tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post3178318675683191812..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: The Marching Bland.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-5671159148964799562010-06-08T03:17:43.453+01:002010-06-08T03:17:43.453+01:00Clearly the Chinese must be watching different mov...Clearly the Chinese must be watching different movies since their mass child murderers choose to use knives and machetes.<br /><br />We need to look more closely at the type of community that produces our own 'spree-killers', Dunblane, Hungerford and now west Cumbria. All pleasant, semi-rural, old fashioned, closely knit communities where everyone knows each other. Clearly dangerous places and breaking them up was probably part of the Nu-Labour Project (though I still don't know what the rest was).bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-69987924563725320152010-06-07T21:23:32.913+01:002010-06-07T21:23:32.913+01:00Having heard CallMeDave telling us that we're ...Having heard CallMeDave telling us that we're even deeper down the toilet than we thought, I just keep hoping that DemTories will take all the quangos, health facists, fake chariddies, bansturbators and other parasites and just, simply, close them all down.<br /><br />Foolish, I know.<br /><br />But, if there really is no more money, then maybe, just maybe.....JohnRShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07021101596935644363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-65663493995210699582010-06-07T14:22:08.739+01:002010-06-07T14:22:08.739+01:00I have watched The Terminator and its sequels, amo...I have watched The Terminator and its sequels, amongst other movies. It did not give me the urge to go out and murder people callede Sarah Connor or anyone else. It's not movies that kill people.Dr Evilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00176521760477086914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-48002974205277914282010-06-07T11:21:14.658+01:002010-06-07T11:21:14.658+01:00What a cracking idea LI - leave an unlit cigarette...What a cracking idea LI - leave an unlit cigarette or your pack on the table in front of you in a pub etc. It was a common sight in a more tolerant era. It has a certain rebelliousness about it without being threatening and identifies you as a smoker and that there are still smokers around when the righteous want smokers to be isolated, invisible and demoralised. <br /><br />I went for a drink the other day with a group I don't normally associate with, most were non smokers, in a pub I don't normally go to (Wetherspoons), On the table we stood around was an empty cigarette packet presumable left earlier by a smoker - it stayed there the whole time we were there, no one attempted to move it not knowing it was empty.(no ash trays to dispose of same) I noticed that on another table there was another pack. I got a perverse sort of pleasure at this and wondered if it was a sort of passive protest that I was not privy to. <br /><br />I hate to see cig packets abandoned anywhere, it merely gives the righteous ammo to sling at smokers - but left on a pub table/bar - absolutely, leave them whenever you can and don't crumple them!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-89430346038898863902010-06-07T02:10:37.662+01:002010-06-07T02:10:37.662+01:00Anon 1:15 - if you send me a boxed set of Rob Zomb...Anon 1:15 - if you send me a boxed set of Rob Zombie films, all the neighbours will suffer is the occasional roar of laughter. His Captain Spaulding is the funniest clown I've seen (sorry Obo, but it's true).<br /><br />If you make me watch Dick van Dyke prancing around with a chimney brush again, I'll put something nasty in the water supply.<br /><br />Then I'll blame it on the films. It will be true anyway.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-80451344622286510202010-06-07T02:06:00.549+01:002010-06-07T02:06:00.549+01:00Anon 23:58 - the effect is multiplied many-fold no...Anon 23:58 - the effect is multiplied many-fold now. A pipe would be even more effective, especially if it was secretly filled with bubble-fluid...Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-65311364855934626932010-06-07T02:04:24.939+01:002010-06-07T02:04:24.939+01:00Pavlov's cat - don't turn yourself over to...Pavlov's cat - don't turn yourself over to the authorities. They'll re-educate you back into Pavlov's Dog.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-17415907779443815502010-06-07T01:49:29.702+01:002010-06-07T01:49:29.702+01:00P T Barnum - easy. Feed the kids to each other. Th...P T Barnum - easy. Feed the kids to each other. Then blame it on the films.<br /><br />You'll only get an ASBO because you'll be furthering the agenda.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-57168275437317967142010-06-07T01:15:18.421+01:002010-06-07T01:15:18.421+01:00“None of it has made me violent. None of it has ma...<i>“None of it has made me violent. None of it has made me desire a shotgun and a killing spree. Some real world events have, but no fictional ones.”</i><br /><br />Ah, but Leggy, the experts will tell you that if you hadn’t have seen those slasher films or read those satanic-death-murder-kill books none of those real-world events would have made you angry <i>at all.