Lost_Johnny
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G'night Tom, I'm off to comfy warm relaxing bed.... so keep the f'cking music down oright!
By the way ain't quails quite small? If so are their eggs the size of peas or do they do themselves a real injury when they lay them? See - I'm deep I am.
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... I do still have your address.
Reading that next to Gene Hunt's face suddenly fills me with a strange sense of dread.
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Difficult as I haven't read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke but I do want to.
Technically I haven'y read Anansi Boys either as I listened to the unabridged auidobook version done by Lenny Henry which was all kinds of wonderful.
LJ I could send you a copy on CD if you'd like.
Inca you really are a groovy cat, in fact I'd go so far as to say you're a gentleman, even a scholar and by all accounts an acrobat - in other words - aye, yes please, that would be all kinds of aces.
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Someone help me out here - two books that I requested from the library have both come in at the same time, so now I need to decide which to read first, and I'm a right indecisive git at the moment, so lend me your expertise....
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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For me the storytelling reflects the disorientation John is going through (Constantine not JMac ;) ) and the way he is not as bothered as he normally is that events are not in his control.
Denise seems to be moving the plot along by giving the conclusions to a series of events without first setting the fine details and I'm really enjoying this, especially in this issue, as, along with the brilliant internal monologue, it makes me feel as if I'm almost in John's shoes, or maybe more Cole's shoes - or maybe a mixture of both (you can never be in too many people's shoes) and constantly wrenched into a confused present by dwelling on their hindsight... then again I've always been a bit slow on the uptake!
The scenes from the monastery were sudden, unexpected and brilliantly disturbing, a great bit of old 70's style horror - I suddenly found myself hoping John ended up at Summerisle!
I also agree with Ade about the insight of John being disturbed by enjoying his connection with others - top stuff.
The knife bit did throw me a bit and I think Andy was spot on when he said the worst thing about it was that none of them even landed a punch but then I thought that's the case with a bunch of scallies (unfortunately I've seen enough of them on my football travels to know that a lot of them do know how to fight) but these ain't scallies - they're some form of demonic scavengers, so normal rules don't apply. Personally, I'd have enjoyed some sort of sarcastic remark from John, after explaining about these horrors, that it was a good job they weren't real scallies otherwise they'd have kicked his head in, knife or no knife.
And the best thing - the scallies are driving a Ford Capri... heh.
9/10
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Yeah happy birthday Sam.
8 is a good age it was the age when I had my first kiss with a girl.
Kissing a Barbie doll does not count Inca!
Hope Sam had a good birthday.
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For all my doubts I'm slightly encouraged by Chan's reply to the anti-bush question... ah well, wait and see I guess.
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Didn't get any tickets so Dodgy Arab TV is the way forward for me.
Believe me Ade after watching Stoke last night there can be no postives in travelling to watch them... which is exactly what I'm doing ahh
Still I can't remember a game this season when one of the teams hasn't had someone sent off - usually us... so with your record it could be nine against nine by the end of the match.
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Hey Chan good to hear from you... where yo bin gal??
Thanks for the heads up on V, can I ask the one thing that's bothering me, I'll stick it in spoilers for anyone who hasn't read the book
thanks.Is the scene in the trailer where there are loads of people in V masks relating to the end of the book where everyone is rising up and going down to see if V appears at midnight? If so, is it all a bit slushy or do they handle it n an ok way? The whole point of it is that it is an instinctive reaction, not - let's go to the fancy dress shop tonight cos I'm going on a rebellion. -
You know what you've done now don't you Abhi - we're all going to go home and watch Spaced tonight now!
What doy you mean go home. I am home. La la la it's my day off today. I can't be bothered to watch Spaced though as I have birds to shag and whiskey to drink!
Ah, I see you're living up to your avatar Inca...
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You know what you've done now don't you Abhi - we're all going to go home and watch Spaced tonight now!
I was just browsing for quotes (I'm crap at remembering quotes) and I'm now sat in my office with an inane grin all over my face, trying to look as if I'm working!
