I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Films: Deadpool, Zootopia, Mad Max (Sorry, I'm relentlessly low-brow on film). Books, apart from Stiglitz, I'm mostly re-reading classics from my bookshelf - Flashman and the Great Game, Accelerando, Red Storm Rising, Reamde.
Deadpool is awesome, I've watched it twice already. I've also been forced to watch Zootopia with the children.
Mad Max: an excellent idea.
And I love all the early Tom Clancy's and have read them all.
Question: what was the last decent Clancy? Executive Orders?
Yes, but he was already going downhill at that point. In his pomp he was unmatched.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Films: Deadpool, Zootopia, Mad Max (Sorry, I'm relentlessly low-brow on film). Books, apart from Stiglitz, I'm mostly re-reading classics from my bookshelf - Flashman and the Great Game, Accelerando, Red Storm Rising, Reamde.
Deadpool is awesome, I've watched it twice already. I've also been forced to watch Zootopia with the children.
Mad Max: an excellent idea.
And I love all the early Tom Clancy's and have read them all.
Question: what was the last decent Clancy? Executive Orders?
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Films: Deadpool, Zootopia, Mad Max (Sorry, I'm relentlessly low-brow on film). Books, apart from Stiglitz, I'm mostly re-reading classics from my bookshelf - Flashman and the Great Game, Accelerando, Red Storm Rising, Reamde.
Deadpool is awesome, I've watched it twice already. I've also been forced to watch Zootopia with the children.
Mad Max: an excellent idea.
And I love all the early Tom Clancy's and have read them all.
Question: what was the last decent Clancy? Executive Orders?
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Not a movie recommendation, but Stranger Things is excellent if you can be bothered to download it. Definitely worse ways to spend 8 hours. I'm not sure how good the GPU in your laptop is and whether you'll have a mouse or you pack an Xbox controller but The Witcher 3 is an excellent way to lose track of time and not realise you've spent 12 hours gaming. As for books, I've heard about an up and coming writer, S K Tremayne, not sure if you know about her!
I stand corrected, it did a lot better than I thought. I will rephrase, it certainly didn't / doesn't get that much coverage, compared to some of other Nolan's work, when IMO it is one of his best.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Films: Deadpool, Zootopia, Mad Max (Sorry, I'm relentlessly low-brow on film). Books, apart from Stiglitz, I'm mostly re-reading classics from my bookshelf - Flashman and the Great Game, Accelerando, Red Storm Rising, Reamde.
Deadpool is awesome, I've watched it twice already. I've also been forced to watch Zootopia with the children.
Mad Max: an excellent idea.
And I love all the early Tom Clancy's and have read them all.
Question: what was the last decent Clancy? Executive Orders?
The Hunt for Red October
I fear that is not far from the truth...
And right on cue:
"Comrades, this is your Leader. It is an honour to speak to you today, and I am honoured to be sailing with you on the maiden voyage of our motherland's most recent achievement. Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary — The Conservative Party. For a hundred years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage. It reminds me of the heady days of 1945 and Clement Attlee, when the world trembled at the sound of our Nationalisations! Well, they will tremble again — at the sound of our Progressiveness. The order is: engage the Corbyn Drive!
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Labour Party don't know our full potential. They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Brighton, where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Not a movie recommendation, but Stranger Things is excellent if you can be bothered to download it. Definitely worse ways to spend 8 hours. I'm not sure how good the GPU in your laptop is and whether you'll have a mouse or you pack an Xbox controller but The Witcher 3 is an excellent way to lose track of time and not realise you've spent 12 hours gaming. As for books, I've heard about an up and coming writer, S K Tremayne, not sure if you know about her!
Do you not need any internet access for Witcher 3 at any point, because it is a fantastic game. Apparently, they are making a spin off game of Gwent.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Not a movie recommendation, but Stranger Things is excellent if you can be bothered to download it. Definitely worse ways to spend 8 hours. I'm not sure how good the GPU in your laptop is and whether you'll have a mouse or you pack an Xbox controller but The Witcher 3 is an excellent way to lose track of time and not realise you've spent 12 hours gaming. As for books, I've heard about an up and coming writer, S K Tremayne, not sure if you know about her!
