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uni work innit. If it wasn't so bloody interesting I would have given up by now too (and we haven't even covered Berlusconi yet!)Bruce Rioja wrote:That'll be a weighty tome, I shouldn't wonder!Verbal wrote:Today I'm reading about political corruption and the mafia in 20th Century Italy.
"Young people, nowadays, imagine money is everything."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
Aye, Gomorrah it twas - based on the Neapolitan mafia known as Camorra. Not seen the film as yet nor read the book - I've got the 'pleasure' of reading up on these guys at the mo -, though I plan too eventually.Bruno wrote:Have you read that recent one set in Naples? Gomorra I think it was called - made into a superb film.Bruce Rioja wrote:That'll be a weighty tome, I shouldn't wonder!Verbal wrote:Today I'm reading about political corruption and the mafia in 20th Century Italy.
Unsurprisingly the journalist who wrote the book, Roberto Saviano, is currently on the camorra's hitlist.
"Young people, nowadays, imagine money is everything."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
indeed it is tango.. I am reading it as preparation for a personal guided tour of the inside of Abbey Mills pumping station at West Ham with a bloke I know who works there and will let me in surrepticiously for a photo-shoot...TANGODANCER wrote:Hard to find effluence a riveting topic, but without the likes of him, Flushing and Thomas Crapper etc, we'd be in a right old mess today. Far more interesting than can first be imagined the topic is quite fascinating. We take a lot for granted these days. Far cry from the Romans handful of sand as toilet paper.thebish wrote:Today I am mostly reading...
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of Victorian London
cracking stuff....
It is known as the "cathedral of sewage" - and it really is - for a "functional" building - it is gloriously built, in a way that "functional" buildings never are nowadays - like the modern pumping house next door to it (a bland prefab barn)
Abbey Mills is full of ornate wrought-ironwork, sculptured stone, gothic arches and huge cathedral-esque windows - ornate ceilings and fantastic ironwork pumping machinery....
see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/88017335@N ... 003437589/
a real treat!
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Got Gommorah at home on DVD - amazing film, and bleak at the same time.Verbal wrote:Aye, Gomorrah it twas - based on the Neapolitan mafia known as Camorra. Not seen the film as yet nor read the book - I've got the 'pleasure' of reading up on these guys at the mo -, though I plan too eventually.Bruno wrote:Have you read that recent one set in Naples? Gomorra I think it was called - made into a superb film.Bruce Rioja wrote:That'll be a weighty tome, I shouldn't wonder!Verbal wrote:Today I'm reading about political corruption and the mafia in 20th Century Italy.
Unsurprisingly the journalist who wrote the book, Roberto Saviano, is currently on the camorra's hitlist.
Reading Cosa Nostra now, decent but very long-winded in parts.
If you like those kind of books - Murder Machine, about the Roy DeMeo gang, is the best one ever, how it's not been made into a film is beyond me.
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yeah read cosa nostra too - it is very long!as wrote:Got Gommorah at home on DVD - amazing film, and bleak at the same time.Verbal wrote:Aye, Gomorrah it twas - based on the Neapolitan mafia known as Camorra. Not seen the film as yet nor read the book - I've got the 'pleasure' of reading up on these guys at the mo -, though I plan too eventually.Bruno wrote:Have you read that recent one set in Naples? Gomorra I think it was called - made into a superb film.Bruce Rioja wrote:That'll be a weighty tome, I shouldn't wonder!Verbal wrote:Today I'm reading about political corruption and the mafia in 20th Century Italy.
Unsurprisingly the journalist who wrote the book, Roberto Saviano, is currently on the camorra's hitlist.
Reading Cosa Nostra now, decent but very long-winded in parts.
If you like those kind of books - Murder Machine, about the Roy DeMeo gang, is the best one ever, how it's not been made into a film is beyond me.
talking of Roy Demeo - the most schocking, brutal book of this ilk i have read is 'The Ice Man' the story of Richard Kuklinsky - a cold blooded contract killer! (many for Demeo) its awesome, he was one mean mother! even used to 'practice' his methods on innocents!
there is a feature documentary about him about too, i have a DL of it but it has been shown on sky. chilling!
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I'd like to stand up for the Romans, if I may.TANGODANCER wrote:Hard to find effluence a riveting topic, but without the likes of him, Flushing and Thomas Crapper etc, we'd be in a right old mess today. Far more interesting than can first be imagined the topic is quite fascinating. We take a lot for granted these days. Far cry from the Romans handful of sand as toilet paper.thebish wrote:Today I am mostly reading...
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of Victorian London
cracking stuff....
Haven't heard of the sand technique, but I do know that they were pretty advanced when it comes to sanitation. They had toilets with running water pretty early, and public facilities with this technology all over Rome in the first century AD.
Just three weeks ago, I saw the private lavatory with running water water of Emperor Hadrian at Villa Adriana in Tivoli c.30km outside Rome, built in the second century.
It was during the middle ages we regressed and became uncivilised....