Two that made watching it tonight inevitable:
Mike: Wanna go into your party?
Tim: But they were playing 'The Timewarp'. I hate 'The Timewarp'.
Mike: Daisy likes it.
Tim: So what? I hate it. It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants and first-year drama students with too many posters of Betty Blue, The Blues Brothers, Big Blue and Blue Velvet on their blue bloody walls.
and...
Daisy: Right, I'm going to the shops. D'you want anything?
Tim: Porn.
Daisy: Tim, I'm not going to buy you porn. You can get it from railway sidings like everybody else.
Tim: I can't, I'm an adult. I'm supposed to leave it there.
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Given what you guys know of my taste in movies/TV (which I have expounded upon at great length in these parts), would you recommend that I watch 'Spaced'? I am running out of new TV shows to try out and am entirely caught up on my favourite ones. Am looking for something new to watch for those days leading up to the next episode of The Shield and the new season of The Sopranos.
yes yes yes yes one of my all time favourites.
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Reward and praise good behaviour, ignore smaller incidents of bad behaviour, (no attention = no point in tantruming. If kids don't get their way by stamping their feet, they learn to behave better.) Bigger incidents, sit them on a "naughty chair/step" (Supernanny says 1 minute for every year of the childs age.)
sounds about right to me - the best way past most tantums is to ignore them. More serious stuff is difficult, changing the tone of my voice tends to help, I don't exactly shout - it's more the fact that I sound stern that gets their attention. But this only works because I'm not bawling at them constantly - it's like "oh no, fun loving Dad's got all serious, we're in trouble".
I don't think we've ever smacked Amber and she's an angel most of the time, she can still be mischevious (which is perfect as far as I'm concerned) but just now and again turns into the typical spoilt brat, but when that happens we just wear her down by just repeating our point of view - which is unquestionably correct
until if necessary we threaten to remove some future treat (going out, going to a party, having friends round etc.) or make her sit in the back room. It can be a pain but you have to put the work in - so many problems are caused by lazy parenting in my view.As for Gabe he's a bit more challenging but just as lovable. He probably gets a bit less attention than Amber did at his age (2), so he's more practical (he can open anything, climb anything!) but communicates less - as a consequence (and also probably because he's a big and strong) he is more physical, but - here is why smacking doesn't work in younger ages - on one occasion I did smack his hand when he bit Amber, he cried and looked shocked then stared at me with real venom and smacked my hand back! I eventually sorted it out by sitting him in the back room (the naughty chair situation) where they are ignored until they say sorry - 5 minutes later he was cuddling Amber and has never bitten her again.
I'm not saying I'm totally against smacking - I can remember getting smacked just once, probably when I was about 7 and I called my Mum a liar, I didn't do it again! But if you smack a young kid, you have to remember that you will teach them that violence is a tool and everytime you use it the punishment will be diminished, it will not breed inherent respect, that has to be nutured in my view.
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A guy here in work hooked me up with the first 12 episodes of My Name Is Earl a month or so back and I haven't had a chance to check them out....
Watch Now!
To be honest I wouldn't watch them all in one go - the premise is obviously similar each week and I find a bit of a gap gets you ready for the next one. When it comes to Friday and I've been worrying all week about the latest problems in the world (Big Brother ID cards - The great Cartoon Wars of 2006 - British Army boot boys - Stoke City not scoring again - Dick Cheney gun rampage). Do I find myself fretting about these issues.... no, I'm just wondering what is next on Earl's list.
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"Maybe you can negotiate with him to shoot us up the jaxy"
(must use jaxy every opportunity I get)Two big postives this week - Nurse Cartwright
as I was saying... two big postives... sorry
It turned into a bit of a sermon again this week but it still had its moments - I particularly liked the Gene Genie shouting in a high pitched voice "You threw away my gun.... you threw away my gun!" like a spoilt kid. Next week looks like it might be back to the better Sweeneyesque style of the first three.
