Well said. I certainly admire Brosnan's chutzpah, and thought his performance was the bitter highlight of the whole saccharine enterprise. I'll take off-key sincerity over bland competence any day. more…
However, he handled it with style and finesse. He even said he filmed some of it at the James Bond studio and was worried he would run into Daniel Craig while he had his bellbottoms on. He said it was great fun. He added sexiness to the role, even though he really couldn't sing. I thought the same thing about Antonio Banderas until I saw Evita more…
You make a good point. If a player has been subsidised by the British public, then we can certainly expect them to make the best use of our hard earned. What grates with me is the unnecessary and cynical pressure of expectation heaped on these players by the media and by extension their readers and viewers. I'm not sure I'd do my job very well if e more…
The premise is that Anne Keothavong has never wrapped herself in the flag. I hope that she is not one of those athletes who have been using facilities or grants paid from the taxpayers' hard earned cash to train rather than earn a living or in any other way used her nationality to get an advantage over any other players, gain publicity for their br more…
Are you seriously suggesting that I've somehow misplaced my testicles because I've watched a film that doesn't involve shlock and slaughter? Will the fact that my other half recently watched the Bourne trilogy turn her into Fatima Whitbread?
I'm not for a minute suggesting that Mama Mia is worth watching, but I wasn't aware that my ey more…
I can't believe you actually sat through this shit. What happened man, you used to have an edge? I'm still working on my blog about how modern life robs men of their masculinity. Thanks for amply demonstrating my point. I'm off to do something manly like re enacting the nude wrestling scene from Women in Love. more…
I suppose you could see the actions of mother and medics as victories for reason, and the archbishop's actions as the lunatic exception proving the general rule of reason. Yet my inner Eeyore would lugubriously suggest that the ongoing need for reason to fight its corner in the 21st century is terribly depressi more…
Explain? No. Understand? Partly. Condone? Well, what do you think.....? I am, as you well know, as committed an atheist as the next, er, atheist, and hold some of my deepest distaste for those who would impose theocracy by the back door - the Catholic Church, the modern Islamic Church, the conservative Evangelical Right etc etc. However coming from more…
That's a clear and compelling view. I suppose the devil's in the logic rather than the detail. All manner of bizarre and appalling acts can be justified if people are enmeshed in compelling schemes of logic.
I have some sympathy for the principle of preserving life at its most defenceless. Where the religious right r more…
I'm an atheist too, but I have no trouble understanding this decision, even though I totally dislike and disagree with it. They see a foetus as a person, made in the image of god, and therefore one of the worst things that can be done is to take that life. Rape doesn't take a life so is a lesser crime. If she had died in childbirth, that would have more…
He's already found me. He made me choose between banana and nuts. I fear for papaya. I'll be at Hampstead Heath, the usual spot, 1230 zulu time. Keep passing open windows. more…
Fair comment. But, having said that, 'Shoot 'em up' did have Monica Belluci serving ice cream in a tight pink smock. Worth the price of the DVD alone. Wanktastic. more…
Confusedbyzeitgeist, thanks for taking the time to make me feel even worse than I already did about subjecting discerning people to reeking cinematic tripe. Rest assured, with my credibiliy as a seeker-out of quality cinema now imperilled, my choices will from now on be far more painstaking. After all, and in my own humble defence, when Empire giv more…
Thanks for the review of this movie GSmudger. Alas it was too late for myself and the wife...we were the victims of a vicious deception having been told this movie was a 'watcher'. Worst still the 'promoter' brought it into our house to watch with us. About 26mins 25sec in, a suggestion was made to 'switch this rubbish off' but we were too polite t more…
My first Action Man was ‘Sandy’, a sailor from HMS Ark Royal, bought from John Britton’s toyshop on Shambles Street, Barnsley. Ratings hat, blue tunic with the square sailor’s collar, bellbottoms. Black rubber boots. He had a ginger number 1 and a matching beard. I always imagined him speaking with a Scottish accent. Losing an arm off the coast of more…
By contrast, I have never loved football and got punched once or thrice at primary school for refusing to play, which turned indifference into full-blown loathing. I did experience a brief thaw in my teens; driven by a pitiful urge to fit in, I would make ill-informed conversation about 10-4-6 attacking wings, Peter Beardsley's goalkeeping record a more…
I used to love football at school. Jumpers for goalposts, chopping the legs off some kid from a rival form in sickeningly brutal tackle, one man Wembley, curving pass to the tall lad whose hormones had woken up early and made us all look like dwarves. But that was playing. From one bell to the other we’d be kicking each other up in the air, crafty more…
Hell's teeth, guinnessorig, you have been skulking in some grim places. Yet all that darkness you've been quaffing has helped you vomit forth some shining gobbets of truth.