Prufrock wrote: Like money hasn't always talked. You might not like it, or disagree, but it's the truth. It's a basic incentive, people always have, and always will want what's best for themselves and their families
Indeed, I was tempted to go into this but I have work to be doing, so I didn't. Now the deadline is close, I feel I should be making like a student and procrastinating. I haven't heard of the sand technique either, I assume that it was a rudimentary method used by the military on tour. The citizens of rome used sponges on sticks, which given they had no method of mass producing toilet paper, or of disposing of it seems pretty civilised to me.mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:I'd like to stand up for the Romans, if I may.TANGODANCER wrote:Hard to find effluence a riveting topic, but without the likes of him, Flushing and Thomas Crapper etc, we'd be in a right old mess today. Far more interesting than can first be imagined the topic is quite fascinating. We take a lot for granted these days. Far cry from the Romans handful of sand as toilet paper.thebish wrote:Today I am mostly reading...
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of Victorian London
cracking stuff....
Haven't heard of the sand technique, but I do know that they were pretty advanced when it comes to sanitation. They had toilets with running water pretty early, and public facilities with this technology all over Rome in the first century AD.
Just three weeks ago, I saw the private lavatory with running water water of Emperor Hadrian at Villa Adriana in Tivoli c.30km outside Rome, built in the second century.
It was during the middle ages we regressed and became uncivilised....
In a world that has decided
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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In relation to a converstion I had on another forum Bish, re, nostalgia, you might find this interesting bish. Sorry for the link lngth.:thebish wrote:indeed it is tango.. I am reading it as preparation for a personal guided tour of the inside of Abbey Mills pumping station at West Ham with a bloke I know who works there and will let me in surrepticiously for a photo-shoot...TANGODANCER wrote:Hard to find effluence a riveting topic, but without the likes of him, Flushing and Thomas Crapper etc, we'd be in a right old mess today. Far more interesting than can first be imagined the topic is quite fascinating. We take a lot for granted these days. Far cry from the Romans handful of sand as toilet paper.thebish wrote:Today I am mostly reading...
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of Victorian London
cracking stuff....
It is known as the "cathedral of sewage" - and it really is - for a "functional" building - it is gloriously built, in a way that "functional" buildings never are nowadays - like the modern pumping house next door to it (a bland prefab barn)
Abbey Mills is full of ornate wrought-ironwork, sculptured stone, gothic arches and huge cathedral-esque windows - ornate ceilings and fantastic ironwork pumping machinery....
see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/88017335@N ... 003437589/
a real treat!
http://tinyurl.com/ygc6u52
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I really enjoyed Da Vinci Code. Angels and Demons a little less, but decent. The Lost Symbol I found to go nowhere. Much of the Da Vinci technique is used and to far less effect on the Masonic Scene. I ended up wondering what it was all aboutshevchenko54 wrote:The new Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol) another great read!
although I'm familair with Masonic stuff (from much reading I might add). Brown propogates his personal ideas as if they are law, which doesn't make for a convincing read. Just my view. I got the hardback bought as a present, but was disappointed. Over dramatic and with an impractical plot. Brown obviously finds answers then writes a novel about the questions.
Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
I like that. You read it somewhere or is it yours? Pretty much sums him up in a sentence. I still find his books enjoyable though.TANGODANCER wrote:I really enjoyed Da Vinci Code. Angels and Demons a little less, but decent. The Lost Symbol I found to go nowhere. Much of the Da Vinci technique is used and to far less effect on the Masonic Scene. I ended up wondering what it was all aboutshevchenko54 wrote:The new Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol) another great read!
although I'm familair with Masonic stuff (from much reading I might add). Brown propogates his personal ideas as if they are law, which doesn't make for a convincing read. Just my view. I got the hardback bought as a present, but was disappointed. Over dramatic and with an impractical plot. Brown obviously finds answers then writes a novel about the questions.
In a world that has decided
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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It's mine Pru. It becomes more obvious with his last offering where, at times, he appears to have had writers block andPrufrock wrote:I like that. You read it somewhere or is it yours? Pretty much sums him up in a sentence. I still find his books enjoyable though.TANGODANCER wrote:I really enjoyed Da Vinci Code. Angels and Demons a little less, but decent. The Lost Symbol I found to go nowhere. Much of the Da Vinci technique is used and to far less effect on the Masonic Scene. I ended up wondering what it was all aboutshevchenko54 wrote:The new Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol) another great read!
although I'm familair with Masonic stuff (from much reading I might add). Brown propogates his personal ideas as if they are law, which doesn't make for a convincing read. Just my view. I got the hardback bought as a present, but was disappointed. Over dramatic and with an impractical plot. Brown obviously finds answers then writes a novel about the questions.
just writes waffle. .
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fascinating! I am on the look out for london stink pipes now!TANGODANCER wrote:
In relation to a converstion I had on another forum Bish, re, nostalgia, you might find this interesting bish. Sorry for the link lngth.:
http://tinyurl.com/ygc6u52
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