FINALLY, I have an excuse to plug the work of an old acquaintance of mine, Ferret, particularly her quilt taken from another old friends graphic novel... Bad Rain
Wait, reading that back, came out as needlessly combative to Xopher.
Read it in the voice of someone faced AGAIN with "well, Iolo was a fraudster!", and replying with a big grin.
Neo-Pagans: yes, we know the most prominent founders of our movements were flamboyant con-men. What, exactly, is your POINT?
Just pointed to this thread in an attempt to warn someone away from Authorhouse...
@58 Or, indeed, Marion Morrison. Either grandfather or grandson.
My views on Watchmen the movie here
The titles sequence: the best bit about the film, though you have been warned, every significant piece of action takes place in slow-mo from here on.
Warners. Stop listening to your lawyers, start listening to your marketing people.
(Related: heard yesterday an interview with a pop-star complaining about Spotify "Playing music to people FOR FREE! Which can't be good for the artists!" Bonus points for irony: the interview was being boradcast by the UK's most listened to music station, BBC radio 2. The one that's paid for by a tax on the populace. Who pay royalties.. As opposed to, say a commercial station, which runs on adverts. That pay royalties. Like Spotify. Who pay royalties.)
Top Conservative movies?
(Then again, the original is so close to being self parody, was this necessary?)
Serge: She wasn't trying to be funny, but I think I laughed first and hardest while she had a "what?" expression on her face.
I think I had trouble breathing while she tried to back-peddle too.
Serge @69: no, but after 20 minutes he was relieved of duty by a senior colleague who found he was performing a ventuse delivery because he couldn't find a pulse with the wire he'd attached to my sons cranium... as it turned out, because the wire was broken inside the sheath.
I fear he was more likely related to the Goon Show character than the Holmes villain.
The ventuse made my boy a conehead for the first few days of his life, leading to my mother-in-law making the now immortal comment a week later, "He looks a lot less like his father now the swelling's gone down."
The reply to the strawman college story is "Now George Jnr, you say you're flunking school because you're on booze and coke every night? Well, I'll just make a few calls and get you into an ivy league college anyway. Heck, I'll throw in a cushy national guard post that you don't even need to turn up for too."
Or; "Ah, honey, you say you're flunking school? Well, I inherited some good grades from my pop, so I can just pass them down to you, because grades are just like money, which only goes to people who deserve it. Welcome to the republican party."
Serge @10: my first child was delivered by Dr Mortiarty... Who said "Can we make this quick, I've just ordered a kebab?"
My son was born after a 45 minute labour (which means no time for painkillers, for those playing at home).
Xopher, no harm, no foul. Just wanted to make sure we didn't get into the situation where I or someone else talks about non-medical circumcision and someone else says "Well, Xopher says it's bad and wrong!"
We need a warning sometimes "DANGER! POSTED WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF TROLL! MAY CONTAIN IMMODERATE STATEMENTS! VIEWERS IN SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND MAY HAVE THEIR OWN PROGRAMS!"
Xopher @282: point of information: my son was circumsized at, IIRC, 6.
HOWEVER...
It was a treatment for congenital balinitis (almost guaranteed anything you google for that is going to be NSFW, unless you work in a urethero-genitary unit).
It was done under general aneasthetic. He seems to be fine, physically and mentally*.
One other thing though: all of my family have been asked, at some point, "Are you SURE you're not Jewish*?" Until my son, all men in my family could have a quick answer to that one...
So you kind of caught me in a drive by judgement there, which I'm sure you didn't mean.
But anyone who refuses all immunizations for her boys then gets them electivley circumcized? I'll be generous. I'll restrict myself to saying to her, "I question your judgement."
Reminds me of the old gag about the guy who pulled a branch off a tree to poke a tiger. His friend said "Wow, aren't you worried about the danger?" "Nah, I checked the branch for splinters."
*apart from having apparently cheated nature and inherited all his genes from me, and most of my memes too. Poor kid.
**reasons: 1) My mother was raised on an estate in postwar London where her family were pretty much the only gentiles among the refugees from Europe. The acquired verbal and physical tics were passed down, what can you do?
2) Half the family are stocky, dark haired and olive skinned, the other are pale and lanky with big noses. In other words, we look more Jewish than most Jews we know. In the words of Spike Milligan, "The sort of person who looked so Jewish, passing rabbis would nudge each other and say 'who's that Jewish loking feller over there?'"
3)Anybody seen the subject of this thread anywhere? No?
Okay, stepdad, I WILL take any crappy job going to get me out of the house.
Two months on an Irish Sea Ferry? Dressed as a cartoon cat? No days off? NO DRINKING?!?!! £90 a week, room and meals thrown in.
Well, it'll pass the time I guess. And that girl at the interview looked cute, maybe we'll be on the same ship...
Even after raising two kids with me, she still looks cute.
Goddamit, someone is going to mention the bilderberg group in a moment, that the wingnuts claim are "attempting to take over the world and impose a new world order."
Have you seen the attendees lists? Looks pretty much like the Old World Order who have been failing to adequately run things for quite some time.
Folks, the global conspiracy exists, and it's run on the same lines as every other committee.
"You have been sent to me by GOD!"
"Pardon me, sir, but I talk to God all the time, and he never mentioned you..."
Supporting Wesley: I've always been utterly charmed with the way that Pixar more than happily use what appears to be more traditional animation* in their title sequences, and sometimes inside the films (Jessie's montage in Toy Story II).
The titles of Monsters Inc** are as beautiful a tribute to 1950-60's animation as you'll find. The Incredibles titles are iconic.
And the Woody's Round Up sequence in Toy Story II blows my mind. Did they actually make the puppets and film them, or render it all? I can't tell!
Though Gerry Anderson should have collected on some Four Feather Falls royalties right there...
*I've no doubt that they are composed as much on computer as the rest of the films, but I mean "not in the simulated 3d of the rest of the film".
** Which children and non-US citizens universally render as Monster Sink.
They eat your plums, your mum and dad,
They don't mean to, but they do.
They take what's soft and cold and sweet,
and leave nothing to eat for you.
But their plums were stolen in their time
by fools who scorned a breakfast toast
Who half the time were hungry stern
and half in others boxes cold
Man hands on hunger unto man
It deepens like a old fridge shelf:
go shopping as soon as you can
and quickly eat your plums yourself.
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