Mekong

Trump is doing a meet-and-greet at a crowded venue and his security detail is being extra watchful. One of them is a new guy and he’s extra jumpy.

Suddenly, a gunman bursts from the crowd, aiming his weapon at the President. Pandemonium ensues. The rookie bodyguard screams “Mickey Mouse!!!” at the top of his voice and this startles the would be assassin to the point that his aim is off and the shot goes over Trump’s head.

Some bodyguards wrestle the assailant to the ground, while others hustle the President to safety. Disaster averted.

Later, during debriefing, the head of the security detail congratulates the rookie. Without his quick thinking, he tells him, the President might very well be dead.

“But I’m puzzled” he said. “Why on earth would you yell Mickey Mouse?”

“I’m new”, explained the rookie, sheepishly. “I panicked. I meant to yell Donald! Duck!!”

3 hours ago, Coss said:

Yes, but then the content could be argued to be Australian and thus able to be restricted.

The content is not Australian, the content is owned by, and a copyrighted to, the poster. If the poster requested the content to come down or deleted his tweet then it would all go away, but he hasn’t. 

Could you imagine the outrage if governments could apply government censorship on anything posted on social media, it’s not 1984

7 hours ago, bust said:

So there are knighthoods and honorary knighthoods?

Hardly seems to be any point in it then.

All knighthoods are honorary and IMHO not worth the paper they are written on.

There is no rule of law that can force anyone to call another “Sir”, I think that went out in 1215 with the signing of the Magna Carta, the only rule of law is that a holder of KBE are allowed to use the title Sir

3 hours ago, Coss said:

Was he a Sir in 1979?

Yes knighted in 1953

4 hours ago, bust said:

Are you required to refer to him as Sir John Gielgud even in the event of copy & paste? 😀

Sir is an honorary title and as such no one is obliged to use it

Morally one could say Musk is in the wrong for refusing to take down the Posts outside of Australia, but legally he is correct. Australian law applies to Australia only, or Australian citizens overseas.

What Australia is asking for is above the coverage of its legal system, and I believe Musk / X stance is if we don’t draw the line here then when does the over reaching of legal boundaries stop.

Rather than go after Musk, Australia should have tried the diplomatic approach and ask friendly governments to ban the posts in their respective areas of jurisdiction.

He is still a Cunt mind you.

I realise the girls are a bit older than they once were,  but. ….

Based on the comment I quoted, 

So at the end of the day the sleeve for "See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Our Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!" was just another bit of  bat off material.

or were you accusing other boys of doing that but not you? Or maybe no boys your age were doing such but only pre pubescent teens who were younger than Annabelle.

I don’t hear  about paedophiles lining up in their dirty macs at the  Musse d”Orsay to view the picture and crank one off, come to that I don’t here of schoolboys doing it either 

25 minutes ago, bust said:

So at the end of the day the sleeve for "See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Our Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!" was just another bit of  bat off material.

All I can say is that you must have led a very sheltered childhood if you were bashing the bishop over record sleeves at 15 or 16.

At that age there was always a copy of “Razzle” or whatever in my schoolbag, and at 16 I was buying “Adult Magazines” at the works shop 

1 hour ago, bust said:

But as you said before "Many a lad celebrated Palm Sunday with Annabelle" so that in itself would suggest a level of inappropriateness

Depends how you define “Lad” remember this was over 40 years ago, and when I was a lad “Lad” was synonymous with “Schoolboy” and once you had started work / had your first pint / had your first shag you were no longer a lad. I started work at 16 and did the other two before I started work.

So lad being 16 tops, apply the half the age plus six rule (16/2)+6 = 14 which just so happen to be Annabelle’’s age and it doesn’t suggest inappropriateness in my mind. Anyway I was more sophisticated and preferred to spend palm Sunday with Kate Bush haha.

Ring any Bells? It’s an iconic album cover form the 70’s 

I often wondered why Houses of the Holy sold well in New Zealand 

It was based on Arthur C Clarke’s Childhoods End but the shot was done for the album by Hypnosis.

So 7-9 year old kids is acceptable, how about 11 year old Mariora Goschen on the Blind Faith album?

Whilst I am no lawyer, I am pretty certain that Child Pornography laws applied to all children under 5e age of consent and not just ones over the age of 13 .

Either the laws apply in every case, or not at all, and since Scotland Yard decided not to proceed with any prosecution it appears that no actual laws were broken.

