quote:Originally posted by mart: no it was just a sort of "oh blimey, reality, life, what's it all about" sort of thing
actually it was more about the whole time-wasting element of TMO (or, i suppose, the internet), and how that time would have been employed otherwise.
I never think of TMO as time-wasting, because I almost always do it in work time. For starters. It's also fun, and creative and interesting and educational (sort of, well... no. Maybe not educational). I'd never describe it as a waste of time.
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Yeah, you're right. In my case, however, when I was self-employed, it had a fairly direct relation to how much I managed to get done, and therefore how much money I actually earned, and that sort of thing.
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I watched Atonement last night. That's the first time I've been to a cinema since 2005. The screen was very big, and the sound was loud, but the seats were highly uncomfortable and the fruit pastilles were £2.50 a bag!
On the whole, I'd give the cinema experience two smaile blacke boys.
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what was the film like
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It was good. It felt like something was missing in a way, but perhaps that was because I hadn't read the book first. Kellifer (who had read it) really enjoyed the film.
Erm, I liked Keira's dress, and the fact that she smoked in almost every scene. Hottness.
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I watched Brokeback Mountain last week, which I'd never seen before, and it made me cry like a baby. It's probably the best film about love I've ever seen and carries a remarkable, exhausting emotional weight, which most of Ang Lee's films wield to some extent but which doesn't take centre stage to the extent it does in Brokeback Mountain. It seems to get its power from its honesty; there's an emotional truth to the film that's impossible to deny. I really loved it. The only thing that annoyed me is when the bummer married Anne Hathaway. Girls that hott shouldn't be wasted on bummers.
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He's the hotter of the two bummers though.
I loved that film and saw it in the cinema, where it make me do that restrained "crying but hoping not to be observed" thing that most Englishers resort to (that reminds me of seeing Gladiator and turning around at the end only to witness my straight friend Alan dissolved into tears).
In fact, Brokeback was such an emotional wringer that I've kind of avoided watching it on DVD since.
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There was this moment in Atonement where some british soldiers in The War: World Edition V2.0 were complaining about the French - saying something like "Britain should keep India and Africa, but let the Germans have this shithole" (i.e. France). The old folk sitting behind us in the cinema were obviously terribly amused by this, as they kept chuckling to themselves for about ten minutes afterwards.
When the typewriter was seen typing "cunt" you could almost hear their disgust increase with each keystroke.
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Did I mention I was in Stoke-on-Trent? While I was there I red two cool books. One was Johnny Come Home by Jake Arnott. Set in the 70s it's a tale of sexual politics, glam rock and mad bombers. The pay-off isn't as strong as I'd hoped but I really enjoyed reading this. 8/10
Next up was Rogue Male by the improbably named Geoffrey Household. This was top. Grim, claustrophobic, xenophobic, square-jawed Inter-War stuff. The nameless hero is a sort of cross between James Bond and Bertie Wooster and he spends most of the book buried alive in a hole because he tried to assassinate a vile foreigner for a lark. Fucking great stuff. Another 8/10
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I watched 28 Weeks Later last night. Not bad. I liked the bit where the helicopter tilted its rotors into the horde of infected. I read about a similar manoeuvre in a zombie novel a while back. Could they be related, perhaps? Or do chopper-pilots habitually chop up the enemy?
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What've I been reading, you ask..? I've been dipping into some old pulp. Bulldog Drummond, Carnacki, Conan, some stories by Lovecraft and Rice Burroughs and Machen. Oh, and I started reading some Deadpool comics that were making the Masketeers laugh, they were pretty good, he does some cool post-modern asides in his monologuing, quite funny. Next up, I'm reading a book about Africa by a bloke called Meredith.
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I just got a bit stack of philosophy books delivered but haven't quite got stuck into the non-fiction ones yet. I have started today to read "When Nietzsche wept" by Irvin Yalom and the first chapter seems "good". I shall report back later with more useless adjectives.
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not seen it before. Thought it was quite good. But I was semi-hallucinating after eating a bad frankfurter, so I can't judge it properly. Lots of potential for armchair analysis as well. Seemed like there may have been something about communism in there.
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seems a bit contradictory to human nature, which isn't going to make for a happy system. bit of lefty business is alright, you know, raising taxes to try and improve the quality of life for the people who aren't doing so great. One thing though that bothers me is that on the hand I think that community can help people feel like they're valued members of society, but on the other hand, a community is also excluding a lot of other people. How do you get over that one? You don't want a world that's one big neighbourhood watch, but also, it sucks if people don't care how their actions affect other people. You need a bit of nationalism, to build common idenity and foster a sense of 'belonging', and socialism, in order to make sure nobody is left behind. I think that would be the best way to run a state. I can't see how nationalism and socialism could fail if combined under a strong, caring leader.
I believe we shouldn't discard the notion of society just yet. But then, I want to live in a world that ruled by the kind of people who made children's animation for the BBC in the 70s. All those jumpers and utopian dreams. Actually I just want to forget reality and concentrate only on utopia and dreams. Maybe I can build a huge underwater colony, where men and women can be released from the shackles of free market capitalism, and be free to work in a strictly controlled environment, towards a society where everybody is nice to each other, and everybody has plenty of room to live in.I can call it "Contentment".
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Will there be a blow job clause?, Something like if a man fancies a blow job and there is an available women nearby he can say "BJ Clause" and she has to give him one. Maybe to be fair you could limit it to just weekends and bank holidays (idea! change bank to wank!)
I'm just freestyling here, but some good ideas I think yeh, I mean a lot of problems are caused by men with a build up of sexual tension, things like rape, indecent assault, murder and jaywalking. It could all be a thing of the past with the BJ Clause.
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Also, no christmas, easter or any other card related celebration. Everyone gets 6 weeks holiday a year, to take whenever they want. No religion, and a hand job clause on mondays and wednesdays.
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yeah, but they'll be controlled by the state. You'll need to go through a complicated licensing and taxing procedure if you want to start giving them out yourself. You can't let that kind of thing go unregulated if you want order and mutual kindness in society. to get things done you need to keep power structures in place, and they'll be torn apart if your citizens are giving each other blowies. I suppose the best way would be if the state banned giving them altogether for citizens, and only distributed through it's own infrastructure.
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you wouldn't want BJ clause coming down your chimney on christmas. Or maybe you might. Depends if you've got kids around.
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it's quite a good programme, for mindless, don't-think-or-question-it-too-much television. We're about half way through, so avoiding series 3 at the moment - isn't it on sky or something stupid now though?
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quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: it's quite a good programme, for mindless, don't-think-or-question-it-too-much television. We're about half way through, so avoiding series 3 at the moment - isn't it on sky or something stupid now though?
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I caught Saxondale on telly last night - the first full episode I've seen, not really knowing anything about it.
I thought Coogan's physical acting (his facial tics, the sadness in his features) and his delivery were superb - he manages to convey a life of crap mediocrity and social failings with the slightest of nuances, and this was the strength of the show, rather than the overly ludicrous situations he gets himself into and out of.
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haven't watched anything recently. Mission to Mars was the last film I saw on telly. Awful. Also one of the 'tropics of lust' films that are part of the erotic scheduling of movies24. Again, awful.
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