In my own dealings with the plucky, umpteenth generation underclass, I've arrived at a very similar epiphany. As a sensitive and callow agent of what we nostalgically lab more…
I caught a glimpse of 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' this morning. It’s like peeling back a bandage to look at a festering boil. Or checking inside your handkerchief after a good nasal clear out. Morbid fascination. But it’s too easy to view Kyle’s programme as a freak show. Come see the Siamese twins, be astounded at the bearded lady, laugh yourself sick more…
The secret alien plot twist is the easiest in the world. There's no logical trap that can't be escaped by giving the hero bizarre and impossible powers. Come to think of it, I use a similar mechanism to persuade myself to use public transport. I allow myself to believe wholeheartedly that if anything kicks off, I can vapourise ne'er do wells with m more…
I'm amazed you lowered yourself to using public transport, bearing in mind your levels of paranoia. I would have thought someone who thinks a drink in the local village pub is too risky, would have assessed a bus or coach trip as being about as dangerous as sticking one's face in a fan. Imagine if some drunken anti-social e more…
You're right. The Liberals are to blame, sitting in their headquarters in New York controlling the purse strings of international finance and forcing us to accept a humiliating peace settlement when we could have fought on against the imperialists! Fear not, kamerad, our day will come again.
Sorry, I'm being facetious, but I do thing you're more…
On a similar vein, I've just seen a report on the news where a doctor for some libertarian group was claiming that people should be free to become clinically obese if they so wished.
What a wonderful society the liberals are creating for us!
It takes a truly perverse mind to champion someone's right to slowly kill themself more…
Recent comments (30)
In response to: "Compulsory DNA Testing Now! " 130 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
Well said. I certainly admire Brosnan's chutzpah, and thought his performance was the bitter highlight of the whole saccharine enterprise. I'll take off-key sincerity over bland competence any day. more…
In response to: "Compulsory DNA Testing Now! " 133 days old
by miyakayusheto [Member]
However, he handled it with style and finesse. He even said he filmed some of it at the James Bond studio and was worried he would run into Daniel Craig while he had his bellbottoms on. He said it was great fun. He added sexiness to the role, even though he really couldn't sing. I thought the same thing about Antonio Banderas until I saw Evita
more…
In response to: "England Expects...." 136 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
You make a good point. If a player has been subsidised by the British public, then we can certainly expect them to make the best use of our hard earned. What grates with me is the unnecessary and cynical pressure of expectation heaped on these players by the media and by extension their readers and viewers. I'm not sure I'd do my job very well if e more…
In response to: "England Expects...." 136 days old
by technomist [Member]
The premise is that Anne Keothavong has never wrapped herself in the flag. I hope that she is not one of those athletes who have been using facilities or grants paid from the taxpayers' hard earned cash to train rather than earn a living or in any other way used her nationality to get an advantage over any other players, gain publicity for their br more…
In response to: "Compulsory DNA Testing Now! " 207 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
Disaster! Have I made more money for this turkey?