24 minutes ago, bust said:

Didn't Scotland Yard launch an investigation? Given she was 14 years old at the time even these days it would be controversial.

Lwin’s Mother forced Scotland Yard to investigate, Scotland Yard found nothing wrong / no laws broken. If anything the controversy increased album sales.

if that was considered as child pornography, what about prior releases such as Blind Faith by Blind faith, or Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin , or subsequent such as Nevermind by Nirvana 

All contained naked underaged children, but no, go after Malcolm McLaren the nasty man who gave us the Sex Pistols 

15 hours ago, bust said:

The Last of the Mohicans cover raised a few eyebrows 

But that summary pretty well sums it up. Doco goes into that.

Only in Prudish America, in Europe it didn’t bat an eyelid since it was based on a painting called   “Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe” (Luncheon by the Lake) by Edouard Manet.

But then again America goes batshit crazy when there is an accidental nipple flash during a half time superbowl show 

8 hours ago, Old Hippie said:

So while the Middle East explodes further, China and Russia and North Korea will make their. Move…the west will have to decide where to prioritize…WW3…good knowing you guys…

But will it? 

Israel “Had” to strike back, but thy chose strategic targets, rather than go for population they struck here Iran Nuclear research centre is, sort of “We know what you are up to”  I don’t think Iran will strike back agains Israel, they will I’ll blame those “Capitalist Pigs Americans” for supporting the “Yahud” and strike a base in Iraq in retaliation. They know Israel has their number, so to speak, so will do something symbolic to appease the masses.

As for Russia, they are now into the 27th Month of an offensive that Putin said would take 10 days. If they are having such a problem against a rag tag army led by a comedian what chance do they have with the West?
 

China has to do nothing, the US is already $850 Billion in debt to China and receives 18% of its imports from their, the US is a superpower in name only, and they know it.

As for little missiles man firing off into the Pacific, let him carry on, the more missiles he wastes the less he has

6 hours ago, bust said:

Fair enough but as mentioned before it is much more about the bands and there music. Even features a grown up Burmese girl 😃

Ahh Annabelle Lwin aka Myant Myant aye, only half Burmese, her mother is English. Many a lad celebrated Palm Sunday with Annabelle 

I have found out now that what American called New Wave is not what  the UK did. In the UK new wave was and extension of late 70ls Punk until the early 80’s to be replaced by the smartly dressed Nancy boys with their coiffured hair know as the New Romantics.

America didn’t get the memo and caught on in the early 80’s and labeled every synth pop tune as new wave and not New Romantic, typical yanks late to the party and get it all wrong.

New Wave Music

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9 hours ago, bust said:

Just thought it worth mentioning, the doco is not about Blondie

I never said that is was

20 hours ago, Mekong said:

Not sure that I would TBH, checked the IMDB write up 

U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure

Blondie were mentioned in the IMDB write up. I chose Blondie as an example, you know a particular instance of something that is representative of a group, or an illustration of something that's been generally described, rather than go through each band individually.

Parallel Lines (1978) broke the band into the rock mainstream thanks to hits such as “Picture This,” “One Way or Another,” and the disco-influenced “Heart of Glass.” Eat to the Beat (1979) was similarly successful

Blondie were mainstream in America in 1978

Source

The one that always tickles me is that a UK radio DJ Sarah Cox named her son Isaac.

Fortunately for the poor little blighter she later married the boys father and he took / was given his surname 

Well Talking Heads and Blondie were American, are you trying to tell me a “Cutting Edge” radio station in NYC  had only just picked up on them in 1982, doesn’t sound very “finger in the pulse” to me unless checking the pulse of a corpse.

in 1977 when the Buzzcocks released Spiral Scratch  on their own label was the birth of Indie, half the bands listed were pop music not new wave.

Typical American pap 

14 minutes ago, bust said:

Kong would enjoy this based on many discussions we have had over the years.

Not sure that I would TBH, checked the IMDB write up 

U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure

1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City.

By 1982 U2 had already released Boy and October, Talking Heads had previously released Psycho Killer and Once in a Lifetime the Eno years were over, Blondie had already split up as did the Clash in 82 after  6 years. The Cure had also been together for 6 years by then, so far from being visionaries WLIR were essentially playing mainstream UK pop music since that is what Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and Tears for Fears were.   

Indie music 1982 included The Smiths and Durutti Column (that’s just Manchester) or REM stateside