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What annoys me, and it's not just the US, is when financial bodies, refuse you your own money, it's not your fault they've screwed up the mechanism whereby you use legal tender and they refuse it. This is one of the glaring faults of the financial world. You give them your worth, they give you paper, and then won't honour it. No wonder people buy gold and land.

I believe it, one of the fundamental flaws in Democracy, I believe, is that if the capacity of the masses to reason, sinks too low, then the reasoning capacity of their representatives sinks likewise. Or... Dumbasses are unlikely to elect clever people to represent them, they'll want one of them, a good 'ol boy, from round here! Also politicians... Do I need to complain about that profession?

No government = Anarchy

Very funny, spilt my coffee !

I used to think that business folk in NZ were by and large good people, who only made harmful decisions when circumstances backed them into a corner. My last corporate job as an Executive Manager made me believe that business folk get all their training for backstabbing, dishonesty, lying and cheating, from hollywood movies. A case of life imitating art. Lost a lot of faith in humanity in those 4 years.

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from an interview... I used to be Gay, but I had to give it up... Interviewer: Why? It made my eyes water... Michael Gambon

"produce a television miniseries featuring the erstwhile first lady and secretary of state." for a moment there I read that as miseries . " supervised the 27-year-old lawyer. “Because she was a liar,†Zeifman explained. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.â€.." 27 yr old women (let's face it she was never a girl) will say anything to get what they want, I know I've got one...

Having had two teenage daughters (both now adult) I'd like the law altered, to allow such abortions, up until and including the 75th trimester.

Being deprived of western culture here in the Glorious People's Republic, I watch a lot of movies, most from Hollywood. And after a while, you get to see that 'mericans cannot enjoy themselves, without a good shoot up (by good, I mean over the top, excessive, prolonged weapons usage, that makes arms dealers everywhere very happy).

Even though I am not a Middle Easterner, Hispanic traveling to Miami or African-American wearing a baseball cap backward, does my reading of the above post, indicate that I am a threat, inside or out? I get the feeling that if Hollywood can make a movie about something, America will try to bring such to reality...

Quartet - very good - no violence - gentle charm and humour. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. Director: Dustin Hoffman Writers: Ronald Harwood (play), Ronald Harwood(screenplay) Stars: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly et al

Or... When the lead actor is a tough guy, he can always park in front of city hall or where ever. or... When they need to be seen going into a place, they park the car 50 metres away then run into the building. or... If they are following someone or trying to sneak up on someone at night, they leave the headlights on... and... the car's windows are always open and when the hero has been beaten to within an inch of his life, he leaps up good as new and performs a series of Olympic like feats... Aaahhh, I could go on....

Sex and Fury, from the "Pinky Violence Collection". A Japanese movie with English subs. You could call it porn but there's no genitals on view and there is a huge amount of story (plot). They still get in a bit of whipping and Japanese rope bondage though. This predates Tarantino, it could have been one of his influences (he was 10 in '73). It does suffer from the - 15 people attacking one person dance, where 14 people dance around fancifully whilst the hero/ine deals with them one at a time. Other than that, an entertaining flick.

Silver Linings Playbook - extremely well shot, acted, written etc - but hollywood chick psycobabble. Hescher - quite disturbing in it's execution - but more psycobabble. 3:10 to Yuma - not bad, a good western.

Gran Torino - excellent - Clint Eastwood, Hmong refugees in the good 'ol USA - a very good movie. London Boulevard - very good also - british gangsters.

My upgraded internet security:

In Saudi, and two neighbouring countries (I forget the names) famous for this: They have banned this: maybe protesters will start using this:

That is the funniest thing I've read in years, laughing in tears I was. I particularly like this paragraph: I took off from the deckchair like Usain Bolt out of the TV adverts. Within 12 seconds, the bathroom was filled with steamy fetid barse broth, and I had the clock weights, biffin's-bridge and Sherriff's badge under ice-cold running water at the tap end of the bath. This did not please the missus, as she was relaxing in there at the time surrounded by floating petals and candles, although she did say that the sight of my ringpiece flashing like a brake light was impressive, and she was pleased to see that my arse barnacles had all but disappeared.

No claiming presience or anything, but trump has always looked like a nutter to me.

Is that Hilary on the right?

"derelicts, psychopaths, deviants, preverts, bumbs, idiots, short changers, and the cheap fat balding unshaven punters." Hey!, I shave!

It must close it's eyes when it knows someone is looking. It just looks like an ordinary coconut tree when someone's looking.

My coconut tree just moved again, about a metre to the left.