Park Life

You've become kraut! There is always room for disco my dear.

"Michael has also been repeatedly arrested for possession of cannabis. In a 2009 interview with the Guardian, he said he had cut down on his habit, to only "seven or eight" spliffs a day instead of the previous 25." I quite like the upbeat discoee singles.

Spill the beans Alex, you're operating above my pay-grade here. I can spell complex words like lugubrious, I'm not that bad. I use spoons with my left hand. Anyway, I think this work colleague of yours may be made up or perhaps embellished somewhat. That story didn't quite ring true like, especially the "I'm living it" bit. Maybe it's all true and he's a cockring or maybe you've missed your vocation and should be writing sit-coms. Basically why i asked. I swear to you, that, "I don't need to [read it], I'm living it," is verbatim. He started going on about conspiracies all the time, so early on I asked him if there were any conspiracy theories he didn't believe, listing through all the ones I could think of. The only one he didn't go for was the David Icke lizard stuff. He complains about young english women and how stupid they are, he's quite a misogynist, and one time at lunch a woman in the kitchen staff overheard him and absolutely laid into him, proper character assassination, was funny as fuck. I make sure to chat to him often because he's good value for funny stories. *edit - He also went down to some of the student riots, one at liverpool and also one recently against the monarchy or something, in light of the royal wedding. There's probably loads of people like him at those things. Well women are fucking up the planet with all those pairs of shoes (with no thought to the carbon footprint) and clothes made in Chinese prisons, never mind their irrational belief in harbouring small rat like dogs and drinking the foulest of white Italian plonk. I have come to realise that women are a serious danger to any society.

Think it was the step daughter (adopted by Mia Farrow) iirc. What was the name again...Ho chi Minge I think.

There's a lot of them about. Thanks for the kind rejoinder.

What else is filmaking for? Really?

Moved smoothly into a lot of salads with french bread and various cheeses. Home spiced black olives on the side.

FYP It's my nephew's new favourite saying. He likes to do something naughty and laugh it off with that catchphrase. He's gonna be the next David Walliams tbh What do you fancy at Cannes this year?

I was recommended FIB by another recently. Might keep an eye out for it. Have Ipcress in my film collection. Mrs P doesn't understand why there are so many chuckles in it.

Unique amongst Kubrick films in that the book's better. I reckon Lolitta is a better book than film. Any imagery of the story in my head comes from the film. Normally if I read the book first (as I did with Lolita) I expect to retain those pictures in my head more. Been a while and I watched it pretty much straight after reading though. Not read 2001 like...i just assume, Parky style, on that one You tinker. Agree with Alex about Lolita. Just re-reading 'Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy'. Excellent stuff.

Good news is the levels over Europe are quite low..

“The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore… they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.” - Julian Huxley

Agreed. Not going to happen though; it's said every season and he's invariably injured for 1/3 of it. As I said too skinny for the PL.

Apparently they warmed to him cause he was fluent in the lingo. And of coure he regaled the younger boys with tales of derring do!!1

Darkness at Noon is one of my all time faves. Still have a well thumbed paperback somewhere. I have it paperback, I doubt they did it hardback! Not even the Gulag version?

Darkness at Noon is one of my all time faves. Still have a well thumbed paperback somewhere.

Can Carroll write?

What ho!! New Labour?

Quite. This is a deep old rabbit hole but many are reluctant to go down it and of course some never surface again. It was a strange old period when the monied and well bred were gadding around Africa and India keeping the wogs in their place and once back home began to wonder (over cucumber sarnies) what quite to do about the shabby old english working class and its traditions and affectations. Won't do you know!! Some of them were quite keen on Hitlers methods as history later reveals.

Fabians at the time were keen to remodel society (before breakfast ideally)...Here's one of em..In his pomp.. Orwell was of course a Fabian and the editor of the Tribune. Where he wrote under the witty soudenim A. Freeman iirc.

Like Huxley and Orwell but both by breeding and by chance or perhaps via the Fabians or The Astor family did get a peak behind the curtain. That sentence hurts. What do you mean? Well this was his brother.. "Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society,[67] and was Vice-President (1937–1944) and President (1959–1962). He thought eugenics was important for removing undesirable variants from the human gene pool; but at least after World War II he believed race was a meaningless concept in biology, and its application to humans was highly inconsistent.[68] Huxley was an outspoken critic of the most extreme eugenicism in the 1920s and 1930s (the stimulus for which was the greater fertility of the 'feckless' poor compared to the 'responsible' prosperous classes). He was, nevertheless, a leading figure in the eugenics movement (see, for example, Eugenics manifesto)" If one looks carefully at A.Huxley his dark vision was perhaps not as much flights of fancy as one would initially imagine (bearing in mind the people he hung out with and class and privelege as it were at the time). They were amongst the elite that were keen on scientific dictatorship (It's basically this that is manifested in BNW). P.

Nicely written Tom.

Like Huxley and Orwell but both by breeding and by chance or perhaps via the Fabians or The Astor family did get a peak behind the curtain. Check out the Frankfurt school.

Not untill yuo've started a We might finish above Arsenal thread me lad.

Never really saw Fish as a gay magnet. Live and learn I suppose.