jeff leopard

Dude, you have my deepest and most heart-felt sympathy, that truly sounds like hell on earth I've not gone drinking in Soton for years and years, because lets face it, there's not much to do apart from get falling-down-drunk. Winchester has a reputation for being very nice and quiet, but the main strip (Stella Street) is a no go on a Friday/Saturday as the pubs/bars are all meat markets full of 14 year old girls and towney twunts. we've got lots of students here, and lots of them walk past my house on their way home, but whilst some are arrogant d1cks who can't hold their booze, they're not the trouble makers. We used to have squaddies here too about twenty years ago and they were just animals, but people were in general much more forgiving toward them, 'ah, bless 'um, they're just letting off steam' as 12 of them stamp a couple of students into the pavement. Does anyone go drinking in Aldershot on a weekend? I'm sure that as they don't have a Uni, it must be a vision of peace and harmony, with everyone clearing up after themselves. The whole thing just smacks of lazy journalism.

+1 when in rome... seriously though, when-ever anyone on this forum slates students, all they're saying is 'I've wasted my life and rather than do anything about it I'll just blame all my woes on an easy social target'. The fact that a fair percentage of students these days are just annoying towney ***ts doesn't effect anything. (saying that, give me the lefty students of yore any day).

what was the 0.3 for? I was thinking about seeing this, but peoples' reaction hasn't been at all good. Its a shame as the book and tv series that came out a few years ago were both great. Silent Running This classic hippy sci-fi used to be on tv all the time back in the 80s and i remember loving it as a child. Twenty-odd years later though and its aged badly. The special effects look very poor, its main character is far too annoying and selfish to be sympathetic, its Joan Baez soundtrack is laughably twee and the narrative possesses zero dramatic tension. But the droids are cool and without them we wouldn't have had R2D2 or Wall*E. 4/10 Open Your Eyes Brilliantly creepy mixture of sci-fi, horror and conspiracy thriller that truly gets under your skin and has great fun phuqing with your head. It loses a point for its mildly ridiculous last scene which tries too hard to tie up all the loose ends and feels like a bit of a cop-out. But still, infinitely better than the US remake (Vanilla Sky) and a very highly recommended piece of recentish spanish cinema. 9/10

Peeps may find this interesting, The Onion's guide to the best TV of the late 20th/early 21st Century, most of which is American. The Onion rules, and its Audio/Visual section is one of the most trustworthy around, even the inane bickering on the forum section is good for a laugh.

absolutely, there's no reason what-so-ever for women not being allowed in the red arrows. here in the 21st century, sexism has to be kicked into touch, along with racism. and when new maternity laws are passed in the next year or so entitling men to take lots more leave, then men will be just as likely to request 6 months off work to raise the sproggs. lets go off-topic quickly, I think the women's England cricket team should play the men's cricket team at least once a year. it would be hugely benificial for both, and lets face it, the men have everything to lose. and then this should open the floodgates (oo-pardon) for more unisex sports. if we're going to allow celtic and rangers in the prem, why not go the whole hog and invite the laydeez into more sports?

slightly off topic, but the top US brass have admitted the main reason Iraq has calmed recently isn't the much heralded troop surge, but because the American's are paying various militias millions of dollars not to have a civil war or kill US troops. that's modern warfare (although it woudn't make such a good video game or war film).

Mesrine: Killer Instinct Enjoyable ultra-violent gangster-biopic in classic Scorsese style with Vincent Cassel in blistering form, switching from charming rogue to truly despicable khunt with ease. I like the fact the film was split into two parts (like Kill Bill and Che) as biopics are as a rule way too long, and part one (Killer Instinct) cracks along at a break-neck pace. But there in lies the problem, we get two hours of key moments in the first half of Mesrine's adult life without getting an understanding of what joins the dots; why did a middle-class lad from a very respectable family turns to violent crime, and later we get no sense of his boredom or frustration when he briefly tries to go straight. There's nothing here we haven't seen before, but Cassel is brilliant as a true cinematic anti-hero (ie a really really nasty piece of work), and there are enough whores and machine guns to even keep Scarface fans engaged. I'm off to see part 2 (Public Enemy #1) in a couple of weeks.