Do you not need any internet access for Witcher 3 at any point, because it is a fantastic game. Apparently, they are making a spin off game of Gwent.
Nope, completely DRM free if you buy thorough CD Prokekt's website, GOG.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Not a movie recommendation, but Stranger Things is excellent if you can be bothered to download it. Definitely worse ways to spend 8 hours. I'm not sure how good the GPU in your laptop is and whether you'll have a mouse or you pack an Xbox controller but The Witcher 3 is an excellent way to lose track of time and not realise you've spent 12 hours gaming. As for books, I've heard about an up and coming writer, S K Tremayne, not sure if you know about her!
Do you not need any internet access for Witcher 3 at any point, because it is a fantastic game. Apparently, they are making a spin off game of Gwent.
Nope, completely DRM free if you buy thorough CD Prokekt's website, GOG.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Not a movie recommendation, but Stranger Things is excellent if you can be bothered to download it. Definitely worse ways to spend 8 hours. I'm not sure how good the GPU in your laptop is and whether you'll have a mouse or you pack an Xbox controller but The Witcher 3 is an excellent way to lose track of time and not realise you've spent 12 hours gaming. As for books, I've heard about an up and coming writer, S K Tremayne, not sure if you know about her!
Do you not need any internet access for Witcher 3 at any point, because it is a fantastic game. Apparently, they are making a spin off game of Gwent.
Nope, completely DRM free if you buy thorough CD Prokekt's website, GOG.
I remember it being DRM free, but I couldn't remember if it ever needed internet connection for anything. So many apps these days do go "phoning home" for this or that and you only notice when your net goes down.
I notice that the Denuvo system apparently has been defeated. A lot of games companies have been paying a lot for that system.
I stand corrected, it did a lot better than I thought. I will rephrase, it certainly didn't / doesn't get that much coverage, compared to some of other Nolan's work, when IMO it is one of his best.
Yes, it is excellent with lots of twists and turns, has been on a few times recently on C4
I stand corrected, it did a lot better than I thought. I will rephrase, it certainly didn't / doesn't get that much coverage, compared to some of other Nolan's work, when IMO it is one of his best.
Yes, it is excellent with lots of twists and turns, has been on a few times recently on C4
No spoilers....people appearing to be gearing up to watch it :-)
All these recommendations are making an August friday on my own in the shop look terribly short of free time for, you know, work.
That said - moving out of the home office back into a proper premises has proved highly productive. After some initial process improvements the amount I can delegate has increased dramatically. Barring the buying related travelling, I may actually have time to explore part time politics or another proper business opportunity...
I stand corrected, it did a lot better than I thought. I will rephrase, it certainly didn't / doesn't get that much coverage, compared to some of other Nolan's work, when IMO it is one of his best.
Yes, it is excellent with lots of twists and turns, has been on a few times recently on C4
No spoilers....people appearing to be gearing up to watch it :-)
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Not a movie recommendation, but Stranger Things is excellent if you can be bothered to download it. Definitely worse ways to spend 8 hours. I'm not sure how good the GPU in your laptop is and whether you'll have a mouse or you pack an Xbox controller but The Witcher 3 is an excellent way to lose track of time and not realise you've spent 12 hours gaming. As for books, I've heard about an up and coming writer, S K Tremayne, not sure if you know about her!
Old Folks' Homes in a few decades time are going to be hives of (individual) activity, rather than a dozen chairs stuck in front of a TV.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Not a movie recommendation, but Stranger Things is excellent if you can be bothered to download it. Definitely worse ways to spend 8 hours. I'm not sure how good the GPU in your laptop is and whether you'll have a mouse or you pack an Xbox controller but The Witcher 3 is an excellent way to lose track of time and not realise you've spent 12 hours gaming. As for books, I've heard about an up and coming writer, S K Tremayne, not sure if you know about her!
Old Folks' Homes in a few decades time are going to be hives of (individual) activity, rather than a dozen chairs stuck in front of a TV.
Old Folks' Home? I shall be too busy terrifying the young in my bionic exoskeleton.
All these recommendations are making an August friday on my own in the shop look terribly short of free time for, you know, work.
