Alex

This is beyond parody like

Gender politics rears its ugly head again I see. I say that because all feminists are ugly.

I love them and have seen them loads so you probably did pick a bad example. Loads of people wouldn't have owned up to never having seen them and would've been frantically googling, so fair play

I think that's bollocks though. For several reasons. First, it's an opinion based on one only source being cited. Which is also just some fan site. And Sergio Leone never intended for them to be a trilogy. It was just dreamed up by the studios after the event and the popularity of the films. There's clues in TGTBATU that suggest it's set before the other two but they're only loosely connected as films anyway. You could even argue Clint's character isn't meant to be the same person. He's nicknamed 'Joe' in AFFOD, 'Manco' in FAFDM and 'Blondie' in TGTBATU. Also Lee Van Cleef plays two different characters in the films and they're adversaries in TGTBATU and work together in FAFDM and Van Cleef's character dies at the end of TGTBATU. If it was a proper trilogy would it make sense to have one person killed in a prequel after they'd played a different character in a film set later? Of course it wouldn't.

I think we can forgive him that

Did he blame the Newcastle fans for Wales' loss?

Big black cock?

Is every single episode set in the 20s/30s in the holodeck?

It is like.

His transformation into wannabe hard man is one of the funniest things in the history of pop music. And I say that as someone who quite likes him and his music. Bit like how he keeps banging on about England but hasn't lived here for about 20 years.

Aye, sounds like it. There's not a hope in hell he's given up two hours of his time for nowt.

Absolutely no question he'll have paid Shearer a canny substantial fee for that.

Yeah I was aware of that and his lack of anything remotely revolutionary. The lad I was on about was describing it as the way most (or at least a lot of people) thought as opposed to him making a bold prediction. As an aside regarding contagion and the EU breaking up, it's probably a massive factor that of the main EU players we're the only ones (I think) with wage stagnation, fall in the cost of living and extreme austerity. All of which made it an even better call by Just call me cunt/Dave

Was it a mainstream view outwith Britiain though? I ask because whereas I think the EU's always been viewed with a great deal more scepticism here than in the likes of France, Germany etc. Poiliticians and a willing press here have for ages used the EU on which to blame things which are actually down to the UK's own government. I might be wrong but that sort of scapegoating doesn't seem as likely in the other big players in the EU. tl:dr: We're the only knackers who think going it alone is a better option

It's Doylum in Gaelic

Macron was less odious than Le Penn whereas Hilary Clinton somehow manages to be more odious than Trump (or how Trump appeared last autumn at least) but it was a failrly similar disillusionment with neo-liberalism that got to the point where it was even a contest. I think you're correct re: Macron and I was talking to a French lad I know who was back over here for a mutual friend's wedding in May and he was predicting that Macron wouldn't deliver anything other than more of the same shit and would soon become pretty unpopular.

The older I get the more ridiculous Morrissey's lyrics from The Smiths seem but Marr's stuff is fucking brilliant to this day.

When I got the message to see you'd quoted me and saw the text at first I thought it was you suggesting Andt Cairns was better than Kurt Cobain

Fair point

I'm convinced it won't happen

Were you pleased it wasn't Andy Cairns?

Have fun, it always looks absolutely beautiful from what I've seen on TV etc. Would love to have an extended trip there and perhaps take in a week or two in the Cook Islands. That said, I'd like a threesome involving Christina Hendricks and Ashley Graham and that's about as likely atm

To be the former you pretty much need to be the latter