Georgie Pin

This has just killed me! Japanese game show times how long guys sneakily look down a girls top. Way better than it sounds.

Watching the clip above I found this one nearby. Is it who I think it is?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg0XmuFJImk...feature=related

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Diggerland is in Teesside, you can let your 8 year old drive a JCB, it is awesome

My godson happens to be eight - do you know if you're allowed to "help him"?

Does anyone know where I can get some Thorpe Park 2 4 1 vouchers from? Many Thanks guys!

Try here: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/cheap-theme-parks

It's a great site anyway and I also saw an ad for somewhere called Diggerland which looks fucking awesome!!

I was in earlier too and picked up WAZ. I thoughtDeath by Engagement was truely terrible. Bad, bad acting, terrible script and huge plotholes.

The people who work for HMRC generally do a give a shit about trying to collect taxes. However, when management are more intent on spending billions on new computer systems that don't work, getting rid of 1000s of years of experience so they can employ automatons who can only answer a question if it's on their script and slashing the number of collection staff and offices then there isn't a great deal they can do.

That's why simply saying, "Get rid of civil servants." is a gross over-simplification. And if you think the economy is fucked now, wait till we see what happens to any number of towns with big offices when swathes of civil servants are sent to the dole queue. To say that the money they earn is a nett loss is bizarre to say the least.

Watched a few over the past few days

Death Tube - a bunch of people kidnapped somehow and forced to play games for an on-line audience to survive. It's ok - nothing spectacular. Made by the same people who did Chanbara Beauty (which I enjoyed) and Tokyo Gore School (a total misnomer and was again just ok I thought). 5/10

Fish Story - A punk rock song saves the world! It weaves a number of stories over a 30 year period with a punk song as its core. I really enjoyed this with the film jumping from period to period and the characters all gelling together. 8/10

Graveyard of Honour - Takashi Miike is my favorite director by a mile. Had to get this on import and I so loved this film. The main character is unpleasant, violent and just nasty even to the people he cares about. He's unlikeable and yet you care about what happens to him even though it's obvious he's on a course of self-destruction. Just a joy to watch and a film I will return to many times. 9.9/10

Wasting Away - A zombie film about a bunch of people who get turned into zombies but don't realise it. The film shows their point of view where they see themselves as just normal people, in normal time though strange things happen to them like losing limbs but also the view of the non-affected who can see that they are zombies. That was a totally shit description of the plot by the way. This is however well worth a watch. Funny and different and less than a fiver from Amazon 8/10

It's going to be a difficult path to follow. Ireland have followed the same route of huge spending cuts and tax increases and their economy has just fallen back into recession.

I've just rejoined the Labour Party for the first time since the Thatcher years. Fuck knows why - I'm just naively hopeful the party might remember where it came from I suppose.

I watched it and enjoyed it for the most part - I agree about Howard; he's just not funny.

I used to listen to this when it was on Radio 4. They only had 2 or 3 ideas per show then so it was a bit more of a slow build. I liked the faster pace of this too though.

Roni Ancona - yes!! She is mega-hot and I've always had a thing for Jane Horrocks ever since she did that tv play thing where she was bulimic and rubbed chocolate all over her tits.

I hope that was a real show or this should go on the perversions threads. The chocolate bit that is not bulimics!

I haven't seen it for ages but I will soon. My wife bought me a Hammer Horror box set which contains it. Just finished One Million Years BC with the lovely Raquel Welch who I think bizarrely ended up as the mother-in-law of Fred Trueman's daughter.

That would spoil the whole film though! It really sounds like you missed the allegorical story altogether.

 

I'm aware of what the film is about - the search for freedom and the American dream, the split between the counter-culture and mainstream America and so forth. For me it just didn't have a plot strong enough to hold my interest. Perhaps I see it more of a film for its time. A film for made specifically for young adults in the 60's which hadn't really happened before.

 

Do films always need a plot though? Withnail and I doesn't really have a plot, and it's ace. I do think you're right though, your enjoyment of Easy Rider does somewhat rest on how cool you think it is to take loads of drugs and ride a bike across America with a bandana on.

 

I agree Withnail & I is ace, being my favourite movie and all, but it so does have a plot. Not a complex or far-reaching one, but it's still a plot nevertheless.

Withnail and I is great and it also has a wonderful script.