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Ade if you haven't got your FA Cup ticket yet - I urge you to think again - that was one of the worst matches I've ever been to - Stoke have now failed to score in their last three league matches at home, I think we had 2 shots on goal and Plymouth weren't much better.
Jeez with Birmingham's recent run and our entertainment value I reckon this could just about be the worst FA cup match in history. Great, I'm getting in the neck for making us travel back early on Sunday for that lot? I must need my head looking at.
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oh bugga
what will everybody be doing now?
I've got relatives in Bristol, which I can stay with at a push - but was thinking of seeing if I could bunk in with anyone else at a hotel, as they've got kids and for once I wanted to be able to get comfortably pissed without watching my language/behaviour etc.
...not that I'm that bad when I've had a drink of course
If anyone wants to share a room give me a shout - I don't snore even when pissed!
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I'm probably going to regret this post for all the mirth that is going to be directed to me when I admit I saw tonight's episode of Sea of Souls - look I was tired the TV was on... I couldn't be arsed to get the controller to switch over.... sorry ok.
But poor as most of it was, it featured Paul McGann as a suited and booted occultist who turns out to be a right little Magus and once the filler of second rate shocks (ie. would be helpers suddenly banging like a nutter on the side of a telephone box containing the person they are meant to be helping, etc.) gave way to the final confrontation between the main Parapsychologist (the wonderful Bill Paterson) and Paul McGann's character (oh and a demon was thrown in as well), you suddenly saw for just 10 minutes how someone with the presence of McGann, with hardly any special effects (the demon was mainly represented by atmospherics), could have delivered a real powerful Constantine performance just played around the everyday lives of British folk.
hey ho - now rip the piss
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Have you seen The Life and Death of Peter Sellers? I'm not sure how well it fares on the accuracy of facts etc. (I know it is partly based on a biography which was considered to be a bit unfair by some and it changes one of the Goon scripts from You silly twisted boy to you sick and twisted boy ) but I loved the multi layered approach it took - asides to camera, his characters revealing details on his real persona etc. and the whole fantasy life angle - the scene where the Jaguar cars in a showroom turn into gorgeous women is brilliant. I would say it was written with the thought of lets try something different very much at the forefront.I thought Gandhi was actually very good.Most bio-pic are good movies though not necessarly great at giving a well-rounded portrayal of thier subject matter, which granted is hard to do with the limitations of film. I just want a film-maker to try something different instead of just doing the usual from birth to death in 2-3 hours thing.
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Careful Keeyah, of course any similarity to Bo is purely coincidence!
Sorry to hear your bad news, if thoughts help then you got my best ones.
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Just to be a bit downbeat, we don't know for sure that it's Manco.
If it is then I agree with James (except for the marriage bit).
And, as nice as it would be to see that on a cover, it may just be something that is used as a holding cover for the publicity while Lauren sends his paintings off to the laundry to be "finished".
It's definitely Manco - or somebody forging his signature - have a look at the sig in the bottom left of this Manco illustration
Wonder if I can beat James to it... of course I'll have to get divorced first
I thought the same as James and then John about the banner too - definitely behind his head. -
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everytime and I still giggle when I think about him chasing after the car with a stocking on his head and a bag of nappies in his arms...
........I love him soooooo much.....
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Friday night is... My Name is Earl no matter how shite the week has been, it's there to put a smile on my face, it's like a comfy pair of slippers soaked in rum and then set on fire, warms the cockles of my feet....
...I'm even getting the urge to grow a moustache... the hair's no problem if I let it grow a bit
until if necessary we threaten to remove some future treat (going out, going to a party, having friends round etc.) or make her sit in the back room. It can be a pain but you have to put the work in - so many problems are caused by lazy parenting in my view.
Suggestions please.....!
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I enjoyed the bit where Hain was made to squirm about whether he (and therefore Labour policy) wants to see Guantanamo Bay closed.
Expect the headlines to read - Blair demands Guantanamo to be closed, according to Hain - followed by an official party explanation of what Peter really meant and how it's all been taken out of context.