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gallinello

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  1. Cheese-eater (as in: "I ain't no .......... " Marlon Brando to Karl Malden, On the Waterfront)
  2. Awful boozer, ridiculously over-priced, strange choice, glad I never attended!
  3. Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yet another example of the excesses of the State > of control? > > Cobden said > > "Peace will come to earth when the people have > more to do with each other and governments less" > > An early Libertarian thinker - I agree and my > political policy is: "small government, low taxes, > strong defence". No government, no taxes, and a people's militia!
  4. Fully concur, MM. Enjoying a drink outside the NFT a few weeks back, my daughter and I had to conceal our drinks from the eagle-eyed gaze of two para-military, Council troopers, as they swept the riverside, taking no prisoners and rejecting all reasoned arguments from theatre and film afficionados alike. Yet another example of the excesses of the State of control?
  5. The other thread has nothing to do with this; why are you writing so freely about top secret matters? Are you suffering from shell-shock, Soldier-Man? "Loose lips sink ships" 'n' all that type of tosh.
  6. Empire - Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri. Difficult, interesting and thought-provoking. Political, philosophical, historical, cultural and economic arguments aplenty. Challenge yourself!
  7. Santerme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I sat on some of the planning staffs pre invasion > and one of the issues we constantly raised was > force numbers and lack of Phase IV processes in > place. Either you are a Bliar, haven't signed the Official Secrets Act or have taken leave of your martial senses! Which one is it soldier-boy?
  8. Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can see your perspective Gallinello, but it's a > little bit self-obsessed to think that Thatcher's > single dirving force was the wholesale slaughter > of 'the working classes' How is my perspective "self-obsessed" and where do I say wholesale slaughter? > Picking up a few of your words: > "destruction, smash, slash, attack, civil war, > hungry, skinhead, murderous, onslaught, ruthless, > assault" all meted out on the working class by > "the nouveau riche, the petty bourgeois upstarts > and the yuppies, the city slickers and the wide > boys" > It's easy to extract words, then link them together, out of context (for example I mention "skinhead" in reference to Tebbits's nickname); I also mention "the nouveau riche, the petty bourgeois upstarts and the yuppies, the city slickers and the wide boys" as elements comprising Thatcher's power base, not in the context of them meting out an attack on the proletariat. You criticise Thatcher for 'no such thing as > society', whilst recommending wholesale class > retribution. Hypocrite is too small a word for > it. Where do I recommend "wholesale class retribution" and is hypocrite too small a word for me, or is hypocrisy too small a word for it? > Whilst you make many points that have value, the > merit is lost in the spittle, bluster and > contradictions. Which contradictions? And "spittle and bluster"!? Rich words indeed coming from an individual who paints a hyperbolic picture of a dystopic '70s Britain in tones of: "society was being held to ransom by a phalanx of extremist unelected tyrants controlling a mob without conscience; the despotism of under educated violent thugs in the hinterlands;Had the unions had their way, the UK would now resemble the polluted industrial wastelands and blighted lives of Eastern Europe."
  9. And all the girls in the neighborhood Try to go out with david watts They try their best but cant succeed For he is of pure and noble breed fa-fa-fa-fa, blah, blah, blah, blah!
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