That said - moving out of the home office back into a proper premises has proved highly productive. After some initial process improvements the amount I can delegate has increased dramatically. Barring the buying related travelling, I may actually have time to explore part time politics or another proper business opportunity...
Or I could post on here more...
I believe you own a book shop? If so, The Ninth Gate may be worth a watch. Watching it started my interest in illuminated manuscripts.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
For those wanting a book of politics and history concerning Australia could I recommend this little work on Sydney, and the underside of the Emrald City.
All these recommendations are making an August friday on my own in the shop look terribly short of free time for, you know, work.
That said - moving out of the home office back into a proper premises has proved highly productive. After some initial process improvements the amount I can delegate has increased dramatically. Barring the buying related travelling, I may actually have time to explore part time politics or another proper business opportunity...
Or I could post on here more...
I believe you own a book shop? If so, The Ninth Gate may be worth a watch. Watching it started my interest in illuminated manuscripts.
Very good film, and novel too.
Not often you find a manuscript collector on a politics forum - well done sir!
I stand corrected, it did a lot better than I thought. I will rephrase, it certainly didn't / doesn't get that much coverage, compared to some of other Nolan's work, when IMO it is one of his best.
Yes, it is excellent with lots of twists and turns, has been on a few times recently on C4
No spoilers....people appearing to be gearing up to watch it :-)
Will leave it there then, though the only hint I will give is you need to pay attention
I stand corrected, it did a lot better than I thought. I will rephrase, it certainly didn't / doesn't get that much coverage, compared to some of other Nolan's work, when IMO it is one of his best.
Yes, it is excellent with lots of twists and turns, has been on a few times recently on C4
No spoilers....people appearing to be gearing up to watch it :-)
Will leave it there then, though the only hint I will give is you need to pay attention
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
Films: Deadpool, Zootopia, Mad Max (Sorry, I'm relentlessly low-brow on film). Books, apart from Stiglitz, I'm mostly re-reading classics from my bookshelf - Flashman and the Great Game, Accelerando, Red Storm Rising, Reamde.
Deadpool is awesome, I've watched it twice already. I've also been forced to watch Zootopia with the children.
Mad Max: an excellent idea.
And I love all the early Tom Clancy's and have read them all.
Question: what was the last decent Clancy? Executive Orders?
The best ever Clancy was Red Storm Rising, after that once he started getting into the Ryan saga they went downhill rapidly. Debt of Honour is probably the only one of that series that is a well told story - the rest are too formulaic.
If you want a jolly good read, ideal for an aeroplane as you can put it down and pick it up easily without losing the thread. Then I would suggest, "The Complete McAuslan" by George McDonald Fraser (the Flasham bloke). My edition is 589 pages long so it should last you the Journey to OZ. The book is a series of short stories which describe the life of a young officer in a Highland regiment just after WW2. Though written as fiction it is in turn a great social commentary of life in the UK in the late forties, a fair military history, and an absolute laugh out loud comedy. Well worth a read.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
For those wanting a book of politics and history concerning Australia could I recommend this little work on Sydney, and the underside of the Emrald City.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
For those wanting a book of politics and history concerning Australia could I recommend this little work on Sydney, and the underside of the Emrald City.
Or go retro and read Shute's 'On the Beach' or 'A Town like Alice'.
Both very good. A Town called Alice especially.
Another good read is Russell Bradon's Naked Island, also on Australian POWs in WW2.
Breaker Morant is another very good film, and of interest not just as a part of the Australian Film revival but also as a study on counter insurgency warfare and its moral ambiguities.
I don't get to read a lot, but am not one for light reads when I do!
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
I stand corrected, it did a lot better than I thought. I will rephrase, it certainly didn't / doesn't get that much coverage, compared to some of other Nolan's work, when IMO it is one of his best.
Yes, it is excellent with lots of twists and turns, has been on a few times recently on C4
No spoilers....people appearing to be gearing up to watch it :-)
Will leave it there then, though the only hint I will give is you need to pay attention
Like watching any magic trick :-)
The original Christopher Priest book is outstanding, bettered only by The Affirmation, a book so good that to categorise it is to exclude possibilities in the book.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
It is I suppose.
