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by The Last Word
Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:18 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: Was David Starkey right ?
Replies: 25
Views: 369

Re: Frank

David Johnson wrote: > David Starkey is an ignorant rent-a-gob who gets trundled out > on programmes like Question Time and Newsnight when said > programmes are looking fir someone with a trite, shallow, > stupid theory to cause a bit of aggro in the discussion. It's > Jeremy Kyle for the so-called ...
by The Last Word
Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:59 am
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: News Of The World Closes Down!!
Replies: 48
Views: 580

Re: News Of The World Closes Down!!

Latest news: Andy Coulson has apparently been arrested. Wonder if his one phone call gets hacked.

Good tweet doing the rounds:

Cameron saying Coulson should be judged on the good work done for him.
A bit like praising Peter Sutcliffe for his lorry driving

by The Last Word
Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:26 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: Cameron's Nanny/Puritanical State
Replies: 27
Views: 327

Re: Cameron's Nanny/Puritanical State

Quote: The report finds that "some parts of the business world and sections of the media seem to have lost their connection to parents. We are living in an increasingly sexual and sexualised culture although it is far from clear how we arrived at this point." You could argue that the business world ...
by The Last Word
Mon May 30, 2011 8:20 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: Boogie Nights..........
Replies: 82
Views: 747

Re: Boogie Nights..........

A great film, but perhaps best seen as part of a body of work by its maker, Paul Thomas Anderson, arguably the best American director we have at the moment. Damaged personalities and power clashes a recurring theme.

by The Last Word
Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:11 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: Daily Mail - Billy Bragg lives in a 1.5 Mil Joint
Replies: 109
Views: 1239

Re: Daily Mail - Billy Bragg lives in a 1.5 Mil Joint

How many posts and nobody checks out the guy himself? Jesus fucking wept.



Not a fan myself, but he seems sincere.

And given the precarious, wavering nature of finances in the music industry, a nice bit of property is perhaps a smart move.

by The Last Word
Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:40 am
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: RIP Bobby Farrell
Replies: 9
Views: 209

Re: RIP Bobby Farrell

How odd.

History has it that Saint Petersburg is also where (Ra-Ra-) Rasputin was murdered.

by The Last Word
Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:51 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: Best music track heard this year
Replies: 20
Views: 495

Re: Best music track heard this year

The Sun's Gone Dim And The Sky's Turned Black - Johann Johannsson.

From his terrific IBM 1401 a User's Manual album (2006). What a great surprise finding it used to such great effect in the Battle: Los Angeles trailer:



by The Last Word
Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:49 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: Porn to be blocked/opt-in in the UK
Replies: 36
Views: 532

Re: Porn to be blocked/opt-in in the UK

Bob Singleton wrote: > In the we small hours of this morning (about 4.00am) on Five > Live, they were doing a review of the Sunday papers and I > recall them discussing an article in today's Sunday Times > regarding this story. > > The best I can do, given it's now a subscription news site, is > to ...
by The Last Word
Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:14 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: Captain Pugwash- Innocent or guilty?
Replies: 8
Views: 181

Here's one we made up earlier...

Arginald Valleywater wrote:

> Is nothing sacred? Next thing you'll be telling me a former
> Blue Peter host was gang banged at Warwick Uni..........

Surely you're not green enough to believe that old urban myth?

It was Hull, anyway.

by The Last Word
Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:38 pm
Forum: O/T Forum
Topic: First piece of Music you can remember..
Replies: 18
Views: 322

Re: First piece of Music you can remember..

Probably not the first, but the first to spring to mind was Harry Nilsonn's 'Without You', a song which played on the radio on a seemingly permanent loop back in the 70s.