Maybe Pierce Brosnan's raw, off-key heroism justifies a fraction of the rental price. more…
In response to: "Compulsory DNA Testing Now! " 209 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]
:wave:
I havent seen this film yet but that clip has inspired me :yes:
Thank you :) more…
In response to: "Compulsory DNA Testing Now! " 230 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
Are you seriously suggesting that I've somehow misplaced my testicles because I've watched a film that doesn't involve shlock and slaughter? Will the fact that my other half recently watched the Bourne trilogy turn her into Fatima Whitbread?
I'm not for a minute suggesting that Mama Mia is worth watching, but I wasn't aware that my ey more…
In response to: "Compulsory DNA Testing Now! " 230 days old
by FlamingCross [Member]
I can't believe you actually sat through this shit. What happened man, you used to have an edge? I'm still working on my blog about how modern life robs men of their masculinity. Thanks for amply demonstrating my point. I'm off to do something manly like re enacting the nude wrestling scene from Women in Love. more…
In response to: "Can Anyone Explain This? " 232 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
Great stuff, Flat Twin.
I suppose you could see the actions of mother and medics as victories for reason, and the archbishop's actions as the lunatic exception proving the general rule of reason. Yet my inner Eeyore would lugubriously suggest that the ongoing need for reason to fight its corner in the 21st century is terribly depressi more…
In response to: "Can Anyone Explain This? " 232 days old
by Flat-Twin [Visitor]
Explain? No. Understand? Partly. Condone? Well, what do you think.....? I am, as you well know, as committed an atheist as the next, er, atheist, and hold some of my deepest distaste for those who would impose theocracy by the back door - the Catholic Church, the modern Islamic Church, the conservative Evangelical Right etc etc. However coming from more…
In response to: "Can Anyone Explain This? " 233 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
Tom,
That's a clear and compelling view. I suppose the devil's in the logic rather than the detail. All manner of bizarre and appalling acts can be justified if people are enmeshed in compelling schemes of logic.
I have some sympathy for the principle of preserving life at its most defenceless. Where the religious right r more…
In response to: "Can Anyone Explain This? " 234 days old
by SeasideMan Pro
I'm an atheist too, but I have no trouble understanding this decision, even though I totally dislike and disagree with it. They see a foetus as a person, made in the image of god, and therefore one of the worst things that can be done is to take that life. Rape doesn't take a life so is a lesser crime. If she had died in childbirth, that would have more…
In response to: "Children Of The Revolution" 302 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
He's already found me. He made me choose between banana and nuts. I fear for papaya. I'll be at Hampstead Heath, the usual spot, 1230 zulu time. Keep passing open windows. more…
In response to: "Children Of The Revolution" 302 days old
by Jon Burrows [Visitor]
You’ve compromised the operation. ‘P’ knows. Watch for the monkey faced man. You need to come in. T. more…
In response to: "Children Of The Revolution" 302 days old
by Raggle [Visitor]
Celery is way more dangerous to mankind than explosives. more…
In response to: "Movie Review - Shoot 'Em Up" 307 days old
by guinnessorig [Member]
Fair comment. But, having said that, 'Shoot 'em up' did have Monica Belluci serving ice cream in a tight pink smock. Worth the price of the DVD alone. Wanktastic. more…
In response to: "Movie Review - 'Wanted'" 307 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
Confusedbyzeitgeist, thanks for taking the time to make me feel even worse than I already did about subjecting discerning people to reeking cinematic tripe. Rest assured, with my credibiliy as a seeker-out of quality cinema now imperilled, my choices will from now on be far more painstaking. After all, and in my own humble defence, when Empire giv more…
In response to: "Movie Review - 'Wanted'" 308 days old
by Confusedbyzeitgeist [Visitor]
Thanks for the review of this movie GSmudger. Alas it was too late for myself and the wife...we were the victims of a vicious deception having been told this movie was a 'watcher'. Worst still the 'promoter' brought it into our house to watch with us. About 26mins 25sec in, a suggestion was made to 'switch this rubbish off' but we were too polite t more…