I decided that as I can only read one proper book per month or so, I prefer one that makes me think, so that I can muse on its themes while doing mundane things.
Or go retro and read Shute's 'On the Beach' or 'A Town like Alice'.
Second for A Town Like Alice
Really, even after Dudley Moore and Peter Cook ripped it apart in a sketch in the 1960s? Don't think I could pick it up now much less read it.
It is rather a book of its time, with lots of interesting insights into fifties attitudes.
The theme of craving a return to quiet backwaters mundanity after the horrors of war, to a town like Alice (not even Alice Springs, but a country cousin of Alice) did seem to resonate with the peoples of the time. Another decade or so on and it seemed worthy of mocking by metropolitan sophisticates.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
It is I suppose.
I decided that as I can only read one proper book per month or so, I prefer one that makes me think, so that I can muse on its themes while doing mundane things.
I don't care much for light novels.
Fair enough, but if you only have one book a month (and I take it we are talking about non-work related texts) might it not be a better strategy to choose books that make you laugh or feel good and still provide food for thought?
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
It is I suppose.
I decided that as I can only read one proper book per month or so, I prefer one that makes me think, so that I can muse on its themes while doing mundane things.
I don't care much for light novels.
Fair enough, but if you only have one book a month (and I take it we are talking about non-work related texts) might it not be a better strategy to choose books that make you laugh or feel good and still provide food for thought?
It is perhaps my inner Free Presbyterian taking control. I like things that are hard work.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
It is I suppose.
I decided that as I can only read one proper book per month or so, I prefer one that makes me think, so that I can muse on its themes while doing mundane things.
I don't care much for light novels.
Fair enough, but if you only have one book a month (and I take it we are talking about non-work related texts) might it not be a better strategy to choose books that make you laugh or feel good and still provide food for thought?
It is perhaps my inner Free Presbyterian taking control. I like things that are hard work.
I know exactly what you mean. I hate myself for reading frivolous stuff. I know there is always worthier stuff out there. It's like eating a pot noodle, or eating a kebab (in my meat eating student days)
On a separate note, I cannot stand being personally forced to endure time with Brexit banal buffoons (defined as anyone that voted out). Tonight, I had to put up with a Brexit moron giving me the whys and wherefores of voting out without being able to tell them politely to fuck off.
Until someone comes up with a compelling reason why Brexit is a good idea (i.e never), I'm going to have to wait some years until it becomes so stating the bleeding obvious that voting Brexit was a terrible thing before they all fade away.
Or go retro and read Shute's 'On the Beach' or 'A Town like Alice'.
Second for A Town Like Alice
Really, even after Dudley Moore and Peter Cook ripped it apart in a sketch in the 1960s? Don't think I could pick it up now much less read it.
It is rather a book of its time, with lots of interesting insights into fifties attitudes.
The theme of craving a return to quiet backwaters mundanity after the horrors of war, to a town like Alice (not even Alice Springs, but a country cousin of Alice) did seem to resonate with the peoples of the time. Another decade or so on and it seemed worthy of mocking by metropolitan sophisticates.
I loved the exchange, when she is in some sheep station waiting for her next flight on a tiny plane, which went something like this. "Where are you from in England?" "Southampton" "Is that near Birmingham? I have a cousin there." "About 150 miles." "Oh, in that case you'll know them!"
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
It is I suppose.
I decided that as I can only read one proper book per month or so, I prefer one that makes me think, so that I can muse on its themes while doing mundane things.
I don't care much for light novels.
Fair enough, but if you only have one book a month (and I take it we are talking about non-work related texts) might it not be a better strategy to choose books that make you laugh or feel good and still provide food for thought?
It is perhaps my inner Free Presbyterian taking control. I like things that are hard work.
I know exactly what you mean. I hate myself for reading frivolous stuff. I know there is always worthier stuff out there. It's like eating a pot noodle, or eating a kebab (in my meat eating student days)
On a separate note, I cannot stand being personally forced to endure time with Brexit banal buffoons (defined as anyone that voted out). Tonight, I had to put up with a Brexit moron giving me the whys and wherefores of voting out without being able to tell them politely to fuck off.
