Dan_Dare

I can't believe you don't think it's a comedy. I really cannot work out what you're on.

No...no you really don't It's called Snakes on a plane for fucks sake! how can you even consider taking it remotely seriously? it's a straight faced send up of every crap disaster movie ever made!

strange boy. It's still one of the most beautiful films ever made if you ask me.

it's a spoof. you may as well pull apart Airplane! for having poor tension or something.

you...err...you do know it's a comedy, right?

My night sucked a bit. the venue the club was in licked an impressive ammount of ass: shit dance floor- tiny, round and annoying worse acoustics/ sound- the bad dancefloor was the only place you could hear music properly. The Cloak Room was a shambles: no staff and no tickets. it rapidly devolved into a horrendous free for all with coats all over the floor and broken hanger rails coming off the walls. The Bar sucked. thin, nasty pints all night. yay. Sigh. What a let down.

oh dear me

I'm going clubbing to the land of trash disco, electronica and men in bunny ears. can't wait!

so you're dressing up in girls clothes and having sex with bearded midgets? Awesome

I like the ghilbi dubs. they actually get real actors to do it. Mini Driver, Billy Bob Thornton and Christian Bale have all been in their films.

basically: they're not very good, but girls like to dance to them so they get played everywhere, and sell alot of records.

Thing is though, is that Iran is under the control of a batshit loony nutball bastard who probably would nuke Israel given the chance. not that I'd support an invasion, really. Unless Tehran really goes mental and threatens to use nukes. Iran is also home to a genuinely progressive, secular left wing. It's only a matter of time before they gain enough support to eliminate the raving mad mullahs and such.

If people idolised Saddam, it was down to the fact that he controlled the media in Iraq. Just look at North Korea for an example. Everybody in the world recognises that Kim Jon is a fucking nutcase, but the very people who's country he is destroying idolise him. Why? because of indoctrination and propaganda. You simply cannot use public 'support' as a means of examining a man like Saddam.

oddly enough, that's how the thread starts...

frankly, your argument is starting to sound like sensationalist teenie politics, Zechs. there's far more to it than 'ZOMG! OIL!'

hahaahahahahahaahahaha. haha.

My point was that you seem to be justifying totalitarianism in the context of the violence that came after it. I'm not condoning the absurd 'War on Terror' bullshit, far from it. Saddam was nothing more than a vicious minded tyrant who murdered hundreds of his own people. The way he was deposed was far from ideal, granted, but it doesn't change the fact that he deserved to go.

it is. Imagine Alice in Wonderland on crack, turned up to 11.

Things are worse now, yes. But that changes nothing about the past. He was a piece of shit, plain and simple. You should avoid sanitising his regime in light of what has happened since.

probably won't have time. balls!

no need to take it back boo. Saddam was a vicious, depraved **** of a human being. he deserved every moment of pain he ever received.

I think the events around this are too unstable to call it justified. The trial was a sham, the last thing the country needs is a martyr and the sectarian violence is already horrific. The Iraqis were out for blood, and the international community allowed them to get it on unsound grounds, utterly undermining their attempts at legitimately disposing of Saddam. My only regret over his death is that it should have been a point at which his rule could be drawn under, and a real Iraqi government could take his place. as it is, they have simply fuelled the insane delusions of the insurgency.

can't say I have, although i do have a book to start soon which is a novelisation of the life of Cicero in Rome. I'm yet to pick it up but it sounds great. I'm such a whore for Classics.

hi I'd quite like to move to Barcelona. I went there a few years back and some of it is so staggeringly beautiful it really takes your breath away. It's a brilliant place- modern yet medieval almost. It's the kind of dense, exciting urban city that feels exciting without feeling like a massive metropolis.

oh, shit. not this again...