Posts by Rich Lock
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John Williams - you're a thieving hack whose banality is exceeded only by your hubris. Why didn't Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma just play Aaron Copland's setting of 'Simple Gifts' and cut out the middle man?
There is no human event that a John Williams soundtrack won't manage to cheapen. As it turns out.
Yeah, he should have at least stuck to rehashing his own work.
Possibly the 'imperial march', just to put the shits up the republican wingnuts?
Or the music from the final scene of ep4 where Luke, Han et al get their medals from Leia?
Or maybe just go with the 'superman' theme?
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I would like to re-iterate that this wasn't my (male) theory, it was my (female) wife's experience*. And if true, it is only applicable to a small handful of relationships that are already extremely dysfunctional.
Also, like I said, I was hesitant to mention it because, y'know, it's not ok.
*by wife I mean wife, not 'very good friend I'm using as a cover'. And by 'expeience' I mean outside of our relationship.
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Arses please. I'm not a donkey!
You're not keen on a weekly ass-driving then?
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There are the 'if you get drunk you'll get raped' ads, those are great...
From memory, all the male ALAC ads feature a drunk person doing something stupid. The Lisa ad differs because it features a drunk person having something done TO them.
I remember these ads being discussed on PAS last year, and someone going as far as to submit a complaint about them.
I take the point that it is only in the 'Lisa' ad that the 'bad stuff' is externally initiated, and in an ideal world everyone would live free of the fear of random violence.
However, both me and my wife took a much milder interpretation of that particular ad - more along the lines of 'Hey look, it isn't an ideal world, and shit like this does happen far more frequently than we'd like. So, y'know, if you're out on the piss just watch out for yourself, mmmkay'.
We've also talked a lot about the whole male/female headgames/violence thing. She is quite strongly of the opinion that in certain relationships the female partner can and will deliberately goad the male partner into physical assault - something that it simply hadn't crossed my mind might happen.
Not sure how relevant that is, and I am/was a little hesitant to mention it - I don't want to detract from the 'it's not ok' message in any way.
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Only once a week for the ass drivers? That hardly seems fair.
Who'd want to be a sailor, tho?
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Agent Emma appears to have launched her assimilation programme
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The connection between the evidence (police spying on protest groups) and the conclusion (traffic needs to be separated from police more), I must have missed.
Well, he had one reasonable conclusion (spying on protest groups is bad, mmkay?), before his column spun out of control with a rant about traffic policing, and ended up upside-down on the verge.
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perhaps we should be saving our plaudits for actual journalists in the Middle East for whom committing journalism is a very dangerous task indeed
That's kinda what I thought you meant, although you were a little obsure...That we should not mistake the sizzle for the steak, right?
It is a pity that all the attention is on this one guy, just because the incident involved The Most Powerful Man In The World (tm) and the inevitable numerous TV cameras. It didn't hurt that that it was also short and easily digestible.
And you're right. There's numerous guys out there risking far more on a daily basis over and over again, outside the safe havens of the green zone or Kabul, doing a damn hard job in exceptionally dangerous conditons (that being one reason why we hear so little about it).
And just so we don't get too distracted by this sizzle, here's some proper journalistic steak from Kabul.
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I find myself agreeing with Garth George (well, partly).
Can anyone recommend something I can take that will make me feel clean again?
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Damocles was a figure from Greek legend. Full wiki here.