Until someone comes up with a compelling reason why Brexit is a good idea (i.e never), I'm going to have to wait some years until it becomes so stating the bleeding obvious that voting Brexit was a terrible thing before they all fade away.
I have stopped arguing with Brexiteers and their self conscious justifications. Methinks they do protest too much. It is done, though we are yet to see the real consequences.
I feel stripped of part of my European heritage, and a part of me is gone, and an optomistic part.
I am just battening down the hatches so I can look after my own interests, as clearly the majority of Britons do not care for mine.
This is still a phoney war - we have three debates, a lot of advertising, twists and turns and then many people will decide when in the ballot box.
The sadist in me is looking forward (if it happens) to CNN having to declare Pennsylvania and Florida for Trump, and then spend the next 6 hours trying to carry on with their coverage.
I'm flying to Australia on Saturday morning (and back on Wednesday). I need video game, book, and movie recommendations for the flight.
There are a couple of books about ancient Rome, plus Stephen King's The Green Mile on my list. But I need suggestions, guys.
On such trips I like to read something with local flavour.
...
Well if you are flying into Australia and want something with local flavour how about Brill Bryson's "Down Under". Probably the second funniest book he has ever written and more full of Australian flavour then you could ever want.
Not dark enough for me.
You don't get much chance to read but when you do you like to read books that make you feel bad? Sheesh, Doc, that is from where I sit a damn odd attitude.
It is I suppose.
I decided that as I can only read one proper book per month or so, I prefer one that makes me think, so that I can muse on its themes while doing mundane things.
I don't care much for light novels.
Fair enough, but if you only have one book a month (and I take it we are talking about non-work related texts) might it not be a better strategy to choose books that make you laugh or feel good and still provide food for thought?
It is perhaps my inner Free Presbyterian taking control. I like things that are hard work.
I know exactly what you mean. I hate myself for reading frivolous stuff. I know there is always worthier stuff out there. It's like eating a pot noodle, or eating a kebab (in my meat eating student days)
On a separa
Until someone comes up with a compelling reason why Brexit is a good idea (i.e never), I'm going to have to wait some years until it becomes so stating the bleeding obvious that voting Brexit was a terrible thing before they all fade away.
I have stopped arguing with Brexiteers and their self conscious justifications. Methinks they do protest too much. It is done, though we are yet to see the real consequences.
I feel stripped of part of my European heritage, and a part of me is gone, and an optomistic part.
I am just battening down the hatches so I can look after my own interests, as clearly the majority of Britons do not care for mine.
Like minds and all that. Get those hatches pinned down. The storm will pass. It might take some time, but it will pass.
I can't complain myself. Since I earn in euros and spend in sterling, I've just had a 10% wage increase. I might even be able to afford to buy another house after the imminent fall in house prices. And since my son has joint British/German nationality, he'll have a head start in the European jobs market when pure Brits lose freedom of movement! It's an ill wind...
I have stopped arguing with Brexiteers and their self conscious justifications. Methinks they do protest too much. It is done, though we are yet to see the real consequences.
I feel stripped of part of my European heritage, and a part of me is gone, and an optomistic part.
I am just battening down the hatches so I can look after my own interests, as clearly the majority of Britons do not care for mine.
This is still a phoney war - we have three debates, a lot of advertising, twists and turns and then many people will decide when in the ballot box.
The sadist in me is looking forward (if it happens) to CNN having to declare Pennsylvania and Florida for Trump, and then spend the next 6 hours trying to carry on with their coverage.
I think Florida will go Trump, as I'm assuming a shy Trump factor but Pennsylvania looks pretty safe for Clinton.
I have stopped arguing with Brexiteers and their self conscious justifications. Methinks they do protest too much. It is done, though we are yet to see the real consequences.
I feel stripped of part of my European heritage, and a part of me is gone, and an optomistic part.
I am just battening down the hatches so I can look after my own interests, as clearly the majority of Britons do not care for mine.
EU ≠ Europe
The Brexiters who think the EU is a good idea but not for us are very small in number indeed.
The majority of the leading figures wanted to bring down the whole edifice. To the extent that they are bound to fail, the long-term result of the referendum will be to kill off Euroscepticism as a meaningful force in British politics.
