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on: April 18, 2013, 12:34:33
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There is a highly suspicious person there. On the right, half way up, about two people in from the edge. They are looking the other way, probably for their bomber mates and they are dressed in black. Call the cops.
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General / The Forum / Re: Thatcher - Ding Dong the Bitch is dead.
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on: April 16, 2013, 12:53:26
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Scargill fucked the miners...the unions were trying to be more powerful than the government and he tried to take them on...he wanted to win and it was Thatcher that put them down..someone had to..if she was a man no one would be saying anything .We had rubbish piled up six foot deep in Leicester square..three day working week and strikes all over the shop..i worked in the building industry then and unions were trying to control every aspect of that..if you weren't in the union you couldn't work..there were fights on jobs with the stroppy cunts from unions...Wilson and his crooked cronies had ripped the country off and people were sick of it..no wonder she won three elections on the trot...i have no respect for any politician in my living memory..they have all just helped themselves to our money..she was no better or no worse..quite possibly Atlee was the last decent person to work in that office but i don't know enough about him to be a fair judge..i know a bit about Churchill and have some respect for him..but the rest of them...  If she was my mum i would say to the government thanks for the honour but you know what i think we'll just have a small ceremony with what's left of our family and you can spend the money on something else and we can say ta ta to our mum in private..but obviously neither of her kids have a lick of sense or decency about them. Seems like people need someone to hate..a bogey man to blame it all on and to buy the old lie that were all going to hell in a handcart..they've been trying to tell us that my whole life and yet i'm doing just fine..my kids are okay and i have food and shelter..i suspect most people on here are just the same and could be as happy as Larry if only they stopped feeling like they should have more of everything or worrying about who has more than them This is the only post worth reading in this thread as it is written by someone old enough to have genuinely experienced what came before the Thatcher years.
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General / The Forum / Re: Guitar thread
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on: April 16, 2013, 11:15:17
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Boss pedals rarely break tbh. It could be something to do with the mod, perhaps.
I would suspect the same.
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General / The Forum / Re: Stop The Cyborgs.
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on: March 27, 2013, 10:44:08
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They still use Google on two of their sister sites. Google are in everything! Burn them down.
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General / The Forum / Re: Stop The Cyborgs.
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on: March 27, 2013, 10:26:45
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Its a shame that we have to fear this great technology really. But Googles whole business model is based on advertising and selling information to other companies. Not only will they be able to bombard you with adverts they will also be able to fully track consumer habits. Knowledge is power as they say. Google will have it by the Zora byte.
They already do all this via the net, what you search for via them, GMail and Android. These glasses might add a small fraction more, but I suspect most data they get is already coming from there established operations.
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General / The Forum / Re: Stop The Cyborgs.
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on: March 26, 2013, 14:30:20
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There is already tonnes of CCTV to capture your movements, mobile phone conversations in public places are easily overheard and most people probably wont be able to warrant the purchase of these glasses, so it seems a bit of a storm in a teacup.
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General / The Forum / Re: World War Z
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on: March 26, 2013, 13:05:31
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As the film isn't out yet it is hard to say what they have done with it. Wiki hints that it is based on an interviewer, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was told in part flash-back and part 'present day'. I've not seen the advert or whatever the video link is yet, but these things aren't always that representative of the films; like all those foreign film adverts where they keep it dialogue free and don't allude to the foreign nature of it. Not that I actually care, I wont be watching it anyway. 
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General / The Forum / Re: World War Z
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on: March 26, 2013, 11:11:47
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I'm getting fucking bored of zombies.
 Zombies, vampires, werewolves; all played out and frankly very boring now. The book was a series of interview with survivors a few years after World War Z, collected by the author for sake of prosperity. posterity If that was made into a film as it is, it would possibly be the most boring film ever. 
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General / The Forum / Re: World War Z
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on: March 25, 2013, 16:17:19
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I think any writer or reader of a book made into a film shouldn't get too precious about the property; it will always be messed up, even if it attempts to be authentic. How a world looks to one reader is always going to be different to another, some things don't translate to film and require adjusting and some directors/screenwriters are just qunts and have no care for the product.
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General / The Forum / Re: Good French films (with subtitles)
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on: March 22, 2013, 10:29:55
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec - Amusing Indiana Jones/Tin Tin kind of adventure.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - A bit sad but also quite uplifting film.
The original Taxi, which is good for a laugh.
I quite liked Coco before Chanel.
Amelie, Delicatessen, City of the Lost Children are all brilliant.
La Haine clearly needs to be seen.
Mesrine is very good.
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General / The Forum / Re: Will Gregory's Moog Ensemble at St George's Hall tonight
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on: March 22, 2013, 10:25:53
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It was a good night. First part was about 45 minutes, second part about 30. Loads of analogue on stage; well here is a list of the synths:
3 MiniMoogs, a MicroMoog, a Prodigy, a Voyager, a Little Phatty, a Juno 60, a SH-09, a MiniKorg 700s, a MonoPoly, an SH-101 and a Polivoks
there was some EH stuff there; a Deluxe Memory Man and what looked like a classic Memory Man. Plus what looked like a Simmons Kit.
The Tim Henman piece was good, apart from having to see Tim Henman's face in super slow-mo on a 20 ft screen.
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General / The Forum / Re: The art thread
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on: March 13, 2013, 14:27:50
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Jim's MS Paintings are art
Definition of art noun 1 [mass noun] the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power:
It ticks both those boxes!
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General / The Forum / Re: Italy's top gay sauna
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on: March 12, 2013, 16:16:35
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I don't think there is a simple root cause. I was watching a little of Dan Snow's programme about Syria which covered aspects of the Sunni Muslims and the Musilm community that Al Assad is from; the Alawite's and the Sunni's were saying that the Alawites were not Islam and they were trying to infiltrate Islam to destroy it from the inside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alawites It is a power shift issue, previously they were persecuted, now they are in power.
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General / The Forum / Re: FB likes reveal all
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on: March 12, 2013, 13:10:25
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 The interesting aspect seems that it isn't the overt stuff and they could tell black from white in a significant number of people.
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