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| jeremy |
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Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)
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| The sixties andseventies are often referred to as the golden age of British television, but peoples' collective memories tends to play tricks, filtering out the grey and the boring and enhancing and exaggerating the good. There were a few gems, but there was also an awful lot of rubbish. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:45 am |
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Watched La Haine last night.
Pretty powerful stuff.
Smart choice to do it in black and white.
Recent riots peaked my interest.
Not sure what the gun laws are in France. Maybe more like Britain. Seemed like having a gun was a big deal in the film, while in America they give them out as Christmas presents. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:11 am |
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| I can't think of a western democracy that has a gun policy within the same universe as the one in the U.S. And the dictatatorships, certainly not. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:21 am |
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| Reading about these French riots, it's clear these rampaging kids can't get ahold of anything more lethal than pellet guns. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:24 am |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:28 pm |
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| Maybe if they could get ahold of a decent job interview they wouldn't need rocks or fire. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:29 pm |
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| We were talking about weapons they had access to, not jobs that they don't. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:25 pm |
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"We were talking about weapons they had access to, not jobs that they don't."
I was making a joke. LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:56 pm |
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| That was a joke???? I don't need to lighten up. You need to improve your joke-telling. |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:43 pm |
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whoa, brownie...
you're now in the neverending queue of people who OWE marilyn an apology...
but fear not, i'm at thirty seven and counting down.
actually, you're right. even the more rightist LE MONDE considers the roots of this to be more economic than racial or religious and LE FIGARO (leftist) agrees. i skim them pretty much daily since i'll be in paris over christmas.
i'm not particularly concerned about personal safety, but the french do need to address their immigration policy as do we. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:48 pm |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:54 pm |
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Marilyn wrote: He just likes to say I don't know shit about stuff. It's his version of sweet talk.
there you are... |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:55 pm |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:45 pm |
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"That was a joke???? I don't need to lighten up. You need to improve your joke-telling."
Marilyn, I think you thought I was lecturing you when I wasn't. Perhaps I was being flippant rather than joking, but either way, I understood perfectly what you were discussing, and it seemed your response to my flip post wasn't clarifying as much as it was a dismissal.
When you said "we were discussing" what you made clear was that the "we" did not include me, and I took a little umbrage at being purposefully excluded, hence the flip comment.
Between your recommendation about joke improvement and marantz's constant complaint that everyone who disagrees with him or even has a different perspective is simply too stupid to understand his posts, you guys are getting a little didactic.
I sincerely meant to make a flip comment and thought a person as witty as yourself, with whom I share similar political leanings, would have recognized the humor, even if it was barely humorous. |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:54 pm |
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