do with the Olympics. The military is a machine to propagate war and therefore everything associated with it is no matter how you dress it up. The Olympics is a competition held in the spirit of peace.

Surely he can?t endorse as many products as that Jamie Oliver

Since the beginning of time Man has favoured the rhyme Over modernist prose Set to verse I suppose

Nope. You can edit them though.

I think that's Swazi Red you're talking about there jah. It's kind of arrow shaped when fresh I suppose.

I suppose Kylie?s crimes against humanity have probably reached as many people as the British military?s.

I guess what I?m saying is that the Olympics is not the appropriate stage for military displays.

I like them too Annasfield and have in the past gone out of my way to see them. It is just that I can see how it could be offensive to some of the nations who we are inviting here as our guests. They could get those Red Bull guys in their Pit Specials instead.

Yeah it is a bit of a weird metaphor. I?m not sure where they come from sometimes.

If this story is true then there is a valid argument for it. Britain will be playing host to other countries, inviting them as guests to these shores to participate in games that are supposed to promote international peace and cooperation. To the general British public the Red Arrows may just seem like a bit of patriotic fun. This has its place but perhaps a bit more tact is called for at an event like the Olympics as they can just as easily be interpreted as a display of military strength In many countries outside Britain the British military is not seen in a very good light. This is completely justifiable as historically the only relationship many people had with it was one of oppression and brutality, within living memory in some cases. If you give an annoying relative a kicking down the pub one night you wouldn?t go waving your knuckles in their face all the way through Christmas dinner would you? The problem here though is that the likes of the Daily Mail will get hold of this and twist to their own neo-fascist ends. According to them it will probably be about immigrants who don?t want to naturalise.

Or Living on a Prayer.

It is empty or out of order on a relatively regular basis yes but not as often as the Barclays and the HSBC.

What type of Porsche is it?

I think crocs are lower in fat than uggs.

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Hey I'm busy watching it too. Otto's chuck taylors just spoke to him. :))

We's got gentrified gansters in this manor CWLD, innit.

I didn?t notice to be honest. I was too busy sitting outside Black Cherry trying to look cool. ;-)

So he gets paid to rhyme? Bollocks! I do that all the time.

Seeing Edwyn Collins and the previous movie related posts prompted me to try to find the ?A Girl Like You? sequence from Empire Records. All my search brought up was some stuff about ?Masons, Satanism and the Illuminati? (first I thought it may be an iron maiden track) did you know that the queen mum was really a lizard who ate people? Fascinating!

Great film, Pump up the Volume it was one of the seminal films of my high school days. I remember being highly upset when my mother taped a rugby match over my bootlegged copy.