I'm sure its better than 99% of stuff on American telly, and it’s a big influence on the look and feel of the Bourne films which I love, but I thought The Shield was rubbish. Then again I watched season 1 just after finishing The Wire. You're right that it’s a mugs game to compare it to The Wire, but the problem I had was that I couldn't stop comparing it to Police Cops, the generic cop show on the Simpsons with detective Homer Simpson (that’s the end of that chapter, etc). I'm glad you guys are loving it but I just couldn't watch it without laughing. I can't recommend Battlestar Galatica enough. Don't bother with the dull pilot mini-series and just plunge headlong into season one which is a liberal version of 24, all frantic non-stop action and rollicking good fun. But then over the next four seasons it grows into something very special - I've heard people call it The Wire in space - but unlike The Wire this was a very popular prime-time network show, which nevertheless had the balls to address all the big taboos in American society - race, class, religion, abortion, militarism, terrorism - in a very grown up and non-hysterical way. Some of the CGI is a bit iffy and they play frankly terrible Oirish pipe muisc over all the big meaningful father-son scenes, but apart from these few quibbles it rocked my geeky sci-fi world. And Gaius Balthar is one of the greatest tv characters ever! Deadwood was great but got cancelled just as it was about to finally fire its load. I don't think I'll ever tire of hearing Lovejoy saying 'c*cksucker or c*nt' Mad Men is another fave of mine, which is essentially a very classy soap opera for men. Series two was very understated but I like the way it doesn't feel the need to be overly melodramatic. Next up for me on the old DVD binge-athon is either going to be Dexter or Breaking Bad, both of which are mean't to be ace (do kids still say ace?).

wow, if the reaction on here is any sort of guide for the nation's mood, then the Sun/Tory alliance has just scored a massive own goal by going in to kill Brown off with this issue. it is shameful politiking and a massive backlash against this kind of thing is pretty much the only hope that Labour have of not getting wiped off the map in the election. I can't understand why anyone would read the sun. people says its just a bit of light relief, something to laugh at. but when it moves away from its staple of vacous non-celebrity gossip and thinly vailed adverts for bland tv shows, into the political areana, it becomes a very dangerous thing indeed. but hey, its horses for courses. i read the guardian and say things like 'did anyone see the documentary on bbc 4 last night?'

That is completely amazing. I forgot to mention just how great her illustrations are too. I remember loving the tv series when i was very very young, but that was obviously a much simpler and sanitised version. reading the books as an adult has been a real eye-opener. i don't think you could go wrong giving the books to children as a guide to life, my girlfriend's mum said that she based her style of parenting on moominmamma and did a pretty good job too.

Franz Kafka - The Trial After having my mind blown by The Metamorphosis, I'm going through a bit of a Kafka phase. The Trial is much dryer and didn't move me as much emotionally, but its still a haunting and disturbing portrait of the injustice of the state and the guilt of the individual. A bit of a slog but it contains several lifetimes worth of ideas to chew over. Tove Jansson - The Exploits of Moominpappa: Described by Himself & Moominland Midwinter A couple of weeks ago Winchester Uni had its graduation ceremonies and at the one I went to Terry Pratchett was given an honouree degree. In his speech (all of which was done off the cuff - incredible considering his Alzheimer's) he said that some of the greatest writing ever published was for children and that Tove Jansson is in his opinion the greatest ever children's writer. And he's spot on. The Moomin books are full of the joys of life as adorably cute little creatures have amazing adventures, but they also embrace the fact that life can be scary, lonely and ultimately a bit of a confusing anti-climax. And the role-model for the young moomins is a dope-addled anarchist loner. Come on Snufkin, fire up the pipe and phuq the system!

jesus :confused: i've got a lot of respect for Hull, the way they hit rock bottom and came bouncing back up, and i quite liked phil brown just because he's such a freak of nature, but this is going much too far. a bridge too far, even.

did anyone follow the Hull/Stoke game on the guardian on sunday? they mentioned that an observer journo looked into the story from a couple of months ago that the team talked a jumper down from a suspension bridge when on a team building walk and could find no official record of it. he spoke to the players who denied it happened and when he confronted phil brown he got a very sheepish 'no comment'. how cheeky is that?