Guns n Roses getting boo'ed off stage in Ireland last night. It's a good laugh.

 

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same thing happened couple years back in glasgow. i wasnt there so someone can correct me on the details, but Axl Rose turned up well after 10pm and announced he hadnt had his dinner so was going off for somethign to eat, fucked off, then came back on another while later....what a huge prick

 

Guns and Roses make me think of this (speaking as a sound man):

Rollins is the man!! And what a neck!

That would spoil the whole film though! It really sounds like you missed the allegorical story altogether.

I'm aware of what the film is about - the search for freedom and the American dream, the split between the counter-culture and mainstream America and so forth. For me it just didn't have a plot strong enough to hold my interest. Perhaps I see it more of a film for its time. A film for made specifically for young adults in the 60's which hadn't really happened before.

After watching Rated X the other night, I was in the mood for something very sixties, and what was in the HMV bargain bin, but Easy Rider. What could be better?

 

A lot of things, probably. Maybe I had to be there, but I didn't enjoy it very much. It's plot is paper thin, and alluded to very rarely. Basically Dennis Hopper and Edge buy some drugs, then sell them again, then hide money in a motorbike and go riding. They have a few short, not particularly eventful incidents on the way. They meet Jack Nicholson, who's annoying. Then he dies, so Hopper and Rated R Fonda go to a whore house (or rather, they suddenly appear at one, even though they're still a couple of days riding away and they've just been beated almost to death) and decide not to bother shagging the whores, but instead walk around the town, then go to a cemetary and take acid, where one of the whores (played by Toni Basil of "Oh Micky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Micky" fame) gets naked. Then they do a bit more riding and die.

 

Dennis Hopper is an irritating twat in this. So is Jack Nicholson. So are most of the other characters. Peter Fonda comes across as a nice middle class fella who would probably go back to being a teacher if his hippy mission didn't take off, but in the meantime is trying to look cool and aloof and just looking like he doesn't know how to cope with situations.

 

Nice scenery, lots of pointing the camera directly at the sun so you get rows of coloured polygons across the screen, lots of smoking, stupid Captain Scarlett-esque transitions, and a really filthy print transfer. If the film's so iconic you could make some effort to restore it. Toni Basil's actually quite attractive when not dressed as a mental cheerleader.

 

2 choppers out of 5.

I tried desperately hard to like this film but just couldn't. It doesn't really have a plot and just seems to lurch from scene to scene with no reason. That could possibly be the point I suppose but it doesn't make for enjoyable viewing. A bit like a visual equivalent to reading Dylan's Tarantuala or that nonsense Lennon came up with.

I think it was actually Dylan who said he hated the ending of Easy Rider. He wanted them to ride off into the sunset.

On a less testicular note, I watched The Driver, one of the great underrated Hollywood films over the 1970s, in my opinion. At his best in the 70s and early 80s, Walter Hill was an amazing director - 48 Hours, Southern Comfort (which I'm watching tonight) and The Warriors are superb too. and I was hoping that the excellent Trespass in the early 90s might lead to a revival. But this is my favourite of his films.

 

Ryan O'Neill probably isn't the obvious candidate to play a moody and uncompromising getaway driver in a film, but he's excellent in this, and Bruce Dern, someone else who is incredibly underrated as an actor, is fantastic as his pursuer. And then there's a young Isabelle Adjani

 

It's just perfectly paced with a great ending, some obviously great car chases, and a tight plot.

 

9 cowboys out of 10.

Just bought The Warriors myself, gonna watch it this weekend. Southern Comfort is a fantastic film. The scene with the knife is brutal - always makes me wince.

Really sorry to hear this, horrible news.

Just watched Goth. It was obviously never going to be an award winner but I had high hopes for being so bad it would have entertainment value. It didn't - it was total shite.

Toyah Wilcox

 

Is it just me then??

I would have agreed up until she was on I'm a Celebrity. No make-up was a bad thing.

Ive read quite alot of UFO stuff, huge believer, but sensible with it all. Nick Pope and Timothy Goodall id recommend to anyone looking for quality books. Apparently all astronaughts see when they go into space are shit load of UFO's everywhere and they are told this before they go up. Also, when they landed on the moon, which I believe DID happen, there were actually UFO's sitting on the surface already not terribly far from the moon landing site

Really? I thought this was all Above Top Secret? Who told and where's the actual evidence?

