What are you watching tonight?

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:29 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Prufrock wrote: My main problem with her is that she was more interested in numbers in profit columns than she was in the people she was supposed to represent.
Those same people that freely voted her in on a record-breaking three occasions? Hmmm.

The Tory electoral calculation was cynical, but politically fruitful until she lost her head completely over the poll tax... It was look after two thirds of the people, no matter how much it hurts the remaining one third and you can win an election... So you have astronomical wealth accumulated by finance capital, lots of dom perignon in the City, and astonomical unemployment in the old industrial areas... the Tories made the shift from industrial capitalism to finance capitalism, brought about increasing prosperity for a large number, phenomenal prosperity for a tiny few, and the price was absolute devastation for about a third of the people, from the midlands northwards...

Lawson said 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working...' You only had to look at the smug, podgy bastard to know it sure as feck wasn't hurting HIM...

For me, those eighteen years were like living in a moral cesspit...

I despise New Labour as well...

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:56 pm

I can't really argue against any of that, William, and nor would I especially want to (least of all the bit about Lawson) but what I can do is speak of my personal experience. I left school in 81, aged 15, and with 3,000,000 people out of work. Many of my contemporaries took the easy option of doing nothing and blaming it all on the Thatcher government whereas one or two of us realised that there were opportunities for those that were prepared to get stuck in and give it a go. I still think that there are many that prefer the easy option of jumping on the back of a common blame horse in order to somehow justify to others their own shortcomings. Not everyone, of course, but many.

Out of interest, I'd love to know what you think of William Hague.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:39 am

I've just had a quick look to see how many of Puskas's profitable pits have been re-opened by the Labour Government. At the last count it stood at none whatsoever. How queer?

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:26 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:I've just had a quick look to see how many of Puskas's profitable pits have been re-opened by the Labour Government. At the last count it stood at none whatsoever. How queer?

They weren't my profitable pits. If they were, I wouldn't have closed them.

And is it queer? Given the current administration seem to have as much contempt for the unions and working folk as the previous one did? And the cost of getting the safe and so on after so long a time unused?

I'd have been suprised if they did reopen them. They don't care.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:42 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:I've just had a quick look to see how many of Puskas's profitable pits have been re-opened by the Labour Government. At the last count it stood at none whatsoever. How queer?

Bruce - no genuine socialist really expected new labour to herald a new dawn of rights for the common people. Is this really your best argument? The coal industry was destroyed in an act of class warfare initiated by thatcher and stupidly entered into by scargill, who might actually have won it if he'd been prepared to follow the rules of his own union. Yet another example of the left failing its own followers. This was an industry destroyed prematurely (in the sense that all coal seams eventually give out) by the state, the courts, and the lions of the miners rank and file misled by an arrogant and myopic leadership...

But it wasn't likely, Bruce, 13 years after the miners' defeat, that a 1997 government would be able to reopen long-closed mines, was it? Really?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:43 pm

"Corpus Christi" - "Cheating Git".

Does anyone else watch Universiry Challenge? (Please someone say yes).

Well, it appears that Corpus Christi fielded a ringer in the final, the rasdcals.

I'm not sure why though, because from what I saw of rhe earlier rounds that Trimble girl simply battered the opposition on her own, including a complete humiliation job on Exeter.

Anyway, they've been had up for cheating. Here you go:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7919830.stm

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:50 pm

I like University challenge. Bloody hard questions though, and the disqualification seems a bit harsh.

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:02 pm

When is Bolton University going to have a team on there?

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:17 am

Bloody students.

Pass an incredibly easy exam or two and they think the world owes them a living.

I would say "get a job", but he did. Which was the problem....

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:53 pm

I have great respect for both Mastermind and University Challenge and the people involved in them. I watch "Battle of the Brains" (much overhyped into something it isn't by the gushing Nicky Campbell) but much prefer "Eggheads" and manage to get a fair few of the answers nightly.

On a watching topic, later tonight it's "Appaloosa" a new Western which I'm looking forward to.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:32 pm

Watched Appaloosa, strictly for Western fans. Ed Harris played a creditable hard-case lawman with Vigo Mortensen as his deputy. In fiction there are thirty-nine feasible plots. In Westerns, about three. This was a combination of them.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:33 pm

Just watching Tropic Thunder - fookin great!

Tom Cruise finest performance to date!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:36 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:Just watching Tropic Thunder - fookin great!

Tom Cruise finest performance to date!

That was The Last Samurai for me. Good action film.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:36 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:
Tom Cruise finest performance to date!

But... well... you know?!

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:57 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:
Tom Cruise finest performance to date!
But... well... you know?!

didnt realise it was him first time either!

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:03 pm

New flight of the conchords, and 24 season 6. S'all gravvvvy.

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:09 pm

I watched 'Heston's Victorian Feast' with that loony Blumenthal fellow. He did an absinthe jelly, which he made wobble using a scary contraption made from dildos.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:25 pm

ratbert wrote:I watched 'Heston's Victorian Feast' with that loony Blumenthal fellow. He did an absinthe jelly, which he made wobble using a scary contraption made from dildos.

Didn't watch it, but read Charlie Brooker's review of it, and the series, sound slike my kind of cookery programme!

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:40 am

Got a documentary on Alfred Hitchcock on in the background. Made me realise that the only Hitchcock film I ever saw - The Birds - is probably the second best film I've ever seen, and that I really should watch more.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:04 am

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:Got a documentary on Alfred Hitchcock on in the background. Made me realise that the only Hitchcock film I ever saw - The Birds - is probably the second best film I've ever seen, and that I really should watch more.

one of the greatest films off all time and easiliy in my top 3 ever ever ever, Rear Window.

Absolute fooking classic - show that to a young auidience, they still think it was made in the last ten years! genius. and grace Kelly then was ten times more stunning than any of the slags knocking about in todays movies!

Vertigo, North by North West, Rope, the man who knew too much, Dial M... all belters even today!

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