call social services, i'm a bad bad manager i went away on holiday for two weeks and all my teams took a real beating. my first team lost their first match of the season to a bunch of halfwits, the reserves took a tonking and my little 'uns lost 0-7 after hattrick decided to mix my team up and put a striker in goal :mad: but yesterday normal service resumed and my seniors spanked my nearest rival to essentially ensure i win my league. this frees me up to start worrying that i won't get automatic promotion and will probably have to face a league 5 side in a qualifier, alltid predicts that i'll get drawn against a side full of players with 7 or 8 star ratings, not good. but still, champions champions champions and all that. i'm back now

how's that? you think the ballot box cares if your vote is a protest or not? a vote for the BNP is just going to give them more of a voice. its protest votes that played a big role in making the BNP a legitimate party and getting griffin on tv. everyone's sick of labour and want them out, that's obvious, the libdems have imploded too many times for any one to trust them, many people just wouldn't vote tory ever again (especially the disenfranchised working class who's communities were killed by thatcher), so who does that leave? the smaller, more politically extreme parties obviously. i voted green a few times in protest which some of you will find ridiculous, i don't want them in power, i wouldn't trust them running the country. but i can defend this by saying the greens don't plan to isolate the UK, tear society to shreds and plunge us back into the dark ages, which is what forced repatriation would surely do. a possible solution to this is to change the way voting works by letting people vote for 'none of the above'. phuq it, lets start a party called 'none of the above' and promise the voters no manifesto, no mp's, no nothing, just a name on a ballot paper. the only downside to this would be if the party actually won a seat, but that in itself would force the political parties to address the appalling state of politics at the moment.

thats the craziest thing i've ever read. if you use a vote for the BNP then you vote for the BNP, their leader and each one of their vile, unformed and frankly laughable policies. I understand that people feel betrayed by labour and the other parties, but if you vote for them as a protest you are as much a threat to this country as a thug with a swastika tatooed on his forehead.

I thought the most telling moment came from the only question which wasn't race-related, and to use a cricketing analogy, this drew him out of his crease (not a nice thought). When asked about homosexuality, he of course said that they're creepy but then dropped the bomb shell that the BNP would ban sex education in primary school. Which effectively means that girls will face pubity before they can be taught about it in school. What rational human could ever think that's a good idea? Less race-bating would have given Griffin much more rope to hang himself with (which would have been the ideal ending of the show) and would have caused the BNP far greater damage. But the only reason Griffin was there was that Labour betrayed the working classes by going all Nu. And until they address this, parties like the BNP will exploit this vacuum.

cheers JB so compared to Wilco, i'm the holocaust denying, EDL facebook group creating, BNP voting, Stephen Gately-bashing Nazi love-child of Jim Davison and Jeremy Clarkson? Golly. but back to the original thread... to those of you who will vote tory at the next election, know this… Cameron is a MASSIVE phil collins fan, absolutely obsessed with the bald little no-talent ****.

Plot me please Economic Left/Right: -7.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.85

He should be allowed on but the whole thing will desend into farce. the majority of the crowd shouting Griffin down, the elemant of fascist thugs, opps, BNP supporters applauding everything he says. it should make for good tv but its a pretty sorry state of affairs. I agree with the beeb on this, its not up to them to censor political parties as they should be impartial. will this lead to an increase in support for the nazi party, sorry, BNP? we'll see. 4) on my yes, just counting the seconds till the far-right apologists in the military to start bleeting on immigration what's your reaction to Mike Jackson's slaiting of the BNP for using military iconography and how he sincerely hopes there are no BNP supporters in the military?

Pardew out!

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It takes a real man to admit such things! I'm the same, I hate violence and have easily avoided getting involved with fights, be it at games or on drunken nights out, since primary school. (Well, apart from the Alan Knight testimonial when I was saved by a truncheon welding copper). I think it takes a degree of aggrogance and a lack of empathy to feel the need to dish out a slapping on a night out, and as you say, much of this is just talk from those who still yearn for playground rule but are closet-pussies. Sure, there are prize d1cks in life who genuinely need someone to punch their lights out occasionally (like the entire EDL), but I've never come across one yet. This mentality of looking at footy violence of the 60s/70s/80s through rose-tinted specs is truly worrying. I used to be proud of Saints' reputation of a family club, but hard times have definitely brought the wrong uns to the fore. And in this case I say shop the thugs in, if they love fighting that much then they'll have a great time in prison.

In the Loop Very enjoyable stuff, but considering the critical praise it got and how much I love the thick of it, I was left feeling slightly under-whelmed. The way Blair/Campell betrayed this country in regard to Iraq is ripe for political satire, and the scene where they sex-up/rape the war dosier is wonderful, but the thick of it was at its best when they were handling the tiny nitty gritty issues, the kind of things real people couldn't care less about. Still, it delivers a stream of fantastic film-based put-downs, my favourites (both fired at Toby) being 'Oi, baby from Eraserhead' and 'Go f**k yourself Frodo'. Very excited about the new series of TTOI

ABSOLUTELY! The Sun is a piece of $hit read by 'tards. No excuses.