Actually It's more of the complete shite that Good churns out from his "sources" - all very handily anonymous of course. As for Nick Pope. Sorry to burst his bubble of self-importance but he was a low level, civil service deck jockey. He knows nothing and even if there was something going on he still wouldn't have been party to it. In fact, if you read his stuff or listen to him talk he doesn't say anything of interest at all never mind anything of significance.

No, his name is Dyllan. Before you start bitching about how it's an awful thing to do for a name, go read through the pregnancy thread because the other haters beat you to it over 2 years ago. *YAWN*

 

Would you like some fish with that chip on your shoulder, love?

 

I'm not hating, it was a genuine query because I've honestly never seen "Dyllan" spelt like that.

To be fair the way the question was worded did sound like you were calling her out on it i.e. "Did you really give your lad that name?"

It's an extra 'L' hardly Chardonnay-Beyonce territory.

Not saying that's what you intended but you could certainly read it that way.

Sofia Vergara:

 

 

I've only just seen this thread and I'm confused. Isn't this lass just straight up gorgeous? I know it's all subjective in the end but wouldn't virtually everyone find her attractive?

Crikey. Next there'll be an open legged picture of Diane-Louise Jordan.

I'm waiting.

Man V Food

I like to think I could actually do some of those challenges. Given the right circumstances I have a predigious appetite. Some of the chilli based ones are just stupid though.

This Illuminati is awfully inconsistent. It's amazing how they can orchestrate such things as stated above without anyone except all the Super Special Awake People Like Dynamite Duane noticing what they're up to, yet they can't even manage their own evil finance system without turning the put-upon public against them. It seems like juggling some figures on a computer screen would be easier than executing schemes of false flag mass murders.

 

I wonder at what level of the hierarchy the system goes from oblivious buffoons to the evil denizens of Bohemian Grove. I'd say my bank manager and his regional boss probably aren't in on it, but the guy who is above them in the chain of command buries some of the bodies. And then the guy above him is a lizard.

I know your post is basically a dig at Duane, but you're coming off as a condescending prick.

 

It might sound condescending but it as actually pretty spot on. Icke can spout all he likes about secret societies and global elites running the world but he has yet to provide the smallest amount of actual empirical evidence to back it up. And I mean actual stand up in court type evidence not Princess Di was going out with a Muslim therefore she MUST have been murdered - no other explanation fits despite real, actual evidence to the contrary. (Bit like the Moon landings)

 

I remember seeing that total mong Richard D. Hall talking about the general election. One week he was saying the Lib Dems were the victims of the global elite who wanted the 2 party system to continue and had orchestrated a media campaign to destroy them. Literally the next week when they were in the coalition he was accusing them of being exactly the same as the other two parties. Well which one is it?

 

And that is the problem - they can't decide from one minute to the next who is actually running things. Is it the Masons, The Illuminati, The Bilderberg Group, The British Royal Family, The Jews, The Trilateral Commission, The UN, The EC, The World Bank? Who? It can't surely be all of them? Even one person from each would complicate things horrifically. Sitting on any commitee will convince you of that.

 

It's just so much nonsense with no consistency at all. The world is and always has been fucked up. Yes there are always people trying to control whatever they can and invariably they fail miserably through a mixture of incompetence, selfishness and other more selfish and ruthless people stopping them.

 

And as for the Freemen of the Land - fucking hilarious!

Have you actually read his articles and theories? I'm not saying I beleive everything Icke says but the way you're coming across sounds to me that you're a bit ignorant of his work

 

Are you saying that there is no evidence that the freemasons and secret societies run certain areas, be it a whole county or just areas of council?

They're known as secret societies for a reason

I have indeed read a lot of his stuff and I find the vast majority of it very easy to dismiss as complete and utter bollocks. He uses The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a factual document. That alone allows me to regard him as an ignorant twat of the first order. Or 33rd Order if you like. (That's a shit joke - not a dig!

For a secret society the Masons are a bit shit. We know where and when they meet, who they are and what they do at their meetings. If masons are getting together to run anything they really shouldn't be, I believe that it's against the rules. That doesn't mean that it doesn't happen of course. Although I've worked in a place that was pretty much dominated by 3 blokes who all belonged to the same golf club but there we go.