In response to: "Movie Review - 'Wanted'" 308 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
A pleasure. I felt it was in the public interest to broadcast the awfulness of this one-legged donkey. more…
In response to: "Movie Review - 'Wanted'" 308 days old
by technomist [Member]
Go, don't hold back. Tell us what you really think. :)
Thanks for the warning. more…
In response to: "Inaction Man" 388 days old
by guinnessorig [Member]
My first Action Man was ‘Sandy’, a sailor from HMS Ark Royal, bought from John Britton’s toyshop on Shambles Street, Barnsley. Ratings hat, blue tunic with the square sailor’s collar, bellbottoms. Black rubber boots. He had a ginger number 1 and a matching beard. I always imagined him speaking with a Scottish accent. Losing an arm off the coast of more…
In response to: "Aimless Rant About Soccerball and George Lucas" 398 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
By contrast, I have never loved football and got punched once or thrice at primary school for refusing to play, which turned indifference into full-blown loathing. I did experience a brief thaw in my teens; driven by a pitiful urge to fit in, I would make ill-informed conversation about 10-4-6 attacking wings, Peter Beardsley's goalkeeping record a more…
In response to: "Aimless Rant About Soccerball and George Lucas" 400 days old
by guinnessorig [Member]
I used to love football at school. Jumpers for goalposts, chopping the legs off some kid from a rival form in sickeningly brutal tackle, one man Wembley, curving pass to the tall lad whose hormones had woken up early and made us all look like dwarves. But that was playing. From one bell to the other we’d be kicking each other up in the air, crafty more…
In response to: "That's Entertainment" 417 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
Hell's teeth, guinnessorig, you have been skulking in some grim places. Yet all that darkness you've been quaffing has helped you vomit forth some shining gobbets of truth.
In my own dealings with the plucky, umpteenth generation underclass, I've arrived at a very similar epiphany. As a sensitive and callow agent of what we nostalgically lab more…
In response to: "That's Entertainment" 417 days old
by guinnessorig [Member]
I caught a glimpse of 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' this morning. It’s like peeling back a bandage to look at a festering boil. Or checking inside your handkerchief after a good nasal clear out. Morbid fascination. But it’s too easy to view Kyle’s programme as a freak show. Come see the Siamese twins, be astounded at the bearded lady, laugh yourself sick more…
In response to: "Fear & Limp Disdain in Las Vegas, part 3" 529 days old
by raggle [Visitor]
Damn, you could tell I was wearing my vibrating pants....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article107421.ece
R more…
In response to: "Fear and Limp Disdain in Las Vegas, part 1" 551 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
The secret alien plot twist is the easiest in the world. There's no logical trap that can't be escaped by giving the hero bizarre and impossible powers. Come to think of it, I use a similar mechanism to persuade myself to use public transport. I allow myself to believe wholeheartedly that if anything kicks off, I can vapourise ne'er do wells with m more…
In response to: "Fear and Limp Disdain in Las Vegas, part 1" 551 days old
by FlamingCross [Member]
Smudger,
I'm amazed you lowered yourself to using public transport, bearing in mind your levels of paranoia. I would have thought someone who thinks a drink in the local village pub is too risky, would have assessed a bus or coach trip as being about as dangerous as sticking one's face in a fan. Imagine if some drunken anti-social e more…
In response to: "Turning A Blind Ear " 578 days old
by GSmudger [Member]
You're right. The Liberals are to blame, sitting in their headquarters in New York controlling the purse strings of international finance and forcing us to accept a humiliating peace settlement when we could have fought on against the imperialists! Fear not, kamerad, our day will come again.
Sorry, I'm being facetious, but I do thing you're more…
In response to: "Turning A Blind Ear " 578 days old
by FlamingCross [Member]
On a similar vein, I've just seen a report on the news where a doctor for some libertarian group was claiming that people should be free to become clinically obese if they so wished.
What a wonderful society the liberals are creating for us!
It takes a truly perverse mind to champion someone's right to slowly kill themself more…