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
I have stopped arguing with Brexiteers and their self conscious justifications. Methinks they do protest too much. It is done, though we are yet to see the real consequences.
I feel stripped of part of my European heritage, and a part of me is gone, and an optomistic part.
I am just battening down the hatches so I can look after my own interests, as clearly the majority of Britons do not care for mine.
EU ≠ Europe
The Brexiters who think the EU is a good idea but not for us are very small in number indeed.
The majority of the leading figures wanted to bring down the whole edifice. To the extent that they are bound to fail, the long-term result of the referendum will be to kill off Euroscepticism as a meaningful force in British politics.
Euroscepticism will die as it'll be moot. We won't be in the EU so we will have nothing to be sceptic about.
US-scepticism is not that major an issue in Canada and there's certainly no hankering to join the union there. Even if the EU becomes a successful nation like the USA, it simply will do so without counting us as members anymore than a potential President Trump can rule over those in Montreal.
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
Oh so we should out do their illiberalism.
Hypocrite.
I never said that, I said it was amusing. Why so sensitive.
Even if we ban religious clothing in public places, like the French are heading down and I have not said I'm supporting, it will be as nothing compared to the illiberalism there. Any notion it is out doing it is bonkers.
This is still a phoney war - we have three debates, a lot of advertising, twists and turns and then many people will decide when in the ballot box.
The sadist in me is looking forward (if it happens) to CNN having to declare Pennsylvania and Florida for Trump, and then spend the next 6 hours trying to carry on with their coverage.
I think Florida will go Trump, as I'm assuming a shy Trump factor but Pennsylvania looks pretty safe for Clinton.
Florida has a very high latino population I expect to overwhelmingly break for Clinton. I don't think it will even be close in the end.
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
so, you want to save women who are dictated to about what to weatr by dictating to them about what to wear?
Saudi is a f-ing disgrace on so many levels and yet we are strong allies, have nice matey times at the horse racing, sell them arms and turn a blind eye while they blast shit out of yemen, treat their own citizens abominaly, have no proper justice system etc etc
clothing is the least of it.
It seems the world has gone a bit lala. The burkini is swimwear. it's for beaches.
it doesn't cover the face. i doubt that the most oppressive muslim men are allowing their wives/daughters to go to beaches?
The niqab is a different matter. and you can make a coherent argument for banning it. I wouldn't agree but at least the argument for banning it would make sense
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
Personally, I find the repressive and dictatorial policies of these countries with regard to what women may wear or do utterly odious. What I don't understand is why so many right-wingers here are seeking to emulate these countries by dictating what women may wear in this country. A bit hypocritical, no?
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
People simply expect better of France.
they have "liberty" in the mission statement, after all
What's amusing is that it seems most people protesting that the French shouldn't ban clothing and women should "wear what they want" seem to have nothing whatsoever to say about women in the Middle East in nations like Saudi or UAE who are dictated to about what they must wear. And can't drive etc too in Saudi.
Oh so we should out do their illiberalism.
Hypocrite.
I never said that, I said it was amusing. Why so sensitive.
Even if we ban religious clothing in public places, like the French are heading down and I have not said I'm supporting, it will be as nothing compared to the illiberalism there. Any notion it is out doing it is bonkers.
Once you start down that road however.....
....we know where it ends......interesting things Sarkozy is saying today I'm sure Mme Le Pen would be proud.
This is still a phoney war - we have three debates, a lot of advertising, twists and turns and then many people will decide when in the ballot box.
The sadist in me is looking forward (if it happens) to CNN having to declare Pennsylvania and Florida for Trump, and then spend the next 6 hours trying to carry on with their coverage.
I think Florida will go Trump, as I'm assuming a shy Trump factor but Pennsylvania looks pretty safe for Clinton.
Florida has a very high latino population I expect to overwhelmingly break for Clinton. I don't think it will even be close in the end.
But it has a large retired population? Or will the latino population out vote it.
This is still a phoney war - we have three debates, a lot of advertising, twists and turns and then many people will decide when in the ballot box.
The sadist in me is looking forward (if it happens) to CNN having to declare Pennsylvania and Florida for Trump, and then spend the next 6 hours trying to carry on with their coverage.
