Comments on: Here is an interesting idea.

By: Taj

Taj — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:22 +0000

I realise I’m venturing into pervy old man territory here. So I’m going to disguise it as an interrogation of the British psyche:
“Jenny Agutter: the English rose gone wrong. Discuss.”

By: Taj

Taj — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:37:26 +0000

Am I right in believing that Jenny Agutter waves around her underwear in The Railway Children? I suspect she’s not naked at the time, but I can only hope so.

By: Adnan Y.

Adnan Y. — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:19:38 +0000

Respect.

By: soru

soru — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:00:10 +0000

‘Soru, give me the true knowledge’

You ask, I comply:

Life is a process of breaking down and using other matter, and if need be, other life. Therefore, life is aggression, and successful life is successful aggression. Life is the scum of matter, and people are the scum of life. There is nothing but matter, forces, space and time, which together make power. Nothing matters, except what matters to you. Might makes right, and power makes freedom. You are free to do whatever is in your power, and if you want to survive and thrive you had better do whatever is in your interests. If your interests conflict with those of others, let the others pit their power against yours, everyone for theirselves. If your interests coincide with those of others, let them work together with you, and against the rest. We are what we eat, and we eat everything.
All that you really value, and the goodness and truth and beauty of life, have their roots in this apparently barren soil.

This is the true knowledge.

We had founded our idealism on the most nihilistic implications of science, our socialism on crass self-interest, our peace on our capacity for mutual destruction, and our liberty on determinism. We had replaced morality with convention, bravery with safety, frugality with plenty, philosophy with science, stoicism with anaesthetics and piety with immortality. The universal acid of the true knowledge had burned away a world of words, and exposed a universe of things.

Things we could use

By: Adnan Y.

Adnan Y. — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:29:15 +0000

Soru, give me the true knowledge as espoused by Ellen May Ngwethu*, any day!

*Cassini Division

By: soru

soru — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:54:57 +0000

bah close brackets - I meant Learning the world

By: soru

soru — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:53:42 +0000

@Adnan : the new labour true knowledge is actually the one from “Learning the world”>: it may look like a simple free market, but somewhere deep down in the math it is different and better.

So the people who own the ship say, anyway.

By: Adnan Y.

Adnan Y. — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:30:59 +0000

Didn’t Straw’s son get in a spot of bother over cannabis, and Blair’s son for having too much of a drink? Just wondering, that’s all…

National IDs, checking for kiddie kriminals…I’d love to be a fly on the wall for those meetings.

Anyone else get the vibe we’re walking into something out of Ken Macleod’s “Star Fraction/Fall Revolution” series?

By: sonia

sonia — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:49:43 +0000

Chairwoman and Clairwil – yep you’re right! when i watched the Queen I quite liked the film : the thing that was annoying was seeing that insincerity from Tony all over again.

By: lithcol

lithcol — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:59:01 +0000

ZinZin,

If there is one I wouldn’t watch it. Yes there is at least one, The Railway Children.

By: ZinZin

ZinZin — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:39:45 +0000

Itâ€™s a job creation scheme for all those useless psychology graduates produced every year.

Like those upthread?

Is there a Jenny Agutter film in which she does not disrobe?

By: lithcol

lithcol — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:25:32 +0000

Itâ€™s a job creation scheme for all those useless psychology graduates produced every year.

By: William

William — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:24:56 +0000

Taj #25

They are doing a remake of Logan’s Run. Saw the old one recently. I wanted to lick Jenny Agutter’s thighs!!!

Apologise for the digression.

By: William

William — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:20:31 +0000

It should at least include a cricket test. If they are found to cheat at cricket at an early age then monitor them in case they turn out to be future theives. Or murderers of cricket coaches!

By: Taj

Taj — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:52:34 +0000

Got in there before me with the Logan’s Run reference, Zinzin. Needless to say, if this policy also includes a scantily-clad Jenny Agutter, then I wholeheartedly support it.

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:39:25 +0000

Not the Paxman interview I remember, but almost as funny. Even

By: Clairwil

Clairwil — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:57:10 +0000

Chairwoman is spot on. I saw a clip of that recently and it’s chilling. It’s just that no-one noticed because it was a situation where he couldn’t do any real harm.

By: Chairwoman

Chairwoman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:53:57 +0000

He was probably always insane. It first manifested itself when Diana, Princess of Wales died, and he clasped and unclasped his hands, his voice dripping with sincere insincerity.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:46:58 +0000

Oh boy, the PM really has gone crazy.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:28:57 +0000

‘Your Machiavelli score is: 64
You are a high Mach, you endorse Machiavelli’s opinions. ‘

But I don’t! The test must be flawed. Really, trust me.