Renton

Jesus Wept

The Wall is better tbh 46841[/snapback] Obsessed! One day you realise how wrong you are.

I've heard good things from people I trust about a history of violence. Which is odd, because it looks cack in the trailers.

Saw the musical at the thetre Royal in June, starring Robbie William's boyfriend. Was quite good, especially Uncle Ernie. Fiddle about......

Now that wasn't very nice, was it?

Your either joking or you are on drugs. 46588[/snapback] He's right! And that Bryan Adams ditty, best song ever, FACT. 46589[/snapback] Ayethankyou. Renton, I'm not the one on drugs, all that skag is rotting your brain man. Fantastic peformances all round, even from Kevin 'Nahttinghaam' Costner. One of the best sword fights ever - no fancy thrusting/dodging/parrying, simply two men doing all they can to desperately hack the hell out of each other, which is what a sword fight would actually be like - technique goes out of the window when your life is on the line. Morgan Freeman's rallying cry near the end is giving me shivers just thinking about it. Brilliant action sequences, a rousing theme, a Sean Connery cameo out of nowhere and Alan Rickman's wonderfully evil portrayal of the sheriff is the icing on already very tasty cake. I even love the dodgy stuff - that they walk from Dover to Nottingham via Hadrian's Wall in an afternoon, Costner's accent (he tried an English one but it was so bad the director made him stop) and what exactly were they trying to achieve by being catapaulted over that wall? How did they know the would land in the hay on the otherside? Why does Will Scarlett seem so pleased that for all he knows, he has just flung his friends to their deaths? Absolutley fucking perfect. 46680[/snapback] Right, so you weren't joking. Personally I thought it was shit, almost unwatchable. And reading your minireview, it strikes me that you can't decide whether the film was genuinely good or just good because it was shit. And may Brian Adams rot in hell : FACT

True, but its not a shit racist joke thread.

Your either joking or you are on drugs. 46588[/snapback] He's right! And that Bryan Adams ditty, best song ever, FACT. 46589[/snapback] You're either joking or you are on drugs.

Your either joking or you are on drugs.

It's a good film, but slightly overrated. I reckon Full Metal Jacket was better. Apocalypse Now was on again the other night. Now that is a film. 45880[/snapback] Sorry, I meant Apocalypse now. 45884[/snapback] JWTBQFH 45888[/snapback] Schoolboy error. Brando was fucking awesome in it to be fair. Stole the show for me. Excellent anti-war message. Can't wait for the educational computer game shoot em up simulator. 45889[/snapback] Vietcong 2 is out shortly for Xbox and PC. Lets you kill gooks or yanks with equal impunity. Can't say fairer than that. And its so real you can almost smell the napalm, and if you play online, you might even be lucky enough to 'kill' someone from SE Asia.

Touching the void last night on More Four. Documentary film about how a mountaineer survived against all odds to climb down a 20,000 foot mountain with no food, water, or cover with a shattered leg. Brilliant film, totally awe inspiring and uplifting. The pain that man must have gone through to survive goes beyond words. I'm sure 99.999% of us would have given up and died in his position, I know I would have.

As if! That strikes me as an odd thing to say mind. Perhaps you could clarify what you mean by superior. Stronger? More intelligent? etc. It strikes me that it is men who have largely driven the world we live in, for whatever reason. I certainly don't think we are inferior to women, just different.

Is Gemmill an 'actuary'?

So on a related note, if oyu could prove black people were, for whatever reason, statistically poor drivers, would it be OK to discriminate against them? I don't think so somehow, so why is it acceptable to discriminate against men?

I think the insurance doesn't give a toss about a woman driving 1 mile every week to her hairdresser or a man cruising with his hairdresser the land up and down all day. They are just interested in how likely it is statistically that the driver will cause an accident... 45051[/snapback] So if I drove 140 miles a day, don't you think I'd statistically be more likely to be involved in an accident that my mother who drives 3 miles to get to work? 45060[/snapback] Yes. And you should pay more insurance for this reason is the argument I think So basically, male sex is a surrogate indicator of distance travelled. This will all probably change with big brother technology however, which I suppose is fair enough.

I decided to revert to using the Metro today to try and calm my growing feeling of road rage. The thing broke down and I was stuck on it for over 2 hours! Bastards! How the fuck are you supposed to get into work nowadays?

I'm not sure if Shearergol is being serious about his women driver comments or not. I get a feeling he is, and I completely disagree with him if this is the case. Anyway, I've never equated making jokes about the driving abilities of either sex, or any other characteristic for that matter, to be in the same ball park as jokes or generalisations based on race. But what I do find interesting is that insurance companies can descriminate against me because I'm a man. I guess that would back the fact that on average women actually are better, or at least safer, drivers than men, but its a bit of a sexist generalisation, isn't it?

Women doing their makeup in a traffic queue is another one of my hates. Pay attention you stupid bint!

I'll let you off because that was in Wales, but if you are suggesting people should short cut throgh slip roads as part of their daily commute..... Bastard! Why don't we all do it, and create complete gridlock in the process?

I've even seen people driving up the slip roads when it's really busy, and down the other side to push in. Bastards, these people deserve death!

I'm not at all slow, but I'm obviously too considerate. Thing is, if more people were less selfish it would benefit all of us.

Now I've started driving to work because I can no longer face the metro, I'm becoming stressed about what complete and utter selfish BASTARDS other drivers are! Anyway, its not doing my blood pressure any good. So what pisses you most off about other people's driving? For me it's the following top 3. 1) People who change lanes to get ahead in the queue. You selfish wankers! Every morning you see them on the Coast road/Cradlewell bypass/Jesmond road, weaving in and out the traffic queue, to make up a few seconds. There's alway some mug that lets them in, otherwise they force themselves in. The result? Even more delays for the rest of us. 2) People who stop on box junctions. Do you know how to fucking drive, you crettin? Admittedly, it's easy to do, but come on, some people are serial offenders, and they end up causing more chaos for other drivers and pedestrians alike. 3) People tailgating me. Fuck of and die you aresholes! Do you realise if I need to do an emergency stop you will rear end me, you bastards? I swear to God I'm going to add some 6 foot spikes to my rear bumper. But then if you leave too much space, some wanker will nick in and steal your space, see point one. Ahh, that's better, needed to get that off my chest. Anybody got any other pet hates, or, more importantly, anyone do any of the above?

I guess it depends what you do I suppose. As it happens I found some innovative results for my project that my undergraduate dissertation was based on.

Try writing a PhD thesis. 100,000 words followed by an interview (viva) on it (with two or three experts in the field) that takes a whole day. There's a good chance you will fail too.

A week before I had to hand in my thesis, I managed to delete my entire reference/citation database (on a program called endonote) just by pressing the wrong button once. 5000 references and abstracts collected over 5 years, gone in a flash. No back up. ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unbeilevable that I hadn't made a copy, to this day I can't believe it. What an idiot. Fortunately I only needed to reenter about 400 citations for my thesis, which took me about 48 hours virtually non stop - I still have nightmares thinking about it though.