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VanderGraafKommandöh 
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 Posted: March 17 2008 at 17:52 |
I won't add to the above, because Andy has it well covered, but another court case related rant... Paul  ing Burrell. How big a contraDICtion is that guy?
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 17 2008 at 17:50 |
Ok, I'm sorry I cant hold back!! I have to say something more..
Isn't that awful harpy the most self obsessed, out of touch, manipulative waste of space who ever dug gold?? Outside court today she was bleeting about her poor daughter having to travel 'B class' while daddy travels 'A class' Is that her biggest worry?? If I came out of a divorce settlement £25 million richer, I'd be crying with joy. Then I'd keep my head down and my mouth shut. 
At least the trial isn over now. Hopefully that will be the last we hear about it. Of course the media will milk it for as` long as they can. She has yet to sell her story about how the whole world hates her, and how no one loves her, and how she is only looking out for her daughters well being.. 
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Padraic
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Posted: March 17 2008 at 16:39 |
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: March 17 2008 at 16:37 |
Turn. Indicate. Look. In that order.
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Man Erg
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Posted: March 17 2008 at 16:01 |
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Three words:
Heather Mills McCartney.
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She sure did.
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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stonebeard
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Posted: March 17 2008 at 15:37 |
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 17 2008 at 15:30 |
Three words:
Heather Mills McCartney.
..'nuff said.. 
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debrewguy
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Posted: March 12 2008 at 18:18 |
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OOOH OOOOH OOOOH !
Just thought of one - music fans (seemingly out of touch or dated in their knowledge) bitching about MTV or the Major record labels being bad for the music world.
Catch up ! MTV plays almost no videos and hasn't for years. The majors rarely if ever have been in the business of artistic development.
Face it, your great ultimate great I can't believe that everyone is not buying all their albums great favourite group of yours would not be able to sell a million copies of their album because they do not play the sort of music that the mainstream like. THIS IS NOT A COMMENT ON THE QUALITY OR ARTISTIC WORTH OF THEIR MUSIC, JUST a fact of life. If mass acceptance of your musical idol(s) is so important, ask yourself why you need so much approval from others. IF you need a quote, check out the one from Oscar Peterson. And if you despise Justin Timberlake, so what, I do too, but he didn't get rich by killing babies, so why waste my time getting upset at his success. DO you remember Rick Astley from the eighties ? In general, what are the chances that a group like the Pixies stand a better chance of their music from that decade actually being played & enjoyed in a century from now (albums, but the one top 40 single).
Time will separate the chaff from the wheat, and unfortunately will occasionally get it wrong. But be assured, if you need to be, that no one will die from it..........
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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debrewguy
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Posted: March 12 2008 at 18:08 |
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Let's see if I can start something up here
Anyone catch Henry Rollins editorial about how anti-communist USA has no compunction with hollowing out its' manufacturing & economic base by buying all things chinese, you know - that last great communist power.
Does power today, to paraphrase Mao, come from the end of a Walmart cashier line ?
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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Jared
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Posted: March 12 2008 at 14:12 |
HughesJB4 wrote:
NOO! My 2bg per month download limit has already been swallowed up, by my father
Gone from 12mbps, to a painfully slow 64kbps until the start of April. |
now, if I understood even a phrase of this rant, I'm sure I'd concur wholeheartedly.... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: March 12 2008 at 11:31 |
NOO! My 2bg per month download limit has already been swallowed up, by my father
Gone from 12mbps, to a painfully slow 64kbps until the start of April.
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 04 2008 at 05:39 |
Good rant, Jim, and I concur 100% 
Reminds me of an epsiode of The League of Gentlemen, where a little girl was being pushed through some auditions by, as you rightly put it, an 'over bearing and over ambitious mother' The comic performances were hilarious, but the observations made by the script writers were very real, and very damning of this 'type'...
I'm sick to the back teeth of Norton, Lloyd-Webber and these days, that John Barroman (sp?) is getting on my t!ts too.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: March 04 2008 at 03:44 |
OK time for a rant...
This follows on from the execrable BBC Saturday night shows to choose a Joseph and a Maria for those horrid west end shows that the great theatreland toad-lord himself (Andrew Lloyd Webber, for it is he) still churns out in favour of honest & innovative productions which may actually stretch the minds of theatregoers as opposed to stretching the seats themselves by packing theaters with the lowest common demoninator MacIntestine munching wobbling classes (again, for it is they) to see yet another re-hash of shows which were creakingly out of date in the 1970s.
So what's next you ask?
Which classic stage roles are they going to attempt to cast on prime time TV from the morass of theatre school rejected wannabees who will descend on BBC TV Centre in a vain attempt to get either their Warholian 15 minutes of fame on the London stage (or at least be shown in a humourous 'let's look at the crap ones who failed' segment)?
Oliver Twist & Nancy.
Great.
Not only are they now going to get the same flood of hopeless hopefulls who strutted their over-confident yet under-talented stuff for the part of Maria, but they will be doing the same with 11 year old boys, who would no doubt be perfectly happy to continue their lives as normal until an overbearing & over ambitious mother figure who will make Roger Waters's phantasmagorical haridan look like Mother Theresa by comparison (TV Centre will echo to massed cries of "eyes and teeth, Tarquin - eyes and teeth!!") pushes them into the forefront of their vicarious ambition for the sake of maybe a few minutes on TV with all the subtelty of Romans throwing christians to the lions - THESE ARE YOUR CHILDREN FOR 's SAKE!
And to whose tender mercies will these young boys be thrown...?
I rest my case!
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Neil
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Posted: February 26 2008 at 14:38 |
laplace wrote:
Who on earth taught everyone from the north of England to talk like a football player? Whoever it was, tell them I hate them. I believe that language is entirely for communication, so all many locals (I'm a southerner in the north) communicate to me via speech is complete mental vacancy. I like the internet more and more. ;P |
Why do European women love English footballers? Because they can be on top for 80 minutes and still come second. 
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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laplace
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Posted: February 26 2008 at 13:41 |
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Who on earth taught everyone from the north of England to talk like a football player? Whoever it was, tell them I hate them. I believe that language is entirely for communication, so all many locals (I'm a southerner in the north) communicate to me via speech is complete mental vacancy. I like the internet more and more. ;P
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 07:02 |
stonebeard wrote:
Dude, tight jeans and black shirts. Listen to Iron Maiden more. |
I do have 4 band shirts, which are of course other than the print on it, black. Tight jeans just aren't my thing, although even with my relatively baggy black jeans I wear, I've been called 'emo' . And I saw Maiden live 2 weeks ago
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 05:10 |
Man Erg wrote:
Shakespeare wrote:
I HATE ARTICULATIN' STUFF
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Don't become a lorry/truck driver  |
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Man Erg
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 04:58 |
Shakespeare wrote:
I HATE ARTICULATIN' STUFF
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Don't become a lorry/truck driver
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 03:30 |
Shakespeare wrote:
I HATE ARTICULATIN' STUFF |
You'd be right at home in the Velvet Room then... 
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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stonebeard
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Posted: February 19 2008 at 16:20 |
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/fear-loathing-anime.php
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