NJS

Rome's well worth it - tremendous sense of history.

No different to praying and thanking the Christian God for goals.

The most productive workers in the world are the Germans. They're well trained, well paid, work standard hours and have excellent benefits. Should we aspire as a country to be like them? Well according to our friends, no - we should aspire to be low paid in dangerous environments, with no rights and work ludicrous hours under a communist regime. The party for workers my arse.

Will be remembered for stabbing Thatcher in the back which he didn't do for anyone's good but his own when he should be remembered for what he did when he was on her side.

Cameron, Syria.

I always revert to The Fast show sketch where they're at a pretentious dinner party discussing foreign fims when the bloke pipes up with: "Did anyone see that film on Channel 4 last night? - First of all it was in black and white, secondly it was subtitled, thirdly nobody got shot and finally nobody got their kit off. I'll get me coat."

I always said the question that should have been put to Thatcher about her support for Pinochet was how many deaths would it have taken before it became distasteful to be his friend. I'd ask the same now of Cameron regarding Saudi Arabia - a country which fucking CRUCIFIES teenagers for protesting.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3570797/Bin-Laden-should-die-but-we-must-try-him-first.html A tragedy eh Boris?

No different to any other judging by my holidays this year. Overall they provide excellent value and no hassle as they have no Fucker to hassle you with.

Was he a new convert?

The mirror is tweeting that his "new convert" who he said wrote to him has voted Tory every time since 87. Lie after lie after lie.

That bloke is a fuckwit on every level.

I doin't know anything about curent standings but I would have thought anyone thinking they would beat Australia were kidding themselves? And struggling this far wouldn't have boded well for playing France/SA/NZ anyway - deluded fuckers.,

After Waco I read that there were an estimated 50m guns in Texas which is 3 per person and as Koresh and his mob had only a few guns which was a lot less than that ratio then it could be argued they weren't "good citizens" and actually using the fact they had guns as a reason to raid them was bollocks. That scale of weaponry would be impossible to collect even in the civilised areas let alone Toonpack's hunting backwaters. They could try banning the sale of ammunition but fuckwits will have stockpiles to last decades.

Disturbing things rather than whole films: There was a film in the late seventies called The Brood which was one of the first things I watched on video - this woman gave birth to mutant kids but her womb was on the outside like some kind of sac. Anyway she tore open the sac to release this kid and then licked all the gunge of its body. When I watched it I had some kind of stomach flu at the time which meant I had a horrible taste in my mouth - I remember imagining that the mutant kids tasted the same as the taste in my mouth - this went on until I was well and probably a while after. I think Bob's first appearance in Twin Peaks really disturbed me - and that was then repeated right at the end with Cooper's fate. Tim Curry in It was pretty scary. I quite like John Carpenter's films and theres a bit in Prince of Darkness where Lucifer is reaching out from Hell through some kind of mirror to try and grab this lasses hand to escape with some of Carpenter's typically weird music playing in the background - that disturbed me no end.

It'll get interesting on the cross border question if Catalunya gains independence.

Ingrid Pitt tits/muff tastic

Boris glories in it like a pig in shit - I wouldn't be surprised if he's quids in somehow.

A lot of what I remember as horror films (many Hammer ones) go out as pg on the horror channel in early evening slots. Conversely a few of them are still classed as 18s for late nights which in the context of modern horror films being almost universally 15s makes them at least genuine.

Sticking to their roots would mean playing in Ireland.

James Mason was scary as fuck though - the scene where he asks the priest to put down his cross and holy water down and face the master vamp is tremendous.

I wouldn't say no hope. Burnham on the back of a tory eu split may have won in 2020 but I honestly do think that kind of labour government wouldn't have made any difference to most people. I agree with Chez that a realignment is what's needed with the possibility of a more media friendly successor - I remember the 80s/90s when it looked unlikely there would ever be another labour government but things changed and they can again.

You would have had a full decade of tories either way if any of the others had been elected leader. None of them threatened the current agenda in any way, shape or form.

I agree it's a gift for the media/tories but as I've said if Corbyn's only success is to at least get people debating these issues instead of the mutual acceptance of the past then that'll be good.

Press the button like the option existed for Polaris without us approval ie not at fucking all. I really don't get the deterrent argument - the idea terrorists or rogue states would give a shit about trident in the context of implied US protection is ridiculous IMO.