I think Florida will go Trump, as I'm assuming a shy Trump factor but Pennsylvania looks pretty safe for Clinton.
Florida has a very high latino population I expect to overwhelmingly break for Clinton. I don't think it will even be close in the end.
A large percentage of Latino's in Florida aren't Mexican and the Cuban population have a history of being much more Republican than Mexicans (and they get out and vote).
Edit - only 2.3% of Florida is Mexican heritage. 18% are classed as Latino, of which most are Cubans and Puerto Ricans.
Its also a funny place, with loads of white retirees, many of which go there for just the Winter.
Comments
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/25/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bigot/index.html
Trump says Clinton would send black communities down the tubes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deal_(2003_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Special_Relationship_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(miniseries)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington:_Behind_Closed_Doors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)
Budget $40 mill.
Box office $110 mill.
"Comrades, this is your Leader. It is an honour to speak to you today, and I am honoured to be sailing with you on the maiden voyage of our motherland's most recent achievement. Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary — The Conservative Party. For a hundred years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage. It reminds me of the heady days of 1945 and Clement Attlee, when the world trembled at the sound of our Nationalisations! Well, they will tremble again — at the sound of our Progressiveness. The order is: engage the Corbyn Drive!
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Labour Party don't know our full potential. They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Brighton, where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
I notice that the Denuvo system apparently has been defeated. A lot of games companies have been paying a lot for that system.
That said - moving out of the home office back into a proper premises has proved highly productive. After some initial process improvements the amount I can delegate has increased dramatically. Barring the buying related travelling, I may actually have time to explore part time politics or another proper business opportunity...
Or I could post on here more...
For those wanting a book of politics and history concerning Australia could I recommend this little work on Sydney, and the underside of the Emrald City.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591321.Leviathan
The film Emerald City is quite good too:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0101808/
As is The Castle:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/
And The Club:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0080546/
Sven Lindquists book on the genocide of the Aboriginals:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1371838483
Or for something lighter on Australian Colonial history:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110090.True_History_of_the_Kelly_Gang
The Fatal Shore is a fascinating study on Australian penal settlements, but you have probably come across it before:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003ATPQ8E/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Not often you find a manuscript collector on a politics forum - well done sir!
I tend to watch movies by genre and recently went through a neo noir phase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negotiator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bedford_Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(2000_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anderson_Tapes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parallax_View
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_to_War
If you want a jolly good read, ideal for an aeroplane as you can put it down and pick it up easily without losing the thread. Then I would suggest, "The Complete McAuslan" by George McDonald Fraser (the Flasham bloke). My edition is 589 pages long so it should last you the Journey to OZ. The book is a series of short stories which describe the life of a young officer in a Highland regiment just after WW2. Though written as fiction it is in turn a great social commentary of life in the UK in the late forties, a fair military history, and an absolute laugh out loud comedy. Well worth a read.
Trump 48.29% Clinton 47.59%
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/25/UPICVoter-poll-Donald-Trump-leading-Hillary-Clinton-for-first-time-in-weeks/8291472137479/?spt=su
1st count
Lab 1318
SNP 1079
Con 270
Communists 86
Greens 45
Lab elected at stage 4
Probably NOT ISIS from my reading of it.
Labour £ 8.261 million
Con £ 4.370 million
LDem £ 3.407 million
UKIP £ 1.255 million
SNP £ 0.482 million
Greens £ 0.133 million
Plaid £ 0.004 million
In addition the Lib Dems received a loan from RBS of £ 500,000 but repaid a loan to RBS of £ 750,000
Another good read is Russell Bradon's Naked Island, also on Australian POWs in WW2.
Breaker Morant is another very good film, and of interest not just as a part of the Australian Film revival but also as a study on counter insurgency warfare and its moral ambiguities.
I don't get to read a lot, but am not one for light reads when I do!
LAB: 47.1% (+0.7)
SNP: 38.6% (+19.6)
CON: 9.6% (+7.0)
COM: 3.1% (-24.4)
GRN: 1.6% (+1.6)
EDIT - oh no, just finished!