</i><br /><br />A box set of Mary Poppins DVD’s is on its way to you as I write. I expect you to have watched them all by the end of the week, and I’ll be asking questions, so make sure you pay attention or Nanny will be <i>vewwy, vewwy cwoss!</i><br /><br />PS: Cronan – yes, as Anon above says, he did. I’m sure there were lots of contributing factors, but one can’t help but think that being chucked out in the rain from his local every half-hour or so and generally being treated like a social pariah, as smokers are allowed to be these days, can’t have helped his state of mind very much. Interestingly, one of the first sentences I heard about him after his “spree” was that “he was a middle-aged cab driver who <i>liked a drink.</i>” (my emphasis). Cue for a subliminal “just look at how drinking (i.e. being a drinker) harms others” drip-feed somewhere down the line, maybe? One to look out for in the future, methinks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-42123343597564367902010-06-07T00:02:25.292+01:002010-06-07T00:02:25.292+01:00And oh yes - Bird was a smoker. And it WAS mention...And oh yes - Bird was a smoker. And it WAS mentioned in the press ... but only in passing in that a friend said he used to enjoy a chat and a smoke with his mates on the taxi rankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-80664137429227661162010-06-06T23:58:04.393+01:002010-06-06T23:58:04.393+01:00Years ago (about 40), when I was in the Air Force,...Years ago (about 40), when I was in the Air Force, I can remember when a Chief (a rank in the Air Force) was working in the empty engine bay of a Phantom. Inside the bay couldn't be seen from the ground, and the Chief was working with an unlit pipe in his mouth. A passing officer got curious (they're all 'curious') and climbed up to have a look at what was happening. Saw the Chief and said "Chief, I'm disappointed in you", looking at the pipe (smoking is strictly verboten around an aircraft and in a hangar on safety grounds - rightly so). The Chief just looked up at him and said "I've got a hole in my arse too"<br /><br />Cue one embarrassed officer scuttling away with his tail between his legs.<br /><br />You don't mess with Chiefs whoever you are - they're all 20-year vets and the air force would collapse without them ... and they know it.<br /><br />So yes, you're right. Just the sight of a ciggie will make people nervous - even did so 40 years ago in certain circumstances.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-9863702562522958192010-06-06T23:43:44.157+01:002010-06-06T23:43:44.157+01:00As a self confessed Seagalogist. I've seen eve...As a self confessed Seagalogist. I've seen evey filim with Mr Seagal at least twice (even I couldn't do 'Mercenary For Justice' 3 times) <br /><br />I've even see him play guitar at the Woodville Halls, Gravesend. <br /><br />I now feel as a smoker and a drinker as well, I should turn myself over to the authorities to with as they see fit.Pavlov's Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162563403722211352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-813598369332481272010-06-06T23:36:58.396+01:002010-06-06T23:36:58.396+01:00Having seen just about every uber-violent film eve...Having seen just about every uber-violent film ever made, some twice, up to and including Cannibal Ferox and I Spit on Your Grave, I shall now lock myself in the basement and protect the public from my inevitable homicidal spree. It's the right thing to do. Or does the effect wear off after a couple of hours? I need to know. Just how long must I stay down in the cellar? The foster kids need feeding, you see.P.T. Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-63118622063037756212010-06-06T23:31:37.808+01:002010-06-06T23:31:37.808+01:00Conan - I doubt it. I'm sure it would have bee...Conan - I doubt it. I'm sure it would have been mentioned in the press if he had.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-69692739462867363252010-06-06T23:31:08.354+01:002010-06-06T23:31:08.354+01:00Microdave - all those who insist that seatbelts an...Microdave - all those who insist that seatbelts and crash helmets must be law argue that if it wasn't law, nobody would use them.<br /><br />Actually, most people would use them anyway. The argument is about the difference between choice and coercion but they don't see that. <br /><br />It's the same with guns. I've never owned one, not even when they were legal. I wouldn't rush out and buy one if they were made legal again. <br /><br />All I'd want is the choice to buy one or not buy one. It does not mean I'd get one, it means that if, at some point in the future, I felt I needed one, the option would be there.<br /><br />What these bans do is remove choices. Every one of them is a little more control.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-75230283465177039682010-06-06T22:00:37.458+01:002010-06-06T22:00:37.458+01:00Did Bird smoke LI...?Did Bird smoke LI...?Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-62794200042103259302010-06-06T21:57:35.880+01:002010-06-06T21:57:35.880+01:00"If you're a worrier, worry about whether..."If you're a worrier, worry about whether you worry too much."<br /><br />That's rather concerning....<br /><br />I've always worn a seat belt & crash helmet (not both at the same time!) - even before they became law. I probably wouldn't be here now otherwise. <br /><br />But it was MY choice....microdavenoreply@blogger.com