Lab 1318 SNP 1079 Con 270 Comm 86 Green 45
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Dawn's_Early_Light
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marooned_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Congeniality_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Brothers_(miniseries)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Candidate_(1972_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Darkness
"It was the time of the preacher..."
I decided that as I can only read one proper book per month or so, I prefer one that makes me think, so that I can muse on its themes while doing mundane things.
I don't care much for light novels.
Edit:- Another one that is supposed good is Firewatch.
In that light perhaps the reason she limitd the SNP increase to 20 per cent!
Fiction:
https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Car-Glasses-Gun/dp/0452277779
https://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Argentina-Lawrence-Thornton/dp/0553345796
https://www.amazon.com/Brazzaville-Beach-Novel-William-Boyd/dp/0061956317
https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Struck-Lightning-Fernando-Arrabal/dp/0140130217
Business-related:
https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/How-Risky-Really-Fears-Always/dp/0071629696
Films
You've already seen twice the only recent film I've truly enjoyed - Deadpool
If you have international films available:
The Hundred Year Old Man who climbed out the window and disappeared
The Lunchbox
The theme of craving a return to quiet backwaters mundanity after the horrors of war, to a town like Alice (not even Alice Springs, but a country cousin of Alice) did seem to resonate with the peoples of the time. Another decade or so on and it seemed worthy of mocking by metropolitan sophisticates.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/25/burkini-must-be-banned-says-nicolas-sarkozy-as-he-launches-elect/
http://www.menkind.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/800x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/o/borat-mankini-thong-081.jpg
Here's Jedburgh's scene with the two bars at the Nato Conference
On a separate note, I cannot stand being personally forced to endure time with Brexit banal buffoons (defined as anyone that voted out). Tonight, I had to put up with a Brexit moron giving me the whys and wherefores of voting out without being able to tell them politely to fuck off.
Until someone comes up with a compelling reason why Brexit is a good idea (i.e never), I'm going to have to wait some years until it becomes so stating the bleeding obvious that voting Brexit was a terrible thing before they all fade away.
"Where are you from in England?"
"Southampton"
"Is that near Birmingham? I have a cousin there."
"About 150 miles."
"Oh, in that case you'll know them!"
I feel stripped of part of my European heritage, and a part of me is gone, and an optomistic part.
I am just battening down the hatches so I can look after my own interests, as clearly the majority of Britons do not care for mine.
The sadist in me is looking forward (if it happens) to CNN having to declare Pennsylvania and Florida for Trump, and then spend the next 6 hours trying to carry on with their coverage.
Like minds and all that. Get those hatches pinned down. The storm will pass. It might take some time, but it will pass.
REMAIN 48%
The majority of the leading figures wanted to bring down the whole edifice. To the extent that they are bound to fail, the long-term result of the referendum will be to kill off Euroscepticism as a meaningful force in British politics.
US-scepticism is not that major an issue in Canada and there's certainly no hankering to join the union there. Even if the EU becomes a successful nation like the USA, it simply will do so without counting us as members anymore than a potential President Trump can rule over those in Montreal.
Hypocrite.
Brilliant Matt cartoon.
Even if we ban religious clothing in public places, like the French are heading down and I have not said I'm supporting, it will be as nothing compared to the illiberalism there. Any notion it is out doing it is bonkers.
Saudi is a f-ing disgrace on so many levels and yet we are strong allies, have nice matey times at the horse racing, sell them arms and turn a blind eye while they blast shit out of yemen, treat their own citizens abominaly, have no proper justice system etc etc
clothing is the least of it.
It seems the world has gone a bit lala. The burkini is swimwear. it's for beaches.
it doesn't cover the face. i doubt that the most oppressive muslim men are allowing their wives/daughters to go to beaches?
The niqab is a different matter. and you can make a coherent argument for banning it. I wouldn't agree but at least the argument for banning it would make sense
....we know where it ends......interesting things Sarkozy is saying today I'm sure Mme Le Pen would be proud.
Edit - only 2.3% of Florida is Mexican heritage. 18% are classed as Latino, of which most are Cubans and Puerto Ricans.
Its also a funny place, with loads of white retirees, many of which go there for just the Winter.
Read.